Sacramento Phantom

**Habitat** | Varied

The **Sacramento Phantom**, also known as the **Sacramento Demon**, the **Sacramento Imp**, and the **Clown Demon**, is a purported humanoid demonic-looking creature, first allegedly witnessed in the woods near Sacramento, California, although the creature has since been reported throughout North America as well. It has since become a part of the Sacramento folklore and has been the subject of multiple books, documentaries and an adults cartoon series, Helluva Boss.

Named for the city in which it was first allegedly sighted, Sacramento, reports of the creature in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s prompted a local newspaper to assign reporter Johnny Brock to cover the story. Broxk was initially skeptical, but later became convinced of the sincerity of the witnesses. His series of articles later became a book titled The Sacramento Phantom: Demon's Curse.

## Description

The Sacramento Phantom is most often described by alleged witnesses as tall, between 5 to 7 feet (1.5-2.1 meters) tall, with a humanoid style body, being entirely hairless. The creature is also said to have an short reptilian snout, a white face, small black cheeks, red top lips, neon blue razor-sharp teeth resembling those of sharks and is reported to usually have a disturbing grin on its face. It is reported to have large, soulless eyes with lime sclera, pink irises, and slitted black pupils. Its skin is described to be red with black and white stripes on its long, devil-like tail. Its formerly large horns are said to be present, although they are reported to be damaged and cauterized. Its arms are claimed to be cybernetic and retractable, able to extend and bend far more than normal jointed limbs could.

It is most often reported to have clothing consisting of a red and blue jester cap with bells, a white ruff, and a black collar with bells located below it. Its jester hat's stripe patterns are claimed to be asymmetrical from both sides. The front side of its outfit is said to be bright red with yellow trim at the bottom with yellow hearts, while the back is bright blue with white trim at the bottom and black hearts. It is also said to wear white and purple striped pants along with white and purple striped sleeves with bright red cuffs and yellow trim edging, and yellow balls on its shoulders with light red hearts. It is also claimed to wear black, heeled shoes with yellow hearts on the front, black gloves with red spots on the knuckles, and yellow cuffs.

## Behavior

The creature is said to have two split personalities, one being a more charming theatrical personality with a deep, raspy, masculine-sounding voice to match, and the other being a vulgar, psychopathic creature with the taste for flesh and blood and having no compassion to humans or other animals, behaving more like an actual monster than any known animal (native and nonnative to North America). The Sacramento Phantom is said to be able to speak very similarly to a human, primarily English, although it is reported to growl, snarl, and hiss when in violent mode. The creature is said to behave very similarly to a human clown when not violent, but acts like an aggressive monster in high aggression, capable of ripping people to shreds with blonde limbs, sharp teeth, and cunning intelligence, being reported to be far more dangerous than a human.

## Explanations

* The Sacramento Phantom may be a type of demon and could prove the existence of heaven and hell, and may either be the real inspiration for Fizzarolli from the Helluva Boss series or be a real life Fizzarolli.
* The Sacramento Phantom may actually be a new species of humanoid yet to be discovered by science.
* The Sacramento Phantom may instead be just misidentified bobcats, lynxes, cougars, and/or bears with overexaggerated size, build, aggression, and characteristics, likely due to hallucinations brought on by fear and hysteria.
* The entire story of the Sacramento Phantom may just be hoaxes or fabrications just to get Sacramento more famous.