Ireland? More like Fyre-land.
Halloween fans in Dublin felt cheated after turning out in droves for a much-anticipated parade – that wasn’t actually planned.
In a TikTok video with over 100,000 views, thousands of frustrated revelers can be seen milling aimlessly along O’Connell Street in the Irish capital as they try to process the alleged holiday hoax – which brought back memories of 2017’s disastrous Fyre Festival in the Bahamas.
“It was funny. The Gardaí (Irish authorities) were trying to clear the road,” Peter Farrelly, who filmed the fiasco, told the Independent.
Revelers were said to have seen advertisements for the so-called shindig on myspirithalloween.com, which aggregates hundreds of events from around the world and bills itself as the “biggest Halloween website”.
The copy is created by content creators tapping away at their keyboards in various, sometimes remote, locations, the Irish Times reported.
The said listing for the Macnas Halloween Parade, which was scheduled to descend on Dublin on the spookiest night of the year, had been widely circulated online before October 31 – after it had taken off in Google search rankings.
It later emerged that the announcement was allegedly posted by accident, but not before revelers had descended on the city center in anticipation of a tragedy for the ages.
Their hopes were dashed after police posted on social media at 8pm – an hour after the event’s scheduled start time – that there was no such noise and that they should vacate the premises immediately.
“Please note that contrary to information circulating on the internet, no Halloween parade is scheduled to take place in Dublin City Center this evening or tonight,” wrote authorities in X. “All those who gathered at O ‘Connell Street in anticipation of such a parade is requested to disperse safely.’
Attendees said they felt shocked by the incident, a la the infamous Fyre Festival, a so-called luxury music event that famously stranded thousands of revelers on an island with nothing but poor food and makeshift tents.
“People waiting for a Halloween parade,” one disappointed attendee wrote on X alongside photos of costumed people milling around aimlessly. “There are no Gardai (police) around, no official announcements, people waiting on the wrong side of the road… Someone pulled a big scam.”
However, it later emerged that their parade had not been rained on purpose, but was rather the result of an innocent mistake by a writer, the Irish Times reported.
The owner of the website, who identified himself as Nazir Ali, claimed that one of his team members had searched for events taking place in Dublin and found a listing for a previous Halloween parade.
Assuming tonight would happen again this year, they copied and pasted details from another page into their list.
“It was our mistake and we should have double-checked to make sure it was happening,” Ali said. “We are very ashamed and very disappointed and very sorry.”
This isn’t the first time in 2024 that the luck of the Irish hasn’t been with one of Dublin’s busiest shopping streets – earlier this year, an infamous video portal between the bustling strip and NYC’s Flatiron district was shut down after a severe attack. the behaviors occurred on camera.
Transatlantic horrors included a lowlife showing New Yorkers a stirring image of the World Trade Center on 9/11, while another provocateur across the pond flashed a swastika on his phone, The Post reported.
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