Slender Man

One night many years ago, we tried to get my mom to watch the Slender Man movie with us. She became very agitated and adamantly refused to watch it. She didn’t even want us to watch it. We asked her why she was so upset. She told us that she had seen something years ago when my brothers were young. My mom was married to the father of my two oldest brothers before she married my father. She said they were living in the middle of nowhere in the woods in California. Her husband worked night shift sometimes and she would be home alone with two young boys. One night she was woken by knocking at the door. When she opened the door, it was the head of her dog floating in front of her at eye level. She freaked out and shut the door. Then she thought she must be seeing things and looked out the window, and nothing was there. The dog was fine, but it never barked so she thought maybe she imagined it. The next time her husband was going to be gone all night, she had her sister come stay the night with her. That night she said to this day she doesn’t know why but she woke up in the middle of the night. She went to check on my brothers and walked around to check the house, but everything was okay. She looked out the window into the back yard and saw what she described as a stick man standing there with long gray arms. She was getting upset just telling us. You could tell she was still frightened. She said she can remember every detail like it was yesterday. She remembers the dark suit, but what she remembers the most is those long gray arms. She was so scared she ran to my brother’s room and climbed in bed with my oldest brother and held him really tight and cried herself to sleep. The next morning, she was sitting at the table crying and my aunt asked her what was wrong. She told her what happened and my aunt said that she saw the same thing from her bedroom window. They moved not long after that. This is the only time I have ever heard either one of them mention that night. To this day you cannot talk about the slender man, the hat man or the rake around my mom. I don’t blame her.