Real Horror Behind the Smiles

Horror Story: Ghosts, Mysteries, and Hauntings

Horror Stories

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

For decades, people around the world have reported eerie clown sightings—clowns appearing in places they shouldn’t be, watching from the shadows, lurking in the woods, and even knocking on doors in the dead of night. But in 2016, something strange happened. A wave of clown sightings spread across the United States, leaving behind fear, unanswered questions, and a chilling pattern that seems to repeat every few decades.

Are these just pranks? A case of mass hysteria? Or is there something much more sinister at play?

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0:00.0	Jenny was excited for the weekend.
0:02.7	It was her best friend's birthday party, and it was going to be in one of the coolest places.
0:07.8	Kids Zania.
0:09.5	By the time Jenny got to the party, most of the kids in her class were already there,
0:13.8	playing some combination of tag and hide-and-seek.
0:17.3	So she ran past a table full of soda, pizza, and cake in order to find her friend.
0:21.6	She was already hiding though, so it was going to be a tough one.
0:25.6	The kids Jenny ran into told her to hide. Someone else was it.
0:29.6	But it was too late to join that specific game.
0:32.6	And so she ran straight to the construction play area.
0:35.6	There was this big building, another one that was half done, and then an open area with
0:40.1	these giant tunnels.
0:41.9	They were really more like tubes, but everyone called them tunnels.
0:45.6	They were pretty dark and isolated.
0:47.9	No one was trying to hide there, but Jenny couldn't think of a reason.
0:51.9	It really did seem like the perfect hiding spot.
0:55.0	She thought she could hear whoever it was it, counting one, two, three, four, five.
1:03.8	And so she ran looking for a hiding spot.
1:06.3	Six, seven, eight.
1:09.8	They sounded kind of far away.
1:12.1	Nine, ten.
1:15.0	She couldn't hear the counting anymore.
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