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jazz

can you come here a sec

what's up

look at this

you know Ming stalking my birthday party

what are you talking about

really I don't know he's like right

there back by the trees

yeah

well I'm gonna go to work now and if you

have any more pictures of trees feel

free to call me

oh girl

Jessica

She Was Out playing with a friend

they live in a wooded area

I I called her friend's parents to tell

them that she had to leave

but they told me she left half an hour

ago well they're only a five minute walk

away

so I went looking for her I started

calling her

then I got this ringing in my ears

then then what

a thing

it took her

what do you mean Thomas it took her all

that slept is her clothes it took my

Jessica and now it's coming for me I

can't sleep I can't live oh God Thomas

calm yourself

foreign

foreign

life

just come to our website inside

edition.com now the online Boogeyman

he's called the Slenderman but did that

haunting character inspire a couple of

12 year olds to commit a horrific crime

they are accused of stabbing their

friend 19 times and leaving her

critically injured but at least alive

less Trent with the details yeah these

two little girls uh 12 years old took

their friend who was also 12 out into

the forest and supposedly stabbed that

little girl not teen Toms

and wanted her to die because they

wanted to sacrifice her for Slenderman

now tell me that ain't some up

right there they're not even

teenagers yet but Morgan geyser and

Anissa wire now face charges as adults

for attempted homicide I recognize the

young age but it's still unbelievable

the girls are accused of stabbing a 12

year old friend 19 times in the legs

arms and torso the young suspects told

police they came up with a gruesome plot

to kill their friend because of a

fictional character called Slenderman

they say the character required them to

kill someone before they could become

his proxy reports said that the two

girls were interested in a website

called Creepypasta Wiki that talks about

a mysterious fictional character known

as Slenderman two words at the heart of

this story may sound strange to a lot of

you the fictional horror character

called Slenderman and a website called

Creepypasta now according to the

criminal complaint the girls were

convinced SlenderMan was real today cmj4

Michelle Fiore is here to tell us more

about this Michelle

foreign

the account of a certain particular

entity are some of the most disturbing

reports one could ever examine

the encounters with this entity have

dated back centuries and have been

permanently penned it into various

historical documents

each culture or area that encountered

this being had its own name for it

the operator The Tall Man even master

today it is most commonly known as

Slenderman

despite his recent exposure in the last

years Slenderman is nothing new the

earliest known reference to him dates

back to 9000 BC when he was featured in

cave paintings in the northeast of

Brazil later depictions of him were wood

carvings by German Woodcutter Hans

frackenberg

his carvings featured a multi-limbed

character thought to be a representation

of an evil fairy type being who lived in

the Black Forest that would kill or

snare any children who strayed into the

forest without their parents permission

more recently the SlenderMan was brought

to life again in June 2009 when two

photographs were sent into the website

to something awful they were supposedly

taken in the mid-80s and showed a group

of children with a strange looking

figure lurking in the background

Slenderman behaves in what might be seen

as a passive-aggressive manner often

stalking targets for years at a time

before ever attacking

Slenderman will find interest in a

victim for reasons unknown it would then

contact the victim and if it is a child

it'll present itself as friendly it

would stalk the victim for longer

amounts of time

causing what is known as Slender

sickness

and this is where it gets disturbing

eventually it would abduct the victim

into whatever nearby Forest there may be

where they would be killed so next time

you're in the woods or anywhere near the

Slenderman's known location don't forget

to bring lots of company because if you

don't it might already be waiting there

for you

ah

I am in no way shape or form trying to

make people believe or disbelieve

anything said in this video you're

entitled to your own opinion this video

is made to prove that the myth of

Slenderman is fake you can take the

information given to you in this video

any way you want as stated before you

are entitled to your own opinion

viewer discretion is advised

the Slenderman might just be the most

well-known mythical creature to surface

in recent years more and more people

discovered the myth about him every day

but there's one catch

it's fake

that's a bold statement to make you may

wonder how I know this so surely well

let me give you a little history lesson

it all started in the forums of

something awful ironically something

awful is actually a comedy website

featuring forums blog entries articles

and more but in the year of 2009 this

comedy website took a horrific turn one

thread on the site invited users to

participate in a Photoshop contest where

they took normal images and turned them

into paranormal pictures one user named

Eric Knudson who went by the handle Vic

surge took the normal pictures of

children and altered them so that the

kids were haunted by a tall shadowy and

long-armed in the background look at

most of the supposed sightings of

Slenderman in most if not all of the

photos Slenderman has no shadow

