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This past Monday, during an interview on Coast To Coast AM (currently the second most listened to radio show on the radio, the most listened to if you count late night radio), paranormal researcher Dave Schrader discusses various paranormal ghosts/monsters and their subsequent reports. http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2013/01/28 He goes on to discuss "Slenderman", a character created by a website called Something Awful. No big deal, Slenderman is popular now. Not really "news" per say.. ..until he describes actual civilian reports of seeing Slenderman. Not jokes, but actual files and reports of seeing a tall suited man with blank face. "Emerging from a website to create a paranormal image, a character called Slender Man has been described as a very tall thin man who wears a suit, has no eyes, no mouth, and no clearly defined facial features. Though he had fictitious roots and was featured in some games, now people are actually reporting seeing this being, and he's taken on a life of his own, Schrader detailed." He goes into theorizing this as a serious paranormal phenomena, including parapsychologist experiments where people artificially make up an entity and with enough conscious intention it begins to be seen and even caught on camera(!). One specific example is stated of a ghost with a green dress and red hair which is "created" and after reports of sightings in the home, it is eventually caught on camera. He also theorizes that it is not "created randomly" but that the creators are subconsciously picking up on entities that already exist(??) Even if this whole "phenomenon" is bullshit, you apparently have people literally filing reports of seeing Slenderman in real life. Good going.
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last night i dreamt that a hamburger was eating me!
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 19:36 |
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How long until we get a big-budget Slender Man movie?
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 19:39 |
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Don't we have a paranormal forum for this poo poo?
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 19:40 |
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Actually, my nightmare was more along the lines of Reddit rageface comics becoming marketable icons on clothing and footwear.
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:How long until we get a big-budget Slender Man movie? This exist and is terrible. Really, really terrible.
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ElectricSheep posted:Actually, my nightmare was more along the lines of Reddit rageface comics becoming marketable icons on clothing and footwear. I have terrible, terrible news.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 19:46 |
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Mass psychosis is funny. I mean, if they're seriously believing in this. Remember how the Species movie caused one woman to spark the entirety of the 'El Chupacabra' debacle? Lovely stuff.
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Oh my god, I saw a guy in the distance! And it was kind of hazy but I'm pretty sure he had no face! And he was kind of tall!!
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 19:48 |
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So goons somehow can make things real based on how many of them believe or think about something? Man goons really are orks!
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Dr. VooDoo posted:So goons somehow can make things real based on how many of them believe or think about something? Man goons really are orks! I'll see you later on Goon Island.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 19:49 |
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The Cleaner posted:He goes into theorizing this as a serious paranormal phenomena, including parapsychologist experiments where people artificially make up an entity and with enough conscious intention it begins to be seen and even caught on camera(!). One specific example is stated of a ghost with a green dress and red hair which is "created" and after reports of sightings in the home, it is eventually caught on camera. If I could think myself into psychic powers I would have Akira'd the poo poo out of so many people by now.
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This is fantastic because it was the intent of the Create Paranormal Images thread all along. 
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Vengarr posted:I have terrible, terrible news. Yeah, I should have said "used to be" because I work in a middle school and that poo poo is everywhere. On the flip side, it explains a lot about Redditors.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 19:56 |
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Way to go people you created a tulpa.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 19:57 |
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Megaspel posted:This exist and is terrible. Wait, are we talking about that absolutely terrible 4chan movie that Lowtax was making fun of a while back, or is there literally a Slender Man movie that was shown in theaters?
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 19:59 |
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DS at Night posted:Way to go people you created a tulpa. Are tulpas hip now or what? I swear it's 3rd or 4th time I heard about them in GBS in 2 days.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 20:00 |
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So not only have goons created swap.avi but you terrible lot have created a real slenderman. Can't you do anything nice?
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 20:02 |
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LobsterTick posted:Are tulpas hip now or what? I swear it's 3rd or 4th time I heard about them in GBS in 2 days. Once you learn a new word you see it everywhere. Tulpas are not really new or only something that has just arrived in popular culture. William Gibson tweets (relatively) a lot about tulpas, and there's that X-files episode about the gated community that features a tulpa created by the home owners association douchebag.
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Megaspel posted:This exist and is terrible. I don't know about movies, but slenderman was a part of a recent "Lost Girl" episode.
