clowns

For the record, we mean ACTUAL clowns, not political "clowns" or "clowns" you end up dating.

Even the King of Horror gets a little freaked when he's stuck sitting next to a clown at 30,000 feet.

If you are afraid of clowns...stay away from Jack's Twisted Mansion.

Yes the World Clown Association is a real thing, and they're not happy with Stephen King right now.

Absolutely terrifying. The new adaptation of Stephen King's famous novel hits theaters on September 8th, and today's new trailer will scare the $#*% outta you.

An odd discovery was made in the basement of a vacant apartment in Orono and was shared by the Orono Police Department on Facebook. As they were clearing the apartment, which the police often do to make sure squatters are not present, they peered down the basement door to make a bit of a startling discovery...

A second trailer for "It" is out... and you might want to think twice before clicking.

For hundreds of years, we lived in a world where clowns were popularly understood to be funny and whimsical ... or, at the least, not absolutely freaking terrifying. Pop stars sang songs like “Everybody Loves a Clown” and “Send in the Clowns.” Parents hired entertainers in colorful satin outfits to do magic tricks and make balloon animals at their children’s birthday parties. Ronald McDonald sold us hamburgers. Emmett Kelly and Red Skelton were TV staples. We had a tacit cultural agreement not just to tolerate clowns, but to look forward to having them around.

Some of these may be staged, but there is no doubt that most of these sightings are real. It's been called the Scary Clown Epidemic and it's growing in popularity across the U.S ever since the first scary clown photo went viral in 2014. Even Stephen King, the man who made us all fear clowns is suggesting that these people in clown costumes back it down a bit...

Clown sightings in Raymond and New Gloucester take a back seat after a woman in Auburn scares off a creepy clown with her handgun.

Well, well, well...it was only a matter of time before the creepy clown craze hit Portland!

Scary clowns are popping up all over the United States. Personally, I think it started as just a harmless Halloween prank to give people a little jolt, a little scare for the season. If I saw a clown just standing on the side of the road this time of year I would probably jump a little and then laugh a lot...

As the public becomes more aware of the nationwide clown "epidemic", more sightings are reported...but is it just one giant unfunny hoax?