thank you

and from that origin Point specifically

June 8 2009 the story of Slenderman grew

and grew and grew it was an open source

Legend which means that people would

throw other things in and some of the

claims might contradict themselves but

one thing is for sure there were more

and more claims they aggregated as time

went on many other groups and

individuals are actually responsible for

Slenderman's Horizon popularity and

mystery I was introduced to the idea of

Slenderman by the YouTube web series

Marble Hornets this YouTuber would

upload old tapes from his friends

canceled film project and noticed a

figure in the background of most of

these videos or this figure following

his friend around stalking him it

unfolds into this giant mystery which I

suggest you check out I love it a

standard retaining its Marble Hornets

may be the creators actually confirmed

that the series are fictional if you go

to the Marvel Hornets Wiki you can even

see the actors who played the different

characters but what about the old German

folklore true the old painting of the

so-called director and the old tells

about their Grossman might exist but

just like any other tale it was most

likely there to scare children

so there you have it that's all the

evidence I've found so far remember you

are entitled to your own opinion and if

you still believe in the Slender Man

that's perfectly fine

thank you for watching this video and I

hope you enjoyed it have a great day

this is like the first time I'm

recording this song

it's like a joke in the first place I

don't know why this computer is taking

it so seriously okay

here it is

man

I wonder if you can

use

what is it about the Slender Man that is

making people care so much that they're

creating so much content about him he's

scary and people seem to like being

scared they probably make it up just

like make people afraid of it because

they're mean I like it because it's so

scary it's so fascinating about like the

whole mythology stuff about it there's

mystery behind it because like you don't

know if it's real or not kind of like

Bigfoot the whole Community people can

talk about it together and whatever I

think it's

a way to for people to like connect

hello there my name's Shannon and this

is Miss slenderverse I made this channel

because I want to review and Vlog

different Thunder series on YouTube what

is a slender series you ask is it a

bunch of exercise videos designed to

help you get into shape like women

laughing a salad or being attacked by

fruit for some odd reason

not exactly unless your idea of exercise

is screaming your computer screen and

peeing all over the floor

yeah I guess not no actually a slender

series is a video web series based off

of the internet phenomenon known as

Slenderman lately I've been hearing

these strange noises coming from around

my house uh they're unexplainable I

don't know where they're coming from and

uh frankly it's all just been scaring

the living out of me I feel like

someone's falling the internet is a

medium that constantly presents new

methods of Storytelling and makes the

artistic landscape a much more

immediately experimental Place sometimes

an artist never intends to be deep or

meaningful but instead hopes to make

something engaging or slightly

interesting or at the very least fun

what I find amazing about that though is

that even when the initial intent is not

artistic there are rare moments when the

end products unintentionally form a new

Mass Consciousness one that opens the

door for Creative expression and as I've

come to realize takes on the form of one

of the biggest experimental art pieces

on the internet

laughs

you know after a while

I came to a conclusion

Slenderman

sucks

yeah I don't know if there's really a

nice I if I were to be nice I want to

kind of say the Slenderman isn't an

unpopular character in horror web media

an urban legend entity with a very vague

and underdeveloped story behind him the

Slenderman would normally be considered

by writers and visual artists to be at

most an interesting aesthetic concept

with at most two consistent themes the

unknown and The Uncanny yeah a uh

faceless long-armed thing that may or

may not have tentacles and is known to

sometimes take you know that's okay as

bedtime story to scare children with

material but

looking at the reflection of my

television like I almost think

Slenderman's appeared in it but

but uh yeah

I'm freaking nuts

anyway my life could never be that

exciting

oh oh I know what's being reflected now

like

okay

Edmund you are doing a great job of

convincing everyone that you're sane and

rational

I hope you're ready for some more

bedtime stories because Uncle Matt is

back

what is creepypasta Creepypasta are

essentially internet horror stories

passed around on forums and other sites

to disturb and frighten readers the name

Creepypasta comes from the word copy

Pastor an internet slang term for a

block of text that gets copied and

pasted over and over again from website

to website Creepypastas are sometimes

supplemented with pictures audio and or

video footage related to the story

typically with gory distorted or

otherwise shocking content so as a kid

who loved horror stories I obviously

read a lot of Creepypasta in my day I

love them because it's basically

campfire stories on like a global scale

and I feel like a format like this could

yield some really good results here are

the 10 freakiest Creepypastas Ever Told

Jeff the Killer oh my God look at that

guy it is unsurprising that when that

picture surfaced on the internet a lot

of lore started popping up surrounding

