On May 31, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, two 12-year-old girls, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, lured their best friend Payton Leutner into the woods and stabbed her 19 times.

They claimed it was in an attempt to become proxies of the fictional character Slender Man.

It was a case that gained the attention of the press internationally, bringing children's internet usage and "creepypastas" to the forefront of public attention.

But what really happened in the woods that day?

Text sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man_stabbing

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/21/slender-man-case-anissa-weier-sentenced

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42913133

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27776894#:~:text=The%20Slender%20Man%20meme%20began,with%20which%20to%20terrify%20people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man

https://hazlitt.net/longreads/living-slenderman

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK541211/#:~:text=Shared%20psychotic%20disorder%20(Folie%20a%20deux)%20is%20an%20unusual%20mental,secondary)%20with%20a%20specific%20belief.

https://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2017/10/out-came-girls

Video Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dgwJxVQpLs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXsB5lLgeH8

Beware The Slender Man - Amazon Prime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COJzKcxhJII

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmjbfq1dUA4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8arxEC_6Is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9p3jLeDblg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbP1wUx8mYw