This week on Paranormal Night Shift, we hear from listener April, who shares her terrifying encounter with a creepy clown in an abandoned funhouse. April and her friends thought they were just going to have a little fun exploring the abandoned building, but they soon realized that they were in for more than they bargained for.
The clown was real. It was alive. And it was coming for them.
April’s story is one of the creepiest we’ve ever heard on the show. It’s a reminder that even the most familiar places can harbor dark secrets. So next time you’re feeling adventurous, be careful where you go. You never know what might be lurking in the shadows.
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Paranormal Night Shift Creepy
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Welcome to Paranormal Night.
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Shift your home for all things
that go bump in the dark and
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your fan stories told.
Here we can all admit that
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clowns are creepy.
There’s something about that
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painted on smile.
What’s that smile hiding?
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We can also admit that every
town has a little bit of history
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that they don’t like talking
about.
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Today’s story comes in from
April and is called the Fun
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House.
On the outskirts of town,
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there’s an abandoned building.
It boards the remnants of a
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forgotten past.
Its walls are covered in the
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canvas of graffiti depicting
gruesome images of a disfigured
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clown.
His eyes are hollow and yellow.
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Their lips are curled in a
silent scream.
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The town folks whispered tales
of a building being haunted,
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claiming that it was once the
carnival funhouse where
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dangerous clowns performed
orchard and mutilated their
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victims.
It’s just a good town ghost
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story.
That’s what April thought, the
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building Nobody actually really
knew what it was for.
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It has fallen into disrepair,
and now it’s just a cool place
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for teenagers to go and maybe
have a little fun, drink a
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little beer, and make out.
That was pretty much what
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everybody knew the building for.
But one night, me and my friends
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decided then we thought it would
be cool.
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We were going to go explore this
abandoned building and who
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knows, maybe do something else.
We entered the back of the
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building through a broken
window, something that one of
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our friends had told us would be
there.
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And sure enough, it was.
We explored the building with
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our flashlights, just having
chills run down our spine.
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Everything was filled with
cobwebs.
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Everything was dusty.
There was graffiti everywhere.
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And yeah, we saw the graffiti of
the clowns just everywhere.
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Everything was scary.
We reached the heart of the
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building.
It was a large room, and it
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actually did once serve as the
fun house’s main attraction.
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Then the center of the room,
there was this lone figure
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turned back, looked like one of
those animatronic clowns.
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Something about it felt off.
Nothing made sense.
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Why?
Why would our town have a fun
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house?
This is just weird.
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The whole thing didn’t make
sense, but we cautiously
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approached the figure in the
middle of the room, The
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animatronic clown with its
painted on smile, gruesome
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yellow eyes covered in fake
blood.
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Right?
At least that’s what we thought.
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I was nervous, but as I got
closer, just something didn’t
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feel right.
I could see it breathing.
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It looked real.
It looked like it was breathing.
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Nothing about the the
animatronic clowns seem to be
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animatronic at all.
As I approached it again, I saw
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that its eyes opened.
It was looking at me and my
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friends, and then it began to
sing a song.
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It’s it’s just fake, one of my
friends said.
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See, there’s nothing real about
it at all.
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But he pushed it, and the clown
pushed him back.
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It all of a sudden started
moving, walking on its own,
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talking on its own, letting out
this horrible, horrible laugh.
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It just kept screaming and
walking at us.
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All the lights in the building
were flickering on.
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It was like the fun house wasn’t
closed at all.
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It was like a like it was
running itself.
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Somehow.
Clown’s face turned into this
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malevolent grin.
It raised its hands, laughing
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and chasing us around the room.
It was real.
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It was all real.
Somebody was in this costume.
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Somebody was chasing us.
This is no longer a game.
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This is real life.
Our screams echoed through the
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room, the clown’s grin growing
wider and Wilder and more
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malevolent, more evil and
menacing.
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He watched in amusement as we
all ran around the room, trying
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to find our way back out.
But we were trapped.
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The thing just laughing.
The clown just over and over,
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laughing as loud as it could,
chasing us around the room.
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Thing the clown that.
Grabbed a hold of me and pulled
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my purse out of my hand.
But but we ran out the window
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that we had crawled through and
we just ran home as quickly as
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we could.
It was it was terrifying.
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None of it made sense.
But we shouldn’t have been in
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that building anyway.
I told my parents what had
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happened.
They they called the police and
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told them that somebody was in
the building, somebody had have
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been in there homeless person or
or something, but somebody was
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in there.
Police went and investigated and
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they didn’t find anything.
Nobody ever talks about it
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anymore.
My parents were furious that we
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even went there in the 1st
place.
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But there’s there’s no history.
There’s nothing that says that
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this is what it is.
Like, why would we have a creepy
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clown abandoned fun house in our
town?
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None of it made any sense to me.
The fact that it had my purse is
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what scared me the most.
My ID, my phone, my keys,
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everything was in there.
And now whatever this was that
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was trying to scare teenagers
just has my address.
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It knows where I live, it has my
phone, it knows where my friends
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are, it knows everything, try to
make it make sense, but it none
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of it does.
I see him now all the time.
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It knows where I live.
I’ll be at work and out of this
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corner of my eye, I swear I see
a clown.
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I’ll be at the house and I swear
I can hear his little song every
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now and then.
I don’t know what the building
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was.
I don’t know what our town is
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hiding.
I don’t know what my parents
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won’t tell me, but I know that
it knows where I live.
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I love a creepy clown story.
Thank you guys for listening.
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And thank you April for sending
in your awesome, awesome, creepy
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crown clown story.
If you guys have any paranormal
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stories, please send them in
here to the Paranormal Night
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Shift podcast.
And thanks for listening.