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- After eerily similar events occurred in the Boston area in the 1980s, Loren Coleman, a cryptozoologist who studies the folklore behind mythical beasts such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, came up with something called “The Phantom Clown Theory,” which attributes the proliferation of clown sightings to mass hysteria (usually sparked by incidents witnessed only by children).
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The 2016 clown sightings were reports of people disguised as evil clowns in incongruous settings, such as near forests and schools. The incidents were reported in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and subsequently in other countries and territories starting during August 2016. [1][2][3][4][5] The sightings were first ...
Oct 12, 2016 · Despite the hysteria, the few actual clown sightings have nothing to do with the rumors of scary child predators in vans or evil clowns roaming the woods and the streets.
- Aja Romano
Oct 7, 2016 · The clown panic is another example of mass hysteria, like hysteria when people thought Dungeons & Dragons inspired satanism.
Oct 9, 2022 · Like most of the horrible things that happened in 2016, the clown sightings actually weren’t uniquely bad or widespread. National clown hysteria dates back to at least 1981, and it pops up reliably every five years or so, which means we should be seeing it again in… aw, fuck.
- What Was Going on with All Those Clown Sightings?
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- Was Social Media Or The News to Blame?
- What Made The Clown Sightings stop?
Radford told PEOPLE the sightings were nothing new. He referred to the most widespread form of the phenomena as "clown panics" and said they traced back decades, to the '80s. Such reports, he said, often included a white van — a familiar folkloric motif, like the hook-handed serial killer. But there were no clowns to be found beneath the stories. W...
Radford said phantom clown "sightings" tend to be more common during periods of social uncertainty: In the '80s, when they began, they coexisted alongside the "Satanic panic." And, in 2016, "America is once again in the middle of social anxiety," Radford said. The apartment complex in Greenville, S.C., that functions as a kind of "ground zero" for ...
In part, Radford said, yes. Social media and the internet were powerful amplifiers of the clown sightings, he said. The stalker clown in England, for example, "was ripe for social media, very much a product of our time." As a space for sharing and spreading such sightings, the internet was a "perfect venue." "You couldn't have designed it better," ...
Radford thought "this particular clown panic has reached its pinnacle." A "turning point," Radford said, was once schools began locking down after receiving threats from people posing as scary clowns online and who were later arrested. Police also began cracking down on false reporting and the stalker clowns, as in a 2016 case in Kentucky. Still, R...
Oct 6, 2016 · As TIME has reported, rumors of people dressed as clowns luring children into the woods started in late August in Greenville, S.C. and hysteria over creepy clowns has since spread into several...
Sep 17, 2017 · Nader believes that clown phobias are fueled by the fact that clowns wear makeup and disguises that hide their true identities and feelings. This is perfectly consistent with my hypothesis that it is the inherent ambiguity surrounding clowns that make them creepy.
