The Slender Man Stabbing: Fiction Turns Reality

The Slender Man Stabbing: Fiction Turns Reality

By Riley Tanaka · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 The Slender Man Stabbing: What Happened and Why It Mattered On 31 May 2014, two twelve-year-old girls in Waukesha, Wisconsin lured a third girl, Payton Leutner, into a wooded park behind David’s Park and stabbed her nineteen times. They told investigators they […]