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Aug 30, 2016 Last Updated: 1:55 PM ET

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Deputies in South Carolina have increased patrols after getting new reports of people dressed as clowns trying to lure children into the woods.

News outlets report that Greenville County sheriff’s deputies were called to an apartment complex about 8:20 p.m. Monday that is about 20 minutes from a complex where people reporting seeing clowns last week
 

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The key word thus far is the verb "claim."
 
Once upon a time kids were afraid of the bogey man, no idea what he was supposed to look like, but as a kid i was terrified to encounter "him" in the woods.
Are clowns the new bogey men/women?
People are into so much role-playing type games these days, maybe someone is organizing" scare the kids events"?
 
I think that is just too creepy, I read that in the news last evening, freaked me out.

I've had a fear of clowns since the movie Poltergeist movie and then on American Horror Story, brought it all back.

If I seen that clown, I would run even as a child....shiver

jmo
 

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I think that is just too creepy, I read that in the news last evening, freaked me out.

I've had a fear of clowns since the movie Poltergeist movie and then on American Horror Story, brought it all back.

If I seen that clown, I would run even as a child....shiver

jmo
I grew up with a love for Bozo...Until I saw the movie "It" and Pennywise...

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I recall a similar incident when I was in grade school. One day a rumor began circulating in school that someone had seen a "monkey man" in the woods at the edge of the school playground. He was alleged to look like a monkey (maybe an earlier version of Sasquatch?). As the day went on, more details circulated: he had long fingernails, he tried to snatch a girl and scratched her arm, etc. I don't remember all the details, but by afternoon recess, some kids were in tears on the playground. By the end of the day, it was nearly mass hysteria. The principal had the school janitors go down into the woods to check things out, but they found nothing. Everyone went home terrified, parents were worried, but not about the "monkey man", just about their kids getting worked up over nothing.

ETA: For reference, this happened around 1964. My grandmother used to say back in her childhood, kids got worked up over seeing Indians (Native Americans) in the woods.
 
Pedophiles rarely work in tandem as far as I know. As soon as I heard clowns (plural), I doubted this story.
 

That WaPo article is hysterical.

The kids said they believe that the clowns live in a house located near a pond at the end of a trail in the woods.

The responding Greenville Sheriff’s deputy reported that they indeed found such a house, but no clowns or any signs of suspicious activity. They noted in their report that there is no video surveillance in the community.

WELL, YOU BETTER PUT SOME VIDEO SURVEILLANCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY GOOD SIR OR MADAM, BECAUSE THERE ARE LASER CLOWNS IN THE WOODS AND THOSE CLOWNS WANT YOUR CHILDREN.

BTW, isn't there a new Blair Witch Project movie coming out soon?

http://www.blairwitch.com/

Not making fun of the kids, I'm sure they're terrified, poor things. Hopefully, their parents and police can reassure them and make them feel safe again.
 
Juggalos are real. I think this might be a case of the juggalos coming out to play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggalo

Common characteristics of identifying a member of the Juggalo subculture are as follows:

Drinking and spraying the inexpensive soft drink Faygo.[9][10]
Listening to horrorcore and other types of underground rap music.
Wearing face paint, generally those either like a clown or perhaps similar to corpse paint.
Wearing HatchetGear.

Having the Hatchet man logo applied on personal effects and, die cast, worn as jewelry.
Doing hair in the spider legs style, i.e. like the Twiztid members[7]
Displaying the gesture of wicked clown, the westside sign with the left hand and the C sign in ASL with the right, with arms crossed over.
Making and responding to "whoop, whoop" calls.
Expressing a (generally) tongue-in-cheek obsession with murder, committed with a blade weapon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggalo#/media/File:Juggalo_face_paint.jpg
 
Juggalos are real. I think this might be a case of the juggalos coming out to play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggalo

Common characteristics of identifying a member of the Juggalo subculture are as follows:

Drinking and spraying the inexpensive soft drink Faygo.[9][10]
Listening to horrorcore and other types of underground rap music.
Wearing face paint, generally those either like a clown or perhaps similar to corpse paint.
Wearing HatchetGear.

