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  • JCPenney’s was selling clowns before they were scary

    JCPenney’s was selling clowns before they were scary

    If it was 1971 and you really liked clowns, chances are you could have filled every room in your house with these amazingly frightening lamps straight from the JCPenney catalog.


    Don’t be too scared .. it’s just a little taste of John Wayne Gacy in every room… or Pennywise the Dancing Clown… or even that infamous clown from Poltergeist,  though that one hadn’t yet terrorized anyone because this was 1971.


    Maybe clowns were more simple and less sinister back then. Maybe all the clown-related events that have unfolded in the decades since have slowly morphed our collective clown repertoire into something darker. Because when I look at this picture, I don’t just see playful décor. I get a little heebie-jeebie feeling. There’s something about that blank, wide-eyed stare   that hints at carnage rather than comfort.


    I can’t help but wonder how many kids had one of these glowing in the corner of their bedroom. And I wonder if any are still around today.. tucked away in the back of an antique shop, or sitting quietly on some auction block.


    Not that we’d buy one.


    But we’d definitely like to see it… preferably displayed in someone else’s house.

  • Return of the uptown clowns!

    Return of the uptown clowns!

    We must be on an old timeline again with our newsfeeds once against being doused by Halloween clowns!

    News sites in constant need of hits and traffic is calling it a “killer clown”.. claiming it is roaming the streets of a sleepy village. Scary.

    It’s just a guy in a clown suit, seriously..

    Let’s get real.

    A Facebook account set up by the clown – calling himself Cole Deimos – posted images of himself in the darkened streets of the village..

    He leaves red balloons around the village of Skelmorlie in North Ayrshire, Scotland. Wearing white gloves and a lace collar, as well as a top fastened with big red fluffy buttons, media reports claim that the clown has left the 2,000 locals in fear.

    Fear!!

    So scary.. a clown who uses social media to garner attention and headlines. The Scots must be quivering in their UK boots.

    Back to that Facebook page.. things seem to be either being misreported or the page is gone.

    We were not able to locate any social media presence despite the media reports. Maybe going “virtual” scared the scary clown?

    Knewz reported,

    One individual, who preferred to remain anonymous, expressed his worry about his two young sons, saying, “Whoever this is, they are scaring everybody – he needs to be stopped. Someone needs to intervene before he terrifies someone to the point of a heart attack.” 

    “One boy in the street along from us said he saw the clown from his bedroom window just before he went to bed – he didn’t sleep all night,” noted the citizen.

    Another resident, Pauline, said photos and videos had recently been removed from Deimos’ Facebook page. 

    The Record reports the profile indicates that they are self-employed studied at Clown School and that he is a resident of Skelmorlie.  

  • Singapore school sends in the clowns. Parents call the police

    Singapore school sends in the clowns. Parents call the police

    Isn’t the clown show one that belongs to 2016?

    APPARENTLY THE TIMELINE HAS BROKEN!

    This is what mainstream media is reporting in the Washington POST: Multiple clowns have been spotted loitering outside schools in Singapore – staring intently, approaching pupils and allegedly asking the young children to follow them. Their unnerving presence sparked a flurry of complaints from concerned parents who immediately called on the police to investigate.

    On social media, some shocked parents shared photos of one of the clowns and identified the school police were investigating as Speech Academy Asia – an organization dedicated to helping adults and children improve their public speaking skills.

    In one photo, a person disguised as a clown with heavy face makeup, a hat and a plaid shirt, was seen tilting their head and transfixing on those standing near a bus stop close to a school.

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    The academy’s director, Kelvin Tan, told The Straits Times that the clowns were part of a marketing campaign to promote speech classes taking place at the center. “There was no evil intention behind the costumes,” Tan said.

  • The IT remake coming this autumn have left movie-goers…

    The IT remake coming this autumn have left movie-goers…

    The IT remake coming this autumn have left movie-goers screaming.. The website BLOODY DISGUSTING, linked to INDEPENDENT, and shared worldwide on Drudge, reports this:

    The trailer opens with footage of Bill Denbrough making a paper boat for his little brother Georgie. We then move outside, where Georgie is chasing his boat in a rainstorm as it floats next to the curb,” the description reads. “Suddenly, Georgie runs right into a street barrier, which knocks him down on the ground. He then watches as his boat sails into a gutter. He runs to the gutter and tries to see if he can see his boat. As he looks deep into the sewers, Pennywise abruptly appears before the screen cuts to black.”

    The members of the Loser’s Club then meet up and realise they’ve all been seeing the same entity until finally someone says ‘The Clown.

