Two 12-year old girls stab friend for "Slender Man"

[RocketMan]

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/12-year- ... d-19-times

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors say two 12-year-old southeastern Wisconsin girls stabbed their 12-year-old friend nearly to death in the woods to please a mythological creature they learned about online.

Both girls were charged as adults with first-degree attempted homicide Monday in Waukesha County Circuit Court; they each face up to 60 years in prison if convicted. A court commissioner set bail at $500,000 cash per child. According to a criminal complaint, the girls had been planning to kill their friend for months and finally made the attempt in a park on Saturday morning, after a slumber party.

One of the girls told a detective they were trying to become "proxies" of Slender Man, a mythological demon-like character they learned about on creepypasta.wikia.com, a website about horror stories and legends. They planned to run away to the demon's forest mansion after the slaying, the complaint said.

[...]

According to the criminal complaint, one of the girls told an investigator they began planning to kill their friend in December. The other girl told police they decided to kill her so they could become proxies of Slender Man, who would accept them and let them live with him in his mansion in the Nicolet National Forest.

The other girl said she sees Slender Man in her dreams. She said he watches her and can read her mind and teleport.

I've apparently had Slender Man as a wallpaper on my mobile phone without knowing it's him... You learn something new every day. Happily the victim didn't expire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man

The Slender Man (also known as Slenderman) is a fictional character that originated as an Internet meme created by Something Awful forums user Eric Knudsen (a.k.a "Victor Surge") in 2009. It is depicted as resembling a thin, unnaturally tall man with a blank and usually featureless face, and wearing a black suit. The Slender Man is commonly said to stalk, abduct, or traumatize people, particularly children.[1] The Slender Man is not tied to any particular story, but appears in many disparate works of fiction, mostly composed online.[2]

So what do we have here? A murderous egregore summoned from the subconscious of a million 4chan nerds?

[elfismiles]

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The Slender Man Hoax
Monday, 6 December 2010

In 2006 I uploaded an article about the Cormons in which I referenced the ghost supposedly created by the Toronto Society for Psychical Research, whom they called Philip and created a whole back story for. I also referenced what are known in paranormal circles as Shadow People. This article can be read here.

Another paranormal topic that I’ve found interesting over the years is the one pertaining to what are known as the Black-Eyed Kids. You can find various links to posts about them on the From The Shadows Blogspot here.

However, today I was reading the posts from the CFZ, which I read every day, and I came across a hoax invention that has been spreading across the Internet. This creation goes by the name of The Slender Man and the post about it, from Oll Lewis, which you can read here, is the very first time that I’ve come across it. Oll mentions Philip (the ghost) and then explains how The Slender Man hoax arose.
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http://kithraskrystalkave.blogspot.com/ ... -hoax.html

OLL LEWIS: The Slender Man (or the creation of a modern myth)
Sunday, December 05, 2010
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2010 ... on-of.html


Killing Slenderman
Editing a Modern Myth Before it Bites…
by Ian ‘Cat’ Vincent
http://www.dailygrail.com/Guest-Article ... Slenderman



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T03TMMilIwU


The Strangest Intruders Of All
August 27, 2013
Nick Redfern
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/08/t ... rs-of-all/

Then there is the Slenderman. Although it’s an entity born and bred on the Internet, the fascination for, and the belief in, this mysterious figure seems to have given birth to a real-life version of its fictional self. Here we see David digging into a world filled with things that I am fascinated by: Tulpas. Is it possible that as Net-based tales of the Slenderman spread, and as more and more people became acquainted with the imagery, the monster left behind its shackles of the imagination and strode out into the real world? Creating and unleashing a mind-monster is not as far-out as many might think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MXYC_jX2Wc

[Searcher08]

I like Splendourman - he's got talent!

Just for completeness.. creepy footage from outside an apartment block in Moscow

[elfismiles]

Attempted Murder For Slender Man
Tuesday, June 03, 2014
http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2014/ ... erman.html

[82_28]

I really super hate to say it, but what is with the opensourcing of "RenderMan" by Pixar on the same date?

Pixar frees its production-grade RenderMan software

Pixar Animation Studios has decided to give away RenderMan, its flagship animation software used to create the likes of Toy Story, Wall-E and – less happily – Cars 2.

The company decided on the freebie, which will apply only to non-commercial use, after last week releasing a new version of the software said to offer “ an entirely new modular rendering architecture” that includes “highly optimized methods for simulating the transport of light”.

All that costs just $US495 if you're in the business.

But if you're going to use the software for “evaluations, personal learning, experimentation, research, and the development of tools and plug-ins for RenderMan” Pixar will charge you the low, low, price of $0.00 to run the software.

That price buys you the complete software package with “no watermarks, no time limits, and no reduced functionality”.

