KarpindurJuly 21, 2011 at 12:58 AM

This dude used to give me fits when I was 15-16 years old.

One day I decided that I had enough, and decided to ignore him. I made up my mind that no matter what he did, he was not going to frighten me and I would just pretend like he didn't exist.

This seemed to really piss him off, and he began showing up everywhere, all of the time. I could feel his anger, and I enjoyed it. I knew i was getting to him for once, and it felt great. I almost, but not quite, lost all fear of him.

We moved from Cocoa Beach to LA when i was in tenth grade. We drove there taking I-10 from Florida to California, and the dude was there the whole trip. He would show alongside the road, and running alongside the car, or standing out in the desert etc for the entire trip.

I enrolled in 10th grade at North High in Torrance that year, and was very shy and withdrawn back then. I used to hide in the library at lunch because i had no friends and felt very awkward.

One day i was standing at the card catalog as the Dude stood sort of behind me, but off to my right side. Something felt different this day about him. He was really, really mad and I got the impression he was going to try something. I ignored him, but could feel his rage, and began to wonder if I had played this game with him too long. I pulled the catalog drawer almost all of the way out and pretended to look through the cards as I watched him out of the corner of my eye. suddenly, he seemed to swell and grow taller, even though he was already well over six feet tall, and he began to run at me. He opened his arms wide like he was going to wrap me up and he seemed to be wearing a cape of some sort. He came at me with enraged intent and I forgot all about where I was. I turned to face him just as he was about to reach me. The catalog drawer fell on the floor and index cards went everywhere. I screamed and put my arms out to block him just as he reached me and wrapped that opened that cape thing so widely that it blocked out the light....

And then he was gone.

Other kids were starring at me and I was breathing hard as my heart was beat a mile a minute. There were index cards all over the floor. I didnt know what to do, so I went to the table where I left my books, gathered them up, and left. As I cleared the door I could hear an woman yell "Hey!" but I kept going as fast as i could.

I have not seen the dude since, but my 16 year old daughter has, and in our house no less.

I have not mentioned the what I went through to her, only to advise her to "just ignore him".

Who is this thing?

AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 11:16 PM

Me and 3 friends of mine have all seen the Slenderman, and none of us knew about the internet myth. my friend told me about something that he had seen at night about a week before i saw it, he described it as very tall and wearing a suit-like outfit, and asked me if i had any idea what it was. I had never heard of anything like it, and being curious i asked him to take me to where he had seen it. In my old neighborhood there was a hill of dirt where the construction workers dumped dirt from digging the foundations, and he saw it on top of there. the hill is surrounded by trees and about 50 ft from any roads. We started up the path and felt a chill so stopped and looked up at it, and saw a tall figure on top for a half second. the path up the hill is at least 100 - 150 ft. and a few seconds after seeing it on top we saw it again half way down the hill. the a moment after that it was at the bottom. the time it took to move that far was only a few seconds, and we all ran then. a few days later we saw it on the freeway and my friends freaked out and floored it, we were going 120mph and it was walking next to the car, not running but walking. We have seen it many times since then and still see it from time to time. and i would like to add that the hill we saw it on was covered in bushes that are about 5 ft tall, and the things body was more than halfway visible. even as im typing this i feel like its watching me, as i cannot stop shivering, and it is not cold in ohio this time of the year, and the last instance of this being recentley was that me and my friends were all sitting in my living room watching t.v. like normal. two friends decided to walk to the gas station to buy pop and we thought one had my other friends phone. we saw it in our backyard and attempted to call the frinds walking, as one had seen it previously, to tell them we had spotted it. the first call we made answered and all we heard was an odd staticy shriek. we called 6-7 mre times all without answer. when my friend got home we asked him about it and he said the phone was in his room. we went to get it and it was under the bed.

