This will come as a shock to no one. I am a sucker for a good urban legend. Always have been.

Thinking back to sleepovers as a kid, was I terrified if someone said that we'd be trying to conjure Bloody Mary that night?

Absolutely. Did it fascinate me nonetheless? Sure did. I was the first one to step up to the mirror and say her

name three times. But these are just silly things kids say to scare each other, right? I mean,

that's how I always thought about them. After all, I lived to tell my bloody merry tale, didn't I?

But nowadays, it's different. Kids have the internet, which means sleepovers and urban legends have seriously leveled up, especially thanks to websites like creepypasta.com. People can share photos and drawings, personal anecdotes that only add to the lore. And sometimes they do this to the point where the line between reality and

fiction really starts to blur. Take, for example, that tall, skinny, really creepy dude that

the internet dubs Slender Man. When stories of Slender Man took over these forums, people weren't sure what to make of it.

Was it another urban legend like Bloody Mary or was there something more sinister going on here?

Because the Slender Man, real or not, seemed to have the power to get inside people's minds and in a pretty messed up way,

to the point where it actually caused two young girls to try and murder their own best friend.

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is so supernatural. Supernatural.

I have been in love with the Internet as long as I can remember.

I had a Yahoo account as early as I think the year 2000.

I did MySpace, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, all the things.

And it's always been a huge part of my life.

But by 2009, the internet had become a huge part of life for everyone.

And part of the thrill came from just how anonymous everything was.

There was no telling whether that creepy story on Reddit was true or just someone having their fun.

Stories told around the campfire took on a whole new meaning as they made their way to the internet,

blurring the lines between fact and fiction, which is how one internet monster spread to every corner of the World Wide Web and beyond.

His thin, towering body and blank, uncanny face started to appear everywhere online, from YouTube clips to online games to fan art forums. But when Slender Man

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