I sympathised that this may have caused a few seconds of distress when he woke up, but could not understand why he was still petrified.
As more stories came forth, however, the use of tentacles and tentacle-like appendages became less common, and the invisibility was limited or eliminated depending on the storyteller. Certain contemporary views see his movement as either extremely limited or impaired as if he is incapable of moving his body properly. However, his basic appearance and traits are relatively consistent across different accounts. The fire was attributed to a likely electrical problem within the system that distributed the heat from the fireplace. https://creepypastafiles.fandom.com/wiki/Slender_Man?oldid=78299. Of course, I found nothing unusual. EMH and ML also describe the phenomenon known as "Slender Walking." It does so in such a way that the target is often unaware of his presence for months, years, or even decades.
He said that if I did that for him, he’d take me to visit his house- he says that there are lots of other kids there I could play with!”. The lunar glow coming in through the skylight was just enough to show me that it was uniformly pale, almost paper white, and without clothes. But it kept nagging at me- I’d helped Amelia get settled into her room, and I would have noticed them. They didn’t move at all for the rest of that week, in fact.
My thoughts raced for rational explanations, but I kept arriving at this strange amalgamation of ghosts and Santa Claus. This period of stalking can last anywhere from several minutes to decades. The damn thing took nearly a year to build, what with the county having to actually build the road to my family’s property at the top of a small mountain. Still, this thing was undeniably strong, and I watched it hoist each bale up into its arms with ease, and set it down carefully a while away, taking only a few strides to cover the distance. I arrived on my road and began to calm down. Amelia nodded.
The thing (man?) Sometimes an individual can determine if the Slender Man is near simply by how certain electronics act. I stared up at what I though should be its face, its lack of features slightly disorienting. Slender Man's general appearance consists of a tall figure standing from 6 to 14 feet tall wearing a black suit, white shirt, a black or red tie, black trousers, and black shoes. This was often attributed to the innocence and morbid curiosity of children, which could lead them down the path of discovering the creature. I guess small town forensic scientists don’t know what accelerants look like. In my mind’s eye, I could see the candle man, thin and ghostly, running up to me and cutting off my head in one swing of an axe. Slender ManThe Tall ManThe Thin ManDer Schlanker MannFear DubhSchlankwaldSlendySlendermanThe Pale OneThe White KingMasterBlack King It
He behaves in what might be seen as a passive-aggressive manner, often stalking targets for years at a time before ever attacking. Slender Man Gone is the original desire to impale targets on trees, his overtly aggressive attitude, and the tendency to target mainly children. I hoisted myself out of the sleeping-awake twilight I was in and ejected myself from bed, too stricken with urgency to consider being quiet. Art created by SallibyG-Ray The floor around her bed was covered in that morning’s newspaper. We pulled up to the cabin around noon on December 12th, my sister playing Kirby’s Dreamland on her Gameboy and me listening to Nirvana on my Walkman. I put it in her drawer, turned to walk out, and I saw them- two charcoal shoeprints under the window curtain, as if someone had been hiding there. Basic research and even collecting images don't appear to incur its notice, someone has to delve into the mythos in an almost obsessive way. It seems to be part of his psychological attack to stay just within visual range without actually attacking – the fact that he is there, no matter what, is often described as worse than actually being attacked, the psychological effects often deteriorating the mind of the victim as a result. One of the most common features of The Slender Man, generally accepted among both fans of the mythos and victims, is that he will target those who reach a certain level of understanding about it. Alive (On the other hand, some stories took the invisibility even further and claimed it was entirely invisible without the use of electronic devices.).
These abilities were seen in early Slender Man accounts and are one of the most recognizable elements of the mythos.
I caught a glimpse of a limb being retracted into the chimney. There were no signs of the heads. I took a deep breath and I leaned back into the fireplace as I turned on the flashlight and looked up.
Everyone was excited, except me, to be moving in to enjoy Christmas morning in front of the big-ass fireplace my dad gloated over.