This could be a real-life horror story: Residents of Greenville, South Carolina are freaking out after reports of people dressed as clowns spotted trying to lure children into the woods. There’s little evidence the clowns exist, according to The Atlantic’s Laura Wagner,and it all began when “a resident said her son told her on August 19 that he had seen clowns in the woods. Those clowns, the boy told his mother, were ‘whispering and making strange noises.’ The woman went to the area and, the officer wrote, she ‘observed several clowns in the woods flashing green laser lights.’ The clowns then ran away, she told [a police] officer.” However, so far, “no police officer investigating the claims has seen a single clown,” a spokesman for the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, told The Atlantic.