Why are so many people afraid of clowns?

All started with Ronald McDonald and that crazy clown from the Bozo show. Clowns are spooky, even in the movies. Just look at the line up.

I don't know that it is movies that causes this fear. As an adult I still feel creeped out by an image of a clown, but as I child I would go hysterical if I saw a clown in a picture, and don't ask what happened when I was first taken to a circus - I apparently bawled and screamed and insisted we go home. Ive tried to analyse it in myself and I think it is that the wig, masking makeup and bizarre outfits, give off a sense of "something to hide" and that in itself is disturbing.

----quote Eric Idle voices a similar revulsion to these archetypal qualities: “Clowns are grotesquely painted, horrifying, mad people who come lurching toward us, threatening us, involving us…They know no boundaries. They scare us because they are most like us; they are adults who behave like children. €?

End quote------- trinity.edu/org/tricksters/trixway/curre... Coulrophobia & The Trickster By Joseph Durwin I have met other people with the same fear and it always seems to have stemmed from childhood. I think the reason movies portray clowns in such an evil or disturbing way, is because they are playing on an already existing (possibly instinctive) fear.

I guess it isn't just because of a phobia called "Coulrophobia" but because of the killer / thriller movies coming out where clowns are the ones being the villain or the monster. Of course people will remember that everytime they think of clowns. Besides, sometimes clown makeups really look scary.T.T.

I don't like them because as a kid, they seemed to enjoy invading my personal space and my folks were okay with it. Suddenly, here's this guy, all in weird makeup, CLEARLY off his rocker, all up in my face saying all this crazy stuff shortly after having the "stranger danger" convo with my parents, but THIS guy (again, who's clearly mad) is okay to let near me... WTF? Then of course, a few years later I read Steve King's IT and that pretty much sealed the deal.

You know, there's a REASON they include clowns in haunted houses during Halloween. It's because they're SCARY. Yeesh... I need a drink...

This is due to a condition which is called Coulrophobia. ----quote---- Coulrophobia is abnormal or exaggerated fear of clowns. The term is common, but it does not appear to be used in psychology.1 It is common among children, but is also sometimes found in teenagers and adults as well.

Citation needed Sufferers sometimes acquire a fear of clowns after having a bad experience with one personally. It can also be the effect of seeing a sinister portrayal of one in the media,citation needed such as the monster that took on the disguise of a clown in Stephen King's novel and film It. ----quote---- Information quoted from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulrophobia Here is link that provide more information about the condition associatedcontent.com/article/1348484/wh... youtube.com/watch?v=LshnXhYm4_I.

I think that most of the time people are afraid of snakes because they can't identify which ones are poisonous, and so they are scared of every snake they see because of that. Either that, or it could just be that they've got a bit of a phobia towards them. I'm not afraid of snakes, but roaches on the other hand..

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.