{"id":376655,"date":"2026-10-19T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376655\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:10:09","slug":"stupid-hoax-about-ghost-in-queens-park-led-to-invasion-by-2000-teenagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376655\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stupid hoax&#8217; about ghost in Queens Park led to &#8216;invasion&#8217; by 2,000 teenagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In September 1965 rumours about a ghost walking close to the banks of the River Croal got completely out of hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It led to some 2,000 youngsters &#8216;invading&#8217; Queen&#8217;s Park with some of them spilling into the grounds of the nearby Bolton Royal Infirmary and even tapping on ward windows and disturbing patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police dealing with teenage &#8216;ghost hunters&#8217; in Queens Park in 1965 (Image: Newsquest)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bolton&#8217;s Chief Constable, Mr J W Moody, appealed to parents to keep their children away from the park describing it as a &#8220;stupid hoax&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What started the rumour of a ghost at large was believed to have been two teenagers who were seen in the hospital grounds with a white sheet over their heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In September 1965 rumours about a ghost walking close to the banks of the River Croal got completely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-376655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}