The story of Slenderman — a faceless, semi-human monster who stalks and eats small children — is a blend of fiction and folklore. It’s a crowd-sourced horror story that hearkens back to boogeyman tales of old.
There is a faceless, semi-human monster called Slenderman who stands eight feet tall, has tentacles for arms, stalks and eats small children, and communicates telepathically with his human servants, called “proxies.”On 31 May 2014, three 12-year-old girls embarked on a “birdwatching” expedition in a wooded area near their homes in Waukesha, Wisconsin that ended in one of them being stabbed 19 times and left for dead.
But although it’s true there are “dark and wicked things” to be found on the Internet , and children’s use of the Internet ought indeed to be supervised, to suggest that the Slenderman materials viewed by the accused are “wicked,” in any deeper sense than, say, a Stephen King novel is “wicked,” is to misunderstand them. The Slenderman “mythos,” as the accumulated stories, images, and commentary related to the character have come to be called, is a blend of fiction and folklore.
He is also able to create tendrils from his fingers and back that he uses to walk on in a similar fashion to Doctor Octopus. The superhuman stretching ability could also be seen as a similarity between himself and Mr. Fantastic. Like other items purporting to constitute visual proof of Slenderman’s existence, however, the woodcut is merely a doctored version of a Hans HolbeinIt’s hard not to admire the creativity that went into Slenderman. It’s equally hard — at least, from our point of view — to subscribe to the view that it was done for a malevolent purpose or represents a “dark and wicked” side of the Internet.
“But all of these forms of folklore share many similarities. They tend to be set in the local or historic past, they are believable, and they contain variation.”Folklore, Horror Stories and the Slender Man“We tell ourselves stories because we are storytelling animals,” she wrote in an e-mail.
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