ravenswoodOctober 28, 2011 at 6:18 AM

I used to see slender man when i was younger around nine or ten. i called him the octopus guy cause of his arms floating around. everyone just called me crazy and over time i forgot about it. but ever since my camping trip to big bear a couple months back when i saw IT again IT has been following me everywhere. stalking me observing me for only god knows why. ever since this all started for me again iv begun getting migraine headaches with nose bleeds, speech impediments, insomnia and iv been writing every occurrence on a blog to keep track of everything. im still trying to figure out as much of this as i can and this helps out allot so thanks pastor for posting this up. if your interested on whats been going on i guess you can check out my blog if you like

Ronald ReidNovember 21, 2011 at 1:36 PM

This is crazy.... I didn't know about this "Slender man" thing going around on the internet but i have encountered this man many times before. the first time i saw him was when I was in my cabin in georgia. my parents had wnt to go get groceries and i was alone. I was feeling rather horny, so I took the oppertunity to go the bathroom to masterbate. As i strated to pleasure myself, I noticed a weird feeling that i was not alone but i did't pay much attention as I felt too horny to pay attention to anything else. As I finnished cumming I got up to wipe my self when i got a sudden chill down the spine of my dick. The second I felt this chill I noticed something at my window, It was a faceless suited man staring at me. I screamed at the top of top lungs and ran for my room. I locked myself in my room an hid underneath my bed and waited half-an-hour befor I heard someone come in my house though the front door. I got really scared when I heard my door unlock and open but to my surprise it was my dad. As I got from under my be my dad asked me what was I doing under my bed naked. That's when I noticed that I forgot that I got so scared that I didn't even get a chance to put my clothes back on let alone wipe my penus. That's when I told my dad what happend but he didn't belive me. To this day I still see slenderman every now and then and each time I see him he gets closer and closer. I feel like he's here now, watching me like that day that I first saw him...

AnonymousMarch 3, 2012 at 3:56 PM

I am now 16 year old and I never heard of Slender Man until now, but what really freaks me out is that I had one of these dream experiences about the Slender man. I was 5 or 6 and I was having a dream of people I never knew or saw, playing a prank on me at a cemetary. There was one person up in a tree, recording everything, while I was walking. They buried a jack-in-a-box, so I couldn't see it, but when I did a hand came out of the box. The scary thing about the hand was it had long, unnatural, slender fingers that were trying to get a grib on my whole leg. It scared me, so much that I fought back and ran, searching my way out of the cemetary to the gates. Before I could reach the gates, I saw to my left was a moving shadow, I stopped before the gate to watch it, slowly moving to stand in front of me. When I looked up to see, the shadow had become a man wearing a suit, but he had no face, just a large grin. To me it looked like he had a cloak on, but on a second look they actually looked like arms. He tried reaching for me, but before he could, I woke up, screamed, then ran to my parents room. I never went to sleep in my own room after that, I slept in my parents room for about 3 weeks, until I didn't have the dreams anymore. In those 3 weeks, I had that dream repeating over and over, and it would continue where it left off, showing me more of the suited man, but after he had a grip on me, I stopped having the dreams, but never forgot. Even now I have a feeling that i'm being watched and when I do, I automatically think about that dream. I don't know why, but I just do. Was that man the Slender Man the so called myths say? I only learned of the Slender man today from a friend, now i'm afraid if that man in my dreams was the Slender Man truely trying to get me or just loves to scare the hell out of people.

