Quoted: ?The character was invented to be fake,? said Andrew Peck, who has studied Slender Man, in an interview with The Washington Post. He is a PhD candidate in folklore and media at the University of Wisconsin. ?There?s something fun about letting ourselves be scared. There?s something fun about suspending our disbelief. That?s by and large what the Slender Man is ? it?s a campfire story.?
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