The Clown Sightings

The Halifax slasher incident of 1938 saw two young women attacked by a mysterious man dressed as a shoemaker. The ghostly figure in white had actually been a shoemaker who is wearing the costume to frighten his apprentice because the apprentice had been scaring the shoemakers children with ghost stories. Francis Smith got spooked and made a hamburger out of Thomas Millwood's face with the shotgun killing him. He was tried and convicted for murder, but his death sentence was commuted to one year of hard labor for the extenuating circumstances created by a ghost panic.