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Phantom Clown Moral-Panic Explanation

The consensus explanation for phantom clown waves: rumour and official warnings, later amplified by social media, propagate a self-reinforcing panic that far outruns the small number of genuine copycat incidents that occur alongside it.

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  • Phantom Clown Moral-Panic Explanation was discovered by Loren Coleman — Coleman coined and documented the 'phantom clown' pattern after tracking the 1981 Boston-area reports.

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