Morgan's parents say they kind of knew something was up, but Anissa's parents deny seeing anything wrong in their daughter to this day. In contrast, Anissa's father, chooses to focus on how smart Anissa is & her affinity for technology. In the HBO documentary, "Beware the Slenderman" we see adorable videos of the girls as children, comforted by their singing mothers and pet cats. WHO ARE MORGAN GEYSER & ANISSA WEIR?Īs children, Morgan and Anissa grew up with supportive parents. They will spend at least three years in a mental hospital. As both have been charged with attempted First-Degree Intentional Homicide, and found not-guilty. Because this is a recent story, it is WELL-documented we will be playing a large amount of audio, interviews with many different people in the case, including footage of the interrogations of both Anissa Weir and Morgan Geyser. He is the prime example of age-old folk-lore in a contemporary setting. He is the stuff of fan fiction, a 21st Century Boogie Man, conceived in imagination, born and raised on the internet. It is said that SlenderMan makes his victims draw and scribble incessantly, and that he can even cause a " SlenderSickness" that makes kids cough up blood. Knudsen attached some vague text implying 14 young people and the photographer had gone missing. And behind them: A tall, sinister figure lurking in the woods. Perhaps the most memorable contributor, Eric Knudsen, using the pen name Victor Surge, answered the challenge by posting two faked photographs, designed to look like they were from the mid-1980s- a group of children at play. The first known appearance of Slender Man came in the form of a meme in June 2009 when comedy web forum "Something Awful" started a contest and asked for ideas for a "New Urban Legend" that would shock and horrify the public. Partially because they are the ones on these digital folklore sites like CreepyPasta, but also because they are the target of SlenderMan's supposed attacks. The audience that partakes the most in these fantastical folklore stories are children and teens. Legend has it, SlenderMan moves quickly, appearing behind children playing in the woods suddenly, or popping up in photos of Midwestern towns where the forest can be seen in the background. His pinstripe suit elongates his creepy figure even further. People who claim to have seen him describe his limbs as "tentacles" that protrude from his back, giving him an extra set of arms. He is tall and thin so that he can stand among the trees in the woods to blend in. His translucent skin and white complexion are feared alongside his long bony fingers, arms and tongue. SlenderMan is a tall, creepy character with no face. On the off-chance that you are not familiar with Modern & Digital Midwestern-American Folklore, let's talk about SlenderMan for a minute. In order for us to truly understand the bizarre psyches of Anissa and Morgan shared-psychotic disorder and how this deadly assault among children could have happened, we'll need to dive DEEP into this into this fantasy, and the SlenderMan Shared-Delusion You might be wondering: Are these twelve-year-old girls really suffering from a mental-illness? Who is SlenderMan? Is the mentally-ill verdict of the SlenderMan Trial a of Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card? We are going to dive into the psychology of this disorder, the controversial and little understood mental illness that was used by the defense. It is in these transcripts, recordings and video-tapes that we are able to see so clearly the delusional world these two were living in. This SlenderMan case, unlike other cases that we've covered, has been extremely well-documented, giving us hours and hours of footage to draw from. We usually have to strain for the rare scrap of audio. Unpopular Culture has done many deep dives at this point, but usually ones from the past. Though we ARE going to tell the FULL story of what happened, this is not JUST a Recap. In what is NOW known as the SlenderMan Trial, their case has made national news as Anissa Weir and Morgan Geyser were both found NOT GUILTY for attempted first-degree homicide on the basis of being mentally-ill, specifically suffering from Shared Psychotic Disorder. You are listening to "the Stabbing for SlenderMan," the infamous and recent story about about two twelve year old girls who tried to murder their friend in the name of the fictional internet character, SlenderMan. I spent several years diagnosing evaluating and treating people who who were found not guilty for criminal behavior by reason of insanity. Hello, my name is Michael Drane, I am a licensed psychotherapist with a background in forensics.
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