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Slender Man (a.k.a Slenderman) is a mythical creature often depicted as a tall and thin figure wearing a black suit with a necktie and a blank face. According to the legend, he can stretch out or shorten his arms at will and has tentacle-like appendages protruding from his back. Depending on various vloggers and bloggers interpretations of the myth, the creature can show a wide range of abilities, ranging from causing memory loss, insomnia, paranoia, coughing fits with or without blood spitting (nicknamed Slendersickness) to triggering photograph/video distortions and statics as well as having teleportation power.

Slender Man has inspired fan arts, fictional creepypastas as well as a mockumentary series done in the style of the 1999 indie horror film Blair Witch Project.

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On June 8th, 2009, a paranormal pictures photoshop contest was launched on the Something Awful (SA) forums. The idea was to turn ordinary photographs into creepy-looking images through digital manipulation and then pass them on as authentic photographs on a number of paranormal forums. Something Awful users soon began sharing their faux-paranormal creations with layered images of ghosts and other anomalies, usually accompanied by a fabricated witness account to make them more convincing. On June 10th, SA user Victor Surge posted two black and white photographs of unnamed children with a short description of Slender Man as a mysterious creature who stalked children.

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After watching the first video (Entry #1) it kinda leaves you hanging but explains very little of whats to come. Throughout the videos they upload they're MANY Slender Man occurrences. And a few of the members develop insomnia, audi & visual hallucinations, insanity, and other mental diseases from these visitings from Slender Man.

I can't really explain it much more then that. You'd just have to watch some of the videos to see for yourself.

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