WOOOOOOOOOOOOO! THIS IS A BIG'UN! Lot's of hypothetical craziness in this one. We got tulpas, egregores, memetic entities, pale crawlers, glimmer men, imposter entities, "tulpatronics" (yes, I'm back at it again), and the relationships we share with our fictions. It's heavy psychedelic shit...MAN-MAN-MAN-MAN-Man-man! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: [email protected] music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com.SOURCES:• Strickler, Lon. The Meme Humanoids: Modern Myths or Real Monsters (2023/2024). The definitive treatment of pale, crawling humanoid phenomena/internet-age cryptid manifestation.
• Cutchin, Joshua. Fourth Wall Phantoms: Reflections on the Paranormal, Narrative, and Fictions Becoming Fact (2024). Explores fictional incursions/trickster phenomena/media influence on paranormal experience.
• Ramesh, Chidambaram. Embodied Imaginations (various editions). Examines autonomous characters/writer phenomena/manifestation of mental constructs.
• Geoffrey Biddle et al. Court records and psychiatric evaluations from State of Wisconsin v. Morgan E. Geyser and State of Wisconsin v. Anissa E. Weier (Waukesha County Circuit Court, 2014-2017). Primary documents from the Slenderman stabbing case.
• Hankerson, et al. "Death by Ostension: Folklore, Media, and Violence" in Journal of American Folklore (various articles on "folk crime").
• Dégh, Linda. Legend and Belief: Essays on Legend, Truth, and Reality (2001). The seminal academic treatment of ostension theory.
• Tucker, Abigail. "The Science of Slenderman" in Smithsonian Magazine (2014). Early analysis of the case.
• Ohikuare, Judith. "The Childhood Friends Who Became Killers" in New York Magazine/Vulture (various retrospective articles on the Geyser/Weier case).
• Knudsen, Eric (Victor Surge). Original Slenderman posts, Something Awful Forums, "Create Paranormal Images" thread (June 2009). The genesis of the character.
• r/HumanoidEncounters. Subreddit archives (2012-present). Primary source for contemporary crawler/humanoid reports, including imposter entity accounts.
• Strickler, Lon. Phantoms and Monsters (website and blog archives, 2008-present). Extensive database of crawler sightings/imposter entity reports.
• The Belief Hole Podcast. Episodes on "Crawler Humanoids," "Imposter Entities," and "Tulpas and Thoughtforms" (various seasons, 2018-present). Audio documentation of witness testimony.
• 4chan /x/ (Paranormal) and /b/ (Random) boards. Archives of "creepypasta" culture (2007-2015), including early Slenderman expansion.
• Creepypasta Wiki. The user-generated fiction database that served as transmission vector for Slenderman and related legends.
• Evans-Wentz, W.Y. Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines (1935/1958). Early Western exposition of tulpa creation concepts.
• Besant, Annie and Leadbeater, C.W. Thought-Forms (1901). Theosophical treatise on the materialization of mental energy.
• Jung, Carl. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1959). Foundational for understanding collective manifestation.
• Hufford, David. The Terror That Comes in the Night (1982). Academic treatment of sleep paralysis/hypnagogic hallucination (relevant to imposter entity physiology).
• Devereux, Paul. Earth Lights (1982)/Earth Lights Revelation (1989). T. B. Pawlicki-adjacent theories on geological manifestation of anomalous phenomena.
• Harpur, Patrick. Daimonic Reality (1995). The "green man" theory of cultural manifestation of entities.
• Laycock, Joseph. Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds (2015). Context for understanding panic over fictional reality.
• Robinson, James M. (ed.). The Nag Hammadi Library (1977/1990). Primary Gnostic texts, including Apocryphon of John (Demiurge cosmology).
*THERE'S WAY MORE SOURCES, BUT THIS IS ALL I CAN FIT. BUT IF YOU WANT'EM, I GOT'EM!
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