slenderman

or have face is thin, very tall and dressed in black. You can increase its size, lengthen your arms and legs or tentacles pull back. Stalks his victims for long periods, invisibilizándose at will to go unnoticed. Usually leads to mental disorders and do not know how their victims die: they just disappear ...

The primary history and in the light output of Slenderman

It started with a photograph of the eighties, rescued from the rubble of a fire in a library of the city of Stirling, in California, United States. In this picture you could see a group of fourteen children playing in a local park; but the background and attitude of undetected silent observer, disturbing and lay a black male figure: high (over two meters), faceless, with black suit, with tentacles, blurred because of the shade of a tree.

The really disturbing in the picture was the presence of children playing around the stranger, as if they could not see it ... what kid would not call the attention of a tall, faceless and tentacles? But the worst came later, as the children disappeared without trace and Mary Thomas, the alleged author of the photograph. Their bodies were never found ...

After what happened with that photograph, many others began sending their own testimonials about the strange and tall humanoid. Thus arose photos where he looked amid forests casualty of solitary and nocturnal cityscapes in the fog melted into light poles, among other fires, or even inside houses or abandoned buildings. Next to that later appeared as theories showing the strange humanoid tentaculoso had accompanied us for centuries, as supposedly showed the German myth of The Grossman (reflected in a famous engraving of XVI century) or ALU A faceless being, half-human, half-demon of the ancient Akkadian own beliefs, Sumerian and Babylonian.

Apparently Slenderman was present in the world since the dawn of history, its manifestations vary slightly but retaining its key features.

Finally, based on different evidence and stories we can state the following Slenderman:

His behavior is stealthy, lurking
You can become invisible, even selectively, choosing who you can not see from the present
You can shear electronic equipment (cameras and video included)
You can modify your figure to some extent: lengthen your arms out its tentacles, get louder and more intimidating
It is capable of teleportation
It is psychic, possessing the gift of mind control and can also induce insanity and mental disorders.
According to some theories, in the past used to impale people and taking organs, while this is basically a psychological torturer who haunts for days or years to the target, alternating periods in which it is present but unseen (transmitting the horrible feeling of being watched) with times when he appears and awakens terror. However, when killing is not known how he does it; Therefore, unlike the past, now the victim simply disappears without trace
Some sources indicate that Slenderman preferred prey upon children.
Like forests, dark or dimly lit places, abandoned buildings, fire, fog of sites.
Often harass those who for years have been as a child, and in many of these cases goes years without being visible.
For those who do not know they are being stalked by Slenderman, the following happens: their social, physical and occupational life deteriorates; become forgetful; have constant irritability and mood instability.
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Origin of primordial history

As many readers know, the above story and everything else is pure farces that have spread like a pandemic through the internet. The original story was born in the Something Awful forums, emerged within 8 July 2009 contest The contest called "Create Paranormal Images" and was to create a terrifying image, which seemed a real paranormal photography and to include a story. It was in this context that the photo appeared (false, created by Victor Surge) 80, mentioned in the original story already told.

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The fame of Slenderman: Hoaxes, creepypastas Projects, youtube, video games and film

After the photo and the original story of Slenderman, Something Awful appeared in more false stories about Slenderman and pictures. Then the same thing happened on the web 4chan, in the part devoted to the paranormal. Then the stories and photos about Slenderman began to spread online at an amazing speed, mixing creepypastas who presented themselves as such with stories that, being false, intended to be taken as genuine, like photographic montages. And along with that came the hoaxes (false news), through which all the historical past fictional Slenderman was built. Thus, it is clear that the relationship (such as the poses) Slenderman certain mythical beings is false, as "evidence" that at first were mentioned as part of the legend.

