This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October.

You see his image when you close your eyes at night. A tall featureless man looming over blank-eyed children. They say that he's fiction... a character created to send chills down the spine of internet users. But if the Slenderman doesn't exist, why have people committed horrific crimes in his name?

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