There's been a resurgence in "Killer Clown" sightings lately, and I heard one from a friend recently that left me SHOOK:

 

My friends kid goes to Hamiliton Middle School in Denver and he and some buddies of his were hanging out in Tamarac Square by the old dollar movie theater.  There's a large storm drainage system underneath the parking lot that lets out into a small creek area, where you can enter the storm sewer, which is exactly what they were doing that evening.  It's a pretty popular activity, as there's not much else for young adults to do in the area.  

 

At any rate, there's the main passage, with concrete tunnels snaking their through the shopping center, creating a virtual maze of putrid standing water, not to mention the occasional dead rat or dirty needle.  There's a ton of graffiti everywhere and allegedly, they were down there taking pictures of the graffiti when they noticed a dark red, almost black substance smeared across the wall.  Realizing that something was "off," they began making their way back out of the labyrinth.

 

Here's where things get creepy...  They thought they could hear a faint "clinking" sound, as when metal meets metal. 

 

"Come on, man" one of the boys said, "we need to get out of here, NOW!" 

 

The problem was, every turn they took seemed to take them deeper into the maze and away from the entrance to the storm system.  At one point they started panicking and running down the cramped quarters.  My friends' son tripped and fell, and from the ground he saw something truly horrific.  A man in a clown costume was barreling down the tunnel at them from behind.  He leapt to his feet and caught up to the rest of the group who had apparently left him behind.  

 

They could finally see the light at the entrance to the tunnel, and he shouted at them to run.  Stumbling out into the dry creek bed, they turned around just in time to see the clown man standing in the tunnel entrance glowering.  He said the man had steak knives attached to his hands somehow, and he was clinking them against each other in a menacing fashion.  They ran out of the ditch and called their parents, who called the police, who said they'd check it out, but didn't seem to take their claims very seriously, and even threatened to charge them all with trespassing.

 

Well, kids will be kids, and of course, the boys told their classmates, who told their friends, and word quickly got around that there was a killer clown in the tunnels down under Tamarac Square, which spurred on a wave of kids going down there trying to see the clown.  Imagine "Blair Witch Project" but, on steroids.  Several other children claimed to have seen the clown after that, one boy said he saw it dragging it's dagger like fingers down the side of the tunnel; another one said they saw it crawling out at them.  And then, no killer clown hysteria would be complete without the old clown trying to lure small children in with magic doves and sleight of hand tricks. 

 

No mention of any red balloons yet, but I'd imagine it's only a matter of time.....