A source of mirth, or fear Cernan Elias/Alamy Stock Photo
It all started at a small housing complex in Greenville, South Carolina, with a group of children reporting a sinister clown in white face paint trying to lure them into the woods.
Two months later, creepy clown sightings have spread to , Canada and . Just yesterday, there were reports of a apparently keeping commuters from leaving the New York City subway.
So what’s going on? The “killer clown” craze is spreading like a disease, says at Yale University, who researches…



