Solved Murders - True Crime Stories - Chilling Obsession How Two 12-Year-Olds Planned a Slenderman Attack in Wisconsin PART2 #14
Episode Date: April 26, 2026#horrorstories #reddithorrorstories #ScaryStories #creepypasta #horrortales#SlendermanCase #TrueCrimeSeries #DisturbingDetails #PsychologicalHorror #RealCrimeStory The story deepens in Part 2 as inves...tigators uncover the disturbing planning behind the attack. This chapter examines the influence of online creepypasta, the psychological state of the girls, and the chilling decisions that turned obsession into attempted murder. As the facts emerge, the line between fantasy and reality becomes terrifyingly blurred horrorstories, reddithorrorstories, scarystories, horrorstory, creepypasta, horrorortales, truecrime, slendermancase, creepypastahorror, realcrime, disturbingcase, psychologicalterror, internetinfluence, youthviolence, shockingcrime, darktruecrime, realhorrorstory, criminalinvestigation, unsettlingstory, truecrimecommunityThis episode includes AI-generated content.
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Peyton didn't just agree to play that day, she trusted the idea completely.
When Anisa suggested that she hide really well, covering herself with sticks and leaves so no one could find her easily, Peyton didn't hesitate.
To her, it was just another harmless game with friends, something innocent and silly that 12-year-olds do when they want to feel adventurous.
She crouched down, pulling branches over herself, laughing quietly, unaware that this moment would change her life forever.
She was relaxed, distracted, and totally unprepared for what was about to happen.
Without warning, Morgan attacked.
She came at Peyton again and again with a knife she had taken from her own kitchen earlier that day.
The blade rose and fell repeatedly, each movement deliberate, each strike causing serious damage.
Payton tried to react, to understand what was happening, but the pain and shock made everything blur together.
After inflicting multiple deep wounds, Morgan ran off with Anisa.
Both girls believed Peyton was dead.
In their minds, the mission was complete.
They thought they were finally free to go look for Slender Man, convinced they had done what was necessary to earn his favor.
According to the story they would later tell authorities, they truly believed that killing Peyton was the only way to protect their families and secure their place as servants of this terrifying figure.
But Payton wasn't dead.
Against all odds, despite the intense pain and the blood loss, she found the strength to move.
She crawled out of the remote wooded area where her so-called friends had left her,
fighting dizziness and exhaustion with every inch she gained.
Eventually, she reached a nearby bike trail.
That was as far as she could go.
Her body finally gave up, and she collapsed.
By pure chance, a man riding his bicycle,
passed by and saw her lying there. The sight stopped him immediately. Payton was in horrific
condition, clearly gravely injured. Without wasting a second, he called the police. When officers
arrived, they found Peyton battered and bleeding, but still conscious. Even in that state,
she managed to give them basic information about the attack and identify her attackers. As paramedics
rushed her to the hospital, police units were dispatched to the home
of the three girls involved.
At Peyton's house, her younger brother, just ten years old, was sitting on the couch that
May 31st when someone knocked on the door. When he opened it, he was met by police officers
asking for his mother. With the politeness he had been taught at home, the boy told them that
Stacy was in the backyard. The officers walked around the house, and a few minutes later,
his mother came back inside. She told him they needed to go to the hospital
immediately because his 12-year-old sister had been seriously injured and was in critical condition.
The child was stunned, unable to fully process what he had just heard.
At the same time, another group of officers arrived at the Geyser household.
Angie later recalled in an interview that she had been vacuuming in the basement
when her six-year-old son came downstairs to tell her that police officers were upstairs asking for Morgan.
Her heart stopped for a moment, then started racing uncontrollably.
When she went upstairs, she was shocked to see several officers in her living room, some wearing riot gear.
Their question was direct and urgent, where was Morgan?
Angie replied that her daughter was at the park with friends.
The police didn't believe her.
Thinking she might be protecting her child, they began searching the house.
Angie, confused and terrified, kept asking what was going on,
until they finally told her that there had been an incident at the park and that one of the girls had been injured.
Instead of calming her, this information only made her panic worse.
A third group of officers went to the Wire household.
They spoke directly with Christie and told her that Anisa was missing and that they feared she might have been abducted.
The news spread fast.
Neighbors quickly organized to search for the girls, still unaware of the full truth.
Police were also searching intensely.
Christy decided to go to Morgan's house, hoping to find some of Anisa's belongings there and maybe a clue about where her daughter could be.
Her instinct proved right. At the Geyser residence, she found Anisa's cell phone.
Desperate, she began going through it, checking call logs, messages, anything that might give her answers.
That's when she opened the Notes app and found something that felt like a goodbye letter,
even though it had never been sent.
She immediately took it to the police.
In the text, Anisa wrote that her last wish for those who cared about her
was that they wouldn't mourn her absence and that they would remember her as she always was.
She said she loved them all and didn't want to cause them pain.
At that moment, none of the three mothers knew the full details of what had happened.
All they knew was that their daughters were in danger.
While Payton was fighting for her life, Morgan and Anisa were made.
At the hospital, Stacy went with the doctors to see Peyton, while her son stayed in the waiting room for hours with Officer Dan Klein. The boy wasn't prepared for something like this. Dan knew it, and he tried to distract him by talking about his hobbies and his school goals. The officer understood that the entire family was traumatized and that the child was overwhelmed, surrounded by strangers and terrified that his sister might die.
When Peyton arrived at ProHealth Waukesha Memorial Hospital, doctors rushed her straight into surgery.
Later, they told the family and police that they were deeply shaken by the severity of her injuries.
Peyton had suffered 19 wounds in total.
Two stab wounds to her torso were especially serious and had damaged vital organs.
One pierced her diaphragm, injuring her liver and stomach.
Another pass just millimeters away from her heart and a major artery.
