Clowns Scare Children!

Children don't like clowns and even older kids are scared of them according to a recent study. Personally, I have always found them a little creepy myself.

Is this the result of horror movies starring clownish monsters or masked bad men?

The study, reported in the Nursing Standard magazine, found all the 250 patients aged between 4 and 16 they quizzed disliked the clowns, with even the older ones finding them frightening and unknowable.