At this point in history, I think we can all agree that clowns are straight nightmare fuel, from the creepy clowns in horror movies to the creepy clowns that lurk on street corners and in cemeteries across America. There may have been a time when clowns brought joy to the world with their clownish antics, but that is no longer a thing.
That all makes it extra-creepy when a (poorly worded) letter shows up on your front door warning you that a clown has been spotted in the neighborhood luring children into the woods. A group of residents in Greenville, South Carolina received such a letter this week, according to Fox Carolina.
To The Residents of Fleetwood Manor
Although it seems like it could be a hoax, one woman who lives in the complex seems to have confirmed the clown sightings, telling the station her son told her about seeing the clown behind a basketball court before she'd "had about 30 kids come up to me and say, 'Did you see the clown in the woods?'"
Citing an investigative report from local police, the station also noted that deputies took a report from a mother who'd seen clowns in the woods shining green laser lights, a resident who'd seen a "large figured" clown with a blinking nose near the dumpsters, and neighborhood children who said the clowns tried to lure them into the woods with "large amounts of money."
It gets weirder.
The children advised they believed the clowns lived in an old house near a pond, accessible via a trial behind the apartment complex.
What the hell is going on in South Carolina? And why does it sound so much like what's happening in California, and Chicago and England?
