{"id":88442,"date":"2025-08-22T10:03:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/88442\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:03:37","slug":"masked-hero-goes-viral-for-painting-over-graffiti-on-buildings-in-northern-italy-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/88442\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked Hero Goes Viral for Painting Over Graffiti on Buildings in Northern Italy \u2013 WATCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-221918\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/From-video-by-Ghost-Pitur-aka-ghostpitur-\u2013-screenshot-via-YouTube.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"681\"  \/>From video by Ghost Pit\u00f9r on Tiktok (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ghostpitur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@ghostpitur<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Under cover of darkness in the north Italian city of Brescia, a masked man has become famous for performing \u201cacts of urban love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Armed with a paint roller and the moniker \u201cGhost Painter,\u201d this unknown citizen stalks the city streets, painting over graffiti left by vandals.<\/p>\n<p>Like all Italian cities, going back to the days of the Roman republic and likely earlier, Brescia has seen its fair share of graffiti.<\/p>\n<p>It can seem ludicrous that anyone would get the urge to vandalize the stately facades of buildings between 100 and 400 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it happens, and Ghost Painter ensures it \u201cunhappens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Little is known about Ghost Painter, but he has revealed to passersby that he is in fact a painter by trade, who works during the day and emerges at night, hooded and masked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot all heroes wear capes,\u201d one commenter wrote in Italian while sharing the painter\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ghostpitur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tiktok video<\/a> that had already racked up 4.7 million views.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-221922\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TikTok-page-graphic-of-Ghost-Pitur-aka-ghostpitur-\u2013-screenshot-mashup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"596\"  \/>TikTok page of Ghost Pit\u00f9r (@ghostpitur)<\/p>\n<p>Once his work is done, he pastes a flyer on the wall\u2014a calling card\u2014reading \u201cThis is an act of urban love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH the masked man in action below\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SHARE This Great Anonymous Hero With Your Friends On Social Media\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From video by Ghost Pit\u00f9r on Tiktok (@ghostpitur) Under cover of darkness in the north Italian city of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,4521,49,48,356,75,52316,4996,42883,6747,1942,22064],"class_list":["post-88442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-buildings","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-heroes","tag-italy","tag-persistence","tag-service","tag-social-media","tag-urban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}