    The description continues: “The teaser then moves into its centrepiece, which shows the members of the Loser’s Club looking at pictures on a carousel slide projector that suddenly acquires a life of its own and begins moving through the slides at an increasingly alarming speed. The pictures are of Georgie and his parents, and each slide zooms in on Georgie’s face before cutting to his mother, whose hair is covering her face. As the projector moves from slide to slide, the hair moves out of his mother’s face, and her face is revealed to be that of Pennywise himself.

    “The trailer then blows through a flurry of shots, as most trailers are known to do. The most striking image from this succession of shots is the unforgettable moment when blood flows out of Beverly’s sink, only in Muschietti’s film it spews out like a geyser and blasts her in the face. There is also a sublime image of Pennywise approaching two of the children (he has them cornered against a wall), but the shot is framed in a way so that only his long, bony fingers fill the screen. The children are in the background, out of focus but clearly terrified

    Expect a lot of clowns this year starting in August, if not earlier. And with it, Halloween costumes galore of Pennywise vs the Losers Club..

  • Some Florida residents plan armed trick-or-treating after creepy clown ‘threats’!

    Some Florida residents plan armed trick-or-treating after creepy clown ‘threats’!

    Some Florida residents plan armed trick-or-treating after creepy clown ‘threats’!:

    In South Florida, Broward County schools prohibited clown costumes for Halloween activities, according to a Sun Sentinel reporter.

    Parents received phone messages this week that said: “While many of the clown threats in our community and across the nation have proven to be hoaxes, it is still best for us to continue to operate in an abundance of caution.”

    Ridiculous, as I have written before and will again next year when the August through fall small town clown romp begins anew.. 

    But for tonight, don’t ARM YOURSELF to deal with clowns..
    And …. as the message from the schools in Florida have even admitted, most of these clown ‘threats’ have been hoaxes and fake anyway.

  • THE SMALL TOWN CLOWN CLIMAX: BANS FOR HALLOWEEN BEGIN

    THE SMALL TOWN CLOWN CLIMAX: BANS FOR HALLOWEEN BEGIN

    I received a circular from my son’s school today the clowns are banned!!

    The Halloween parade coming up for his kindergarten has been marred by the small town clown scare of 2016.. The clowns, the mailing to parents said, will not be permitted.

    No outfits with white paint.
    No red wigs..
    nothing…Clowns are barred from appearing.

    It is getting a bit silly, isn’t IT?

    Of COURSE clowns are scary!!

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    This BBC article explains some good history on why..

    So during your local home town clown frown you can have more reason to be afraid…….but so afraid that you would support a ban?

    A ban on clowns, but not on vampires..? Not on ghosts..? Not on ghouls of any sorts.

    No, clowns. They are an emblem of death but … maybe they are being banned because of a fear of death and not the fear of clowns!

    Maybe we are not afraid of the teenagers hiding in the woods with white paint? Maybe we are not too affected by those meandering around under street lights with wigs and red noses.. No, instead, maybe we are frightened by what these symbols of the underworld represent.. maybe we are freaked by our own demise?

    Regardless of what they represent or why we are afraid, schools and entire towns banning clowns for Halloween seems a little big ludicrous..

    Target is affected, too..

    Target Removes Clown Masks From Stores After Recent Scares »

    It is a world a silly. Insane. CLOWN. Can’t wait for November when the clown crisis clears up… Until then it’s cloudy with a Chance of mild hysteria

    And along with stores banning them, ENTIRE TOWNS are also saying they can’t appear during Halloween trick or treating. School across America, not just my son’s nestled in the coal region of Pennsylvania, is calling quits on white paint.

    It is all silly. It is all ridiculous.. it is all too much.

    Let the small town clown nonsense of 2016 just end.

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  • The weirdest year: Halloween fear of clowns is now causing costume bans!

    The weirdest year: Halloween fear of clowns is now causing costume bans!

    Halloween is typically the best time of year to dress up as a clown with creepy apparel and a haunting smile.

    Not in 2016–the year we have come to fear clowns as the craze swept the nation since August.. The urban legend small town clown has ruined the chances for a New Jersey school to be clowns for Halloween!

    From NJ.COM:

    At least one New Jersey school district has banned clown costumes this Halloween in light of a rash of creepy clown scares, threats, and attacks that have been popping up across the country.

    In a notice addressing the clown issues posted on the district website, Montclair Interim Superintendent Ron Bolandi both assured parents that the school system is working with local police to ensure safety, and asked them to downplay the Halloween-clown connection with their kids.

    “With Halloween just a few weeks away, I am asking for your cooperation in not allowing your children to dress up as clowns at any school event due to the possible disruption and fear it may cause,” Bolandi said in the notice.

    “If anyone shows up with a clown related costume, they will be asked to change or sent home.”

    One day I promise you we will look back at this time and feel a little ashamed of how ridiculous we acted about clowns that probably mostly never even existed to begin with..

