On October 6, Atlas Obscura came out with a clown-sighting heat map, a comprehensive guide to all the hellbent Bozos and Bubbles spotted roaming the streets and forests of the United States. But early ...

Hello, and welcome to Group Chat, where culture reporters Rebecca Jennings and Alex Abad-Santos discuss the topics currently blowing up our (and probably your) phones. Happy early Halloween! In the ...

No clowning around — clown masks are flying off the shelves, as a rash of “creepy” clown sightings and incidents continue to make headlines across the nation. A spokesman for costume retailer ...

The creepy clown phenomenon started in the U.S. in August with reports of clowns trying to lure children into the woods in South Carolina. Now dozens of incidents are being reported in England and ...

A chain of stores in Tampa Bay, Fla., has pulled all clown costumes off its shelves in reaction to the creepy clown craze that has been spreading across the U.S. and beyond. Goodwill-Suncoast decided ...