{"id":26964,"date":"2022-10-28T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000022944"},"modified":"2022-10-21T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T21:45:00","slug":"explore-long-beachs-most-haunted-places-today-deforest-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/arts-culture\/explore-long-beachs-most-haunted-places-today-deforest-park","title":{"rendered":"Explore Long Beach&#8217;s most haunted places: Today, DeForest Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re rolling out all of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/tag\/haunted-long-beach\">Haunted Long Beach series<\/a> videos ahead of Sunday\u2019s debut of our newest edition: A scary tour of the historic Bembridge House in Drake Park.<\/p>\n<p>But first, we revisit DeForest Park in North Long Beach, where tales abound of visitors being frightened away in the evening hours while being watched or followed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Haunted Long Beach: DeForest Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sItU2sGyrfE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch all of our past Haunted Long Beach videos:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take a peek inside the former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zIXeGDN1D90&amp;feature=emb_logo\">Long Beach Station 12<\/a>\u00a0in North Long Beach, which landed on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firerescue1.com\/history\/articles\/10-of-americas-most-haunted-fire-stations-o89SwrVNKYFOpku2\/\">a list<\/a>\u00a0of the nation\u2019s 10 most haunted firehouses thanks to the ghost of John \u201cSmokey\u201d Makemson.<\/li>\n<li>Hear the riveting stories of some of the ghosts who roam the graves of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/haunted-long-beach-sunnyside-cemetery\"><b>Sunnyside Cemetery<\/b><\/a>, the oldest burial ground in Long Beach.<\/li>\n<li>Numerous paranormal experiences have been reported at the old\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/video-the-breakers-hotels-luxurious-amenities-turkish-baths-and-ghosts\"><b>Breakers building<\/b><\/a>\u00a0in Downtown, which boasted an abandoned tunnel and creepy staircases that once played host to famed celebrities.<\/li>\n<li>Take a stroll down\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/haunted-long-beach-igors-alley\"><b>Igor\u2019s Alley<\/b><\/a>\u00a0in Los Cerritos, the setting of a popular high school urban legend. Boys would tell their girlfriends the story of Igor, an immigrant laborer who reacted poorly to losing his job \u2026<\/li>\n<li>Come aboard the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/queen-mary-long-beach-haunted\"><b>Queen Mary<\/b><\/a>, where numerous ghost stories have been shared for decades, including that of a worker who died in the ship\u2019s engine room.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re rolling out all of our\u00a0Haunted Long Beach series\u00a0videos ahead of Sunday\u2019s debut of our newest edition: A real haunted house in the Los Cerritos neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":71771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5322],"tags":[258],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2080],"class_list":["post-26964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-haunted-long-beach","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26964"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=26964"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=26964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}