luckymasieremember:

I have seen this post floating around tumblr lately, and I feel like this has to be said, because lots of people are believing it. While there have been sightings of these clowns, a few cases of some trying to lure kids into the woods in South Carolina back in August, and one group who threatened a school, nobody has been hurt at all by these clowns. There have been sightings all over the US, but most of them have been to scare people, nothing else. There have been no kidnappings, rapes, OR murders in connection with these cases.

This urban legend that these copycat pranksters have hurt people has already resulted in a riot at Penn State, and multiple school closures from children being frightened or prank threats to the school. While these people are creepy, yes, they haven’t hurt anyone. A few have been arrested for public disturbances, one tried to scare a kid at a bus stop, and the original few tried to lure kids into the woods. All other clown sightings are copycat pranksters. And the more you spread the rumor that people are getting hurt, the more people are going to try to copy it.

Please, stop spreading false information. Nobody has been hurt. Just stay with your parents this Halloween, don’t dress up as a clown, and you should be ok.

This is a map of every sighting to date: https://www.google.com/amp/www.ibtimes.com/creepy-clown-sightings-map-2016-timeline-threats-arrests-school-closings-false-2426296%3famp=1?client=safari

This is a news report on what is actually going on, along with confirmation that nobody has been hurt: https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/4518456/scary-clown-sighting-attack-craze/%3fsource=dam?client=safari

If you could all please reblog this and let people know, I would really appreciate it. A lot of people have been spreading this around without knowing what is actually going on.