(beating heart)
- (sighing) My name is Penny and I have a fear of balloons.
I don't like it when they.
(popping)
It's called Globophobia.
The fear of
(popping)
balloons. (popping)
it usually begins in childhood when somebody is frightened
by their god awful sense of timing.
(rubbing of a balloon)
I hate the sound that they make
when people rub their hands on them.
(rubbing of a balloon)
However, my childhood was different.
It's not the balloon itself. (laughing)
It's who it represents.
(maniacal laughing)
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
♪ Happy birthday dear, ♪
♪ Penny ♪
♪ Happy birthday ♪
♪ To you ♪
(yelling)
(dramatic screeching)
(rattling chains)
(laughing)
- What's your name?
- Penny.
Penny.
PEN-NY.
I love your name and I love you.
Would you like a balloon?
- I just wanna go home.
- I'll make you a deal, sweetheart.
If you can answer three questions correctly,
I'll let you go back to your birthday party.
Deal?
However, if you get three wrong,
pop!
(laughing)
Question number one:
Do you love me?
- No.
(popping) (dramatic music)
- Did my mother and father love me?
- Yes.
(popping) Wrong!
Do I deserve ice cream and cake
just like all the other kids?
- Yes.
(laughing)
(sirens)
- Are clowns funny or scary?
- They're, they're funny.
- They're the most frightening thing
that can happen to a child.
(banging)
[Police Officer] Police! (banging)
Police, open up, we know you're in there!
(banging)
(breaking wood) Step away from the child!
(screaming) (firing gun)
(thumping)
(chattering police radio)
(blaring sirens)
(breathing loudly)
[Therapist] I'm so sorry, Penny.
- Don't be.
How are we gonna fix it?
[Therapist] Today was a huge step for you.
How have the exercises with the picture been?
- They're fine, I guess.
It's getting easier to look at.
Did you know that Oprah has globaphobia?
[Therapist] No, no I didn't.
- Yeah, she's much older than me.
What if it never goes away?
I mean, there are days where I can't get him
out of my head. It will Penny,
we will get there.
The next step is to have the ability
to surround yourself with them.
You do this, you conquer your fear of him.
- Tomorrow's the anniversary.
I deal with it every year.
[Therapist] I know.
Now's the time.
I will do whatever it takes.
- Thank you.
- [Jeff] And now, some new information on a story
we've been following here, at XP News,
and it's very unsettling.
Joining us in Greensboro-Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
is Sheila Kelly.
Sheila.
- [Sheila] Thanks, Jeff, clown sightings are still at large
as people celebrate the anniversary
of serial killer, Poppy the Clown.
Later tonight, we will air the shocking documentary
of how the famous killer came to be.
A story of neglect, abandonment,
and where it all started, a birthday party.
(laughing)
(eerie music)
- Tomorrow,
just make it until tomorrow.
This is a dream.
- Penny.
Pen-ny.
We never finished our game, Penny.
How many ungrateful children have I murdered?
(laughing)
- I don't know.
- Seven! (popping)
- Higher!
(laughing)
Eight! (popping)
(laughing)
Nine!
(laughing)
(screaming) (popping)
Why won't you die?!
(popping) (laughing)
Why me, Poppy?!
I was just a little girl!
It was my birthday!
What did I ever do to you?!
- You, were supposed to be the 10th.
(dramatic music)
- [Narrator] Victor Campbell was orphaned at the age of six
causing a hate to grow and develop.
As he grew older, he became too strange
for the liking of the couples that came on adoption day.
One year, the orphanage threw him a birthday party
they would soon regret.
- Jessica, Adam, Philip,
they all went home.
- [Narrator] Because of the lack of funding,
they hired a clown.
The clown frightened him after offering
balloon, after balloon, after balloon.
(popping) (screaming)
Victor used the knife
that was supposed to cut his birthday cake
to murder the clown and other children
in the orphanage. - Where are you Victor?!
Wait!
Stop!
That's enough, Penny, it's okay.
I am so proud of you.
You have officially worked past the hardest stage.
- You were so convincing, I
honestly forgot that it was you.
- I made sure I took the time to get him right.
I've watched that documentary about a hundred times.
Awe, You really faced your fear tonight.
- I never thought we would get here,
I'm just so glad it's over, dead.
- Now, you know, Penny, we have one more stage to complete
to insure you are cured of your phobia.
- [Penny] Okay, okay.
(eerie music)
[Penny] What's your name?
- Penny.
[Penny] Penny.
Pen-ny.
I love your name and I love you.
Would you like a balloon?
- No, no thank you.
- But I made one just for you.
- I just want to go home.
- I'll make you a deal, sweetheart.
If you can answer three questions correctly,
I'll let ya go.
Deal? - Okay.
- Question number one:
Do you love me?
- No. (popping)
- Did my mother and father love me?
- Yes. (popping)
- Wrong!
Do I deserve cake and ice cream like the other children?
- Yes.
- Are clowns funny
or scary? (crying)
I'm sorry, I can't do this, I don't understand.
- You have to, Penny, you have to understand him!
You have to give him what he wants so you can let it go!
- [Penny] Clowns are the most frightening thing
that can happen to a child.
- Stop.
That's it Penny, that's it, you finally understand him!
- How many ungrateful children have I murdered?
- Penny, you've got it.
Stop, that's okay.
(maniacal laughing)
- You were supposed to be the tenth!
- Penny! (dramatic screeching)
(laughing)
(dramatic screeching)
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
♪ Happy birthday dear, Penny ♪
♪ Happy birthday to me ♪