Well, it's official: Bob Gray was a real person. Over the 40 years since It was published, Stephen King fans have tirelessly debated where the human-sounding name the eponymous evil entity occasionally might have come from – and it turns out, the answer is heartbreaking.
Many assumed "Bob Gray" was just another guise the shapeshifting It adopted in order to move more stealthily around Derry, a costume, just like Pennywise. Said theory was backed up, somewhat, by an admittedly confusing scene in which Beverly Marsh visits her childhood home and encounters Mrs. Kersh, It in another form, who mentions Bob Gray was her father.
