Slender Man Research Paper

It was just before 10:00 AM on Saturday, May 31st, 2014, in the small town of Waukesha, Wisconsin. A bicyclist out for a morning ride came across Payton “Bella” Leutner, a 12 year old girl, covered in blood and lying in a ditch at the side of the road. She had just escaped death. Leutner was able to crawl out of the nearby woods after being left for dead by her attackers, who had stabbed her 19 times with a kitchen knife. She was stabbed in her torso, legs, and arms, and had suffered major injuries to her liver, pancreas, and stomach. The bicyclist called 911 and the Waukesha Fire Department and Police Department responded to the call and transported her to Waukesha Memorial Hospital. The doctors claimed that she was a millimeter away from certain death. Leutner was conscious enough to give the police …show more content…
According to the official Slender Man page on creepypasta.wikia.com (the website where Geyser and Weier first discovered Slender Man), Slender Man is “an alleged paranormal figure purported to have been in existence for centuries, covering a large geographic area. Believers in the Slender Man tie his appearances in with many other legends around the world, including; Fear Dubh (or, The Dark Man) in Scotland, the Dutch Takkenmann (Branch Man), and the German legend of Der Großmann or Der Grosse Mann (the Tall Man)” (creepypasta.wikia.com). Also according to the wiki, Slender Man is described as “a being (male in appearance) who looks like a man with extremely long, slender arms and legs. He also appears to have 4 to 8 long, black tentacles that protrude from his back […] He is described as wearing a black suit strikingly similar to the visage of the notorious Men In Black, and as the name suggests, appears very thin and able to stretch his limbs and torso to inhuman lengths in order to induce fear and ensnare his prey”