Pennywise
yes me George
Georgie meet Pennywise welcome to watch
Mojo and today we're breaking down the
origins of Pennywise you know what he
did what did he do Mrs Kirsch
father joined the circus for this video
we're looking at the history of Stephen
King's Cosmic clown from his book
backstory all the way up to his first
encounter with the losers Club what do
you hope to see in the upcoming welcome
to Dairy prequel series let us know in
the comments
the first thing we should mention is
that Pennywise isn't its actual name if
it even has one oh never mind
oh silly old Pennywise rather Pennywise
the Dancing Clown is just one of the
many forms it adopts to hunt its victims
albeit its most recurring one in more
modern times but just for the sake of
convenience we'll be using Pennywise and
the simpler it equally to refer to the
shape-shifting creature itself I swear
swear
if it isn't dead
if it ever comes back
we'll come back to similarly pennywise's
true base form isn't entirely known
either what is its true form how about
the puppy
a Pomeranian
I'll shut up while it's spider-like form
could be its original Earthly Visage the
likeliest center of pennywise's being
are the hypnotic balls of energy known
as the deadlights
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it's likely that the deadlights are the
source of its abilities as they are the
prison that traps The Souls of its
victims still what we don't know about
Pennywise is often what makes it so
frightening
as many as billions of years old
Pennywise originated in a realm outside
the known universe called the macroverse
though not confirmed it's been suggested
in the Dark Tower series that Pennywise
was created by a being known as the
other which may be the Godlike figure
known as Gan who is the embodiment of
the tower itself one of the 12 Guardians
of the tower's six beams matcher in the
turtle is credited with creating our
universe having vomited it up due to a
tummy ache and hey we've all been there
gonna see the vomit coming out of my
nose this morning that's disgusting
sometime after the universe was created
Pennywise made its way to Earth crash
landing in what would eventually become
Derry Maine well I sat there looking out
over the valley I saw it arrive once it
became inhabited with people Pennywise
began its Infamous quarter Century cycle
Awakening from hibernation every 25 27
years to feed okay so let me get this
straight it comes out from wherever to
eat kids for like a year and then what
maybe it's like
cicadas you know the bugs that come out
once every 17 years though it doesn't
discriminate Pennywise prefers to Feast
on children as their heightened fear
makes them taste better tasty tasty
beautiful
as if it wasn't a Despicable enough
nightmare clown I'm not afraid of you
foreign
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presumably doing this for Millennia with
Little Resistance the first recorded
appearances of it come in the 18th
century some hundred years after
Colonials first settled in Maine though
Pennywise keeps a large portion of the
Town under its thrall insofar as almost
all the adults tend to look the other
way at its individual murders its
feeding frenzies are often marked by
large-scale horrific tragedies the
Ironworks explosion in 1908 the Bradley
gang in 35 and the black spot in 62. and
now kids being
these are often brought about by Those
whom Pennywise has possessed into doing
its Wicked bidding such as the deranged
Henry Bowers in the mainline it
timelines make it a wonderful day kill
him
kill him
kill him kill him
kill him
the first known instances of these
tragedies came in the 1740s when after
Pennywise feasted for some three years
upwards of 300 Settlers of Derry
Township disappeared in a mystery very
similar to that of the real-life Roanoke
colony everybody just thought it was a
plague or something but it's like
one day everybody just woke up and left
why anyone would want to resettle in a
cursed town like Dairy is beyond us you
know aside from a mind-controlling clown
coercing them to do so here's Johnny
similar to Henry Bowers Pennywise
possessed a man named John markson in
1851 to kill his family after poisoning
them marxen took his own life and thus
tied up any loose ends for the Demonic
clown another of pennywise's 19th
century atrocities came in the 1870s
when it murdered a group of lumberjacks
and left their remains beside the
real-life kendusky extreme
but this wouldn't be the only Lumberjack
related incident Pennywise would incite
at the turn of the 20th century a man
named Claude Haru murdered several men
at a bar with a double-bladed ax
however pennywise's greatest tragedy of
the 1900s was yet to come in 1906 the
Kitchener Iron Works exploded a whopping
108 people were killed 88 of whom were
children participating in an Easter egg
hunt after such an atrocity you would be
correct in assuming this marked the end
of pennywise's Rampage in Dairy for now
back boy
Upon returning in 1929 Pennywise
orchestrated the slaughter of the
Bradley gang a group of murdering
robbers in Derry
though nearly all the townsfolk would
pretend the shootout involving ordinary
citizens Never Happened One witness does
remember seeing a clown in Farmer's Garb
joining in
continuing the series of heinous
calamities of the 20th century 1930 saw
the burning down of the black spot a
nightclub frequented by black soldiers
stationed at the nearby army base it was
the work of arson by the hate group the
main Legion of white decency the account
comes courtesy of Mike hanlon's father
will who survived the fire and reported
seeing Pennywise in the form of a
massive bird with balloons attached to
its wings
oh your secret your dirty little seed
interestingly enough another noteworthy
Survivor came in the form of the cook a
young dick Halloran long before he ever
worked at the Overlook Hotel
say like
if someone Burns toast before we
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whether you're working within the
timelines for the book mini series or
feature films this brings things up to
pennywise's next appearance with his
famous battle against the losers Club
I know what dream come true I'm
everything you've ever were afraid of
Pennywise of course doesn't survive his
second encounter with the grown-up
losers whether that be by way of the
ritual of chud or a series of schoolyard
insults
however if the there's something that
pennywise's long history shows us it's
that there are an endless amount of
horrific stories to be told featuring
The terrifying clown
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