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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, welcome back to day six a Freak Week.
Dam this week flew by. If I'm happy to hear
that you guys have loved it so much. I think
I'll definitely be doing this next year. Before get started,
I just want to let you guys know that the
Freak Week shirt is still available until Halloween. I'm actually
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probably gonna run it a couple days after Halloween, but
it's gonna be gone soon. It is limited addition, so
if you want to get one now, it would be
a good time. There's a link in the description. But
let's go ahead and get into our story for today.
It's pretty intense. So I've gotten so many requests to
do fictional spooky paranormal videos, like I get those types
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of requests all the time, and to me, I've never
been into like scary movies or myths or urban legends,
like I just don't get into that stuff. I never
have black eyed children don't scare me if you can
tell them my last video. I just think it's such
a load of shit, And to me, like the things
that are really scary and interesting that I get into
to our real life stories. So even though I have
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gotten this topic requested so many times the topic of
slender Man, which is an urban legend that originated out
of creepypasta. I thought about doing a video on just
slender Man in the story of slender Man, but to me,
I don't find it interesting or scary or anything because
I know that it's not real. What I do think
is scary was an attempted murderer that was made on
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a little girl in the name of slender Man, and
I decided that instead of talking about slender Man, I
would tell you guys about this case. I think this
should be a good lesson for people about spreading false information.
You know, we talked about the Fantastic Daily Channel that
was really trying to make black eyed children look real,
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even though it's totally a bunch of bullshit, and he
made the whole thing up. This kind of stuff concerns me.
After you hear about this case, you'll understand why tails
like the Boogeyman, ghosts and all these things are fun.
And I'm not saying ghost surreal because I actually do
a blatant spirits, but like urban legends stories, boog Man,
danned Man, vampire, zombies, creepy stuff like that, I think
it's really important that people who do these types of
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videos or write stories make sure that they really get
across that this stuff, at the end of the day,
is for fun and that it's not real. Because even
though most of us can read something like that and
just be like, Wow, that's so creepy and fun, or
watch a scary movie and think it's creeping fun, there
are a lot of people who can't do that and
think that these things are real because they've read them
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on the internet. Now, I'm sure a lot of you
guys have heard about this case. In this story, this
made major national.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
News and our big story at five to twelve year
old girls charged with trying to stab a friend to
death after a sleepover. Police say they were inspired by
a fictional character from the Internet.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I heard about it a few years ago, so I
thought it'd be interesting to talk about today. First of all,
let's talk about what slender Man is. For those of
you who don't know, slender Man is this fictitious Internet
character that originated on Creepy Pasta. Actually from this contest,
this photo contest that was all intended just for fun,
and it is fun. Photoshop is total art. I'm sure
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there's a lot of you out there who know how
to use Photoshop well and can create really cool fictitious photos.
And that's what this whole thing was about. It's all
for fun, no bad intentions, and Slenderman is really the
modern day like Boogeyman. He is whatever you want him
to be. You could be living under your bed, in
the closet in the forest next door. People have so
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many different variations of the story because it's been retold
over and over and over again on the internet. There's
like video games, and the story just went kind of viral.
He's this extremely tall guy, skinny guy who's pale, has
no facial features at all, which is really creepy because
it's you know, left to the mind about what he's
gonna do, and you don't know his intentions. Slender Man
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has these like creepy tentacles that come out of his back,
so here's like multiple arms, and he makes people like
mentally sick and is known for creeping on children and
kidnapping children and killing children in and there's so many
different variations of the stories. But the story we're gonna
be talking about today, it took place in Waukesha, Wisconsin
and this happened on May thirty first of twenty fourteen.
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So there were these two girls. Their names are Morgan
Geyser and Anissa Weir. Now, when things like this happen,
people automatically blame the parents, and you know, it's hard
not to because you think you should be monitoring what
your kids are doing online, you should be checking their history.
You can't just give them that privacy anymore. There's just
so much out there for them to fall into. So
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both of these girls had access to the Internet. But
their parents were not bad people. And I really want
to emphasize this. The parents definitely were not like deadbeat
parents who didn't care about their kids. If you want
to watch a documentary on this whole thing and understand
the parents and the whole situation a lot better, HBO
just put out a great whole documentary on it, so
I'll leave a link to that below. But these parents,
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I can tell, we're really good people, truly loved being
parents and monitored most so what their kids did. They had,
you know, limited internet time and stuff, and they were
very involved with their children, talking to them, talking them
through things, and they knew that their kids had an
obsession with slender Man. It just figured that it's fun
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and games, like most kids get into something creepy, you know.
For me as a kid, I was never into scary stuff.
But I was really into like er shows, like real
er shows or this. I used to watched this show
called Impact where it was just about people dying from
like insane impacts, like falling off things. But I guess
I always had a fascination with like dying. I don't
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know why that like was always with me as a kid,
But my parents didn't think I was gonna kill someone,
and I obviously didn't ever kill anyone or do anything
to anybody. But it's fairly normal for kids to have
odd obsessions or to be into scary things. That is
not like a reason for a giant red flag and
to think your kid's gonna actually carry something out right.
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So I'm sure a lot of you guys understand what
I'm trying to say. So Morgan Guyser in Anisia Weir
were both friends who both struggled with friends bullying. They
definitely weren't like the most popular girls in school, and
they were a little off. Anisia was the first one
to come across the slender Man's story and got super
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obsessed with it. Now, she showed this story to her friend,
Morgan Guyser. The important thing to know about Morgan is
she was later diagnosed with schizophrenia, and they don't just
diagnose people with schizophrenia just because her father was diagnosed
with schizophrenia and has been through his whole life, So
they both knew that it was a possibility that one
of their children could end up with schizophrenia.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I wish that, like I could talk to her about
like I have, Like right now, there's like it's like
patterns of like.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Light and like geometric shapes.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Everything seems normal to me because it's this is my everything.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
This is how I've always seen things.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
And I don't know if that.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Was everyone had like a weird little visual.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Thing going on.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Okay, this is clearly not real, but it doesn't matter.
