URBAN LEGENDS #4: THE KILLER CLOWNS ARE COMING

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Recent sightings of people dressed as clowns and trying to lure children into the woods have set off a storm of panic in the American South. In England and France clown sightings and fear of clowns has resurfaced often in past decades...it is not a new fear. 1001 Heroes explores the dark side of clowns and the societal changes that have brought clown phobia to its latest level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some new information on a story we've been following here on happening now and it's very strange.
0:09.0	The creepy clown sightings with police increasing patrols in a North Carolina
0:14.8	neighborhood after two children reportedly saw a clown trying to lure
0:18.8	kids into the woods with treats this past weekend.
0:22.3	Yet another clown sighting in our woods with treats this past weekend.
0:23.0	Yet another clown sighting in our area.
0:25.0	This one in the Greensboro area, which is about 30 miles east of Winston-Salem,
0:30.0	where there were those two sightings within the past...
0:36.0	That this man actually tried to lure him in the woods. So I was scared and I was scared and mad at the same time.
0:40.0	You know, I wanted to get him myself.
0:42.0	I have a four-year-old granddaughter that I'm raising,
0:45.0	and she loves candy, she loves clowns,
0:47.3	she love all colorful things.
0:48.8	So if that would have been her going in there,
0:51.4	and I wouldn't have been able to find my baby.
0:53.0	John, you know what actually developing in our newsroom right now just within the past hour
0:57.8	and a half there has now been yet another clown sighting in our area.
1:01.5	This one in the Greensboro area which is about 30 miles each of
1:05.0	Winston's failure. At the end of the week, beep. It's all for the people of the quaint English
1:10.4	town of Northampton to see and in some cases fear.
1:14.0	I'd be terrified if I saw that camera at night.
1:18.0	Yeah.
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