Who is Slender Man? Slender Man, a menacing, faceless man in a dark suit – sometimes portrayed with octopus-like tentacles – was a crowdsourced internet-created boogeyman that first appeared ...

A perpetrator in the so-called Slender Man stabbing was found in Illinois Sunday after escaping a group home the day before. Morgan Geyser was charged with murder for the 2014 stabbing of her friend, ...

A Chicago law firm is suing a suburban bar, alleging it overserved a man who later killed a mother in a drunk-driving crash.

One of the perpetrators of the so-called Slender Man stabbing was found in Illinois Sunday after escaping a group home the day prior. Morgan Geyer's brief disappearance reignited nationwide interest ...

A Wisconsin woman's brief disappearance from a group home has reignited public interest in the so-called Slender Man stabbing case of which she was a perpetrator. Morgan Geyser was taken into custody ...

Slender Man was created online by Eric Knudson in 2009 as a mysterious figure photo-edited into everyday images of children at play. He grew into a popular boogeyman, appearing in video games, online ...

This story has been updated to add new information. MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin woman who admitted to violently stabbing her sixth-grade classmate to appease the fictitious horror character "Slender Man" ...

Payton Leutner was stabbed 19 times in 2014, and her mother offers her thoughts. — -- Since two teenage girls have now been sentenced to spend decades under institutional supervision for the 2014 ...

In a July 17 story about a woman who was involved in the Slender Man stabbing, The Associated Press misspelled the name of the character’s creator. It is Eric Knudsen, not Eric Knudson.