196: The Slenderman Stabbing. Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest.

National Park After Dark

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True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In May of 2014 two 12-year-old girls, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, lured their friend Payton Leutner into the woods and stabbed her 19 times - all in an attempt to appease a fictional horror character. This case has a lot to consider and its fair share of few twists and turns, follow along as we discuss what the media dubbed “The Slenderman Stabbing”.

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Sources “The Wicked” 20/20 Special, The Guardian, Milwaukee Magazine , The Washington Post, Spooky Geology, BBC, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Change.org

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0:00.0	Have you ever heard the phrase two things can be true at once?
0:05.0	It's a difficult concept to grasp as humans strive to categorize people,
0:10.0	places, and things in two boxes.
0:12.0	But not everything is that way. places and things in two boxes.
0:13.1	But not everything is that way.
0:15.4	Take the forest, for example.
0:17.8	The woods can be a magical enchanting place.
0:21.1	Strolling through the forest,
0:22.4	especially as the sun is streaming through the tree boughs and the birds are singing, gives a sense of peace and tranquility that is difficult to match.
0:31.0	However, that same forest can take a turn quickly. The same paths you sauntered on can easily twist in your mind. And as the sun sets and bird song is replaced with twig snaps and distorted animal calls, you may start to panic.
0:46.0	There is a reason so many campfire horror stories take place in a dark wood,
0:51.0	because people instinctively are wary and frightened of it and who or what may be lurking there.
0:59.6	The majority of the time the forest simply comes alive at night with a set of nocturnal creatures, all going about
1:05.9	their lives in the same way their diurnal counterparts do, and there is nothing to be feared
1:11.2	at all. It is our minds that fill in the blanks that
1:14.8	conjure the creatures that should truly be feared and create danger right out of
1:20.4	thin air.
1:56.9	Welcome to National Park After Dark. you're going to do. I feel like we have a scary episode today. It's it's scary but in a way that I don't think you it's going to be it's true crime I'm just going to come out and say it true crime is scary
2:02.3	That's the most truest form of crime you could say yeah truly truly. Truly. Happy New Year. Happy New Year everyone.
2:07.0	We're back. We never went anywhere. We didn't take last week off. No. No.
2:12.0	We haven't taken weeks. We took one week off? No. No. We took one week off in October, November, first week in November,
2:18.0	and we're back. We haven't seen you since last year.
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