it but nobody actually knows the origin

story of that dude Jeff what are you

doing asked his mother

Jeff looked over to his mother I

out I couldn't keep smiling Mommy

it hurt after a while

now I can smile forever in the case of

stories that don't work it's usually

just the one really big huge obvious

fatal flaw that they go too far the best

horror stories in my opinion have just

enough creepy elements to unnerve you

but leave you wondering if it could

actually be true or not especially

because the conceit of Creepypasta is

that they're usually being told as true

stories the subreddit for Creepypasta is

an in-character subreddit where you

can't say like nice story good use of

adverbs you have to be like oh my god

did you ever find the ghosts locket so

all these amateur writers started to see

it as their shot at Fame so everyone

started trying to up the ante on their

stories so that they could have the

memorable one this basically was like an

arms race of shock horror or creepy Gore

everybody wanted to have the new Slender

Man or Wireman or goat man or candle

lady I just made that one up number

three suicidal Squidward oh dogging do I

hate this one yes I do yes I do hate

this one there's a legend of a missing

SpongeBob SquarePants episode wherein

Squidward kills himself

the screen flipped back to Squidward

still sobbing louder than before and

half body in frame

there was now what appeared to be blood

running down his face from his eyes

he put his tentacles down and his eyes

were now done in a realistic style like

the others were in the beginning of the

episode

they were bleeding bloodshot and pulsing

he just stared at the screen as if

watching the viewer

after about 10 seconds I started sobbing

foreign

document just look at Marble Hornets

driving people crazy no wonder you've

never had to do it you may be called a

man but I'm more killer than you it's

for your face I'll bleach it ignite it

give it a redo they call me Thunderman

cause I get all the see I'm a

man you're a kid you can't write it this

is

hey

foreign

and then Morgan just on top of Bella and

said stabbing her repeatedly and that's

when I turned around because I couldn't

stand to see that

and then

um

those full-time people was screaming and

begging

saying stuff like

I hate you guys I'll never forgive you

and I trusted you

still

and um

sorry

I want him to be locked down so that I

couldn't hurt her but

sometimes first and now I'm in here

because we were careless

I knew this would happen

I knew we'd get in trouble

laughs

with winter snow on the ground Morgan

geyser and Anissa wire began obsessing

over Slenderman the girls say they

wanted to be his proxies the girls told

police that they plotted for months to

kill a friend in order to show their

dedication to Slenderman after the

killing they plan to walk to his mansion

in the Nicolette National Forest they

said they invited their intended victim

over for a sleepover and then lured her

into the woods the next day to play hide

and seek

during the game the girls got cold feet

before Giza then allegedly attacked and

stabbed the victim 19 times leaving her

with wounds to the Torso arms and legs

the victim was later discovered by a

cyclist after crawling to a nearby Road

evidence presented in court shows what

was found in Morgan geyser's bedroom on

their computers their cell phones out of

the woods the interrogation tapes on a

special 2020 tonight at 10 Eastern right

here

do you think cinnamon Israel because I

think it is I think it is she thinks it

is he does not I just want to tell you

guys about a dream ahead about

Slenderman I saw him in my house guys

you are not it's not no joke Slender Man

is after me and I can't stop it once

he's after me he'll never stop I am like

convinced that one of these days I'm

going to be outside by myself and I sit

on my roof and he's kind of like up here

out of nowhere and just like take me so

if I ever disappear and I'm not online

for a while and you don't hear from me

chances are the Slenderman killed me and

I'm dead

come here

do you know what I'm gonna talk about to

this camera

I am trying to start a new Google

account and a new YouTube

so that I can

have some kind of way to discuss the

fact that my boyfriend Roger

is obsessed with the Slenderman

okay so it's been about a week since my

last video

and I have been doing research into what

Slenderman possibly could be uh this

video is specifically to express the

current theory I'm working on which is

the topic theory of Slenderman's

existence in which it's believed that

he's just a tulpa I turned to the

internet

to escape

and that is when I discovered told us

atopa is an individual sentient being

that can speak and interact with you

they will appear just as a normal person

and seem as if they are completely real

even forming their own thoughts

but in reality they only exist inside of

your mind and cannot affect the outside

world at all

in other words a tulpa is a self-induced

hallucination

you said something about that toppa

effect and I tried to look it up I like

spelled it a dozen different ways

to find out what the what the topa

effect was he said that it was something

related to Buddhism and it's one of

those things where if you believe in it

that it becomes real and that's what

he's afraid of and he told me when he

was little

that a little alien

alien exactly he told me when he was

little that he'd seen ghosts and I

suspect that this topa effect thing is

that he's worried that he's worried that

if he talks about the Slenderman that

the Slenderman will exists hello my name

is Hunter Pauls I'm a paranormal

researcher in Ohio I'm also a pagan

