Phantom Clown Panics

From the venue:

The Atlanta Freethought Society is proud to have author, filmmaker, and investigator Benjamin Radford as our April speaker.  He will explore the history, causes, and nature of “Phantom clown panics,” expanding on his award-winning 2016 book Bad Clowns, which was featured in People, Time, Newsweek, BBC, and NPR. 

Most evil clowns are fictional, but some bad clowns are reported to roam streets and parks looking for innocent children to abduct, yet seem to vanish just before police arrive.  Some say they are real, while others claim they are figments of the imagination.  These “phantom clowns” were first sighted in 1981 by children in Boston who reported that clowns had tried to lure them into a van with promises of candy.  In the fall of 2016, multiple reports spread across America (and later around the globe) of these menacing clowns.  Join us as we learn about this bizarre phenomenon.