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Slenderman's first appeareance
In a forum of the comedy website Something Awful, a user known as Victor Surge posts a pair of images and explains they were supposedly found in the library of a small town
The images, a tall, dark figure is standing behind unaware children. Through discussions, other forum visitors solidified the features of the character known as Slender Man: his facelessness was nearly constant, he typically wore a black suit and he sometimes had tentacles growing out of his back. -
"Marble Hornets"
After reading the Something Awful thread, a film student at the University of Alabama, Troy Wagner, and his friend, Joseph DeLage, create the first Slender Man web series: “Marble Hornets.”
Shot with a cheap home video camera around their state and published on YouTube, it begins with a film student abandoning a project for reasons unknown. As his friend goes through raw footage, it becomes evident that Slender Man was stalking the filmmaker. -
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The Slenderman's boom
In the year after Slender Man was introduced; there were more web series, an untold number of stories, blogs, poems and drawings, and discussions on other websites including unfiction, geared to gamers; CreepyPasta Wiki and 4Chan. -
"Slender: The Eight Pages"
Due to his success, Slenderman has a videogame adaptation, which made the character more famous around the world. -
Slenderman goes to jail
Two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls are accused of stabbing a classmate, an act they tell authorities was inspired by Slender Man stories. The girls are sentenced to 40 and 25 years in a psychiatric hospital. -
First Slenderman movie
Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story,” a low-budget feature based on the web series, is released from a Kickstarted. -
Sony Pictures made a Slenderman movie
The bad reactions become so quick, the argument...
"You only take 5 years to make this" -
Slenderman's present
After some time, Slenderman stopped being relevant but will never always be remembered as one of the greatest creepypastas in the history.