recently my friend's son

has been experiencing nightmares a tall

Slenderman in Black maybe it scares them

it preys on fear it preys on their

emotional thought for fear because the

brain is a very powerful tool in that

matter and what I think is going on is

they get so scared they think oh

Slenderman is black you know tall guy

you know it's it just scares them so

much that it allows them to take them in

the night or whenever they're there

personally I I that's my theory that

that's not what someone else may have or

just got this feeling in my gut there's

a Slender Man

yes

this is a real gun

s

it's gonna have blood

oh

foreign

do you have a slender thickness

and we're going to do it

okay so do I experience no splits of

them

no I don't but sometimes I do have no

splits so I guess I will put yes overall

do you believe

that you are being stalked by the

Slender Man or have a slender thickness

yes I do

you have a slender sickness I knew it I

I knew it

so

It's not catching

because people think there's no blood

head hurts

people are gonna take this is all real

and he shows fake

hey guys um

how to it's how to become one of

slendy's proxies we've been noticing a

train

lots of teenagers and

pretty young kids

are saying they want to be proxies

let me tell you what being a proxy is

really like

you have to die

my hands like your arms legs and your

throat

that's because he's investigating

he's very very very picky when

he won step seven if he finds you fit he

will Mark you you literally ran to you

he'll wrap one of those Tangles around

whatever body part he's going to put

that marker on

and it eats into your skin

you're left with a black mark

and it's not a lovely little tattoo I've

got three of those and they don't hurt

as bad

trust me a needle is nothing compared to

this it doesn't just Mark your body

it marks your mind and your soul it

gives him complete control over you

whether you want him to have it or not

I'm talking to my computer

it's five in the morning I'm totally

alone

I'm talking to my computer

I love Roger

I don't know if I'll ever stop loving

Roger

I don't know if we can keep being

together

what is this

um

um I don't know if you don't know well I

haven't watched it yet so I don't know

it's

it's Slenderman I thought you

didn't like this

I just wanted to see why you were so

into it I'm not into it

okay I'll just turn it off

broken me

once this child was missing

missing oh for so long but the Slender

Man took him

and then everything went wrong now a

decaying entity

here resembles much like Kate

if you see him you better flee

cause he has met the same fate

has a proxy

Charlie

we miss you so much and your

Slenderman's touch you're not the one

who you're supposed to be

I know what you're probably thinking

Slenderman is a work of fiction

it was thought up by some guy called

Victor Serge on a something awful

Photoshop contest he photoshopped a tall

creepy looking man into some old

photographs and gave the pictures a

scary caption and a meme was born

I want to explore the idea that whilst

fictional in origin the Slenderman has

become a very real entity

the warning signs have been all around

us for some time now it is only when we

connect the dots that we see the full

picture

in occult terms Slenderman could be seen

as an aggregor an aggregor is the idea

that if a large group of people think

about the same thing at the same time

those thoughts have the power to

manifest themselves as reality

in theory a group of people could summon

a spirit entity simply by believing in

it strongly enough and willing it into

existence now think back to the height

of Slenderman's popularity there were

hundreds of videos photos stories even

video games about him

not everybody who heard about Slenderman

knew about his Photoshop Origins some

even thought that he genuinely existed

somewhere along the way

the image of Slenderman got embedded in

a collective consciousness

it was only a matter of time before he

started to make the transformation from

imagination to reality what this ritual

stabbing achieved was to solidify the

idea in people's minds a Slenderman

could cause genuine harm to people

real world just like in the Slenderman

Mythos he was able to infect and

influence the minds of two children and

persuade them to commit acts of

horrendous violence one month later a

local Cincinnati news station reported

the story of a 13 year old girl who

dressed up in a white mask and black

hoodie then stabbed her mother with a

kitchen knife when she came home the

mother said the girl was obsessed with

Slenderman the outfit she wore sounds

very similar to the outfit worn by Tim

in the marble Hornet's Slenderman videos

and these are just the cases that get

reported how many more terrible acts

have been carried out by children

influenced by Slenderman a recent study

shows there's been a massive increase in

violent attacks carried out by children

against their own parents these attacks

started to become more frequent right

around the time that the first

Slenderman stabbing occurred

it is very possible that the year 2014

was the beginning of Slenderman's real

world manifestation perhaps if we had

spotted the warning signs then

it is far too late

prophecy 43 part 2. who do you choose to

be your Potter I yahave or Harry Potter

since when does the servant rule the

master you do not even hear my still

Small Voice when I warn of the dangers

of sorcery and demonic possessions

through what your eyes see in your ears

here because of this your children are

becoming possessed through the films

books and video games that are a steady

