'Slender Man' Internet Meme Motivates 12-Year-Olds To Kill

Thanks! I fixed all the typos(I hope). I wrote it on the fly directly into the site's content editor which doesn't allow a browser's spell-check, so I'm surprised it didn't have more.

The first I ever heard of Slender Man was a few months back when the TV show Supernatural featured a storyline about real killings involving an internet Meme character. CC008 mentioned that it was modeled on "Slender Man", so I Googled to find out more about it. It's interesting that that episode of Supernatural is I think the only episode of the series with no real supernatural element. The killings were done by 'normal' people using the supernatural element as a cover.

Any content others want to contribute would be great, but I don't want anyone to feel pressured to do something. I was going to just post about the story in the forums and I thought I would write it up as a news article and link it instead.

There's one password for the whole site, and no way to give anyone partial-powers like with the moderators here; so understandably I'm reluctant to share that. Right now I'd say any prospective content for the site should be either messaged to me through here or emailed to abetterplaceproboards@gmail.com with the subject "webzine content". Include any images to go along with the written material and how you want your byline credited(username, real name, etc.). I'll write up something more definitive for submissions probably in the next day or two.

Whoa, that's insane. I'd learned about Slender Man a long while ago when it was just the internet meme of the guy showing up in pictures.. which is creepy in it's own right. Then there was/is (I'm not sure if it's still running) a youtube series called "Marble Hornets" that really took the creepiness of Slender Man to the next level. These kids were trying to film a movie called Marble Hornets and the kid who was "filming" ditched all the tapes because while filming he would catch glimpses of Slender Man in the background. His friend recovered the tapes and investigated. It was actually pretty scary stuff.. definitely kept me up at night a few times.

This is the intro to the whole series:

I do recommend to anyone with the time and interest in these sorts of things.