A few weeks ago on Halloween I passed a group of trick-or-treaters on the sidewalk.

They were laughing and talking and already eating their candy.

Harley Quinn, a vampire bride, Mal and Uma, Captain America, and then there was

a kid with their face completely covered in a strange nylon fabric, dressed in a black suit with extra long white fingers and black

tentacles. Do you have any idea who this is? Have you ever heard of Slenderman?

Rumor has it of Slenderman?

Rumor has it that Slenderman is a tall humanoid figure who stalks children, some say in order to kidnap them.

Make them do bad things or even eat them. Like many other topics we have covered on the show,

Slenderman isn't just one story or idea.

There are almost as many versions of Slenderman

as there are people who have told his story.

Everything from how he looks to what he does

and where he came from has a thousand different versions,

created and

like with other stories we also have to answer the question.

Is any part of the Slenderman story real?

I'm Elise Perreijian and today we're going to talk about how Slunderman relates to the long history of boogie-man type creatures that have been scaring us for centuries.

Where did Slunderman come from? Who created this character? How did the story

spread? And why do humans make up stories of boogie men in the first place?

All this and more on this episode of Unspookable. I already know what he looks like. I've seen so many pictures, so many memes, and he is very tall, he doesn't have a face.

What I've seen is like a white, like a white thing over his face.

He just looks white and he's kind of like bright and people sometimes say that sometimes

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