Afraid of Clowns?

JupiterKid

I certainly am.

There is something unsettling and frankly a touch evil about clowns. Not just The Joker from Batman or even the horrific It, but the fact that American serial killer John Wayne Gacy - who murdered at least 33 boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 - had an alter ego called Pogo The Clown which I only learned about yesterday. Chilling.

Pogo The Clown:
http://cdn.motinetwork.net/demotivationalposters.net/image/demotivational-poster/1003/pogo-the-clown-clowns-demotivational-poster-1269666097.jpg

Anyone else here dislike clowns? Anyone else think they look distrubing and scary?

Witchie

Not scared of them as such but do find them creepy mainly stemming from watching movie "killer clowns from outer space" when I was a teen.

Fromthetrees

I'm afraid of people I love dying. Clowns can lump off.

Cancer, I'm afraid of cancer.

Is that okay?

Chuck Stone

I'm afraid of people who are afraid of clowns.

Where To

Chuck Stone scares me

Feelgood

Stephen King's IT scared the absolute bejaysus out of me when I was younger.

admiralofthefleet

im just 32 and im scared stiff of clowns, evil bastards they are

mandrake04

If you are afraid of clowns then you are in the wrong place, AH is full of them.

herisson

Clowns are terrifying. I don't understand how people like them. I blame my uncle's for making me watch it when I was 5.

Where To

When I see someone clattered in make-up and obviously have no self respect I want to ride them, not laugh at them

Itwasntme.

Feelgood wrote: »

Stephen King's IT scared the absolute bejaysus out of me when I was younger.

Me too! I had nightmares for ages.

Clowns= Evil red grin with rotten looking teeth
Clowns= Scary looking empty eyes
Clowns= Ghostly white face
Clowns= It could be anyone under there!!
Clowns= Nightmares forever
Clowns= Fake tears to elicit sympathy and mask the pure evil behind the crazy costume
Clowns= Strange weird laugh that would be suited to a mental facility

The OP is right- clowns are evil as *insert expletive*. Just thinking about them gives me the heebiejeebies!! Shudder.

Doc Ruby

Never got the whole clown thing.

Spiders, on the other hand...

FanadMan

Nope - clowns are cool!

Canis Lupus

I have a friend who would jump in front of a bus before being within touching distance of a clown.

I don't understand phobias like that. I appreciate a phobia is an irrational fear but it's just a person in makeup. People be crazy.

Itwasntme.

Canis Lupus wrote: »

I have a friend who would jump in front of a bus before being within touching distance of a clown.

I don't understand phobias like that. I appreciate a phobia is an irrational fear but it's just a person in makeup. People be crazy.

I don't have a phobia. I have a functioning self-preservation mechanism. I bet you are one of those people who stops the car in the middle of the night on a deserted road to go and talk to the strange looking man standing in the middle of the road .

dodderangler

Doc Ruby wrote: »

Never got the whole clown thing ..

What's to get?
They're clowns!!!!!!

Canis Lupus

Itwasntme. wrote: »

I don't have a phobia. I have a functioning self-preservation mechanism. I bet you are one of those people who stops the car in the middle of the night on a deserted road to go and talk to the strange looking man with standing in the middle of the road .

lol, depends if I thought he needed help starting the chainsaw he was holding...

Itwasntme.

Canis Lupus wrote: »

lol, depends if I thought he needed help starting the chainsaw he was holding...

See. Exactly . People like you are fodder for the fire to cook the clowns' dinners of babies' and children's guts.

Garzard

Never understood the whole fear of clowns myself. Magicians for one have always freaked me out from a young age though!

IM0

hey hey kids! whehahahahaha :pac:

Dead Man Walking

Fear of clowns seems to be a common enough phobia. a punch and judy show had me screaming for the door when i was a kid. was a bit glad when they knocked down the house it was shown in 20 odd years later. turned into a shooting up house i think. those two divils didn't rest till the place was raised to the ground.

