What the clown was doing back there is anyone's guess, for as soon as a mall worker stopped to take a hard look at him, the strangely -dressed man simply disappeared behind a wall, and could not be found when security and the other mall … What makes this particular tale, as with almost every relation of phantom clown sightings, is the fact that these odd fellows were almost always seen in down-and-out, barley successful places like malls and shopping centers.