Everyone is seeing creepy clowns on the news as well as social media and becoming worried about the growing clown threats who are terrorizing cities all across the U.S. There have been many sightings of clowns with weapons in towns, colleges, and grade schools all over the nation. For those of us out here in the general public, we do not know which clowns mean to do us no harm and which ones are out to steal little children or hurt people which has the nation on edge. How did the clown craze even begin?

I've got the answer for you.

The new movie, "Pennywise" set to release September 8, 2017 is a recreation of the classic movie "It" in which Pennywise is the clown. Is it coincidence that the release date for "Pennywise" was released at the peak of the clown craze? I think not.

The beginning of the clown craze began with a well-placed rumor that erupted and was blown up due to copycats, pranksters, and real criminals. Not only has it been blown up in social media, it has captured the attention of news channels all over the nation. If in fact the clowns are in result of a marketing fail, then it might not be a fail after all.