IM0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi6vAXv0KrA

Irish Guitarist

They're not scary, just annoying and unfunny. I went to the circus a couple of times when I was a child and I was bored senseless by the clowns.

sparrowcar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y18aPy3O1P4

Dr Strange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bSQavJfbqM

cheepnis

Oh god yes. Babysitter watched IT my older brothers and me when I was quite young and I still remember it vividly. Haven't been able to look at a clown without fear completely consuming me since. I made the mistake of telling an old coworker this once and he used to catch me out and make me unwittingly look at pictures of IT in unexpected places, thought it was hilarious, lovely guy

cheepnis

Preusse wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bSQavJfbqM

Cheers, that's nice (leaves page quickly)

Zebra3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma9I9VBKPiw

:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

BobBobBobBob

A good friend of mine is absolutely sh*tless of clowns and it all came from watching Stephen King's IT when she was younger!

hattoncracker

Hate clowns, and ventriloquist dummies freak me out...

Garzard

Well now this clown still scares me!

Heroditas

Do a Google image search for "clowns" and half the bloody images are of Pennywise from IT. :rolleyes:

pablohoney87

They say shoe size and penis size are related. Which makes the fear of bein raped by a clown that much more valid

seven_eleven

I'm not scared of them, they're just annoying unfunny cúnts.

gobnaitolunacy

Not afraid, just dislike them intensely.

They go in the same category as street performers who paint themselves silver/bronze and pretend to be statues, as if standing very still is some sort of talent.

Barna77

Fúcking hate them. Creepy bastards.

Omackeral

OMG YEAH!!! This is a true story.

This one time someone we know was babysitting for this couple at their new house. Anyway the child wouldn't go to sleep and kept saying it was scared of the Clown in the room. The babysitter was reassuring the kid that it's just a clown and cant hurt anyone. The kid was insisting and kept making a fuss to the point where the babysitter called the parents, who were out to dinner, and said 'Hi, I'm sorry to bother you but the little guy won't sleep and says he's scared of the clown in the room'. The dad was like, 'er, what clown?' and the babysitter said 'the big one in the corner with all the stuffed animals. The dad freaked and ordered the girl out of the house with the child. The girl frantically grabbed the kid and tore out of the house. When she got outside she looked up at the bedroom window and saw the white painted face of the clown staring back at them. Turns out it was some foreigner going around...

And this is true. It was my friend's cousin's old football managers' brother-in-law's daughter's exchange student it happened to.

Dodge

Another clown fearer here. its not just clowns, its anyone with their face painted

I looked into it a bit. Apparently it stems from us not bieng able to 'read' a person. We find it unsettling that we can't tell if they're actually smiling, or whether they're hiding something behind that face paint. Thats the theory anyway

I didn't think I had a fear (as mush just not liking them) until I was in a fast food place in Dublin and out of the corner of my eye, a guy in a black trench coat and full "Kiss" style black/white make up walked towards me. I completely froze! Couldn't move. He walked past me, and into the loo. I couldn't move until I knew he was gone, and I couldn't relax at all that day.

BTW I presume everyone has visited; http://www.ihateclowns.com/

Nippledragon

I wonder if you ate a clown would they taste funny?.....

*getting my coat

ITS_A_BADGER

I dont pass any heed on em myself, But my niece is scared sh1tless of them and sock puppets

pickarooney

FanadMan wrote: »

Nope - clowns are cool!

..rophobes' worst nightmares

Steviemoyne

I know soneone that's afraid of crossing bridges. Work that one out...

suicide_circus

"Oh yes, they float, Georgie. They float, and when you're down here with me, you'll float too!"

JupiterKid

Pogo The Clown - aka serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Evil, chilling and disturbing are the terms that come to mind here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inqvzXezwWk

Barna77

for christ sake....

wendell borton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otx49Ko3fxw

Only have the fear of clowns at night time.

They have to be up to no good. Clowns have no business out at night time. No business.

orestes

Flash-mob clown invasion of Dublin city on a busy Saturday afternoon, just to see how much panic ensues, who's with me?

jd007

Can't sleep

Clown'll eat me.

JupiterKid

And let's not forget that Halloween's Michael Myers murdered his first victim - his sister Judith - in a clown mask and costume back in 1963.:eek:

http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/Halloween_Evolution-l.jpg

Madam_X

Barna77 wrote: »

for christ sake....

Thought you'd totally understand if born in 77!

It's very much a 70s/80s child fear...