The scary clown has become a horror staple. Featuring Art the Clown as the main villain, Damien Leone’s film “Terrifier 2” is so gruesome that there are reports of viewers vomiting and passing out in ...

For 15 years, psychology professor Philip John Tyson has been teaching classes on phobias. At the start of every semester, he asks his students the same question: What are you afraid of? Students ...

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Maybe you didn't notice the arrival of the clowns. That was back in 2016, a year that — now safely behind us — can be characterized by its burbling undercurrent of hysteria. We can be forgiven, then, ...

A 15-year-old girl seized on the national scary clown craze and posted on Facebook a violent threat to residents of many Twin Cities communities, and police in one of those cities said they have ...

When was the last time you saw a clown entertain at a children’s birthday party? Perhaps not as often since the release of the scary movie remake “It” or reports of suspicious looking clowns lurking ...

A juvenile suspect has been arrested. — -- It's like a scene from a horror film. Residents of a California city are being terrorized by people dressed as clowns, some reportedly wielding machetes ...