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 ...

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 ...

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 ...