Steed says she recently felt compelled to talk to her own 8-year-old daughter about the clowns. “She watches the news … and the first thing that pops up is the ‘scary clowns,’ ” Steed ...

McDonald's once-beloved mascot, Ronald McDonald, has been gradually fading away over the years after a disturbing internet trend in 2016 transformed clowns from funny characters into frightening figur ...

For the better part of nine years, the epidemic of creepy clowns that terrorized so many people in 2016 went almost completely dormant. Those days are ...