HAMILTON COUNTY, Ohio - An Ohio mother says her 13-year-old daughter attacked her with a knife over the weekend and that it could have been driven by her daughter's obsession with Slenderman, a ...

Who’s that guy standing way off in the distance, just behind that tree? Why, it’s the Slenderman, the modern monster that has captured the attention of everyone from posters on Reddit and Deviant Art ...

Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, both 12 at the time, stabbed their friend in homage to "Slenderman" At dozens of legal hearings over more than two years, Anissa Weier’s parents have sat in the same ...

“Media doesn’t cause anyone to commit mass murder. If you need a role model, you will find one.” “Media doesn’t cause anyone to commit mass murder. If you need a role model, you will find one.” A ...

The crime was so bizarre and gruesome, it looked like something from a crossover episode of Black Mirror and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In the spring of 2014, two 12-year-old girls in Waukesha ...

Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, both 12, told investigators "Slenderman" made them stab their friend 19 times On May 31, 2014, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, both 12, lured their friend Payton ...

In 2014, two young girls stabbed a friend in the woods 19 times and left her to die. An HBO documentary examines how mental-health issues and an internet meme drove them to do it. Entertainment Critic ...

In simpler times, anxious parents worried about what might happen to their children at the park or on the walk home from school. These days, parents fret about the dangers that might lurk behind a ...

A day after prosecutors claimed two 12-year-old girls stabbed their friend to please a mythological creature, a website that publishes stories about the creepy urban legend says it’s not to blame for ...

There is a faceless, semi-human monster called Slenderman who stands eight feet tall, has tentacles for arms, stalks and eats small children, and communicates telepathically with his human servants, ...

On June 8, 2009, Eric Knudsen posted two black and white images he had Photoshopped to a forum called "Something Awful." The forum was hosting a photo manipulation contest and was taking submissions ...

A fictional horror character known as Slenderman that two Wisconsin girls say motivated them to stab a friend has been popularized on a website that publishes user-generated stories. The Slenderman, ...