In Florida, parents can hire Wrinkles the Clown to … Wrinkles the Clown quickly became a viral sensation, and while further videos of Wrinkles sightings were more innocuous, showing the clown standing on a … And: Is Naples being haunted by Wrinkles the Clown? ... people could call Wrinkles supposed phone number and leave messages, asking him to come spook their children back in line. Longchamps told Mills as much. Contact him via email at andrew.atkins@naplesnews.com or on Twitter at @andrewjatkins. No one ever filed a police report in Sarasota about the incident. © 2020 www.naplesnews.com. “It’s called viral marketing, bro,” Longchamps told the Daily News. And while Wrinkles wasn’t truly walking the streets of Naples, looking for kids to scare, people could call Wrinkles supposed phone number and leave messages, asking him to come spook their children back in line. All rights reserved. “Let’s be honest that Wrinkles is not a clown terrorizing Southwest Florida. The documentary “Wrinkles the Clown” examines the real-life internet phenomenon of parents hiring a creepy clown to scare their children straight. “We looked at this, and we said, ‘What?’” Mills recalled.
Wrinkles did make at least one more appearance, Nichols said, when he went out for Halloween in 2017, about two months after the first part of the remake of Stephen King’s “It” came out. Andrew Atkins is a Features Reporter with the Naples Daily News.
Directed by Michael Beach Nichols. Whether or not he answers depends on the time of day — either way, one ise greeted with a voicemail message by him. His phone number is attached to a Google Voice account. The mystery, despite Mills’ investigation, wasn’t ever fully solved. He was intrigued by the virality, the sensation everybody was obsessed with. It’s around the time the hysteria started that Wrinkles faded from the limelight for fear of his own safety, Nichols said. Call and decide for yourself if he’s actually scary, or just another clown fad. Wrinkles is still around and anyone can call the number. It’s still unclear who lived (and still lives?) Leave him a message … For a “few hundred bucks cash,” Wrinkles the Clown is willing to appear at social events, deliver creepy telegrams, and frighten children who misbehave. “People projected their own fears or desires or whatever sort of reaction they had to Wrinkles in these voicemails,” he said. His hairline creeps toward the crown of his head. Instead, it’s more about the response to Wrinkles. underneath the mask; Longchamps said he simply had the clown over to his house.
In the course of making the documentary, Nichols said he had access to the person behind the mask. Whatever happened to Wrinkles the Clown in Naples? It still rings. He doesn’t do it very often; by Wrinkles’ own admission, he gets hundreds of calls a day now — some nice, some not so nice, and many downright abusive — so it’s understandable that he’d let it go to voicemail most of the time. He launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $45,000 for the production, but it ended with less than $4,000 in pledges. Some children thought he was cool and wanted to be his friend. Longchamps intended to make a documentary based on the clown. Longchamps, whose Facebook page says he now lives in Detroit, documented the clown sightings on social media. Callers who dial the so-called killer clown phone number, which is 407-734-0256, are greeted with a vaguely sinister message from Wrinkles the Clown. The clown entered national awareness in 2016 after “security footage” published on Youtube in 2014 began to go viral.
The sensation snagged headlines in places like the Washington Post, Huffington Post and Palm Beach Post. After Nichols took the Medical College Admission Test, he took a year off from school. He explored places like California and Hungary and ended up back in Florida.
Trends emerged: The most common were parents calling to have their children spooked. Mills declined to be interviewed for the documentary. But “it was Cary Longchamps' art project. A video featuring audio of Wrinkles the Clown’s voicemail recording. Wrinkles predated the 2016 clown panic. The Daily News attempted to reach Longchamps but was unsuccessful. Longchamps claimed it came from an anonymous East Naples man — but Mills discovered the footage was recorded at Longchamps’ duplex on Bayshore Drive. Mills, in his original investigation, found Cary Longchamps. In the opening seconds of his trailer, adults leave voicemails. No, he said. “If we were to report this as fact, that this is really happening, that is fake news,” Mills said. As the paper of record for Naples, the Daily News bears the responsibility of digging deeper than national outlets. Previous coverage:Whatever happened to Wrinkles the Clown in Naples?
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