Have the people of Ireland not heard that you can’t believe everything you read on social? Thousands of people in Dublin turned out for a Halloween parade on Thursday that didn’t exist.
A website called “My Spirit Halloween” claimed a big parade would be going through the city center on Halloween night, and news spread on social media.
But it turned out there was no parade. The website was based in Pakistan, and the whole thing was a hoax.
Someone posted a video from their apartment of people lining the street, waiting for it to start. It was supposed to get going at 7:00 P.M. It took about an hour for people to accept it wasn’t happening. (Here’s the video.)
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Police had to put out a statement saying, “contrary to information being circulated online, no Halloween parade is scheduled to take place.” They asked people to please “disperse safely.”
(Here’s a photo.)