AnonymousMarch 14, 2012 at 10:05 AM

Erm...Hello. I'm not so sure about whether or not this is relevant. But when I was young, around 8 or 9, I had an imaginary friend. The reason I say Imaginary is because my mother couldn't see him. Anyhow, this friend was tall. Really tall. I was five foot three at the time, and he was about three feet taller. He had four arms, and long spindly fingers. However, I did not ever consider the possibility of him being Slenderman. Mainly due to the fact I did not know what slenderman was. Anyhow, he was nice, and friendly. I told my mother about him once, though. She got a look of fear and recognition. She told me the story of "The tall man". My mother is of German Descent, and she told me that The Tall Man was basically the bogeyman. He would wait until the adults weren't looking, then he would steal children away. I was frightened for awhile, but my friend...my IMAGINARY friend convinced me that he was nice. And that he didn't steal children away. He had a face...sort of. It was a strange face. the shape of it always changed. I cannot recall eyes or a mouth. However, I do remember him talking. He had such a smooth voice, even if he didn't have a mouth. Like I said, none of this may be relevant, for this man that I am talking about was probably no more than the imaginary friend of my childhood. However, I thought I saw him again. A couple weeks ago, outside my bedroom. I'm 18 years old, I had stopped believing in imaginary friends. I was starting to believe maybe he wasn't imaginary after all. I told my friends about the man, and they told me to look up slender man. And I did. Thus I am here right now. It is my belief that the person who won the contest for this internet "Hoax" Cheated. Because I believe I had met the Thin Man.

AnonymousMarch 19, 2012 at 12:37 AM

Hi, I'd prefer to remain anonymous for this, but to all those who have problems with slenderman try this: Forget about him. He feeds off our thoughts and drives us insane. I know because it happened to me and is still happening but is getting better. NEVER try to remember him once you forgot because then if you forget hims for a long period of time, you aren't a target. But if you remember him because of something or you WANT to remember him (highly unlikely unless you're suicidal) then you're gonna be on his hit list.

AnonymousApril 8, 2012 at 3:37 PM

I'll stay anonymous for this... So I remember from when I was young, I woke up in the middle of the night. I looked towards the door as it was opened and I saw this strange figure... It was a simple entire head that would make a "be quiet" expression whenever it seemed as if I would scream. I did as it plead and eventually it came towards me... I can't remember the shape but I remember feeling at peace, like if a load came off my shoulders even do I was so young... I don't understand why or anything but I think it was slenderman. Nowadays I think of him all the time, infact I want to meet him and see if I can attempt at a conversation... Get a photo and set it up on facebook would be nice too. Ya know, him by my side and ontop it says "bros for life"!

AnonymousApril 15, 2012 at 5:38 PM

I believe he's real. I may be 13, and my eyes might be playing tricks on me, but I found out about him last monday morning. For the next two or three days I was terrified and couldn't even walk down the hallway by myself. I have been waking up early every morning- ranging from 2 to 5 am, sweating and feeling watched. I got up Saturday morning about 3 and watched tv in my living room in the dark. I kept looking out the windows, kind of hoping I would see him. Then I looked out one window and I saw a white-ish face with no eyes, nose, mouth or ears nearly pressed against the glass. I started freaking out but I couldn't move. I slowly turned on the lamp beside me and the face vanished. Again, this my just be my eyes since I haven't gotten much sleep, but I feel like he's watching me at night- waiting for me.

AnonymousApril 16, 2012 at 11:32 AM

I use to never believe in things like slender man....Till me and my friends became stupid and walked into the woods near a park which supposedly he has been well...seen. us being stupid wanted to see the truth....we grabbed flashlights and a couple cameras with night vision just in case.... once we got there it was about 3:00 pm

