It’s a nightmare come true.
A creepy clown doll mysteriously flew into a New Jersey mom’s backyard — prompting the freaked-out woman to call the police, torch the toy and sleep with a knife.
Renee Jensen, 42, said she was relaxing by the pool in her backyard in Harrington Park Saturday afternoon with her boyfriend, Alex, when she spotted the clown doll — inspired by villain Pennywise from Stephen King’s 1986 horror novel “It” — come whizzing past.
“We were just talking and we looked up and we just saw something fall from the sky on an angle, and basically cleared all these trees and went over the top of this gate here and landed,” Jensen told The Post Monday.
“We thought maybe it was a bird that died midair or something,” she said.
When she took a closer look, she realized it was a toy version of the killer clown with fake “blood” around its mouth and “satanic writing” on its head.
“It was the clown doll with the writing on the forehead and I just totally freaked out,” Jensen recalled. “I didn’t want to touch it. I just yelled for my boyfriend to come check it out.”
Her boyfriend immediately recognized the doll as the “It” clown.
At others’ urging, she called cops, who suggested she destroy it.
“So that’s why I burned it. No one wants a doll with satanic writing hanging out on their property,” Jensen said.
She actually had trouble lighting the doll up, apparently thanks to a flame-retardant substance, but succeeded after dousing it in olive oil and tossing on “a whole bunch of newspaper.”
Even so, Jensen, a master reiki practitioner, said she slept with a knife and her bedroom door locked on Saturday night when her boyfriend went to work.
“I was frightened to be home by myself,” she said. “So when I went to bed, I just left all the lights on, locked my door and brought a kitchen knife with me so I can feel a little safer.”
Since the scary incident, she said she has walked around her property burning sage to clear it of any “bad energy.”
Jensen says she remains dumbfounded by the mystery doll.
“We keep thinking now it was drone and it dropped down by accident, or on purpose,” Jensen said. “Who knows, but that’s what we’re telling ourselves in order to sleep at night.”
Jensen, who has read King’s novel and has seen the “It” movies, said after this experience, she has no plans on going to see the upcoming “It Chapter Two” sequel to the 2017 flick that stars Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise.
“I’m not a big fan of horror movies,” she said.