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Well, I’llI'll you, when I was younger, a cousin of mine came to live with us. He was older than me and my sisters -- maybe sixteen or seventeen -- and we was the only folks he had left in the world, really. And he was the awfullest liar you’dyou'd ever know, anything he’dhe'd tell you was a lie, almost. I liked him all right. We slept in a loft during the summer because it was cooler up there, me and him, and in the winters we slept on the floor closer to the stove. My sisters had their own room.
So one night my cousin wakes me up by punching me in the shoulder, and it’sit's summer so we’rewe're up in the loft, and my first thought when he wakes me up is to just push him out, because I’mI'm not happy at being waked up, you know? But before I can say anything he puts his hand over my mouth and even though it’sit's dark I can hear that he’she's scared. "Listen," he says, and so I listen real careful. It’sIt's this scratching, like something on the roof, and the roof is right over our heads, mind you, ‘cause we’rewe're in the loft. I was a trifle rattled, but I wasn’twasn't having none of it. "So?" I says to him. "It’sIt's just some raccoon or a cat."
"No," says John, "I heard it before I waked you up, it’sit's like footsteps, like someone’ssomeone's walking up there." I wasn’twasn't taking no truck with that, I told you he was the awfullest liar. So I went back to sleep, but the next day my cousin tried to tell Pap about it, and Pap wasn’twasn't having no truck with it, either. But one night later on, while we was all having supper, Pap sent out my youngest sister to fetch water from the pump we had in the back. After a while we heard Lily scream, and it was Ma who got up first, and then Pap. The rest of us stayed at the table because we was like to get in trouble if Lily was hurt and we was there to gloat. Soon enough, though, we heard Pap and Ma shouting too, so me and John went out to see if they needed our help. All they had was the water pail Lily carried out, and there wasn’twasn't no other sign of her.At first I didn’tdidn't understand what was going on, with both Ma and Pap shouting, and by that time my other sisters come out and they started crying, and my cousin was just standing there in the yard looking off toward something.
"It’sIt's the man walking yonder!" he yells, and he’she's pointing out across the field. No one’sone's listening to him but me,
and he keeps saying it: "It’sIt's the man walking yonder! It’sIt's the man walking yonder!"
You already know it was suppertime, so you know the sun was setting and it was hard to see. But when I looked out over that field at the back of the house, the whole thing was lit up orange, and there was a row of big black trees that was the edge of the woods, you know? And I swear to you that I saw one of them trees moving, like a man walking away. But it couldn’tcouldn't have been a man, ‘cause there ain’tain't no man that tall and skinny.
Pap seen it, too, I think. He took us inside and locked all the doors, and he made us keep still while he got out his rifle. We waited like that all night, Ma crying the whole time. When the sun come up we took a wagon into town and told folks what happened, though as I recall nothing much came of it. John ran off a few weeks later, and we got a new house closer to the mill where Pap worked. I still can’tcan't manage to look at trees during sunset though, especially not on windy days when they all move back and forth, like a man walking away.]
From what I've read so far, and based on various internet memes(hahaha right?) and other sites debating Slenderman, he operates on the the power of belief, and feeds on fear. As for the operator symbol(for fear of my safety, I wont write it, or even draw it), there are many debates as to what it is and how it's connected to "slendy". Some say that when your looking at him, Slenderman can teleport, so the operator symbol is a representation of him, bore into the minds of those haunted by him, so that he can teleport to them wherever they are. Some say it represents his face, the circle being his head, and the x representing it's featureless face. One far fetched theory states that it's a window he uses to pear into our world. This is one of my favorite quotes: "There's another way of looking at it. Perhaps it doesn't actually mean anything - you ascribe the meaning to it. Since you are familiar with the mythos, seeing makes you think of Slenderman. And since Slenderman operates on the power of belief, it turns it into a sort of memetic thought weapon."
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