The Internet is The New Woods (Monsters, Ostension, & Moral Panics)
Digital Folklore
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The Slender Man
User George Rijiji Gijiji put out a call for people on the forums to invent new paranormal photographs. A user by the name of Victor Serge uploaded a blurry photograph, a group of teenagers walking outdoors behind them barely visible in the contrast. Many people contribute their grainy photoshops and spooky captions to the thread. And another. One of two recovered photographs from the Sterling City Library blaze. Notable for being taken the day which 14 children vanished and for what is referred to as the Slender Man.
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