    A long look in the mirror.

    A long look at real clowns hiding in the shadows..

  • Man wearing clown mask follows school children, police say

    Man wearing clown mask follows school children, police say

    Man wearing clown mask follows school children, police say:

    Parents behaving badly!

    This story is dateline Massachusetts .. with all of the fears taking place right not on school buses around the nation regarding clowns, it appears a parent attempted to capitalize on the entire event.

    Enter bad judgement:

    “APD investigated and identified the person wearing a clown mask who followed a school bus and children getting off the bus two days ago,” police wrote. “The individual was determined to be a parent of one of the students on the bus.”

    Other parents commented on the post, saying that they were horrified by the situation.

    “My kid called me freaking out and I had to run to the bus stop to pick her up,” one man wrote, while a woman added, “The kids were forced to hide under a deck to avoid this man.”

    PERHAPS the child dared him to do it! Maybe it was all a joke.

    As I have been saying MOST of this is all a joke.. Most of it is all unabashed fear over nothing… as the clown stalks from behind.

  • Small town clown mania!!!

    Small town clown mania!!!

    More local news from my personal Homefront of Pennsylvania .. The clown phenomenon (that probably isn’t even happening besides in imaginations) is causing the PA state police to issue w warning!
     ::. But they also admit none of the widespread reports of clowns in the state have been validated..
     
     

    A number of clown related social media posts were displayed this past weekend regarding threats towards school districts in Pennsylvania and throughout the country. Some threats stated that a clown would arrive at the school and “shoot all students and teachers,” while another threat stated they “weren’t clowning around.” Most of the social media posts were attributed to a “clown joke,” possibly linked to numerous clown sightings throughout the nation and the world.
     
     These sightings have not been validated and there are no known threats to schools in Pennsylvania. Residents are encouraged to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity to their closest police department.
     Over the last few months, “creepy clowns” have been reported throughout the United States and the world. The media has reported incidents where clowns have stood on the street not moving or speaking, to incidents where creepy clowns attempted to lure children into wooded areas. These sightings have occurred in Wisconsin, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri, Colorado, Oregon, and Texas.
     
     

     
     They go on to give information on how to contact the police should clowns attack..
     
     
     

  • SEND OUT THE CLOWNS

    SEND OUT THE CLOWNS

    Clowns abound. Still ..

    And getting arrested when found!

    New York MAGAZINE is reporting on the pop culture phenom in a latest September 23 run.. Adam Raymond writes,

    Reports of creepy clowns first emerged in Greenville, South Carolina, where a red-nosed creepo was reportedly trying to lure kids to a house in the woods by flashing wads of cash. Police looked into the claims and found nothing.

    In Alabama, schools across the state ramped up security after reports emerged on social media that clowns were going to attack local high schools with guns. In Ohio, a sheriff’s office is looking for two clowns and advising citizens to contact the department because “we are unsure what their intentions are at this point.” And in Florida, a state where you might think clowns would be among the most normal roadside sightings, police keep getting calls about clowns but are having a hell of time finding them.

    Here in coal country, the news is the same..

    SMALL TOWN CLOWNS

    Frackville PA.. Pottsville PA .. Ashland PA. Supposedly clowns lurking behind scrubs, scaring people at night..  I am dubbing it the small town clown fad.. There are some new stories reported today that Wilkes Barre PA is also having a burst of clowns..

    I have written before that a clown under a street light at midnight holding a balloon could very well be one of the most frightening images one’s mind can endure.. But are these sightings really sightings?

    I have come to a conclusion that some of these local sightings are just psychosis..  I don’t think people are seeing nearly as many clowns as they 1) report they are and 2) think they are..

    The whole fad is also being driven by the media–a media that decides to use stock images of ghoulish clowns or Pennywise from IT in their news articles..

    This past week, the Frackville police here in my local area thought it would be wise to post an image of clowns with a report that they are in the neighborhood.. the story took off like a rocket, to the point where kids on school buses were scaring little kids about deadly clowns behind woods. It is the stuff urban legends are made of.. or even local yokel legends.. Nonetheless, I have it from a good source that some of the local police departments professing word of clown sightings are now regretting their early decisions. Almost annoyed with the number of sightings that are being reported through social media..

    Last night, under the Friday night lights of coal region football, the plays on the field were the second topic. Up first: Who is dressing up like clowns and terrorizing a region. I bet that topic was also being discussed around America from coast to coast.. and beyond to the rest of the planet where the phenomenon is popping up.

    My prediction stands: We will face a clown deluge from now until Halloween night. When it gets cold, the masks were come off and attention will be turned to the next fad. But until then clowns will abound.

    Keep calm, Earth.