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Ep. 89 | 10 Signs That You Might Die Soon & SLENDER MAN · Weeknight Mysteries Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Death remains one of the great unknowns and finding out
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  Speaker 1: when we are going to die has obsessed mankind since
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  Speaker 1: the dawn of humanity. Every culture on earth has its
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  Speaker 1: own superstitions about death omens, signs that someone's death is imminent.
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  Speaker 1: It is based on the idea that as death approaches
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  Speaker 1: the universe will warn us by sending out unusual signs.
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  Speaker 1: There are ten potents of death that have been reported
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  Speaker 1: for thousands of years. By watching for these signs you
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  Speaker 1: can prepare for your impending death. Cock crows usually crow
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  Speaker 1: when the sun comes up so hearing a cock crow
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the night is considered highly unusual.
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  Speaker 1: If you hear a cock crow crowing at night it
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  Speaker 1: is a sure sign that death is near. The same
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  Speaker 1: is true of the sound of a dog howling. It
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  Speaker 1: is said that dogs can scent imminent death and if
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  Speaker 1: a dog sits outside your house at night and lets
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  Speaker 1: out a mournful howl it is a sign that somebody
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  Speaker 1: in the house will die before dawn. Another animal that
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  Speaker 1: predicts death is the owl. If you hear an owl's
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  Speaker 1: cry whilst it sits on the roof of your house
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  Speaker 1: then prepare for death. Birds in general can warn of
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  Speaker 1: impending doom if a bird sits on your bedroom windowsill
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  Speaker 1: and taps on the glass it is a sign that
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  Speaker 1: you will soon die. If you have any pictures of
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  Speaker 1: yourself hung up on the wall you might want to
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  Speaker 1: take them down. If a picture falls off the wall
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  Speaker 1: when nobody is touching it it is a sign that
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  Speaker 1: the person in the picture is going to die very soon.
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  Speaker 1: If you hear the sound of a ticking clock coming
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  Speaker 1: from the wall or a piece of furniture that start
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  Speaker 1: writing your will that noise is caused by the death
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  Speaker 1: watch beetle. The ticking is the sound of the beetle
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  Speaker 1: counting down your final moments in life. If you are
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  Speaker 1: attending a funeral and the sun shines brightly on your
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  Speaker 1: face this is a warning that you are next to die.
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  Speaker 1: If 13 people sit at a table it is said
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  Speaker 1: that the person who stands up first will die within
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  Speaker 1: one year. If you dream about walking through muddy water
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  Speaker 1: or helping someone get dressed it is an omen that
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  Speaker 1: you will soon be dead. If you ever meet a
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  Speaker 1: person who is your exact double this could be a doppelganger.
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  Speaker 1: A doppelganger is a spirit that appears identical to a
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  Speaker 1: living person who is close to death. Sometimes the doppelganger
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  Speaker 1: will talk to their double asking them if they are
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  Speaker 1: satisfied with their life so far. Within a week of
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  Speaker 1: meeting your double it is guaranteed that you will be dead.
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  Speaker 1: So if you see any of these signs then you
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  Speaker 1: will know that you are not long for this world
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  Speaker 1: but don't worry death comes to everybody and most people
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  Speaker 1: get no warning at all. It's nice to get a
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  Speaker 1: heads up now and then. There are thousands more death
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  Speaker 1: omens from all corners of the globe. If you know
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  Speaker 1: of any others please share them in the comments below.
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  Speaker 1: I know what you are probably thinking. Slenderman is a
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  Speaker 1: worker fiction. It was thought up by some guy called
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  Speaker 1: Victor Surge on a something awful photoshop contest. He photoshopped
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  Speaker 1: a tall creepy looking man into some old photographs and
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  Speaker 1: gave the pictures a scary caption and a meme was born.
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  Speaker 1: I want to explore the idea that whilst fictional in
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  Speaker 1: origin the slender man has become a very real entity.
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  Speaker 1: The warning signs have been all around us for some
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  Speaker 1: time now. It is only when we connect the dots
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  Speaker 1: that we see the full picture. In occult terms Slenderman
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  Speaker 1: could be seen as an Edgar Gore. An Edgar Gore
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  Speaker 1: is the idea that if a large group of people
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  Speaker 1: think about the same thing at the same time those
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  Speaker 1: thoughts have the power to manifest themselves as reality. In
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  Speaker 1: theory a group of people could summon a spirit entity
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  Speaker 1: simply by believing in it strongly enough and willing it
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  Speaker 1: into existence. This phenomena is quite often seen in residential hauntings.
