Imagine this. You have an upcoming vacation to a tropical
paradise, and in your excitement, you can’t resist checking out the best beaches on Google
Maps. The swanky hotels, the smooth white sands,
the crystal-clear waters…it’s beautiful… Oh, wait. What’s that?! You zoomed out to get a better view of the
water, but now you can see the outline of what looks like pyramids underwater. But that can’t be right – how could anyone
build a pyramid underwater? Unless they were built so long ago that they’ve
since been submerged… Google Maps and Google Earth are essential
tools for travelers, or anyone who ever needed to go anywhere. But occasionally, people have found more than
they were bargaining for. Let’s take a look at the strangest things
found on Google Maps, ranging from the mildly funny to the downright terrifying. What would you do if you had an annoying neighbor? You know, the type who has karaoke nights
on weekdays, mows their lawn at 5am on Sunday morning, or uses your garbage can once they
run out of space. To get your revenge, you might be tempted
to show your passive aggressive side. Maybe you could give them a taste of their
own medicine or send a strongly-worded letter through their mailbox. But how about mowing the phrase ‘A hole’
into their backyard with an arrow pointing towards their house? That’s a level of pettiness most people
will never reach – but someone did, and the proof is there on Google Maps. Zooming out, you can clearly make out the
insult ploughed into the farmland nearby. Let’s hope they were actually great friends
and this was all just an in-joke… This isn’t the weirdest thing engraved onto
land and found on Google Maps, either. You’d be forgiven for thinking that in deepest,
darkest Chile, you’d find a safe haven away from the modern world and multinational corporations. But you’d be wrong. Engraved up on a mountain near Arica City
in Chile is the largest Coca Cola logo in the world. It certainly makes a strange sight on Google
for anyone planning a hiking trip. So, you might be wondering: why? Coca Cola constructed the logo to celebrate
Coca Cola’s 100th anniversary back in 1986, and it’s made out of 70,000 empty soda bottles. It’s so beautiful it’s almost poetic. Seeing a corporate logo in the middle of nowhere
is strange, but it’s not quite insane. Spotting a giant crab in shallow waters by
the seaside, however? That’s a whole other story. Locals spotted the monster, dubbed ‘Crabzilla,’
in the Google Maps footage of Whitstable, England. The monstrous creature appears to be around
fifty-foot-long and lurking in the shallow waters near the pier. At first, they assumed the crustacean was
simply a piece of driftwood or a strangely-shaped sandbank, but others aren’t so sure. One man claimed to have seen Crabzilla in
person from the corner of his eye when he went crabbing with his son in the area, but
brushed the sighting off as a trick of the light at the time. You might laugh it off, but if I ever visit
Whitstable, I’ll give jumping in the water a miss. This crab isn’t the only super-sized animal
spotted from Google Maps. In northern Italy, a large pink bunny can
be seen splayed across a field with its eyes wide and mouth open in horror. This time, nobody is claiming it’s an actual
rabbit – firstly, it’s pink, and secondly, the long thin legs give it little resemblance
to a real bunny. A little bit of research reveals the creature
is nothing more than an installation knitted as part of an art collective. You can even climb over the rabbit and step
on it, if you’re some kind of sadist. But despite the innocent intentions, it still
looks extremely creepy when seen from Google Maps. But not quite as creepy as a figure spotted
in a balcony in Nancy, a French city, from Google Maps street view. You can just about make out a super-skinny
body with a messy mane of hair, large white eyes, and a demonic look. Sure, it might just be a weird statue. But why would anyone put a scary statue on
their balcony? I wouldn’t want to walk past that block
at night. Even worse, Google ended up blurring the figure
out, leading many to believe it’s something even more sinister than originally believed. If that’s still not scary enough to give
you the chills, try this one. Spray-painted on the rooftop of a building
in Memphis, you can clearly see the following written in huge black letters: come downtown
and play. Nobody from the ground would be able to spot
this invitation, but when using Google Maps, it’s clear as the light of day. I’m not sure who the message is meant for,
but I think I’ll be politely declining. This isn’t the only mysterious message Google
has unwittingly disclosed. In the middle of the Gobi Desert close to
China’s space program, you can make out a strange pattern in the desert. The collection of reflective rectangles are
visible even from space. And I don’t think it was made for decorative
purposes. The pattern changes slightly across images
taken at different points in time. At one point there were circles with jets
parked at their center, another time there were orange blocks arranged in a circle, and
once these blocks were scattered far and wide. There might be a totally innocent explanation,
like testing equipment, but others have suggested something more threatening. Some have suggested the structures are codes
the Chinese read from space to practice targets modelled on US cities. If that wasn’t crazy enough, others have
suggested the pattern was put there to attract extraterrestrial creatures. Again, totally believable. But no discussion about secret messages could
be complete without throwing Scientology into it – it’s just about the most mysterious
group out there, unless there’s a group so secretive that we don’t even know about
them yet. And some odd things have been spotted outside
a Scientology-owned property in Trementina, New Mexico. In the grounds surrounding the property, Google
Maps shows two overlapping circles with diamond shapes in the center. It’s a pretty impressive and immaculate
sight, and its creators obviously put a lot of effort into making it. But what it's meant for is anyone’s guess. Some have suggested it could be a marker for
hidden bunkers. If that’s true, the masterminds at the head
of Scientology clearly didn’t think through their top-secret plan very well. And to finish off this saga of strange symbols,
in an isolated area of Kazakhstan, you can see a huge pentagram. It’s estimated to have a diameter around
1,200 feet wide, and looks immaculately shaped from Google Maps. Authorities have explained it away as the
outline of a park. But do you really believe it’s just one
huge coincidence? Aerial shots can be strange, but there’s
