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?

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We're looking at the history of Stephen King's cosmic clown from his book back story all the way up to his first encounter with the Losers club.

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The first thing we should mention is that Pennywise isn't its actual name, if it even has one, never mind, silly old Pennywise.

Rather, Pennywise, the dancing clown is just one of the many forms it adopts to hunt its victims, albeit it's most recurring one in more modern times.

But just for the sake of convenience, will be using Pennywise and the simpler it equally to refer to the shape shifting creature itself.

I swear, I swear if it isn't dead, if it ever comes back, we'll come back to similarly pennywise.

True base form isn't entirely known either.

What is its true for the puppy Pomeranian?

I'll shut up while it's spider like form could be its original earthly visage.

The likeliest center of Pennywise being, are the hypnotic balls of energy known as the dead lights.

What's happening man keep.

It's likely that the dead lights 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 macro verse.

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, six beams matter 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.

You don't 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 dairy main.

While 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 it just goes into hibernation maybe it's like, what do you call it?

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 fear as if it wasn't a despicable enough, nightmare clown, I'm not afraid of you presumably doing this for millennia.

With little resistance.

The first recorded appearances of it come in the 18th century, some 100 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.

It's feeding frenzies are often marked by large scale horrific tragedies.

The ironworks explosion in 1908, the Bradley gang in 35 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, kill him.

The first known instances of these tragedies came in the 17 forties 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 Marks in in 1851 one to kill his family after poisoning them marks in took his own life and thus tied up any loose ends for the demonic clown.

Another of Pennywise, 19th century atrocities came in the 18 seventies when it murdered a group of Lumberjacks and left their remains beside the real life, ken, dusky 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, greatest tragedy of the 19 hundreds was yet to come.

In 1906, the Kitchener ironworks 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 rampage and dairy for now 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, 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.

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This brings things up to Pennywise.

Next appearance with his famous battle against the Losers Club.

Every nightmare you've ever had.

I am your worst dream come true on everything you 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 there's something that Pennywise is long history shows us, it's that there are an endless amount of horrific stories to be told featuring the terrifying clown.