June 11, 2014
Slender Man Now Linked to 3 Violent Acts
Slender Man Now Linked to 3 Violent Acts
A fictional horror creature popularized by Internet memes is now linked to three violent crimes.
A week after two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls allegedly stabbed their friend 19 times to honor Slender Man, more real-life connections to the spooky character are emerging.
A man accused of killing two cops and a civilian before committing suicide with his wife in Las Vegas on Sunday often dressed up in costume as Slender Man, a neighbor told KTNV.
And a Cincinnati mom told WLWT she thinks her daughter may have been inspired by Slender Man when she attacked her with a knife in their kitchen, wearing a hood and white mask.
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A key to Slender Man’s appeal may be that he is faceless and Andrew Peck, a University of Wisconsin lecturer who studies Slender Man and other folklore, likened the amorphous Slender Man to the villain of so many campfire horror stories – a man with a hook hand.
“It can really be what you want it to be,” said Peck. “You can personalize the character and make it your own. He can be a lot of things, that’s what I think makes it so successful. That he’s mysterious and unknowable.”
Perfect example of how dark imaginations can open doors to evil spirits. You are what you think in your heart and do what you practice in your imaginations. Be careful what you allow into your heart.
May 31, 2014 Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, 12-year-old girls in Wisconsin, repeatedly stabbed and seriously wounded another 12-year-old, to propitiate Slender Man, an Internet meme.
June 4 Justin Bourque, 24, allegedly shot and killed three Royal Canadian Mounted Police and wounded two others in Canada. The suspect, dressed in fatigues and armed with a rifle, went on a rampage in Moncton, New Brunswick, authorities say.
June 6 a 19-year-old man was fatally shot and two other young people were wounded after accused gunman Aaron R. Ybarra, 26, entered Otto Miller Hall on the Seattle Pacific University in Washington state campus and opened fire.
June 8 the Millers wreaked their havoc in Las Vegas.
June 10: One student, Emilio Hoffman, 14, a freshman, was murdered by a suicide shooter at Reynolds High School in Troutdale, Oregon. “This shouldn’t happen in Troutdale,” Max Maydew, grandfather to two Reynolds students, told The Oregonian. President Obama said, “This is becoming the norm.”