diet of occult sorcery demonism Satanism

and shamanisms you are training your

children up to be warlocks shamans

witches and satanists oh what a price

you will pay when your own children turn

on you with evil spirits that will make

you wonder where did your children go

you will look at them with eyes of

Wonder for your innocent babes will be

possessed with every kind of evil spirit

they realize that witchcraft is a sin

and yet your own Airwaves promote this

even to the children and through sitcoms

does not my word say suffer a witch to

be burned in hell and the Lake of Fire

they shall burn after they die if they

do not repent they shall become

possessed they shall turn on you in

rebellion in ways you never dreamed of

parents you are responsible for feeding

your children food both physical and

spiritual food you don't feed your

children poison so why would you allow

Satan to feed your children poison to

your soul and your children's Mind Body

Spirit and soul

all right we got to Slenderman the

Slenderman the Slender Man is

not real okay let's let's get that out

of the way Slenderman's not real what if

he was though what if that

was real what if he was out in the woods

in a suit no face

I would never go in the woods I won't go

into Woods anyway well

two little girls thought it was real

okay these two little girls thought it

was real they take their friend out in

the woods they planned this for months

okay they're playing this for

months they wanted to become they wanted

to live in Slenderman's Mansion okay

apparently Slenderman have a mansion now

I didn't think I was like well I was

letting a man have a mansion but if you

think about it Slenderman does wear a

suit all the time so it kind of makes

sense that he would have a mansion he's

probably loaded I mean why else he got a

suit on where did they even read that

at you know on some Message Board

somewhere some nerd typed all

that up they ought to arrest that

nerd they ought to arrest him

for whatever something something

he probably typed some up if you

sacrifice someone to a human to sort of

let's pay somebody there's probably a

whole bunch of people that believe he's

real that's why I hope the cult of

oh my God the more I think about it the

more it just makes more jump off

his deck right here just break my

neck cause it's Madness oh my

in such a long time and then I see this

little bit stabbing survivor's

remarkable recovery Nightline ABC News

what what and what are you talking about

all right this is Danger Man the urban

superhero and this is another Danger Man

moment God I want to share this with you

guys because this story just rocked me

rocked me literally rocked me and broke

my heart you talk about some nutty

God damn how long did these

kids plan this how

long did they think about it before they

started planning to murder some I mean

God damn how is Slenderman that big of a

deal who the is obsessed with

Slenderman

Jesus crap

I don't know what to say and now we're

gonna have to have Glenn back

and all these losers saying see

video games even though there's more to

Slenderman than a game but I guarantee

you they're gonna Target the game

they're gonna turn it around and try to

make it seem like games are bad like

they always do it's always the

game's fault hey guys something recently

happened in the news and I feel the need

to talk about it it's your boy Jordy

Jordan and if you could please like this

video there's a lot of people still

throwing dislikes on my videos from

prior prior things that happen so let's

go and drown them out sacrificing your

friend to the Slender Man and they were

dead serious it wasn't like they got

caught caught before they did it no no

no no no no

these

they stabbed her 19 times

somehow she lived

some amazing state-of-the-art Miracle

medical advice that made this child live

she got stabbed 19 times for Slender Man

and she goes on the record to saying

that Slenderman is the leader of

Creepypasta

and the big debate here there's two big

debates one is should we take down

Creepypasta we believe that you should

not blame Creepypasta for this stuff yes

it could be part of the reason but it

doesn't mean that they went straightly

to Creepypasta and say oh hey let's go

kill some children they chose to do this

you should go kill a person like I did

no it's a story

and stories not always real people like

this give us horror fans a bad

reputation

it's like we're all like this no

no

I mean I have to admit I may have had

some homicidal thoughts but one thing

that keeps me from going out on those

urges is I'm terrified of prison first

of all you can't

you basically have no freedom and I will

look fugly and orange orange is not my

color orange is not the New Black

and I'm too I love my phone and the

internet too much

where's the pairing team I recall when

Camp my youngest son was growing at a

very early age I would talk to him about

the difference between reality and make

believe the fantasy world of pretend and

the real world of life

whether it was nursery rhymes Bedtime

Stories and moving on to cartoons video

games television shows and movies I

would question Chad I would make sure he

knew the difference between what he read

or saw in those mediums and his

day-to-day existence in the world of the

living every day I tell parents watch

your kids talk to your kids find out

what they're doing find out who they're

visiting on the internet okay you're not

that busy where you can't take this time

these are your children okay take time

to be nosy now I wouldn't exactly blame

the parenting because there could be

mentality problems he also have to think

