6 Bone-Chilling Locations Uncovered on Google Maps

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00:00New Baltimore is a small town in New York with a population of just over 3,000 people.

00:10In 2007, the first images of the town were uploaded to Google Maps, but unlike most locations on the

00:16platform, for some reason the street view images seem to be corrupted, making the entire town look

00:21warped and discolored, resembling something completely different from the actual town in

00:25real life. If you zoom out far enough, the glitch disappears, and the roads, people, and houses

00:31start to look normal again. The location had the same appearance on Google Maps for eight years,

00:36until in 2015 Google finally managed to fix the issue by uploading new pictures of New Baltimore

00:41to the platform. To this day, it's unknown what caused the glitch, and Google never gave an

00:46explanation as to why it happened. Of course, small glitches and equipment errors happen all the time,

00:51but what's unusual is that this is the only location on the platform where the entire town

00:55looked like this. But what's most disturbing is that even after Google supposedly fixed the glitch

01:00around 2015 after eight years of its existence, some people still reported that there were certain

01:05spots in New Baltimore where the street view would temporarily glitch and show a distorted,

01:09creepy version of the people and houses. Because Google never disclosed any information about the

01:14glitch publicly, people have tried to come up with explanations for years. Many users have claimed that

01:19it wasn't a glitch at all, and that New Baltimore is really some kind of portal, while others say the

01:24entire town is haunted. To this day, some people still claim that the glitch was never entirely fixed.

01:32In 2019, a man named Jerry Nyman was simulating a school bus route in Florida using Google Maps.

01:39At the time, Jerry worked for the transportation department of the Palm Beach County School District,

01:44and his job involved making sure the bus routes were safe enough so children could easily get on

01:48and off the bus without having to walk close to any busy highways. One day, Jerry got an email from a

01:53nearby middle school asking him to make sure the current bus routes were safe, and this is where

01:57things took a turn. After reading the email, Jerry realized that the school was close to his ex-girlfriend

02:02Erica's house. As he was checking the bus route on Google Maps, he noticed something that looked like

02:07a white car at the edge of a man-made lake next to Erica's house. He quickly texted her and asked her if

02:13she had ever seen the car. She said no, but offered to go over and take a look. Because the water was brown and

02:19murky, she had to ask a neighbor for help. After which, her neighbor confirmed that there was

02:23indeed a white car in the retention pond and called 911. Police showed up and interrogated Jerry,

02:29thinking that he might have had something to do with it. But he explained that he had just

02:32found the car on Google Maps. Shockingly, after pulling the car out of the pond and looking inside,

02:38the police found a man's skeleton still wearing a seatbelt in the driver's seat. As it was later

02:43revealed, the car belonged to a man named William Mould, a 40-year-old mortgage broker who had

02:47disappeared way back in 1997. The story goes that on November 7th, William was at a nightclub,

02:53and at about 9.30pm, he called his girlfriend to let her know that he would be heading home soon.

02:58According to witnesses, William hadn't really socialized with anyone, and although he'd had

03:02several drinks, he didn't appear to be intoxicated when he left the club at around 11pm in his white

03:07sedan. That night was the last night anyone would see him alive. After his girlfriend reported him

03:12missing, police began an investigation, but with no new leads, the case quickly went cold.

03:17Considering how dark the water was in the retention pond, it's not surprising that nobody had noticed

03:22the car for 22 years until it was found on Google Maps. The circumstances around William Mould's

03:27disappearance and how his car ended up in the lake remain unknown.

03:35This disturbing scene was captured in a public park in a small city in Holland.

03:39In 2013, a Reddit user named ncav posted this image with the caption,

03:44A murder near my house on Google Maps. The satellite image shows what appears to be a trail of blood on

03:50a dock. The quality isn't great, and it's hard to tell what exactly is happening, but many people have

03:56claimed that the image shows two men dragging a dead body into the water. After the post quickly went viral,

04:02police launched an investigation to find out whether a murder had actually taken place at the dock.

04:06Investigators and reporters thought they might get valuable information by interviewing nearby

04:10business owners, but nobody had seen anything suspicious. If it was a murder, getting rid of

04:16a dead body in the middle of a popular public park in broad daylight is questionable, but as you'll

04:21soon see, stranger and more disturbing things have been captured on Google's satellite images.

04:25A week after the image was posted, a 52-year-old woman named Jacqueline Kuhnen claimed that the

04:30image shows her and her friend playing with her brown golden retriever, and that the trail of

04:34liquid was actually water from the dripping dog, which looks dark red in the picture because of the

04:39lighting. While this is a possibility, crime scene investigators aren't fully convinced. Forensic

04:45analysts say that the stains look exactly like blood looks in the satellite image, and that the stain

04:50patterns on the dock show a clear dragging pattern, as if something heavy had been dragged on the dock,

04:55not a dripping pattern. Years after the original image was captured, a forensic team analyzed the

05:00scene with special equipment. They found no traces of blood on the dock, but they said it's possible

05:06the blood could have fully faded after so much time. Whether the satellite captured an innocent image

05:11of two women playing with a dog or something much more gruesome remains unconfirmed. Strangely,

05:16if you look at the dock on Google Maps today, there's a bright red circle with two lines in the

05:20center of the dock, but I couldn't find an explanation on what this means.