Like I've had where can like see it and like,
you know, it's not real totally, it doesn't matter because
you're still terrified. The Devil's not in the back seat,
but the devil is in the back seat, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
And they always were sort of cautious with the way
that she still believed in Santa when she was like
pretty old, would talk about like scary things under her
bed and stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
We never thought for a moment that she could possibly
believe that it was real. When I was Morgan's age,
I remember biking home from the library with Stephen King's it,
you know, so I liked that sort of thing too
when I was her age, and I think most kids
her age do like scary stories and horror movies and
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scary stories on the internet.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You know, That's all that we thought that it was.
But how do you figure out if that's okay? Is
that normal? Is that just being a kid, or are
they really seeing something? How do you tell? Because kids
imagine things. I certainly imagined things when I was little.
I thought I had an imaginary friend named Grace. I
don't have schizophrenia. I just had a good imagination. So
how do you know when your kid is actually seeing
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stuff and when they're just imagining. So Morgan in Anesia
would talk about slender Man often and how they both
believed in him. And after Ansia showed Morgan slender Man,
she became fully obsessed with it.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
I told her about them and then she said, oh
my god, I think I think, I I thought flunder
mall stocking.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
You in your dreams?
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Can you just see him?
Speaker 8 (08:39):
One?
Speaker 7 (08:39):
No one else done?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Like they really thought slender Man was a real character.
And what they did and not at the time was
that Morgan was really seeing slender Man, and the two
of them decided that they wanted to become slender Man proxies.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
I had these proxies that were servants and people said.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Hey, I need the we should be Foxy. I'm like, okay,
how would you do that? He said, we have to
kill uh?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
And do you know why did she do them? Like?
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Why did you?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Eventually had to supposedly who theirselves worthy.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
To slender which I guess meant you were able to
live with slender Man in his mansion, which the girls
actually thought was a real place in Nicolette National Forest.
And the only way to become one of slender Man's proxies,
they believed, was to kill a child in the name
of slender Man to prove that he was real, and
that after that you would get to live the rest
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of your life with slender Man in his mansion and
have this great like and he would never hurt you
because you proved something to him. So I think it
was really done out of fear of slender Man, that
if they don't do something, don't kill another kid, they
will be killed themselves. That's what they really believed. And
it's hard to get in the mind of these girls.
And it's just like some kids just cannot see, especially
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kids with schizophrenia. And keep in mind, only Morgan has schizphrenia,
but it's easy for kids to get completely caught up
in something that's not true. So the girls decided that
they needed to kill someone, and they decided that they
needed to kill one of their best friends.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
How well did you know these these two other girls?
Speaker 10 (10:14):
Oh, they were best friend friends about fourth or fourth.
Speaker 11 (10:17):
Grade is when we met Morgan for the first time.
Speaker 10 (10:19):
They say Peyton would talk to Morgan every night on
the phone. The other twelve year old a Nissa Wire,
they had not met, but they say Peyton knew her
from school.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Her name was Peyton, and I don't want to talk
much about her because this poor girl has been through
so much. They had a sleepover with her the night
of May thirtieth, and it was like a birthday party
thing at Morgan's house.
Speaker 11 (10:39):
Oh my gosh, she was so.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
So excited and had she gone on sleepovers before?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Oh yeah, and this was just you know.
Speaker 10 (10:46):
Her best friends birthday, another Friday night, So she's going
to go roller skating, have some pizza, and spend the
night at her.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Best friend's house.
Speaker 11 (10:53):
Yeah, they were probably going to watch movies and so
you thought and play American girl. Peyton brought her American
Girl now with and.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Morgan's parents were there. They were super involved in them.
They said the girls had a great night and their
plan was to kill her during the night at Morgan's house,
but they got nervous, and Morgan said that she wanted
to give Peyton one more morning before she killed her.
And the girls the next morning woke up and they
had breakfast. They had specifically donuts and strawberries. Me his
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mom had breakfast with them. She said it was a
gorgeous Saturday and the girls were laughing and having fun.
There were no red flies at all. So, like, as
a parent, how would you have any idea what these
girls were secretly planning because they had to keep it
all secret in the name of Slenderman, so they never
told their parents anything. Their parents had no way of
knowing that this was gonna happen. So the girls asked
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to go to park, and Mom said yes, because yes,
you can go to the park. And they're all twelve
years old at this time. I forgot to mention hill.
They were, y'all. I went to this park and they
were in the bathroom at one point, and they almost
did it there, and then they got too nervous. So
they finally commenced Peyton to play this game of hide
and seek, and I guess Peyton was reluctant, didn't want
to play hide and seek, but they told her, if
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if you let us play the game we want to
play right now, you can pick the game that we
play after this. And sometime while they were playing hide
and Seek in the forest, I told.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Bella we were going to play hide and peek.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Gonna hide one way, I'm gonna hide another, and then
Morgan and I we're gonna be like Lena.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Who.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
After much argument about who was actually going to carry this.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Out, Morgan handy that I can't do it.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
You know, we're all as are.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
And then I give it back to her and they
you do it, go the lifting and then Morgan said,
I'm not doing it, and tell you tell.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Me to Morgan stabbed her while she screamed nineteen times.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
I started walking away, and then like when.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I by away, I been down, and Lisa says, now
Morgan out, and Anissa turns her back.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Morgan got on top of Peyton's legs.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
She sat on her legs, and then she got her
face real close to Peyton and whispered in her ear,
I'm so sorry. The whole time, I guess she was
screaming and saying she couldn't see and I hate you
and I trusted you, and they were saying I'm so sorry.
And I think neither of them were like had anything
against Peyton. They didn't want to kill her. In fact,
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they still talk about her to this day as if
she's their friend and they love her. They just were
so scared of this Slenderman character that they thought this
just had to be done and didn't want to get that.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
What to do with them were plainly RELLI then slendering
Dunny Italy.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
She was like, Ohathily a kid.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
When Morgan said, you say, if we don't do this
first under.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Our families tried in one more, there gonna be killed
you honestly today.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Then yeah, so she was laying there like on the
verge of death. And the girls said, we're gonna go
get help for you, and they left. But afterwards they
just decided the best plan was to start walking towards
this nike Let National Forest, which is actually like a
four to five hour drive from where they were, and
they thought they were gonna walk there. So these girls
were like completely delusional. So they took the knife with them,
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put in their bags and started walking. And now this
is just amazing, Kayton, God, what a tough kid. She
crawled out of the forest with nineteen stab wounds. She
somehow managed to crawl out of the forest and get
onto the street and just the road and lay there.
