HELLO and welcome back to the Most Amazing channel on the internet!
I am your host Miss Rebecca Jane Felgate and today I am talking about the Top 10 Scary
Pennywise Theories … and...well there are a couple on this list that may well shock
you!
Before we get into this list why do you let me know if you have Seen IT Chapter 2 yet…
and also what your favourite Stephen King novel is… mine is probably The Talisman
which he wrote with Peter Straub.
Thoughts comments
10 - IT and the Shining I love the Youtube Channel the Film Theorists
- they have nearly 8 million subscribers and I totally understand why - they earned it
with their great theories.
There is a link in the description box for this one… so do check out their video explaining
the ins and outs of this theory - I’ll just give you the headlines...so they think that
Danny’s shining - aka his psychic ability - is also shared by the Losers Club and that
actually the ghost that convinces Danny’s dad Jack to go crazy is actually Pennywise
- just in a different Shape.
9 - Stranger Things So I am talking season two of stranger things
here which I am assuming you have all watched by now… but in case you haven’t...well
close your ears for a few seconds…
Okay...Bob...remember Bob!
RIP Bob.
He was killed in a very savage way.
Bob Newby tries to help Will Byers deal with his trauma by sharing a scary experience from
his childhood too.
He says that when he was young he had a recurring dream of a clown called Mr Baldo who always
tried to give him a balloon.
Bob, by the way, we find out was brought up in Maine, which is where IT takes places.
Coincidence?
Unlikely.
It seems that the creators of stranger things may have dropped a subtle hint that Pennywise
is real… perhaps he is an agent of the Upside Down...his deadlights are pretty similar….or
perhaps there is a bigger evil than that lurking underneath Hawkings.
8 - The Spiders A fan theory was shared on Reddit linking
IT to the movie Coraline and I am actually pretty on board.
So Pennywise reveals what we think is its true form when it turns into a giant massive
spider.
In Coraline, the character of Other Mother is also a shape shifter capable of reality
manipulation - eating emotion to feed herself, like Pennywise...who also eats children.
Other Mother reveals her True Form to be Bedlam, a giant spider monster….
Ring any bells?!
Perhaps Pennywise and Bedlam or Other Mother are related!
Short and sweet up next….
7 - The Deadlights and the Balloons We see deadlights in IT - a non physical extra
dimension.
It is speculated that the deadlights are an innumerable amount of balloons filled with
a glowing light, which are actually the lost souls of the children he has preyed on floating
endlessly lost.
Pennywise definitely does seem to steal kids souls after they look into the deadlights...and
I like the metaphor of souls being balloons.
6 - Pennywise is Based on Pogo the Clown There is a strong theory out there that Pennywise
a mythical but horrific being that masquerades as a clown is actually based on a real life
murderer, John Wayne Gacy, who was scarily similar…..a nasty killer who dressed as
a clown.
John Wayne Gacy made headlines in the late 1970s when he was arrested and charged for
the murder of 33 teenage boys and young men.
Gacy became known as The Killer Clown in the media as he would often attend local community
events and childrens parties dressed as a clown he called Pogo.
He helped spark the killer clown trope.
King published IT in 1986 and says he began writing in 1981...shortly after Gacys trial
made national and international news.
It also does kind of seem like Pennywise has a fixation with Boys, a lot like Gacy.
The losers club us predominantly males with just one female member.
5 - Bill Skarsgard was SkarsSCARRED for life Pennywise is portrayed by 29 year old actor,
Bill Skarsgard, of the acting dynasty.
Bill did an incredible job on both of the IT movies and always seems like a jovial guy
in interviews...however fulfilling the rigors of the roll has reportedly taken a toll on
him.
The actors has admitted to having nightmares of Pennywise long after the movie wrapped….he
said I was home, done with the movie, and I started having very strange and vivid Pennywise
dreams.
Every night, he came and visited,” “It was in the shape of either me dealing with
him, sort of Pennywise as a separate entity of me, and then also me as Pennywise in circumstances
that I didn’t appreciate.”
Skarsgard said he thought it was part of a process of letting go of the monster.
Heath Ledger’s mental health was affected by his role as the Joker, which is said to
have played a part in his decline.
4 - Stephen King Was In The Losers Club This theory suggests that IT was REAL and
that actually Stephen King wrote the book based on his own experiences before his memories
faded.
It is theorised that King IS Bill Denborough.
