# Clowns in woods try to lure children with money, residents say **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 31, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567 "2016-08-31T14:27:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/261 "2016-10-04T16:48:38Z")
I just saw a video posted to Facebook of these two guys out for an early morning run and they encountered a clown on a suspension bridge. They yelled at the clown and it turned toward them. One guy goes “Dude he has a knife” and the clown started chasing them. This was in Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/262 "2016-10-04T16:54:53Z")
> [@I\_wasn\_t\_truly\_absent](#): > > are mimes clowns? I’ve been followed by an American living in Dublin a few times in the past , he was a real oddball, gradually progressed to mime , it’s a slippery slope to clowndom? clownhood? I’m sure:confused: Clowns vs. Mimes (NSFW language) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5srwCNx2Ti0/hqdefault.jpg "Clowns Vs Mimes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5srwCNx2Ti0) ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/263 "2016-10-04T19:16:13Z")
One of the linked articles in this thread wasn’t so much about a clown sighting as it was a story by a police officer who tried to track down many of the stories in his town. I thought this one paragraph was a great summary of the situation… I spoke with a young man this morning who claimed that he was assaulted by the crazy creepy clowns of Rolla, Missouri! While talking with him he told me that he lied. I of course asked him if he actually had seen any creepy clowns and he began to explain how there were a couple in this other park. I asked him if he was lying again and he said that he was. He quickly admitted that he had not been assaulted, stabbed, threatened, mean mugged or even given a stern talking to by any clown whatsoever. He had not seen a clown, creepy or not, of any kind. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/264 "2016-10-04T20:23:37Z")
Police [find 2 clown masks in the woods](http://mynorthwest.com/410319/threat-forces-administration-to-close-puyallup-schools/), put nearby High School on “modified lockdown”. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/265 "2016-10-04T21:55:11Z")
Armed clowns. :dubious: Perhaps we should have laughed more at the tiny car thing. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/266 "2016-10-04T23:02:16Z")
This country has gone insane over clowns. We’re even close to putting one in the White House. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/267 "2016-10-05T00:03:06Z")
[What does the president think about the clowns?](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://theslot.jezebel.com/maybe-dont-ask-the-fucking-white-house-about-creepy-clo-1787405858/amp&ved=0ahUKEwjTu4vYrcLPAhXEFj4KHZjrD_8QqUMIKTAE&usg=AFQjCNG_pRmJUTdkooAVbMTqaIIrTNhQAw&sig2=BBF5gWjX5p_PMdgrZ7a59A) ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/268 "2016-10-05T13:52:24Z")
There is no point to even trying to post all the new links today. Just Google “Clown News” or something similar to read the dozens of new reports. Just wow. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/269 "2016-10-05T14:03:17Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > These idiots would be scared of their own shadow…and please don’t spread that around-it would probably start a “Shadow Panic!!” > [@Biotop](#): > > Yikes. I was walking by the woods near sunset and saw a shadow. I told my friends and they came over and saw shadows too. But when the police got there a bit later they found nothing. Weird. I had a shadow following me around all day yesterday. It seemed to be trying to hide from the sun. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/270 "2016-10-05T16:38:09Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > We have unconfirmed reports, calls to 911 and a blurry picture of a guy in a clown suit showing up on the local news here in Portland, Oregon. When did [_Killer Klowns From Outer Space_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Klowns_from_Outer_Space) become a fucking documentary? I weep. Unconfirmed reports of clown idiots here in Podunk this morning, I had to pull up some YouTube clips from this movie for our office manager - she had never heard of it. I hope it’s on Netflix, should be a hit leading up to Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/271 "2016-10-05T16:47:27Z")
We’ve got clowns in Michigan now…damn copycats! ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/272 "2016-10-05T18:52:54Z")
Last night, our sheriff’s department found the body of an elementary school girl in the woods – she’d been reported missing from her home nearby. No details yet, of course, but by the time the story reached my neighborhood a few miles away, somehow clowns in the woods were implicated. The media strikes again. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/273 "2016-10-05T19:36:44Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > [Though is this why Wyoming is still clownless?](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://mycountry955.com/why-havent-any-creepy-clowns-been-spotted-in-wyoming/&ved=0ahUKEwiphaWgxsHPAhUD4SYKHao4BJoQFghTMA0&usg=AFQjCNGMH6nP9DZ4roMXCnwGlyXnUCLj2w&sig2=xg5eX5f5utY8gLH_ha7neQ) No sightings in Wyoming yet, but my school district locked down the junior high and high school today after an anonymous Snapchat threat featuring…a clown. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/274 "2016-10-05T22:06:44Z")
It’s hit the [Maritime Provinces](http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/creepy-clown-sightings-1.3790668). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/275 "2016-10-06T01:22:21Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > It’s hit the [Maritime Provinces](http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/creepy-clown-sightings-1.3790668). Canadian Clowns? We are doomed! Doomed, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/276 "2016-10-06T13:12:19Z")
Now clowns are being arreste! [New Jersey arrests two teens for clown threats](http://6abc.com/news/2-teens-arrested-for-clown-threats-in-washington-twp-nj-/1537734/) ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/277 "2016-10-06T17:45:48Z")
Have they removed clown costumes from the shelves of Walmart etc?? ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/278 "2016-10-06T17:49:37Z")
[Montana](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://963theblaze.com/scary-clown-sightings-reported-in-montana/&ved=0ahUKEwju_vWC3sbPAhXFgj4KHWtjAg4QqG8IHTAB&usg=AFQjCNEf4yNhGgplTrKND8yzXa6MQP0yOA&sig2=o-TKcUavlai3pqtjpfY9KQ) I am pretty sure this was the last of the lower 48 states to be removed from the clownless list. That just leaves Alaska and Hawaii. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/279 "2016-10-06T17:50:41Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > Have they removed clown costumes from the shelves of Walmart etc?? Or have they tripled the orders? ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/280 "2016-10-06T17:58:46Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Or have they tripled the orders? I imagine it will be a top chosen costume! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567.md?page=15)