Posted on 10/06/2016 11:01:57 AM PDT by nickcarraway
An epidemic of clown sightings is spreading across America – and no one is laughing any more
he first person to spot a clown, the patient zero in the current epidemic of threatening clowns sightings spreading across the US, was a little boy at a low-income apartment complex in Greenville, South Carolina.
He ran to his mother, Donna Arnold, and told her what he had seen: two clowns in the woods, both brightly dressed and made up. One with a red fright wig and the other with a black star painted on his face. They whispered something to the boy.
“They were trying to lure him to the house,” his mother told me, pointing toward the woods.
A path into the woods led down into a shaded hollow, at the bottom of which was a small pond. Beside it sat a house that seemed abandoned. Someone had boarded up the windows, and the balcony sagged. New bags of potting soil sat near the basement door, though. And a modern security system looked recently installed.
After sunset a car approached the house; a gleaming white, new-model Mercedes that looked as out of place as any clown car. The driver stepped out and said she had recently bought the old house as an investment because it sits on five acres in an otherwise densely populated area. “You think it looks bad now, you should have seen it before I came in,” she said.
While we talked she wore an in-ear headset, so it wasn’t always clear whether she was speaking to me or someone on her phone.
No, she didn’t want to give her name, she said.
Yes, she had heard about the clown sightings.
She gestured toward the apartment complex through the trees. “Every one of them has a phone, and can
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Right!!!
Sounds like a couple of homosexuals trying to lure the kid.
Phantom Clowns go back a lot farther than 2016:
http://www.douglas-budget.com/news/article_b051609a-8ca7-11e6-8a9f-87497a545619.html
Loren Coleman’s book “Mysterious America” (1983) has a chapter on them.
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