This started after I read something in Fate Magazine and Fortean times of fictional characters being sighted in real life. In the former case, four people were killed by an entity that resembled the character Cecil from Beany and Cecil while they were spearfishing on a raft, and the story came from the sole survivor who had witnessed everything. He was disturbed for the rest of his life because of what he saw and he suffered mental breakdowns afterward which only ended after the show finished airing, 3 months later. The latter case (the one mentioned in Fortean Times in 2016) didn't involve the character murdering anyone, but it involved a woman who had seen Slenderman approach her in a misty field. He started to stretch out his arms and start spinning while moving towards her. She ran, and her dog was scared also. Then she turned back and he had vanished, too quickly for it to have been a person. She didn't even know what Slenderman was until her daughter told her. Both of these cases involve the sighting happening at sundown and when there was fog or mist in the air.

Ever since, I've had this fear of fictional characters appearing in my room as I sleep and doing things to me, and a fear of walking alone at night. Or being with my friends, then suddenly there's a mist and a fictional character appears and kills all of them except me, then nobody believes me.