Zozzaby

Zozzaby is a malevolent ghost from British folklore, specifically Liverpool, like many ghosts he was indeed a real person in Edwardian times and worked as a clown - his death was a tragic one as he was said to struggle with alcoholism and depression and (according to legend) once tried to set an entire audience aflame before his superiors caught wind of his plot and had him put in an asylum.

While in the asylum Zozzaby commited suicide and ever since then tales of a strange clown-ghost has circled around Liverpool, unlike most ghosts Zozzaby is not linked to a certain place and is said to be able to haunt multiple buildings : wandering as he sees fit.

Zozzaby is recognized by his long nose and the smell of embalming fluids, he may also be accompanied by a green light - he is always dressed in his clown attire and while some accounts show him simply wandering aimlessly there are more reports of him engaging in much more wicked pass-times.

For example, Zozzaby is said to enjoy manifesting to sleeping children and blocking off any exits, emitting terrible laughter while observing his victims fear - he rarely harms them physically but seems to delight in trapping them and startling them with his presence - this behavior is similar to that of a poltergeist.

Zozzaby may have black, empty eye sockets or bloodshot eyes depending on his victim and he often points and laughs, mockingly, apparently when adults intervene the spectre vanishes but his distinctive smell remains.