Urban Legends: The Clown Statue

The urban legend is about a sixteen year old girl, who we shall call Melody, who babysits three kids of a wealthy couple. The couple have a huge rolling mansion, and the father requests for the babysitter to sit in the television room closest to the kids, so she can hear them if they happen to call out during the night.

Melody puts the kids to bed, then she settles down to watch T.V and wait for the parents to come home. Melody notices a large clown statue standing in the corner of the room which looked as though it was watching her. Feeling somewhat unnerved by it, she tried to ignore it, but eventually, the statue sent chills down her spine and it scared her enough to leave the room to call the father. She asked him if she could move the clown statue to another room and after a long pause, the father tells her to grab the kids, run next door and call the police.

Melody thought that the father’s reaction to her request was a bit odd, but she was scared enough to do as she was told. Once she was at the neighbour’s house and the police had been called, she phoned the father again to ask him what was going on, to which he replied, “We don’t own a clown statue.”

He then began telling her that the children had been complaining about a clown who was watching them sleep at night in their bedrooms for the past week. Apparently, the parents had been brushing the claims off as childhood fantasies.

This urban legend is quite disturbing in itself as claims to the story say that the clown was a child predator who had been living in the large house undetected for some time before the baby sitter had walked into the room and had seen him. Other stories say that a man dressed in a clown suit was actually a serial sexual predator, who preyed on young babysitters.

Another version of the legend is of a teenage girl babysitting an infant. The girl goes upstairs to put the baby in its cot, where she notices a large clown statue looming over the cot. She calls the baby’s mother to question whether the statue is appropriate for an infant, to which the mother replied, “I’ve never bought a clown statue for the baby.”