No, what you should fear is the thing waiting in the shadows that drives you to insanity.
What I speak of, this mystery in the shadows, is the internet mythos 'Slenderman'.
Many of my friends have heard my musings on the creature that the internet (more specifically 'SomethingAwful') birthed and they still have no idea what I'm talking about. Allow me to elaborate.
Back in 2009, the Something Awful forums had a small thread with a simple idea: create an imaginary horror creature that we can leak around the internet. One user, Victor Surge, did just that. He created pictures the depicted, in the background of harmless photos, a man. He was taller than most things in the pictures, no face to speak of, in a suit. He then went on to tell about how this creature had been seen throughout history for hundreds of years, taking children as a food source. The masses of the SA forums named this creature Slenderman.
A Brief Description of his Abilities:
The internet has spawned many rumors about the abilities and murderous tendencies. There are a few things the internet agrees upon. Slenderman can vary in height to suit his needs. He has no hands, only tentacles that can multiply. He never speaks, since he has no mouth. There is one picture, though, from Victor Surge that shows Slenderman just before his attack in which he has the most...unsettling face one will ever see.
Since Something Awful
A fantastic lot of people have taken the Slenderman myth and have created brain children of their own surrounding him, the most famous of these being Marble Hornets.
Marble Hornets is the video blog of Jay. His friend, Alex, was creating a movie for a college class called 'Marble Hornets'. As filming progressed, though, Alex became irritable. He would become angry should any camera be turned off at any time. Out of the blue, he canceled the project, saying he was going to burn the tapes. Jay took the tapes and looked through them, discovering that Alex was videotaping himself and not the project. He was scared that he was being followed, which he was. As the series progresses, Jay is now the one being followed.
Marble Hornets introduced the world to the two biggest pieces of the Slendy puzzle: Video/audio edits and memory loss. Apparently supernatural beings that want to eat your souls have a tendency to mess with video and audio when they're around. The second that Slenderman is about to make an appearance (or might be near), the video tears at the bottom or the audio attempts to rape your speakers. It works very well for putting you on edge, looking for the mythical Slenderman.
The memory loss has been huge in all of the Slenderman series (plural of series is...?). When Slendy is around, or your exposed to his particular brand of torture for too long, your memory falters and fades. Apparently he can turn you to his side as well, if totheark is to be believed.
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This description of my favorite thing on the internet might be a little lackluster, so I shall provide links to all of the Slenderman that I know of. I hope that you horror lovers enjoy the particular silent, unmoving fear I do from seeing the faceless Slenderman in a window.
Thinking all of her coughs are the beginnings of "Slender Disease",
Alice
Links to all things Slendy:
Marble Hornets and paralleling 'totheark' videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MarbleHornets
http://www.youtube.com/user/totheark
EverymanHYBRID:
The story that began as an exercise instructional series and a Slenderman joke, but evolved into a story of kidnapping, insanity and rabbits for slaughter.
http://www.youtube.com/user/EverymanHYBRID
http://twitter.com/#!/SEVENTRIALS
http://twitter.com/#!/EverymanHYBRID
http://everymanhybrid.wikia.com/wiki/EverymanHYBRID_Wiki
TribeTwelve:
Noah's story began as a search for the reasons of his cousin's suicide, but now he wishes he never started to search...
http://www.youtube.com/user/TribeTwelve
http://twitter.com/#!/TribeTwelve
Just Another Fool:
A blog of a poor man who lost his friend.
http://jafool.wordpress.com/
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