The road was named more than 30 years ago, but only now, after the repercussion of the film Still Here, winner of the first Oscar in Brazil’s history, was the mistake realized. And the error occurs due to the inclusion of the term “Marechal” […] Source: Bem Paraná
Google Maps now shows the “Gulf of America” in place of the “Gulf of Mexico” for users on both web and mobile in the United States. It made the change after the Trump administration formally changed the name today of the body of water spanning between the eastern coast of Mexico and Florida. Google says it follows the GNIS, or Geographic Names Information System, a US database of location information. Source: The Verge
Yesterday, here on the Streetviewfun website I posted about an image taken via satellite where there is a request for help, and it is available on Google Maps, messing with the imagination of users and there is already reason these messages are written on that land and already information about who wrote them.
According to the Newsweek website, a police spokesperson issued a statement regarding this case.
A spokesperson for the Union Pacific Police Department told Newsweek: “Photos circulating on Google maps that show the word ‘help’ on Union Pacific property were created about a year ago – no one was or is in danger. A man trespassed on Union Pacific and other nearby properties to repeatedly create these misleading messages. We want to remind the public that it is illegal – and more importantly unsafe – to trespass on Union Pacific property.”
According to the Los Angeles police, the property belongs to the Union Pacific Railroad.
The messages, however, do not appear to be current, as they were already written almost two years ago, in 2023, according to these Street View images from that year.
The online community is in a frenzy after recent satellite images disclosed several distressing ‘HELP’ signs constructed from debris in an undisclosed location in California. […]These images, captured via Google Earth, reportedly first surfaced between September 2022 and June 2023. They depict large-scale signs clearly visible from the sky that spell out “HELP.”
Additional elements in the images suggest ominous undertones, with words like “FBI,” “LAPD,” and others also clustered nearby.
Gideon Futerman says he was on the North of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland when the pair played the prank. They spotted the mapping camera and decided to create a “masterpiece”. The camera caught him pretending to hit his friend with “a geological hammer”. […] Source: Daily Record
Over the summer, I went to the very North of the Isle of Lewis on a field trip to map the geology there with a close friend of mine. The google street view car went past. We had a geological hammer. The following masterpiece, now on google street view, was the result pic.twitter.com/NIBPnxuIl5
And as always, another curious image is found on Google Maps, but very different: a “secret door” was found in Antarctica by Google Maps users!
This information appeared on a Reddit profile that published this image and after that, it stirred the imagination of all internet users. Located southeast of Showa Station, monitored by Japan, the structure recorded via satellite is a rectangular block of ice, whose effect on the accumulation of snow generates a curious trail. Posted on forums dedicated to conspiracies, the find gained fame as being a secret door to something, perhaps “alien”. Source
What is the solution to this mystery?
Evidence that it’s just ice isn’t hard to find — Just northwest of the supposed icy threshold, other similar blocks of ice can be seen, making the same pattern of snow and shadows as their famous sibling.
After looking at the coordinates on Google Earth Pro and looking at historical imagery, Bethan Davies, a professor of glaciology at Newcastle University, told the publication that the mysterious door “is in an area of fast sea ice… close to the coast” that is dotted with “a series of islands” where there is shallow water.“This is an iceberg that has become grounded and is now stuck and melting [in place],” Davies explained. “You can see many other icebergs in the area.”Professor Martin Siegert, co-director of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London, agreed with Davies, telling the outlet: “This is simply an ice flow around a solid subglacial obstacle, influenced also by melting and refreezing of the ice and by katabatic winds. Source NY Post
Among the theories that this poet is some kind of extraterrestrial, the most likely is that she is just a block of ice – and nothing more 😉
The following story shows the existence of life after death, captured by Google Maps cameras in India. A spirit was spotted on top of this house, according to a story about the place, reported by a Reddit user.
While passing by a house today my mom told me this house is haunted, I asked her the story and it was shocking as fu**, it dates back to year 2001 where a doctor couple was murdered in the wee hours, their house looted and I did found a news article on it.
Surprisingly I just went to see the google street view and found something standing on 3rd floor of this stranded house!
Satellite photos showing the “Star Wars”-looking vessel docked at Port Hueneme naval base in California went viral Sunday, its unmistakable profile standing out in stark contrast to its dockmates.
Paulette Landrieux’s case was about to be closed until a copper decided to look for her house on Google Maps. A chill went down his spine when he discovered an image of the pensioner walking away from her Belgium home and ultimately to her death.
By “creepy” coincidence, the Google Maps team had been out that day taking pictures. The image allowed police to retrace the mother-of-four’s footsteps, leading to the discovery of her body just yards away.
