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Even Johnny Depp is scarred of clowns. The media has taught us to be afraid of these villains. Most haunted houses now include a clown room, which resonates with the fear of numerous viewers. Last year I walked cockily into a haunted house thinking that “nothing inside this idiotic, bogus place is going to freak me out.” To my dismay, my friends and I entered the clown room. A maze of mirrors and strobe lights clouded the room. Clowns can sense those that are afraid of them; so it gives them even more of a reason to pursue and torture those unfortunate souls. With my stupid tactless friends calling my name out of fear, one of those circus freaks picked it up. It was agonizing. That killer clown followed me around whispering my name in a demented, droning kind of way. He kept cutting me off wherever I would run. While I pushed through people trying to hide, he popped out everywhere and forced me into corners whispering stuff in my ears. Honestly, I was frantic. Why I paid to go through that dreadful haunted house evades me. Paying these fiends for anything, escapes all reason. The point is: clowns should not be entertaining to anyone over the age of two. Clowns promote crude humor, tasteless outfits, and perverted tricks such as making children pull a hundred tied hankies out of their polka dot pants. Yet parents trust them with their children. They laugh and push the poor frightened child towards this menace. No one seems to care that the little kid is completely freaked out. Just the fact that they are masked and wearing ghastly costumes should be reason enough to distrust them. You just don’t know what is behind that mask. Mimes, Harlequin masks, ventriloquist dummies, or anything that has clownish makeup, is simply horrifying. Even the rodeo clowns are unbearable; but at least with them there’s always the off chance they’ll be gored by a bull. One can always hope. With vivid childhood terror memories, my clown phobia will never fade. As for the countless clown haters out there who can’t get any sleep at night, due to these devil possessed and repulsive creatures, please do something worthwhile and check into therapy. It may help the disturbing traumatic nightmares and those unforgettable, psychotic, killer eyes disappear completely. These pointless, irritating, horrors are not going to vanish from society. —Janice Wilkinson OJC Freshman |
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