A rash of sightings and alleged attempts to lure children into the woods could have any number of causes: some have conjectured that it could be a viral marketing campaign to advertise a remake of Stephen King's "It" or a new Rob Zombie movie about dangerous clowns. It is also possible that the nation is witnessing copycats, mimicking an unknown group. Because so little reliable evidence has been produced about the clowns, still others are postulating that most, if not all, sightings are fabrications of some sort or another. Is it possible that this is a recurring phenomena caused by the power of suggestion? Regardless of what the truth is, most of the public is interested in only one thing: how can this end terribly?
Will a child disappear, only to be found horribly mutilated later? Will a prankster be killed by a concerned citizen with a shotgun? Will there be lawsuits against viral marketing campaigns? Who will be the first to die? Will there be a second?
As the presidential campaign heats up, Native Americans protest an oil pipeline, the President of the Philippines has more or less legalized vigilantism, the United States and Russia are involved in one of the most heated political standoffs since the Cold War, and a complicated and controversial conflict kills thousands and boils refugees in droves to the gates of Europe and beyond, it is clear that we are a people in need of another tragedy - the bloodier the better.
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