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| <Center> <font size="+2">Send in the clowns</font><br>[[File:News icon.jpg|30 px]] by Staff Writer - October 2, 2016
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| Is it real or a Halloween hoax? Recently South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia <ref>https://www.facebook.com/lagrangepolicedept/posts/1388028421224814?match=Y2xvd25z</ref>, Ohio <ref>[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/another-creepy-clown-incident-reported-ohio-n641491 Another Creepy Clown Incident Reported in Ohio]</ref>, New Jersey <ref>[http://www.newyorkupstate.com/capital-region/2016/09/creepy_clown_epidemic_comes_to_upstate_ny_several_sightings_reported.html#incart_river_index Creepy clown' epidemic comes to Upstate NY, several sightings reported]</ref>, Oregon <ref>[http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2016/09/scary_clown_epidemic_reaches_o.html 'Scary clown' epidemic reaches Oregon]</ref>, Kentucky <ref>[http://www.wcpo.com/news/state/state-kentucky/clown-sightings-in-kentucky-creepy-clowns-have-police-on-alert-in-kentucky No laughing matter: Clown sightings have police on alert in Kentucky]</ref> and Tennessee have gone on high alert due to clown sightings. In South Carolina at the end of August, children reported that mysterious clowns tried to lure them into the woods. <ref>[http://myfox8.com/2016/08/27/a-clown-appears-to-be-trying-to-lure-kids-into-woods-in-south-carolina/ A clown appears to be trying to lure kids into woods in South Carolina]</ref> <ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/30/mystery-clowns-bring-fear-to-south-carolina-town/ Mystery clowns bring fear to South Carolina town]</ref> In Coffee county, Tennessee, police are investigating claims that a clown attacked a juvenile. In Georgia, children reported that three clowns were “wearing face paint and were shining lasers as they ran out of the woods and up and down the street”. <ref>[http://fox17.com/news/nation-world/clowns-terrorized-children-as-they-made-their-way-to-school Clowns terrorize children as they make their way to school]</ref> An Alabama school was briefly placed on lock down after a post on Facebook stated that clowns were at the school. <ref>[http://fox17.com/news/nation-world/clown-facebook-page-threat-forces-lockdown-of-alabama-school-district Creepy clown Facebook page threat forces school district lock-down]</ref> But is it real? No adults appear to have witnessed these events. However, in two instances the children reported that the clowns had laser pointers. The police investigators are taking these reports very seriously and lets face it, clowns are creepy. As of this time, no arrests have been made, although an Arkansas police officer was suspended without pay for dressing up as a clown at home during a family/friend gathering and the pictures later appeared on social media. <ref>[http://katu.com/news/nation-world/police-arkansas-officer-suspended-after-dressing-up-as-a-clown Police: Arkansas officer suspended for dressing up as a clown]</ref>
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| Coulrophobia<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulrophobia Coulrophobia (Wikipedia)]</ref> (the fear of clowns) in running rampant as Halloween approaches, clowns lurking in every shadow and dark corner trying to lure away children for nonferrous purposes. These stories play on everyone's most primal fear, that some evil force is trying to hurt children. These types of stories go back to the very dawn or recorded history where Lilith <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith Lilith (Wikipedia)]</ref> was stealing children from their beds and has continued right up to the modern era with films like Stephen King's ''It''. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_(novel)</ref> Like the moral panic over pedophilia, this type of hysteria seems to take on a life of their own and spread like a plague from one person to another, from town to town, and state to state. Of course, there was one real life clown monster. His name was John Wayne Gacy <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy</ref>, also known as the clown killer. This man did unspeakable things to many young men. Is it now time for congress to pass a "clown registration act? Isn't it far past time that we outlaw the bogyman and the bump in the night?
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