Internet Clowns

"Chelsea's back! And she's here to tell you about the website left behind after the mass suicide of the Heaven's Gate cult members. Afterwards you can enjoy Cristina talking about terrifying clowns because she lives to feed your nightmares."

Presented by: Chelsea
Category: Cult

When doomsday cults with suicide pacts finally go through with it, that's usually the end of the story. At the very least, things wind down. However, this is not the true of Heaven's Gate. Before they committed mass suicide, they set up a website. And, now that they're gone, the website is still active.

The two who run it are unknown, but they still believe and will still give you all the information of Heaven's Gate if you want it, but they will not encourage people to commit suicide. This may be for legal reasons or it maybe because they don't believe in that aspect of it. They did, after all, stay behind.

Takeaway: Ride or die website.

Presented by: Cristina
Category:

Clowns are, historically, an offshoot of mimes ("scene mimes" as Cristina puts it). And after It and John Wayne Gacy and even deeper, ancient, psychological reasons, clowns count as the number one fear of many people. So when David Bowie returned to his home dimension at the dawn of 2016 and took the glue holding the universe together with him, you can imagine how terrifying it was when the clowns attacked.

The "first" of the craze (creepy clowns go back much further) was when a boy reported to his mother that clowns had tried to get him and his friends to go with them in the woods and had later followed them home.

They story hit the news and other stories were reported in the news cycle. It eventually inspired copycat "pranks". Sightings reached 49 states (Indiana already had the vice president) and people (mostly college kids avoiding studying for finals) were told to not engage.

And then they just sort of vanished.

Takeaway: Don't be the clown you want to see in the world.