Conspiracy Theories and Urban Legends

Urban Legend: The Clown Statue

So-and-so's friend, a girl in her teens, is babysitting for a family in Newport Beach, CA. The family is wealthy and has a very large house -- you know the sort, with a ridiculous amount of rooms. Anyways, the parents are going out for a late dinner/movie. The father tells the babysitter that once the children are in bed she should go into this specific room (he doesn't really want her wandering around the house) and watch TV there.

The parents take off, and soon she gets the kids into bed and goes to the room to watch TV. She tries watching TV, but she is disturbed by a clown statue in the corner of the room. She tries to ignore it for as long as possible, but it starts freaking her out so much that she can't handle it.

She resorts to calling the father and asks, "Hey, the kids are in bed, but is it okay if I switch rooms? This clown statue is really creeping me out."

The father says, seriously, "get the kids, go next door and call 911."

She asks, "what's going on?"

He responds, "just go next door and once you call the police, call me back."

She gets the kids, goes next door, and calls the police. When the police are on the way, she calls the father back and asks, "so, really, what's going on?"

He responds, "we don't have a clown statue." He then further explains that the children have been complaining about a clown watching them as they sleep. He and his wife had just blown it off, assuming that there were having nightmares.

The police arrive and apprehend the "clown," who turns out to be a midget. A midget clown! I guess he was some homeless person dressed as a clown, who somehow got into the house and had been living there for several weeks. He would come into the kids' rooms at night and watch them while they slept. As the house was so large, he was able to avoid detection, surviving off their food, etc. He had been in the TV room right before the babysitter came right in there. When she entered he didn't have enough time to hide, so he froze in place and pretended to be a statue.

-The chain letter version-

Subject: Fw: clown

this creepy or what?

:: a few years ago a mother and father decided they needed a break, so they wanted to head out for a night on the town. So they called their most trusted babysitter. When the babysitter arrived the two children were already fast asleep in bed. So the babysitter just got to sit around and make sure everything was okay with the children.

Later in the night, the babysitter got bored and so she wanted to watch TV but she couldn't watch it downstairs because they didn't have cable there (the parents didn't want their children watching too much garbage) so she called them and asked them if she could watch cable TV in their room. Of course the parents said it was ok, but the babysitter had one final request. She asked if she could cover up the large clown statue in their bedroom with a blanket or cloth, because it made her nervous. The phone line was silent for a moment, and the father (who was talking to the babysitter at the time) said..... take the children and get out of the house..... we'll call the police... we don't have a clown statue..... the children and the babysitter got murdered by the clown. It turned out 2 be that that the clown was a killer that escaped from jail.

if you don't repost to 10 peeps within 5 minutes the clown will be standing next 2 your bed at 3:00am with a knife in his hand....

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I hope you enjoyed this urban legend in two different versions. Remember, if you have an urban legend I have not mentioned yet, then PM me and I'll be sure to put it in here. Have a nice day! -J