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Clowns used to be funny and happy - a source of amusement for kids at birthday parties. Now, they may just be the very things that haunt their dreams.

The “killer clown” craze began all the way back in late August. One eventful day in South Carolina, there were reports that people dressed up as clowns were trying to lure children inside of a forest. Nobody could have anticipated that this one initial sighting could trigger about an entire hundred more, spreading across the United States, Canada, and even Britain. This terrifying trend is a much too early celebration of Halloween, and is spreading across social media like fire.

This is not the first time that seemingly harmless clowns have been used as an object of fear, an event in 1981 triggered a similar outcome. And while clowns were only ever intended to make people laugh, a survey in 2008 of 250 children found that almost all of them disliked clowns. Clowns have often pinned up to be feared, such as in the movie “Killer Clowns in Space” or Stephen King’s “It.”

There have been many reportings of these clowns. All around the United States, people have been arrested for posing as clowns, such as a man in Kentucky, hiding in a forest, or the clown in New York that chased a teen out of the subway. The clowns have sprung up in Toronto, Quebec, and Nova Scotia. So what are the facts? Should you be losing sleep over the possibility of a frightening clown unexpectedly springing on you when you walk to the park? Most likely, no. There have been very few cases in which these clowns have done much more than scare someone. On the other hand, the sightings have actually spread to Canada, so there is reason for caution. Some of them have even been found to carry a knife (or in one particular case, a hammer).

Needless to say, despite all the critics that claim this clown spree is not a matter of concern, there is something eerily sinister about these men with pale faces, wild hair, and bright red noses.