stonehart
Paranormal Adept
The Slender Man birth of an Urban Myth
Let us start with what we do know about this particular myth as we can define in thiscase a definite moment for when this myth was first brought up and started its internet life. The Slender Man was born on the Something Awful forums in 2009 as a response to a thread setup to create your own paranormal images but it wasan image created by ‘Victor Surge’ that caught many people’s imagination.
This had something of a snowball effect and since then the preponderance of images being posted of him has made The Slender Man an internet phenomenon of the creepy sort. A quick search of YouTube will provide you with a flood of pranks, bad fakes and documentaries all vying for the searchers attention but there is one or two that are worth taking a look at.
The Marble Hornet's channel has a series about people who are being followed by aslender man and once you get past the amateur nature of the filming and acting in it the idea is quite interesting if not creepy. Putting that entire aside it is the way in which the slender man is depicted that is the main reason (if any) for watching this video but any glimpses of him tend to be very short and fuzzy if not distant in a way that is reminiscent of many of the UFO and Ghost sightings we see posted regularly.
As for the documentaries there are only two that stand out:
It should be noted that with almost all YouTube user made documentaries they tend to be a little weak but they do try to give some back ground information on this topic and of the two links posted the first one is quite well done in its way.
So what is The Slender Man?
The Slender Man is usually depicted as an unnaturally tall thin being with very long limbs or tentacles that he can change the length of, with no visible face and the ability to shape shift he is almost always seen in a suite that easily reminds me of the men in black myth. He appears to have a need to kidnap children and uses his limbs to hypnotize them so that they cannot stop themselves from walking into his embrace.
What happens to the victims is unknown but speculation has it that he may just eat them, steal their souls, take them to another dimension/alternate universe or all of the above leaving on occasion only pieces of cloths and broken phones etc as the only physical evidence of the encounter.
So is this just simply another internet meme or is there something deeper to all this?
What we do know for sure is the Slender Man is 100% made up as we know the time and date he was born and who created him but still people claim to have had sightings of The Slender man.
So what do we have here? Have we given an imaginary demonic fantasy a life of its own or was it built from a mix of other mythic beings to be reborn as a new modern myth?
For everyone here on the paracast forums you maybe wondering why I have done this post as it seems like a simple cut and dry case of a new myth being given wings and for sure that maybe all it is but I just found it interesting that even though people do not have to look far to see that it is all just a recent creation still many do claim to have had encounters with this being.
Is this a case of if enough people believe/visualise an entity it can somehow be given a life of its own?
Have we in short created a Tulpa or is it all just a case of over active imaginations?
PS: sorry I do not know why the videos a posted more than once
Let us start with what we do know about this particular myth as we can define in thiscase a definite moment for when this myth was first brought up and started its internet life. The Slender Man was born on the Something Awful forums in 2009 as a response to a thread setup to create your own paranormal images but it wasan image created by ‘Victor Surge’ that caught many people’s imagination.
This had something of a snowball effect and since then the preponderance of images being posted of him has made The Slender Man an internet phenomenon of the creepy sort. A quick search of YouTube will provide you with a flood of pranks, bad fakes and documentaries all vying for the searchers attention but there is one or two that are worth taking a look at.
The Marble Hornet's channel has a series about people who are being followed by aslender man and once you get past the amateur nature of the filming and acting in it the idea is quite interesting if not creepy. Putting that entire aside it is the way in which the slender man is depicted that is the main reason (if any) for watching this video but any glimpses of him tend to be very short and fuzzy if not distant in a way that is reminiscent of many of the UFO and Ghost sightings we see posted regularly.
As for the documentaries there are only two that stand out:
It should be noted that with almost all YouTube user made documentaries they tend to be a little weak but they do try to give some back ground information on this topic and of the two links posted the first one is quite well done in its way.
So what is The Slender Man?
The Slender Man is usually depicted as an unnaturally tall thin being with very long limbs or tentacles that he can change the length of, with no visible face and the ability to shape shift he is almost always seen in a suite that easily reminds me of the men in black myth. He appears to have a need to kidnap children and uses his limbs to hypnotize them so that they cannot stop themselves from walking into his embrace.
What happens to the victims is unknown but speculation has it that he may just eat them, steal their souls, take them to another dimension/alternate universe or all of the above leaving on occasion only pieces of cloths and broken phones etc as the only physical evidence of the encounter.
So is this just simply another internet meme or is there something deeper to all this?
What we do know for sure is the Slender Man is 100% made up as we know the time and date he was born and who created him but still people claim to have had sightings of The Slender man.
So what do we have here? Have we given an imaginary demonic fantasy a life of its own or was it built from a mix of other mythic beings to be reborn as a new modern myth?
For everyone here on the paracast forums you maybe wondering why I have done this post as it seems like a simple cut and dry case of a new myth being given wings and for sure that maybe all it is but I just found it interesting that even though people do not have to look far to see that it is all just a recent creation still many do claim to have had encounters with this being.
Is this a case of if enough people believe/visualise an entity it can somehow be given a life of its own?
Have we in short created a Tulpa or is it all just a case of over active imaginations?
PS: sorry I do not know why the videos a posted more than once