Afraid of Clowns?

JupiterKid · 10-01-2013 02:29AM #1

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 · 10-01-2013 02:33AM

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 · 10-01-2013 02:36AM

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

Cancer, I'm afraid of cancer.

Is that okay?

Chuck Stone · 10-01-2013 02:47AM

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

Where To · 10-01-2013 02:50AM

Chuck Stone scares me

Feelgood · 10-01-2013 02:50AM

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

admiralofthefleet · 10-01-2013 02:52AM

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

mandrake04 · 10-01-2013 02:56AM

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

herisson · 10-01-2013 02:56AM

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 · 10-01-2013 02:57AM

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

Itwasntme. · 10-01-2013 03:16AM

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 · 10-01-2013 03:42AM

Never got the whole clown thing.

Spiders, on the other hand...

FanadMan · 10-01-2013 03:43AM

Nope - clowns are cool!

Canis Lupus · 10-01-2013 03:48AM

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. · 10-01-2013 03:55AM

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

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dodderangler · 10-01-2013 03:58AM

Doc Ruby wrote: »

Never got the whole clown thing ..

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

Canis Lupus · 10-01-2013 04:02AM

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. · 10-01-2013 04:13AM

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 · 10-01-2013 04:45AM

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

IM0 · 10-01-2013 04:56AM

hey hey kids! whehahahahaha :pac:

Dead Man Walking · 10-01-2013 05:09AM

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 · 10-01-2013 05:45AM

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

Irish Guitarist · 10-01-2013 05:48AM

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 · 10-01-2013 06:18AM

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

Dr Strange · 10-01-2013 08:41AM

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

cheepnis · 10-01-2013 08:55AM

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