@Robopengy: I guess you didn't even read the article or you would see where Slender Man originated from.

fuck u patrick know i think i see this dude everytime im driving at night....lol fml.

Still remember watching Marble Hornets late one night when I was told it was some goofy documentary, and then the first clip of Slender Man outside the window nearby made me poo.

That shit is fucking creepy.

There should be a Breaking Brad where he has to beat Slender.

Great write up, and glad to have you back Patrick

I never heard of Marble Hornets, but EverymanHYBRID is a fantastic Slender Man themed web series. It's been running for a good two years now.

Salad Fingers with no face.

@Krabonq said:

"Like many others, I hadn’t heard about Slender Man until the video game from Parsec Productions, simply titled Slender, started making the rounds." - How can you not know about Minecraft's Endermen being a gigantic reference to them !?

Not all of us play Minecraft.

Some of those pictures were downright harrowing, I thought. Also, Tricky´s thing for horror gaming shows me games I´d never hear about otherwise.

Internet is nuts. Interesting story.

That's so fucking awesome.

@notdavid said:

I never heard of Marble Hornets, but EverymanHYBRID is a fantastic Slender Man themed web series. It's been running for a good two years now.

EverymanHYBRID is, like all the others, a follower of Marble Hornets.

Like, it's certainly better than 95% of all Slender Man adaptations, but the original is the original and nothing can take that away.

Enjoyable article on a topic that I find interesting and fun. Slender is a spooky little game that plays off the story well and is pretty creepy in the right regards. Comments were amusing too with the odd collection of "This is a bad article because I don't like the game/topic" and "How dare you!" responses. Internet battling. Somewhere Slenderman goes to facepalm and then realizes that is a little more difficult than he thought.

I dislike these games. I understand that the idea of "willing suspension of disbelief" is required to find scary things, scary. But, at least with me, Slender just couldn't pull it off. I went into Amnesia with my Mr. Tough-guy-attitude on, but will still plenty scared of it after only about 30 minutes of game play. I just really don't think the Slender game is well, good. I think it's over-blown hype started by the indie hipster guild.

Also, you're a great writer Patrick.

I love you

Patrick, why must you scare the shit out of me at work?