{"id":255189,"date":"2026-04-07T05:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255189\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:02:21","slug":"easter-egg-hunters-reportedly-come-across-possible-human-skull-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255189\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter egg hunters reportedly come across possible human skull in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Authorities were investigating after the discovery Sunday afternoon of possible human remains at a Long Beach park as visitors gathered to celebrate Easter.<\/p>\n<p>The Long Beach Police Department responded to a call around 5 p.m. at DeForest Park after a possible small skull was found by someone searching for Easter eggs in the area, KTLA 5 reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Department did not provide further details Sunday night on who made the gruesome discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Further information about the possible remains, including how long they had been at the park, was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County medical examiner\u2019s office responded to the scene following the discovery, police said. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Authorities were investigating after the discovery Sunday afternoon of possible human remains at a Long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-255189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}