![]() ![]() But his persistent silence and outstretched arms horrified and comforted us at the same time. Many people contribute their grainy photo shops and spooky captions to the thread. I think it makes it look a little bit more legit. User Gerogerigegege put out a call, a very direct request for people on the forums to invent new paranormal photographs.īefore I export the file, I like to open my levels and slide my black and white inward to lose the true white or the true black. Occasionally, I'll stumble upon odd websites that showcase strange photos and I've always wondered if I can get one of my shots on a book, a documentary or a website just by casually leaking it out onto the internet. A single post on Something Awful, a comedy website with a thriving forum community, would directly plant the seed.Ĭreating paranormal images has been a hobby of mine for quite some time. The internet is the new woods, and Slenderman is that bogeyman in the woods. So I think the woods just is like, the Jungian shadow in a way where you don't know what's gonna happen in there. It's a metaphor for like, the chaos, I think, that we want to repress and repress and repress and repress, which includes our societal others. ![]() ![]() Like Chelsey from American Hysteria said when we talked to them about this. Most of the time when we tell stories, whether or not we consciously realize it, we use places like this in metaphorical ways to represent other things. Uh, that description feels very surface level. But that's like, a very literal interpretation of the fear. Off the top of your head, you could probably name a dozen fairy tales or scary stories that involve the woods. I mean, I don't think I need to give a lot of examples. It's, uh, the- they're scary places where predators could be lurking, unseen in the shadows. The woods represent in so many ways the unknown. We could've been here before it got dark, man. But hey, you know, at least as we look around, it's not a bad night. You are the one who kept insisting we put ‘immersive’ in the show description. And here we are, walking through the woods because the woods represent folklore. In a way, what we're doing right now is a kind of ostension because what ostension really is, is just taking action in the physical world because of something that started out as folklore or legend. So I figured it would be good to go straight to the source. They're central to so many folkloric tales and concepts. But what about when manifestation actually happens? What about when we bring things into existence that we never really wanted to exist? When something horrible manages to cross the bridge.Īnd we- we had to go to the woods to do this. It is a building of a bridge between our imaginations and the physical world. How the stories we tell push into the real world. It's called 'ostension' and it describes something very much like this. Focus enough of your thoughts on something and it becomes real. Influencers from Oprah to ‘some guy that you just saw in a backwards talking about it on TikTok’ evangelize the power of manifesting the things that you want. Causing something to come into being, purely through the power of thinking about it repeatedly and often. This might sound crazy but you need to gaslight yourself into getting what you want. I literally manifested something over night. Three words not to use when you're manifesting. This is how I instantly manifest certain outcomes. I just wanna talk about manifestations really quickly.įind out what you wanna manifest into your life. The other has almost the authority of history. The one can draw freely out of the fullness of poetry. The fairy-tale flies the legend walks, knocks at your door. Listener discretion is advised.Īnd this is the Digital Folklore Podcast. Today's episode touches on the topics of violence, self harm and mental health. There are a lot of good reasons for that, and we'll touch on some of them today.įrom the concepts of ostension and monster theory, to why we - as a society - love scary stories and how Slenderman and another digital monster by the name of Momo found themselves at the center of moral panics. This monster's name was Slenderman.Īnd to this day, academics and internet culture experts mention Slenderman as one of the most important figures of modern folklore. On June 8th, 2009, a new kind of internet monster was born. ![]()
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