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When asking someone what scares them there are a few things you can expect to hear as possible answers. Common things like the dark, death, spiders, heights, and needles all seem to make perfect sense but some people have a deep fear of something originally intended to have the total opposite effect. With their colorful makeup, exaggerated costumes, and slapstick antics clowns have been around for centuries with the goal being to entertain but more recently their image has become one of terror. It is estimated that 12% of Americans find clowns frightening and they have become the unfortunate bearers of their own official phobia, coulrophobia. It is safe to say that their image has not been helped by popular media. From Pennywise the Dancing Clown to Killer Klowns from Outer Space, some portrayals of these comic entertainers have only enhanced their new sinister persona.

But that’s all fiction right? Is there any real reason to see clowns as scary? Well, if you were living in Chicago in 1912 that question may not have had an easy answer.

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