Sometimes News Stories Aren’t
Most days I spend an hour or so in the morning reading news stories. Some days when I do so, I get the feeling I have moved into a land of satire, this morning was one of those days.
It started with an article about two 12-year-old girls in Waukesha, WI, who stabbed a 12-year friend 19 times. Waukesha is about twenty miles west of Milwaukee, it is a small town of slightly more than 70,000 people.
They evidently were fans of a web site focused on horror stories, creepypasta.wikia.com, in particular a character named Slender Man. Their goal was to kill someone to prove their dedication to Slender Man, and then run away to Slender Man’s mansion in the Nicolet National Forest, located in Northern Wisconsin.