{"id":1725,"date":"2017-09-06T17:48:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greeverwilliams.com\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2017-09-06T18:02:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T18:02:20","slug":"coulrophobia-other-strangeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greeverwilliams.com\/?p=1725","title":{"rendered":"A Healthy Dose of Coulrophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The movie adaptation of Stephen King&#8217;s It premieres this Friday. My son (aka my trusty horror-movie sidekick) and I have already secured our tickets. If the trailers are any indication, this movie looks to be true to the novel&#8230;and absolutely terrifying.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IT Trailer 2 (2017)\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xE0kRwDXn7o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stephen King is the master of taking benign, everyday things and making them into horror masterpieces &#8211; classic cars, cell phones, hotel rooms and even man&#8217;s best friend! It&#8217;s no wonder that in his hands our collective coulrophobia (our fear of clowns) is soaring to new heights. But I actually began my healthy fear of the make-upped monsters a few years earlier. \u00a0Remember that scene from the original Poltergeist? And thus I joined the unwilling ranks of the coulrophobes at an early age. But I am not alone. Studies suggest that at least 12%\u00a0of the world&#8217;s adult population shares in some level of clown fear. And who could blame them? There are creepy clown stories all across the web.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"America\u2019s creepy clown craze, explained\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ggS6LBhH7Fo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fear of clowns is nothing new and nothing unique. Anybody else out there afraid of clowns?\u00a0If so, are you going to engage in some &#8220;exposure therapy&#8221;\u00a0like me and go see It this weekend?\u00a0Everybody is afraid of something right? 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