Why are people afraid of clowns?

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That Guy said:

sounds more like an urban legend you tell around a campfire to me, IMO.

'She was sitting in a strange living room watching a buxom red-headed mermaid lament her life under the sea on television with a couple of drowsy children. It wasn’t how she necessarily wanted to be spending her night, but the family paid well and if she forced herself to admit it, she really did like the kids.

This part really didn't sound like a "true" story. Sounded more like the beginning of a novel.

 

And i thought Ariel was pretty hot. Ariel, FTW

 It may have been skewed a few times, but the story is generally the same...it did get reported on a few years ago I think.

I remember a much more straightforward story that had the clown sitting in a chair in the exercise room in the house (must have been a big house), and that the kids were afraid of the clown that sometimes walked around the house at night.  He was a homeless clown-for-hire that had been living in their house for like a month.