It is safe to say that Google Maps has revolutionized our lives in a huge way, we no longer are
confined to paper maps, but we’re able to view places we want to visit on a computer
screen in high definition.
However, that being said, sometimes Google Maps captures things that were never meant
to be seen, or things that are far too disturbing to look at and will most definitely keep you
up tonight.
So today on Top 5 Scary Videos, I’m going to be counting down our list of the Top 5
Scary Locations On Google Maps.
Before we begin though, be sure to stick around until the end of the video where I’ll be
responding to some of your comments.
And with that, let’s jump in.
5 Abandoned Gas Masks Pripyat, Ukraine is a ghost city in Northern
Ukraine, near the Ukraine-Belarus border.
Named after the nearby Pripyat River, the city was founded on February 4, 1970, as the
ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union, to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 and had grown to a population of 49,360 by
the time it was evacuated on the afternoon of April 27, 1986, the day after the Chernobyl
Disaster.
This was of course a nuclear disaster that occurred on Saturday April 26 in 1986, at
the No 4 nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history and is one of only two nuclear
energy disasters rated at seven -- the maximum severity -- on the International Nuclear Event
Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.Pripyat is now quite
literally a ghost town with abandoned buildings that won’t be inhabited for a very long
time to come.
Now, this has all been captured on Google Maps where you can see the abandoned town
stuck motionless in time.
However, the creepiest sight in the whole area has to be the room full of abandoned
gas masks.
Now, whether this is creepy because of the sheer amount of them, or simply because they
are child-sized located in an abandoned school, I just don’t know.
4 Scientology Base Also known as Trementina Base, this is a popular
designation for a property of the Scientology-affiliated Church of Spiritual Technology near Trementina,
New Mexico.
According to the Church, an entity formed to manage the Church of Scientology’s copyright
affairs, the purpose of the base is to provide storage space for an archiving project to
preserve Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s writings, films and recordings for future
generations.
Hubbard’s texts have been engraved on stainless steel tablets and encased in titanium capsules
underground.
This project began back in the 1980s.
Now, this base looks absolutely terrifying from Google Maps.
It’s just two overlapping circles with diamond shapes in their centers.
It’s an odd creation which has caused some people to believe that the real purpose of
the base is to signal aliens making their way to Earth.
However, an ex-scientologist adamantly denied this claim, and that instead it is to guide
other members towards the works of L. Ron Hubbard.
3 El Bronx, Colombia The Bronx was a sector adjacent to the Plaza
de Los Martires, in Bogota, belonging to the National Voto neighborhood of the town of
the same name, in the city center.
During the second half of the twentieth century it underwent a strong deterioration process,
which after the dismantling of the neighboring street of El Cartucho, became the main center
for the sale and consumption of drugs.
Now, this all began after the assassination of leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan and the popular
uprising known as the Bogotazo, with The Bronx undergoing a strong urban deterioration process
along with the rest of the center.
Together with the neighboring neighborhood of Santa Ines, the sector was severely affected
by the inauguration of the Salitre City Transportation Terminal.
Up until this point, this had worked informally on Caracas Avenue, and its end resulted in
the creation of the “pot” of El Cartucho, a place that was subsequently dismantled and
recovered, resulting in a new center of Crime concentration known as The Bronx.
In The Bronx, innumberable cases of drug microtrafficking, human trafficking, forced prostituion, mutilation
amd murder occurred since its creation, until its last two years where Bogota police officers
were bribed by the mafias of the sector to allow drug trafficking in the area.
It became one of the most crime-riddled regions in the country, however, thankfully it doesn’t
exist anymore.
However, The Bronx still exists on Google’s Street View.
2 Ariel Castro’s Blurred-Out House Now, to begin, Ariel Castro was an absolutely
disgusting person, as evil as they come.
Back in 2002 to 2004 he kidnapped Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Georgina “Gina”
DeJesus and held them captive in his home in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland,
Ohio.
The three girls were imprisoned until May 6th, 2013, when Berry escaped with her six-year-old
daughter, to whom she had given birth to while imprisoned, and contacted the police.
The women were rescued within hours and Castro was arrested.
Castro was ultimately charged with four counts of kidnpping and three counts of rape.
He pleaded guilty to 837 criminals counts as part of a plea bargain and was sentenced
to life plus 1,000 years in prison without the possibility of parole.
One month into his sentence though, he committed suicide by hanging himself wth his bed sheets
in his cell.
So, how exactly is this crime related to google maps?
Well, the house Castro kept the women in can be seen on Google Street View, however, the
house is completely blurred out.
I can’t tell what’s creepier, the idea of seeing the house standing motionless, or
seeing it blurred out.
The latter somehow makes the seriousness of the crime even more disturbing.
1 Nagoro, Japan Nagoro, now known as Nagoro Doll Village is
a village in the Iya Valley on the island of Shikoku in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan.
It is known for the large quantity of realistic dolls positioned throughout the village, in
turn making Nagoro a tourist attraction.
Now, the village itself is located on Route 439 in the Iya Valley, in a remote mountainous
area.
It formerly had around 300 inhabitants, however, the decline in Japan’s population caused
it to fall to 35 by January 2015, 30 as of August 2016, and 27 by September 2019.
Now, what is the backstory behind the village and it’s unique dolls?
Well, in the early 2000’s, Tsukimi Ayano, whose family left the area when she was a
child, moved back to Nagoro to look after her father, and made a doll in his likeness
that she placed in a field.
Since that day she has made more than 400 dolls, and about 350 of them are in the village.
Many of the dolls resemble former residents, while others are invented people.
Now, Ayano’s isn’t the only one to craft these creepy looking dolls, others quickly
followed in her footsteps.
The village school, which ultimately closed in 2012, includes a large number of dolls;
in one classroom, two children are self-portraits by the last two students to study there, who
dressed them in their own clothes.
The village has since become a tourist attraction and is now known as Nagoro Doll Village, which
you can easily spot on google maps.
Well, there we have it!
Do you guys agree with our list?
Were there any scary locations that we missed?
Leave us all your thoughts and feelings in the comments down below and perhaps we can
do a part 2.
Before I go though, I just want to respond to a few comments from one of our last videos,
Top 5 Scary Subterranean SCP Monsters - Part 2.
Jiro-Sama said: “I hope Lucy notices me” ---
Chris Plays said: “Does this woman eat or drink anything, she is so pale.”
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Nyarlathotep Lives said: “Lucy, you look tired were you up having nightmares.”
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Rebel 855 said: “Lucy is definitely one of
my weirdest crushes” ---
Dayrocket boom said: “2:37 did anyone else hear ” ---
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