Pixar is not being entirely altruistic, as the FAQ explains the giveaway as “... a strategic and long-term commitment by Disney / Pixar to the advancement and dissemination of the production industries most advanced rendering technologies and the interchange of assets in common formats”. The FAQ also states that “... it is Pixar’s belief that limitations on software access have become a brake on the development of the production industry, and that universal access and a set of common standards and practices can only stimulate greater growth and development.”

Pixar's claw-worshipping Aliens

Giving away software to make one's own preferred approaches is an old software industry tactic. With RenderMan selling for just $US495 it's hard to see why Pixar cares about making sure its way of doing things becomes the industry standard. Film industry types – can you explain what's afoot here?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/04 ... _software/

[NeonLX]

I see a bright future for humanity. Really.

What? Don't you think I'm serious??

[norton ash]

I smell bad lawyer 'satanic panic' bullshit here. Good luck, Perry Mason.

[DrEvil]

I'm a little surprised they haven't tried nailing this on the Slenderman game(s) yet.
It's always videogames.

Link to the second game if anyone is interested. It sells for €9.99 on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/252330/

[Nordic]

Steam. Steam is fucking evil.


And FWIW this case reminds me of the case that was adapted into the movie "Heavenly Creatures".

[82_28]

Yeah, they have (Steam/Valve) many brilliant story writers with their minions of coders and designers. I am right now in the midst of a game of Half Life 2 (3rd time over the years). But they certainly do have an agenda. I can't tell if at least story wise, it is for good or evil. Probably evil. Whatever that is. But your character "Gordon Freeman" is supposedly good.

Maybe they are an infinite regess? A designed infinite regress for a hopeful HD future (for lack of a better term). Game did come out in late 2006 I do believe.

I do not know. Believe me, I am trying to tease out the psychology of the game designers this time around. And thinking about it some more as I write this, I super do wonder now.

I am totally confounded.

[DrEvil]

Steam. Steam is fucking evil.


And FWIW this case reminds me of the case that was adapted into the movie "Heavenly Creatures".

Going off topic for a bit here, but Wut?! Steam is evil? How exactly? It's a digital platform for games distribution. If you were talking about Origin (EA) or Uplay (Ubisoft) I might agree, because those platforms are absolute f***ing garbage, but Steam actually does a lot of great things. Tons of discounts, Steam greenlight and Early Access and cloud saves (a godsend), to mention a few.

[elfismiles]

I wonder how many "administrators" this network of sites has so one could attempt to quantify the probabilities of this proximity to the crime...

CreepyPasta narrators organize to raise money for stabbing victim (Video)
Posted on: 12:42 pm, June 5, 2014, by Myra Sanchick, updated on: 10:24pm, June 5, 2014
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Joe Jozwowski is an administrator for one of the CreepyPasta websites. He lives in Waukesha — and he tells FOX6 News he heard the sirens after the stabbing last Saturday, May 31st.

“It’s very, very surreal. It hits both my real-life community and my online community,” Jozwowski said.

http://fox6now.com/2014/06/05/creepy-pa ... ng-victim/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ9xUFdWI-o

[Luther Blissett]

While de facto "slender man" has well-traced origin to Something Awful just five years ago, the story is clearly derived from all sorts of older, more established mythology. If anything, the stories that informed "slender man" were coming to a head online during the first decade of the 21st century, almost as if the codification of slender man was an inevitability. No one really contrasts the story with any other sighting phenomena, though I guess if they did they would be called nuts.

[RocketMan]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/07/o ... obsession/

An Ohio woman, who was recently attacked by 13-year-old daughter with a knife, said she believes he daughter was inspired by internet horror meme Slenderman.

The woman, who asked to not be identified, told WLWT that she made the connection after seeing reports of the two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls who attempted to stab their friend to death, hoping to make the fictional Slenderman appear.

“I came home one night from work and she was in the kitchen waiting for me and she was wearing a mask — a white mask,” the woman said. “She had her hood up and had her hands covered with her sleeves and the mask.”

“She was someone else during that attack,” the mother added.

[elfismiles]

While de facto "slender man" has well-traced origin to Something Awful just five years ago, the story is clearly derived from all sorts of older, more established mythology. If anything, the stories that informed "slender man" were coming to a head online during the first decade of the 21st century, almost as if the codification of slender man was an inevitability. No one really contrasts the story with any other sighting phenomena, though I guess if they did they would be called nuts.

Attempted Murder For Slender Man
Tuesday, June 03, 2014
http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2014/ ... erman.html

The Mythos

In an as-yet-unpublished article written in January 2014, my wife Jenny penned this beginning to her historical overview:

Slender Man is the hipster monster in the black suit waving his multiple appendages outside Generation Y’s bedroom window.

Slender Man is not a new and trendy entity; it is simply the reborn face of an ancient evil, resurrected from the ashes by ever-increasing access to media, technical advances, and the bleak corners of the human mind: evil as timeless and as ubiquitous as thought itself, pre-dating language, its true origins in death, the dark, and the rolling eyeball of primal fear.