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There were slender mans in Doctor Who.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 20:05 |
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I saw this guy who was like 7 feet tall and pencil thin. He wasn't slenderman, though.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 20:09 |
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What's the over/under on both the spotters and the the slendermen being reddit people playing precious pranks on each other? randomactsofslenderman
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LobsterTick posted:Are tulpas hip now or what? I swear it's 3rd or 4th time I heard about them in GBS in 2 days. Race to be the first kid in your thread to reference one! edit: less than some manifestation of imagination by sheer force of will, I'm sure some bored people have just gone out dressed like slender man in the hopes they'd freak someone and get some internet stirred up. 5er fucked around with this message at Jan 30, 2013 around 20:13 |
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Megaspel posted:This exist and is terrible. I doubt it has a big budget though.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 20:12 |
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Several years ago, I read a series of books, about a group of people who's worst nightmares started manifesting. First as simple hallucinations, later as fullblown manifestations capable of affecting the world and killing people. In the books, the phenomenon is called Homo Timidus. The term Homo Timidus even inspired an article about people and horror stories. What I'm saying is, that one of you fuckers might actually suffer from Homo Timidus and have manifested a Slenderman. Luckily, the thing goes away when it kills the creator, so I guess we'll just have to wait.
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Part of me loves this because the idea I was witness to the birth of an internet/modern folk legend that could potentially last hundreds of years, if not longer, is awesome. Then there's part of me that just laughs and shakes their head at the terminally ignorant. Still, I think this is fascinating from an anthropological standpoint. This past Halloween the town I live in displayed scary pictures drawn by elementary kids in the main street business windows. One kid drew this:  This kid was 3/4 when Slenderman was created. I imagine an older sibling or relative may have shown them the game, but maybe elementary-age kids are recounting Slenderman stories to one another? When I was in Kindergarten the most popular book in our library was Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark which was a collection of folklore and ghost stories, some based on legends centuries old. Instead of the Wendigo or the Tailypo, we get a thin man in a suit reminiscent of the 1960's UFO-related Men in Black, but with all the supernatural authority of a faceless establishment out to ensure those who pry disappear forever. Or I'm reading far too deeply into two photoshops that launched a memetic phenomenon.
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The Cleaner posted:Even if this whole "phenomenon" is bullshit If? If it's bullshit?
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I'm slender and I'm a man. Does it count when someone sees me?
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Ok so was the game Slender made by SA goons too, or did someone else just take the idea and go with it? It's driving me crazy because the internet won't tell me!
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Honky MoFo posted:I'm slender and I'm a man. Does it count when someone sees me? Only if you have no face.
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Wait, are we talking about that absolutely terrible 4chan movie that Lowtax was making fun of a while back, or is there literally a Slender Man movie that was shown in theaters? Probably this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tall_Man_(film) Crappy Jessica Biel movie with a slenderman-like villain.
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Honky MoFo posted:I'm slender and I'm a man. Does it count when someone sees me? Only if you´re slightly out of focus at all times while exuding an air of vague malevolence.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 20:41 |
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What? I was there at Slenderman's birth. What's this "game" bullshit I keep hearing?
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Welp, sleep is a waste of time anyway, right? Found one video of a Slenderman sighting on YouTubes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhEbUCgyw-4
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Sgt. Shaved Balls posted:What? I was there at Slenderman's birth. What's this "game" bullshit I keep hearing? Some people made some lovely games where you do stuff and sometimes slenderman will pop out and game over.
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I wonder if they all stopped caring after the 1st "season" also.
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It's completely amazing to me that the whole Slenderman thing took off and went forward to become almost an urban legend. It might be overused but something about it has obviously embedded itself in people's minds. I think one of the reasons it is so scary is it's unstoppable. Most horror creatures can be stopped with silver bullets or a stake or garlic; even ghost stories tend to end when the ghost finishes their loose ends or whatever. In a lot of Asian horror remakes the idea of an unending, all consuming vengeful ghost was introduced. I think the Uncanny Valley coupled with the invulnerability and insatiable nature of Slenderman is what makes it so successful and frightening.  I wonder what Victor Surge thinks about all this? He's the Dr Frankenstein who now gets to watch his creation run amok in bad games, movies, children's drawings on shopfronts, etc.
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babies havin rabies posted:Found one video of a Slenderman sighting on YouTubes: That may be the least frightening video ever produced.
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Biplane posted:Only if you´re slightly out of focus at all times while exuding an air of vague malevolence. I've always had a vague malevolence and I am near sighted. Hmmm...maybe I can get a part time job being Slenderman.
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