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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

105: The Slenderman Stabbing

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The 2014 stabbing in Waukesha, Wisconsin of Peyton Lauter by her friends Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were ordered by the internet lore of Slenderman. Use promo code GHOST20 for 20% off your order at http://www.swanson.com New YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/AJ4lAUZiBJk Support Ghost Town on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Follow Ghost Town on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/2URmbvC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:52.0

An internet phenomenon turned deadly. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib.

0:55.8

And this is Ghost Town. She's at a police department and she's covered in blood and this is like a normal day for her You can hear Morgan ask what's happened to Payton using her nickname, Bella.

1:27.0

Is she dead?

1:29.0

I don't know.

1:31.0

She wants to take in the hospital. So what we just heard is an interview with 12 year old Morgan Geiser to a police detective just hours after she stabbed her best friend 19 times.

1:49.4

Why did she do this?

1:52.4

The slender man told her to do it.

1:55.8

Exactly. You got it.

1:57.7

Ding, ding, bing. I remember this, you know, I come from the world of

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