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Tunnel Clown

Tunnel Clown

Traversing the tunnel revealed a lot of drawings on the walls, a strange place for decorating the walls. At the end was the most feared of all children's nightmares, an angry tunnel clown!
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this way to the carnaval kiddies
anna
Fri 04-22-2005
C-R-E-E-P-Y.
Me
Mon 04-25-2005
And people wonder why some kids don't like clowns... Great place for one - in a dark tunnel.
RoxieZ
Wed 04-27-2005
Now I know what I'll be for Halloween....an Angry Tunnel Clown!!
Jeremy Harris
Fri 05-06-2005
first thought - John Wayne Gacey
twinkle
Sun 05-15-2005
Chicago resident here. I agree twinkle...looks like Gacy.
Mystwict@aol.com
Mon 05-16-2005
The evil clown from "It".
cecilia
Mon 05-16-2005
Lol, my thought exactally,"IT"!
spacyjo
Mon 05-16-2005
twinkle - I had the very same thought as you - John Wayne Gacy.....
Very weird place for a clown painting.....
silkster40z
Mon 05-30-2005
I am BigDotThe Clown and I have been feared many times now I know why. But, That doesn't explain people
asking me to leave game rooms because they are afraid
Rachael
Sat 06-04-2005
WOW ! here's the clown that looks down from the clouds in the previous pic
vinny
Sat 06-11-2005
You think kids are the only ones who detest clowns?
Twug
Sun 08-28-2005
ugh, I hate clowns
Kara Sunshine
Thu 09-08-2005
As if I needed one more reason to fear clowns. The photo is great, no doubt about that. The subject just happens to be a permanent resident in my own private hell.
IndieQueen
Thu 10-27-2005
No way, Gacey all the way.
Jacy
Wed 12-14-2005
*Gacy
Jacy
Wed 12-14-2005
Looks like the clown from Poltergeist. Scary creepy shot! thanks for the nightmares tonight Motts
Joe
Thu 03-02-2006
I agree, it bears an uncanny resemblance to Gacy.Ugh
lewis
Fri 04-14-2006
can't sleep, clowns will eat me
surly girl
Wed 05-17-2006
ugh. clowns are wrong on every level.
novocaine
Wed 05-17-2006
Clowns get such a bad rap these days, but I always thought they were sad, not happy -- and who wants to be sad! I remember seeing Emmett Kelly, the most famous clown in the world, ever, at Madison Square Garden, when I was a kid -- everyone was laughing at him, but I wasn't. Early bi-polar, problem, maybe!
Janice
Wed 05-17-2006
A few strange, weird, creepy clown stories I would highly recommend: Thomas Ligotti's "The Last Feast of Harlequin", Ramsey Campbell's "The Other Side", and James Powell's "A Dirge for Clowntown".
isabeats
Wed 05-17-2006
Thanks, isabeats -- will check them out.
Janice
Wed 05-17-2006
That clown would scare John Wayne Gacy.
Gezal
Thu 06-01-2006
I've been through that tunnel so many times. How did I never notice this mural?
Brind
Thu 06-08-2006
John Wayne Gacy was my first thought.
Glad to see you all concur!
This is triple creepy.
Lexigore
Wed 06-14-2006
looks like penny wise to me
markymark
Sat 07-08-2006
I.C.P. in the house.
Bob G.
Sun 08-20-2006
Why is the waistband of his pants wider than he is?
Amy
Fri 09-29-2006
I think that's actually a barrel that he is standing in, not pants. But I could be wrong :)
Zebra
Mon 10-02-2006
Omg Its that damm clown again. When I went through this underground tunnel and saw that clown ..I thought I was gunna have a heart attack... I HATE CLOWNS!!!
Shannon_MIchelle
Thu 03-08-2007
The first thing that came into my mind when I took one look at this monsterous clown is;

EVERYTHING FLOATS DOWN HERE !!!

Remember that book written by Stephen King called "It" ?

The clown called Pennywise ?

What a CREEPY drawing of a clown !!!

