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  • The Pro Clown world is testy over AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAKSHOW

    The Pro Clown world is testy over AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAKSHOW

    When AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAK SHOW debuted this month, strong ratings gave the show one of the biggest premieres. Ever..

    But the theme of the show was unsettling to some who enjoy the finer things in life. Such as clowns..

    According to various reports now, the ‘pro clown’ community is freaking out over the freak show. While it is strange to even comprehend an entire community of people being pro clown, it appears to be the case..

    The show’s scariest character is killer clown. In all actuality, the role in the show actually has people truly freaked out..  People are scared .. and real life clowns are lamenting the bashing of their cherished trade.

    Clowns in pop culture are nothing new.
    When I was young, Pennywise the Dancing Clown appeared in the television adaption of Stephen King’s IT. Tim Curry’s role as the dancing clown was haunting and effective. Until FREAKSHOW, Pennywise may have been the scariest clown to grace our society..

    Michael Myers is also a bit of a clown–the blank face of pale death is reminiscent of the appearance of the zany circus actor. Even professional wrestling tried the clown role with “DOINK and Dink” in the 1990s–of course he was a good guy at first and then took on the role of a villain.

    Why are clowns scary?

    You may want to check out an truly amazing and listenable GROUND ZERO WITH CLYDE LEWS radio program from the other evening he called “MEDIEVAL CARNIVAL 666.” Lewis did he best to track back the origins of the pale white figure to the Middle Ages, when clowns were introduced to the masses dying from the Bubonic Plague. The clown’s appearance was devised to mock death–the embellished aspects of a clown all had a meaning to represent some part of the process of the body decomposing.

    In a 1989 PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER article, the paper profiled a fiction play –based on reality– in which the church employed a squadron of clowns to entertain the dying.  But clowns could be traced back even further than the dark times of the middle ages.. Some say they can be found in ancient Egypt in 2400 BC.  The ghostface appearance came somewhere in the 1800s..
    Film and literature always made them seem scary..
    And the fear of clowns blossomed into the phobia it is today.

    Even the SMITHSONIAN studied the reasons why clowns were so frightening in a 2013 report. They conclude that people have been fearful for centuries of the appearance of a clown.

    Recent news has given us more reason to be unsettled.. Only days ago, parts of California were haunted by the appearance of a clown at night named Wasco. Some reports actually had children claiming that clowns were chasing them around the streets at night with an ax.

    The notion of a clown showing up at a time when reality has become unfathomably scary is frightening in itself. Imagine the planet suffering through deadly disease, a possible upcoming food crisis, droughts and plagues, and beheadings across the Middle East, and a clown shows up to sit on your local park bench. Armed with the persistent smile, balloons.. or an ax to chase a child across town..

    Goosebumps times 50…

    Some disagree that clowns represent death–as we see from the outcry over AMERICAN HORROR STORY, the pro-clown posse is existent.

    I argue, though, that they do. Or they at least represent the attempt to mock death–the wild actions and bizarre makeup do have corpse-like features. And more, their mischievousness is tame at face value but also disturbing in a deeper way. Perhaps that is why children jump in fright so often when they initially come in contact with a clown.. especially a clown out of the element, a place such as a bus terminal or under a street light in the middle of the night..

    We all seem to be a little unsettled by a clown..But we also latch on to staring at them when we see them. That may explain the amazingly high ratings of AMERICAN HORROR STORY..

    So while the clown troupe is annoyed with the representation of their job, perhaps another group is going to get angry at the latest FREAKSHOW.. In the latest episode, conjoined twins played by Sarah Paulson disturbed viewers even more with the singing of the song CRIMINAL by Fiona Apple.. Let the outrage over that begin.

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  • Shadows in the corners of your mind

    Shadows in the corners of your mind

    This is the best month of the year for creepy stories, strange feelings, and the thinning of this reality and merging with another. Or so we think..

    October’s season of the witch is one of the most beautiful times of year.. Leaves are shifting from dark green to the amazing colors of autumn.. The winds are a bit more chilled, with each breeze seemingly blowing deeper into your soul than those of the warmer months..

    And the darkness–the darkness!
    The darkness penetrates everything in October..
    The sun is seen less. When it is actually in the sky, it shines dimmer–of course if you’re not reading this in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s quite the opposite for you.

    There’s one more thing that often happens this time of year.. at least to me: Shadows.

    Shadows invade …call them shadow people, shadow figures, or just quick sliding darkness in the corner of your eye.

