40 Fun Facts About Slender Man

Which Minecraft mob did creator Notch name after Reddit users pointed out its likeness to Slender Man?

Enderman was the name Markus Persson chose for a new hostile mob after users on Reddit and Google+ kept pointing out how much it looked like Slender Man.

On which comedy website's forum was Slender Man created during a 2009 Photoshop contest for paranormal images?

Something Awful hosted the thread where a member added a tall, thin figure to two black-and-white photos, and other posters quickly built on the character with their own images and stories.

Which Swedish YouTuber's Let's Play sent Slender: The Eight Pages viral, inspiring a wave of scream-filled videos?

PewDiePie posted his own playthrough soon after a British YouTuber first showcased the free game, and so many people then tried to download it that the official website crashed.

In most Slender Man stories, what is distinctive about the face of the tall, thin figure?

It is completely blank: the face is usually a smooth white surface, though some tellings say it looks different to each person who sees it.

In Slender: The Eight Pages, which single tool does the player carry while hunting for pages at night?

A flashlight with a limited battery is all the player gets: there are no weapons and no inventory, so the only way to survive an encounter is to run.

Which cryptid, first reported in 1960s West Virginia, did Eric Knudsen name as an inspiration for Slender Man?

Mothman joined reports of shadow people and the Mad Gasser of Mattoon on the list of eerie legends that fed the character, alongside horror fiction and survival horror games.

Which late-night host played Slender: The Eight Pages on television in a segment called Clueless Gamer?

Conan O'Brien tried the free indie game on his show, joining a wave of players who filmed themselves screaming and panicking, often for laughs.

Which TV series features the Gentlemen, pale bald demons in black suits who resemble Slender Man?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer introduced the Gentlemen in the episode Hush, where they steal a whole town's voices so that nobody can scream.

Often treated as shared internet folklore, Slender Man is protected by which legal right enforced by Eric Knudsen?

Copyright complaints from Knudsen and others have blocked some for-profit projects, including a Kickstarter-funded film, because the character is not in the public domain.

Troy Wagner named the web series Marble Hornets after seeing a truck of marble slabs and which other vehicle?

An exterminator van with the word hornets on its side caught Wagner's eye on the road, after he had promised himself that whatever he noticed next would become the title.

In most Slender Man stories, what happens to nearby screens and recording devices when the creature approaches?

They fill with static whenever he is near, and the same closeness is said to bring on paranoia, nightmares and delusions in the people he follows.

Besides his long reaching arms, which ability is Slender Man commonly given in stories and in Slender: The Arrival?

Teleportation lets him jump from place to place, and Slender: The Arrival gives the player no choice except to run away.

What name do Slender Man stories give to humans who fall under his influence and act on his behalf?

Proxies were established by the web series Marble Hornets, first as violently unstable people and later as puppets that the creature controls.

In which US state did the 2014 attack that set off a national moral panic about Slender Man take place?

Wisconsin was where two 12-year-olds attacked a classmate in the city of Waukesha; she survived, and the case started a wide debate about young people and the internet.

Which network aired Beware the Slenderman, the documentary by Irene Taylor Brodsky about the 2014 Waukesha case?

HBO aired the film, which was shot over eighteen months and includes interviews with the families of the two girls responsible.

Which monster-hunting TV series parodied Slender Man as Thinman in a 2014 episode?

Supernatural revealed its Thinman to be a hoax: the attacks blamed on the internet legend were carried out by a sheriff's deputy and his accomplice.

Which rating did the studio demand for the 2018 film Slender Man, forcing cuts to scenes already shown in trailers?

Rated PG-13 at the studio's insistence, the film lost several scenes as its makers tried to head off a backlash, and the cuts left continuity errors behind.

Which actress has top billing in the 2018 film Slender Man as Wren, the friend who researches the legend?

Joey King took top billing as Wren, who tells her friends to wear blindfolds during a ritual because looking straight at the creature is said to bring madness or death.

Under which forum pseudonym did Eric Knudsen post the first two Slender Man images in June 2009?

Victor Surge was the name on the post, which paired two doctored photos with short captions written as witness accounts, turning a pair of pictures into a story.

By what name is the Slender Man figure known in the YouTube web series Marble Hornets?

The Operator first appears on tapes from an abandoned student film, and the series began on YouTube only ten days after the original forum images were posted.

In many depictions, what sprouts from the back of Slender Man, a feature later patched into Slender: The Eight Pages?

