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Clowns. Some people love 'em, others are scared silly by them. The urban legend of the clown statue falls into the scary category and has been making the internet rounds for at least a decade. And even though this tale has never been proven real, stories of killer clowns are based in fact.
THE CREEPY CLOWN
A number of variations on this urban myth appear. This chain letter version first circulated online around 2006:
a few years ago a mother and a father decided they needed a break, so they wanted to head out for a night on the town. So they called their most trusted babysitter. When the babysitter arrived the two children were already fast asleep in bed. So the babysitter just got to sit around and make sure everything was okay with the children.
Later in the night, the babysitter got bored and so she wanted to watch tv but she couldn't watch it downstairs because they didn't have cable downstairs (the parents didn't want their children watching too much garbage) so she called them and asked them if she could watch cable tv in the parents room. Of course the parents said it was ok, but the babysitter had one final request. She asked if she could cover up the large clown statue in their bedroom with a blanket or cloth, because it made her nervous. The phone line was silent for a moment, and the father (who was talking to the babysitter at the time) said...take the children and get out of the house...we'll call the police...we don't have a clown statue...the children and the babysitter got murdered by the clown. it turned out 2 be that the clown was a killer that escaped from jail.
if you don't repost to 10 peeps within 5 minutes the clown will be standing next 2 your bed at 3:00am with a knife in his hand...
In 1919, a number of Oklahoman newspapers published a terrifying story from a Canadian World War I veteran named Captain F.J. Newhouse. According to Newhouse, Allied soldiers in the trenches at Mons had found themselves hunted by a terrifying beast. It all started in 1914, when Captain Yeskes of the London Fusiliers took four soldiers out into no-man’s-land on patrol. When they didn’t return, their concerned comrades thought they might have been intercepted by the Germans. But days later, “their dead bodies were found—just as they had been dragged down—with teeth marks at the throats.” From that point, things only got worse. Terrible howls echoed across the landscape and soldiers reported seeing strange movements beyond the barbed wire. Patrols into no-man’s-land would be found horribly mauled, as if by some great beast. Then, just as suddenly as it had appeared, the creature seemed to disappear again. The mystery was only resolved when a German scientist named Gottlieb Hochmuller was killed in a Berlin riot at the end of the war. Apparently, Hochmuller’s papers revealed a dastardly plot to transfer a madman’s brain into a giant Siberian wolfhound, which was subsequently released into no-man’s-land. This was part of a series of experiments which Hochmuller hoped would “end the war in Germany’s favor.” How even a very crazy dog was supposed to resolve a world war remains unclear. Interestingly, Captain Newhouse seems to have been a real soldier, but otherwise the story falls apart quite quickly. For one thing, there is no record of a scientist named Gottlieb Hochmuller and there was definitely no Captain Yeskes in the London Fusiliers. Yeskes is actually a quite rare name in England, although it’s much more common in Canada and America, suggesting that F.J. Newhouse probably made the whole thing up. The Battle of Mons is also well known for the legend of the Angels of Mons, in which angelic beings, most commonly in the form of medieval bowmen, appeared to protect British soldiers. The legend started with a short story by the horror writer Arthur Machen, which appeared in the London Evening News in 1914. The story was written in the style of a newspaper report and wasn’t adequately labeled as fiction, prompting many people to believe it was real. The story soon took on a life of its own, to the point that people refused to believe Machen had made it up. As Machen later wrote, “the snowball of rumour that was then set rolling has been rolling ever since, growing bigger and bigger, till it is now swollen to a monstrous size.
The German town of Wittlich is home to a strange legend—which might not be a legend at all, if US soldiers stationed in the area are to be believed. According to the story, a deserter from Napoleon’s army found his way to the town, where he attacked and murdered a local farmer and his wife. However, before the farmer’s wife drew her last breath, she cast a curse on the feral soldier, turning him into a monstrous wolf. Mad with rage, the creature rampaged through the countryside until a mob of townsfolk hunted it down and killed it.The story is fairly well-known (a local American football team even called themselves the Morbach Monsters) but not particularly exceptional by the standards of werewolf lore. More interesting are the experiences of American servicemen stationed at the nearby Hahn Air Base during the Cold War. Apparently, a number of the American troops saw a mysterious wolf-like creature while patrolling the forested edges of the base. According to two anonymous accounts collected by the University of Pittsburgh, military policemen investigating a perimeter alarm stumbled upon a “dog-like” animal, which stood up on its hind legs and looked at them. The creature then took “three long leaping steps” and jumped over a high fence (the accounts differ on the exact height of the fence, but agree that it was taller than a man). The beast then disappeared into the forest. A sniffer dog was brought in, but it went berserk with fear, refusing to track the creature.University of Mainz anthropolgist Matthias Burgard subsequently collected several other stories from US servicemen who said they had seen strange animals or odd movements deep in the woods. One airman said he had been “stalked” by a hidden, howling beast while walking his dogs. Another witness rejected the theory that the Americans might have been startled by local wild hogs: “I grew up on a farm in the USA and this was no hog.”Yet another serviceman offered Burgard an alternate explanation for at least some of the sightings: “It was always fun to scare the new guys with stories of the werewolf and then make them do a security check of the perimeter on foot. One of our K-9s was this big black bouvier with bloodshot eyes. We would always send that dog’s handler to meet the new guys.”
During World War I, the British steamer Iberian was cruising off the coast of Ireland when it was attacked by the German submarine U-28 (pictured above right). The Iberian tried to flee, but U-28 pursued, firing shells and torpedoes. After taking two direct hits, the Iberian tipped up and sank with her bow in the air. The sinking would be all but forgotten today if not for an article the U-28‘s captain, Baron von Forstner, wrote for a German newspaper in 1933. In the Baron’s account, he stood on the submarine’s conning tower and watched the steamer sink. About 25 seconds after it disappeared beneath the surface, there was a large explosion, possibly caused by the ship’s boiler detonating. The blast threw a mysterious sea creature clear out of the water. “The animal was about 20 meters [65 ft] long and crocodile-like in shape, with pairs of strong front and hind legs adapted for swimming, and a long head that tapered towards the nose.” According to the Baron, the creature was visible for about “10 to 15 seconds at a distance of about 150 to 100 meters (500–300 ft) in bright sunshine.”The Belgian zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans, who coined the term “cryptozoology” and produced an influential book on sea serpents, considered the U-28 sighting one of the four most reliable in history. The incident was especially interesting since the explosion flung the animal all the way out of the water, allowing the Baron to see its entire body. Based on his description, Heuvelmans speculated that the creature might have been a surviving species of Thalattosuchia, a genus of giant sea crocodiles from the time of the dinosaurs.Despite Heuvelmans’ assesment, skeptics suggest that the Baron might have made the whole story up. According to his account, seven other crew members witnessed the creature. Unfortunately, six died during the war, presumably when the U-28 was sunk in 1917 (the most common story is that another sinking ship exploded, hurling a burning truck straight onto the submarine). The only surviving witness was the sub’s cook, Robert Maas, who never wrote about the incident, leaving the story to rely on von Forstner’s account alone. Additionally, the 61 survivors of the Iberian apparently didn’t see the creature. In fairness, they might have been a little busy at the time.”
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