    The ‘shadow people’ craze began over a decade ago. Since that time, the Internet and other paranormal sources have been in a constant buzz about what people were seeing.. But shadow people, or ghostly darkness, has been within paranormal lure for generations.  The tales of people seeing figures, dark creatures, or even shadow rats from their vision have been around for years. Some have applied very skeptical science to the notion that we are seeing quick bursts of a paranormal world. Hallucinations, perhaps.. Maybe just optical illusions that are mind is being tricked into thinking is real.

    But try to tell yourself in the midst of seeing a peculiar darkness in your sight that it’s not real.. Attempt to explain away what your mind is attempting to explain .. Give it a go and dismiss that creepy and chilling feeling that comes over your entire being when you see a presence of darkness, and feel the cold wrath from the corner of a room..

    Floaters? optical tricks? brain lapses?

    Or maybe a shadow being…
    Maybe this world is thinning this time of year–the season where we are on the verge of spilling over into a spirit world..

    Ever since I was a kid, I always felt a bit strange on or around Halloween. There seemed to be a very thin reality during that evening.. Maybe pop culture has reinforced the premise that Samhain is really a paranormal reality.

    I cannot say if the other worldy does in fact exist. However, I can say this: I have seen more than a few shadow figures this year.. All of them have taken the shape of a human mist, and all but one vanished when I looked directly at it.. That one that did not haunts me.

  • ASK ME ANYTHING. TELL ME ANYTHING.

    ASK ME ANYTHING. TELL ME ANYTHING.

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  • A BRIEF POEM FOR THE NOT-END-TIMES.

    A BRIEF POEM FOR THE NOT-END-TIMES.

    I get messages all of the time about how God is angry and his wrath is giving us hell on earth. Okay.. fine.

    But no..

    Read and weep.
    Promises to keep..
    Hold you head high..
    The end is not nigh.

    So you’re be fine.
    No need to wine..
    If you must opine,
    Just stand in line.

    The end is fun.
    But it’s not here,
    No need to run,
    Just sit in fear.

  • Friday facts: The happenings from the earth and beyond

    Friday facts: The happenings from the earth and beyond

    A collection of news, horrors, tales of demise, and true accounts of imperative problems taking place on the planet Earth..

    Read and weep.
    Promises to keep..
    Hold you head high..
    The end is not nigh.

    Ebola is spreading.. some scary math portends that the spread of the disease is going to continue..

    I want to thank readers who have been sending me THIS LINK for a few days now.. The headine is: EBOLA VACCINE ONLY WORKS ON WHITE PEOPLE. To those who believe this article, please understand what the website is: PARODY. The information is wrong. It’s a joke. IT’s not real. And you fell or it. And with the amount of times I have seen the article shared, apparently a whole lot of people fell for it. There is one thing I have learned online after 14 years of this website.. it’s to check sources. Actually a triple check method is good. If you find an article, get the source of the information..after getting that source, find the source for the source. And finally, go and search for other articles that have some frame of reference to one of the many sources, and a site you can actually trust. When all else fails, read the legal disclaimer on a website. There you will find the “this is for entertainment purposes only” information. Sorry.. a little angry when I constantly see this bogus joke site being credited as having newsworthy information–and typically, quite frankly, racists are the ones sharing it.

    This seems to be a true and honest justifiable person to claim the honor of having a Nobel Peace Prize: Malala Yousafzai..Well earned.

    The Koreas are at it again.. this time gunfire has been exchanged. There is also some mysterious questions being asked: Where did Lil Kim go? Kim Jong UN, the boy leader of one of the most deadliest regimes in the world, is gone. Where?? Who is in charge? Questions..questions..questions. No answers, but gunfire and constant threats of a re-ignition of a Korean conflict are always there.

    At the young age of 57, Jan Hooks, a Saturday Night LIVE veteran, dies..Her agent confirmed the death. No further details were provided at the time it was released.. Her career has been inactive for several years.

    While this may be good news for some of the people who still think that UNDER THE DOME has a semblance of entertainment value, it does not affect me much: I will not be watching the third season. Nonetheless, UNDER THE DOME has been renewed for another crapfest of shows, it will return to us in the summer of 2015. The TV adaptation of Stephen King’s book has gone under the dome itself, with each show becoming worse than the one before.. We have been given a large heap of nonsense. CBS calls it entertainment, they attempt cliffhangers with poor dialogue and even worse acting. For those who love it, they get another set of episodes. Enjoy the garbage you’re fed, sheeple.

    HORROR in Hollywood makes a comeback. ANNABELLE has helped.. some other movies coming may inspire more creativity, too.. Horror is not dead. But hopefully the dreadful drought of good movies is.

