The Native Americans of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, believe in the existence of an extremely dangerous and supernatural creature in their midst. They refer to it as the Tall Man Spirit.
It is also known as Walking Sam; the latter is the name which has
proved to be easily the most popular of the two monikers. He or it – go
ahead and take your pick – looks not at all unlike the Slenderman.
Walking Sam is in excess of seven feet in height and, just like the
Slenderman, he doesn’t have much in the way of meat on his bones. His
arms and legs are long and spidery. And he lacks a mouth. Peter
Matthiessen, who in 1983 wrote a book about the area and its people – titled In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
– said of the supernatural thing that it is “both spirit and real
being, but he can also glide through the forest, like a moose with big
antlers, as though the trees weren’t there.”
Note that Matthiessen references Walking Sam in a wooded-based
context, which is the preferred domain of the Slenderman – of both lore
and reality. And, just like the Men in Black, the Shadow People, and the
Mad Gasser of Mattoon – all of which were inspirations for Eric Knudsen’s spindly beast
in black – Walking Sam wears a black hat. In his case, though, it’s
usually of the old, stovepipe variety. Walking Sam, like the Slenderman,
is alleged to have the ability to take control of peoples’ minds. We
might accurately call it a form of mind-enslavement. Perhaps, this might
explain a deeply disturbing event that occurred on a particular day in
February 2015.
The site of the Drexel Mission Fight on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Lakota warriors and the United States Army
A large number of teenagers from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
headed out to a specific area of land that was dominated by trees. There
was a notable reason for this; albeit hardly a positive one. The plan
was for each every one of them to hang themselves by the neck and from
the trees – which explained why they all went to the area armed to the
teeth with nothing but… rope. Thankfully, John Two Bulls, a
local pastor, heard of what was about to go down there and quickly
managed to stop what would very likely have become a mass suicide of
almost unthinkable proportions. More than a few of the tribes’ people
were privately of the opinion that Walking Sam – not unlike some
gruesome and insanely evil Pied Piper – had led the teenagers to what
almost turned out to be their place of death.
This particular theory is bolstered by the words of a minister, Chris
Carey, who works with the kids who live on the reservation. He says
that the Tall Man Spirit / Walking Sam seems to be telling the young
people on the reservation to take their lives. Intriguingly, the
monster does so by inserting itself on the Internet, its shadowy,
spindly form appearing on-screen, which is very similar (and eerily
similar) to the 2016 experience of “Lacy,”
as discussed in an earlier article from me here at M.U. Indeed, the
Slenderman too is an entity that haunts the Internet – further evidence
that Walking Sam and the Slenderman are very likely two parts of the
very same sinister phenomenon.
“Red Pill Junkie,” who is a regular contributor to the very website you’re on right now, says that what we have here
may amount to “…a cultural ‘remix’ between the older myth of the Tall
Man/Suicide Spirit which already existed among Native Americans prior to
the rise of the World Wide Web, and the newer, more potent icon of
Slenderman introduced to these communities through the pervasiveness of
new social networks…”
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