The Slender Man - real or fake?

[Deleted]

My friend sent me this youtube video about a mysterious 'man'. It's know as a man, very tall, long (multiple) arms, wearing a black suit. It's face is what people say 'faceless' and it steals kids (don't know the right word sorry), probably also kills them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm6PGh2fvTg the video

I find this very disturbing and scary... Is this real or fake?

[The Ogdru Jahad]

What do you think? If you look up the slender man origin it started as a meme on some forum. It went beyond that and people photoshop him in various photos to make it creepy. Do you honestly think this would be real?

[KassieDS]

My friend sent me this youtube video about a mysterious 'man'. It's know as a man, very tall, long (multiple) arms, wearing a black suit. It's face is what people say 'faceless' and it steals kids (don't know the right word sorry), probably also kills them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm6PGh2fvTg the video

I find this very disturbing and scary... Is this real or fake?

To say "Probably not" would be an understatement.

[Deleted]

What do you think? If you look up the slender man origin it started as a meme on some forum. It went beyond that and people photoshop him in various photos to make it creepy. Do you honestly think this would be real?

Look at the video, it has actual footage of this 'man'

[The Ogdru Jahad]

Look at the video, it has actual footage of this 'man'

It's on the internet, it HAS to be true....are you for real man?

[Yuni]

The "audio with no video" was too much for me. Lmao.

It's bigfoot all over again.

[Deleted]

It's on the internet, it HAS to be true....are you for real man?

I don't say it has to be true, i just think that :s, that's it on the internet doesn't mean it's fake

[Arcilux]

Look at the video, it has actual footage of this 'man'

I can show you a video with actual footage of a dragon. I also have seen videos with actual footage of Jason, and immortals who only die when their head is cut off and when they die lightning shoots their power into their killer. Just because there is a video or a picture doesn't make it true.

[Deleted]

The video parts are from a made up series called Marble Hornet. Look it up at youtube, I think it's at episode 46 atm!

[The Ogdru Jahad]

I don't say it has to be true, i just think that :s, that's it on the internet doesn't mean it's fake

The recording is so fake...the pictures are obvious photoshops. The internet has nothing to do with it. The issue is people honestly believing internet memes for fun. The fact that this was set up on a forum, it's not real.

This is a picture isn't it? So I guess this is real.

[AetherMcLoud]

The Slender Man is an internet meme, specifically a Creepy Pasta, first started by Victor Surge on Something Awful. It soon became more popular and mutated into what you see before you today. Not to be confused with The Tall Man, the other Tall Man or The Thin Man.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/slender-man#.TjA_EF3699Q
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...enderManMythos

Google kills all fears.

[Zantumall]

The video parts are from a made up series called Marble Hornets. Look it up at youtube, I think it's at episode 46 atm!

This. The Slender Man is indeed not real. If you're interested in scaring yourself over it anyway, the above series is quite good. There are two different accounts posting videos, so you probably want to use the suggested viewing order, here.

Edit for irony: I forgot, that's him in my profile picture.

[RoseRed]

you just wasted 9 minutes of my life :/ should have realized from that sounds recording how much bs this was..was terrible, seems like someones planning a new blair witch style project and needs a source....

[Deleted]

The music should have given you a clue. It's obviously fake. As fake as Santa, Big foot, Loch Ness, God, The Easter Bunny and so on.

[Deleted]

Yeah, he lives next door, he's names Todd. And hes a bit on the shy side too.

[Solidito]

it's obviously fake. As fake as santa, big foot, loch ness, god, the easter bunny and so on.

what?! Santa? Easter bunny? Nooooooooooooooooooooooo

[The Ogdru Jahad]

The music should have given you a clue. It's obviously fake. As fake as Santa, Big foot, Loch Ness, God, The Easter Bunny and so on.

Loch Ness is real, God however, is not. ;D

[Deleted]

I shoudn't believe things so fast... thanks for saying it's fake

[Organyc]

OP: Step away from your computer; Turn it off, go outside, look up, inhale deeply, and tell yourself: "I spend too much time on the internet, I should go play in the park!"

[KassieDS]

Just realised this slenderman stuff is basically the same as "The Silence" in Doctor Who.

Weirdly enough that shit me right up, but slenderman doesnt.

"Meh"

---------- Post added 2011-07-27 at 05:47 PM ----------

OP: Step away from your computer; Turn it off, go outside, look up, inhale deeply, and tell yourself: "I spend too much time on the internet, I should go play in the park!"

I avoid playing in the park. People look at me weird at the age of 22 :/