fine, according to Eric, whose online handle was "Victor Surge."Īmory: In Eric's original photoshopped black & white photos of Slender Man, kids are in the foreground, looking toward the camera. And among the creepypasta posts on Something Awful was a creepy Photoshop contest.Īmory: And most of the posts were. It's a popular place for creepypastas - or horror-related internet stories that get reposted and changed over time.īen: Like copypasta, which is a combo of copy and paste, but creepypasta. Something Awful is where people tend to share anything and everything that could be considered awful. What you’re hearing is from a rare interview with Knudsen on the Slender Nation Podcast back in 2011.Īmory: He talked about the origin of Slender Man, and how Slender Man was kind of a blank slate.Īmory: Eric’s monster started on a spooky online forum called Something Awful. He almost never comes out to talk about Slender Man.
Victor Surge - is almost as mysterious as the monster itself. means he's near.īen: Who is responsible for that idea, and for the monster himself? This guy.īen: These days, Eric Knudsen - A.K.A. And part of the lore of Slender Man is that, the mere thought of him. New ways that they travel from the spirit world into the real world.if you’re not careful. But there’s this idea that lore develops over time, you know? You hear new things about a monster. But I definitely grew up with the Bloody Mary myth - saying it, whatever it was, three times in the mirror in the dark and she would appear. What about you?Īmory: You know, I’m not that up on the monster lore, I gotta say. Like, there's so many layers to it.īen: In this bonus episode of Endless Thread's meme Series, we explore one you probably remember reflected through the context of the violence in the woods of Wisconsin - Slender Man as monster, meme and myth.Īmory: Ben, what’s your favorite piece of monster lore?īen: I think it’s that trolls will turn to stone if you keep them up past dawn.īen: That’s what I heard. She’s an internet culture librarian.Īmanda: I love talking about Slender Man, just because it is so unique in the meme space to how it not only transcended internet culture, but like, became a folklore thing. Because, it was this mysterious thing that seemed to get really popular on the internet and played out in real life with bloodshed.īen: Amanda remembers the case because she studies this stuff pretty closely. And if you do, you remember that the press, and people in general, freaked out about it. Also, if you have been around Slender Man too much, you get slender sickness and you start coughing.Īmory: If you pay any attention to crazy court cases or spooky internet culture, you might remember this story. She knows a lot about Slender Man, from his eerily lanky appearance, to the effect he supposedly has on people when he’s near.Īmanda: If Slender Man is around and you are filming a recording, the recordings will glitch and it'll get all weird and spooky. Big, spindly fingers are sometimes seen with him, shadows.īen: This is Amanda Brennan.
And a suit - a very, like, well fitted, tailored suit. Like, picture the tallest person you can picture, then, you know, now add like eight feet to it, and then picture a blank white face. an ominous figure that went viral in 2009, and whose lore was, lurking in the shadows, stalking children, and causing unspecified harm.Īmanda Brennan: Alright, so Slender Man is very, very, very tall. Payton’s blood.Īmory: Eventually, the two girls would tell the police they were doing the bidding of a monster - a monster they learned about on the Internet.Īmory: The girls said they stabbed their friend as a sacrifice to Slender Man. Sometime later, Morgan and Anissa wandered out of the trees five miles away, holding a knife, clothes stained with blood.
music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text.Īmory Sivertson: In May of 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the morning after a slumber party, three 12 year old girls walked into the woods.īen Brock Johnson: Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier brought their friend, Payton Leutner, with them to play. The transcript has been edited from our original script for clarity. This content was originally created for audio.
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