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They say the Original SlenderMan Tapes were never meant to be found—grainy VHS footage unearthed from a condemned house deep in the woods of Stirling, Virginia. The first tape opens with a boy whispering into the camera, his eyes darting toward the treeline behind him, where something impossibly tall flickers in and out of frame. Static pulses like a heartbeat, and every time it clears, someone else is missing. One tape ends mid-scream, the camera dropped in a pile of leaves, still recording as long, pale fingers curl around the lens. No one knows who filmed them, or how they ended up buried beneath floorboards sealed with rusted nails. But if you’ve seen even a second, you’ll know—some things were never meant to be watched.