Welcome to a new Scary Tuesday, Tiktakers.
For the most part, clowns are happy and fun characters, ready to make us laugh...
But there are some that cause real terror.
You probably have an image in your mind right now: IT.
This horrible character was born from the twisted mind of the writer Stephen King, and
later on came to the big screen, becoming the greatest box-office horror movie of all
times.
But, do you know about its origin and true story?
Get ready to find out...
Don't worry if you haven't seen the movie yet, we won't make any spoiler!
"It" is actually a being without a well-defined appearance, or at least its original appearance
has never been seen.
It usually takes the shape of the fears that terrorize its victims the most, their deepest
nightmares, in order to subdue them.
Though its most common outfit is that of a Dancing Clown, called Pennywise.
It wears a light dress with buttons, its face is painted white, with a red-haired crown
around its head.
It usually wears white gloves, as well as a bunch of balloons on its hand.
Its sense of humor is quite peculiar, it laughs and tells grotesque jokes, and on its most
horrific form, a row of yellow teeth appears inside its mouth.
But It is a lot more than an evil clown.
Its origin goes back to even before the creation of our own universe.
It's a being that comes from a place called "Macroverse", a dimensional plane that covers
everything there is - so big that, compared to it, our world is nothing but a small dot.
It would be a kind of representation of madness and evil in themselves, hence the way we refer
to it.
It came to this world inside a meteorite during Prehistory, landing in a remote place in the
US.
The exact place where centuries later the town of Derry would be built, where the story
takes place.
When the first settlers started colonizing and building the area, around the year 1740,
It woke up with an insatiable hunger, and it could only satisfy it by eating human beings.
He took the lives of around 300 settlers, and once it was satisfied, it went back to
rest again, starting a hibernation cycle that starts again every 27 years.
Every time it wakes up, a terrible wave of violence starts, which has left several tragic
events in the history of this town.
In 1851, a father of a family, under the influence of It, went mad and poisoned all his family,
and then committed suicide.
27 years later, the corpses of a group of woodcutters were found, massacred, on the
riverbank.
The next time It woke up, two of the worst tragedies ever in the town took place.
In 1904, a woodcutter killed with his ax all clients inside a bar.
And before hibernating again, a local foundry suddenly exploded, causing 240 deaths.
200 of them were kids, who were there looking for Easter Eggs, as it was Easter at the time.
On its next round, during the late 20s, a violent mob of people massacred a band of
local criminals by shooting at them.
And another group of racist people burned down a night club frequented by Afro-Americans,
leaving several victims behind.
It not only enjoys scaring its victims, adopting the shape of their worst nightmares and then
killing and eating them up.
Sometimes, it also manipulates their minds so they become violent and hate each other,
provoking waves of destruction.
It hides in the underground sewers of the city, where it moves as it pleases and where
it sometimes takes its victims’ bodies.
There, it also adopts one of its most common shapes… a giant spider, the closest to its
physical appearance that the human mind can comprehend.
Because its original form is that of “Deadlights”, a shapeless mass with orange lights that come
from the Macroverse – by just looking at them, one will die or become crazy instantly.
Sometimes, even with its physical shape, those lights appear in its eyes, so nobody should
look at it directly in the eyes.
For many centuries, It did his own thing, freely, around Derry, playing with the minds
of humans and believing it was invincible.
Until one day, it found a group of teenagers that made it realize about something.
By transforming into its victims’ fears, sometimes it automatically or involuntarily
adopts their weaknesses as well, being subject to their limitations.
This means, not only that it is vulnerable and can be harmed, but also that It can be
finished off.
For the first time in its existence, it felt the fear of dying, which increased its hate
towards these teenagers, and it became obsessed with ending their lives.
Will these simple guys be able to confront this evil being?
Or will it be successful once again, leaving a trail of blood and chaos around it?
You’ll have to find that out yourselves, Tiktakers.
Do you like clown stories?