I previously posted about the Slender Man hoax and how it went viral on the internet and led to the attempted murder of a young girl by two of her friends. The post centered around a Psychology Today article titled “Murder By Meme: Slender Man and the Wakefield Anti-Vax Hoax” by Travis Langley, PhD. An interesting article.
Thankfully, Bella, the victim of the murder attempt, survived the attack but now the Slender Man case is moving along. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, the two young girls charged with the crime, have apparently plead not guilty so a trial will likely be forthcoming. It will be an interesting ride as there are so many aspects to this story that just make you shake your head.
More details of the bizarre, yet sad, case are revealed in an article in New York Magazine by Lisa Miller. Chilling and then some.
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Cheryl B. Dale
August 28, 2015 at 2:12 pm
Heartbreaking.
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khurtack
August 30, 2015 at 9:17 am
I wonder – have there been other murders done in the name of a hoax? Not necessarily ‘Slender Man’.
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D.P. Lyle, MD
August 31, 2015 at 8:59 am
I’m sure they’re have been but I can’t recall one quite like this.
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