And a cyclist came by her and called me in.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
One one obviously and you were biking by, and she
says to you, what could you help me?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Please? I can stand multiple times. I quick got out
my cell phone. I was shaken and dialed nine one one.
I just stayed with the nine one one operator and
one with.
Speaker 12 (15:02):
The address your emergency bos.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
County wand and transfer over a caller on Big Bend
at the dead end just south.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
Of Rivera, Okay, upon a twelve year old female.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
She appears to be stabbed.
Speaker 13 (15:14):
She appears to be what stab stabbed?
Speaker 10 (15:18):
Okay, sorry for there, Yes, hi, sir, so, is are
you with this.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Twel year old female? Yeah?
Speaker 13 (15:24):
She says she's having trouble breathing.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
She said she was stabbed multiple times.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
The multiple times.
Speaker 12 (15:30):
Yeah, okay, sir, are you with her right now?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Is she awake?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Is she breathing?
Speaker 7 (15:36):
Yeah, she's breathing. She said she can take shallow raps.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
He's alert.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Okay, stay with her.
Speaker 12 (15:40):
We're sending the police department.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Don't hang up. Okay, Oh, hold on, don't hang up.
Speaker 13 (15:45):
Okay, okay, hold on smiths the we're setting officers.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Is there any a sailant around. I didn't even look.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
I don't see anybody.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Stay right with her, sir.
Speaker 12 (15:54):
Is she on the ground or she standing up?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
No, she's laying on the grass.
Speaker 14 (15:57):
Laying on the grass.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Stay right with her.
Speaker 13 (15:59):
Just something if she is remaining conscious or not?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 10 (16:04):
Is there any bleeding going on?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Her clothing has got blood on it.
Speaker 14 (16:08):
Where are the wounds?
Speaker 13 (16:09):
Do you see where the wounds are?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I don't know if I should be rolling or over
and checking or not. I'm bothering you at all.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Okay, but very sum And she didn't say who did this,
or I don't know, if.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
I don't know, if she wants to be talked.
Speaker 10 (16:25):
I started to ask, and then that's okay.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
If she's got to save her energy, I think okay.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I offered her water because I had a water bottle
on my bike. The other thing she said was she's
having trouble breathing. The stab wounds were horrible. They were
all over her arms, her abdomen, her legs, her chest.
One was so close to her heart and mister heart
by a millimeter.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
And when you looked at her, it was immediately apparent
she'd been stabbed multiple times.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Yeah, through her.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Chest and abdomen and arm and leg.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
Doctor's concerned she might not survive.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Two of the stab wounds hit major arteries, so the
chances of her surviving this were so slim she could
bear speak. She did pretty much only answered guest her
those questions when they found her, because she was in
so much pain. But she was able to tell them
my friends did this to me in their names.
Speaker 11 (17:09):
I said, Peyton's been stabbed. Morgan stabbed Peyton. You need
to come home. They need to rush Peyton into surgery
walked into the trauma room that she was in, and
she was pale as a ghost. She was terrified. She
was crying, she couldn't breathe. But she saw you there,
she saw me, and she put her hand out and
I rushed over to her and I put my arms
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around her and I laid next to her and I hugged.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Her, and I said, you're gonna be okay, It's gonna
be fine.
Speaker 15 (17:37):
And all I hear is there's five on her arm,
there's seven on her leg. And I'm thinking we seven.
What there's This says all right, I count nineteen, and
then the second nurse said, I count nineteen as well.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Nineteen. What this There's no way now, anyone who was
stabbed in the cardiac box or this area has pretty
much a twenty five to fifty percent chance of survival.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
The knife came directly down at this point where this
large branch was coming off of this major artery and
cut through the tissue overlying it, so that the vessels
were totally exposed by this injury. The knife cut through
the tissue, but not the artery itself exactly. The knife
stopped at the wall of the artery and had it not,
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you would have had a major heart attack from the
amount of bleeding and probably died within a minute or two.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Luckily, Peyton survived. So the two girls were found walking
down the street with their bag and the police literally
just found the weapon right on them in their bag,
and they never tried to deny it.
Speaker 10 (18:41):
The two other girls are found. They were right here
along Interstate ninety four heading out of Waukesha. A knife
with a five inch blade found in one of the
girl's bags.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
So the girls were brought in for questioning. Explained the
whole Slenderman thing.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
He's the favorite man who prays on children.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
Who told you he's everywhere because they've read so many
things about him.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
He watched you, how does you watch you? You can
read life. That he has teleportation skills is the same
to the stampede, it wasn't necessary.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And how they didn't want to do this to her,
and they wished that it could have been pushed back
and avoided completely, but they knew they had to do it.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
I wanted to give her at least one one morning,
you want to give it one more did?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
I wanted to see if they could put it off forever,
but didn work out like that.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Or even concerned. They even asked about their friend Peyton.
So it's such a hard situation because these girls truly
were just completely out of their minds at the time.
Guys's family left the court Roman.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Tears refusing to speak.
Speaker 10 (19:55):
When we pressed Wire's father about the crime, he offered this.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Shop as well.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Like everyone else, we have no comments at this time,
only that we have no comments at this time, guys.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
This attorney did offer this apology to the victims family.
Speaker 12 (20:08):
Morgan's parents are very sad about what has happened. They're horrified,
and our condolences to everyone.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Like I said, Peyton survived after only six days in
the hospital, she was released. She actually started school back
up in fall of twenty fourteen.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Some people would say she's doing remarkably well given what's
happened to her.
Speaker 9 (20:26):
Yeah, I would say that way beyond expectations.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
I'm astonished at the way that she's been able to recover,
And tonight we're happy to show you the pictures her
walk down the driveway to the car mom driving her
back to school.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
So Morgan and Anisia are incarcerated for years, unable to
see their families. Really I think they had very minimal
contact with their parents, barely got to see their siblings
at all, or aunts and uncles. They couldn't see them.