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  Speaker 1: Even such a haunting will not have a supernatural origin.
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  Speaker 1: A family member might hear a floorboard creak and they
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  Speaker 1: misinterpret this as a ghostly footstep. They tell another family
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  Speaker 1: member who then listens out for any strange noises. Pretty
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  Speaker 1: soon this belief in a ghost has passed on to
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  Speaker 1: all the family members. They spend all night sat awake
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  Speaker 1: listening for the ghost, they give it a name, they
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  Speaker 1: imagine what it looks like and pretty soon some genuine
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  Speaker 1: phenomena stars that happened. Maybe some objects fly across the
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  Speaker 1: room or somebody sees an apparition of the spirit on
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  Speaker 1: the stairs. The imagined ghost has now become a reality.
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  Speaker 1: Now think back to the height of Slenderman's popularity. There
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  Speaker 1: were hundreds of videos, photos, stories, even video games about him.
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  Speaker 1: Not everybody who heard about Slenderman knew about his Photoshop origins.
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  Speaker 1: Some even thought that he genuinely existed. When we're along
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  Speaker 1: the way, the image of Slender Man got embedded in
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  Speaker 1: a collective consciousness. It was only a matter of time
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  Speaker 1: before he started to make the transformation from imagination to reality.
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  Speaker 1: The first recorded incident occurred on May 31, 2014 in Wisconsin, USA.
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  Speaker 1: Morgan Giza and Anissa Weir, two 12-year-old girls, led their
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  Speaker 1: classmates Peyton Luttner into the woodlands and stabbed her 19 times.
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  Speaker 1: During her for dead, Peyton was able to crawl to
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  Speaker 1: a roadside and was rescued by a passing cyclist. She
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  Speaker 1: named her attackers and the two girls were arrested. When
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  Speaker 1: asked why they had carried out the attack, the girls
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  Speaker 1: told police that they were attempting to kill Peyton in
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  Speaker 1: order to prove themselves worthy to Slenderman. Investigators found these
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  Speaker 1: drawings and diary entries in the girls' rooms relating to Slenderman.
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  Speaker 1: Of course Slenderman was still regarded as a fictional entity
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  Speaker 1: at this point. but what this ritual stabbing achieved was
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  Speaker 1: to solidify the idea in people's minds that Slenderman could
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  Speaker 1: cause genuine harm to people in the real world. Just
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  Speaker 1: like in the Slenderman mythos, he was able to infect
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  Speaker 1: and influence the minds of two children and persuade them
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  Speaker 1: to commit acts of horrendous violence. One month later, a
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  Speaker 1: local Cincinnati news station reported the story of a 13-year-old
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  Speaker 1: girl who dressed up in a white mask and black
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  Speaker 1: hoodie and stabbed her mother with a kitchen knife when
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  Speaker 1: she came home. The mother said the girl was obsessed
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  Speaker 1: with Slender Man. The outfit she wore sounds very similar
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  Speaker 1: to the outfit worn by Tim in the Marble Hornet
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  Speaker 1: Slender Man videos. In this fictional horror series, Tim dons
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  Speaker 1: a white mask and carries out filing to tax under
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  Speaker 1: the control of Slender Man. On the 4th of September, 2014,
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  Speaker 1: a 14-year-old girl soaked the bath towel in bleach and
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  Speaker 1: in rum and then used it to set fire to
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  Speaker 1: her house as her mother and 9-year-old brother slept upstairs.
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  Speaker 1: All family members escaped the blaze, but the house was
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  Speaker 1: burnt to the ground. Once again, investigators were able to
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  Speaker 1: link this attempted double murder to the girl's obsession with Slenderman.
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  Speaker 1: And these are just the cases that get reported. How
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  Speaker 1: many more terrible acts have been carried out by children
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  Speaker 1: influenced by Slenderman? A recent study shows there has been
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  Speaker 1: a massive increase in violent attacks carried out by children
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  Speaker 1: against their own parents. These attacks started to become more
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  Speaker 1: frequent right around the time that the first Slenderman studying occurred.
