“I just think it’s creepy and wrong,” says Julia Graham of the cell phone video she captured of a person dressed in a clown suit, trespassing at historic Rosehill Cemetery in the dead of night.
From CBS Local/Chicago:
Julia Graham says she was “freaked out” at the figure as it ran toward the main gate. She and her husband were driving by around 10 p.m. “When we get closer, we realize it’s a clown, which is super weird,” she says.
The first picture her husband snapped was of the clown scaling the 7-foot-tall gate at the Ravenswood Avenue entrance. That feat is no easy task, especially for someone wearing a clown suit.
“I mean, this was somebody putting forth a lot of effort — and being really weird,” Graham says.
The North Side cemetery was clearly closed and locked for the night. Officials don’t know what to make of it because other than the trespass there were no complaints of vandalism. It got weirder. When Julia and her husband hung around to get a better look, the clown was not deterred or afraid. He waved slowly at the couple.
Eventually, the clown caught in the headlights of Graham’s car turns around and, without saying a word, takes off into the darkness of the cemetery.
Incidents like this one aren’t isolated. A video of creepy clowns surprising people on the streets of California went viral last year. In New York, a clown was seen making a daytime excursion last year while holding some balloons.
In October, 2013, Alex Powell, 22, a student in Northampton, England, became a worldwide sensation when he freaked out locals by dressing up as “Pennywise,” a clown that appears in the Stephen King novel “It,” the Mirror reports.
In March 2014, a person dressed as a clown was spotted roaming the streets of Staten Island.
Last October, officials in Bakersfield, California, had to deal with at least 16 reports of people dressed as clowns being armed with machetes and baseball bats.
Odd, I have that SAME clown suit in my closet. Hmmmm.
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