Blurring the Digital and Real Worlds: Child Stabbings in Wisconsin
People Magazine -Morgan Geyser and AnnisaWeier I know people hunt in the woods of Wisconsin. But deer, not one another. Two twelve-year old girls stabbed another nineteen times in a wooded park in Waukesha, leaving her for dead. The victim, released from the hospital yesterday, narrowly escaped death, a wound to the heart a fraction of an inch off the mark. The reason? Curry the favor of an Internet paranormal, Slenderman, a monster developed or perhaps embellished (it is said to be a very old tale) by a story teller at the Creepy Pasta website. Creepy Pasta catalogs all things creepy. It will come out, the pictures of the crime, the videotape, evidence that will incriminate these youngsters in court, for they will be tried as adults. And here they only wanted to make an impression on a supernatural being, or the brains behind a cartoon, an online horror guru, a cult leader. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, both 12, have been charged as adults with first-degree attempted homicide in the...