I’m personally quite afraid of clowns. I came across one of the questions in Yahoo! Answers that has a satisfatory answer.
Why do so many people have a fear of clowns?
The official term for this irrational aversion to red-nosed entertainers is coulrophobia. While many are merely creeped out by clowns, the fear runs much deeper for others, affecting their daily lives.
Several theories attempt to explain the origins of the phobia, though none seem definitive. One of the more interesting comes from Kathryn Cillick. She believes most people are afraid of clowns because it’s impossible to gauge a clown’s true emotions. Thanks to painted-on smiles, people can’t distinguish if the clown is as happy as he seems or if he’s actually about to bite somebody’s face off.
Several celebrities are decidedly anti-clown. Rapper P. Diddy has a “no clown” clause in his concert contracts. Johnny Depp had nightmares of clowns as a kid. And, of course there’s Bart Simpson, whose utterance “Can’t sleep, clown will eat me” speaks volumes about his feelings on the subject.
Source: Yahoo! Answers
Clown don’t look friendly to me at all, their hidden emotions made them even scarier perhaps.
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GAHHHH i detest clowns. Somehow they just scare me. I remember I was being carries by a clown for some photo-taking when I was very young and I started crying. Haha!
by Jesslyn (Mar 22, 2007 at 5 PM)I hate them too, perhaps it’s in our genes, hahaa…
by Mr. Dew (Mar 23, 2007 at 2 AM)I am not like terrefied terrefied of clowns but they do creep me out. If I was to run into one in a dark room i would more then likely become petrafhied thoe. I HATE clowns to the bone. I find them to be posotively pointless. I mean really, whats the use of them?
by jody wheeler (Oct 26, 2007 at 10 AM)They are stupid. And whats really scary about them is you never know how they are trooly feeling. I mean how would you feel if you had a bunch of 5 year olds hitting on you all day and you need a ciggarett or something like that? Not to peachy. One day someone could catch them in a mood like that and reap the consequinses. And i do not want to be that person!