S3 Ep38: Slenderman: From Memes to Murder

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Payton, Morgan, and Anissa, three average tween girls from Waukesha, Wisconsin shared a love of fantasy, science fiction, scary stories and video games. But beneath the surface of seemingly mundane, somewhat nerdy interests, lay something sinister. Unbeknownst to Payton, Morgan and Anissa had begun to be sucked into the dark side of internet lore. The girls believed that a being called Slenderman was waiting for them to pledge their allegiance to his dark lordship, and what he wanted most was for the girls to kill.

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0:00.0	Have you ever had a friend turn on you or worse a group of friends all at once?
0:11.0	The feeling of being abandoned and betrayed by people you loved and trusted can be a serious trauma.
0:17.0	What did you do to make them go? Is there anything you could have done to stop them?
0:22.0	How can you ever trust anyone again? Is there anything you could have done to stop them?
0:23.0	How can you ever trust anyone again?
0:25.7	There is almost nothing worse than being dumped by a bestie.
0:29.9	Almost nothing worse. Welcome to Strange and unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.
0:36.0	I'm a writer and an actor who has learned very directly what kind of impact my words and actions can have on complete strangers.
0:44.0	As a result, I do try to be careful, but honestly, I am a salty-mouthed rapscallion who often can't
0:51.1	keep my rancor to myself.
0:53.2	And I know that I offend at least one person per episode,
0:56.8	but I can't be held responsible for whatever action
0:59.4	the offended might take because of said offense. We can't control how people will react to everything
1:05.8	we do and say. For Eric Knudsen, there was no way he could have known that a harmless Internet
1:12.0	challenge would end up in a horrific tragedy for three
1:15.9	young girls he never met. A warning before we continue strangers this episode
1:22.0	involves brutal violence
1:23.6	among children as well as a reference to suicide please take care while
1:28.5	listening if this kind of topic isn't your bag, I might suggest heading over to our
1:35.0	Patreon page where for five bucks you can get all kinds of content that is less
1:40.2	sad and violent, although some of it is sad because, well, the world.
1:46.4	Like the case of Joyce Carroll Vincent, who died alone and forgotten surrounded by Christmas
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