The Black Stick Men Who Stalk Our World At Night

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“It was very late at night and me and the girlfriend, Liz, were walking home from a club in the Greater London area. There’s a park with lots of trees that is usually closed at night but was open for some reason, so we walked through the gate as it would be a short cut to home.

It was very dark but there was a proper path to follow with trees and bushes either side. We hadn’t been through the gate for more than a minute when Liz said, “Did you see that?”

I had seen something that appeared to move ahead of us. The moon was out so I thought it was trees blowing in the wind and making reflections.

“It looks like someone is coming towards us,” said Liz holding my arm more tightly.

Whatever it was kept on coming. I could see it, a tall thin man but very skinny. It got taller as it got nearer to us and I started feeling a little scared.

“What the hell is it?” Liz whispered.

I can only describe it as being like a stick man that kids draw. It was black, completely black and was wearing no clothes. It’s face was blank except what appeared to be an opening something like a round mouth.

Liz was freaked out but the stick man bounced by us like some sort of cartoon character. It’s head turned slightly towards us but it kept on walking, its long, thin legs and arms waving about as it passed.

We started to run. I turned round and the creature had gone but we hurried out of the far gate and kept walking fast until we got home.

We were both scared and locked the door of our flat. I don’t know what it was but we weren’t on drugs or anything.”

” … totally black, thin, stick figure drawings, such as teachers would make in kindergarten. They have been reported as between average height to impossibly tall. Their heads are just a black circle with no facial features being discernible. They are totally two dimensional, without any depth. Usually they’ve been sighted walking along roads at night, or at transitional times such as twilight or just before dawn.”

“In 1982, when I was a student nurse at Warley Hospital, Brentwood in Essex, England, I encountered a ‘stick person’ in the grounds of the Hospital as I was walking home one night. It lopped across the roadway having been, seemingly, pressed up against a wall. It stopped when it saw me and raised it’s arms in fright and quickly walked off into the undergrowth. It was very tall with very thin, extremely long arms and legs and a very small oval head. Totally black and no obvious clothing. I saw no face even though it emerged very near a street lamp and so was well illuminated. I was terrified and to this day, no-one believes me.”

“The Slender Man (also known as Slenderman) is a fictional character that originated as an Internet meme created by Something Awful forums user Victor Surge in 2009. It is depicted as resembling a thin, unnaturally tall man with a blank and usually featureless face, and wearing a black suit. The Slender Man is commonly said to stalk, abduct, or traumatize people, particularly children. The Slender Man is not tied to any particular story, but appears in many disparate works of fiction, mostly composed online.”

“Yesterday at 20.30 hrs. just when I was about to leave the office I heard a very strange sharp buzz that came from the outside that made me look to the outside to see what it was about. When I looked in the direction the sound came from I saw a long and very thin shadow with a copper color that after a while of not moving it started walking towards the light.

It was in that moment that I got very scared because I could see clearly that it was not a normal person. It had no face and its body looked like a stick made of one piece. I went looking for my cell phone camera to take a picture of it and to my surprise, when I came back, that thing was higher than the wall of the building and it kept growing and stretching until it reached the second floor windows of the neighboring building. It suddenly jumped up the walls and began to climb up to the roof where I lost sight of it. I kept hearing the buzz for some more seconds until it disappeared completely. I was able to take pictures of it. I have spent the whole night thinking about it but I have no idea what could that be.”