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30 Times People Found Such Strange Things On Google Earth, They Just Had To Share Them
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Google Earth is a lot of fun to play around with in your spare time. You can visit and explore the far corners of the world during your coffee break, even if your actual vacation isn’t due for a few more months. However, you might stumble upon some truly bizarre things during your digital travels.
That’s where the popular ‘Google Earth, Structures and Anomalies’ Facebook group comes in. Its members are all big fans of the Google Earth project and post the strange structures and cool anomalies they’ve come across while using it. We’ve collected some of the group’s most interesting featured mysteries to share with you.
Bored Panda also reached out to the team running the group, and Josie, the founder and one of its administrators, was happy to tell us all about the inspiration behind it and its success. Put on your explorers’ hats, Pandas, and let’s go!
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#1
This Is The Largest Baobab In Madagascar And Is Called The 'Tree Of Life' Or 'Mother Of The Forest'
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#2
Cat
#3
Arizona’s Meteor Crater. Look How Close It Came To Hitting The Visitor Center!!
#4
A Local Sight In A Field
#5
Western Australia
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 3 years ago
Up north in WA in the King Leopold Ranges. It gets pretty wet up there from time to time.
#6
Found Where I Should Have Been Born
#7
Noor 3 In Morocco. The Mirrors Direct Light To The Tower, Where The Light Heats Up Molten Salt. The Molten Salt Creates Steam To Turn The Turbines And Run The Generators
#8
In A French Village To Slow Drivers Down
Momten Jillian 3 years ago
They shouldn't have drank that 7th glass of wine with lunch that day. Line painting became shall we dare say a little challenging after that
#10
North Korea
Raven Sheridan 3 years ago
Ooof! My heart goes out to the people of North Korea. May they one day, (hopefully soon) be freed from their tyrannical leader and government.
#11
Amazon Is Going To Be Pissed When They Have To Deliver Here
#12
Here’s A Cool One In Florida
#13
Baarle, The Most Complex Border In The World. The Dutch Municipality Of Baarle-Nassau Is Home To More Than 20 Belgian Enclaves, Some Of Which Contain Dutch Enclaves
#14
Not Too Far From York. UK. On A Clear Day You Can See This From 28 Miles Away. Weird
#15
Island Shaped As A Heart In Galesnjak, Croatia
#16
Manaos Brésil
The Original Bruno 3 years ago
Remind me a lot of Central Park in New York City, but smaller, and with 8-and-15-foot buildings surrounding it, instead of skycrapers reaching hundreds of feet into the air.
#17
Afrika
#18
A Freight Ship That Crashed Into North Sentinel Island In 1981. This Island Is Home To The Supposed Last True (Mostly Unbothered) Indigenous People On The Planet
Raven Sheridan 3 years ago
Isn't this the island where the indigenous people are, "unbothered" because they kill anyone who tries to go there? 🤨
#19
Found This A Few Years Ago
#20
The Massachusetts Chainsaw Massacre
#21
My Hometown’s Library
#22
Welcome To Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki-Maungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitnatahu
#23
Monuriki Island Where The Movie Cast Away Was Filmed
#24
I Found This "Man Emerging From Water" By Accident On Google Earth
#25
I Wonder What They Don’t Want Us To See, This Is Near The Athens Airport
#26
😱😱😱
#27
What Is This?
#28
I Said We’re Going Back; Back To The Future Doc!
#29
Some May Say That What Started Out As A Heartfelt Tribute To Otis Redding, Somehow Went Very Very Wrong..... To View This Go To 32°33'26.24"N 83°49'29.38"W, Then Go Back In Time To March 2017
#30
It’s Categorized As A Synagogue
#32
All The Empty Streets, No Houses…. Nw Coast Of The Salton Sea. So Weird!
ConstantlyJon 3 years ago
This is in southern California out in the desert just south of Joshua Tree. I believe this happened because developers thought the town would become a booming tourist attraction, but it failed to do that. They built out the roads, but the people never came in the numbers they planned for. Current population is around 5,000, which is the highest its been for a while. If you look closely, you can see some houses are there, they're just spread out.
#33
"The Band Of Holes" - Andes Mountains
#34
California Desert, North Of China Lake. Very Curious As To It’s Use
#35
The Big Merino, Goulburn Nsw Australia
#36
Found Me Another Plane In Flight Do They All Look Trippy!?
