Clowns, originally crowd-pleasing entertainers, have increasingly incited panic in people who catch a glimpse of a rubber clown mask. Emerging from forests and chasing college students around campuses ...

Clowns are meant to make you smile, but sometimes, they stick in your head for all the wrong reasons. Horror films have ...

These clowns use their tricks and shenanigans to inconvenience, hurt, or otherwise menace people, and could really use a good ...

In two recent cases in Georgia and North Carolina, three people have been accused of falsely reporting clown sightings and now face misdemeanor charges, PEOPLE confirms. David Wayne Armstrong ...

Lots of people are creeped out at the site of clown, whether it's at the circus or creeping around in the woods at night. Movies like Stephen King's "It" and the new season of "American Horror ...

The 62-year-old from Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia who performs under the name Milo ‘T’ Clown got into the clowning business out of a love for children and to simply make people smile.

While mysteries abound about the clowns, most incidents come in two forms: threats on social media, often directed at schools, or sightings of people dressed as clowns, some of which have turned ...

Experts tell PEOPLE there are several unique ways kids may be experiencing the phenomenon, which has so far been marked by many more reports of creepy clowns than evidence of them. Some of it has ...

Wild bodycam footage shows a Florida man being busted while dressed as Ronald McDonald — telling cops after a scuffle, “I am a clown, stupid.” Christopher Marlowe, 40, was dressed as the ...

So just what is it about clowns that makes people hide under their seats? Phobia specialist Adam Cox shares a few theories about why we might find them scary. “Firstly, they are unnatural,” he ...

“Clowns are embraced by Americana in the ... but I do see the horror as more of a backdrop to tell stories about people, whether it’s comedy like ‘Tucker & Dale,’ which is ultimately ...