RacheyBachey. I saw the movie "Attack of the Killer Clowns from Outer Space" when it first came out at the theaters. I thought that it was amazing that everything that a clown uses as a prop in the circus to make people laugh on Planet Earth was changed into something EVIL and SINISTER for the Killer Clowns from outer space. Even the "Popcorn" and "Shadow Puppets" would devour people whole.
One time when I was traveling by train thru Germany. (I cannot really remember where I was going or where I was coming from. I have traveled to several cities in Germany by train. I think that it was when I was going from Mannheim to Hamburg but I just cannot really remember. This was sometime in early 2007.) Well anyway, the train made a stop and a man and a woman got on the train and they sat down across from where I was sitting. They were dressed up as clowns. From the moment that I saw them I suddenly became some - what uncomfortable. I was not scared or anything like that. I was just uncomfortable. I cannot explain it either. These two people were talking to eachother at first during the train ride. I could tell that the man was not very happy. The woman was doing most of the talking. And then all of sudden these two people got into an arguement. They kept their tempers under control because of the fact that they were on a public train. Their arguement lasted for only a couple of minutes though. And after that they were silent for about 5 minutes or so. And then the woman started to talk. And then the man talked. After that they started to make little clown skits. For the next 30 minutes or so they spoke back and forth and continued to create little clown skits. There are three things that I remember very clearly. (1) Their face makeup was crude and cheap looking. (2) Their clown clothes were very drab in color. Their was nothing bright or festive at all about their clown clothes. This just struck me as odd. (3) This is strange but it seemed that no one else on the train even seemed to noticed that their was a man and a woman dresses as clowns. After about 40 minutes the train made a stop and these two people got off the train. I do not know why but felt better after they had left the train but I did.
Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.
Most of the time it is your mind playing tricks on you, you are the victim of your own imagination. Then other times it is group effect. Your friend is scared, they are acting in a frightened manner you pick up on this and get scared yourself. More to that point they start saying things that put ideas "into your head" and you start buying into it. Then yet again there is the proven fact that the human mind tries to make sense of items or objects. You look at a cloud "hey that looks like ____ doesn't it" or you see a face in a shadow. Your brain has evolved to do this over the years. Children learn what their parents faces look like first… your brain will try to make sense of anything.
Seriously guys and I am not trying to be rude but if their were spooky things waiting to get you around every corner you would hear about it on the news all the time. Simple fact is the world is just much more simple than that.
Personally I just think it is disrespectful to the location. I feel the same about people tagging places like this. They are there for everyone to enjoy, not the enjoyment of one. So you do something like this it encourages more like it, the next thing you know rumors get out it is a satanic cult and there is more security and no one gets in again. Go in enjoy it, and leave it as you found it.