Products such as the "Happy Clown Latex Half Mask" below and scary-looking "Adult Clown Mask" above are no longer available for purchase on the Target website. Original image has been replaced.

Clowns, originally crowd-pleasing entertainers, have increasingly incited panic in people who catch a glimpse of a rubber clown mask. Emerging from forests ... thing but is distorted in some way is ...

In Arkansas, a man was arrested on September 20 after taunting a store clerk and driving around in a clown mask police described as "very scary looking ... with large teeth ... and a very creepy ...

And right now, more and more people are seeing clowns prowling streets, both real and -- almost certainly ... were arrested after pulling on clown masks and chasing kids. In Pennsylvania ...