2 Things that must be said:                                                                                                                                                                                                                               1. Your mental illness is not your fault BUT it is your responsibility. If you are a minor your parents also have a responsibility to keep your mental illness in check (talking to you, making sure you take your medicine, see a doctor if your condition changes, etc.).                                                         2.  Blaming fanfiction for attempted murder is like blaming school shootings on video games.                                                                                                                                                                         These girls needed more supervision & their parents failed them.

"Be very clear: Hans Holbein the Younger did not die in a Slenderman attack."

We need an "Aidan out of context".

My favorite part of this video was that in between two cuts, the doggo was like, "No, I must be in your lap now."

There's a concept in the paranormal called a tulpa. The idea that enough people thinking of something can manifest it into reality. That's why even though we know slenderman was created on a message board in 2009-2010, people actually believe in him and even report sightings. My way to debunk the existence of tulpas is the fact Spiderman isn't seen swinging around Manhattan. Spiderman occupies far more brains than anything ever claimed to be a tulpa.

Ah, Creepypasta. 15-16 year old me's hyperfixation. For context, a lot of fanfiction wrote the mansion as sort of a "found family" type of living arrangement, where the famous creepypastas lived in a manner similar to siblings, with Slenderman being the head of the house/a sort of father figure. The Creeps were specifically portrayed as acting like a real family. Many of the characters came from broken homes, and/or had mental health issues. They often werent portrayed as the wicked characters they are. Rather, they were portrayed as regular people, just with problems.

As a teen, having lived in an abusive/neglectful family, and suffering from a lot of complications from mental illness and disability, it sounded like heaven. A whole house of "siblings" that took care of and respected each other? A parental figure that wanted their adoptive children to thrive and be safe? It sounds amazing. I would have killed to have family that cared about me and my mental health struggles.

I have distinctive memories of staring out the window during my morning science class in 10th grade, mentally begging slenderman to come take me there. I wanted an escape. It's really sad, and I can look back on this time in my life and take pity on the sad and sick person that I had become due to the circumstances. I'm doing a lot better now.

A loan officer at the bank that was helping me with securing an auto loan was super tall and thin so I started calling him “Lenderman”

Kind of weird, but things like this make me so glad for cellphones. The cyclist was able to call for help. I was watching an old murder mystery show, and when someone staggered out of the woods bleeding, the person who saw them had to leave them there, to run and go find somewhere to call for help. Like, leave the person bleeding out to ride their bike back to town. Say what you want about tech addiction, but response time matters, and a way to call for help is huge

Slendy fanfic where he eats child predators and returns the victims to their families

To any of Mind Unveiled's supporters here trying to tank this video before it goes live (bros we can see the analytics), at least wait until after its feasible for you to have watched it. Especially nasty for y’all to be doing that on a video about attempted murder.

Step 1 kill
Step 2 ???
Step 3 fan fiction

I remember hearing about this years ago. Especially with things like Marble Hornets, DarkHarvest, EverymanHYBRID, etc. were on going still back then, too. It's appalling these two girls weren't watched over better by their families, especially with what they were getting into. Much more so that something fictional can make them do something so heinous to one of their own friends. The victim definitely didn't deserve this and the creator of Slenderman especially did not want this. I'm glad the victim survived all of this but I also can't imagine the trauma this has probably inflicted in the end.

This is gonna be such a weird correction, but as someone who was also a 12 year old girl who was obsessed with creepypasta fanfic in a far more normal way, a vast majority of "Slender Mansion" content had slenderman as a father figure for whatever reader insert than a romantic partner. It was all the other murderers that tended to be the romantic interests. However, slenderman was not uncommon.

I just wanted to say that the Slenderman Mansion was a fairly popular headcanon around the peak Slenderman popularity.

It consisted of Slenderman owning a mansion in the woods with other popular characters (Jeff the Killer, Ticci Toby, Ben Drowned, Smile Dog, etc) living in a mansion in the woods together. Kind of sitcom-esque. A lot of stories and comics took place in this mansion and it was often depicted as a whacky family dynamic.

It was really popular on Wattpad and Quotev, and sites like that!

Just wanted to share that bit of information since I was heavily involved in the fandom at the time.

this story is so disturbing. i was around their age when this happened. even though we knew it wasn’t real, kids were terrified of the story. we had a hiking field trip that year for all middle school students. on our way there multiple teachers had to tell kids to stop talking about it because of how panicked some of the younger kids got

Ya know, the slender man thing always freaked me out because of something my son went through. When he was maybe 2 or 3 he had a period where he would wake up at night screaming bloody murder. Eyes closed , completely beside himself. Nothing would snap him out of it while he would beat himself off the bars of his crib. We got him a firetruck bed in hopes of him getting through it with a big boy bed , or at least if he could come into our room if he woke up scared. Nothing helped until I covered his bed in a sheet. He eventually told us that a man named chip would crawl in through his window at night and tell him he was going to take him and if he didn't go with chip that chip would hurt his mom and dad. He never mentioned his clothes, but he told us chip had no face. Just black holes where his eyes and mouth would be. He was born in 07 so this was happening before slender man even became a thing and we'll before he was on the internet or influenced by scary movies or anything. I know it was probably something silly, but there was so much in that house that just didn't feel right. Door knobs turning on their own. Shadows walking down the hall or floors creaking. Horrible energy between me and my son's mom at the time, was some of our worst time. I'll never forget that shit.

I have watched the police interview footage for these girls. It is so sad how one of the two was clearly very deeply mentally ill and was manipulated by the other to carry out these horrific acts. She was more or less entirely detached from reality and did not understand properly the consequences of what was happening and genuinely believed Slenderman was real, a thought that was planted into her head by the other girl who very clearly did not believe in it. Basically, this is the story of one little girl tricking another mentally ill little girl into stabbing her own best friend.

The parents of the murderous girls should be ashamed of themselves for not keeping a better eye on what their children were researching, and probably not telling them that fiction characters don't exist.

My father once said that there's no one crueler than teenage girls.
Like most things my late father said, he was absolutely right.

It's always fun to hear non-wisconsinites pronounce Wisconsin names haha

32:28 as someone who was a really big fan of marble hornets it really irks me that ‘hoodie’ and ‘masky’ were always seen as proxies and followers to the operator they were actively working against slenderman in the series. kinda sets up how accurate and serious people took the creepypastas in the 2010s