From hovering UFOs, to naked men in trunks, to proof of the existence of angels, we count30 weird, creepy and downright disturbing things picked up by Google lenses!30 This bird’s eye image shows the rooftopof Peabody Place Entertainment and Retail Centre in Memphis, Tennessee. The creepy thingabout it is someone’s taken the time to spray paint ‘Come Downtown and Play’ inan area where almost no one will see it. The invitation seems friendly enough, but I don’twanna accept it …29 • This photo was taken in France in August2008. It shows a strange, dark alien figure lurking on an apartment balcony. The imagewent viral as a creepypasta, and has been hotly debated by paranormal enthusiasts. • In all likelihood it’s a mannequin or some sort of strange voodoo statue, but theweird thing is that, upon reviewing it, the Google Street View team decided to blur it,as if there was something about it that needed hiding …28 • This image shows a couple of militaryguys seemingly stopping a driver from proceeding while, in the distance, there’s a strangeblack wispy thing in the sky. Are they guarding some government secret?• The whole thing looks like some screen grab from an alien invasion movie. 27 • These two images are before-and-aftershots. In one image, the Google Street View car captures a healthy-looking donkey justchilling on the side of the road, possibly waiting for someone to enlist him as theirnoble steed. In the second image, the donkey is sprawled out on the road looking kind of… well, dead. • The public assumed the Google car hadrun it over, and Google rushed to clear the rumour. Apparently, the photos were takenin reverse. The donkey was first taking a nice dirt bath, then sprang up when the Googlecar approached. • So there you have it: no donkeys wereharmed in the making of this video. 26 This photo, taken in Chile in January 2012,shows what looks like a group of disembodied, possibly mummified corpses spilling out ofdumpsters. But on closer inspection you can see they’re just creepy horror movie-esquemannequins. Phew! Kind of looks like a deleted scene from the Silent Hill movies. 25 In this Google Earth image we see a strange,seemingly glowing pattern in the middle of a Chinese desert. Either these are alien markingsor chicken scratch from some fifty-foot-tall rooster. Either way, it’s not good. Notgood at all. 24 • This disturbing image depicts what lookslike a couple of people dragging a body along a blood-soaked pier. The supposed crime tookplace at a dock in Almere, Netherlands, and police were immediately notified. • After intense scrutiny, the Reddit community that discovered it determined this wasn’ta crime scene at all; it was just an innocent outing with man’s best friend. What appearedto be a body and bloody trail was actually just a wet pooch that had streaked some waterbehind him. 23 This eerie 2011 image shows an old man takinga stroll – and somehow bending the fabric of time and space, appearing in two placesat once. Fortunately, it was just an error in the Google Street view that showed himat two different points in his journey. There’s no glitch in the Matrix. 22 Immortalised in this image is a dehydrated– and possibly ill or hurt – cow dragging itself across a two-lane highway in a dilapidatedarea of town. This one’s on the sadder side of disturbing. Hopefully she’s okay. Nocow crossing the road jokes. That would be inappropriate. 21 • This picture shows a giant pink bunnylying in a field somewhere in hilly North Italy. As you can see, the giant animal isbigger than a house. • It’s not some science experiment gonewrong; it’s an elaborate art project conceived by a Vienna art collective. The bunny is madeentirely of fabric and straw and hikers are encouraged to climb all over it as they passon their journeys. 20 • In this Google satellite image we seea huge triangle in the middle of a desert in Wittman, Arizona. The triangle forms aspooky-looking road with no way out. • Considering it’s in the middle of nowhereit’s tempting to think something otherworldly is going on, but it’s actually just an auxiliaryair field once used by WWII pilots for landing practice. • Or at least that’s just what they want us to think …19 This corrupt Google Street View image showsa haunting depiction of New Baltimore, in New York. It looks a bit like a scary impressionisticpainting, or maybe a portal to Hell. Apparently, the glitches are town-wide, making the wholething eerily reminiscent of the Silent Hill games. Half of the place appears normal, whiledistortion has spread across other parts of town. 18 • This is another that’s been warped intosomething quite twisted by a Google Street View glitch. I’m sure you don’t need thispointed out but the woman has strange, unnatural, Velociraptor-like legs. I like to think shealso communicates with dinosaur noises. • This is definitely one of Google’s coolerglitches, and looks sorta like a trick mirror at a carnival. 17 This photo was taken near Tokyo’s MitakaStation in March 2013. I think you can see what’s gone wrong here: the pigeons havegrown human torsos! But no, seriously, what’s creepy about this photo is none of it wasstaged for Google; this is just eight grown adults hanging out in the street, wearingpigeon heads. 