March 19, 2024 • 10 mins
Evil Clown scary story. This true scary story is from Episode #8 of Your Scary Stories. Your Scary Stories is a show focused on sharing your true scary stories LIVE every Monday at 10:30pm EST. To learn more about the Show, or to submit your true scary story go to YourScaryStories.com.
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(00:05):
Yeah, well I'm going to kickthings off. Luke, are you ready?
We'll see if we can get themusic going. You ever been more
ready in your life, that's whatyou're saying. Yeah, well, okay,
I'm going to share the first storythis evening. This is called Evil
Clown Story. This happened at ahaunted house on Halloween, just me and
my friend Sarah. Me and Sarahare total opposites. She's blonde, outgoing
(00:28):
and completely fearless. I have darkhair, introverted, and I'm honestly at
people pleaser. That's actually how Iended up at this haunted house. Anyways,
we go through the haunted house andit was pretty awesome. The usual
people with chainsaw, screamers, clowns. However, one clown in particular kept
following us. He wasn't like theother clowns who wore face paint with fake
(00:50):
blood splattered on them. He didn'thave a big rigged nose and clown clubs
either. He had an irregular,if not tattered jeans, stained sweaty white
tea, and a clown mask.The mask was very detailed. It had
eyes cut out and a wicked,jagged teeth with blood smeared around the mouth.
It was seriously creepy. He followedus all the way through the house
(01:11):
as we giggled and ran into thelast room full of fog. Once we
make it outside, we go tothe stand outside the attraction to get some
hot cocoa. There was a localband playing on the stage outside. This
is on the fairgrounds in their localarea. While enjoying the cocoa and watching
the band from a distance, theclown That same clown walks up and stand
(01:33):
inches away from me. I noticedhe was breathing in and out so hard
his mask was sticking to his faceand releasing with each breath. I was
thinking, Okay, this is prettyodd, but I guess we're an environment
where this could be considered normal.He walks away for a moment. We
giggle about it, but he stayspretty close, staring. We walk up
(01:55):
closer to the band, and hecomes right back up and stands right behind
me. He starts tugging my hair. I try to ignore it. He's
just tugging the hair softly at thispoint, but he keeps tugging harder and
harder. Suddenly he pulls my hairso hard my head whips back. Sarah
starts yelling at him, and helets go and walks away, but not
(02:15):
far like before. She wanted totell someone, but I didn't want to
tell anybody. We're at a hauntedhouse and he probably didn't mean to.
But she said no, that thepeople working in the house and on the
property are not allowed to touch youduring this attraction. We told her something
like this, ma'am, your clownover there pulled my friend's hair so hard
it almost ripped out. The managerreplied, I don't see any of our
(02:38):
clowns. They're all in the hauntedhouse. We don't allow them to walk
around out here because some families withsmall kids are doing other activities in this
area and we don't want to scarethem. I told her, But it's
that clown standing right there. Hedid it. Do you not see him?
How do you not see him?She told me, calm down,
miss, that's not one of ourclowns. Are you sure that just isn't
(03:00):
a friend of yours messing with you? Terrified, I responded with a thank
you and told her that we're sorryto bother her. I just wanted to
leave. At this point, theclown is still staring and I'm missing hair
nails, so this isn't very funanymore. Fearless, Sarah decides to confront
the clown. She marches right upto with me behind her, and demands
he takes off his mask. Hedoesn't speak, he just looks at me
(03:23):
and turns his head to the side. He reaches out his hand to me,
and I refuse to touch him.He pushed Sarah from in front of
me and stepped two inches from myface and screamed the most terrifying, psychotic
scream I've ever heard. Everyone turnedto look. The band even stopped playing
music. Sarah grabbed me by thearm, but I was frozen in fear.
(03:46):
Sarah then grabbed my face and slappedme. She pulled my arm again
and we started to run away.We stopped a short distance away. I
looked back at the clown and hewas still standing and staring. Everyone just
went back to what they were doing, like nothing happened. We got into
our car and peeled out of there. Sarah kept yelling that we needed to
call the police. I told herthat it wasn't a big deal and there
(04:08):
was just some weirdo at a hauntedhouse, and that I had no hard
feelings for her slapping me, becauseI know I wasn't reacting because I was
so scared. Then she said themost terrifying thing ever to me. He
had a knife. That's why sheslapped me and pulled me to run away,
not from fear of me being screamedat. She saw the weapon in
his hand. We contacted the police, but they didn't take us seriously.