And the judge in the case ruled that they would
be tried as adults, which I never understand that, like
they're children, they're twelve, they're juveniles. I just feel like
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all juveniles should be tried as juveniles, but they were
tried as adults. Now I'm curious to see what kind
of feedback this is going to get because in my
Darek Robbie video, which if you haven't seen it, it
was about another kid who killed another kid and he's
still in prison to this day, his whole life in prison,
and he was thirteen when he committed the crime, and
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he was psychologically messed up, was abused as a kid,
went through tons of shit, was probably schizophrenic. And in
my video I said that, you know, I think that
after some time you should be released because this guy
is spending his whole life in prison, and there's been
appeals like multiple times to get him released and you know,
to start rehabbing him, sending to some type of rehab
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center to get better. Because locking people up, especially people
with mental illness is literally only making it a thousand
times worse. And when I said this in my video
about Derek, I was really shocked at the comments back
to me, like are you out of your mind? He
needs to stay in jail forever, And like, I completely
understand people's opinions on that, So like, I'm not here
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to tell people they're wrong for thinking that, or to
tell people who think that these girls should be held
responsible in full and put in prison their whole lives
or possibly get the death penalty. Some people really think that.
And if you think that, then you know I'm not
going to fight you because what they did was terrible.
But I do wish more people would understand mental illness
and how serious it can get, and can you hold
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someone accountable when they are sick? Morgan is being incarcerated
in a place with no windows, no outdoor time, no access,
and this little girl has serious diagnosed schizophrenia, And can
you imagine what being in a jail cell with no
access to your family or the outside world would do
to you. So the trials just happened. They are still
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in the process of Morgan's sentencing and stuff. They both
pleaded not guilty due to insanity.
Speaker 8 (22:59):
Morgan and I decided that we would make an attempt
to fulfill the plan at the park. I didn't realize
that it was actually going to happen until Morgan lifted
up her waistband and showed me the handle of the knife.
Morgan jumped on top of her and stabbed her repeatedly.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
What happened at a certain point?
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Two of you left.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Yes. I thought that it was just about proving that
this fictional character existed. I have no idea what Morgan's
motivations were. I thought it was just about proving that
something most people thought wasn't real it was.
Speaker 13 (23:35):
The case has since taken three and a half years
to go to trial, and just days before Geyser's trial
was to begin.
Speaker 12 (23:41):
A plea deal, they actually reached a resolution of the
case with the District Attorney's office.
Speaker 13 (23:47):
Long suspected prosecutors now acknowledged that Morgan Geyser's early on
set schizophrenia was a major factor in the crime, agreeing
a jury would have found her not guilty at trial.
Speaker 16 (23:58):
And that breaking news, fifteen year old slender man stabbing
suspect Morgan Geyser will avoid a trial with a.
Speaker 14 (24:04):
Plea now almost finalized, Geyser is facing up to forty
years in a mental hospital. The deal does not contain
a minimum sentence, meaning she could ask to be released
at any point.
Speaker 12 (24:17):
Brgan has been receiving institutional mental health care for the
past two years and she's made incredible stride. She's been
properly medicated, and we're hopeful that when the doctors deem
her appropriate for discharge that she will be released at
whatever point in time that is.
Speaker 16 (24:32):
I are pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, but was
also found mentally ill in a jury trial earlier this month.
She faces at least three years in a mental institution.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
In my opinion, it's just so much better to rehab
a person than to just lock them away and throw
away the key, and that's what happens to so many
people that could be rehabbed and start doing good things
for society. These girls are so young, and I mean,
at the end of the day, no one was gonna
win this case. I mean, it's obvious they carried out
this attempted murder. Thank god it didn't actually result in
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a death, but they clearly did it. Morgan really truly
sees things she was seeing people in her jail cell.
She believed in imaginary friends fully and still struggles with
that to this day. I'm happy with how this turned
out for several reasons. One because Peyton lives through this
and what a badass, what a tough kid.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
Oh and for that birthday, Peyton headed back the one
place that still makes her smile most, the animal shelter,
not far from home. There have been other moments of
joy too, the Katy Perry concert she went to, ready
to show me her video. She had not asked her
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about those moments in the woods. There is no reason
to relive that pain. But her parents have told us
from the start they wanted us to see her smiling again,
the smile they feared they lost for good. When we
went inside Peyton's room, her walls were cut in purple hearts,
Peyton's favorite color on them, messages from children and from
parents all over the world, all of them writing to
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the survivor who told her parents I wanted to live.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I just think that's amazing. And secondly, I'm happy that
a jury was able to understand that these girls are
so young and so sick and need help, not to
be locked away. For the rest of their lives. Things
are not going to be easy for either of them.
They have all three of them have been through serious trauma.
Morgan has serious schizophrenia. That is going to be a
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lifelong battle for her and her parents. If anything, this
is such a cautionary tale about parents, Like if I
have any parents out there watching, I'm sure I do.
You got to make sure that you're watching your kid,
not just kind of monitoring how much time they're on
the internet, but they are watching what they're doing. And
if they're looking into something like slender Man over and
over and over again, I think you got to have
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to talk about slender Man, make sure they know that
it's not real, ask the more questions, and you know,
looking back, I'm sure the parents wish they could have
done things way differently. So this was a very serious video, clearly,
but it's a scary story. I knew you guys wanted
me to talk about slender Man so bad for this
Freak Week series, but I just didn't want to like
spread the fake story of slender Man anymore after what
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happened to Peyton. It's just felt wrong. So I hope
you guys enjoyed learning about another real life true crime case.
I know this isn't a spooky or probably not leaving
you a shaken in your boots, but I think real
life crime is way more scary than urban legends. Anyway.
That's it for me today.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
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Speaker 1 (27:35):
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whether or not to do it next year, because I
think I probably will. It's been really fun. We still
have one more video left. It will go up on
October thirtieth. But that's it for me today.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I want to know your opinion on this. I know
that there's gonna be different opinions out there, and that's fine.
You guys don't have to agree with me. I want
to know what you think. Do you think this is
a good out. Should it have been harsher, should it
have been less harsh. That's it for me today, guys.
I hope you're having a spooky day and I'll see
you tomorrow for the last day of Freak Week.
