Getty Images It wasn’t long before Hollywood exploited the "killer clown" concept -- from the 1982 movie “Poltergiest,” that featured a scary clown doll under a child’s bed, to the 1988 ...

The internet has no shortage of lengthy articles listing spooky pictures that were purportedly captured by trail cameras in the forest. One of the most notorious pairs of trail-camera photographs ...

The scary clown has become a horror staple ... I spend a lot of time in archives where I regularly come across vintage photos of clowns. Now, I don't consider myself afraid of clowns.

EXCLUSIVE: Clowns as we know them are changing - many modern day jesters are claiming that slapping pies in people's faces or ...

acknowledged the damage that scary clown images have done to clowning, though he was inclined to downplay the effect. “It’s like, ‘Oh man, we’re going to have to work hard to overcome that ...

IT ALL STARTED WITH THESE SCARY PICTURES -- TAKEN OUTSIDE BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA. TURNS OUT THEY WERE TAKEN FOR A PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT... BUT NOW -- THANKS TO IMITATORS -- CLOWNS ARE POPPING UP ...

Police say they have received a number of calls after someone was spotted dressed up as a scary clown holding ... “Gags — The Green Bay Clown.” It has several photos of the clown that ...

On social media posts Friday, Fuzz on the Lens Productions confirmed that it was behind the scary clown. Photos have surfaced on Twitter and Instagram in the past week showing the bald clown ...

Decorating children's wards with paintings of clowns to create a nurturing atmosphere could backfire, research suggests. A University of Sheffield study of more than 250 children, aged four to 16, ...