Unleashed on Something Awful forums, these images launched the Slender Man meme. Imaginary roots cannot grow a real tree. A hoax, no matter how popular, remains a hoax. Like scary Slender Man, viral ...

A woman who stabbed her sixth-grade classmate to win favor with a fictional internet character named “Slender Man” more than a decade ago has been taken into custody, a day after cutting off her ...

The origin of culturally recognized monsters vary. Some are the result of ignorance of the world around those that invented them, constructed as a means to explain things that science at the time had ...

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 ...

A perpetrator in the so-called Slender Man stabbing was found in Illinois Sunday after escaping a group home the day before. Morgan Geyser was charged with murder for the 2014 stabbing of her friend, ...

Morgan Geyser, one of the perpetrators of the 2014 "Slender Man stabbing," was taken into custody near Chicago on Sunday, a day after cutting off her ankle monitor and leaving her Wisconsin group home ...