Hey guys, welcome back to day six a Freak Week.
Dam this week flew by. If I'm happy to hear
that you guys have loved it so much. I think
I'll definitely be doing this next year. Before get started,
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if you want to get one now, it would be
a good time. There's a link in the description. But
let's go ahead and get into our story for today.
It's pretty intense. So I've gotten so many requests to
do fictional spooky paranormal videos, like I get those types
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of requests all the time, and to me, I've never
been into like scary movies or myths or urban legends,
like I just don't get into that stuff. I never
have black eyed children don't scare me if you can
tell them my last video. I just think it's such
a load of shit, And to me, like the things
that are really scary and interesting that I get into
to our real life stories. So even though I have
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gotten this topic requested so many times the topic of
slender Man, which is an urban legend that originated out
of creepypasta. I thought about doing a video on just
slender Man in the story of slender Man, but to me,
I don't find it interesting or scary or anything because
I know that it's not real. What I do think
is scary was an attempted murderer that was made on
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a little girl in the name of slender Man, and
I decided that instead of talking about slender Man, I
would tell you guys about this case. I think this
should be a good lesson for people about spreading false information.
You know, we talked about the Fantastic Daily Channel that
was really trying to make black eyed children look real,
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even though it's totally a bunch of bullshit, and he
made the whole thing up. This kind of stuff concerns me.
After you hear about this case, you'll understand why tails
like the Boogeyman, ghosts and all these things are fun.
And I'm not saying ghost surreal because I actually do
a blatant spirits, but like urban legends stories, boog Man,
danned Man, vampire, zombies, creepy stuff like that, I think
it's really important that people who do these types of
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videos or write stories make sure that they really get
across that this stuff, at the end of the day,
is for fun and that it's not real. Because even
though most of us can read something like that and
just be like, Wow, that's so creepy and fun, or
watch a scary movie and think it's creeping fun, there
are a lot of people who can't do that and
think that these things are real because they've read them
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on the internet. Now, I'm sure a lot of you
guys have heard about this case. In this story, this
made major national.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
News and our big story at five to twelve year
old girls charged with trying to stab a friend to
death after a sleepover. Police say they were inspired by
a fictional character from the Internet.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I heard about it a few years ago, so I
thought it'd be interesting to talk about today. First of all,
let's talk about what slender Man is. For those of
you who don't know, slender Man is this fictitious Internet
character that originated on Creepy Pasta. Actually from this contest,
this photo contest that was all intended just for fun,
and it is fun. Photoshop is total art. I'm sure
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there's a lot of you out there who know how
to use Photoshop well and can create really cool fictitious photos.
And that's what this whole thing was about. It's all
for fun, no bad intentions, and Slenderman is really the
modern day like Boogeyman. He is whatever you want him
to be. You could be living under your bed, in
the closet in the forest next door. People have so
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many different variations of the story because it's been retold
over and over and over again on the internet. There's
like video games, and the story just went kind of viral.
He's this extremely tall guy, skinny guy who's pale, has
no facial features at all, which is really creepy because
it's you know, left to the mind about what he's
gonna do, and you don't know his intentions. Slender Man
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has these like creepy tentacles that come out of his back,
so here's like multiple arms, and he makes people like
mentally sick and is known for creeping on children and
kidnapping children and killing children in and there's so many
different variations of the stories. But the story we're gonna
be talking about today, it took place in Waukesha, Wisconsin
and this happened on May thirty first of twenty fourteen.
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So there were these two girls. Their names are Morgan
Geyser and Anissa Weir. Now, when things like this happen,
people automatically blame the parents, and you know, it's hard
not to because you think you should be monitoring what
your kids are doing online, you should be checking their history.
You can't just give them that privacy anymore. There's just
so much out there for them to fall into. So
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both of these girls had access to the Internet. But
their parents were not bad people. And I really want
to emphasize this. The parents definitely were not like deadbeat
parents who didn't care about their kids. If you want
to watch a documentary on this whole thing and understand
the parents and the whole situation a lot better, HBO
just put out a great whole documentary on it, so
I'll leave a link to that below. But these parents,
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I can tell, we're really good people, truly loved being
parents and monitored most so what their kids did. They had,
you know, limited internet time and stuff, and they were
very involved with their children, talking to them, talking them
through things, and they knew that their kids had an
obsession with slender Man. It just figured that it's fun
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and games, like most kids get into something creepy, you know.
For me as a kid, I was never into scary stuff.
But I was really into like er shows, like real
er shows or this. I used to watched this show
called Impact where it was just about people dying from
like insane impacts, like falling off things. But I guess
I always had a fascination with like dying. I don't
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know why that like was always with me as a kid,
But my parents didn't think I was gonna kill someone,
and I obviously didn't ever kill anyone or do anything
to anybody. But it's fairly normal for kids to have
odd obsessions or to be into scary things. That is
not like a reason for a giant red flag and
to think your kid's gonna actually carry something out right.
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So I'm sure a lot of you guys understand what
I'm trying to say. So Morgan Guyser in Anisia Weir
were both friends who both struggled with friends bullying. They
definitely weren't like the most popular girls in school, and
they were a little off. Anisia was the first one
to come across the slender Man's story and got super
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obsessed with it. Now, she showed this story to her friend,
Morgan Guyser. The important thing to know about Morgan is
she was later diagnosed with schizophrenia, and they don't just
diagnose people with schizophrenia just because her father was diagnosed
with schizophrenia and has been through his whole life, So
they both knew that it was a possibility that one
of their children could end up with schizophrenia.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I wish that, like I could talk to her about
like I have, Like right now, there's like it's like
patterns of like.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Light and like geometric shapes.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Everything seems normal to me because it's this is my everything.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
This is how I've always seen things.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
And I don't know if that.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Was everyone had like a weird little visual.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Thing going on.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Okay, this is clearly not real, but it doesn't matter.
Like I've had where can like see it and like,
you know, it's not real totally, it doesn't matter because
you're still terrified. The Devil's not in the back seat,
but the devil is in the back seat, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
And they always were sort of cautious with the way
that she still believed in Santa when she was like
pretty old, would talk about like scary things under her
bed and stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
We never thought for a moment that she could possibly
believe that it was real. When I was Morgan's age,
I remember biking home from the library with Stephen King's it,
you know, so I liked that sort of thing too
when I was her age, and I think most kids
her age do like scary stories and horror movies and
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scary stories on the internet.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You know, That's all that we thought that it was.
