A creepy clown who looks like the freaky character Pennywise from Stephen King’s horror hit ‘IT’ presented the UK with a riddle earlier this week.

And it was an ‘IT’ consultant who helped unlock the locations where the country had been dared to take pictures of themselves in their ‘scariest faces’ ahead of Halloween next week.

The masked character, who posts on a Facebook page under the name pseudonym Cole Deimos, hit headlines in October after setting riddles for villagers to solve.

The fearsome spectre of the creature of the night led some parents to ban their children from going out in the village of Skelmorlie, on the west coast of Ayrshire, Scotland.

Just this week the clown struck again, posting that he had ‘created a game’, echoing the lines of another famous clown of recent nightmare films – Jigsaw, of the Saw franchise.

The rhyme gave a list of locations where scary selfies should be taken, with some more cryptic than others.

It begins: ‘In the Loch Ness, home to our Nessie. In Falkirk the horses that go by the Kelpies.

‘In Glasgow the man with the cone on his head. At Edinburgh Castle where kings and queens met.

‘In Largs at the Pencil, where Vikings fought. And climb Ben Nevis right to the top.

‘Skara Brae from times of old. And at the Calanais Standing Stones.

‘All of these landmarks from the east to the west make up the country we know is the best.

‘Your game is quite simple, at each of these places… go take a picture with your scariest faces.

‘Post it online so your pic can be found and use the hashtag #Skelmorlieclown.’

For Scots and those further afield with a knowledge of the country, some of the clues may seem obvious, but others are purposely vague.

However Metro.co.uk was contacted by a quick-thinking reader who knew straight away where folks should head to complete the sinister task.

And it was all thanks to his super-sleuthing abilities, developed through his line of work as an IT technician in Solihull, more than 300 miles south of the clown’s last sighting.

Jamie Hall of Solihull College told Metro he ran the clues through an AI program that helped to identify the locations.

Jamie said: ‘With very little effort, I was able to obtain all the locations.

‘Being 10 hours drive away means I can’t complete the mission, but I’m sure someone will.

‘What drew me to it was, I’m a sucker for finding answers. Hence the job working in IT and I’ve always had a curious mind when things like this pop up and with today’s technology I wanted to see if I could do it.’

The end result was a series of 10 locations across Scotland that are all significant landmarks and historical sites.

Source:
courtesy of METRO

by Alan Shields

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