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Snopes: Don't sleep on this story about English town canceling fireworks show to let walrus rest
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/english-town-fireworks-walrus/Don't sleep on this story about English town canceling fireworks show to let walrus rest
Shouts of "goo goo g'joob" would likely have been just as unwelcome to the walrus as the pops and booms of fireworks.
Emery Winter
Published Dec. 25, 2025
Claim: A town in England canceled a New Year's Eve fireworks show so a walrus could sleep.
Rating: True
In December 2025, a story about humans adapting to accommodate nature spread around social media. The story, which was widely shared on Facebook (archived) and Instagram (archived), told the story of an English town that supposedly canceled its New Year's Eve firework display to allow a walrus named Thor to rest in the town without disturbance. A similar story was shared on Facebook (archived) months earlier and was popular on Reddit (archived) about three years prior.
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Shouts of "goo goo g'joob" would likely have been just as unwelcome to the walrus as the pops and booms of fireworks.
Emery Winter
Published Dec. 25, 2025
Claim: A town in England canceled a New Year's Eve fireworks show so a walrus could sleep.
Rating: True
In December 2025, a story about humans adapting to accommodate nature spread around social media. The story, which was widely shared on Facebook (archived) and Instagram (archived), told the story of an English town that supposedly canceled its New Year's Eve firework display to allow a walrus named Thor to rest in the town without disturbance. A similar story was shared on Facebook (archived) months earlier and was popular on Reddit (archived) about three years prior.
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BBC story from January 1, 2023:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-64139048