This is perhaps the most in-depth, and sprawling, log of Slender Man activity. It covers two, by association, YouTube channels, a blog by a related party (Can You See The Words, now abandoned) and a Twitter account, at minimum. I haven’t delved much deeper, so there may be more. It covers the experiences, still ongoing, of a group of would-be personal trainers. They begin their encounters with a Slender Man by apparently angering it with parody, having had a friend dress up like it and stand in the background.
Shortly afterward, they encounter an actual Slender Man and experience the usual results. Video distortion, strange messages and apparent lapses in temporal/spatial continuity are all seen. This appears to go the usual way of paranoia, except for the member of the main trio named Vincent, who most vehemently insists it’s just someone messing with them, at least for a while.
Overall, nothing out of the ordinary for the creature occurs, though the lack of a definitive Agent is noted, but my own interpretation of the situation is that Evan could be heading in that direction. The only other notable difference is that actual violence is attempted against a Slender Man, something I cannot recall having seen or read in another log, though Strahm seems the type to try it, eventually. It does not, however, end well, whether one-on-one with a baseball bat, or trying to run over the creature. It is unfazed and the instigators are noticeably worse off for the attempt.
One thing does grab my attention, however. A second creature, commonly referred to as “the Rake,” appears in the log. It openly attacks, and with apparent intent to kill. It attacked Alex, the brother of the third of the trio, Jeff. It is pale, runs on all fours, gangly, and apparently has vicious claws at its disposal.
This second creature has never appeared before in tandem with a Slender Man, bares little similarity besides a pale complexion, and can likely be considered incidental rather than a connected entity. However, the apparent creation of a “disappearing crawlspace” which leads to more distant locations than is reasonable is strange to say the least. Therefore, a connection cannot be entirely ruled out.
Eventually, the men of Everyman HYBRID meet (i.e. break out of an instituition) and join with the author (commonly known as Damsel) of Can You See the Words. She has been stalked by the creature in years prior and managed to survive. They were originally connected through a single person, Damsel’s friend and Jeff’s girlfriend Jessa, whose disappearance inadvertently facilitated the team up.
Conclusion
Unfortunately, no new information of merit with respect specifically to Slender Men is presented. I seem to have come to an impasse at the moment in what I can derive from existing logs, or at least those I have to date reviewed in full. Next, I will be posting my thoughts on the creature at the current time.
I will have to say that the Rake is an incidental creature, in my opinion, as not a single other slenderblog out to date has mentioned anything like him.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have to disagree with you, on a certain point... you say no new information of merit is revealed about Slender Man in their account, but I think it adds on more evidence toward the theory of Slender Man being able to manipulate time and space. As first seen in Marble Hornets, where one enters a room and leaves in a totally different area than they are supposed too, it's again seen in EMH, when they enter the crawlspace and end up inside the basement of house miles away. Not to mention the "hidden" videos, as they are called, which seem to show video clips of future events. I say "hidden" because the group cannot watch them, and when they attempted to, they all ended up going into fugue states and waking up with bleeding ears and noses, which are commonly assumed symptoms of interfering with the space/time continuum.
-An inquisitive reader,
Leina
Leina,
ReplyDeleteOnce again you've managed to point out things that my haste caused me to overlook. I did indeed neglect to mention that it solidified the spatial/temporal manipulation theory. Though personally, I would point to the incident in which the group attempted to assault the Slender Man using a car. The crawlspace, I attribute more to the Rake, although the possibility of a Slender Man's intervention is not impossible. However, I hesitate to call it true control over reality. Rather, it may be more control over the human mind and electronics (or more generally, the ability to interfere with currents/electrical impulses/electron movements). Such an ability would give the semblance of a lapse in continuity without the necessity of such a violation of physical laws.
Of course, the hidden videos, which seem to show future events, do indeed pose a bit of a problem for that theory. Provided that is what they show. The (admittedly slim) possibility of the relevant videos containing facsimiles or extrapolations of future events exists. But the method of creating the film in that case becomes a problematic question in and of itself.
In the end, I myself find that a single creature having such adept control over time and space difficult to believe. The evidence for that conclusion is certainly worth considering, but I currently refuse to believe that it is exactly how it appears on the surface. However, I will have to think carefully about this before I come to a final conclusion on the matter.
Please continue to correct me and disagree with me in the future. I cannot remember everything, and others may see true significance in things I passed over. I can only create and refine theories that are useful when they are based on reality.
"Such an ability would give the semblance of a lapse in continuity without the necessity of such a violation of physical laws."
ReplyDeleteA very true point that makes much sense, and that I will always consider before quickly making an assumption on the Slender Man. I agree with you in that it may show more control over the human mind and electronics and such than tangible reality itself.
And it is true that the Rake may have been connected to the crawlspace rather than Slender Man, I did not consider this either.
This is why I enjoy your blog. It allows me to see that, while it is natural to assume one thing or another, it is very hard to prove it.