something even creepier about seeing weird things on Google Street View. In a Japanese village called Nagoro, there
are only around twenty residents – but there are many, many dolls. At first, the idea of a quaint village with
lots of dolls sounds kind of cute. But on Google Maps, it’s far more ‘horror
movie’ than adorable village. Around every corner, you can see figures with
blank white faces slumped around buildings. And hearing the explanation behind the phenomenon
makes it even eerier. After the majority of the village’s population
moved elsewhere for work, one woman decided to make dolls in the likeness of each former
resident. I’m not sure why she didn’t just do a
nice painting instead of making mannequins that look like they could be used for some
kind of black magic ritual, but at least she had good intentions. This isn’t the only strange sighting in
Japan. As the Google truck was heading through a
different town in the Asian country, it pictured a group of guys walking along a path wearing
jeans, shirts, and…. Giant pigeon masks. Yes, you heard me right. Pigeons might not sound that scary, but seeing
a group of people walking along in giant pigeon masks is strangely ominous. They also turned to keep watching the camera
as it went by. And this time, there’s no explanation. That’s not it with the scary masks – there’s
more. By one desert road, the Google truck picked
up four figures standing wearing weird masks looking directly into the camera lens. One has the mask of a hairy beast, two have
ghoulish white masks with their hoods up, and another has a red mask with a black bowler
hat over it. Even if they just decided to act extra creepy
to scare people on Google Maps, it still raises a lot of questions about what they were doing
in the first place. Who walks around in a scary fancy dress costume
in broad daylight? A word of warning now: things are about to
get dark. These next Google Maps sightings are not for
the faint-hearted. Have you ever seen a red lake? Well, I hope not, because there’s no natural
reason why a body of water would be red. But that’s exactly what Google Earth shows
in a city outside of Baghdad: a bright red lake. And no, it isn’t because of some weird trick
of the light or glitch of the system. It’s red for exactly the reason you first
expected: it’s full of blood. No, a serial murderer didn’t throw his victims
into the lake, but the blood is believed to be runoff from a slaughterhouse nearby. Actually, I’m not sure that’s any better. But an actual human murder victim has also
been found on Google Maps. In California, a 14-year-old boy was murdered
and left by the road. Google Maps showed the crime scene as police
cars and detectives started to gather, ready to take the body away. But don’t go looking for it, because as
you might expect, the family of the boy asked Google to remove the footage. Another eerie sight is a huge shipwreck from
an island near India that you can see from your computer screen. A huge ferry sank close to the shore in 2003,
but nobody has been able to retrieve the ship or the bodies due to dangerous tribes on the
island who have been known to murder fishermen in the past. It’s pretty chilling to see the outline
of the ship so clearly through the pristine water. Just when you thought things couldn’t crazier,
it’s now time to start talking about the supernatural and the conspiracy theories. In South Sudan, eagle-eyed Google Maps users
found a perfectly circular lake amid the thick jungles of the area. It seems incredible that a lake could have
such a perfectly smooth circular shape, yet we know it’s not manmade. The lake even has a floating layer of foliage. Flat Earthers have latched on to this as proof
that the Earth is a perfect circle, and this lake in Sudan is the world’s plughole. I’ve been thinking about this a while, and
I’m not sure if that makes any sense, but moving on… Another phenomenon spotted in Sudan is what
looks like the formation of human lips in the desert. It’s strange for two reasons: the lips are
a redder color of sand than the rest of the desert, and their outline is made up of what
looks like black dots. In reality it’s probably just a hill formation,
but it sure looks strange from up above. Naturally, it’s sparked some more alien
theories, with some conspiracy theorists believing the lips are a vessel for extraterrestrial
objects. This isn’t the only secret that Google Maps
may have uncovered. At one point, Google Maps displayed an island
called Sandy Island near New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean. There was just one problem: Sandy Island doesn’t
actually exist – its supposed location is all ocean with no land. The island was first mentioned by a whaling
ship, and was recorded on maps from as early as 1876, but since then, its inclusion on
major maps has been inconsistent. After appearing in Google Maps, it was quickly
removed. But the mysterious nature of Sandy Island
has made many people conjure up strange theories. Some believe it’s a magical island that
only shows itself to the chosen ones… Remember those underwater pyramids mentioned
at the start of the video? They were spotted by a Google Maps user in
an ocean by the Bahamas. Once again, many people assumed they proved
the existence of aliens, Atlantis, or even crazier things. If you’re versed in conspiracy theories
101, you’ll know that the reason ancient civilizations like the Egyptians were able
to build impressive structures like the Pyramids in the first place was because aliens taught
them how. So, for structures to have been built so long
ago that they’ve now been submerged under water, it seems the alien theory must be true. Right? If you want a more reasonable explanation,
try this one: the pyramids are actually part of the lost city of Atlantis. I mean, no one has proved it isn’t true
yet. And finally, the most insane thing of all. On Google Maps Mars, some users found what
looks like a secret base… In the midst of many red deserts covering
the planet, you can see a selection of what looks like solar panels and white buildings.What
could they be? A secret station of Martians? Elon Musk’s secret second home? Nope, the answer is even crazier – a Google
Data Centre! On Mars! And they’d been keeping it secret all this
time… Unfortunately, this supposed base turned out
to be an April Fool’s joke. In fact, some Eagle-eyed Googlers figured
out the pictures were actually taken from the movie Martian. So, don’t believe everything you see on
Google Maps, or everything a conspiracy theorist tells you. But some of these mysteries would raise the
eyebrows of even the most hardline sceptic… To see more crazy geographical discoveries,
check out our videos about a missing lost continent and the mystery of the Bermuda triangle.