    NEW YORK TIMES reviews AMERICAN HORROR STORY..
    A    s for me, despite my best intention on giving the show a chance, I just didn’t like it. Minus a few freaky scenes, I found it dull and unconvincing .. Maybe as time goes, it will improve. At this point, I may have already given up on it, much to the chagrin of some friends who are telling me how wrong I am.
    Speaking of freaky scenes, here is one:  Though there is some debate as far as whether the premise of the clown killer from AHS was copied off of something else, clearly for modern entertainment and clown haters, this scene takes the take as the worst way to end a date..

    Finally, at least finally with this update, here’s a little history lesson on how clowns became scary. Good article, but I just want to reinforce what clowns really symbolize: Their noses swelled, their eyes darkened, their skin pale white, their feet and hands swollen up, and their outfit colorful. They symbolize death itself, the signs of death are upon them, and their attire is to mock the darkness. That is why they are scary. Because deep down, even if we did not meet Death yet, we know the signs and symbols.. Clowns are just that: The personification of the child eater, the pedophile, and the deeply disturbing corpse look.  That is why you fear them.. That is why, even if they make you laugh, their very presence makes you feel just a wee bit uncomfortable..

     

  • Dreams of my readers: Why am I suddenly getting so many messages from readers of nightmares and terrors at 3am? Is it something I’ve said?

    Dreams of my readers: Why am I suddenly getting so many messages from readers of nightmares and terrors at 3am? Is it something I’ve said?

    The HORROR REPORT posted a few articles recently on dreams, including some personal nightmare scenarios that played out during my own night terror the other evening .. In it, as I wrote, Ebola was rampaging the world, a barroom of children was singing patriotic songs, and I was being warned that either November 11 or November 17 would be dramatic days of change..

    Since that time, a few readers responded to me publicly in comments on this site, but also in private in email. One email I got was exceptionally chilling. I asked the person if I can reprint the very short text of his message. He agreed, but asked for me not to use his name.

    This is what we will call the dream of a Reader. Take it for what it’s worth:

    I woke up in a silver lined casket. It scared me immediately, but the part that scared me more was the noise of horses or other things trampling on the casket above. So I figured I was underground. However, I noticed the lock on the lid of the coffin was unhinged, so I pushed it open. When I did, I saw children being rushed into a large van. The van appeared to be driven by people who actually looked like ISIS fighters. The militants had taken over my town. There were also people convulsing, others were bleeding, and there were animals being sacrificed in a large bonfire. The part that made things the scariest, and what woke me up immediately: American fighter bombers were dropped nuclear weapons on the United States. We were all dying.

    The dream went on to speak of his rush to escape. He wrote to me that he woke up. When he did, the first thing he did was look at his clock. It was 3:33 AM. The witching hour shows up again.

    Thank you to this reader for sharing.

    And I hope the nightmare will just be confined to the reality of someone’s nighttime imagination, not the daylight hours of reality.

     

  • Life after death. And before life. When you’re dead.

    Life after death. And before life. When you’re dead.

    The other day I promised I’d have some more thoughts on the new much publicized life after death study that took place—the one which we are told provides evidence that we may not be dead when we think we are..

    I have been doing some deep thinking about this. Actually it’s been on my mind my entire life, and probably yours too..

    It is the most troubling and yet amazing question to ask: Is this it? We have debated, prayed, questioned, been hopeless, and hopeful. Sometimes all at the same time.

    Here is the basic facts you need to know about the actual study:

    • A team based in the UK has spent the last four years seeking out cardiac arrest patients to analyse their experiences
    • 46% described having some form of “awareness” at a time when they were declared clinically dead
    • The new study sort of makes garbage of the premise that the brain survives 30 seconds after the heart stops. Instead, the new conclusion we see is that it may be up to 5 minutes.

    But here is the money quote from the TELEGRAPH story on the study:

    One man, however, gave a “very credible” account of what was going on while doctors and nurses tried to bring him back to life – and says that he felt he was observing his resuscitation from the corner of the room

    That part is where the paranormal begins to become normal, if the ‘credible’ man is to be believed.. And that would supply evidence to suggest all of the near death experiecnes that Dr. Moody and others have written about for decades are real.. accurate. And true to form..

    And that could blow a lot of minds and change everything..

    Some of this also is not knew. We know that people are brought back to life minutes after their heart stops—we have come a long way since the ‘feather test’ of long ago to show when someone stops breathing.. Things are most amazing now. But future science and medicine will also show how antiquated our current 2014 way of thinking is, and will be ‘was’ then. The study of the brain is in its infancy. There’s so much to learn about the computer inside all of us..

