- [Narrator] In our incredibly
technologically advanced age of Google Earth, Apple Maps, and many other satellite imagery systems, it's possible to travel the world without stepping foot on a plane. And if you do take a
Google Earth world tour, you're bound to stumble upon some things that aren't exactly ordinary. Only unlike these two fellows
who clearly had no idea how to work a 360 camera, not all life forms caught on Google Maps are easily identified. From jaw dropping cryptids,
to hand Arctic aliens, let's investigate some of
the most mysterious creatures spotted by virtual globe
trotters across the internet. (upbeat music) The kraken. Legend has it that a fierce
sea creature, the kraken, once ruled the seas by
swallowing ships, whales, and terrified sailors with the
help of its deadly tentacles. Nordic folklore has mentioned the kraken since the 18th century, often depicting it as an enormous octopus with deadly spikes on its suckers. But could such a thing, vastly exceeding the largest
known giant squids, be real? Well, in April 2016, the kraken was reportedly
cited by UFO enthusiast Scott C. Waring on Google Earth just off the coast of
Deception Island, Antarctica. Scott, using Google's built in ruler, determined the creature
to be about 100 feet long from top to bottom, with the potential to be even longer. if you added its tentacles. The only problem is you
can't see any tentacles or much of anything else for that matter. As it turns out, there's actually pretty
grounded explanation behind the kraken's snapshot. Deep sea biologist Andrew David Thaler of ocean blog Southern Fried Science pointed out that the image wasn't of a shipwrecking
monster, but a rock. Yep, that's right. Thaler pointed out that
on any navigational map of the South Shetland
Islands in Antarctica, you'll see the coordinates
of the alleged anomaly labeled as sail rock,
a well-known formation. But still, cryptid lovers out there, what do you think? Is the legendary kraken really roaming the waters of Antarctica? Or are we just looking at a big old rock? Long lost Nessie. If you've heard of the Loch Ness Monster, you've probably seen this
iconic 1934 photograph by English physician,
Robert Kenneth Wilson. Even though that photo was
ultimately exposed in 1994 as no more than a plastic and wooden head attached to a toy submarine, it hasn't stopped cryptid enthusiasts from continuing to try
capturing Nessie on camera. That includes Ohio woman,
Lisa Stout, who in 2018 stumbled upon what she claimed was Nessie while casually exploring
Scotland's Loch Ness on Google Street View. She noticed a dark figure
emerging from the water, and claimed she saw an eye
and partial lining of a mouth on the creature's left side. Although to me, it looks
too blurry to tell. Gary Campbell, the recorder and keeper of the official Loch Ness
Monster sightings register, yeah, that's an actual thing, said that because no
one on the actual panel could offer up an explanation, they were listing the incident as the ninth official
Nessie sighting of 2018. However, seeing as Lisa never provided any precise coordinates for others to check her claim
themselves, I'm not convinced. If anything, the supposed
Nessie was likely a surfacing tree trunk, and here's why. When the branches of the
surrounding Scottish pine trees fall into the Loch, the pine resin inside traps tiny oxygen and carbon dioxide bubbles
within the wood as it decays. Occasionally, enough
of these bubbles gather to float the trunk upward
like a pool noodle, causing it to surface like
an animal coming up for air. At least that's one possible explanation. Let me know your theory in the comments. Other Nessie sightings are decidedly more
beast-like in appearance. Like this shadowy form caught
on Apple Maps on the Loch. The figure, which is estimated
to measure about 100 feet and looks like it has two
flippers propelling it forward, was studied for six
months by Gary Campbell and his highly official
Loch Ness Monster fan club before they once again concluded it was very likely to be
the slippery rascal Nessie. Despite the club's claim, however, another explanation for the shape quickly surfaced among skeptics. Deep sea biologist, Andrew David Thaler, the same guy who weighed in
on the alleged kraken earlier, chocked the Nessie sighting
up to the inaccurate stitching of photos that sometimes occurs with satellite imaging like this. Usually, satellite apps
stitch several pictures of the same scene together to form a more cohesive view of the world below, and the programs occasionally glitch out. Thaler suggested a couple of snapshots featuring a moving boat were