16 In this Google Earth image we can see a bigbanana – I mean a giant sausage! – I mean a ginormous wang! Okay, so the image is actuallyjust of this strangely phallic building in downtown Dixon, Illinois. Come on, guys. Showa little maturity. 15 • In this 2012 photo, it appeared that GoogleStreet View had captured a gruesome homicide. In fact, the image actually made it to thenews when Wilmington police asked citizens to assist with solving the mystery of whoexactly was in the cab of this truck. Were they alive?• As it turns out, the driver was in the lifeguard and that girl in back was actuallyjust his practice dummy. I know: that’s the oldest homicide excuse in the book, but,this time, I’m inclined to believe him. 14 This eerie photo of a devastating plane crashwas captured at a Navy Base in Alameda Point, California. Ordinarily, Google Street Viewblurs out the faces of people in their photos, but this horrific scene was curiously leftfor everyone to see. It turns out that, while this was a real planeand real debris, it wasn’t an actual plane crash site. The image was from the 2009 setof NBC’s show Trauma. So don’t despair; it’s all just make-believe! Like the moonlanding!13 This mysterious image shows the broken faceof a statue on some desolate hillside. It’s unknown how it got there, or what its storyis, but one thing’s for certain: it’s creepy as shit!12 Innocuous photo of seagulls on a chip run,or a scene from Hitchcock’s The Birds? This mass of seagulls will blot out the sky andcause chaos and destruction wherever they go. Hear that distant squawking? They’recoming for you …11 Another image, another would-be homicide. This 2008 photo, taken in Wochester, England, shows what appears to be the aftermath ofa brutal murder. It seems like a nice enough neighbourhood, so how could this happen?You guessed it: it didn’t. The disturbing photo is actually of a ten-year-old girl namedAzura Beebeejaun, who thought it would be cool to play dead in the street. I’m sureshe’ll grow up to be perfectly well-adjusted. 10 This ethereal image of a Swiss mountain roadseems to prove the existence of angels. It inspired much religious debate online, anda conclusive explanation for this heavenly illusion has yet to be offered. 9 In this Google Earth image we see irrefutableproof that UFOs exist. Okay, so apparently some have gone on to prove it’s just a photoof an oddly shaped building shot from above. Still! This offers irrefutable proof thatbuildings exist. 8 There are no glitches or trickery in thisimage. These are the ruins of Hashima, a Japanese island that’s been uninhabited for fortyyears. It used to be a thriving mining town, but was abandoned in the 1970s. Now it’sdeemed unsafe for tourists to visit, so it’s left relatively alone, looking ghostly. Hashimadid, however, feature as the villain’s headquarters in Skyfall. 7 This Street View image simply defies explanation. Here, we see a naked man in the boot of his car, reaching for some juice. Lying on thedriveway is a partially formed, possibly dead/possibly sleeping dog. And in the left corner you’vegot what sort of looks like a body bag. Sheer madness!6 This image is a whole other breed of disturbing. It shows an abandoned baby crawling along outside a Gucci store. Either this kid’sa super fan of high-end fashion or this is an example of shitty parenting. 5 This image shows a pack of terrifying possiblyrifle-toting highway banditos. It’s possible this is just an innocent prank, and not sometwisted example of gang warfare, but it’s still pretty freaky. I think I’d feel saferjoining the pigeon gang from earlier. 4 This Street View image comes courtesy of Canadianartist Jon Rafman, who peruses Street View to capture screenshots for his own onlinegallery. In this shot, you can see two toddlers holding up a man with what is hopefully apair of fake guns. Innocent play or is that shitty parenting rearing its ugly head again?3 • This disturbing bunch of disturbingnessshows what appears to be two strange ‘twins’ staring directly at the camera, while holdinggun-like objects in their left hands. • At a closer glance, it seems the twinnificationis due to another of Google’s infamous camera glitches. Seriously, I know what to get Googlefor Christmas: a functional camera! • Nevertheless, this is one creepy image. 2 In this 2008 Google Street View image, itappears that someone is trying to escape from their Pittsburgh home via a window. As youcan see, they’ve tied a bunch of sheets together like they’re re-enacting a prisonmovie. What are they so desperate to escape from? Pretty creepy. 1 Finally, we have another unsettling StreetView image that actually faintly resembles a still from The Walking Dead. Here we seea field filled with lots of creepy people standing around. On closer inspection, it’sactually just lots of creepy scarecrows standing around. The scarecrows only come to life atmidnight during a full moon, so, really, there’s nothing to worry about.
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