    Here is another snippet from an article on the study from MEDICAL DAILY:

    Among 2,060 people who experienced cardiac arrest, 330 survived and of these survivors 140 reported at least partial awareness at the time of resuscitation. Nearly half (46 percent) had memories with seven major themes: fear; animals/plants; bright light; violence/persecution; deja-vu; family; and recalling events post-cardiac arrest. Two percent described awareness with explicit recall of seeing and hearing actual events related to their resuscitation

    Oh that bright white light again—the light some say is a trick and others say is a safe place to go when you die. Until we see the light, we really won’t know. And if you’re not allowed to bring your dog, like in that old TWILIGHT ZONE show, then it’s not heaven at all..

    But there are skeptics on the mind blowing account of the man seeing himself dead from the side of a room. And they could have a point. After all, one man out of 2060 had this type of story.. There are also some who say the entire study was a waste of time.

    I don’t think trying to find an answer to the most important question in life is ever a waste of time.. quite the opposite, actually. We should be doing more of this.. learning more, and never just deciding that something is not true without scientific study.

    For most of my life, I have heard science’s response to claims of near death experiences and out of body happenings: Pure and simply hallucinations.

    But this new study does something to the hallucination theory.. it strikes a dagger directly into its heart. That is why I find it to be important to read, contemplate, and study more.

    Theory is never fact. It’s theory.. And what we think is a law of gravity may not exist in a parallel universe, if they even exist.

    I know this: I have read accounts and heard them firsthand from people who have claimed a near death ‘something.’ And when they speak of them, the fire in their eyes is real.. they are being honest. If the hallucination is real, it was still real to them.

    And face it: We will all experience of or more of the following in our lifetimes:  hallucination, near death experience, or quite simply put, death.

    Wouldn’t it be comforting to know that something else exists..
    Or… would that be the scary part?

  • Tis the season for ghosts on camera, fa la la la la, la la la la

    Tis the season for ghosts on camera, fa la la la la, la la la la

    Police Officer: I captured ghost on camera »

    A police officer from Espanola, New Mexico, says he captured a ghost on camera while on duty.

    The video is quite convincing actually.

    Police are notorious for being a little paranormal…. sometimes sitting in their squad cars late at night, listening to talk radio, especially Coast to Coast AM, letting the bumps in the night rattle them a bit.

    But even with that said, the video that this police office thinks contains a ghost clearly does contain.. something. And it’s not a person, or a moth, or anything much with a form. It’s … a light. Or a figure.. or something.

    Or a ghost.

    Tis the season…October is here.

    And paranormal is in the news again.

  • UPDATE: CLYDE LEWIS HEALTH SCARE

    UPDATE: CLYDE LEWIS HEALTH SCARE

    Last night, while Clyde Lewis hosted his popular Ground Zero radio show, he abruptly ended the program and was rushed to the hospital for what turned out to be chest pains.

    Tonight, Lewis’ program is again repeating an earlier broadcast as the host is still in the hospital under observation–the latest in a series of health issues that have taken aim at the paranormal radio star.

    Clyde Lewis wrote this tonight on his Facebook page:

    UPDATE:

    Clyde is resting well at OHSU Medical Center under close short-term observation, His experienced chest pains last night while on the air, related somewhat to his embolisms but, it turned out, not dangerously so. More urgent conditions were ruled out by immediate medical response and testing.

    We know that it is worrisome when a show must end abruptly. We wait until there was something substantial to report before we make announcements on this page. As always, THANK YOU for your continued encouragement and support!

    — Clyde Lewis and the crew of Ground Zero

    DEVELOPING..

  • The Satanists sell out!

    The Satanists sell out!

    It’s been a busy time for Satanists in Oklahoma.. though things almost fell apart when they stole Communion hosts, once they returned the Body of Christ back to the Catholic Church things were a ‘go’ for them.. The greenlighting of the black mass occurred and the nation shuddered in fear.. Is this only going to be a furtherance of the dreaded ‘gates of hell’ opening on our planet?

    Time will tell, I suppose.
    But what we know is this: Their plans for a black mass have been a sell out. (Of course 88 tickets in this case was the number needed to reach their goal, something even PBS telethons would laugh at) ..

    The Satanic black mass is going to feature an ‘exorcism’ .. The ‘black mass’ notion is an inversion of the Catholic traditional Latin Mass from the Roman Catholic Church.

    The black mass that is upcoming for September 21 in Oklahoma has been condemned and protested.. But under the protections of the Constitution, the government cannot forbid or be involved with the practice of any religion. The mass is a go ..