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.
Joseph
Sun 03-11-2007
I'd have to say KMK it referring to Kottonmouth Kings, who is in association with juggalos "down with the clown" they paint their faces up like clowns.
hollywood
Thu 10-18-2007
So not cool, I hate clowns. They frighten me greatly. I think I would shit myself if I saw this in a dark hallway. *shudder*
Taubin
Sun 11-11-2007
hah wow it looks like me before my haunted house shut down!!!
Ducky
Sun 11-11-2007
What the fuck? I would run if I saw a clown like that. Sorry if the profanity offends anybody. I had a lot to drink while looking at this site.
Depakote Dan
Mon 11-19-2007
Looks like that actor-can't think of his name-who plays Mafia bosses and such. You know, the one with the short hair and thick lips.
Guitorman
Thu 01-17-2008
It sorta does look like Gacy-any way of telling if this is an original to the hospital painting or just more graffitti?
AvalonSeeker
Sun 01-27-2008
It's VERY creepy that when I was looking at the previous basement picture, I was thinking "It would be really scary if there was a picture of a clown on the walls there."

And there it is!

Fortunately, for me, this particular clown is ugly, not scary. But the coincidence of me thinking about it - and then seeing it - is creepy.
Krista
Sun 01-27-2008
You've coined a phrase (angry tunnel clown) that I think is going to stay with me for life!!
Amazed
Tue 02-19-2008
so instead of insane clown possie, it can now be angry tunnel clown!!!
Haski Kimoro luvs andy :)
Sat 10-11-2008
creepy
mrsloureed
Thu 11-06-2008
kind of nutty lookin clown i would be mildly disturbed but happy to see this peice of history
n.y.
Mon 01-05-2009
EEEK! Clowns are just wrong anyway! A full grown man..dressed up to entertain kids?
candilicious26
Tue 02-17-2009
i too thought of jwg when i saw this particular clown ... ewww.
aki
Thu 02-19-2009
Nixon the Angry Tunnel Clown will eat your children.
Tealclock
Wed 03-25-2009
I'm glad you like my drawing.
Jason
Fri 05-22-2009
reminds me of the clown and whatever else they painted on the walls in pennhurst weird minds in charge of the institutions
sande
Sun 07-19-2009
my phobia of clowns just came to a whole new level.
xgothikstarzx@aol.com
Tue 08-25-2009
I would like to second that motion....I thought Penny Wise was scary....
Misty Issel
Sun 11-08-2009
scary as heck!
echo
Tue 01-05-2010
*stares at all the "Ack, I Hate Clowns!!" posts...heehee.
STL girl
Thu 02-18-2010
Hmm. For all you Simpsons fans, Let's hear it for Krusty! *tries the "Hogwarts method", imagining hilarious stuff about something scary*
STL girl
Thu 02-18-2010
I'm not sure if it was the construction of this tunnel, or something that comes with all tunnels, but when you stood quietly in the center of the tunnel (such as to gaze at this horrifying mural) your breathing would cause this echoing humming that would get deeper the longer you stood there.
Mr. Fry
Tue 02-23-2010
Chuckie: TOMMY!! CLOWN! I"M SCARED!!!
Tommy: It's OK Chuckie! I'll squirt my milk at him!
ilovehorseyrides
Sat 03-06-2010
My God.

Not only is it a clown.
But it's an ANGRY TUNNEL CLOWN!


That's the stuff of my nightmares, right there...

I can look at dead people, and deal with vomit and blood and people who stuff drugs up their arses... But clowns... No WAY.
Tiny
Mon 01-17-2011
Apparently --- someone thought that this would be a bright spot in the day of .........?????????? who? How about a pastoral scene? an aquatic scene? baby animals? a smiling sun? and not a hideous frickin' clown next to a grandstand of faces - AAAACHCHCHCHKKKKK
Tjo
Mon 02-28-2011
The one good thing about this building's demise is that it took this freaky creepy tunnel clown with it.
potbellynine
Tue 04-19-2011
As though hospital isn't scary and traumatic enough without subjecting children to evil clowns, painted on the walls of dark and claustrophobic basement tunnels... how many children saw this and felt more freaked out by it, rather than comforted like the artist had (hopefully) intended?
Abby
Sun 11-27-2011
ugh.. hate clowns.. creeeeeepppy.
4fabfelines
Thu 12-08-2011
OH MY GOD *falls off chair*
emzroz
Mon 01-09-2012
Its strange but I dont remember seeing this clown...Im happy about that LOL
ati64
Wed 02-08-2012

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