by Rigorous Intuition » Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:18 pm
Anyone familiar with these reports?<br><br><br>THE PHANTOM CLOWNS <br><br>In his must-read book, Mysterious America, fortean researcher and cryptozoologist Loren Coleman includes a chapter concerning a wave of "Phantom Clown" sightings that occurred during the Spring of 1981. According to news and rumors of the time, children in various areas of the country were being terrorized by people dressed as clowns at playgrounds and school yards. These "clowns" reportedly tried to frighten the children into getting into a mysterious van. These sightings spanned over a thousand miles and covered at least six major cities. No one was arrested, though there was at least one case where there was a police pursuit, and as far as I know there were no successful abductions. <br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~cyclonepub/clowns.html" target="top">cyclonepub/clowns</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>In May-June of 1981, phantom clowns with pictures of the Devil on the front of their costumes chased children and tried to lure them into vans. <br><br>Reports were coming in across America, from Boston, Pittsburgh, Omaha, and Kansas City. Though the police investigated this extensively, they could never capture or find any of the phantom clowns.<br> <br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:5-ygTbrMjYAJ:idaho.indymedia.org/news/2004/07/10220.php+%22phantom+clowns%22&hl=en" target="top">Idaho Indymedia cache</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br> <p></p><i></i>