The cuts on her arms and legs, though painful and likely to leave scars, had only damaged soft tissue.
While doctors worked to save Peyton, police continued searching for Morgan and Anisa.
They finally found them that same day, walking along Interstate 94 in Waukesha,
heading toward what they believed was Slender Man's house.
Once in custody, the girls told investigate,
that they attacked Peyton to earn the right to become servants of the terrifying figure and to protect
their families from him. They were taken to the police station and questioned separately.
Both girls revealed that they had been planning the attack for five months. They explained their
original plans to stab Peyton or stop her from breathing while she slept, and how they changed
the plan when they decided to go to the park instead. Morgan insisted that it was necessary to
please Slender Man. She spoke with such conviction that investigators were struck by her cold tone
and emotional detachment. Anisa explained that once Peyton hid, Morgan handed her the knife
and told her she couldn't do it herself, urging her to use it properly and target weak points.
Anisa gave the knife back, told Morgan to do it, and even suggested that she go crazy and make
sure Peyton was down. Morgan said she wouldn't act until Anisa gave the signal. After taking five,
Five steps away, Anisa turned and said one word, now.
That was when Morgan attacked.
When asked what she did with the knife afterward, Morgan said she wiped it on her jacket.
She found it strange that she felt no remorse.
She put the knife back into her bag and walked away with Anisa.
As the interrogations continued, the parents of both girls waited in a police station room.
When officers told them that Payton had suffered 19 wounds, that their daughters had planned the attack for months, and that they showed no remorse, the parents were frozen in shock.
After the initial shock, the parents were allowed to watch the interrogation recordings.
The impact was devastating.
Angie later said in an interview that she couldn't believe the girl speaking so calmly and without emotion was her daughter.
What disturbed her most wasn't just what Morgan said, but how she said it.
There was no fear, no visible anxiety about being arrested or questioned for such a serious crime.
It was as if she didn't fully understand the gravity of the situation, or worse, didn't care.
Christie, Anise's mother, was equally stunned.
After watching the interrogation, she admitted she had no idea her daughter's mind was so deeply clouded by the Slender Man myth.
Like many adults, she barely knew who Slender Man was.
The idea that a 12-year-old could genuinely believe in such a character to the point of committing
extreme violence felt unreal.
She kept asking herself how she had missed the warning signs, how something so dark could
take root in her child's imagination without her noticing.
While these painful realizations were unfolding at the police station, important developments
were also happening at the hospital.
Payton remained in critical condition. Doctors monitored her closely, worried about infection,
internal bleeding, and long-term damage. Every hour mattered. Stacey barely left her daughter's
side, watching the machines, listening to every beep, holding Peyton's hand whenever she was allowed to.
She replayed memories over and over in her head, wondering how a simple playdate had turned
into a fight for survival.
As news spread through the community, disbelief turned into fear and anger.
Parents hugged their children tighter.
Teachers struggled to explain the situation to students without causing panic.
The idea that something like this could happen between friends, in broad daylight, in a familiar park,
shattered the sense of safety many families took for granted.
Investigators continued piecing together the timeline.
They reviewed messages.
drawings, online searches, and conversations that revealed how deeply Morgan and Anisa had immersed
themselves in the Slender Man narrative. To them, it wasn't just a story. It was a reality that
shaped their decisions and justified their actions. The line between fantasy and real life had
completely dissolved. Mental health professionals were brought in to evaluate both girls.
Early assessments suggested severe psychological issues, including delusional thinking.
The question quickly shifted from what happened to why it happened, and whether the girls
truly understood the consequences of their actions.
The legal system now faced an enormous challenge, how to handle such a brutal crime
committed by children so young.
Meanwhile, Payton slowly began to stabilize.
Each small improvement felt like a miracle.
Doctors explained that her survival was extraordinary, considering how close some of the wounds were to being fatal.
The human body, they said, can sometimes endure unimaginable trauma, especially when driven by pure instinct to survive.
Payton's determination, even while gravely injured, had saved her life.
Her brother, still struggling to process everything, stayed close to family members and officers who tried their best to protect him from the harshest details.
The image of police at the door and the rush trip to the hospital would stay with him for a long time.
Childhood innocence doesn't disappear all at once, it fractures, piece by piece.
In the days that followed, the case drew national and international attention.
Media outlets flooded the town.
The phrase, slender man stabbing, echoed everywhere, often oversimplifying a deeply complex and tragic situation.
For the families involved, it was exhausting and painful to see their worst nightmare turned into headlines.
Hayden eventually woke up fully and began the long road to recovery.
Physical therapy, emotional trauma, and the knowledge that her attackers were once her friends made healing incredibly difficult.
Trust, something she had given freely, now felt fragile and dangerous.
But she kept fighting, supported by her family and a community that rallied around.
around her. Morgan and Anisa were formally charged, and the legal process moved forward slowly.
Each hearing reopened wounds for everyone involved. The parents of the attackers lived with a
heavy mix of guilt, confusion, and grief. Loving your child while confronting the reality of what
they've done is a burden few can imagine. As experts debated the influence of internet myths,
mental illness, and parental responsibility, one truth remained unavoidable, a child had almost
died, and three families had been changed forever. There were no winners in this story. Only survivors,
scars, and unanswered questions. In the end, the case became a harsh reminder of how vulnerable
young minds can be, how imagination without boundaries can turn dangerous, and how critical it is to
recognize warning signs early. It also highlighted the resilience of the human spirit.
Peyton's survival stood as proof that even in the darkest moments, life can hold on.
And while the investigation, trials, and debates would continue for years, nothing could erase
what happened that day. It would forever remain a point in time when childhood ended abruptly
for everyone involved, leaving behind a story that still echoes, unfinished, heavy, and deeply unsettling.
To be continued.