Jrog 3 years ago (edited)
This gives a nice indication of the photographic process in action, and tells us this is aerial photography, not satellite. The three different colors are taken by the same sensor through a color-changing filter, and then a composite is made by overlaying. This allows using the full range of the sensor for all colors instead of using just 1/3rd of the receptors for any color. It's a cheap trick to increase the resolution with the same hardware, but since the shots are taken a few hundredth of a second apart, fast moving objects have this rainbow haze...
#37
Nevada Nuclear Test Site
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 3 years ago
Over 1,000 detonations have been set off here. What on earth were they trying to find out from all those 'Tests'.
#38
Why Does Venice, Italy Look Like Patrick Needing Water?
#39
Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater In Western Australia Made Impact Within The Last 120,000 Years
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 3 years ago
Around 1855km from Perth. Western Australia is a pretty big state
#41
Pac-Man !!! Near Edwards Washington!
#42
Private Backyard Golf Course Of The Owner Of D**k's Sporting Goods Outside Of Pittsburgh
Rob(erta) Roy 3 years ago
Seriously, bp? D**k is a name. Not a great one in my opinion, but still a name.
#43
Any Survivor Fans? On An Island In Fiji You Can See A Survivor Challenge Set Up, And Boats Bringing Either Contestants Or The Testers Out To It
Upstaged75 3 years ago
Ruining lovely natural environments for the sake of a dumb TV show. :( Survivor has done a lot of damage over the years!
#44
Biggest Open Pit Mine In The World
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
And this abomination will be there for thousands of years. Maybe millions.
#45
Ft Chaffee In Arkansas What Does It All Mean?
#47
The Great Orme North Wales
#48
A Quarry Until They Hit Water! Near My House In Sw Virginia
#49
The Wienermobile In Kirksville Missouri
#50
How Cool !! In Dallas
#51
Anybody Seen This Man Appeared In Australia
#52
A Harbour, With Nothing But Sea Around? So Why?
#53
You See These Around Submarine Bases. I've Only Found 3, But They're Apparently All Over The World
Justin Davies 3 years ago
Degaussing facility, makes the submarine harder to track by magnetic anomaly detection equipment
#54
Here Is Another Home In The Green Bay Area. Was Built In The Early 2000’s And I Believe To This Day No One Has Actually Lived In This Home
#55
An Entire Lake And Housing Development In The Middle Of Nowhere Utah. Driven By This Many Times On My Way To See The Wild Mustangs
#56
Russian Stand Off (53.1765011, 158.4490708)
#57
Near Spokane, Wa. Zoom In And You Can Find A UFO. Visible From I-90 As You Pass By
#58
Another Scientology Location
Upstaged75 3 years ago
I wonder how many people they're keeping prisoner there? Yes, they really do that - there are stories of ex-members who had to escape after being kept locked up. And no one knows what happened to the leader's wife either. She hasn't been seen in years!
#59
Now I Wanna Eat Some Spaghetti
Mike Fitzpatrick 3 years ago
That's probably the oddest way I've ever seen someone carry bungee cords.
#60
Why There's Plane In The Middle Of Ocean . 25.1048972, 63.8332704
Superb Owl 3 years ago
There are lots of planes in the oceans, much more than submarines in the sky.
#61
Free Hugs!
#62
Open Pen Salmon Farm In Digby Nova Scotia. Not Alien Base Unfortunately
#63
Race You Through The Parking Lot... 41°51'23.67"N 87°36'53.88"W
#64
Farm Crops In Colombia, South America. Probably Corn, Or Something
#65
Lincoln New Hampshire , USA. The Infamous “Hairpin Turn”.
pfeils wife 3 years ago
Anyone know why this was done this way? I mean... The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Just curious...
#66
Peculiar Sidewalk Formation At Monterey Naval Post Graduate School
#67
Those Who Know….know!
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ConstantlyJon 3 years ago
Vox did a series on weird things they could find on google earth and actually went to them to figure out what they were. My favorite episode they found weird circles in the Sahara Desert and found they were from oil companies mining for oil until they hit some.
ConstantlyJon 3 years ago
Vox did a series on weird things they could find on google earth and actually went to them to figure out what they were. My favorite episode they found weird circles in the Sahara Desert and found they were from oil companies mining for oil until they hit some.
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