internet mythology

Beware the Slenderman is an HBO documentary about the 2014 attempted murder of 12-year-old Payton Leutner by two classmates who believed in the Slender Man internet myth.

The Slender Man Stabbing is a 2014 attempted murder case in which two 12-year-old girls stabbed their classmate 19 times in Waukesha, Wisconsin, to become proxies of a fictional internet character.

On February 1, 1995, Richey Edwards, guitarist and lyricist for Welsh rock band the Manic Street Preachers, disappeared from South Wales. Despite extensive searches and sporadic sightings, no conclusive evidence of his whereabouts has ever emerged.