Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill with square wheels.

But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business.

So you can stay one step ahead. Soon it'll feel more like free-wearing downhill.

On a tandem! What, mate? With a messer on the back.

Oh, that's nice.

Search zero with an axe. It goes healthy business as beautiful business.

On these mini episodes we'll be exploring the strangest viral phenomena of the world-wide web.

I'm your host, Chelsea Weber Smith, and this is American hysteria.

Great. It's right in your looking figure is telling them you should kill yourself and this is how.

When a 12-year-old girl was stabbed nearly to death by two of her classmates in 2014,

reports surface that the two young suspects were under the influence of a powerful internet urban legend.

The character known as Slenderman is the darling child of something called creepypasta,

which is essentially a collection of original scary stories that have accumulated over time.

Shared on message boards like Reddit, Forchan, and Tumblr.

The lore expanded out by those who interact with the legends,

spawning fan fiction, doctored photographs, videos, and games,

all within the universe where the stories are completely true.

That's a big part of the phenomenon of creepypasta.

You interact with the stories while suspending your disbelief.

You make a choice to believe.

Slenderman has long arms and legs, a white, featureless face.

He's a two-tall figure wearing a suit, lurking always in the background, waiting to abduct children.

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