THE DISTURBING TRUTH ABOUT KILLER CLOWNS: Real Sightings, True Crimes, and Why We Fear Their Faces
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
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IN THIS EPISODE: Why do clowns creep us out? We’ll look at some of the reasons. We’ll review real creepy clown sightings – it happens a lot more than you might think! Plus, we’ll also look at some true cases of clowns committing crimes… and sometimes killing.
ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.
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SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“The Tamarac Square Clown” posted at DarkStories.org: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yck74etk
“Why So Serious About Clowns?” by Frank T. McAndrew for The Conversation: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9cd2hp; and Beth Forrester for Spirit Halloween:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8s8m3h
“Creepy Clown Sightings” by Matthew Dessem for Slate.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5fdppc8j; Nina Young for Kidspot.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p852r3b
“Clowns of Crime” by Lauren Tousignant for The New York Times: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8thetd; Maggie Panos at PopSugar.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p87t7hh; and from iHorror: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/7byrxnmv
“John Wayne Gacy: Killer Clown” by Katie Serena for All That’s Interesting: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc7465z8
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Originally aired: April 04, 2023
NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with assistance from AI tools, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.
EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/clowns
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| 0:00.0 | If you've ever wanted to learn more about stories I share in the podcast, you'll want to sign up for the free Weird Darkness newsletter. |
| 0:06.8 | Several times per week, you'll get an email that not only includes the audio player with a recent episode, but a deep dive article of that same subject, going more in depth than what you heard in the podcast. |
| 0:17.5 | I also post numerous articles that never make it into the podcast, and I share |
| 0:21.4 | those in the newsletter, too. Along with transcripts of my horrible humor podcast, Mind of Marler, |
| 0:27.0 | you'll get videos of murder noir as I post them, the most popular video of the week from my YouTube |
| 0:32.1 | channel. Plus, I include bonus audio in the newsletter every week that I don't post to the podcast. |
| 0:38.2 | And if I still have room at the bottom, I'll stick a funny meme in there for you. |
| 0:42.3 | Sign up for the free Weird Darkness newsletter at Weirddarkness.com slash newsletter. |
| 0:47.3 | That's Weirddarkness.com slash newsletter. My friend's kid goes to Hamilton Middle School in Denver, and he and some buddies of his |
| 1:03.3 | were hanging out in Tamarack Square by the old Dollar movie theater. |
| 1:07.4 | There's a large storm drainage system underneath the parking lot that lets out into a small |
| 1:12.3 | creek area where you can enter the storm sewer, which is exactly what they were doing that evening. |
| 1:18.9 | It's a pretty popular activity, and there's not much else for young adults to do in the area. |
| 1:23.6 | At any rate, there's the main passage with concrete tunnels snaking their way through the |
| 1:30.0 | shopping center, creating a virtual maze of putrid standing water, not to mention the occasional |
| 1:36.0 | dead rat or dirty needle. |
| 1:39.0 | There's a ton of graffiti everywhere and, allegedly, they were down there taking pictures |
| 1:43.7 | of the graffiti when they |
| 1:45.2 | noticed a dark red, almost black substance smeared across the wall. |
| 1:51.1 | Realizing that something was off, they began making their way back out of the labyrinth. |
| 1:57.7 | Here's where things get creepy. |
| 2:00.1 | They thought they could hear a faint, clinking sound as when metal meets metal. |
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