• Why is there a house completely blurred out?
What’s hidden in this lake you were never meant to see?
Here are 15 places Google never meant for you to find
15 – Volkel Air Base, • Over there in the Netherlands, this is
just one of three operating bases for their air force, with around 1500 personal stationed
there looking after bombs.
Nuclear bombs.
• The Ministry of Defence has gone on record denying the existence of 22 B61 nuclear bombs
held at the base.
As everyone knows, if you blur out bombs on a map – that makes them not exist anymore.
• Right?
14 – Elmira Correctional Facility, U.S, • It’d be a real shame if prisoners could
jump on a laptop, google their own prison only to figure out there’s an easy escape
route on top of the roof • This place is notorious for riots & escape
attempts, in fact it’s gotten so bad there’s even talk of potential aerial breakouts – lucky
Google is around to help!
• Bit hard to land a helicopter on a yellowy brown smudge, yeah?
Problem solved.
13 - Chekhov, • This is a Russian city containing tens
of thousands of people with not much going on, so then why is it completely blurred out?
• The roads are visible using street view, and the nearby village of Chudinovo is clearly
visible.
Rumours suggest this place was used as a command post during the war with a hidden underground
train that’ll take you to the Kremlin.
• But surely it’s nothing.
12 – Baker Lake, Nunavut • Checking out this area of north Canada,
we find a huge swath of darkness blocking out a chunk of land.
• Some have speculated it might’ve been caused by the nuclear and uranium controversy
in the area, others speculate there may be a beacon there designed to communicate with
extra-terrestrial life.
• Or duct tape on the satellite lens.
But aliens is a more believable explanation.
11 – Itu Aba, South China Sea • And now here’s one completely different:
a place fully viewable on google maps that really shouldn’t be.
• Taiwan asked Google to blur the area, because it houses a secret military base with
a small airport, hospital and lighthouse – but Google ignored them.
• If you’re planning to invade Taiwan, check it out.
The images are still up.
10 - Sunken Car, • For 9 years, a 72 year old man from Wyoming
had been missing along with his car - that is until Google Maps obscured something a
little…
strange • In this pond was a suspicious orange blur.
Upon inspection by employees of a local funeral home, they discovered the long dead body of
Mr Davie Lee Niles, still in his car • Oversight by Google, or foul play?
You decide.
9 – 2207 Seymour Avenue, Ohio • It looks random, but there’s a very
good reason why you can’t see what’s left of this house.
• This was the residence that Ariel Castro kept 3 girls locked up, tortured and raped
over a period of 11 years from 2002 to 2013 until one of them managed to break down a
door and scream for help • Unsurprisingly, the demolished house has
been blurred, just so everyone can move on.
8 – Washington-Oregon Border, • Known as the Pacific Northwest, there’s
a giant rectangle blocking view of the entire area
• Rumours suggest involvement of FEMA and the High Frequency Active Auroral Research
Program, but whenever anyone has gone there to check, it’s just nothing.
Except an entrance and a weird fence.
• Again, though.
Aliens. 7 - Girona,
• A small section of Spain comes up with this suspicious black area, however it is
possible to find ways around it • Doing so reveals it’s actually an air
surveillance station designed to protect Spain from unknown aircraft entering the area
• Funnily enough, this was one of the popular areas in the 1970s to feature UFO rumours.
6 – Valencia City, • Hundreds of thousands of people live in
this huge Philippines city, but for some reason a large chunk of it is unviewable
• While it’s been said that the city was blurred because it houses their missile defence
program, it doesn’t explain why this happened to half the city
• It’s probably just an oversight.
Of a giant city.
• Real top quality satellites we got.
5 – Colonel Sanders, • If you check out Google street view you’ll
notice that oddly enough, his face is blurred at every KFC.
• This is due to UK privacy laws automatically blurring faces to avoid recognition.
It just so happens that Sanders is mistaken for a “real” person.
• As a bonus, his face is viewable from space thanks to a giant mosaic in the Nevada
desert.
Your move, Google.
4 – North Korea, • Member of the “Axis of Evil”, this
place known to some as the “Hermit Kingdom” is extremely secretive
• North Korea was fully blurred up until a few years ago – the whole country was
totally hidden from view for quite a while with the only visible marker there for Pyongyang
• Nowadays you can explore the place from the comfort of your own home, as long as they
haven’t killed you with a nuke by that point.
3 – Szazhalombatta Oil Refinery, • An anomaly fresh from Hungary, this was
actually a request sent in from the refinery to have their buildings, ground & everything
else deleted from maps • Oddly, similar to Girona it’s possible
to find views floating around on the internet that show it completely visible with nothing
suspicious • For them to go out of the way like that
- what are they hiding?
2 – Tantauco National Park, • Heading back to Chile, this is a reserve
for endangered species & other animals spread across 456 square miles – so then why is
it completely unviewable through maps?
• This is even more bewildering because the park is open to the public, hiking trails
& campgrounds aplenty • If this list tells us anything, between
the otters, foxes and whales, they must be hiding aliens, nukes and missiles.
1 – Severnaya Zemlya • This is a Russian archipelago unexplored
until the early 1900s.
Right now nobody lives there & it’s well abandoned.
• So then, why is it so incomplete?
It wasn’t an oversight, because there are portions here & obvious manual work done to
the image.
• Is it a glitch, or is this piece of land not so abandoned after all?