Is Slender Man The Internet’s First Crowdsourced Folk Tale? [Video]

Slender Man might have been invented on a Something Awful forum in 2009, but as Mike Rugnetta of PBS Idea Channel explains, since then he’s taken on a life of his own. Protip: Do not watch this new video with the lights off while you’re working from home alone in your apartment early in the morning. Just… um, just don’t. Trust us on this one.

(via PBS Idea Channel)

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