Having the Hatchet man logo applied on personal effects and, die cast, worn as jewelry.
Doing hair in the spider legs style, i.e. like the Twiztid members[7]
Displaying the gesture of wicked clown, the westside sign with the left hand and the C sign in ASL with the right, with arms crossed over.
Making and responding to "whoop, whoop" calls.
Expressing a (generally) tongue-in-cheek obsession with murder, committed with a blade weapon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggalo#/media/File:Juggalo_face_paint.jpg

Kids I know were followed by a man in clown suit, unrelentingly, into a home. He sat on a couch until, police came and took him away. Seems surreal, but it was real.
 
Juggalos are real. I think this might be a case of the juggalos coming out to play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggalo

Common characteristics of identifying a member of the Juggalo subculture are as follows:

Drinking and spraying the inexpensive soft drink Faygo.[9][10]
Listening to horrorcore and other types of underground rap music.
Wearing face paint, generally those either like a clown or perhaps similar to corpse paint.
Wearing HatchetGear.

Having the Hatchet man logo applied on personal effects and, die cast, worn as jewelry.
Doing hair in the spider legs style, i.e. like the Twiztid members[7]
Displaying the gesture of wicked clown, the westside sign with the left hand and the C sign in ASL with the right, with arms crossed over.
Making and responding to "whoop, whoop" calls.
Expressing a (generally) tongue-in-cheek obsession with murder, committed with a blade weapon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggalo#/media/File:Juggalo_face_paint.jpg

They can be very dangerous. This happened across the street from my son's house. From the Wiki link http://trenchreynolds.com/2012/04/09/a-gathering-of-juggalos-accused-in-grisly-ohio-murder/
 
Juggalos are real. I think this might be a case of the juggalos coming out to play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggalo

Common characteristics of identifying a member of the Juggalo subculture are as follows:

Drinking and spraying the inexpensive soft drink Faygo.[9][10]
Listening to horrorcore and other types of underground rap music.
Wearing face paint, generally those either like a clown or perhaps similar to corpse paint.
Wearing HatchetGear.

Having the Hatchet man logo applied on personal effects and, die cast, worn as jewelry.
Doing hair in the spider legs style, i.e. like the Twiztid members[7]
Displaying the gesture of wicked clown, the westside sign with the left hand and the C sign in ASL with the right, with arms crossed over.
Making and responding to "whoop, whoop" calls.
Expressing a (generally) tongue-in-cheek obsession with murder, committed with a blade weapon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggalo#/media/File:Juggalo_face_paint.jpg

They had a gathering in July, lasers would not be out of place, imo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/arts/music/the-gathering-of-the-juggalos-now-in-its-17th-year.html
[h=1]The Gathering of the Juggalos, Now in Its 17th Year[/h] By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICHJULY 20, 2016

This week, Mr. Perkins, 31, known to friends as Less Legs, and thousands of other Juggalos and Juggalettes have made the pilgrimage to Thornville, Ohio, to take part in the 17th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos. The nicknames, claimed by fans of the rap duo Insane Clown Posse, come from the group’s 1992 track “The Juggla.”

After arriving, many of the Juggalos paint their faces with heavy clown makeup, indulge in drugs and alcohol, attend concerts of Insane Clown Posse acolytes and hop on amusement park rides. The retreat started at 7 a.m. on Wednesday and will end Saturday night.
“It’s like a psycho-*advertiser censored* theme park,” says Camille Dodero, a journalist who attended four consecutive gatherings starting in 2010 and is attending this year. “It’s an intense sensory overload.”
The number 17 holds an important place in the iconography of Insane Clown Posse, which has elevated the significance of this year’s event. But news outlets and online gawkers have been gobbling up the spectacle for years, especially since since the release of “American Juggalo,” a short, lewd independent documentary from 2011 that captured the scene before much of the mainstream came calling.
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