stitched with some others taken a few seconds later, inadvertently deleting the boat, or at least fading it
out almost completely, leaving only the wake and
choppy water in front of it. But what do you think? Is this boat trail theory all part of the great Nessie coverup? Or is that fishy image not quite as full of mythological fish as it seems? Anaconda in Asia. In February 2009, a
member of a disaster team monitoring flood regions across Borneo reportedly captured this shocking and conveniently pixelated image while flying over the river
Baleh in a helicopter. The shot, which shows an alleged
100 feet long wavy object floating along the river sparked rumors that a mythical shape-shifting
snake called Nabau had returned to the area. But it also sparked rumors
of, well, Photoshop. For starters, those dismissing the site claimed that the river in the photo is a different color to
the real Baleh river, which is naturally a murky brown. Another red flag is that the
photo was submitted anonymously by an unnamed member of
an unnamed disaster team. There's also the interesting
composition of the photo, namely the snake-like
creature posing at full length for the camera while perfectly
centered in the river. Of course, the photographer
might've just been lucky, but the questions don't end there. For a snake of this size
to exist in these regions, there'd need to be enough of them to sustain a breeding population. And if there was indeed a necessary breeding population of dozens, why haven't they been spotted before? Well, there's one thing above all else that answers that question and
proves this photo is a phony. The fact that this image, which is actually a riverbend
in Africa's Congo Basin, appeared online a year earlier in 2008, conveniently without the snake. Clearly suggesting someone
had not only added the reptile in Photoshop, but completely
mis-attributed the location. That's just cold blooded. New Zealand Coast Creeper. In December 2014, Google Earth
fanatics were left in awe when a peculiar site was spotted
in New Zealand's Oak Bay. Seemingly approaching 1000 feet long, the possibility of the
odd shape being the trail left by a boat was quickly dismissed by some theorizers due
to no foam being present, like with normal wakes made by motors. So is there some gargantuan
unknown sea monster zipping along the coast of New Zealand? Well, the scientists who
piped in on the matter were quick to put the
subsequently named Taniwha, which means troll to New
Zealand's indigenous Maori people, back to myth. Richard Gorman, a coastal
and physical processes scientists in the area chocks
the trail up to that of a boat about 16 feet long. According to him, not all
boats necessarily leave long lasting foam, with
some instead leaving distinctive long-lasting ripples. And several Australian researchers agreed, suggesting the waves were consistent with those of a catamaran
traveling at about seven knots or eight miles per hour. Most likely the photo was
another stitching glitch from Google's side, making
the boat seemingly vanish after it took a right turn near the top. Once more, to explain the
seemingly unusual length, that trail could've been
several different trails captured over several
minutes stitched together just like these women
at the Statue of Liberty who all received doppelgangers
because of bad stitching. So catamaran, stitching
glitch, or giant sea serpent. You decide. Mexican Creepy Crawly. If you're and arachnophobe and you've got holiday plans to Mexico, you might want to cancel your trip, depending on whether or not you believe this next petrifying Google
Earth sighting to be true. In July 2016, YouTuber
MexicoGeek posted a video claiming to have spotted a spider, roughly the size of a bus on Google Earth. The video was shared by the popular blog UFO Sightings Daily,
as run by Scott Waring, our kraken believer from earlier. Only once his fans caught
whiff of this sighting, they began tearing it apart. For starters, MexicoGeek
doesn't provide any coordinates to support their find, nor do they give any details with regards to the actual date of the discovery. Plus, how would a giant
spider even get born and continue to survive all
alone on a tiny island like this surrounded by water? Not to mention if I zoom in on the spider, I think you'll agree, it looks
pretty darn photo-shopped. I mean, we could try to
explain this one away with shadows or possible
algae growing on the rocks, but it doesn't really
seem necessary, does it? Frozen in Time. If you thought the kraken
was as weird as it gets in Antarctic Google Maps, you were wrong. In January 2021, a YouTuber