of their mental statewise what they

found online and libraries they're a

group of friends over here pressure it

could be all that so we want to make

that clear that we're not blaming the

parenting

on this but we're blaming what could

possibly been in their minds yeah or

their lives

these chicks need help

they need to go get themselves a

psychiatrist in order

to function properly

I should know

you're talking to the chick that tried

to kill herself twice

and the second reason was a

stupid reason it was oh

okay

all right let's talk about

the Slenderman stabbing this is is about

as fabricated as the Slender Man itself

story and all this is just another

BS story that they're filling the news

up with

other Prof ESS did this

until these people right here 100 crisis

actors you can see it on their face the

way they look at each other the way they

look at the camera is 100 fake they're

trying to morally corrupt you they're

trying to change your your uh your

Humanity your sense of realism 12 year

old girls don't conspire you see if they

if even if they do get the thought and

they're joking around well you know what

happens dinner time comes and they go

out with their family they go out to

dinner they go to the beach they have

birthday parties they play with their

dolls they don't conspire for two three

months to kill another child

okay they're 12 years old these things

do not happen the other girl puts up a

fight I want you to know this one thing

right here okay just notice these

so-called suspects is in purple okay

purple red and blue okay so-called

reality color it's purple why they have

purple and coffee on people you tell me

imma break that down they would soon be

questioned

you see the mom the mom is also in

purple okay the mom is in purple this

Dad right here got a purple band on the

hand what's going on with all these

purple the police are working in

conjunction with the New World Order

it's a satanic demonic entity that

controls your government it

always has it always will and this is

what they're selling the people right

here because later on they go have a

movie our TV series about the same

Slender Man mark my word okay the

Slender guy doesn't exist you can accept

that right

and you can accept that but you

can't accept what I'm telling you

all right

the story is a story

and on that note I'm done and done

a documentary called beware the Slender

Man looks deeper into the character and

the crime it was shot over 18 months the

film will Premiere at South by Southwest

in Austin Texas in March and this is

your first look at the trailer that was

just released by HBO The palest Man

bigger than the tallest bridge

was an Enderman

for he can do what no one can

Came Upon a 12 year old female she

appears to be stabbed she appears to be

what stab dab wiring

police say the suspects were inspired by

a character on a website Slenderman

School

you believe that

if that's real

told me we had to she said that he'd

kill our families whiskey

um a man I'll give you anywhere from 60

14 feet tall he doesn't have a face

prove that Slenderman existed and would

be able to do that by killing somebody

it sucks to be a kid

they do fantasy in reality

people are captivated

That's What I Call power to believe in

the boogeyman isn't that hard and they

believe it was real

what were you thinking thank you

this is

everything about this movie just

it I'm

it's a week later and I'm still

livid I really I can't put in towards

how much I hated this movie from

a

really somber piece about these two

mentally ill girls who nearly killed

another girl it turns into this

obnoxious Montage of

assorted clips from

YouTube It's the lowest common

denominator to blame the internet blame

the media blame Etc it's a it's a dated

argument and it's just so exploitative

and disrespectful to take

two mentally ill young girls

and their families and use them to push

a agenda like that it's so

disgusting and so distasteful and I'm I

still have a really just a bad taste in

my mouth from watching this movie

all right it's live

hi everyone oh my God hello

every single HBO show for some reason

they have this guy that's like way too

intense like he just he's better now

all right we're trying to get Lee from

whispered faith in here but his computer

is breaking so in all seriousness yes

people were sad yes and it was terrible

oh yeah this is this is a horrible

circumstance so like we're not really oh

there's mine

hey Adam this I just saw you on camera

you see that was the

Slenderman's like a minute and a half of

your footage in there

I hope they they put a credit for me as

like perpetrator Adam roster don't treat

people who make stuff like we do as

enablers right please do not we are

making art this is fun for us this has

nothing to do with enabling people to

fill out their crazy vanities of murder

for me

personally it's it's an outlet for me to

let that stuff out because obviously

I have my own issues as we've all known

pretty vocal about it it's my outlet so

don't try to ruin

somebody's Outlet

because you feel that it's the

destruction of society because it's an

easy easy thing to point a finger at

right he's thinking of the spin here

disgusting I still oh

fans of internet memes Rejoice a

Slenderman film is currently in

development the figure abducting

children will now get the big screen

treatment with a script reportedly being

written by David Burke for screen gems a

division of Sony Pictures Entertainment

thank you

to soak

no yes

why are you even in the woods

all right

I like that they acknowledged that for

some reason he only affects girls I

think that's really interesting they are

