'Slender Man' Internet Meme Inspires Two 12-Year-Old Girls Tried To Stab Classmate To Death

"Slender Man" (or "Slenderman") is an Internet meme that was created as a sort of urban legend about a tall, slim man with a featureless face and very long arms. The character stalks, abducts and traumatizes his victims, usually children - but again, this is just a made up character. Unfortunately, two twelve-year-old girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, took the meme way too far when stabbing their classmate nearly to death and then blaming the crime on "Slender Man."

According to reports, Geyser and Weier plotted to kill one of their classmates for months and did so during a sleepover. The Journal Sentinel has the terrifying details:

The suspects believed that "Slender," as Weier called him, lived in a mansion in the Nicolet National Forest in northern Wisconsin. The plan was to kill the victim and walk to Slender's mansion. After school on Friday, Weier told police, she and Geyser went to Weier's house, where she packed a backpack with clothes, granola bars, water bottles and a picture of her mother, father and siblings. She didn't want to forget what her family looked like after leaving for Slender's mansion.

The report continued:

Weier told the victim to lie down and be quiet - she would lose blood more slowly. Weier told police she gave the victim those instructions so she wouldn't draw attention to herself, and so she would die. Weier told the victim they were going to get her help; but they never planned on actually doing so. They hoped she would die, and they would see Slender and know he existed.

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