Welcome back to Mama Mystery.

I am your host, Kelly, and today's episode is a weekly docket episode where I tell you the top headlines in true crime for the week.

I'm getting this one out a little bit

early because it is Thanksgiving. So happy Thanksgiving. And if you're listening while you travel

to some family dinners, maybe you can bring up one of these stories at your Thanksgiving table

to just really lighten the mood, right? Okay. Let's go ahead and talk about our first story.

This week, one story that grabbed a lot

of attention was the situation with Morgan Geiser, one of the two girls that were involved in the

2014 Slender Man Stabbing. It's a case that most of us probably remember because it was so weird and

bizarre, but in case you don't know what we're talking about, to give a little

background, in 2014, Morgan was 12 years old, and she and her friend, Anissa Weyer,

lured their classmate, Peyton Lutner, into the woods in Waukesha, Wisconsin, during a sleepover.

The girls had become obsessed with this online horror character called Slender Man,

and they convinced themselves that they needed to kill someone to prove their loyalty

so that he wouldn't hurt their families.

So Morgan stabbed Peyton 19 times,

and somehow Peyton survived after crawling out of the woods and being found by a passerby.

I think it was a guy on a bike. But it's one of those cases that just stuck with people because

of the age of the girls, the extreme violence of it all, and the idea that this internet

creepy pasta could twist a kid's mind that far.

And if you're not familiar with creepy pasta, I actually had to look it up because I've seen

that word thrown around.

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