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Why Slender Man (2018) is an unnecessary and hurtful crap

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Oh my. “Slender Man”. Directed by Sylvain White , who you may, or may not know for taking part in directing tv series as “The Mentalist” or “The Originals”. The script was written by David Brike who, judging by his work so far clearly specializes in writing horror/thriller pieces. You would think that it shouldn't be so bad, right? Well, wrong. Let’s start with a brief history on Slender Man himself. It’s a fictional internet myth. Created in 2009 by user Eric Knudsen for the competition on webpage SomethingAwful.com. The competition consisted of transforming in the graphic program photographs depicting everyday life in such a way that it would be disturbing. Eric uploaded a photography of children running with a tall, thin and pale apparition in the background. And a second one showing children playing on a playground. Here you can see Slender Man in the shadow of a tree. And this is how it started. Like an avalanche the character of Slender Man took over the cree...
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Creepy Holidays!

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Happy Holidays!  I'm just stopping by in this whirlwind that is my life recently to wish you all Happy Holidays!  Whether you celebrate it or not, I hope you'll have a peaceful and fulfilling Holiday/New Year break.  I'll leave you with that and this cute Jackalope picture my friend from Texas send me, and a promise to make a note about cryptids! Take care!  Yours truly  Annie Wood
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Red rooms- Internet legend or morbid reality?

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In 2012 the netizens were shocked with a certain film uploaded to the site BestGore. Despite the site's theme the grusome film made even the regular visitors had to ask the question "Is this for real?". "One lunatic, one icepick" unfortunately turned out to be indeed real; a man indentified later as Luka Magnotta killed another man Jun Lin and caught the act on video. He later posted it online. This particular case wasn't the first and, I will let myself boldly assume, not the last snuff film published on the the Great Wide Web. Snuff movies are movies that suposedly depicts a scene of actual homicide or suicide. For the first time this term was used by Ed Sanders in his 1971 book "The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion", where Sanders claims that Manson Family was involved in making this kind of films to document their murders. It is unknown how many snuff films there are, mainly because there are actua...
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Deep, Dark Web

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Deep Web became some sort of a Bogeyman for the modern netizens.  What exactly is Deep Web? Well, Deep Web is: "The deep web, invisible web, or hidden web are parts of the World Wide Web whose contents are not indexed by standard web search-engines. The opposite term to the deep web is the "s urface web", which is accessible to anyone/everyone using the Internet. Computer-scientist Michael K. Bergman is credited with coining the term deep web in 2001 as a search-indexing term. The content of the deep web is hidden behind HTTP forms and includes many very common uses such as web mail, online banking, private or otherwise restricted access social-media pages and profiles, some web forums that require registration for viewing content, and services that users must pay for, and which are protected by paywalls, such as video on demand and some online magazines and newspapers." Since it seems to us that we are untouchable on the web in both physical and legal ter...
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Greetings!

The world is a scary place. Everyday we get new reasons to feel fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of other people. Fear for our safety. Fear about our future. Yet still there are people who seek fear and thrill of excitment linked to interacting with the unknown and disturbing. Internet seems to be the ideal place for thrillseekers these days, hence the countless examples of strange and unexplained things that surfaced through the years in the mainstream web as well as those less attended paths netizens take. Please join me while I try to uncover, explain and catalogue some of those mysteries. Yours truly Annie Wood
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