'Slender Man' stabbing survivor describes horrific ordeal | Nightline

[Music] do you feel like you're a survivor yeah I shouldn't be alive I really shouldn't after what happened for the first time Peyton Lightner is talking about that day five years ago three 12 year olds at a slumber party and the next morning a walked into the woods to play hide and seek do you remember leaving the park to go to the woods they just wanted to go on a walk and I didn't think much of it it's just a walk it's in Waukesha like what bad stuff happens in Waukesha Wisconsin Payton was stabbed 19 times and left for dead by her own friends who later blamed the fictional character Slenderman suspect lured the victim into the wood all three of the girls are 12 years old he's ever heard of two 12 year old girls planning for six months to kill one of their best friends it's Friday night in Waukesha Wisconsin a Milwaukee suburb Payton is getting ready to celebrate her best friend Morgan geysers birthday at that slumber party Payton was so so excited the girls met in fourth grade Payton drawn to Morgan because she was a loner who needed a friend I made friends with her when I saw that she didn't have any friends at all also at that sleepover Anissa wire who was new to the school and who had grown close to Warren clean up and work in this bedroom ran up and down the stairs giggling and laughing and I mean it was just a normal night but there was nothing normal about what happened with the next morning with Morgan and Anissa suggests they all go to the park and then to the woods together Anissa told me to lie on the ground and like cover myself and like sticks and leaves and stuff but it was really just a trick while playing hide-and-seek then came aneesa's command and Morgan attacks Payton with a knife and do you remember when it started kind of I didn't feel anything because my body was in shock they told me to lay down you do lose blood slower like we're gonna go get help she try to get [Music] so that she shouldn't see she could walk and that she can breathe and they told her they were gonna go get her help but Aneesa flat-out said no we weren't getting her help we wanted her to die it got up and I just walked until I hit a patch of grass where I can lay down a bicyclist notices Payton bloodied and lying in the grass he calls 911 Dan Klein is the first on the scene I asked her who did this and she told me her friend Morgan Peyton tells paramedics she's been stabbed and they asked how long is the knife and she said that the knife is about like this and she was talking about the blade not the handle her mother rushes to the hospital just before Payton is taken into surgery I said you're gonna be okay it's gonna be fine but I could see that she was covered her arms and her legs and her abdomen are covered in stab wounds the surgeon treating Peyman told me if the stab wound to the chest had been the width of a human hair deeper she would not have survived while Payton fights for her life police are searching everywhere for the two girls but it was about 253 in the afternoon I had gotten a message that the Sheriff's Department had located the girls in the side of I 94 they were sitting on the side of the freeway by the time we found them they had walked about five hours and made it to the north end of our city Morgan geyser and Anissa wire brought back to the Waukesha police station for questioning their demeanor was very calm they seemed kind of meek it did notice she had a blood stain on the front of her shirt and she was wearing two shirts Morgan seemed like she was very calm relaxed I mean she's at a police department and she's covered in blood and this is like a normal day for her you can hear Morgan ask what's happened to Peyton using her nickname Bella for an old she was taking the hospital it didn't seem like you're really concerned too much if she was dead or alive the detectives read the girls their rights here in the state of Wisconsin a child can be interrogated without the presence of their parent or guardian being in the room at that time I did not know that we find that people are more truthful when they don't have their parents present the interrogations last for powers I have a daughter that's almost the same age as her like she could be my daughter but then she started saying things that were really very eerie hearing them coming out of a 12 year olds mom [Music] and children Anissa explained to me that to prove yourself worthy to slender you would have to hi everyone George Stephanopoulos here thanks for checking out the ABC News YouTube channel if you'd like to get more video show highlights and watch live event coverage click on the right over here to subscribe to our channel and don't forget to download the ABC News app for breaking news alerts thanks for watching

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Length: 8min 0sec (480 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 26 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/TheJupitersaurus]

Didn’t the girl they stabbed fucking crawl all the way out of the woods to get help? This story was wild.

[u/thatsimsgirl]

Yeah, it’s one of the most fucked up things I’ve heard in a long time.

[u/Poplett]

One of the most WTF reasons to harm someone that I've ever heard.

[u/[deleted]]

They're not worthy, they failed.

[u/IDK_SoundsRight]

Yeah.. this shit is nuts...

[u/captainmo017]

The Internet

[u/wisdomalchemy]

Obviously the girls where loco in the coco!