who goes by MRMBB333 came across the suspected remains of a long, extinct creature. Allegedly having thawed
out from melting ice on Google Earth Street View, roughly 50 miles inland
from the Antarctic coast. But even though the
skeleton is entirely real, MRMBB333 estimated it to
be 12 to 20 feet long, and even claimed to have
spotted front and rear legs characteristic to those of dinosaurs. Except moving the camera a
little for some sizing context suggests the remains are
actually around five feet long, and those same front and rear legs are actually characteristic
of not dinosaurs, but a still living
species, the leopard seal. Just take a look at this
skeleton of a leopard seal on display in the Otago
Museum, New Zealand. And if you're wondering what
a seal could possibly be doing 50 miles inland, there's a
pretty logical explanation. Even though leopard seals
are solitary creatures and spend most of their time in the water, they do come on land during mating season. While traveling 50 miles
inland is still unusually far for a leopard seal, this lonely fellow was
probably looking for a partner when it likely ran out of food or kicked to the bucket
one way or another. And worst of all, it looks like his date never showed. Mountain Lurker. It seems Antarctica is a hub of interest for lovers of the strange
and seemingly unexplainable, because in January
2020, the ever mentioned Google Earth Explorer Scott Waring, spotted what he dubbed
a 66 feet tall alien on the side of a mountain in Antarctica. The so-called alien
looks more like a shadow, given how flat the ground is, but Scott remained confident
in his fine regardless. While it certainly could be said to resemble something with a head, two legs, and armless shoulders, that's not quite enough to
convince some online skeptics. The most popular counter theory is the seemingly humanoid structure being nothing more than rocks, partially uncovered in the snow. Most likely, skeptics argue, Scott experienced a case of pareidolia, which is the human brain's
tendency to see familiar objects or patterns in otherwise
unrelated and random objects. Just like seeing a face in a tree stump, we may think we're seeing
an alien in the snow, when all likelihood
suggests we're probably not. But hey, on the off chance it is real, someone better go help
the poor guy back up. Cracking Area 51. When he finished looking for evidence of extra terrestrial life in Antarctica, it seems the king of all
things odd, mysterious, and satellite image based, Scott Waring, moved on to the one
place all UFO enthusiasts are dying to get into, Area 51. After zooming in on the highly classified Air Force base in Nevada, Scott used the program's
time-lapse feature to study the base's happenings. And lo and behold, he
captured, supposedly, at least to two 50 feet tall robots moving across the grounds
between 2006, 2009, and 2012. Only, according to him, they were always strangely lying down as opposed to standing up. Now that might have
something to do with the fact that they look a lot like
the low-resolution shadows of buildings and other
equipment on the base, but Scott's got a more fun theory. Scott theorizes that the
robots were alien technology captured by the US military, but the ultimate goal of utilizing them in future combat missions. But if that were the case, wouldn't they want to keep
their robots covered up rather than basking in the hot desert sun? Hey, maybe alien robots like sunbathing. Who are we to say? Thing under the bridge. If researching this video
taught me one thing, it's that some people have an outrageous amount of free time on their hands. Just take YouTuber Hidden Underbelly 2.0, who in June 2019 spotted an eerie anomaly on Google Earth Street View
tucked below a random bridge in Ithaca, New York. The bridges underside seemingly
shows a bulbous eyed face hiding in the shadows, which was quickly classified
by UFO enthusiasts as an alien waiting for a
victim to pass under the bridge. But while the sighting does
have a certain spookiness to it, there's probably a more logical
explanation than aliens. Some skeptic commenters on YouTube were quick to suggest graffiti, while others simply theorized that someone had planted a scary mask
there to frighten someone. In my opinion, it's probably just part of the bridge's construction, a studded metal beam half in shadow, causing it to appear like a face, especially since the supposedly alien is just a face tucked in the corner without any space for limbs. Whatever the case though, I
think the real question is, what was hidden underbelly
2.0 doing looking so closely under that random bridge
