Creepiest Things to Happen On / Near Halloween

Creepy Clowns

Police are getting calls all over the U.S. about threatening men dressed up as clowns luring children into the woods with money. There have also been reports about clowns running around with machetes, pipes, knives or even guns to scare the public. One school even performed a lockdown after there were reports of scary clowns harassing kids outside. In just one week alone, several reports of scary clowns across the nation surfaced. Someone reported a car full of clowns, possibly armed, careening through the York College of Pennsylvania campus. Police in Salisbury, Md., investigated reports of three people dressed as clowns hiding in bushes and jumping out to scare people. And a woman in Lancaster, Ohio, called police to report someone dressed as a clown holding a large kitchen knife.