The time is about 4:30am. All of a sudden I am awoken from my slumber by this really loud maniacal evil clown laugh. I was sitting there thinking I was hearing things, but then it happened again.

We’re supposed to laugh, but for more than a few, a clown is more scary than funny. Our Mo Rocca has given the subject some serious study: All the world loves a clown, right? They smile ...

Sometimes they’re making you laugh. Other times ... “Stephen King didn’t invent the evil clown. That was long before his time. But what he did was turn the coin over, if you will ...

“Laugh, clown laugh ... Bill Finger and Bob Kane to invent the archetypal scary clown character: The Joker. But it may have been the career of John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer who went ...

A Louisiana sheriff’s deputy has earned a growing social media following after he started patrolling the St. Tammany Parish with an inflatable “evil clown ... point and laugh and get ...