Beware The Slenderman
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‘Beware the Slenderman’: Creepy True-Crime
Like so many internet memes, the Slenderman phenomenon is known by millions of people, while millions of others have no idea what it is. The victim, Payton “Bella” Leutner, was struck by a knife wielded by Morgan Geyser, after Anissa Weier urged Morgan to “go crazy.” Morgan and Anissa had fallen under the spell of an internet creation, the Slenderman, a tall ghostly figure who supposedly preys upon young girls and compels them to do bad things under the threat of death. The documentary does a
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Your TV To-Do List: Go to Darker Places With HBO’s Slenderman Doc and the CW’s Gritty Take on ‘Archie’ Comics
From HBO’s crime doc to a darker take on “Archie” to WGN’s witch-hunt series, “Salem,” to the SAG Awards, here's all the TV you won’t want to miss this week.
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‘Beware the Slenderman’ Doc: What You Need to Know About the Meme-Motivated Attempted Murder Before You Watch
On May 31, 2014, two Wisconsin tweens lured a third into the suburban Waukesha woods, stabbed her 19 times, and left her to die while they washed up at a nearby Walmart. The true crime tale, which has become known as “the Slenderman stabbing,” only got weirder from there.
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HBO's 'Beware The Slenderman' is Your Next 'Jinx' True Crime Obsession
Anything FX can do, HBO can do… without Lady Gaga. The Golden Globe-winning “Bad Romance” singer will return to American Horror Story next season, which may center on the Slenderman stabbings. Back in 2014, two 12-year-old girls stabbed another young woman 19 times in the middle of the Waukesha, Wisconsin, woods — they later “claimed they [did it] to show devotion to Slenderman,” a fictional monster created by the Something Awful forums, “to prove he’s real, and so he wouldn’t kill their famil