the only ones who get sucked into this

you know I wish it had more of a ring

the ring uh you know quality to it where

I had seemed to have more of an actual

story you know what maybe seems a little

bit like a student film of Promise

although this guy's made a lot of movies

at this point he should be beyond the

student film uh level who wants to pay

to sit through a student film so what'd

you think write your thoughts down below

thank you for watching with me as always

and you can check out some more videos

right now

please

do you ever see things that aren't there

I've seen him in real life

he wants us to kill someone that doesn't

believe in him

how kill our families if we don't

foreign

only on Lifetime tell us more about this

movie and and what it's about

well Tara in the woods is a story based

on true events about two girls who get

really interested in a creepy internet

character and as a sacrifice they attack

their best friend I'm the attacker that

sounds like a like a very crazy movie

what made you want to do a roll like

this

well reading over the script when I got

the audition I really was like wow this

character has some depths she was

schizophrenic and she really believed

what she was doing was right so I guess

it drew me to her because she had layers

of a normal girl but also a girl that

needed help

oh

yeah

happy birthday

I played the victim because these two

girls they they thought the Susan wanted

them to show their loyalty by stabbing

their best friend wow and I played that

character and it was really incredible

to tell that and this is based on a true

story it is inspired by inspired okay

inspired by a true story you became

really good friends with the cast

members that girl that the story is

inspired by

um she also was best friends with the

girls who did that to her yeah that's

tough it was really really crazy

um only I'm only 11 playing playing a 12

year old character who got stabbed and

that's kind of hard I had to stay crying

that whole time and my friends there was

a tree and they were just sitting on it

we were like three feet away from each

other and um Ella she was she was the

one who didn't do the stabbing the

friend she was just standing there

literally having a panic attack and and

then there's me with stab wounds all

over me crying and screaming and then

and then Caitlyn which was the most

creepy part

um who was really Sophie she um she was

just standing there staring and it was

really really creepy just to see my best

friends it just felt so real didn't it

well that was in my head with my best

friend was literally raising scissors

above my head was this happened to

someone this is not fake did you get to

meet any of the people that were

actually involved

no no would you have wanted to

I don't know

maybe I would have liked to talk to

Caitlin and um

I don't know yeah well Morgan geyser

right well we'll call her Caitlyn for

now yeah Sophie thank you so much you

are um a wonderful person it was so fun

to talk to you come back anytime to talk

about anything you want we wish you the

best of luck have fun on your tour and

we will see you uh next time so thanks

thank you bye bye have a great day

hands and feet Shackled

thirteen-year-old Morgan geyser fidget

and psychiatrists testify about her rare

early onset schizophrenia well somebody

with severe schizophrenia is going to

predictably do poorly

in the criminal justice system and we

have hundreds of examples of that I care

I got I've got to jump ahead and I need

I need Judy and Wendy alongside of me

here because here's the deal you too did

you read what Morgan said to the police

I've got you both are clinical

psychologists this girl Morgan Had

visual hallucinations that Slenderman

visited her that he put radiation into

her body then commanded her to do things

what do we call that that has a name

that has a name that's a delusion with

visual hallucinations in a 12 year old

that is profound mental illness why

didn't somebody know that's true I'm

gonna disagree with you how can you

disagree with that

unless they're having delusions no but

the fact that she was having her

delusions around horror and around evil

and around blood may have to do with

what kind of conditioning her parents

put into or the exposure that she had on

the internet my own hallucinations at

that age where that my Ken doll was

going to come and visit me at night and

that was a happy thought okay but these

kids are having a kind of big

imagination that's very normal for this

age group

where is that line between reality and

she well she lost it because she was

delusional and hallucinatory backed me

up when she's 12. Judy backed me up on

this

it's time for wild about Trial where we

break down some of the biggest news

stories from around the country and

today we're joined by attorneys Jesse

Weber and Misty Maris as always thanks

for being here

misty misty there is no one doubting

that these girls are guilty of what they

did they planned a heinous stabbing of a

young girl who they lured her into the

woods and stabbed her 19 times this case

is about two things what should their

punishment be and what court will this

be heard and this is not about anything

else insanity is a viable defense for

both defendants and it will be raised at

trial these girls need medical treatment

they need to be rehabilitated Jesse

thank you so much for your insight into

these cases we'll be sure to follow them

as they move forward you can go to our

website or wildabouttrial.com

Melissa westendorf

w-e-s-t-e-n-d-o-r-f when did you meet

with Anisa in person I met with her on

September 20th in 2016.

