In “Fact Checking Clown Purge 2016: What’s Real & What’s Not,” Necta Casiple explains how the yearly Halloween Clown Purge is a hoax. The origin of the Clown Purge post was a Facebook post from a page called Clown Hunters saying that “clowns may be ‘planning their own purge the night before Halloween.’” (Casiple, “Clown Purge”). The Purge posts stem from the 2013 film of the same title and every year the Purge rumors fall short and nothing happens at Halloween to the point where law enforcement isn’t even that concerned anymore. For example, when the rumors first started, authorities were alert, but as the years of false alarms passed law enforcement has calmed down each Halloween. Even if someone wanted to have a Purge-like scenario, it would