But how do you figure out if that's okay? Is
that normal? Is that just being a kid, or are
they really seeing something? How do you tell? Because kids
imagine things. I certainly imagined things when I was little.
I thought I had an imaginary friend named Grace. I
don't have schizophrenia. I just had a good imagination. So
how do you know when your kid is actually seeing
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stuff and when they're just imagining. So Morgan in Anesia
would talk about slender Man often and how they both
believed in him. And after Ansia showed Morgan slender Man,
she became fully obsessed with it.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
I told her about them and then she said, oh
my god, I think I think, I I thought flunder
mall stocking.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
You in your dreams?
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Can you just see him?
Speaker 8 (08:39):
One?
Speaker 7 (08:39):
No one else done?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Like they really thought slender Man was a real character.
And what they did and not at the time was
that Morgan was really seeing slender Man, and the two
of them decided that they wanted to become slender Man proxies.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
I had these proxies that were servants and people said.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Hey, I need the we should be Foxy. I'm like, okay,
how would you do that? He said, we have to
kill uh?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
And do you know why did she do them? Like?
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Why did you?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Eventually had to supposedly who theirselves worthy.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
To slender which I guess meant you were able to
live with slender Man in his mansion, which the girls
actually thought was a real place in Nicolette National Forest.
And the only way to become one of slender Man's proxies,
they believed, was to kill a child in the name
of slender Man to prove that he was real, and
that after that you would get to live the rest
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of your life with slender Man in his mansion and
have this great like and he would never hurt you
because you proved something to him. So I think it
was really done out of fear of slender Man, that
if they don't do something, don't kill another kid, they
will be killed themselves. That's what they really believed. And
it's hard to get in the mind of these girls.
And it's just like some kids just cannot see, especially
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kids with schizophrenia. And keep in mind, only Morgan has schizphrenia,
but it's easy for kids to get completely caught up
in something that's not true. So the girls decided that
they needed to kill someone, and they decided that they
needed to kill one of their best friends.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
How well did you know these these two other girls?
Speaker 10 (10:14):
Oh, they were best friend friends about fourth or fourth.
Speaker 11 (10:17):
Grade is when we met Morgan for the first time.
Speaker 10 (10:19):
They say Peyton would talk to Morgan every night on
the phone. The other twelve year old a Nissa Wire,
they had not met, but they say Peyton knew her
from school.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Her name was Peyton, and I don't want to talk
much about her because this poor girl has been through
so much. They had a sleepover with her the night
of May thirtieth, and it was like a birthday party
thing at Morgan's house.
Speaker 11 (10:39):
Oh my gosh, she was so.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
So excited and had she gone on sleepovers before?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Oh yeah, and this was just you know.
Speaker 10 (10:46):
Her best friends birthday, another Friday night, So she's going
to go roller skating, have some pizza, and spend the
night at her.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Best friend's house.
Speaker 11 (10:53):
Yeah, they were probably going to watch movies and so
you thought and play American girl. Peyton brought her American
Girl now with and.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Morgan's parents were there. They were super involved in them.
They said the girls had a great night and their
plan was to kill her during the night at Morgan's house,
but they got nervous, and Morgan said that she wanted
to give Peyton one more morning before she killed her.
And the girls the next morning woke up and they
had breakfast. They had specifically donuts and strawberries. Me his
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mom had breakfast with them. She said it was a
gorgeous Saturday and the girls were laughing and having fun.
There were no red flies at all. So, like, as
a parent, how would you have any idea what these
girls were secretly planning because they had to keep it
all secret in the name of Slenderman, so they never
told their parents anything. Their parents had no way of
knowing that this was gonna happen. So the girls asked
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to go to park, and Mom said yes, because yes,
you can go to the park. And they're all twelve
years old at this time. I forgot to mention hill.
They were, y'all. I went to this park and they
were in the bathroom at one point, and they almost
did it there, and then they got too nervous. So
they finally commenced Peyton to play this game of hide
and seek, and I guess Peyton was reluctant, didn't want
to play hide and seek, but they told her, if
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if you let us play the game we want to
play right now, you can pick the game that we
play after this. And sometime while they were playing hide
and Seek in the forest, I told.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Bella we were going to play hide and peek.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Gonna hide one way, I'm gonna hide another, and then
Morgan and I we're gonna be like Lena.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Who.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
After much argument about who was actually going to carry this.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Out, Morgan handy that I can't do it.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
You know, we're all as are.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
And then I give it back to her and they
you do it, go the lifting and then Morgan said,
I'm not doing it, and tell you tell.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Me to Morgan stabbed her while she screamed nineteen times.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
I started walking away, and then like when.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I by away, I been down, and Lisa says, now
Morgan out, and Anissa turns her back.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Morgan got on top of Peyton's legs.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
She sat on her legs, and then she got her
face real close to Peyton and whispered in her ear,
I'm so sorry. The whole time, I guess she was
screaming and saying she couldn't see and I hate you
and I trusted you, and they were saying I'm so sorry.
And I think neither of them were like had anything
against Peyton. They didn't want to kill her. In fact,
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they still talk about her to this day as if
she's their friend and they love her. They just were
so scared of this Slenderman character that they thought this
just had to be done and didn't want to get that.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
What to do with them were plainly RELLI then slendering
Dunny Italy.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
She was like, Ohathily a kid.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
When Morgan said, you say, if we don't do this
first under.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Our families tried in one more, there gonna be killed
you honestly today.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Then yeah, so she was laying there like on the
verge of death. And the girls said, we're gonna go
get help for you, and they left. But afterwards they
just decided the best plan was to start walking towards
this nike Let National Forest, which is actually like a
four to five hour drive from where they were, and
they thought they were gonna walk there. So these girls
were like completely delusional. So they took the knife with them,
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put in their bags and started walking. And now this
is just amazing, Kayton, God, what a tough kid. She
crawled out of the forest with nineteen stab wounds. She
somehow managed to crawl out of the forest and get
onto the street and just the road and lay there.
