Since it's 2016 and nothing makes sense anymore, terrifying clown attacks have become something of an international issue. Reports of the masked carnival cronies have surfaced everywhere from San ...

On October 6, Atlas Obscura came out with a clown-sighting heat map, a comprehensive guide to all the hellbent Bozos and Bubbles spotted roaming the streets and forests of the United States. But early ...

Halloween's urban legends have a habit of absorbing other urban legends, so I'm not surprised to see a rumor going around about a Halloween Clown Purge: But while reporters have rushed to cover all ...

In many ways 2016 has been an anxiety-filled year for Americans. The presidential election has some people so stressed that the American Psychological Association recently published tips to cope with ...

Target will stop selling clown masks amid a rash of reported clown attacks — real and fake — that have terrorized parts of the United States in recent months, a company spokesman said. “Given the ...

The clown scare is a textbook example of a social panic. These social hysterias crop up from time to time and involve an exaggerated fear among a large number of people, about some evil threatening ...

Some blame the internet, particularly social media where thousands can view events in a flash. Others say it’s the print and television reports giving publicity to things hardly newsworthy. To one ...

It’s been nearly a decade since an outbreak of clown sightings frightened people, first in the U.S. and then later across the globe. A clown in the right context isn’t necessarily scary, but a random ...