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  Speaker 1: It is very possible that the year 2014 was the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of Slenderman's real-world manifestation. Perhaps if we had spotted
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  Speaker 1: the warning signs then, it would have been a lot
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  Speaker 1: worse than the workshop. It is far too late. The
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  Speaker 1: public chase is an area in Staffordshire in England. It
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  Speaker 1: is considered to be a paranormal portal. A crossing over
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  Speaker 1: point between the physical world and that of the demonic realm.
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  Speaker 1: The amount of unexplainable sightings there is staggering. People have
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  Speaker 1: reported UFOs, ghosts, werewolves, black-eyed children, and in recent years
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  Speaker 1: there have been multiple reports of a new kind of entity.
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  Speaker 1: They describe it as an incredibly tall and thin humanoid
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  Speaker 1: creature that can stretch its limbs to impossible proportions. They
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  Speaker 1: have only one word to describe it. Slender man. The
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  Speaker 1: first panic chase sighting occurred on the 14th of December, 2014,
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  Speaker 1: just seven months after the Wisconsin stabbing. An unnamed panic
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  Speaker 1: chase resident awoke at 2 a.m. when they heard an
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  Speaker 1: odd scratching noise in their bedroom. And she saw a
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  Speaker 1: small round shadow by the wardrobe. Once you got out
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  Speaker 1: of bed to investigate the shadow, it suddenly stretched to
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  Speaker 1: the ceiling and took on the form of a terrifying man.
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  Speaker 1: It was described as being eight feet tall with a
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  Speaker 1: white face and razor-sharp fangs. Since that event, many more
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  Speaker 1: have come forward to report the same thing. Many of
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  Speaker 1: the initial sightings were similar, a person would awake in
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  Speaker 1: the night to see a tall creature standing by their bed.
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  Speaker 1: It is possible that at this point, Slenderman had not
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  Speaker 1: fully manifested in the physical realm but was actually exploiting
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  Speaker 1: the sleeping person's hypnagogic state to make himself be seen.
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  Speaker 1: It was only when Slenderman was seen outside that we
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  Speaker 1: were able to get confirmation that he had successfully materialized
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  Speaker 1: in our world. Castle Ring is a circular land formation
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  Speaker 1: considered to be a sort of epicenter of paranormal activity
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  Speaker 1: for the area around Panic Chase. A local resident was
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  Speaker 1: taking a midnight stroll at Castle Ring and as they
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  Speaker 1: approached the nearby forest, a man rose up above the
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  Speaker 1: top of the trees. He was described as being dressed
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  Speaker 1: like a Victorian gentleman. a long black overcoat and suit.
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  Speaker 1: The figure descended back into the trees, the witness turned
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  Speaker 1: and fled the area. Now fast forward a few months
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  Speaker 1: from the sighting. Nine young people from the Pine Ridge
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  Speaker 1: Indian Reservation in Dakota, USA take their lives within a
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  Speaker 1: space of a few months. The youngest suicide was just
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  Speaker 1: 12 years old. Investigators found that many of the youths
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  Speaker 1: had been sent a video about Slenderman on Facebook which
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  Speaker 1: instructed them to kill themselves. The footage itself was never
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  Speaker 1: found but the youth worker on the reservation told police
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  Speaker 1: that many children talk about being visited by a suicide
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  Speaker 1: spirit they call the tall man. 31st of May, 2016.
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  Speaker 1: A teenager jumps to a death from the top of
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  Speaker 1: the Sheraton Hotel in Peru. Many people captured the event
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  Speaker 1: on video and one particular angle shows an odd figure
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  Speaker 1: standing behind the girl in the final moments before she jumps.
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  Speaker 1: A tall, black suited man with a featureless white face.
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  Speaker 1: If you watch this clip carefully you can even see
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  Speaker 1: that the figure vanishes as soon as the girl has jumped.
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  Speaker 1: Is this Slenderman? His job completed, flitting out of existence.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps he is moving on to his next victim. Along
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  Speaker 1: with a rise in violent attacks by children and teenagers,
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  Speaker 1: suicide rates have also risen dramatically in the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of years. Could this sharp rise really be caused by
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  Speaker 1: an internet meme made flesh? I will leave it up
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  Speaker 1: to you to decide. Let me know what you think
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  Speaker 1: in the comments below. I will be looking out for
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  Speaker 1: any more Slender Man sightings and attacks that might occur.
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