Just in time for Halloween, here's a true story that'll make you want to sleep with the lights on.

Girls in a neighborhood not unlike yours have been reporting strange people in clown masks approaching them on their way home from school...

Children in Kent, England testified that the clowns traveling in vans have been chasing them around town. What’s more creepy than a van full of evil clowns? I’ll tell you what... nothing.

And parents of female children in the area received this chilling email...

‘‘Dear parents, It has been brought to our attention that some of our students have been approached in the vicinity on separate occasions (one outside Sainsbury’s and another outside Olive’s) by two people wearing black outfits with white clown masks. We have reported this to the police with whom we are actively working.”

The police have issued extra patrols looking for suspicious activity in the area and have been warning children not to loiter, and instead to go straight home after school.

What are these sinister clowns planning?