in the first place? Corfu Island Creature. Though this next mysterious sighting wasn't captured by satellite, it still provided a head scratcher for armchair zoologists
and cryptid lovers alike. In October 2015, Scotsman Harvey Robertson was enjoying a boat ride
off the coast of Parga, a town in Northwestern, Greece, when he tried to capture the spectacular blue color of the water
with his iPhone camera, only instead, in two of Harvey's photos, an unidentified creature
appeared to be popping its strange gray head out of the water before vanishing again. Oddly, Harvey couldn't
remember noticing the creature in the moment, but after
the photo went viral, internet crawlers were quick
to classify the creature as anything from a beaked whale to a bizarre cross between
a hippo and a crocodile. But while the thing in the image does display some animalistic features, I don't think Marine biologists should descend upon Parga just yet. Shortly after seeing the
photo, Dr. Darren Naish, a paleontologist at the
National Oceanography Center at the University of
South Hampton, England came up with a near perfect match for the mysterious monster,
and it wasn't an animal at all. He pointed out the image's
subject striking similarity to a low freeboard fender,
also known as a boat bumper, used to protect boats
from bumping into things. Not only does the fender
have the same black marking resembling an animal's eye, it even has the same shape near the tip of what looks like a snout. So it appears Greece
might not actually have the latest unidentified Marine species inhabiting its waters. It may well just have
a population of sailors with broken, partially unprotected boats. Out of this world. In August 2014, another paranormal loving YouTuber by the name of WowForreeel
claimed to have discovered something quite out of
this world, literally. The YouTuber was exploring
the moon's surface via Google Moon, yes, that's a thing, when they came across
a very humanoid figure. Again, seemingly with no arms, walking and casting a shadow. It's certainly a little creepy, but before you get out your tinfoil hat and board up your windows, even this chilling sighting
failed to withstand the power of logic. And no, NASA didn't accidentally leave one of their astronauts on the moon. Shortly after WowForreeel's
video went viral, a spokesperson for NASA, Robert Jacobs, was quick to provide an explanation that very few would've guessed. According to him, NASA had
cross-checked the photo against its trove of images
from the same time and location, and chocked the figure up to one thing, a piece of debris on one
of the camera lenses. Now, many conspiracy
theorists may assume NASA is trying to cover up the truth, but space enthusiasts across the internet have also delivered
some proof of their own. In a thread on the
forum site metabunk.org, photos have been shared of
the same so-called alien spotted in the exact same position on different spots of the moon, providing some difficult to deny evidence for NASA's explanation. I mean, it's either debris
or our buddy the moon man is obsessed with reaching
his daily step count. Pripyat Grim Reaper. The abandoned city of
Pripyat in Northern Ukraine was famously evacuated
during the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in 1986. More recently, in February 2021, the Erie town once again made headlines when TikToker @hidden.on.google.earth uncovered a particularly spooky anomaly on Google Street View in what was once the Pripyat post office. In the shot, postcards and
letters litter the floor, while a colorful mural
remains intact on the walls, but there's something else
out of place in the room. There, by the window sill, stands in Erie figure that
looks like the angel of death in a robe, reaching
out to harvest the soul of the unfortunate camera operator. It's impossible to see the figure's face as it's covered by some kind
of cloak, or so it seems. If you zoom out on the
cloaked grim reaper, you'll see that it's
actually just an everyday man with his face blurred out. And if you zoom out to
view the entire room, you'll see that the reaper
also has a friend next to him who isn't as terrified as he should be. As it turns out, the photo
was taken by Alexander Sirota, chairman of the Public Council at the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management. And the grim Reaper is merely Alexander pointing a remote at his
360 degree camera set up in the middle of the room. Not so spooky anymore, is it? And to think, you almost had nightmares about a middle-aged councilman. Creepy spectator. Our next virtual venture takes