Tentacles were missing from the first release of the game: developer Mark Hadley added them, along with a layer of fog, only after it became popular.

Which Stephen King novella, set in a besieged supermarket, did Eric Knudsen name as an inspiration for Slender Man?

The Mist grew out of a trip Stephen King made to his local supermarket after a thunderstorm, when he imagined prehistoric animals and giant insects besieging the building.

A Eurogamer critic said Slender: The Eight Pages did for horror games what which 1990s film did for horror cinema?

The Blair Witch Project was the comparison Dan Whitehead reached for in 2015, writing that the simple game had reduced horror gaming to the pure thrill of being pursued.

A scholarly book on Slender Man likens him to which beings of old folklore that live in woods and kidnap children?

Fairies, as Shira Chess reads the old tales, are otherworldly and hard to fathom, and their looks shift to match what a viewer wants or fears, much like the internet's monster.

Which monster, created by artist Trevor Henderson in 2018, have writers compared to Slender Man?

Siren Head stands 40 feet tall with two rusted sirens for a head, and it went viral in 2020 through YouTube and TikTok videos and a run of indie games.

Which long-running crime drama based its episode Glasgowman's Wrath on the 2014 attack linked to Slender Man?

Law & Order: SVU renamed the monster Glasgowman and aired the story in its sixteenth season, the same year the real case made headlines.

Which horror game for up to four players hides Slender Man as an Easter egg on one of its maps?

Phasmophobia sends teams of ghost hunters to work out what is haunting a site, and it became one of the most watched games on Twitch in October 2020.

In an episode of the fantasy series Lost Girl, Slender Man is said to be the basis of which old legend?

The Pied Piper link comes in SubterrFaenean, a 2013 episode from the third season of the Canadian show, in which the creature is the villain of the week.

An early forum addition to the Slender Man mythos invented a 16th-century folk tale set in which country?

Germany was the setting one forum user chose for Der Großman, a made-up legend written to hint that the creature had been stalking people for hundreds of years.

Which horror film features the Tall Man, a mysterious mortician Eric Knudsen cited as an inspiration for Slender Man?

Phantasm cast Angus Scrimm as the Tall Man in 1979, and decades later he took a small part in Always Watching, the 2015 film based on Marble Hornets.

Which creature actor from The Shape of Water plays the suited stalker in Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story?

Doug Jones, known for non-human roles such as the Faun in Pan's Labyrinth, took the part in a 2015 film that tells a new story instead of continuing the web series.

Which actor, the title character of the 2013 horror film Mama, plays the monster in the 2018 film Slender Man?

Javier Botet has an unusually tall, thin build and long fingers, which have also made him a wight in Game of Thrones and Dracula in The Last Voyage of the Demeter.

The 2018 film Slender Man earned actress Jaz Sinclair a nomination for which award?

A Golden Raspberry nomination for Worst Supporting Actress went to Sinclair, yet the film still earned about five times its $10 million budget at the box office.

Which filmmaker's surreal work did Troy Wagner and Joseph DeLage cite as the inspiration for Marble Hornets?

David Lynch works named by the pair include Eraserhead and Twin Peaks, and they planned their first 26 episodes on individual index cards.

Which game engine did developer Mark Hadley teach himself by building Slender: The Eight Pages as a practice project?

Unity was new to Hadley when he began work in May 2012, and he released the game the following month; the sequel's 2023 remaster moved to Unreal Engine 5.

Which horror game set in a Prussian castle did Mark Hadley credit for the atmosphere of Slender: The Eight Pages?

Amnesia: The Dark Descent builds suspense through atmosphere instead of jump scares, but Hadley felt its scripted events dulled the fear, so he made his monster appear at random.

In Slender: The Arrival, which missing friend of Lauren turns out to be the player character of The Eight Pages?

Kate is the woman players guided through the woods in the first game, a link the sequel spells out in Genesis, a bonus chapter that remakes The Eight Pages.

In Marble Hornets, which actor from the abandoned student film turns out to be the unknown figure in the white mask?

Tim Wright has no memory of what he does in the mask, and by the final season he has taken over from Jay as the lead character of the series.

In Marble Hornets, which anonymous YouTube channel answers the main entries with cryptic and threatening videos?

Totheark turns out to be a group and not one person, and its members want revenge on the student film's director, whom they blame for bringing the creature.

Which American radio show began taking calls about Slender Man only five months after the character was invented?

Coast to Coast AM, a late-night programme devoted to the paranormal and conspiracy theories, took the calls as confusion about where the monster came from spread online.