05:28In a random location in Sonora, Mexico, a Google Street View car photographed four masked men standing

05:33in the middle of the road. On one side of the road, a man wearing a scream mask can be seen next

05:38to another man wearing a Mexican wrestling mask over his face. A third person with a werewolf mask

05:43stands in the middle of the road alongside another man wearing a balaclava and a hat.

05:47After the discovery was posted on Reddit about a year ago, people started coming up with theories

05:52to explain the strange scene. One possibility is that the people in the image were following

05:56the Mexican Day of the Dead tradition of dressing up in masks and costumes to dance and celebrate

06:01their ancestors. On this holiday, it's common in some communities for people to dress up and dance

06:06on the street for money, inviting passersby to dance with them. The legend goes that if you join in

06:11and dance with them once, you have to do it for seven years straight to avoid getting chased by

06:15ghosts. The Day of the Dead theory sounds possible, however the picture was taken in April and the

06:21Day of the Dead isn't until November, which means that the people in the image were covering their

06:25face for another reason. Many people have speculated online that since the photograph was taken in an

06:30area made famous by the Sonora Cartel, the men could be cartel members. The reasons for standing

06:36on the road are unclear, but some people think that something sinister might have been taking place

06:40when the images were captured. The Sonora Cartel is one of the oldest and most notorious drug cartels

06:46in Mexico. They made their name as one of the first cartels to ship many different drugs into the US.

06:51But whether the people in the image are actually cartel members has not been confirmed.

06:56Interestingly, this isn't the first sighting of people wearing strange masks on Google Maps.

07:01In 2013, a group of people was photographed wearing pigeon masks near a railway station in western Tokyo.

07:07Although the image is a little creepy, it was later revealed that the whole thing was

07:11actually just a staged prank led by a group of art students from a nearby university.

07:16But it's unlikely that this is what was happening in the images that were taken in Mexico.

07:23In March of 2014, a Malaysia Airlines plane with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board

07:29disappeared during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The mysterious disappearance of flight 370

07:36triggered a massive international search operation. But three years later, in January 2017,

07:41the governments of Malaysia, Australia, and China called off the search. To this day,

07:46the reasons for the plane's disappearance are unknown. But because it's known that a plane has

07:51to be under manual control to deviate as much from its course as flight 370 did, most experts speculate

07:56that a sort of hijacking operation is the most likely explanation. One year after the search was

08:02called off, a man named Ian Wilson claimed that he had found the crash site on Google Maps in a random

08:07location in the middle of the Cambodian jungle. Determined to find the remains of flight 370,

08:12Ian and his brother Jackie traveled to Cambodia to search for the plane. Unfortunately, because the

08:18terrain in the jungle was incredibly dangerous, they had to turn back before they could reach the

08:22crash site. But the brothers plan to return to the Cambodian jungle sometime in the future to find it.

08:27Although it's disturbing to see a plane stranded in the middle of the jungle,

08:30authorities have clarified that it's unlikely that this is the last Malaysia Airlines plane.

08:35Random debris was found from flight 370 on the shores of different countries on the African coast

08:40two years before the Google Maps sighting. And it would have been almost impossible for this debris

08:45to have made its way from the Cambodian jungle to the beach, across the Indian Ocean, and onto the

08:49shores of Madagascar and Tanzania. But there's also evidence that suggests this could be the crash

08:54site of flight 370. For example, at the time the plane lost contact with the operations center,

09:00it was reportedly in Cambodian airspace. Also, the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was a Boeing 777,

09:06which measures about 242 feet, and using the measuring tool on Google Maps, the length of

09:11the plane in the satellite image is almost a perfect match. Some Cambodian residents also revealed

09:17during interviews that they had seen a plane with a kite-like emblem flying overhead in that same

09:21area around the date of the crash. The contradicting evidence triggered a conspiracy theory, with

09:26people claiming that the debris had been planted on the shores of African countries by the Malaysian

09:30government to close the case quickly, and avoid having to admit that they completely botched the

09:34initial search for the plane. Because it's still unknown where flight 370 crashed, this could be a

09:39possibility. But even if this isn't where flight 370 went down, the fact that there's a random,

09:45undocumented plane stranded in the middle of the Cambodian jungle is pretty unsettling.

09:52The story behind this Google Maps image is particularly disturbing. On the night of August

09:5814th, 2009, Kevin Barrera's life was tragically taken on a footpath crossing the railroad tracks

10:03that separate North Richmond from San Pablo, California. His remains were discovered the next

10:09morning by a passerby, and police soon showed up at the scene of the crime. Investigators never found a

10:14motive for the event, and the crime was sadly never solved. Four years later, in 2013, the boy's

10:20father was using Google's satellite view, when he noticed something pretty disturbing. For some unknown

10:26reason, the satellite image of the area just so happened to be captured on the exact day after the

10:30incident. The aerial view shows a police car and a group of five investigators standing next to the

10:36tracks. Disturbingly also seen is Kevin Barrera. After Kevin Barrera's father reported the image,

10:42Google Maps took it down eight days later, but the damage to the family had already been done.

10:47This area of Richmond, known as the Iron Triangle, is reportedly a big homicide hotspot.

10:53Between February and October of 2013, six people were killed near the railroad tracks. Although these

10:59kinds of events are still being reported in that area to this day, this is the only time one of them

11:03was captured by Google's satellite images and shown publicly on the platform.

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