us to a residential balcony overlooking a street in the
sunny town of Nancy, France. Only, it's entirely blurred
out on Google Street View. Why? Well, it didn't use to be, and there's nothing
particularly out of the ordinary in terms of looking at
the building itself. However, previous iterations
of this Street's capture revealed a horrific looking
figure with an odd skinny body, large head, and piercing eyes dwelling on the residence's balcony. So is a gremlin stalking
the streets of France? Well, most likely not. Skeptics online have
theorized the balcony stalker was no more than some
type of tribal statue carved from wood. It certainly bears a striking resemblance to this type of hand carved
witchdoctors sculpture, often sold by roadside vendors
in popular tourist locations across the African continent. But even if it isn't a demon, why did Google blur out the building? Most likely, seeing as Google
regularly blurs out images of people which could make
them easily identifiable, the statue was mistakenly
recognized as a human, and accordingly blurred. Only the scaling was off, resulting in the whole
house being blurred, or the owner may have seen the viral image and requested their
property be blurred out for privacy reasons. Whatever the case, with that
keeping watch from the balcony, at least the homeowner
doesn't have to worry about anyone stealing their bike. Mothman. In 2019, Redditor Nekron07 posted a screenshot of a
Google Earth photo sphere image from the Clinton F. McClintic
Wildlife Management area in Mason, West Virginia, which
wasn't exactly all it seemed. The 360 degree photo
shows some green shrubbery with a road running through it. But lurking in the rear, stands a figure as tall as a human, but
with a pair of large wings spreading out on either side
of it and huge red eyes. Upon first glance, the creature
might resemble a giant fly, but Redditors quickly
likened it with the Mothman, a cryptid of West Virginia
folklore with alleged sightings dating as far back as 1966. Of course, as exciting as the prospect of documenting the
mysterious Mothman might be, there's something not quite
right with the figure. For one thing, alleged
sightings of Mothman typically report him sitting in trees or on elevated levels, not
standing casually on the ground. Then there's also the
fact that the entire thing looks like it's made of plastic. Not to mention how the
Mothman appears to be a slightly different
resolution than the background, suggesting a potential Photoshop job. Even if it really was there, some Redditors suggested the
possibility of it having been a Halloween costume prank,
which is conceivable, seeing as the earliest news
reports of this sighting were published in November 2019. So could this have been the
work of a board member of staff at the Wildlife Center or
a very committed prankster? Or are we looking at the
first official picture of the Mothman? Let me know what you think. Barbie Satyr. Upon first glance, the woman in this Google Earth Street View photo looks like any normal tourist taking in the great Chichen-Itza, an ancient Mayan city in
south central Yucatan Mexico. However, when you look at the
picture from her knees down, you'll notice something
completely bizarre. The woman's legs are bent
at an unnatural angle, almost like they're bending
backwards at the knee. The image, which went viral back in 2013, got many people speculating
about what was going on. You can probably guess what
some people's answers were. Aliens. For every unexplained
phenomenon, aliens, obviously, have to be thrown into the ring. Other commentators brought up
the possibility of a Satyr, a creature of Greek mythology, commonly depicted as
a half human with legs and ears of either a horse or a goat. Luckily, people soon began to propose a more practical explanation, a glitch in Google's image stitching. As we've seen already, this does produce some strange effects, but most likely of all,
seeing as no one's been able to replicate the exact Street View image, which would usually otherwise
be available on Google Maps, the culprit is probably
our good friend Photoshop. The similarity of the background image to countless stock photos of the location certainly seems to suggest
our bendy leg friend has merely been masked on and deformed with the help of a warping tool. Well, either that or this long-nosed, backward-kneed woman is real. In which case, she's seriously threatening to steal the limelight from the pyramids of the ancient city of Chichen-Itza. Have you ever made a
bizarre Google Earth find? Let me know down in the comments below, and thanks for watching. (upbeat music)
