Clown sightings: the day it all began :
The UK GUARDIAN has a good article concerning all of these clown sightings.. and (as they refer to it) patient zero and the first person this year to start the frenzy.. From the article:
The first person to spot a clown, the patient zero in the current epidemic of threatening clowns sightings spreading across the US, was a little boy at a low-income apartment complex in Greenville, South Carolina.
He ran to his mother, Donna Arnold, and told her what he had seen: two clowns in the woods, both brightly dressed and made up. One with a red fright wig and the other with a black star painted on his face. They whispered something to the boy.
“They were trying to lure him to the house,” his mother told me, pointing toward the woods.
A path into the woods led down into a shaded hollow, at the bottom of which was a small pond. Beside it sat a house that seemed abandoned. Someone had boarded up the windows, and the balcony sagged. New bags of potting soil sat near the basement door, though.
A friend of mine said to me last night that her daughter is frightened to go trick or treating this year for Halloween.. that the school bus is buzzing with rumors and speculation from older kids about clowns.. that the clowns are supernatural and they could kill or at the very minimum steal a child away from safety..
And a modern day urban legend is born!
Exciting times to be living through such a rash of clown sightings..
The problem is, most of these ‘sightings’ most likely aren’t real. As you can read if you go back through my archive dump of ‘creepy clown’ news (click the tag below this article) , I don’t think even half of them are actual real..
Some may be. Others could be copycats.. and lots, a big number I bet, is mass paranoia and hysteria.. seeing shadows and thinking they are clowns behind shrubs.
The modern tale of horror as we inch closer to Halloween is the pale face under a full moon … it is frightening, these clowns. Even if they are not really there.
