Creepypasta storys

Slendermen

The Slender Man is a creepypasta story about a strange paranormal creature that abducts children. Slenderman is often described as being an unusually tall man, dressed in a black suit, white shirt and black tie. He has long, thin arms and legs and his face is said to be completely blank.

Slender Man

According to the legend, Slender Man can stretch or shorten his arms at will and has tentacle-like appendages protruding from his back. His presence can cause memory loss, insomnia, paranoia, nosebleeds and coughing fits.

Whenever the Slender Man appears, children are abducted. They say he lures them into the woods, then controls their mind and forces them to walk into his outstretched arms. They are never seen again.

A series of woodcuts were found in in Germany. They date back to the 16th Century and feature a tall man with no face, named Der Großmann. According to the inscriptions, he is a mythical creature who lives in the Black Forest and creeps out of the woods at night to spirit away bad children.

An old German journal, dated 1702, contains a chilling account:

"My child, my Lars...He is gone. Taken from his bed. All that was left was a scrap of black clothing. Lars came running into my bedroom yesterday, screaming at the top of his lungs. "The Tall Man is outside!", he cried. When I asked him what he was talking about, he told me about Der Großmann. He said he went into the groves by our village and found one of my cows dead. It's carcass was hanging from a tree. I thought nothing of it at first... But now, my poor Lars is gone. We must find him and leave this place before we are killed. I am sorry my son... I should have listened to you. May God forgive me."

Another account was found in a book of collected folklore concerning supernatural creatures:

"When I was younger, a cousin of mine came to live with us. He was older than me and my sisters. Maybe sixteen or seventeen. We were the only family he had left in the world. He was the worst liar you'd ever meet. Anything he'd tell you was a lie. I liked him all right. We slept in a loft during the summer because it was cooler up there, me and him, and in the winters we slept on the floor closer to the stove. My sisters had their own room.

So one night my cousin wakes me up by punching me in the shoulder, and it's summer so we're up in the loft, and my first thought when he wakes me up is to just push him out, because I'm not happy at being waked up, you know? But before I can say anything he puts his hand over my mouth and even though it's dark I can hear that he's scared. "Listen," he says, and so I listen real careful. It's this scratching, like something on the roof, and the roof is right over our heads, mind you, 'cause we're in the loft. I was a trifle rattled, but I wasn't having none of it. "So?" I says to him. "It's just some raccoon or a cat."

"No," says John, "I heard it before I waked you up, it's like footsteps, like someone's walking up there." I wasn't taking no truck with that, I told you he was the awfullest liar. So I went back to sleep, but the next day my cousin tried to tell Pap about it, and Pap wasn't having no truck with it, either. But one night later on, while we was all having supper, Pap sent out my youngest sister to fetch water from the pump we had in the back. After a while we heard Lily scream, and it was Ma who got up first, and then Pap. The rest of us stayed at the table because we was like to get in trouble if Lily was hurt and we was there to gloat. Soon enough, though, we heard Pap and Ma shouting too, so me and John went out to see if they needed our help. All they had was the water pail Lily carried out, and there wasn't no other sign of her.At first I didn't understand what was going on, with both Ma and Pap shouting, and by that time my other sisters come out and they started crying, and my cousin was just standing there in the yard looking off toward something.