A 12-year-old girl who was repeatedly stabbed 19 times by her friends in 2014, miraculously survived and is ''doing very well'' in 2022. Payton Leutner was a sixth grader in the US when she was a victim of the 'Slenderman stabbing' carried out by her two friends, Morgan Geyser, 12 and Anissa Weier, 12.
The two attempted murderers who attacked Payton in a forest during a game of 'hide and seek' at her birthday party claimed they were driven to do it by an internet urban legend known as the 'Slender Man.' In June 2009, a comedy website called 'Something Awful' asked for people to submit modern day scary stories, the Daily Star reports.
After thousands of submissions, the disturbing story of a lanky faceless shadow man wearing a black suit called 'Slenderman' who stalks children for periods of time before abducting them became popular online. Even though it started out as a harmless internet legend, Morgan and Anissa believed they had to murder Payton so they could become Slender Man’s “proxies”.