(04:30):
I am now afraid to go toany haunted attraction, not because they're too
scary, but because you never reallyknow if someone works there or if they're
just there because they fit in sowell. Shit, you have a fear
of clowns. Look not so muchof clowns. But I have always thought
about how like a place like that, if you were going to be at
(04:54):
killer I man, see, it'skind of obvious that you could get away
with it there like you might.I not get cat like yo. You
would just be like, you know, quick stick and move and you get
out of there and uh drop yourdisguise. Did you just say quick stick
and move? I did? Ohwell no, all right. So on
(05:15):
Netflix there's this nice knife for DeathI think what it was called. And
there's this challenge called stick and Movewhere you're supposed to stab these things,
and so that's like stuck in myhead for everyone. I think of knives.
I think of knife for dads andwho sometimes you got a stick and
move. Yeah, I think alot of people out there have a fear
of clowns. So I antally thinkback to it was like twoenty sixteen or
(05:39):
something with all those clown sightings everywhere, but all those random creepy ass blows
its just like that was so weird. They were like everywhere, man like,
they were scary, terrifying, butthey would like fake charge you.
Well, I guess I don't reallyknow if it's fake if you run away,
but they would like charge you,you know what I mean. Some
of the most scary ones I seemwere like the doorbell cameras, like the
(05:59):
cloud of walk up to the doorin the middle of the night and be
like, what was that? Thatwas so weird. That's spontaneously like everybody's
going to get in on the movementall of a sudden. Yeah, it
was just crazy that I don't know, that's that's crazy. I definitely I'm
not like afraid of clowns, butI guess I haven't been to a lot
of these hotter attractions. Since Iwas like little, right, I don't
(06:21):
even remember doing it. I wasa little bit older, maybe be called
and stuff. I just can't reallyremember. But I think this clown sounds
pretty terrifying, Complaire, compared tolike Ronald McDonald, it's definitely a little
bit different than Ronald McDonald. Well, he was still loving it though,
yeah, he was that A lotof people get. It's a it's a
(06:44):
natural instinct to be afraid of somethingthat you can't fully make out, you
know, And when something's behind anytype of mask, you don't see their
emotions, right, and this isa human creature coming at you, but
you can't tell their friend or foeby looking at their face. And this
guy had a face mask on forwhat the story described, whether it's even
just paint, it was a fallenmask with eye holes, which is why,
(07:08):
like you know, Michael Myers issuch a scary villain. It's because
his face is so emotionless, becauseit's a mask, and so it makes
it more terrifying. Do you thinkthe body language is very telling though?
Like they like she said as heturned his head, like you know,
I'm talking about like a dog does, like you know what I mean,
that speaks to a person who ismore deranged than your average person. How
(07:31):
did you feel about the point whenthe clown that started screaming in her face?
That was kind of terrifying, andit shows that they kind of have
a total lack of respect for normalhuman interactions. It doesn't seem like something
that they would even do at aregular haunted house. Now there are more
(07:56):
extreme haunted houses, like that wasreally weird. One do you hear about
they go overboard? And but Idon't think this was that kind of because
normally they don't have like clown guysand shit like that, So like that
that to me, it seems likethis is much more of a somewhat normal
haunted house, and with something likethat to happen there would be highly unusual
(08:18):
and it makes you think, youknow, this is not that kind of
person. Kind of seems like shehas a pretty good friend though, Yeah,
absolutely does. They were definitely onthe ball that night. Yeah,
kind of a good friend. Likethat kind of reminds me of this,
(08:43):
see that right there. Well,anyway, he's staring in the camera.
That's the way a killer stares intosomeone's eyes. But you only get what
you give there, right, Yeah, And I feel like what he's going
to give you is a knife andyou Oh, I love that. I
was. I was so excited toshare that clip with you and you don't
even know. I couldn't even waittill like the second story to do that.
(09:07):
We have very long history with thatclip. I don't know many people
in the world that would be likeeverybody, there's so many insight jokes.
They're just like, what are theytalking about? Yeah, there's a long
history with that clip. Yeah,it's funny because like twenty five percent of
the jokes that we have knowing butus would get. That's why it makes
it great though, great song though, But only give what you give.
(09:30):
She had a good friend, Uhshe called her something at one point that
I thought was pretty funny. Heresomething Sarah fearless, Sarah gotta go confront
the clown herself. Would you confrontthe clown yourself? I mean until I
saw the knife, that'd be like, we gotta go wors enough, harryb
get out here, clown. Yeah, then once you saw that, you
(09:52):
probably wouldn't bet. Yeah, you'reright, Probably nothing else you could say
now at that point, we justgotta get out and then maybe call it
cop. But they called the cops, I think right in the story.
So yeah, it kind of seemedlike she was very hesitant to act upon
any of these things. They dideventually tell the manager, and then when
they left, they called the cops, and this said, didn't take them
(10:13):
serious. This is on Halloween too, right, You think that's you think
there's probably a lot going on.Yeah, I imagine that's a nightmare for
police every year. Yeah, likewhat do you take serious? You know?
