The children told their parents that the clowns, equipped with "flashing green laser lights", said they lived in an abandoned house in the woods near a small lake. Greenville police came to the complex to investigate, and did find a trail in the woods leading to a house and a small lake, but no evidence of clowns or clown paraphernalia was found.[249] While some of these reports have been harmless, others reports have been more suspicious. In one instance, a woman reported a person in a clown costume was standing in her backyard and ran away as she took a picture.[250] In one case, an individual had heard clanging chains and a banging noise at his front door.