THE LION
  • Home
  • News
    • Pauleans >
      • IGCSE / IB Help >
        • science and environment >
          • Sustainability >
            • School News
      • Arts
      • Student Council Candidates 2023
    • Lion tips >
      • Community Service
    • Prefects 2025
    • Editors 2025 >
      • World News
    • History
  • Commentary
    • Politics/Current affairs
    • Medicine
    • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    • technology
    • OPINIONS
  • Features
    • Fashion and trends
    • ART, MUSIC, FILM & LITerature >
      • Poetry
      • Lions' book recommendations
      • Reviews
      • Short Stories
      • Curiosities
    • Guides >
      • How-to
      • Guide to
      • Open when...
    • Horoscope
    • Quizzes & Games
  • Sports
    • Lion's Den News
    • Sports News >
      • NBA
      • NFL
      • Formula 1
      • Olympics
      • World Cup
      • Other News
    • SPHSL >
      • SPHSL Pictures & Highlights
    • House Updates
  • Photography
    • Global Print
  • Audiovisual
    • Entertainment
    • Lion's Subject Tutors
    • Tutorials
    • Did you know?
    • Newsreels
  • Comics and Cartoons
  • The Cub

Commentary

The Return of the Great 'Clown Craze'

10/29/2022

0 Comments

 
By: C. Paixão
Picture
Picture from: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-37600319 
In 2016, there were reports of individuals dressing up as evil clowns and appearing in odd places, such as close to schools and forests. Beginning in August 2016, the occurrences were reported in the United States, Canada, and later in additional countries. The initial sightings were recorded in Green Bay, Wisconsin, which proved out to be a horror movie's publicity stunt. Later, the phenomenon expanded to several more US cities and states. Clown sightings and assaults had been recorded in nearly all U.S. states, 9 of Canada's 13 provinces and territories, as well as 18 other nations. All this by the middle of October 2016. 

Numerous sightings of clowns in strange or inappropriate locations have happened all around the world since 2013 before the string of spine-chilling occurrences in 2016. Social media posts and viral content sharing helped propagate the abundance of videos and pictures of these prior sightings.
At the end of August 2016, multiple similar cases began to occur all around the country following the Wisconsin event. Early in October 2016, several incidents in Canada and the first happenings in the UK and Australia were recorded. Communities in Britain were described as to being "horrified," and police resources were under great pressure.
 

Social media websites were the hotspot for information regarding
the phenomenon around this period. Randy Christensen, president of the World Clown Association, voiced his opposition to the practice of scaring people through the use of clown costumes. Circuses and other companies that deal with clowns were impacted as well. Ronald McDonald, for example, would maintain a lesser prominence as a result of the occurrences. This year, 2016, has been labeled "a terrible period to be a professional clown" by a sociologist. Sales of clown outfits in and around Glasgow, Scotland, increased significantly after the evil clown craze. Some Floridians choose to carry weapons while trick-or-treating on Halloween.
 

​The terrifying episodes happened after police were alerted about allegations of clown dressed individuals terrifying Yeovil residents while carrying knives and bats. Police patrols were increased
as a consequence, but more complaints of clowns in Somerset towns followed. As unsettling as it may seem, the clown craze has returned, and these terrifying costumed people are looming in the places we least expect them to be.
 
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Categories

    All
    Books
    Conspiracy Theories
    Movies
    Politics And Current Affairs
    Restaurants
    TV Shows

    Archives

    June 2025
    May 2025
    April 2025
    March 2025
    February 2025
    December 2024
    November 2024
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    June 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    December 2023
    October 2023
    August 2023
    June 2023
    April 2023
    February 2023
    December 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    June 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    September 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    June 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    December 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    April 2017

  • Home
  • News
    • Pauleans >
      • IGCSE / IB Help >
        • science and environment >
          • Sustainability >
            • School News
      • Arts
      • Student Council Candidates 2023
    • Lion tips >
      • Community Service
    • Prefects 2025
    • Editors 2025 >
      • World News
    • History
  • Commentary
    • Politics/Current affairs
    • Medicine
    • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    • technology
    • OPINIONS
  • Features
    • Fashion and trends
    • ART, MUSIC, FILM & LITerature >
      • Poetry
      • Lions' book recommendations
      • Reviews
      • Short Stories
      • Curiosities
    • Guides >
      • How-to
      • Guide to
      • Open when...
    • Horoscope
    • Quizzes & Games
  • Sports
    • Lion's Den News
    • Sports News >
      • NBA
      • NFL
      • Formula 1
      • Olympics
      • World Cup
      • Other News
    • SPHSL >
      • SPHSL Pictures & Highlights
    • House Updates
  • Photography
    • Global Print
  • Audiovisual
    • Entertainment
    • Lion's Subject Tutors
    • Tutorials
    • Did you know?
    • Newsreels
  • Comics and Cartoons
  • The Cub