Creepy Clown Sightings

Some creepy clown sightings are associated with child disappearances and the slitting of throats, and the phenomena spread from the USA to other countries including England, France, Spain and Australia.

The creepy clown epidemic may have started with John Wayne Gacy in Illinois. In 1975 he began earning money at birthday parties as "Pogo the Clown". He also wore the costume during volunteer work at the children's hospital. Sometimes when he killled, he would be dressed as Pogo. Gacy became known as the "Killler Clown".

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The modern circus was invented in England prior to the American Revolution. A retired cavalry officer, Philip Astley, founded a horse-riding school and was facing competition from other riding schools. He promoted his business with periodic performances of horse tricks, in addition to lasso tricks, jugglers, acrobats, strong men and one clown. In 1775 the first circus clown was Billy Buttons, who made people laugh by repeatedly falling off the back of a horse.

The first clown incursion happened in Massachussetts in the spring of 1981. Daniel O'Connell, a Boston Public School counselor, sent a memo to all schools in the district to warn teachers that men dressed as clowns were bothering young children. Local news announced two men in clown suits were using candy to try to lure children into their van. The police then profiled any van or car with a clown inside, pulling over a large number of suspects. However they found only clowns en route to birthday parties. Before the childrens' summer vacation began the clown invasion had evaporated.

Today's new clown craze may have begun in Wisconsin on August 1st, 2016, when Gags the Green Bay Clown was originally spotted in the city at 2 AM, in a costume streaked with dirt, and holding four black balloons. Local citizens began posting pictures of themselves being armed and prepared for confrontation with the spectral jester. Within a week these appearances were revealed as a publicity stunt by actors who auditioned for a horror film, but did not get a role. Instead they were hired for the successful viral marketing campaign, that currently has 55 thousand likes on facebook to promote the film.

It was no longer a joke when a full-blown "clown panic" erupted in South Carolina. On August 21st the Sheriff's department received a complaint from a woman at Fleetwood Manor Apartments, who said her son had seen more than one clown in the nearby woods. Several reports followed from other children, of a group of clowns who offered them large amounts of money to follow them into the forest. Deep in the woods, they said, the clowns lived in a small house by a pond. Unfortunately when the police searched the house they found no face paint and no baggy pants.

In Pennsylvania there were no sightings of clowns known to the police. But that did not stop a mob of Penn State university students from organizing a clown hunt. Between 500 and one thousand students on October 3rd, flooded the streets of the college town, searching for evildoers wearing grease paint. They posted to Twitter that they were chanting and not afraid of clowns. Miraculously there was no rampage and no injuries, no vandalism and no arrests. The only confirmed appearance of a clown that night was a still photograph of a jester, projected onto the side of a building on campus.

In response to the social media frenzy, some professional and hobbyist clowns are now organizing. Marching under the controversial banner "Clown Lives Matter", a demonstration of peaceful harlequins was scheduled for October 15th in another city suffering from the clown uprising, Tuscon, Arizona. Entertainers dressed in their full circus regalia hope to prove they are not unhinged. The flyer for this event encouraged the public to bring the family and get a hug.