2. Halloween is the season for little ghosts and goblins to take to
the streets, asking for candy and scaring one another silly.
Spooky stories are told around fires, scary movies appear in
theaters and pumpkins are expertly (and not-so-expertly)
carved into jack-o'-lanterns.
Recently, creepy clowns seem to be doing some real terrorizing:
In August of 2016, locals in Greenville, South Carolina, reported
a clown who was allegedly trying to lure children into the
woods; then in September, a teen reported a knife-wielding
clown in Summitville, Tennessee. Local and state officials in
many areas urged people to report suspicious clown sightings.
And in South Florida, some stores pulled clown costumes from
their shelves and Broward County police advised people not to
dress up as the masked grinners, according to the Miami
Herald.