Another key factor in the fame of Slenderman were projects, pages and virtual communities arising around the character. Manifestation of this is the large number of channels on youtube inspired Slenderman theme, the most important being those who make up the so-called Big Three: Marble Hornets, Tribe Twelve and Everyman Hybrid. All these three channels correspond to projects on the character, but Marble Hornets is most famous due to extensive monitoring has made videos about alleged apparitions of Slenderman. Even the importance of monitoring has been such that there is another youtube channel dedicated to subtitle videos Marble Hornets

As for the pages about Slenderman, we see that even came theslenderman.wikia.com encyclopedia in English, among other things, gives the enormous number of blogs created around high and tentaculoso be.

Furthermore, in June 2012 Slender launched: The Eight Pages, an independent and free game in which the player must collect 8 ratings that are distributed through a dark and scary forest where Slenderman haunt you and if you look at his face, you will murder ...

Finally, there are rumors that in 2013 will Entity, horror thriller produced by East Bay Entertainment, led by Jadallah Brothers and inspired by the stories of Slenderman.

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Historical fiction Slenderman

Needless to say (the caption says it clearly) the unreality of these data, which can be perceived if queries in German legend Der Grossman are made. However it is only that unreal in two aspects: 1) not all myths are linked to actual Slenderman 2) Those who are real, they are just as myths; and say that show the presence of Slenderman in the past, including: a) assume that are real but not only as myths as facts, b) too forced association between the nature of Slenderman and the nature of the beings present in those myths. That said, we have major among those myths are:

The Grossman: This ("tall") was a towering and terrifying humanoid who lived in the woods and took the children who misbehaved. The legend is of German origin and is either false, or can not find reliable information about it on the web, even in German. His relationship with Slenderman involves some prints made in 1540 by Hans Freckenberg: one sees a medieval knight fighting a skeleton abnormally long limbs, another looks like a skeleton taking some children. It is believed that the skeleton is a representation of The Grossman. Supposedly, Hans disappeared (believe it took The Grossman) without apparent reason in 1543, and the prints were found in the Castle Halstberg the date of 1883.

The Black Man: The Scottish legend tells of a malevolent entity similar to Slenderman, who wanders through the woods at night in search of prey ... The legend is real look, and is known to used it to scare children and prevent out at night without company, even hoaxes manufacturers did not have that in mind when asserting that the Black Man and Slenderman were the same being.

The Clutchbone: In the (most important) English version, this creature has a human form, is very high, has black skin and head miss a sort of fire, as a torch. Clutchbone were attributed to disappearances, deaths by burning and dismemberment. It dates back to the early nineteenth century and is linked to the appearance of ball lightning (this natural phenomenon can actually cause deaths and fires). It is well said that the ball lightning were extraterrestrial presence and the Clutchbone was not of this world, to which it is added that, by the nature of the potential harms of globular rays, Clutchbone these murders were attributed by incineration. But his relationship with Slenderman is clearly fanciful and emerged in the dynamics of hoaxes, these can be as blatant as seen in one case (http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/The-Clutchbone) which states the Cutchbone (in its Swedish version) could be responsible for the death of the singer and actress Monica Zetterlund Swedish, which occurred in 2005 in a fire that broke out in his apartment in Stockholm ...

The Wendigo: Wendigo legend is real and its origin goes back to the ancient tribes of Canada and the United States. Basically it looks like Slenderman that is tall, slim and murderer, yet it is invested for bestiality and savagery that the sophisticated Slenderman does not have, so the association between the two is so forced that reaches the absurd thing is that the reader can see if you read on the Wendigo.

The Hupia In Hupia Taino mythology was the spirit of a dead person. At hupias was attributed the ability to change shape and it was believed that some people used to kidnap night. He was associated with Slenderman because Hupia, in human form, usually appears as faceless shadow, however Slenderman is an individual and unique entity, while there is no Hupia but many (everyone who dies becomes Hupia, as the Taino mythology), therefore there is a logic error in the hypothesis that Slenderman and "the" Hupia are the same thing, and they really should talk about Slenderman and hupias, although some manufacturers hoaxes have disfigured the myth Hupia talking as an individual and not as a genus of beings.

