Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet!
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and I feel like I need you to know that I love maps.
I could stare at maps all day.
I sometimes get lost in google maps when imagining my future travel....Kyoto...
St Johns....
Champagne...
I want to go everywhere!
However I wouldbe going absolutely nowhere fast if I used any of the maps on this list!
Today I am talking the Top 10 Scary Maps That Will Get You Lost!
Before we get into this video I want to play a little game with you.....load up google
maps on your phone or desktop....close your eyes ....move your finger around a bit....do
some zooming ...and tell me where you end up!
I would love to know!
Let me know where you ended up in the comments section down below!
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OKAY shall we do this?
10 – Lue Map
The Lue Map is a collection of masonic symbols .... it looks somewhat Illuminati esque...
but the rumour has it us that the map is of Nazi Origin.
The story goes that the map points to geographic caches of gold buried in the USA.
This is kind of where things get wild....it seems that the Nazis smuggled the gold IN
to the USA in order to sell it and crash their economy, stopping them entering the second
world war.
Apprently Franklin Roosevelt was on to them and signed the Gold Reserve Act in 1934, to
prohibit private possession of gold.
Busted.
Somehow smuggling gold OUT of the country was harder than smuggling it in!
This Lue map was created to locate the gold but the German spies sent in to retrieve it
got busted by the FBI.
CIA code breakers couldnt figure out the map.
Many literally drove themselves mad trying to do so!
The story is somewhat believable as it is known Nazi officers did hide other treasures
around the world.
9 - The Copper Scroll The copper scroll is one of the dead sea scrolls
found in the 1950s but written between 50 and 100 AD!
The Copper Scroll has in which swathes of valuable items can be found.
Luckily for treasure hunters, descriptions of where the treasure can be found has been
given…...unluckily, as nearly 2000 years have past, the landscape has changed somewhat
since then!
Trying to find where the treasure is using a 2000 year old map...well…
It will send you insane.
Here are some of the clues: In the ruin which is in the valley of Acor, under the steps
leading to the East, forty long cubits: a chest of silver and its vessels with a weight
of seventeen talents.
You what mate?
8 - Map to the Dutch Mine Gonnn take you down to the Odl Dutch Mine!
Legend has it that a literal gold mine was found in the mid 1800s in the Arizona Suspicion
Mountains... the only issue is that...well..its cursed.
Now known as the Massacre ground, the Peralta family were said to have initially found the
treasure, but were killed by the Apache people who his hid the treasure, thought to be worth
millions.
Since then a German Immigrant Jacob Walt settled in Arizona during the Gold Rush years – the
later 1800s.
Waltz spent his left investigating the mines, claiming to have found it.
He made several maps to the mine, with x marking the spot, in the middle of a heart, but to
this day nobody has ever found it, and in fact, many have died trying, leading to suggestions
the mine could be cursed.
Following the maps could lead your demise.
Between 1955 to 1977 seven people were found dead having tried to find the treasure.
More recently, Jesse Capen was convinced he could find the treasure.
He went out searching three times and never returned from his final trip in 2009.
7 - Frisland
Want to trip to Frisland.... sure you do?
We all enjoy an adventure.
But...sorry....where is it though?
No worries, I’ll give you a map..... cool.. see you never!
It seems that in 1558 a Venetian chap named Nicolo Zeno invented the island....just because
he thought that he was there....why...well... because he thought his ancestors discovered
it 200 years prior.
It seems that Zeno got confused with a part of Greenland and placed it as a separate island
the size of Iceland....sizable.
Scarily, Zeno generated a very popular map and the phantom island appeared on other maps
for the next 100 years.
Some tried to find the islands for themselves but were sorely disappointing.
6 - The Fenn Treasure Map – Rocky Mountains What do you do when you are diagnosed with
Cancer?
In 1988 AuthorForrest Fen was convinced he was going to die so he thought up an idea
to bury a Bronze chest filled with treasure containing cold, rare coins, gems and jewels
as well his autobiography.
However, he survived his illness and buried the treasure in 2010 which contained poem
with clues - in 2013 he released a book, Too far to wall which contains a pullout map of
the area the treasure is burried – the American Rocky Mountains.
The thing is though, the map might lead you to your death.
It seems four men have died searching for the hidden chest.
Most of them were in their 50s.
In the pursuit of treasure, its often men that die.
Interesting.
5 - The Ghost Map
This is one John Snow who certainly did not know nothing.
A double negative, Rebecca?
Yes.
So the OG John Snow played an important role in the history of medicine.
When Cholera struck London in between 1848 and 1853, disease was a big killer... but
nobody yet knew how it was spread...their best theory was through Miasma....bad smells.
In actuality, Chlorea comes from poor sanitation...so...I guess they were on to something, but it is
a bacteria... not a smell.
So...Good old John Snow, a doctor and anesthesiologist was interested in learning more about the
spread of the disease...he was curious as to why sewer workers and people who worked
close to the river weren’t showing a high likelihood of catching the disease.
He made a map of people who contracted cholera and he found a large concentration down one
street.
He found the people from the street got their water from one particular well...he found
this pump was close to a leaking cesspit which contaminated the water.... his map was called
The Ghost map and he discovered that Cholera was a waterborne illness.
John Snow and his ghost map have become celebrated as one of the first studies of epidemics.
I love the game Pandemic...so...this is pretty fascinating to me!
4 - Monster Map
Here be monsters...apparently!
Check out this map from 1539.
The geographic meets the supernatural as monsters appear between islands and continents.
It seems like adding monsters to maps was the done thing in Medieval and Renaissance
times.
The reason was that there was still a lot of mystery!
People didn’t really know what was out there so the monsters suggested that these areas
were unknown and possibly dangerous.
Some of them look kind of cute and sweet though!
3 - Worlds Oldest Map We have come a longgggg way since the first
ever map... and I have to say even now my google maps has the uncanny ability to get
me lost.
Imagine trying to Navigate with THIS though.... hello...meet the worlds oldest maP!
The map is thought to be from ancient Babylonia and dates back to the 6th century BC when
the Babylonians thought their were 8 mysterious regions beyond their own.
I mean...not only is this map waaaaaay out of date...but like.....what does it all mean?!
2 - Uber Map Whenever I get an Uber, my driver always takes
a murderously vibey turn down a side road near my house.
Apparently this is because the Uber Map system is a somehwat flawed...but I am going to gop
out there and call it scary!
Case and point here – it seems in March 2018 an Uber driver took a veeeeery wrong
turn when reading their map in san Francisco and winded up driving down a flight of stairs.
The driver ended up stuck on the stairs for hours!
There are images of courtesy is the KRON4 News Twitter!
Can you imagine if this was your uber and the drivers map reading got you....urm....driven
down stairs?!
I would be utterly terrified.
Luckily nobody was hurt.... but HOW does this happen!?!
1 – The Map to El Dorado
Want to get lost and probably die of exhaustion or dehydration?
Follow the road to El Dorado!
El Dorado was noted by explorer, Sir Walter Raleigh and is said to be a city of gold submerged
somewhere near lake Guatavita in the Colombia.
Raleigh claims to have discovered the city on his trip to Guiana and wrote in great detail
about its treasures.
He wasn’t the first explorer to mention the city, either and many maps pointed to
it, whichsparked a famous historical search of much of South America to no avail.
The map placed El Dorado near a lake by the name of Parime, which has been proven to have
existed, but was said to have drained do to tectonic movements and finally disappeared
due to an earthquake in 1690.
WELL that was the Top 10 Scary maps That will get you LOST What did you think to this list?
Which of these maps would you follow if you had to?
Do you think EL Dorado exists?
Where did the google map game land you...
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