Creepy Clowns Return

In 2014 several places experienced a very odd phenomenon; humanoid figures were spotted wandering the streets that looked rather like circus clowns. This began in Northampton, England and quickly spread. See background links at the bottom for details. A clown is a comic performer, usually male, wearing grotesque and colourful clothing, also distinctive makeup which exaggerate the facial features. They're usually associated with the circus and perform slapstick comedy acts. Psychologists theorize that clowns represent something very deep in our subconscious collective minds. Clowns can sometimes be malevolent adversaries as well as humourous protagonists; good examples of evil clowns are Pennywise in Stephen King's horror story It; as well as the Joker in the Batman franchise and Mr Jelly from the TV sitcom Psychoville. They go much further back in history than I thought; they can be found in the ancient world, in fact their origins are shrouded in mystery. In Jungian psychology clowns might represent an archetype, maybe that of the "trickster". What is fascinating is that people experiencing altered states of consciousness sometimes encounter beings that look and behave like clowns. Dr Rick Strassman is a research psychiatrist who in the early 1990's carried out an experiment that involved giving doses of the powerful psychedelic drug DMT to human volunteers. Over twenty years earlier Dr Sanislav Grof did the same with LSD, see: http://www.rickstrassman.com/. He reports that his subjects sometimes saw clowns. I strongly recommend Dr Strassman's book DMT- the Spirit Molecule for more details. Now the clowns are back, this time the outbreak is centred on the United States of America and began in South Carolina. In this new reemergence the clowns are exhibiting far more malevolent behaviour than previously. The first report came on the 30th of August from the town of Greenville in which a clown tried to lure a group of children into some woods. Since then more clowns have been spotted in Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky. In London, Kentucky a witnessed photographed a clown and published the picture on social media to warn others. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/20/creepy-clown-sightings-are-spreading-across-the-united-states/. What's going on here? If this is a prank by students (Why do students always get the blame for this sort of thing?) then it is widespread and elaborate. It could be an unorganized meme, but then I'm surprised we've had no media interviews with the perpetrators. The connection to children in the South Carolina case is very worrying. Folklore is replete with tales of unearthly creatures who demand the lives of children. The fear of "blood libel" carried out by Jews against Christians was shown to be ungrounded, but could it have been inspired by a real primeval dread? The Cailleach of Irish mythology is a good example. It is described as a vicious old hag that snatched babies from cribs. This will most likely turn out to be a trick carried out by a group of completely normal humans, but it's too soon to rule out other possibilities. If beings from other worlds are appearing in our universe more often than they used to, why is this? Could it once again be a result of operations at CERN? See: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/cern-occult-ritual.html. The skeptic paranormal investigator Benjamin Radford has just written a book about bad clowns, see: http://benjaminradford.com/books-by-ben-radford/bad-clowns-benjamin-radford/.

See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/clowns-roaming-streets.html.

And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/northampton-clown-update.html.