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Police Searching For ‘Suicide Challenge’ Creator

An online phenomenon is being blamed for the death of a 12-year-old Argentinean girl who died as a result of a “suicide challenge” that’s connected to a WhatsApp profile. The challenge is named after the profile it originates from, Momo. The Momo challenge appears to target youth in South America but cases have been reported in the US and Germany. Users who contact the profile will receive disturbing messages and commands from the user identifying them self as Momo, who orders them to perform tasks which usually results in self-harm. The user threatens it’s victims with violent images or videos as well as claiming there’s a curse if the victim fails to obey. Momo appears to target the young and impressionable causing authorities to ask for parents to monitor their children’s use of WhatsApp. What makes Momo terrifying is the image that’s being used for its profile picture. Harking back to the creepy smiley faces from the film “Truth or

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Capt McNeely
Aug 9, 2018
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Petition To Halt Release Of ‘Slender Man’ Movie Gains Momentum

A new online petition is calling for SONY Studios to halt the release of their upcoming horror movie Slender Man citing the incident that made headlines back in 2014 when Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, both 12 years old at the time, tried to murder a friend and fellow classmate, Payton Leutner also age 12. The motive behind the attack that stunned their hometown of Waukesha, Wisconsin was that they wanted to become “proxies” to the fictional character Slender Man and prove their loyalty to him so their families will be spared by him. One of the film’s biggest critics and is said to have signed the petition himself is Anissa Weier’s father who calls the film “extremely distasteful” due to the fact that three families have been affected by this fictional character. Weier was sentenced to 25 years in a Mental Health facility after pleading guilty and subsequently found not guilty due to mental illness by a jury, Her

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Capt McNeely
Jan 8, 2018

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Police Searching For ‘Suicide Challenge’ Creator

An online phenomenon is being blamed for the death of a 12-year-old Argentinean girl who died as a result of a “suicide challenge” that’s connected to a WhatsApp profile. The challenge is named after the profile it originates from, Momo. The Momo challenge appears to target youth in South America but cases have been reported in the US and Germany. Users who contact the profile will receive disturbing messages and commands from the user identifying them self as Momo, who orders them to perform tasks which usually results in self-harm. The user threatens it’s victims with violent images or videos as well as claiming there’s a curse if the victim fails to obey. Momo appears to target the young and impressionable causing authorities to ask for parents to monitor their children’s use of WhatsApp. What makes Momo terrifying is the image that’s being used for its profile picture. Harking back to the creepy smiley faces from the film “Truth or

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Capt McNeely
Aug 9, 2018
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Petition To Halt Release Of ‘Slender Man’ Movie Gains Momentum

A new online petition is calling for SONY Studios to halt the release of their upcoming horror movie Slender Man citing the incident that made headlines back in 2014 when Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, both 12 years old at the time, tried to murder a friend and fellow classmate, Payton Leutner also age 12. The motive behind the attack that stunned their hometown of Waukesha, Wisconsin was that they wanted to become “proxies” to the fictional character Slender Man and prove their loyalty to him so their families will be spared by him. One of the film’s biggest critics and is said to have signed the petition himself is Anissa Weier’s father who calls the film “extremely distasteful” due to the fact that three families have been affected by this fictional character. Weier was sentenced to 25 years in a Mental Health facility after pleading guilty and subsequently found not guilty due to mental illness by a jury, Her

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Capt McNeely
Jan 8, 2018