Creepy Clown Sightings

We had a panic like this in my immediate neighborhood when I was a kid. I thought I saw a skulking man who looked like Freddie Krueger, but soon the neighbor kids were seeing all kinds of odd beings everywhere. Very easy to get a panic going:

At the edge of dark, dark woods in South Carolina, children have been telling adults that a group of clowns have been trying to lure them into the cluster of trees. They say the clowns live deep in the woods, near a house by a pond.

This tale sounds like a mishmash of newspaper clippings and pages ripped from Stephen King novels, but these are actually details taken from a report filed by the sheriff’s office in Greenville County, S.C., last week, after several residents at an apartment complex there said that people in clown makeup had been terrorizing both children and adults.