King is from Maine, where the fictional town of Derry is located.
Redditor Brown Snake 84 thinks that the experiences in IT happened to King when he was a kid growing
up in the area and his writing is a way of dealing with his traumatizing experiences.
It is thought that King founded the Losers Club and with the help of Ben Hanscom and
Mike Hanlon he was able to piece together what happened to them.
3 - 2012 It is thought that the losers club averted
the predicted 2012 apocalypse.
We know that Pennywise is an ancient evil and it is largely suspected that he gets stronger
each time he regenerates.
According to the original timeline of IT - the Losers Club originally met Pennywise in the
1950s, and he popped back for more doom and gloom in the 1980s.
While the movies have adjusted the timeline, in the last time we see Pennywise is in 1985...which
means 27 years later would be 2012...the year the Mayans predicted the world would end.
Those who read the books thought that had Pennywise been left to his own devices, he
would have returned and destroyed the world...some thought he was going to make a return.
The movies have a new timeline, but perhaps 27 years from now….
It will be time to reignite the tale.
2 - Poppin-Wise
There is a theory out there that Pennywise and Mary Poppins are the sameeeee species...horrifying!
Redditor HumanoidMold5 posted a terrifying theory suggesting there is a species link
between childhood favourite nanny, Mary Poppins, and murderous horror demon, Pennywise.
The theory has had over three thousand upvotes in three days… let me give you the deets.
SO Pennywise and Mary Poppins regenerate and return every 20 something years - 27 for Pennywise,
25 for Poppins...and they tend to reemerge to families they have had a connection to.
The pair both have similar powers and are fond of singing and dancing, although one
creature is decidedly more sinister.
They both have living reflections that can function separately from their present selves.
The pair both know what lurks in children's minds - only Poppins chooses joy, and Pennywise
chooses fear and evil.
The redditor draws a link with Monsters Inc here too and says that perhaps the reason
Poppins is kind and friendly is because laughter is worth more than fear to these energy demons.
Maybe Mary Poppins is only friendly because it better serves her needs?
With that in mind...imagine what she would be like as a horror character!
Both Pennywise and Poppins seem to have a penchant for balloons and seem to like Georgie.
I’m convinced!
1 - The Bell Witch Okay so It is a fictitious story…
Pennywise isn’t real… demons dont appear, disappear and reappear over time… unless
in fact they do!
This is a Tenneesee urban legend but it is based on real life weird occurrences!
In 1817 a cruel presence began haunting John Bell and his family at their home in Robertson
County.
They had lived on the property for 13 peaceful years, but suddenly that all changed.
They began seeing strange animals, hearing knocking sounds, hearing chains being dragged
and hearing weird guttural gurglings.
This all went on for a year and John Bell finally confided in his neighbours and a committee
was formed to investigate what was happening.
It seemed that the witch began communicating with the crowds that formed to see what was
going on.
Their energy seemed to feed her and spur her on.
Indeed many say they spoke to the witch.
It seems she knew details of the past and future and she told those who asked that her
goal was to kill John Bell and to make sure his daughter did not marry a neighbour.
John Bell died after a long illness in 1920 and eventually his daughter’s marriage was
called off.
In 1821, declaring her work done for now, the witch said she would leave for 7 years
and then return, which she did.
She came back to talk with Bell’s son, saying there was a reason his dad had to die, but
she never disclosed her motives.
She then fled again, saying she would be back in 107 years, which would have been in 1935.
It is undocumented whether she ever did or not.
To me the Bell witch and Pennywise have a lot in common.
They both are creepy demons that seem able to appear and disappear to their own time
frame ...sure the timeline is different but there are some shocking similarities and the
Bell witch thing happened IRL…….
Which stresses me out!
Okay...enough stress ...let's move on with our lives!
What did you think to these theories
Comments from Top 10 Real Paranormal Events Caught on Camera
An excellent comment from Not as good as : If I die tommorow and if I become a ghost...I
would be purposely caught on tape and hope that Rebecca narrates my sighting..she narrates
really awesome LOL… although please dont let that be your
aim...if you do something awesome I’ll narrate that too.
Carol Cumberland said: I live with 4 spooks...
1 is evil, I'm positive of, so yeah, our home believes in spooks. :D
And I love the company!
I need more information Carol!
I live alone...the only spook is me….
I do like to walk around the house wearing a long sweeping dramatic kimono..soo..