Yeah, Jeff Townsend media sees yougood night, and the question is
do I stay here? Will yoube back? Are you gonna come back?
(10:39):
Will you be back? Are youcoming back?
Yeah, well I'm going to kickthings off. Luke, are you ready?
We'll see if we can get themusic going. You ever been more
ready in your life, that's whatyou're saying. Yeah, well, okay,
I'm going to share the first storythis evening. This is called Evil
Clown Story. This happened at ahaunted house on Halloween, just me and
my friend Sarah. Me and Sarahare total opposites. She's blonde, outgoing
(00:28):
and completely fearless. I have darkhair, introverted, and I'm honestly at
people pleaser. That's actually how Iended up at this haunted house. Anyways,
we go through the haunted house andit was pretty awesome. The usual
people with chainsaw, screamers, clowns. However, one clown in particular kept
following us. He wasn't like theother clowns who wore face paint with fake
(00:50):
blood splattered on them. He didn'thave a big rigged nose and clown clubs
either. He had an irregular,if not tattered jeans, stained sweaty white
tea, and a clown mask.The mask was very detailed. It had
eyes cut out and a wicked,jagged teeth with blood smeared around the mouth.
It was seriously creepy. He followedus all the way through the house
(01:11):
as we giggled and ran into thelast room full of fog. Once we
make it outside, we go tothe stand outside the attraction to get some
hot cocoa. There was a localband playing on the stage outside. This
is on the fairgrounds in their localarea. While enjoying the cocoa and watching
the band from a distance, theclown That same clown walks up and stand
(01:33):
inches away from me. I noticedhe was breathing in and out so hard
his mask was sticking to his faceand releasing with each breath. I was
thinking, Okay, this is prettyodd, but I guess we're an environment
where this could be considered normal.He walks away for a moment. We
giggle about it, but he stayspretty close, staring. We walk up
(01:55):
closer to the band, and hecomes right back up and stands right behind
me. He starts tugging my hair. I try to ignore it. He's
just tugging the hair softly at thispoint, but he keeps tugging harder and
harder. Suddenly he pulls my hairso hard my head whips back. Sarah
starts yelling at him, and helets go and walks away, but not
(02:15):
far like before. She wanted totell someone, but I didn't want to
tell anybody. We're at a hauntedhouse and he probably didn't mean to.
But she said no, that thepeople working in the house and on the
property are not allowed to touch youduring this attraction. We told her something
like this, ma'am, your clownover there pulled my friend's hair so hard
it almost ripped out. The managerreplied, I don't see any of our
(02:38):
clowns. They're all in the hauntedhouse. We don't allow them to walk
around out here because some families withsmall kids are doing other activities in this
area and we don't want to scarethem. I told her, But it's
that clown standing right there. Hedid it. Do you not see him?
How do you not see him?She told me, calm down,
miss, that's not one of ourclowns. Are you sure that just isn't
(03:00):
a friend of yours messing with you? Terrified, I responded with a thank
you and told her that we're sorryto bother her. I just wanted to
leave. At this point, theclown is still staring and I'm missing hair
nails, so this isn't very funanymore. Fearless, Sarah decides to confront
the clown. She marches right upto with me behind her, and demands
he takes off his mask. Hedoesn't speak, he just looks at me
(03:23):
and turns his head to the side. He reaches out his hand to me,
and I refuse to touch him.He pushed Sarah from in front of
me and stepped two inches from myface and screamed the most terrifying, psychotic
scream I've ever heard. Everyone turnedto look. The band even stopped playing
music. Sarah grabbed me by thearm, but I was frozen in fear.
(03:46):
Sarah then grabbed my face and slappedme. She pulled my arm again
and we started to run away.We stopped a short distance away. I
looked back at the clown and hewas still standing and staring. Everyone just
went back to what they were doing, like nothing happened. We got into
our car and peeled out of there. Sarah kept yelling that we needed to
call the police. I told herthat it wasn't a big deal and there
(04:08):
was just some weirdo at a hauntedhouse, and that I had no hard
feelings for her slapping me, becauseI know I wasn't reacting because I was
so scared. Then she said themost terrifying thing ever to me. He
had a knife. That's why sheslapped me and pulled me to run away,
not from fear of me being screamedat. She saw the weapon in
his hand. We contacted the police, but they didn't take us seriously.
(04:30):
I am now afraid to go toany haunted attraction, not because they're too
scary, but because you never reallyknow if someone works there or if they're
just there because they fit in sowell. Shit, you have a fear
of clowns. Look not so muchof clowns. But I have always thought
about how like a place like that, if you were going to be at
(04:54):
killer I man, see, it'skind of obvious that you could get away
with it there like you might.I not get cat like yo. You
would just be like, you know, quick stick and move and you get
out of there and uh drop yourdisguise. Did you just say quick stick
and move? I did? Ohwell no, all right. So on
(05:15):
Netflix there's this nice knife for DeathI think what it was called. And
there's this challenge called stick and Movewhere you're supposed to stab these things,
and so that's like stuck in myhead for everyone. I think of knives.
