The true crime story that sprung out of an Internet folk legend is one that shouldn't have been true. For those unfamiliar with the myth of Slender Man, the unnaturally thin, tall, man in a suit with a featureless face first appeared on the Internet forum Something Awful in 2009 as a Photoshopped image. Since then, his folklore has grown, and led to the charging of two 12-year-old girls with attempted first-degree intentional homicide in 2014 for luring their 12-year-old classmate into the woods...
The true crime story that sprung out of an Internet folk legend is one that shouldn't have been true. For those unfamiliar with the myth of Slender Man, the unnaturally thin, tall, man in a suit with a featureless face first appeared on the Internet forum Something Awful in 2009 as a Photoshopped image. Since then, his folklore has grown, and led to the charging of two 12-year-old girls with attempted first-degree intentional homicide in 2014 for luring their 12-year-old classmate into the woods...
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