The supernatural character of Slender Man began with just two captioned pictures, posted to the Something Awful forums in 2009 by Eric Knudsen (a.k.a. "Victor Surge"), but within hours people were ...

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When two 12 year-old girls attacked their friend in the woods of Waukesha, Wisconsin in May of 2014, they claimed to have done it to please Slender Man — a fictional monster created by Eric Knudsen, A ...

Slender Man appears as if out of nowhere, hungry. Blank faced and besuited, the tall, tentacled monster hasn’t slipped into the kitchen to prey upon the pretty girl standing at the hob. Instead, he’s ...