# Clown Murder Museum! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 6, 2021, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308 "2021-03-06T05:21:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/21 "2021-03-06T19:41:19Z")
When I was a toddler, my family went to the circus. My older brother and I got to sit in the front row. A clown came around, and said if we squeezed his nose it would light up and honk. I was delighted, and couldn’t stop honking his nose. My big brother was petrified and started to cry. I’m sure if he’d had a gun on him, that clown would have been murdered. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/22 "2021-03-06T19:41:53Z")
> [@Dandan](#): > > It’s a room in the Mime Museum. The less said about that, the better. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/23 "2021-03-06T20:35:21Z")
> [@Dandan](#): > > It’s a room in the Mime Museum. Are the walls real? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/24 "2021-03-06T23:17:28Z")
I suppose it could be either, but I bet it looks something like this [![](https://d7a3216312da6f8c5faa-a6c4a22c6d23d8694e5e3f94c3d57dde.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/d670105235954e919e47f81ede6a5b98_Clown-house-1.jpg) ](https://d7a3216312da6f8c5faa-a6c4a22c6d23d8694e5e3f94c3d57dde.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/d670105235954e919e47f81ede6a5b98_Clown-house-1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/25 "2021-03-07T00:36:00Z")
The Gacy wing is actually just the crawl space. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/26 "2021-03-07T00:49:19Z")
Here’s the exhibit on clown trophy heads. [![](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/A53K59/clown-faces-display-ringling-museum-masks-make-up-A53K59.jpg) ](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/A53K59/clown-faces-display-ringling-museum-masks-make-up-A53K59.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/27 "2021-03-07T01:44:23Z")
My first thought was that old _One Step Beyond_ episode about the clown who kept showing up in reflections behind a killer…who ended up being killed by the clown even though the clown never left the side of the victim of the killer. Duh duh DUH. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/28 "2021-03-07T03:19:24Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > People WHO murder clowns, or clowns WHO murder people. 🎶Are the luckiest people in the world… 🎶 ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/29 "2021-03-07T11:32:15Z")
I assumed it was a murder mystery taking place in a Clown Museum. You know, like **The Penguin Pool Murder** by Stuart Palmer. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2021, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/30 "2021-03-08T15:21:15Z")
Obviously, just going by the numbers it’s a museum dedicated to clowns who murder. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/31 "2021-03-08T21:19:59Z")
I love the movie made from that book! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/32 "2021-03-09T18:35:04Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > Here’s a clown motel…these people appear to be out of costume, though. Maybe that graveyard next door relates to the OP. Dead Serious. My Mom used to stay at this place all the time. Half-way between her homes in Reno and Vegas, and a conveinient place to stop for the night. Nice people (she claims) and pet-friendly. i would cringe whenever I drove past it. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/33 "2021-03-09T20:43:42Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Dead Serious. My Mom used to stay at this place all the time. Half-way between her homes in Reno and Vegas, and a conveinient place to stop for the night. Nice people (she claims) and pet-friendly. > > i would cringe whenever I drove past it. Holy crap: The _It_ room! 😱 [![](https://assets.atlasobscura.com/media/W1siZiIsInVwbG9hZHMvcGxhY2VfaW1hZ2VzLzhiM2QwYzliLTcyYTUtNDBhZi1iZDA3LWZhYjdiYWUyYWM3ODg1MjEyMTFkYzNhM2FhZTdiNF8yMDE5MDkyNl8xMjI4MTYuanBnIl0sWyJwIiwidGh1bWIiLCIxMjAweD4iXSxbInAiLCJjb252ZXJ0IiwiLXF1YWxpdHkgODEgLWF1dG8tb3JpZW50Il1d/20190926_122816.jpg) ](https://assets.atlasobscura.com/media/W1siZiIsInVwbG9hZHMvcGxhY2VfaW1hZ2VzLzhiM2QwYzliLTcyYTUtNDBhZi1iZDA3LWZhYjdiYWUyYWM3ODg1MjEyMTFkYzNhM2FhZTdiNF8yMDE5MDkyNl8xMjI4MTYuanBnIl0sWyJwIiwidGh1bWIiLCIxMjAweD4iXSxbInAiLCJjb252ZXJ0IiwiLXF1YWxpdHkgODEgLWF1dG8tb3JpZW50Il1d/20190926_122816.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/34 "2021-03-09T20:51:46Z")
[Supposedly haunted](https://www.tonopahnevada.com/haunted-tonopah/) by clowns. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/35 "2021-03-09T22:02:31Z")
I once stayed in a small hotel or bed and breakfast (I forget which), in a room called “the Nutcracker Suite”. The room was decorated with literally dozens of those creepy humanoid nutcrackers with the big teeth that you see around Christmas time. Little ones on shelves, medium sized ones, even a life-sized one standing in the corner, staring at you while you slept. Man, I was glad to get out of that place alive. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/36 "2021-03-09T22:25:25Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > i would cringe whenever I drove past it. If you feel uncomfortable, they’d probably send you a night light. [https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/product/variationdetails/122606?utm\_source=google&utm\_medium=opla&utm\_term=ISK-122606](https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/product/variationdetails/122606?utm_source=google&utm_medium=opla&utm_term=ISK-122606) ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/37 "2021-03-09T22:27:17Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I love the movie made from that book! Never saw it; I read the book. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/38 "2021-03-09T22:31:03Z")
I think you’d like it. It’s on semi-regular rotation on TCM. James Gleason plays the Lieutenant (as per usual) and Edna Mae Oliver was wonderful as Hildegard Withers. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/39 "2021-03-10T01:02:12Z")
Does the [trolley](https://www.flickr.com/photos/74663312@N08/51020332578/) stop there? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308.md?page=1)