Earlier this month, the office of the president of the United States was asked if the leader

of the free world had been briefed on numerous quote creepy clown sightings happening around

the country in 2016.

This is in October, if you're listening to this later.

In Alabama, a woman called 911 because she was terrified after seeing a man dressed like

a clown behaving in a menacing manner in a Walmart parking lot.

People in Ohio were closed recently because of numerous scary clown sightings.

A clown in New York chased a teen out of a subway.

Men in Kentucky arrested for dressing up as a clown and hiding in the woods and so on

and so on.

There's been so much media coverage and national fear regarding clowns.

Stephen King himself, author of itch creator of Pennywise, arguably the scariest clown to

ever crawl off the written page, asked America to calm down.

The master of horror tweeted,

Hey guys, time to cool the clown hysteria.

Most of them are good, cheer up to kiddies, make people laugh.

You know, clown fear has gone on.

It's gone too far.

When Mr. King himself says we should take it easy, I mean, that is comparable to Hitler in

1944 coming out and just saying, all right, everybody, let's, let's ease up on the

juice.

Most of them are super cool.

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