Notable for being taken the day which fourteen children vanished and for what is referred to as “The Slender Man”. “One of two recovered photographs from the Stirling City Library blaze. The second quote gives the monster its name: – 1983, photographer unknown, presumed dead. “…we didn’t want to go, we didn’t want to kill them, but it’s persistent silence and outstretched arms horrified and comforted us at the same time…” Under each image is a quote from the alleged original archivist. The Slenderman makes his appearance (Photoshopped image posted by Victor Surge to SA) In both images, the figure is barely visible, almost blurring into the background. In the second picture, there is a hint that the figure’s bizarrely long arms are transforming into tentacles. The monster in their midst appears to be an unusually tall, possibly bald, pale man in a black suit and tie, whose face cannot be discerned. In the second (see below), other children are playing in a park, where a similar figure lurks nearly invisibly behind the slide and trees. In the first, a group of kids are walking away from, or possibly fleeing…something. The resulting forum thread ran for two days before Surge posted his pair of pictures – at which point, the thread pretty much became solely about Surge’s creation.īoth of Victor Surge’s original Slenderman pictures are simple, evocative black and white images of children. The remit for this particular competition was, simply: “Create Paranormal Images”. Its birth-place was a forum thread of the popular site, noted for its many Photoshop competitions. Its father is a Photoshop artist who goes by the name Victor Surge. Slenderman’s birth-date is June 10 th, 2009. We can see the point where it crossed over from a merely imaginal creature into something that haunts the minds of many.Īnd we can see exactly when it became a creature of true occult significance. We can follow its growth from a pair of photographs into a full-fledged mythology. Because it was born on the internet, we can see the exact moment of its conception. Just over two years ago, a new monster was born. W e don’t often get to see the birth of a monster. (You can purchase Darklore Volume 6 from Amazon US and Amazon UK.) Well before it emerged into the mainstream, however, Daily Grail writer Cat Vincent was watching the myth develop, and in this 2011 article for Volume 6 of our Darkloreanthology series he described the Slender Man story from its birth through to its emergence as an underground sensation. The Slender Man (or to some, just Slenderman): in the last few years, this modern monster legend has become a part of mainstream culture: there is a now a Slender Man movie, and a Slender Man game, as well as a Slender Man documentary ( Beware the Slenderman) that tells the horrific tale of how how an internet myth could end up driving two girls to attempt murder in the awful Slender Man stabbing case.
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