• From peculiar-shaped landmarks to ¬¬¬¬¬¬people doing nasty things in the street, we count
fifteen weird and interesting things picked up by Google lenses!
15 – Big Red Lips in Desert, • Pucker up!
This Google Earth satellite image of the Sudanese wilderness shows two of the most kissable
desert lips you’ll ever see.
• Even Angelina Jolie’s lips have nothing on this kilometre-wide canyon in West Darfur.
It’s proof that Mother Nature still oozes sex appeal.
14 – Guitar-Shaped Forest, • This is an aerial shot of Argentina’s
‘Pampas’, a fertile agricultural forest region in the shape of a guitar.
• The garden is made up of over 7,000 cypress and eucalyptus trees and was planted by farmer
Pedro Martin Ureta and his four children in memory of his deceased wife.
• His wife died unexpectedly in 1977 after suffering a cerebral aneurysm during her fifth
pregnancy.
The guitar was her favourite instrument.
13 – Kids Attacking Gumby, • Gumby is everyone’s favourite friendly
green stop-motion humanoid.
He’s entertained generations of young people and, with his trusty horse sidekick Pokey,
is loved by millions.
• So who would possibly want to hurt him?
Punk kids, that’s who!
This Street View shot shows Gumby cowering in fear while two pre-teen savages throw abuse
and, err, pelt him with sandals?
• They would’ve gotten away with it too if it weren’t for that damn Google and its
all-seeing eyes.
12 – Mystery Gunman,  It’s unclear where this image was taken,
but it doesn’t look like it would’ve ended well for the poor guy in the Google car.
 Here a man is walking towards the camera clutching what looks to be a handgun.
It kind of looks like a scene from Die Hard.
 While we don’t know the story here it sure looks anger is his favourite emotion.
Yippee-ki-yay!
11 – Blood Lake, • This rather disturbing Google Earth image
shows a blood-red lake situated just outside Iraq’s Sadr City.
• Is there murderers go to dump the bodies of their victims?
Nobody knows.
The creepy thing about this lake is that there’s currently no official explanation for its
abnormal colouring.
• If you’re planning a future holiday to Iraq, maybe leave your swimwear at home
or you’ll be seeing red.
10 – Detroit Gang, • Gangs looking for worldwide exposure couldn’t
do much better than getting themselves on Google Maps.
That’s what happened when these Detroit-based gunslingers assembled on their porch when
the car came a calling.
• As you can see, one of the guys here points his semi-automatic weapon at the Google van
as if issuing a warning.
Everyone’s always picking on Google.
• Disturbingly, a seventeen-month-old baby was discovered dead on this street just a
few weeks earlier…
9 – Unexplained Fire, • A picture tells a thousand words, but
this one seems to tell a 3,000-word vehicle insurance claim.
• This image, captured in Toronto, Canada, shows a flaming van and a mysterious shirtless
guy who’s come to investigate.
• I wonder if the Google car stopped to assist or if it kept on driving?
‘Google Maps waits for no one!’
8 – Phantom Island, • In 2012, Australian researchers ‘lost’
an island the size of Manhattan in the South Pacific.
This mysterious place, called Sandy Island, has popped up on many maps and is situated
northwest of New Caledonia.
• On Google Earth it appeared as a black polygon, but when scientists sailed there
in late 2012 they found open water instead of solid ground.
• An obituary for the island was published in April 2013.
Researchers believe the phantom landmass had been mistakenly included on maps for more
than a century thanks to human error.
7 – Man-Shaped Lake, • Fans of landscape art will enjoy this.
This is an aerial shot of a mysterious lake in Borborema, Brazil.
As you can see, the lake was designed in the shape of a very happy man.
• Unfortunately he appears to be experiencing some George Costanza shrinkage…
6 – Dead Body of a Fourteen-Year-Old, • A few years ago, San Franciscan resident
Jose Barrera contacted Google after discovering an image of what he believed to be his deceased
fourteen-year-old son, who was shot and killed in 2009.
• In this image, you can just make out what looks like a body – dressed in a white t-shirt
and jeans – lying near a train track, surrounded by police officers and a patrol car.
• Jose requested that Google remove the image, as it was preventing him from moving.
5 – Gas Mask, • Nothing shady going on here.
Just a normal guy crouching in the bushes in some Moscow park, wearing a gas mask.
• What?
This is what all the youths of Russia like to do…
4 – Ghostly Figure, • This photo is where nightmares come from.
It’s a corrupt Google Street View of an American town and looks a bit like a creepy
impressionistic painting.
• The most disturbing part is that you can see a ghostly apparition if you focus on the
centre… 3 – Handjob Alley,
• In this street view of Manchester we see a hard-working prostitute with a heart of
gold earning her pay down some dirty alleyway.
• Through sheer bad timing, this pair’s very private – but also very public – moment
was immortalised right as Google personnel drove by to capture the area.
• The woman even appears to be making eye contact with the Google car – but no way
will the sight of a vehicle and camera prevent her from finishing.
What a work ethic!
2 – Hippo Orgy, • In this aerial shot we see a pod of hippos
wallowing in muddy waters at Tanzania’s Katavi National Park.
• It’s likely many of these are sleeping, as hippos sleep underwater by closing their
nostrils when submerged and rising for breath without waking.
• Their pods can contain over a hundred hippos, but they are not considered social
animals – meaning this is clearly a shot of a big lazy hippo orgy.
1 – Public Urination, • This image, taken in 2009 in Madrid, seems
to depict a woman – or possibly a feminine man – squatting down and relieving themselves
behind a parked car in broad daylight.
• Obviously the urge to go was just too great and they couldn’t hold it until they
got home.
No judgement.
Was probably the most satisfying pee of their life.
• Unless it was a roadside number two…
In which case, what the hell is happening to humanity!?