"Oh. It would be just like that tree, then."

And Crowley, being the fantastic adult figure he is, saw no issue with telling her. It was stupid, really, not telling the kids things. How were they supposed to defend themselves if they didn't know what they were defending themselves against?

"About a year ago, a creature was stalking around here, stealing children. It ended up it was storing them under a tree, which ended up having dead animals strung from it. It was pretty gruesome. The creature was called a Slenderman."