there are a lot of factors that go into

this

you know first of all she was 12. right

and so she was

young and she was looking at the

Slenderman or the I think a creepypasta

is the wiki that it's on website and

they're looking she was looking at this

website and this website looks real

right I mean has stories it has

clippings it has articles

that a 12 year old might have difficulty

distinguishing between what's real and

not real there can be things on the

internet that are

difficult for kids to understand are not

real I mean adults sometimes have

problems with it right I mean we hear

all sorts of stuff about fake news and

articles that aren't real they think her

father remarked that early on she said

how could my brain let me do this now a

lot of topam answers whose friends or

family know about their tulpas may be

familiar with the accusation of uh quote

you need to see a psychiatrist

well about a year ago that's exactly

what I did my parents finally decided

that my Antics were not just caused by

the influence of others but um rather

rooted in severe mental illness they

found out I had a boyfriend with whom I

had been having a relationship with for

uh almost a year but of course deep down

I'm straight and just confused well a

short time before this happened my

parents found an old blog of mine and

discovered I had told us so this became

the perfect scapegoat I had created a

tulpa and in effect given myself

schizophrenia I vividly remember the

appointment my father in a very solemn

and respectful tone explained that I was

part of an online community that was

dedicated to creating in his words

imaginary friends but once you

hallucinate and hear voices in your head

with that I had been acting defiant

lately and that they suspected that this

was the cause

so after my dad said this they gave me a

chance to speak I explained why I got

into tulpomancy and why it's still a

part of my life I mentioned that my

father was in the military well growing

up one of my biggest struggles was

making friends as an Air Force brat you

know moving every year did not help my

case shortly after turning 15 I moved

from Mississippi to Hawaii and struggled

to make the cultural and social

transition

this is when I discovered tulpas because

a tulpa would share the same brain and

body as me uh creating one would end the

cycle that I was in that involved you

know building a few shallow

relationships only to move away and

abandon them at the end of the year so

immediately after discovering topaz I

decided to create one two months of

daily meditation later and Ari became a

part of my life

in short she's pretty great for some

reason Ori has interpersonal skills that

greatly exceed my own

and over the years her company has

helped me build many relationships

outside of my mind Ari has been able to

maintain the health and well-being of

this body at a level much higher than if

it were at my soul command

um arguably it's thanks to her that I'm

even alive today you know her wit during

the suicide attempt

uh several years ago managed to preserve

both of our lives but that's a story for

another video

point is it's been nearly four years

since her conception and I look forward

to sharing many more with her so in

response to this my psychiatrist just

nods looking back at my parents

my dad a little flustered he managed to

eek out that he was concerned that this

might be dangerous to my mental health

that I might be giving myself

schizophrenia or something in Psychiatry

the main concern is functioning and when

you explain how any Behavior be it told

Nancy or something else helps you

function you know it's counterproductive

to discourage it

my psychiatrist however won a totally

different route that I did not expect

she systematically destroyed the notion

that it's even possible to give yourself

schizophrenia explaining that it's a

hereditary condition with genetic

requirements you either develop it or

you don't after some more discussion my

psychiatrist had my parents leave so we

could talk in private she asked if my

parents were conservative and dedicated

Christians and I explained how my father

was raised by a Lutheran minister

she chuckled and then confessed that my

experience with tulpas is no different

from the God my parents pray to every

night

I heard this mentioned

a few times since our trial started

the belief in Santa Claus no Santa Claus

is not real

um

how's that different from a bizarre

delusion

so I mean that's a culturally accepted

um you know I guess you could call it's

not a delusion but it's a cultural

culturally accepted

um Norm that we have in society right

it's it's different in that

um

it's culturally accepted it it becomes

um challenged by the person themselves

by the child themselves and they outgrow

that particular piece she still has a

piece of it and then she goes on to

describe well if he is real he must be

the devil and she talked about now

having a a belief in God in that

um

you know that those are her beliefs and

that if Slenderman is real he must be

the devil at one point I asked her

in the end you didn't prove either way

whether or not Slender Man was real or

not real and she looked at me and she

goes exactly

foreign

let's go over a couple of things

it seems like there's been a hundred

YouTube channels that have cropped up

since we started posting videos I'm not

sure if

posting videos is contributing to a

larger problem there's so much that I

don't understand or know about what's

happening and

I've been having a hard time

I don't even know how to do this anymore

it's hard to find logic in any of it

Slender Man Slender Man just want

someone to hold my hand sick and tired

of being on my own

every time I drop by PewDiePie starts to

scream and cry can't they see I just

want a friend

just cause I don't have a face

standing in the ground

Junior

someone's always watching me

someone's always there

when I'm sleeping he just Waits

and

he stares

someone's always standing in the darkest

corner of my room he's tall and wears a

suit of black

dress like the perfect girl

where are you going

why won't you stay

they might be scared of you but I just

want to play

he has

no face