Creepy, killer clown threats 6 things you need to know

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After clown sightings have been reported on social media and threats have been made nationwide, the "killer clowns" that are allegedly stalking children are a popular news story spreading like wildfire.







However, with reports on social media raising more questions than answers no one is quite sure what's true and what's hearsay. So, here is everything that's known about the alleged "killer clowns" making their way through New Jersey.



1. How did this 'clown' craze get started?

In late August, reports of "creepy clowns" began making the rounds in rural South Carolina. The stories, which sounded like plots of horror movies, started out fairly basic – kids telling their parents that a group of clowns were attempting to lure them in the woods. According to the New York Times, the details which sounded made up to some, were pulled from sheriff's office reports in Greenville County after several residents reported the clowns.



Allegedly, some clowns interacted with the kids, offering them money to follow them into the woods. Other clowns kept their distance, standing under streetlights waving at residents. Although police could not confirm the sightings as true at the time, anxious residents took the law into their own hands and allegedly fired shots into the wooded area to ward off the clowns, however, the hysteria spread elsewhere.



Through social media, it's been reported that states including Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New York and a handful of other states, including New Jersey, have had clown sightings.



2. Are the clowns actually doing anything illegal?

While reports of clowns remained relatively harmless with clowns simply lurking around and waving, reports gained intensity as they spread across New Jersey. In Phillipsburg, four sightings were reported in two days. In these cases, the clowns came out of the woods and chased the children. According to reports, around 5 p.m. in Warren County, a jester wielding a sword ran after a child. Later that same day, a truck was seen driving around with multiple clowns hanging out of the windows.



3. Are threats being made locally?

As reports of sightings continued to spread, all it took was a vague social media post to send parents, administration and students of schools throughout New Jersey into a frenzy. It started Friday in in numerous towns in south Jersey including in Burlington, Gloucester and Cumberland counties.



4. Is social media making it worse?

Panicked parents and nervous students began circulating the threats via social media, alerting authorities to the concern, which lead to rumors of lockdowns which were unfounded.



A series of coincidences in school districts partnered with social media hearsay fueled the frenzy further. In Gloucester County, a "true, routine, faulty fire alarm" at the Kingsway Regional School District Friday morning only added to the concern from parents who thought the evacuation had to do with the clown threats, according to Superintendent James Lavender.



5. How are police and schools are handling this?

Police and schools are taking the threats seriously and are either stepping up patrols or putting out messages to the school and community to make them aware of the threats — even if they are unfounded. In Vineland, a message was sent on Friday "not intended to raise alarm, but rather to make you aware."



6. Are there really clown sightings in New Jersey?

There have been a few sightings of clowns in the state including a creepy clown riding on the hood of a hearse through a Pohatcong Township strip mall. Late Monday, police in Cape May County said there was a "reported clown sighting in the Villas section of Lower Township" on Sunday night and they were investigating it.



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