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The footage looks straight out of a horror movie. Three people in disturbing Halloween masks stand in a line on a front lawn, captured by a doorbell camera . They verbally identify themselves as “your worst nightmare,” then approach the door, one by one.

A deformed clown tiptoes silently, head cocked in menacing curiosity. Someone in a Michael Myers getup growls, “Open up the door!” A man with a wrinkled, smirking mask draws his hand across his throat, mimicking an execution. For 11 minutes, even after a resident yells from inside the home that she’s called the police, the trio bangs on the door and issues threats, promising to force their way in for a killing s

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