What Happened To Creepy Clowns? Threats Reduce After Global Phenomenon

A series of sometimes disturbing and sometimes criminal "creepy clown" sightings in the Southeast region of the United States stretched up to the East coast and to places as far west as Arizona and Idaho weeks before Halloween 2016. Men dressed up as clowns tried to lure children into the woods and alleged sightings led to school closures and official warnings from law enforcement.