Gerogerigegege posted:

Original: https://wi.somethingawful.com/25/2559b4200412a4e4b5b4fcf52213818e66a679da.jpg
Asset: https://wi.somethingawful.com/26/26343c61c7973e6add33981673f4f15e0de0cfdf.jpeg

Victor Surge posted:

"we didn't want to go, we didn't want to kill them, but its persistent silence and outstretched arms horrified and comforted us at the same time..."

1983, photographer unknown, presumed dead.



One of two recovered photographs from the Stirling City Library blaze. Notable for being taken the day which fourteen children vanished and for what is referred to as "The Slender Man". Deformities cited as film defects by officials. Fire at library occurred one week later. Actual photograph confiscated as evidence.

1986, photographer: Mary Thomas, missing since June 13th, 1986.

ShrewdOrganMerchant posted:

I think I may have found another striking similiarity to Slender Man. Coincidence... or something far more sinister?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQYZPwEdPoo

pr0digal posted:

following, don't forget to use #slenderman

VOTE1 posted:

Awesome I'll save you a spot.

Mogadishu posted:

Raybeans posted:

I've been lurking this thread for weeks and I want to commend everyone for their detective work. I found an article recently about one of my favorite bands, but something about it bothers me. Here's the article, unedited, with the pictures included:

Led Zeppelin. The biggest band in the world, or such was their moniker in the mid-to-late 1970s. Setting airplay records with their hit Stairway to Heaven, and breaking concert attendance and grossing records during their American tours of 1975 and 1977, no band could compete with the unstoppable whirlwind force that was Led Zeppelin. They created the modern day image of a rock star – a cocaine thin musician with long, scraggly hair, forcing groupies to bath with octopi, embodying the essence of raw sexuality, financial excess, and supernatural mysticism.

In 1971, Led Zeppelin recorded their untitled fourth album at Headley Grange studios, a poorhouse converted into a studio that guitarist Jimmy Page had always insisted was haunted. The third track from the album was The Battle Of Evermore, the only track in their catalogue to feature a guest singer – in this case, folk singer Sandy Denny. Seven years later, Denny’s life was cut short by what doctors ruled as a brain hemorrhage. A month prior to her death, Denny would often collapse from severe headache and hallucinations, which was attributed to a fall down a flight of stairs she suffered in May of 1978.



This is the only readily available image of Denny with Led Zeppelin. The photographer is unknown.

In 1977, as Led Zeppelin embarked on their tour of the United States, Jimmy Page’s interest in the occult and addiction to heroin were at their peak. His playing was spotty at times, his weight had dropped considerably, and his focus was clearly elsewhere. His delving into the supernatural spirits made him lose sight of the goal of the band, with Zeppelin’s lights manager later remarking that singer Robert Plant would often have to snap Page out of his between-song trances, with Page not remembering how their own tunes went. Page also grew increasingly paranoid, in an infamous incident prior to an interview with Cameron Crowe where he ripped a phone out of the wall because he felt that someone was spying on him. It was as if a force he tapped into was corrupting him.



The tour came to an abrupt end when Robert Plant’s son, Karac, died suddenly on June 24th, 1977.

It became apparent that the band was too big to be defeated. In spite of the aforementioned deaths associated with Zeppelin, the band just could not be taken down. Plant survived a horrific car crash in Greece in 1975, and Page managed to recover from his addiction to heroin despite weighing less than 100 pounds on the 1977 tour.

In 1979, however, the band was starting to become old news. Punk had swept the nation, and its contemporaries regarded Zeppelin as behind the times and out of date. In 1980, the band embarked on a short tour through Germany and its neighboring regions, with a much scaled down magnitude compared to their previous tours. The tour received very little press attention, and the band played much smaller venues than the stadiums they played three years earlier.

Drummer John Bonham died in September and was ruled to have asphyxiated on his own vomit. Bassist John Paul Jones remarked that he seemed to be drinking compulsively that day, as if to forget something.

Many remarked that Page’s interest in the occult was abnormal, but some would later argue it had caused the crash of the Led Zeppelin.

Source Images:

http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/sandy.denny/images/medium/sandylz.jpg

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w309/steveskinner07/jimmy002_silverdome-april1977.jpg

I personally find it amazing how little editing was needed for these pictures. And apart from the Slenderman insertions, all of the above information is true. Credit my hubby for the article, but the shops are mine.

Mef989 posted:

Just finished reading through. Amazing job so far to everyone who has helped create Slender Man.

Anyway, this is what I see in the photo (sorry, I'm still getting used to a Mac and am not sure how to outline it)

rinski posted:

Actually, this Slender Man thread has me all paranoid. See, my grandmother died about a week ago, and since I live closest, it's my job to clean out her place. This was the last time I was going to see the place, so I took some pictures. This is their old piano, which we'd moved into the center of the room.

That shadow made my nearly jump out of my skin, because of this thread. I ran outside to see what the hell it was. I'm pretty sure it was just the ridiculously creepy neighbor, though, because there wasn't anything outside when I got there.

Still, though, it's pretty creepy, right? The shadow looks like it has the tentacles/branching arms and everything.

Ninjasaurus posted:

Am I alone in not finding slenderman scary at all? I wish I could get scared reading awesome stories like when I was a kid, but nothing seems to do it for me anymore.