The Slender Man

Have you ever thought you heard a whisper, a groan, an unrecognised noise as you have created a story or a piece if art. Something that could be the making of something entirely new and differently strange. What if your actions in artistic mode became a reality but something much more cold, evil and chilling. Something that was soon known as the Slender Man. 

The Slender Man was official created on June 8, 2009 on a thread in the forum known as Something Awful. The goal of this forum was to edit photographs so it would seem like it would contain supernatural entities of unknown origin. On June 10, 2009 the forum had uploaded a poster to it's website with the  user name - "Victor Surge" who had contributed two black and white images of groups of children, to which he added a tall, thin spectral figure wearing a black suit with a tie. Previous entries had consisted solely of photographs; however, Surge supplemented his submission with snatches of text, supposedly from witnesses, describing the abductions of the groups of children, and giving the character the name, "The Slender Man". 

"We didn't want to go, we didn't want to kill them, but its persistent silence and outstretched arms horrified and comforted us at the same time...

1983, photographer unknown, presumed dead"

"One of two recovered photographs from the Stirling City Library blaze. Notable for being taken the day which fourteen children vanished and for what is referred to as The Slender Man. Deformities cited as film defects by officials. Fire at Library occurred one week later. Actual photograph confiscated as evidence.

1986, photographer: Mary Thomas, missing since June 13th, 1986".  

These additions effectively transformed the photographs into a work of fiction. Subsequent posters expanded upon the character, adding their own visual or textual contributions.

The Slender Man is described as very tall and thin with unnaturally long, tentacle like arms (or merely tentacles), which it can extend to intimidate or capture prey. It has a white, featureless head and appears to be wearing a black suit and tie. The Slender Man is associated with the forest and has the ability to teleport at will.

The Slender Man quickly became a worldwide sensation and a urban legend. Though it was soon revealed that a true entity was out there somewhere. Something which looked exactly like the Slender Man in all the same aspects. People have reported seeing a strange humanoid creature with a white head with no facial details and also wearing a suit but were these genuine encounters or something else? The occasionally reports seem to show that some of them might be something else compared to Slender Man. But what we do know is that Slender Man is now at least a myth and seems to have a lasting scary effect on people of all ages. Maybe one day we will see much more of the Slender Man in our day to day life's but for know a wonderful scary creation which is now a sensational urban legend.