Fear Of Clowns

There was a remake of the movie called “IT”, which was released this year. This movie is about a demon, named Pennywise, who is dressed as a clown. Pennywise feasts on children’s fear, meaning that he eats the children that are afraid. When you think of clowns, you

The Obituary states that John Wayne Gacy was born on March 17th, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois and he spent most of his youth in a small house with his mother, two sisters, and a violent alcoholic father. As John grew up, his long downward spiral towards alcohol abuse, drug habits, and the death of over 30 teenage boys began to rise after his first arrest and sentence of 10 years for sodomizing a young man and the divorce of his first wife in 1968. After serving only 18 months of his 10 years sentence, John was settled back into his old surroundings in Chicago, which where John made a name for himself as the local party clown “Pogo”. Soon after the gratified “Pogo The Clown” made headlines as “The Killer Clown of

For the ones who can not use medication for help, there is this new type of therapy that can help someone with their phobias. Virtual reality is a new thing that is a lot like facing their fears , but they are not actually in the presence of the phobia. Let's go back to the fear of clowns (coulrophobia) again, Say someone is completely terrified of clowns and wants to get over their fear because of the recent sightings. They would might with a behaviorist as anyone else would but ask for virtual reality for a

Known as a mental disorder a phobia is a persistent fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to compelling desire to avoid it. Phobias tend to affect the way people live their lives, for example, their working and social environments, considering that they last for a very long time and are capable to cause intense psychological physical stress. It is considered today the most common mental and anxiety disorder in the United States (Matig Mavissakalian & David H. Barlow 1981 pp 2). There are many phobias such as: the fear of aging, fear of changing, fear of clowns, fear of getting fat, fear of being in closed spaces, etc.

It can also be caused by specific phobias such as the fear clowns, spiders, the dark, strangers, open spaces, holes, and dogs. Not only are specific fears known for causing Samhainophobia but the media can play a huge part in causing the fear due to horror movies where a mass murderer is running around killing people on Halloween. The National Mental Health Association believes that genetics can also play a role in

I have a major fear of clowns. It started with a terrible occurrence in my youth. Everytime I see one I have this horrible feeling that makes me sick. Of my experiences, I had one encounter that made my fear somewhat decrease. Most of my fear from them is what I didn't know or see. But I'm still not afraid of the circus.

Clowns are draped all over social media and the news. People are using clown outfits just to get a popular video up on the internet. Clowns showing up by lampposts and chasing people around city streets. They send a mind crippling fear into people when they think of being in a situation with a killer clown. Imagine walking down what could be any street when you look down an old dirt road that you have passed a million times; You see it, it is what looks to be a blood thirsty clown waiting for a victim. Ironically it is most likely a guy who wants a funny video or just trying to get a good Halloween scare. A killer clown who is actually just a regular guy in a clown mask from Target... wait Target has missed out on huge clown mask sales due

I'm horrified to find out that my mind wasn't deceiving me. It was a man, wearing a clown suit. His face smeared in makeup and a smile painted on his lips, which behind it had jagged,sharp teeth.The clown suit he was wearing was yellow, but drenched in blood. I numbly wonder who was his victim.

Gacy is a very manipulative man. He made people in his town of WaterLoo think he is a sharp local businessman, and a children's entertainer on the side. By the late 1975, Gacy had joined the Jolly Jokers and had created his own performance characters “Pogo the Clown” and “Patches the Clown”. Gacy designed his own costumes and did his own makeup (Egger 2). Later, Mr. Gacy has became under suspicion after his fellow workers kept disappearing in 1978 after authorities investigating the disappearance of Robert Piest after police found out he was last seen with gacy (“John Wayne Gacy Confesses” 3). Immediately after learning of gacy's molestation crime conviction in Iowa, police searched his Norwood Park home. The noticed a strong stench coming from a crawl space but first thought it was sewage damage. Several items, including a store receipt, were later found at his home that linked him to piest and other young men who’d been reported missing (“John Wayne Gacy Confesses” 3). John Wayne Gacy decided to throw them off by saying that the horrible stench was just a bunch of moisture build-up in the crawl space because of a leaky pipe. By December 18, Gacy was beginning to show visible signs of strain as a result of the constant surveillance; he was unshaven, looked tired, appeared anxious, and drinked heavily(Egger 2). Gacy should've known that giving these signs he would soon be

One student, Katelyn Bramble-Plotcher, had this to say about the threats made, “I think the whole clown situation was horrible and people need to think more of what they are doing. This caused many people fear and stress.”

“It” in its origins, is Stephen King’s 1100 page literary masterpiece that has bred Coulrophobia within many who dared to sojourn through the novel. Nevertheless, it was the novel’s subject in focus, Pennywise the Clown, embodied in full flesh by Tim Curry that amassed a sadistic following and obsession with the arrival of the 1990 TV miniseries on ABC. Curry’s portrayal of the dancing clown quickly became a hallmark image for the horror canon, if not the face of horror movies altogether. Flash forward 27 years later, the fear of clowns has burgeoned into a commonplace phobia and horror trope. With all this to say, no clown has terrorized us in our nightmares quite like Curry’s Pennywise. Well, that was the case until Bill Skarsgård came along with a darker rendition of the fiendish entity in Andrés Muschietti remake of “It.”

Staff writer, Jennings Brown, in his article, “We All Need to Calm Down about the Clowns” claims that these clowns that are “terrorizing” or “injuring” other people are actually completely harmless. He supports his claim by first stating that back in early August in the town of Greenville, South Carolina, children claimed that there had been clowns try to lure them into the woods. These clowns come every year a few months before Halloween, they are only here to give people a scare.

The appearance of pennywise the clown would induce nightmares in most children. He has pale white skin, a red nose and a receding hairline with the rest of his head covered in curly red clown hair. As for his clothes, Pennywise wears classic circus clown clothes. A one piece that is brightly colored with blue sleeves and a yellow body. The purpose of Pennywise the Clowns actions and appearance are meant to do one thing. To scare children. When pennywise the clown is first seen talking to Georgie, although he is extremely creepy being in a gutter, a place no one would ever want to see a clown he seems friendly in his demeanor. However, when he pulls Georgie into the gutter his face becomes even more demonic and he gives a chilling smile and laugh with fanglike, yellow stained teeth.

For the longest time Spike a 6-year-old boy spike was scared of clowns, it started when he walked in on his mom and dad watching a scary clown movie. Ever since then the poor little boy could not get over his fear. Poor little spike could not go to the circus, birthday parties or fairs.

Name’s Tom Foolery. I’m a clown. Or what the normal people had designated ‘Homo fossor’ or human clown. There were many new classes of ‘humans’ in Circus City. From the fire-breathers, acrobats, freaks, contortionists, clowns, and numerous other ‘pseudo’ humans the Big Top had to offer. It had only been about forty years since the rest of the world