Dr. Frank McAndrew

There were all these stories about creepy clown sightings.

People were looking out their door at night and there's one under the streetlight in front of their house.

This was very much in the news and it was around Halloween.

Now, I'm not the one who is saying clowns are creepy, right?

I'm just saying, given that people think they are, why would that be?

Well, I became sort of the poster boy for clowns for ruining their

occupations for their career.

Yes, I was the one that was visibly saying things and in the news about clowns being creepy.

There was this ringleader clown on the West Coast who started stalking me on social media and doing everything he could to destroy my reputation.

He was leaving angry voicemails on my phone.

He even contacted the president and the dean of my college to have me, if not fired, at least disciplined.

Now, this was all in an attempt, by the way, to show me that clowns are not creepy, right?

Yeah, my wife and I were terrified that this little car was going to pull up in front of our house sometime with the clowns piling out.

But, oh no, I had to go in and have a meeting with the dean in the college about this clown business.

And anyway, so I digress here.

Getting back to why they're creepy.

Well, first of all, they've never been good, right?

If you go all the way back in history, clowns were always...

pranksters, if you go to the circus and they pull somebody out of the audience, you know that nothing good is going to happen, right?

And again, it's about unpredictability.