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The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 2, Episode 20: Living Nightmares
S02E20: Slender Man and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Whether written at the dawn of a nation or crowd-sourced on the internet, all urban legends hold within them at least a tiny kernel of truth. Here’s what happens when those distorted stories stop being fiction and become real living nightmares.
Heads up: The first story involves violence against children. Listen at your own discretion.
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Here are links to the sources and resources we used while researching this episode:
Links to research materials:
Slender Man:
- Beware the Slenderman: https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/beware-the-slenderman
- Slender Man Meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/slender-man
- The complete history of ‘Slender Man,’ the meme that compelled two girls to stab a friend: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/06/03/the-complete-terrifying-history-of-slender-man-the-internet-meme-that-compelled-two-12-year-olds-to-stab-their-friend/
- How Slender Man Became a Legend: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/movies/slender-man-timeline.html
- Teenager in ‘Slender Man’ Stabbing Gets 40 Years in Mental Hospital: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/us/slender-man-case-sentencing.html
- Milwaukee Suburb Tries to Cope With Girl’s Stabbing: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/us/milwaukee-suburb-tries-to-cope-with-slender-man-stabbing.html
- The Slender Man myth, and its tragic reality, was too big for a movie: https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/new-york-citys-top-ten-urban-legends-110415
- Teen Participant in ‘Slender Man’ Stabbing to Be Released From Mental Hospital: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/11/us/slender-man-anissa-weier-release.html
- The Slender Man Wiki: https://theslenderman.fandom.com/wiki/Victor_Surge
- Woman who admitted to Slender Man attack to be freed Monday: https://apnews.com/article/technology-wisconsin-0604d05ccb11f062cf6228568fafc435
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41/41-h/41-h.htm
- Audio reading of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LibriVox_-_Sleepy_Hollow_-_Washington_Irving.ogg
- Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Sleepy_Hollow
- History.com Article: https://www.history.com/news/legend-sleepy-hollow-headless-horseman
- New York Historical Society & Library: https://historydetectives.nyhistory.org/2013/10/halloween-history-the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow/
- The History Reader: https://www.thehistoryreader.com/historical-figures/halloween-story-real-ichabod-crane/
Further Reading:
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