When the internet created the Slender Man, it did not realize it had made manifest the fears of a whole generation adrift in the digital age. Jess is an LA-based culture critic who covers intimacy in ...

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Two Wisconsin pre-teens shocked the country in 2014 after attempting to murder their classmate, a sacrifice to a fictional phantom known online as Slender Man. Their victim survived, and her harrowing ...

The origin of culturally recognized monsters vary. Some are the result of ignorance of the world around those that invented them, constructed as a means to explain things that science at the time had ...