Televison: When the Lines of Fantasy Blur

Fear washed over the twelve-year-old while her two BFF's forced her to lay on the forest floor face up. It smelled earthy and felt damp. She glanced up as her heart pounded against her chest. Sara knew something bad was about to happen.

The morning sunlight filtered through the tree tops while her friends paced back and forth. They even argued.

Sara thought about escaping but she lay between them, one each side of her.

 The taller girl pulled a big knife out of her backpack and handed it to the shorter one. "Just go crazy!" Anna hollered. "Go ballistic!"

Chloe took it from her, bent over her BFF laying on the ground and stabbed the knife into her flesh. Blood spurted out of her friend. It intoxicated her and she went into a frenzy,  plunging and pulling the weapon out of the girl. It had to be done. She and Anna had to prove themselves to Slender Man.

My last several posts have been on television and the toxic messages we unwittingly take in as we watch. This past Friday night, I watched 20/20. It was about a twelve-year-old girl who was stabbed several times by her best friends.

While they didn't get the idea to kill their friend via the TV, they got the idea from a fictional character, named Slender Man,  from the internet.

Who is Slender Man?

• The Slender Man is a fictional supernatural character that originated as an Internet meme created by Something Awful forums user Eric Knudsen in 2009. It is depicted as resembling a thin, unnaturally tall man with a blank and usually featureless face, wearing a black suit. Stories of the Slender Man commonly feature him stalking, abducting or traumatizing people; particularly children. The Slender Man is not confined to a single narrative, but appears in many disparate works of fiction, mostly composed online.
  The Slender Man is a fictional supernatural character that originated as an Internet meme created by Something Awful forums user Eric Knudsen in 2009. It is depicted as resembling a thin, unnaturally tall man with a blank and usually featureless face, wearing a black suit. Stories of the Slender Man commonly feature him stalking, abducti…
• en.wikipedia.org ·

                                               Here is their story:

 

Here is the survivor's story:

 

 

I was shocked when I heard the story, but it didn't surprise me. No one can tell me that any form of media isn't a danger. Our minds are precious so are our souls. Especially our children's.

 

Hope everyone has a great week!

 

Hugs and chocolate, all!

Shelly