And a cyclist came by her and called me in.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
One one obviously and you were biking by, and she
says to you, what could you help me?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Please? I can stand multiple times. I quick got out
my cell phone. I was shaken and dialed nine one one.
I just stayed with the nine one one operator and
one with.
Speaker 12 (15:02):
The address your emergency bos.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
County wand and transfer over a caller on Big Bend
at the dead end just south.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
Of Rivera, Okay, upon a twelve year old female.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
She appears to be stabbed.
Speaker 13 (15:14):
She appears to be what stab stabbed?
Speaker 10 (15:18):
Okay, sorry for there, Yes, hi, sir, so, is are
you with this.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Twel year old female? Yeah?
Speaker 13 (15:24):
She says she's having trouble breathing.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
She said she was stabbed multiple times.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
The multiple times.
Speaker 12 (15:30):
Yeah, okay, sir, are you with her right now?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Is she awake?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Is she breathing?
Speaker 7 (15:36):
Yeah, she's breathing. She said she can take shallow raps.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
He's alert.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Okay, stay with her.
Speaker 12 (15:40):
We're sending the police department.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Don't hang up. Okay, Oh, hold on, don't hang up.
Speaker 13 (15:45):
Okay, okay, hold on smiths the we're setting officers.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Is there any a sailant around. I didn't even look.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
I don't see anybody.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Stay right with her, sir.
Speaker 12 (15:54):
Is she on the ground or she standing up?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
No, she's laying on the grass.
Speaker 14 (15:57):
Laying on the grass.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Stay right with her.
Speaker 13 (15:59):
Just something if she is remaining conscious or not?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 10 (16:04):
Is there any bleeding going on?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Her clothing has got blood on it.
Speaker 14 (16:08):
Where are the wounds?
Speaker 13 (16:09):
Do you see where the wounds are?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I don't know if I should be rolling or over
and checking or not. I'm bothering you at all.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Okay, but very sum And she didn't say who did this,
or I don't know, if.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
I don't know, if she wants to be talked.
Speaker 10 (16:25):
I started to ask, and then that's okay.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
If she's got to save her energy, I think okay.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I offered her water because I had a water bottle
on my bike. The other thing she said was she's
having trouble breathing. The stab wounds were horrible. They were
all over her arms, her abdomen, her legs, her chest.
One was so close to her heart and mister heart
by a millimeter.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
And when you looked at her, it was immediately apparent
she'd been stabbed multiple times.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Yeah, through her.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Chest and abdomen and arm and leg.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
Doctor's concerned she might not survive.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Two of the stab wounds hit major arteries, so the
chances of her surviving this were so slim she could
bear speak. She did pretty much only answered guest her
those questions when they found her, because she was in
so much pain. But she was able to tell them
my friends did this to me in their names.
Speaker 11 (17:09):
I said, Peyton's been stabbed. Morgan stabbed Peyton. You need
to come home. They need to rush Peyton into surgery
walked into the trauma room that she was in, and
she was pale as a ghost. She was terrified. She
was crying, she couldn't breathe. But she saw you there,
she saw me, and she put her hand out and
I rushed over to her and I put my arms
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around her and I laid next to her and I hugged.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Her, and I said, you're gonna be okay, It's gonna
be fine.
Speaker 15 (17:37):
And all I hear is there's five on her arm,
there's seven on her leg. And I'm thinking we seven.
What there's This says all right, I count nineteen, and
then the second nurse said, I count nineteen as well.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Nineteen. What this There's no way now, anyone who was
stabbed in the cardiac box or this area has pretty
much a twenty five to fifty percent chance of survival.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
The knife came directly down at this point where this
large branch was coming off of this major artery and
cut through the tissue overlying it, so that the vessels
were totally exposed by this injury. The knife cut through
the tissue, but not the artery itself exactly. The knife
stopped at the wall of the artery and had it not,
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you would have had a major heart attack from the
amount of bleeding and probably died within a minute or two.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Luckily, Peyton survived. So the two girls were found walking
down the street with their bag and the police literally
just found the weapon right on them in their bag,
and they never tried to deny it.
Speaker 10 (18:41):
The two other girls are found. They were right here
along Interstate ninety four heading out of Waukesha. A knife
with a five inch blade found in one of the
girl's bags.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
So the girls were brought in for questioning. Explained the
whole Slenderman thing.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
He's the favorite man who prays on children.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
Who told you he's everywhere because they've read so many
things about him.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
He watched you, how does you watch you? You can
read life. That he has teleportation skills is the same
to the stampede, it wasn't necessary.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And how they didn't want to do this to her,
and they wished that it could have been pushed back
and avoided completely, but they knew they had to do it.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
I wanted to give her at least one one morning,
you want to give it one more did?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
I wanted to see if they could put it off forever,
but didn work out like that.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Or even concerned. They even asked about their friend Peyton.
So it's such a hard situation because these girls truly
were just completely out of their minds at the time.
Guys's family left the court Roman.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Tears refusing to speak.
Speaker 10 (19:55):
When we pressed Wire's father about the crime, he offered this.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Shop as well.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Like everyone else, we have no comments at this time,
only that we have no comments at this time, guys.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
This attorney did offer this apology to the victims family.
Speaker 12 (20:08):
Morgan's parents are very sad about what has happened. They're horrified,
and our condolences to everyone.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Like I said, Peyton survived after only six days in
the hospital, she was released. She actually started school back
up in fall of twenty fourteen.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Some people would say she's doing remarkably well given what's
happened to her.
Speaker 9 (20:26):
Yeah, I would say that way beyond expectations.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
I'm astonished at the way that she's been able to recover,
And tonight we're happy to show you the pictures her
walk down the driveway to the car mom driving her
back to school.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
So Morgan and Anisia are incarcerated for years, unable to
see their families. Really I think they had very minimal
contact with their parents, barely got to see their siblings
at all, or aunts and uncles. They couldn't see them.
