25 Weird and Wonderful Things Caught on Google Earth Camera

By Andrew Alpin, 15 March 2018

Google Earth is a crazy but awesome application that allows us to spot just about anything on Earth and while it is used by people for various purposes, sometimes, unexpected things crop up that shock and awe researchers like these 25 dreadful Google Earth images that might shock you and find them hard to believe.

1Ambrym Vanuatu Volcano

While volcanoes have been studied by geologists, none have yielded really close up photographs of what goes on inside. This is the Ambrym volcano considered one of Vanuatu’s most active volcanoes that can be seen on Google Earth. The volcano with a 12 meter caldera contains lava lakes like the one in the image and if ever it erupts, you could be sure of capturing the eruption on Google Earth. 

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2Wreckage of the Costa Concordia

In 2012, the Costa Concordia ship was carrying around 4500 passengers when it hit a rock off the coast of Tuscany’s Isla Del Gioglio. The accident killed 32 people and capsized the ship in shallow water. It was Italy’s worst maritime disaster since World War II. Today the 144,500 tone ship is being slowly taken apart by scavengers and workers grabbing anything they get. 

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3Yodok, North Korean labor camp

Regardless of how much the country denies, Google Earth does not. Yodok is North Korea’s most famous labor camp where prisoners of all age and social levels are sent here to do manual labor as part of their sentences. 

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49/11

Well, although we don’t like bringing it up and may all those who lost their lives rest in peace, that deplorable and dastardly terrorist attack was captured on Google Earth as well. You can see smoke billowing from the twin towers of the trade center. 

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5US Navy Building

No this isn’t a picture of some German Nazi HQ as you may have thought. It is an image captured by Google Earth of the US Navy building in California constructed in 1967. One wonders as to the credentials of the architect r his social leanings as it is hard to believe the claim put forward that the builders did not realize what shape it would take after construction. Didn’t the man realize the swastika shape on the blueprint in the first place?

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6Distortion at Chichen Itza

If you stumble upon the Google Earth images of the pyramids at the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza, you will come across this alien-like woman walking by. Perhaps it could have also been a distorted image of a woman but all the same those deer type animal legs and face are creepy. 

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7Pentagram at Kazakhstan

This is enough to give anyone the creeps as it depicts a pentagram etched into the Earth in a field in Kazakhstan, Central Asia. If you zoom into the pentagram you will see two paces highlighted by earlier visitors where one spot is marked Adam and the other spot is marked Lucifer. One archaeologist remarked it was the outline of a park, but who in their right mind would construct the boundary of a park in the shape of a pentagram. 

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8Island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island

That’s a mouthful and while it doesn’t qualify as a creepy Google Earth image, it sure is strange. This is a crater lake on an island that is named Volcano Island which is also located in a lake called Lake Taal in Luzon Island, Philippines. 

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9Ancient wheels

These ancient wheels found marked into the Earth’s surface at Jordan’s Azraq oasis seems to be positioned in accurate alignment with sunrise during the winter solstice. Geologists have dated them back 8,500 years ago and assume they were made by wise men of those times. 

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10Airplane boneyard

This is an image of the Davis Monthan Air Force Base located in Tucson Ariz. This is a strange sight dubbed the airplane graveyard where planes that aren’t fit for use are sent to be discarded. Built over a large area of 2,600 acres. The vicinity contains almost every plane flown from World War II to present date. You’ll find F-14 tomcats, B-52 flying fortresses, mustangs among others including civil aircraft. 

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11Largest shipwreck visible on Google Earth

This is the S.S. Jassim which was a cargo ferry operating from Bolivia. It ran aground on Wingate Reef of the Sudanese coast and capsized. It is now regarded as one of the largest shipwrecks that you can find visible from Google Earth. 

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12 Yellowstone National Park

This is how Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming looks like from Google Earth. The lake in the center is the Yellowstone Lake which is 7,732 feet above sea level and covers an area of 136 sq miles. 

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13Trapped stone puppet

This sculpture was made by Jimmy Boyle in 1976. Boyle was an inmate in prison and arranged for the sculpture as a joint effort by unemployed people and their kids at Hunters Hall Park in Craigmillar Scotland. The sculpture was intended to resemble Gulliver but it looks more like a doll. 

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14 Hand Job

Among strange images on Google earth, we thought of fitting it in here because it shows how creepy is Google street view that can catch such unsuspecting incidents such as this public or secluded hand job. 

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15Tiger on the prowl

Imagine this?? Not a soul seems to be outside which means no one even suspects that a tiger or lioness is on the prowl in the city. 

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16 Woman giving birth on sidewalk

Well, nothing hides from Google and this is one unfortunate picture that shows a woman giving birth outside a hospital on the sidewalk. Hope her baby is doing fine. In all probability, she reached the hospital too late.

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17The Badlands Guardian

We thought of putting this here as this was one of the most famous Google Earth Images n the net. This is known as the Badlands Guardian and is a picture of an eroded valley. The topography appears to look like a native Indian with ear pods in his ear. What seems like wires is actually a road with a oil rig at the end.

 

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18Building shaped like a phallus

Believe it or not but this building is actually the Christian Science Society of Dixon Illinois. Wonder if the architect ever showed the designs to the people concerned or was this idea of a joke. It looks weird though.

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19Baby crawling on sidewalk

This is a dangerous image captured of a baby crawling out of a Gucci Store. It seems the parents aren’t aware of what’s going on and if the cameral stayed long enough, undoubtedly we would have seen some screaming mother or parents running to and fro looking for a lost baby. 

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20The broken face on the hill

This is another famous image on Google earth. Imagine that peering up at you when you are scanning Google earth and suddenly come across something like this. Seems like part of a broken statue nobody wanted. 

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21Come down and play

Look closely on the left and you’ll see the sentence “come down and play”! Whoever wrote that definitely knew that someone or the other may be looking through a camera or on Google Earth, hence the eerie message. 

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22The Bird People

Now while this image of the bird people looks very creepy, it actually isn’t so in reality. This is actually a group of people wearing pigeon masks in Japan. The area is the Tamagawa Josuwi sidewalk in Tokyo. 

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23Space Alien phoning home

Ok maybe not so but the image is downright creepy and if you see the address you’ll see its of a location in Grand Jean, France. The image is really weird as it makes the person appear to be an alien. 

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24Haunted town

This is an image of Google earth of the town of New Baltimore New York. It may be corrupted files of Google or a Google glitch. Whatever it is, it certainly looks creepy and a portal to hell. 

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25Something very creepy

Did you notice what the creepy factor here is? It’s the same man. Now that looks like some heavy matrix shit because there is no glitches or blurs suggesting movement of the man. Some feel it’s an artwork, but then what’s it doing on Google maps. 

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