I think of knife for dads andwho sometimes you got a stick and
move. Yeah, I think alot of people out there have a fear
of clowns. So I antally thinkback to it was like twoenty sixteen or
(05:39):
something with all those clown sightings everywhere, but all those random creepy ass blows
its just like that was so weird. They were like everywhere, man like,
they were scary, terrifying, butthey would like fake charge you.
Well, I guess I don't reallyknow if it's fake if you run away,
but they would like charge you,you know what I mean. Some
of the most scary ones I seemwere like the doorbell cameras, like the
(05:59):
cloud of walk up to the doorin the middle of the night and be
like, what was that? Thatwas so weird. That's spontaneously like everybody's
going to get in on the movementall of a sudden. Yeah, it
was just crazy that I don't know, that's that's crazy. I definitely I'm
not like afraid of clowns, butI guess I haven't been to a lot
of these hotter attractions. Since Iwas like little, right, I don't
(06:21):
even remember doing it. I wasa little bit older, maybe be called
and stuff. I just can't reallyremember. But I think this clown sounds
pretty terrifying, Complaire, compared tolike Ronald McDonald, it's definitely a little
bit different than Ronald McDonald. Well, he was still loving it though,
yeah, he was that A lotof people get. It's a it's a
(06:44):
natural instinct to be afraid of somethingthat you can't fully make out, you
know, And when something's behind anytype of mask, you don't see their
emotions, right, and this isa human creature coming at you, but
you can't tell their friend or foeby looking at their face. And this
guy had a face mask on forwhat the story described, whether it's even
just paint, it was a fallenmask with eye holes, which is why,
(07:08):
like you know, Michael Myers issuch a scary villain. It's because
his face is so emotionless, becauseit's a mask, and so it makes
it more terrifying. Do you thinkthe body language is very telling though?
Like they like she said as heturned his head, like you know,
I'm talking about like a dog does, like you know what I mean,
that speaks to a person who ismore deranged than your average person. How
(07:31):
did you feel about the point whenthe clown that started screaming in her face?
That was kind of terrifying, andit shows that they kind of have
a total lack of respect for normalhuman interactions. It doesn't seem like something
that they would even do at aregular haunted house. Now there are more
(07:56):
extreme haunted houses, like that wasreally weird. One do you hear about
they go overboard? And but Idon't think this was that kind of because
normally they don't have like clown guysand shit like that, So like that
that to me, it seems likethis is much more of a somewhat normal
haunted house, and with something likethat to happen there would be highly unusual
(08:18):
and it makes you think, youknow, this is not that kind of
person. Kind of seems like shehas a pretty good friend though, Yeah,
absolutely does. They were definitely onthe ball that night. Yeah,
kind of a good friend. Likethat kind of reminds me of this,
(08:43):
see that right there. Well,anyway, he's staring in the camera.
That's the way a killer stares intosomeone's eyes. But you only get what
you give there, right, Yeah, And I feel like what he's going
to give you is a knife andyou Oh, I love that. I
was. I was so excited toshare that clip with you and you don't
even know. I couldn't even waittill like the second story to do that.
(09:07):
We have very long history with thatclip. I don't know many people
in the world that would be likeeverybody, there's so many insight jokes.
They're just like, what are theytalking about? Yeah, there's a long
history with that clip. Yeah,it's funny because like twenty five percent of
the jokes that we have knowing butus would get. That's why it makes
it great though, great song though, But only give what you give.
(09:30):
She had a good friend, Uhshe called her something at one point that
I thought was pretty funny. Heresomething Sarah fearless, Sarah gotta go confront
the clown herself. Would you confrontthe clown yourself? I mean until I
saw the knife, that'd be like, we gotta go wors enough, harryb
get out here, clown. Yeah, then once you saw that, you
(09:52):
probably wouldn't bet. Yeah, you'reright, Probably nothing else you could say
now at that point, we justgotta get out and then maybe call it
cop. But they called the cops, I think right in the story.
So yeah, it kind of seemedlike she was very hesitant to act upon
any of these things. They dideventually tell the manager, and then when
they left, they called the cops, and this said, didn't take them
(10:13):
serious. This is on Halloween too, right, You think that's you think
there's probably a lot going on.Yeah, I imagine that's a nightmare for
police every year. Yeah, likewhat do you take serious? You know?
Yeah, Jeff Townsend media sees yougood night, and the question is
do I stay here? Will yoube back? Are you gonna come back?
(10:39):
Will you be back? Are youcoming back?
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