

“This is the strangest thing I’ve seen in all my 19 years in law enforcement,” Palm Beach County sheriff’s spokesman Bob Ferrell told the Sun-Sentinel. On May 26, 1990, at 10:45 a.m., in Wellington, Florida, Marlene Warren opened her door to a find a bulb-nosed clown holding a bouquet of red and white flowers and two balloons, one emblazoned with a picture of Snow White. The clown shot her point-blank in the face, and she died at the hospital two days later. Warren’s teenage son saw the clown run to a white Chrysler LeBaron and escape, never to be found. Read up on these terrifying real-life clowns and enjoy never sleeping ever again. (Un)luckily for your nightmares, the current circus-y horror isn’t the only clown terror. “We just don’t know at this point, because we haven’t had the chance to interview any clowns.” “If this is a hoax or publicity stunt, it is not funny,” Greensboro police spokeswoman Susan Danielsen told People. Recently, Georgia police said they were investigating a threat from a Facebook user saying they planned to dress like a clown and abduct children from local schools, and multiple schools in Alabama were put on lockdown last week after receiving clown threats. 7, a man in Greensboro, North Carolina, grabbed a machete and chased a clown into the woods.


1, a 12-year-old told police there were two clowns in her back yard in Greenville, South Carolina. 21, prompting an apartment complex to send warning letters to residents after receiving calls that a clown was trying to lure children into the woods. The disturbing reports began in South Carolina on Aug. It would appear there’s a creepy clown epidemic gripping the South, plucked straight from our collective nightmares.