But time flew by like never before! felt as tho it was an hour yet it was 9:00 PM. we found a circle with an X striked through it on a dead tree. at first we thought it was a joke. but then we began hearing a muffled laugh on our headfones then my friend DEAN dissappeared into the woods and we followed once we found him he was just standing there with somewhat gray eyes. he ran towards my friend Nick and yelled "Y DID YOU FOLLOW ME YOU SHOULDNT HAAAVE!!!!!!!" i thot he was playing till he began punching Nick. after we got him off nick he just fell to the ground and didnt seem to remember it... about midnight we turned on the night vision and all. and we heard rustling leaves then Nick began screaming "Dude hes real hes real theres no face THERES NOTHING JUST NO FACE!"he pointed at wat he "saw" and wen we looked there was nothing yet he was still screaming "hes coming for me! hes trying to grab me!" he started to run then suddenly he flew off his feet to the side of a tree. we picked him up and on the tree was that same circle with an X through it. Then suddenly we all stared at the mark then looked up as we heard something and....there it was.... just standing there a black figure suit and tie. with a white musky face with no features. long arms and tendrils from his back. we asked "GO THE HELL AWAY! YOUR SCARING OUR FRIEND ILL CALL THE COPS!" then suddenly my ears rang with a screaming screeching noise i couldnt bare. i am 15 and on that day we sprinted out of the woods then i glanced back and noticed Nick was... gone. we ran back knives in our hands thinkin it was a person pranking us. saw nick bleeding from the arm with... that same circle carved in his flesh lightly. we woke him up and we just couldnt move... something had Deans shoulder we could see black fingers on his arm so we slashed at them and before we noticed...they were gone. we took our chances and ran to the car and we all went home.... all the footage we took always had something wrng with it... ethier the audio wasnt working or there were odd loud noises we never heard.... nick still calls and tells us he wants to go back to the wood. and every time he asks we tell him if you go DONT YOU DARE COME BACK.... he hasnt gone since that day.... Wat happened???? im seeking ANSWERS

JoshuaMay 7, 2012 at 8:12 PM

Hey Pastor,

this is a new reader to your blog, and i think ill be coming back for more even if this post is coming in a bit late for the topic. I only recently started to see what i could get on the so called "slenderman" because i think i have had a personal experience with him. i was sitting at home after a long day at work, and as i felt myself start to drift into a sleep, i felt something else in the room with me. out of the corner of my eye, i noticed a small movement in the corner of the room, and right away i thought back to when my parents were getting a divorce when i had just turned 7 or 8. i had finished my dinner one night, and started to go to bed, and i looked out of my window to see if i could find the moon. It was something that my doctor told my parents would help with my Insomnia. I didn't find the moon but what i did see was a man or something like a man, in a dark business suit, kneeling and looking into my room. at first i was frozen by fear, but then i started yelling. i remember just yelling that there was a boogie man outside my room. My dad came running in right over to the window. he must have seen something because he fired three shots out of the pistol he kept for home defense, looked at me and told me that he got him, and not to worry. since that night i have not had trouble sleeping until about a month ago, when i started to loose tracts of time. i keep having the same feeling of fear and dread that i did when i was about 8, and i don't think that it was very happy that my dad shot at it. Pastor if you have any prayers that might be able to help, i would really like to know, you can email me at , please. and thank you for listening.

AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 11:48 AM

I believe I have seen Slenderman. 2 friends (one girl, one guy) and I were headed to Seattle from San Diego and decided to make the long journey in one day. As we were entering into Northern California, it began to snow. The car we were in was old and a bit worn down. I was driving at that time as we were all rotating shifts in order to each get some sleep.

As the snow was falling I turned on the windshield wipers to make sure my vision wasn't hindered. As I mentioned before the car was old, so about 20 minutes in to turning the wipers on, they broke. We were all irritated by the inconvenience and had to stop at a gas station in the nearest town, Weed California.

We had our guy friend get out and make a phone call to his parents because we didn't know what to do. He had just joined the Coast Guard and was being stationed up there, hence the trip. We parked in a McDonald's parking lot facing a gas station directly across the street. As our friend was on the phone outside of the car, I looked up and instant terror shot through my body. I turned to my friend in the back seat who was sleeping and woke her... I needed someone else to see what I saw.

"Look out the window," I said, "can you please look at this man at the gas station across the street?" She looked up and had the same bone chilling reaction as me. She instantly rolled down her window and told our guy friend to get back in the car, that we needed to leave NOW.

The man walked eerily, hunched over with arms that seemed long enough to touch the ground. He had to have been 7-8ft tall, dragging something behind him. He turned the corner, never seeing us, or at least not caring that we were there. I had never thought to research anything about him, because I didn't know there was anything out there to find. After doing some research I believe he may not have looked over at us because he had no face...

We drove in to the gas station, stole a windshield cleaner and got back on the freeway as quickly as we could. We needed to get as far away from there as could FAST.