Robert Kapas and his late-twin brother Bill began creating the hats 10 years ago Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.

Your favorite hats are probably dirty. Most will come in close contact with sweat, oils, dandruff and residual hair care products every time you wear them. That’s why knowing how to wash them ...

Pierrot first appeared in Molière’s Don Juan, or The Stone Guest (1665), and from his peasant origins, has gone on to become the ultimate tragic-comic clown. He is often portrayed pining after a lost ...

An American woman who arrived in Australia to attend clown school with a gold-plated pistol in her luggage has been jailed for a year. Liliana Goodson, a 30-year-old American woman, pleaded guilty ...

I’ve heard of a coonskin cap, but this is ridiculous: A whale-watcher recently spotted an orca donning a dead salmon as a hat. What’s even more remarkable? The fashion statement appears to be ...

Orcas, the ocean’s charismatic black-and-white predators, are donning “salmon hats” again—balancing dead fish on their heads as they swim. The behavior, first seen in 1987, has mystified ...

Always head of the curve, blackfish off the West Coast are bringing back a fad that hasn’t been seen in the last four decades: salmon hats. The ocean’s biggest bullies have been spotted ...

A Greenfield man who worked professionally as a clown was sentenced to a 30-year prison term for killing his infant daughter more than three decades ago. Circuit Judge David Swanson handed down ...

It’s like a big clown joke. And I don’t want to be a part of the circus anymore. "So, I’m not even sure if they’re back together or not, nor do I care anymore," she said. As if that wasn't ...

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing ...

Since the late 2000s, posters on social media and online messageboards have been sharing their experiences of waking in the dark to find a shadowy figure, dubbed the Hat Man, looming over them.