The Slender Man

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Many news sources explained the Slender man stabbing, The headline of this news story might strike curiosity as to what happened. A few years ago these two girls Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier allegedly stabbed their friend 19 times in the woods killing the girl on May 31st. Their intention was to meet “slender man”, a fictional character that hunts down children. They hatched a scheme where they planned to murder their friend at a slumber party to get a chance to show loyalty to this fictional character and the fact that “he” threatened the families if they did not take a life first. Kids have an imaginative mind, and they do things that other people tell them to do. They learn from TV shows and fictional characters, they are easily tricked,

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