I will always remember ever since i was a little girl this one name.
Yet somehow whenever i think of this name, i can only associate it with a few things. Like games, a movie, a crime case and even other things. And even if he is associated to these things in our modern times, i wonder what had happened to the phenomen that was Creepypasta, it´s tales and The Slendermann. To do that, we gotta go way back to 2014. I was a 7 year old girl when i first heard of him from my brother. He played that game on his phone and i, curious, just watched him even though i shouldn´t have. A year later 2015, i first got introduced to creepypasta because of a Jeff the killer story video. Once again my curiousty drove me to watch. I continued with watching creepypasta and consuming it till 2020.
Slenderman to us, is a creature or just an Internet urban legend. To me he is a universal figure. He is that feeling we get if we wander too deep into things. The feeling of knowing of what you will do will change everything forever. The feeling of isolation when wandering too deep into a forest. When walking in a forest it may seem normal for one at first, yet as you walk and walk, less people will pass, the path stays but the tree become more dense, they stretch out and become grimly dark. But you keep walking knowing there isn´t anything sinister lurking in it. And after walking what feels like an eternity you become unseasy, feeling watched, followed. Like something is Lurking near, prowling, ready to jump, Stalking. But there isn´t anything, just the path, trees and you. And yet this feeling of paranoia stays.
It sounds like a normal reaction of your mind from walking in a forest for 2 hours. But what if there is more to this feeling? What if this wasn´t just some random reaction but a purposful warning of something. A conscious reminder that there was actually something watching you. What ever your mind was telling you must have been hidden somewhere deep in nature itself..
