- Website like Google Earth let you explore many marvels
that the world has to offer
from the comfort of your own home.
But, when you put a program like this in enough hands,
soon enough you'll have people pointing out that the world
isn't just full of beautiful and breathtaking sites.
In fact, some of them are downright disturbing.
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Here are the 10 Creepiest Places on Google Earth.
Number 10 is Blood Lake.
This sinister-looking, crimson red-colored lake
is called Lago Vermelho.
Located just outside of Sadr City, a suburb district
of Baghdad in Iraq, it garnered a fair share
of macabre speculation when it was first noticed in 2007.
According to information received from one source,
there are a number of slaughterhouses surrounding the lake.
Others have suggested that the area is cursed
because of all of the war
that has occurred there over the years.
No one has offered an official explanation,
but, when viewing the lake on Google Earth today,
the water has returned back to a normal color,
leaving the blood red lake
to remain one of Google Earth's many mysteries.
Number nine is Phantom Island.
There's a mysterious island that exists
only as a faint outline on Google Earth,
known as Sandy Island,
and it has experts baffled to this day.
It was first charted back on September 15th of 1774
by Captain James Cook as being located
in the eastern Coral Sea off northeast coast of Australia.
In 1876, a whaling ship also reported the island,
and it was noted on several maps in the 19th century.
In time, sea charts began emending these maps,
placing the letters, E D, next to the island,
which means existence doubtful.
The official undiscovery came in 2012
when Australian scientists failed to find Sandy Island.
On November 26, 2012,
Google removed the island from Google Maps.
However, a visible rise from the seabed
still exists on Google Earth,
and no official explanation exists
explaining this phenomenon.
Number eight is Airplane Graveyard.
Since World War I, achieving and maintaining air superiority
has been considered essential
for victory in conventional warfare.
With their superior speed and maneuverability,
military aircraft are the staple of armies
throughout the world.
Their history and evolution is one filled with secrets,
victories and, of course, many failures.
The Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
outside of Tucson, Arizona, is where old planes go to die.
Chosen for its arid climate
which slows the planes' degradation,
it's home to a huge variety of retired aerospace vehicles,
nearly 5,000 of them to be exact.
Many of them are nuclear capable, retired as a result
of arms reduction treaties throughout the years.
You can spot everything from B-52s to B-1s and F-111s
that once carried nuclear arms, to more recent additions
like F-14 Tomcats, which were retired for good in 2006.
Number seven is Scientology Base.
A satellite view of New Mexico
shows two mysterious interlocking circles
with diamond shapes in the middle of them.
They're thought to be the marker of Scientology followers
to find their way back
from the farthest corner of the universe.
Known as Trementina Base, it is allegedly the spot
where the writings and archives of L. Ron Hubbard,
the founder of the movement,
are preserved for eternity inside titanium capsules.
The compound has only been open
to a non-Scientology member once on record.
Tim Gallegos, ex-police chief of the Las Vegas, New Mexico,
sheriff's department, was given a tour of the vault
by church officials in the late 1990s.
Gallegos said that he didn't see any signs of doing wrong,
but noted his visit was planned, making it easy
for the officials to only show what they wanted to.
Number six is Cryptic Markings in the Gobi Desert.
An array of mysterious structures and patterns
etched into the surface of China's Gobi Desert
have sparked speculation
from both fringe and mainstream media.
Some have suggested that they might be
Chinese weapons testing sites.
Others have suggested that they are street maps
of Washington, DC, and New York City.
Others still believe them to be messages to or from aliens.
The 19.8-meter-wide white lines
that make up these cryptic markings appear to be
made of some sort of reflective metal, but Jonathan Hill,
a research technician, observed that the lines
have gaps in them, and they are not perfectly filled in,
with lots of little streaks and uneven coverage.
He thinks it's safe to say that it's just some sort of paint
being used as a spy satellite collaboration target.
However, no official explanation exists.
Number five is Russia's icy Jeannette Island is censored.
If you navigate to the East Siberian Sea using Google Earth,
you'll notice a landmass that appears
only as a black smudge, known as Jeannette Island.
Its history is a confusing one, as it was first discovered
in 1881 during an expedition
led by American navy officer and explorer, George De Long,
and thus has been claimed as American territory.
However, following the Imperial Russian Arctic Ocean
Hydrographic Expedition of 1910, Russia publicly announced
that Jeanette was part of the Russian Federation.
Administratively speaking, the island now belongs
to the Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation,
and the states have never publicly disputed this claim.
Many conspiracy theorists have suggested
that this is an ideal location
for a secret Russian military base,
as it is relatively close to Canada and the U.S.
Number four is a Deserted Island with a Shipwreck.
Located between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea,
east of India and west of the countries
of Myanmar and Thailand, North Sentinel Island
is one of the least developed islands in the world,
but is home to an indigenous tribe known as the Sentinelese.
In August of 1981, a cargo ship ran aground
on a coastal reef at the northern tip of the island.
After a few nights waiting for rescue,
the crew was overjoyed
when they spotted men running towards them from the island.
Their joy quickly, however, turned to terror
when they noticed these men
were armed with spears, bows and arrows.
Eventually, the crew was airlifted to safety, but the boat
was left behind and the shipwreck lies there to date.
The Sentinelese people remain virtually untouched
by any civilization, still today.
Number three is the Myrtles Plantation.
Built between 1796 and 1797, Myrtles Plantation
in St. Francisville, Louisiana,
was originally called Laurel Grove.
Its claim to scare fame is that it's built
on an ancient Indian burial ground.
It's said to be home to 12 ghosts, as around a dozen people
have had their lives taken while there.
One of the most famous ghosts spotted at the Myrtles
is Chloe, a slave girl who accidentally poisoned
one of the original families that lived there.
Supposedly, Chloe's plan had been
to put just enough oleander into a birthday cake
to make them ill, so that she could nurse them
back to health and thus win over the family's trust.
The house is open to the public and available for bookings
as an inn, even though it retains its reputation
as one of the most haunted locations in America.
Number two is the Devil's Face.
There's only one city in North America
ever to be completely destroyed as an act of war.
In 1864, General Sherman
burned Atlanta, Georgia, to the ground.
It was eventually reborn, grew larger and evolved,
becoming home to the world's busiest airport
and an increasingly international population.
It ranks as one of the most religious places
in the United States, so imagine the fear and outrage
when one day an Internet fan discovered
what looked like a giant face of Satan, using Google Earth,
in the woodlands near the famous city.
Beelzebub's portrait has been spotted in famous paintings,
sewage treatment pools, Internet forum posts,
and other random places,
but never before in a satellite image.
People quickly modified the terrain,
literally erasing this face from the Earth itself.
And number one is the Pentagram of Kazakhstan.
Some perceive the pentagram as a symbol of the occult,
and it's still widely used
during magic practices and ceremonies.
It can be found in the official logo of the Church of Satan,
where it encloses the head of a goat.
Keeping this in mind, it's a bit troubling to know
that a giant inverted pentagram,
with a diameter of over 360 meters, is easily spotted
when taking an aerial view of a field in Kazakhstan,
about 19 kilometers west of Lyoskovik.
Was it the scene of some ancient grand ritual or ceremony?
It turns out it's actually the outline of a park
created not so long ago back in the days
of the Soviet Union, which has long since been abandoned.
According to archeologist, Emma Usmanova,
the Soviets commonly used the shape as decoration,
but is it simply a decoration,
or is it something much more sinister?
I'll leave that up to you to decide.
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