The Noppera-bō is a type of ghost from Japanese mythology. It usually appears in human form, especially woman. It is harmless, but scary because her features are erased until their faces are white, like Slenderman. Here again there is talk of a kind of being, while Slenderman is an individual.

Mikoshi-Nyudo: Like Slenderman, this being Japanese mythology is an individual, also having important similarities. Indeed, Mikoshi-Nyudo is tall and skinny, and grows more and more if you look, can get louder than the trees and causing your death if you look too long. In that sense and in that of which is in forests and lonely roads, thus acting in such scenarios they prefer Slenderman- is very similar to Slenderman, however has very marked differences, as it is a mendicant and has eyes and expensive, plus it can be frightening if "mikoshita" is said ("I see higher").

ALU: No face is half-human and half-demon, and its origin dates back to the ancient Akkadian beliefs, Sumerian and Babylonian. Furthermore, torments humans while they sleep, and if looks can paralyze, removing speech and even consciousness. In Sumerian mythology is a type of spirit or demon, so its generic enough to not make sense compared to Slenderman. Meanwhile, in the Akkadian mythology is one of the seven demons-utukkis sons of Anu, although, in this case, comparison with Slenderman is meaningless because it is a purely mythological being, while Slenderman belongs to the realm of legend.

Brazilian cave paintings: Supposedly there are paintings from around 9000 BC in Brazilian caves, within which is a man of elongated arms carrying a child. The problem is we do not know if the paint is real (there are no reliable sources to confirm this); and, if ever it was, it would be extremely fanciful associate that recorded with Slenderman, can be due to many different causes the length of the arms; and that, of course, omitting that Slenderman does not exist.

  Egyptian hieroglyphs: Certain Egyptian hieroglyphics that show a man with multiple arms. However it must be remembered that the hieroglyphs are symbolic and that the arms are of particular significance, and that Slenderman has tentacles, not arms.

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Slenderman: a powerful and full of meanings image

The association of Slenderman myths outlined above is all fanciful lights and sometimes absurd, plus it is accompanied by the very intention of the hoaxes while implicit in the mere fact presuppose Slenderman known after his origin in the Something Awful forums. However many of the myths have shown substantial value as tools to understand certain universal representations linked to fear, which are in turn linked to profound psychic mechanisms and in relation to Slenderman serve as demonstrations or several examples of what makes Slenderman a terrifying figure itself, beyond its existence or nonexistence. Consider then what makes Slenderman in being able to play certain psychological mechanisms of collective thought.

A mirror of the modern man: Slenderman wears a dark suit and has no face. Currently as a result of the industrial revolution, the proliferation of urban spaces and then globalization and capitalist consumerist society, the individual (especially Western) has been increasingly entering into a process of standardization, homogenization. So as a result of certain factors-needs which the consumer society we try to instill, the increasing search for titles and jobs that have to do with the business world, etc, the subject of our societies increasingly lost his individuality, his staff while being endowed with a mentality essence and some own goals. We then Slenderman represents the contemporary individual: the absence of his face represents the loss of individuality, his suit represents the employer man-symbol of the goals and attitudes of today's capitalist societies.

The absence of face and fear: It was the significance of the absence of face in relation to the times we live in; but, even more important, is that the same characteristic as that from the beginning of time (remember the ALU and Mikoshi-Nyudo), raises a deep fear. And is that one of the first things we learn is to recognize faces. Scientific studies have proven that there are brain structures that allow us to recognize (usually unconsciously) certain emotions and feelings in facial movements (sometimes very subtle, as in the fake smiles) of others, and Face Reading (one fairly reliable) but no scientific discipline has existed for centuries in the East, postulating that certain facial features represent certain psychological traits (short and straight eyebrows would be temperamental people, full lips sensual people, etc). Therefore, the absence of face put on alert to our brains, making instinctively encounter one of the most basic survival mechanisms: fear.