And the judge in the case ruled that they would
be tried as adults, which I never understand that, like
they're children, they're twelve, they're juveniles. I just feel like
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all juveniles should be tried as juveniles, but they were
tried as adults. Now I'm curious to see what kind
of feedback this is going to get because in my
Darek Robbie video, which if you haven't seen it, it
was about another kid who killed another kid and he's
still in prison to this day, his whole life in prison,
and he was thirteen when he committed the crime, and
(21:27):
he was psychologically messed up, was abused as a kid,
went through tons of shit, was probably schizophrenic. And in
my video I said that, you know, I think that
after some time you should be released because this guy
is spending his whole life in prison, and there's been
appeals like multiple times to get him released and you know,
to start rehabbing him, sending to some type of rehab
(21:48):
center to get better. Because locking people up, especially people
with mental illness is literally only making it a thousand
times worse. And when I said this in my video
about Derek, I was really shocked at the comments back
to me, like are you out of your mind? He
needs to stay in jail forever, And like, I completely
understand people's opinions on that, So like, I'm not here
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to tell people they're wrong for thinking that, or to
tell people who think that these girls should be held
responsible in full and put in prison their whole lives
or possibly get the death penalty. Some people really think that.
And if you think that, then you know I'm not
going to fight you because what they did was terrible.
But I do wish more people would understand mental illness
and how serious it can get, and can you hold
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someone accountable when they are sick? Morgan is being incarcerated
in a place with no windows, no outdoor time, no access,
and this little girl has serious diagnosed schizophrenia, And can
you imagine what being in a jail cell with no
access to your family or the outside world would do
to you. So the trials just happened. They are still
(22:52):
in the process of Morgan's sentencing and stuff. They both
pleaded not guilty due to insanity.
Speaker 8 (22:59):
Morgan and I decided that we would make an attempt
to fulfill the plan at the park. I didn't realize
that it was actually going to happen until Morgan lifted
up her waistband and showed me the handle of the knife.
Morgan jumped on top of her and stabbed her repeatedly.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
What happened at a certain point?
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Two of you left.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Yes. I thought that it was just about proving that
this fictional character existed. I have no idea what Morgan's
motivations were. I thought it was just about proving that
something most people thought wasn't real it was.
Speaker 13 (23:35):
The case has since taken three and a half years
to go to trial, and just days before Geyser's trial
was to begin.
Speaker 12 (23:41):
A plea deal, they actually reached a resolution of the
case with the District Attorney's office.
Speaker 13 (23:47):
Long suspected prosecutors now acknowledged that Morgan Geyser's early on
set schizophrenia was a major factor in the crime, agreeing
a jury would have found her not guilty at trial.
Speaker 16 (23:58):
And that breaking news, fifteen year old slender man stabbing
suspect Morgan Geyser will avoid a trial with a.
Speaker 14 (24:04):
Plea now almost finalized, Geyser is facing up to forty
years in a mental hospital. The deal does not contain
a minimum sentence, meaning she could ask to be released
at any point.
Speaker 12 (24:17):
Brgan has been receiving institutional mental health care for the
past two years and she's made incredible stride. She's been
properly medicated, and we're hopeful that when the doctors deem
her appropriate for discharge that she will be released at
whatever point in time that is.
Speaker 16 (24:32):
I are pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, but was
also found mentally ill in a jury trial earlier this month.
She faces at least three years in a mental institution.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
In my opinion, it's just so much better to rehab
a person than to just lock them away and throw
away the key, and that's what happens to so many
people that could be rehabbed and start doing good things
for society. These girls are so young, and I mean,
at the end of the day, no one was gonna
win this case. I mean, it's obvious they carried out
this attempted murder. Thank god it didn't actually result in
(25:02):
a death, but they clearly did it. Morgan really truly
sees things she was seeing people in her jail cell.
She believed in imaginary friends fully and still struggles with
that to this day. I'm happy with how this turned
out for several reasons. One because Peyton lives through this
and what a badass, what a tough kid.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
Oh and for that birthday, Peyton headed back the one
place that still makes her smile most, the animal shelter,
not far from home. There have been other moments of
joy too, the Katy Perry concert she went to, ready
to show me her video. She had not asked her
(25:45):
about those moments in the woods. There is no reason
to relive that pain. But her parents have told us
from the start they wanted us to see her smiling again,
the smile they feared they lost for good. When we
went inside Peyton's room, her walls were cut in purple hearts,
Peyton's favorite color on them, messages from children and from
parents all over the world, all of them writing to
(26:07):
the survivor who told her parents I wanted to live.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I just think that's amazing. And secondly, I'm happy that
a jury was able to understand that these girls are
so young and so sick and need help, not to
be locked away. For the rest of their lives. Things
are not going to be easy for either of them.
They have all three of them have been through serious trauma.
Morgan has serious schizophrenia. That is going to be a
(26:32):
lifelong battle for her and her parents. If anything, this
is such a cautionary tale about parents, Like if I
have any parents out there watching, I'm sure I do.
You got to make sure that you're watching your kid,
not just kind of monitoring how much time they're on
the internet, but they are watching what they're doing. And
if they're looking into something like slender Man over and
over and over again, I think you got to have
(26:54):
to talk about slender Man, make sure they know that
it's not real, ask the more questions, and you know,
looking back, I'm sure the parents wish they could have
done things way differently. So this was a very serious video, clearly,
but it's a scary story. I knew you guys wanted
me to talk about slender Man so bad for this
Freak Week series, but I just didn't want to like
spread the fake story of slender Man anymore after what
(27:17):
happened to Peyton. It's just felt wrong. So I hope
you guys enjoyed learning about another real life true crime case.
I know this isn't a spooky or probably not leaving
you a shaken in your boots, but I think real
life crime is way more scary than urban legends. Anyway.
That's it for me today.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
If you like this video, be sure to give it
a thumbs up. If you like Freak Week, be sure
to let me know in the comments so I know
whether or not to do it next year, because I
think I probably will. It's been really fun. We still
have one more video left. It will go up on
October thirtieth. But that's it for me today.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I want to know your opinion on this. I know
that there's gonna be different opinions out there, and that's fine.
You guys don't have to agree with me. I want
to know what you think. Do you think this is
a good out. Should it have been harsher, should it
have been less harsh. That's it for me today, guys.
I hope you're having a spooky day and I'll see
you tomorrow for the last day of Freak Week.
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