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The Stickman

added04 September 2026

A figure assembled from sticks — arms, legs and neck longer than a person's — that stands motionless in the forest and copies the posture of whoever saw it. The legend was born on Russian-language imageboards in the early 2010s and rests on one detail retold almost word for word: the stickman does not attack and does not move while it is watched, and the distance between you closes only in the seconds when you blinked or turned away. In ten years no photograph of it has survived examination.

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