Slenderman and darkness: Usually Slenderman appears with a black suit, but sometimes it has been represented as a kind of shade or semi-shade. Anyway, in either case the black is present, and the black has been, since the beginning of history and in almost every human society, a symbol of darkness, death and evil. This is because, according to studies, in primitive societies (much more than in the current, but it still remains slightly) the night was perceived as a dangerous period of uncertainty as the absence of light did not allow complete perception of potential threats in the environment. And that danger was often life threatening, so the black-night-dark association Desembocada in black-death association; and in turn, the subsequent association (usually mediated by religion) between evil and death, the black-death association led to the black-mal association. All these symbolic associations remained in the collective imagination, and that is why the black (and other elements) Slenderman makes him relate them to darkness, death, and evil ...

The tentacles of Slenderman: Firstly tentacles associate Slenderman let the aliens, and that behaves much fear in that man naturally afraid of the unknown and the aliens come into the realm of the unknown. But Slenderman that fear goes a step further because he looks human and tentacles are not always visible, since he can hide. Because of that, Slenderman symbolizes a paranoia that takes forever to mankind, but it has become much stronger in our current times (thanks in part to the film and series as Men in Black): fear that aliens are among us ... but on the other hand, on a symbolic level these tentacles represent our fear of being corrupted (physically, emotionally, mentally, morally, etc) so we see that the tentacles of Slenderman out of it (corruption inhabits) extend grow, they go to us. And that, of course, fully in line with the capacity that is attributed to Slenderman to control our minds and our emotions destabilize, becoming insecure beings, irritable, forgetful, our health and our vitality corrupted by Slenderman by these harmful psychic abilities which, as its tentacles extend to reach us.

Slenderman, silence and mystery, never speaks (telepathically, because no mouth), and usually appears still, like a silent observer. We do not know what to think or what to see (no eyes to know exactly what gets your attention): their intentions are mysterious. That, coupled with the inherent symbolism of black mystery, aliens (tentacles) and its lack of face make Slenderman remains shrouded in mystery; and man, of course, tend to fear the unknown, but can also become obsessed with the unknown, his mind trying to see what your eyes can not see. It is this enigmatic character which makes Slenderman some are obsessed with him, trying to speculate what is (for those who believe), or imagine what might have (for those who do not believe but are just fans of Slenderman).

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Slenderman: A tulpa?

A tulpa is a spiritual entity created by thought. Originally born visualizations that someone with a very strong mentally (those open the third eye, particularly) takes mind. Generally fails to acquire will and, despite being visible to others (besides its creator), usually ends fading as energy is consumed slowly. The problem arises when the tulpa is fed with the belief (believe it) or fear, then may charge an extraordinary vitality and become a gifted entity will, to live indefinitely as long as they believe in it, especially if they fear . Thus speculated that Slenderman is a tulpa, and he is still alive because many still believe in him and fear him ...

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Shadows: a likely reality behind the legend.

The ghost-shadows (also called "shadow people" or "people of the shadows") belong more to the world of parapsychology that legend. Many are the actual photos (in the sense of not being intentional fakes) in human shadows that appear to have no source. This is a particular type of ghost is always composed of negative energy, which has bad intentions, inhabits the lower astral planes (in the sordid levels further, so to speak colloquially) and feeds on emotions and destructive feelings as bitterness and hatred. And his favorite food is fear: not to anything but his presence. Like Slenderman, these spectra are tall, thin, and almost never talk (Slenderman never does). They also tend to produce sleep paralysis and seizures are reported at night when they are sleeping, because that's when leverage to drain your energy, producing a frightening wake the victim feels that the attempt to suffocate and, in some cases, you can clearly see the shadow, which is almost always on top ... Chilling to think that it was probably this type of spectrum that inspired the conception of Sumerian mythological ALU or Hupia of Taino mythology. And, in our time, it is likely that many knowledgeable Slenderman have seen a ghost-shadow, interpreting it as Slenderman as in depictions of it not always be clearly distinguished the suit, even as a mere appearing shadow in some cases. The hypothesis is stronger still if you consider that the shadows usually travel in packs; more, when a shadow appears alone, is more powerful than a normal shadow, and is usually larger and more dense ...