The creepy clown could be considered the mascot of the Halloween season, nearly as pervasive as the jack-o-lantern and far more unnerving. October’s favorite figure has been particularly active this ...

The scary clown has become a horror staple. It can be hard to imagine a time when clowns were regularly invited to children’s birthday parties and hospital wards – not to terrorize, but to delight and ...

One of the breakout crowdpleasers of SXSW 2025 was “Clown in a Cornfield,” Eli Craig’s twisty slasher flick about a small Midwestern town that struggles to navigate life after the corn syrup factory ...

Social media has helped fan the fire of America's clown hysteria, experts say. — -- A creepy clown craze has taken America by storm in recent months, but it’s not the first time a wave of clown ...

Across the nation, and in the La Crosse area, people have been calling police to report being menaced by people in clown costumes. An expert in the field of group psychology at Washington State ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Target is responding to the recent creepy clown sightings across the country with a big change ahead of Halloween. The company is pulling all clown masks off its shelves. Target ...

SANTA CLARITA, California -- A person dressed as a clown in Santa Clarita, California was apparently scared off after he approached a man who fired a gun into the air, according to the Los Angeles ...

Horror movies about clowns are their own specific breed of awesome. Some of the best horror movies out there center around the diabolical sweetness -- or lack thereof -- of clowns, so there's no ...

Clown threats and sightings are sweeping the nation. — -- A creepy epidemic is sweeping the nation in the form of clown threats, clown sightings and even made-up clown encounters, further ...

A creepy intruder in a “Pennywise’’ mask busted into a Tennessee garden center and swiped a saw blade — before being spooked by a sound over the store’s intercom and fleeing. The unidentified, ...

I told the BBC that clowns tend to be scary because of their exaggerated looks and evil representation in films. Obviously, the vast majority of individuals are not scared of clowns in a day-to-day ...