Update: The Mirror who were first to report on Christine Hamlet’s photo of Slenderman used the wrong photograph. The photo used (that I then used here) was not the photo she claimed showed Slenderman, but was in fact a photo that she thought showed a Black Eyed Kid also said to haunt Cannock’s Chase. That photo can be seen here.

Mark Bellis commented that the photo ‘looks like a scan of a print that someone has drawn something on, possibly with the same marker as the circle. Photos and negatives have a Dmax – maximum density or darkness – as you can see, the ‘slenderman’ is darker than any other area in the photo, even deep shadows – that’s not possible for any real object that had been in the original frame of the photo’

This is a photo of Slenderman in Britain, or so we’re told. As predicted last year by yours truly, Lee Brickley has claimed that a Slenderman or a Slenderman-like creature is bothering residents in the Cannock’s Chase area. You couldn’t make this up. The media attention that Brickley has gained with his speculative claims led self proclaimed medium Christine Hamlet to believe that she caught photographic evidence of the Slenderman in a photograph taken in the area last year.

Christine told the Mirror “It kind of looks like the top half of Slender Man like his shoulders and head, with the bottom half covered by bushes. (a/n: if you squint, maybe), “I couldn’t believe it, it could well be him. It would make sense after all these other sightings.”

Well that’s me convinced- No wait, I’m lying. I am totally lying. I’m not convinced. There is absolutely no context to this photo that could help us even start to understand what we’re looking at. To claim it is proof that an internet meme is now haunting people in Britain is a whole other level of ridiculous though, but more on that later.