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'''Slender Man''' is a fictional creature first created in 2009 by user "Victor Surge" on the Something Awful forums, as part of a contest.<ref>{{cite web|author=Victor Surge|title=Create Paranormal Images|url=http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3150591&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=3#post361861415|publisher=Something Awful Forums}}</ref> The character has since been used in various projects by other Internet users.

==Physical properties==
Slender Man is frequently depicted as a tall, thin entity resembling a human male. He is sometimes shown with long, tentacle-like appendages protruding from his back. In the original images, he is shown in the background and appears unnoticed by those around him.Occasionly seen in the corner of eyes when you turn around the slender-man chooses who can see him or not. {{fact|date=January 2012}}

==In popular culture==
Endermen, from the game [[Minecraft]], took its name from Slender Man.<ref>{{cite web|last=Presson|first=Notch|title=Notch posts images of new Mob|url=http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/j09ma/notch_posts_images_of_new_mob/c28388j|publisher=Reddit}}</ref> The ''[[Marble Hornets]]'' web series has Slender Man as one of the central characters.<ref>{{cite news|author=Nolfi, Joey |title=The 'Marble Hornets' Web series becoming a smash on 'Net |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11236/1169306-67-0.stm |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=August 24, 2011 |accessdate=January 17, 2012}}</ref>

==References==
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