Hello! An anecdote: I was one of the first employees for the first ridesharing app: Sidecar. We used an SQL database to house our tracking information on drivers and riders. Every once in a while the database would throw an error, and instead of the driver car icon showing up on a normal street in San Francisco, it would appear to be located out in the ocean off the coast of Africa. Lat/Long error.
It was not an orb like this, but when I went to boarding school on an island in Norway, there was a random MacDonalds location in the middle of the sea just outside the island. And we all used to joke it was the crusty crab. Unfortunately, whatever bug that was has now been fixed. Fond memories though.
both of you are talking about krusty oil rigs, where the krusty part is normally an in-universe fast food restaurant. but you’re talking about completely different things, and were reminded of them independently. crazy how these things work out!
Hello, Geographic Information Systems engineer here. This is a result of a glitch with the coordinate reference system (CRS). A CRS is the proyection in wich your geographic data (the location of a restaurant for example) is saved as. Think of how distinct map proyections can distort countries' shapes and sizes, this is why the CRS is important when handling geographical data. Multiple softwares use different CRS and some times when transfering geographical data from one CRS to another the system can bug out and the data is sent by default to the ocean. This is a pretty common issue on my line of work. What I imagined happened is that the locations found currently on oceans were first pinpointed on another software and then imported into google maps and there was an issue in the transfer procces. Either this or the Google Servers were under particular strees when this locations were being uploaded and the system setted them on the ocean by default. Sorry for bad grammar, I am writing this on my phone.
Thank you for the legitimate great answer, I don't mean to take away from it but CRS is also a very serious syndrome where you Can't Remember Shit. I think it can happen to anyone... cheers! :-)
A bit of a fun fact of the warung madura part: it's an Indonesian in-joke on how small shops that sells basic necessities called "warung madura" can be practically found everywhere here in Indonesia and are basically open 24/7, and sometimes even in the harshest weather like floodings they'd still be open, so the joke's basically that a warung madura in the middle of Antarctica would be out of the blue but no longer surprising for them
when my brother discovered these in the middle of the ocean he thought it was the backrooms and i had to reassure him over and over again that the backrooms aren't real
@@seassed it seems you misunderstood my comment. i was talking about the original backroom photos, the yellow one. it's an actual place in wisconsin that now used as a RC Cars Track. ua-cam.com/users/shortsM5pPbw0lXSI?si=NsmZq94kjpwXPr7x
I once found my own little personal horror story on google street view. Was bored in school and was dropping into a bunch of places at random. Found this like, trail wooden patio thing looking over a giant forest. Looked pretty neat and all, but In the shadow of the wooden structure, you could see the outline of a noose. Wish I remember where the crap that was. Far as I can tell no one else has seen it, or maybe I just haven't looked far enough. I can still picture it vividly.
I believe u, once in school i found a spot in Antarctica. It was an old and creepy shed, and we could look inside, where there were tiny blood stains on a mirror and on a mattress, and there was some tools on the wall in another room. It was really eerie.
feels like someone SHOULD make a game or something based on these. If you enter one of the orb spaces, you can teleport through a nexus into one of the others in that cluster. The clusters in Google Maps are a way to record the clusters for those who know how to use them
@@ainedroid I looked it up, it's called "MAPFRIEND." It's about 2 years old at this point, I think. Wonder if it inspired any more Google street view inspired horror since then?
Although these orbs are definitely just bugs in Google Maps/Earth, there's this ominous feeling to it that I just love. It's like looking at places in a parallel universe.
My gut reaction is that this is just people dropping their orbs in a random location to test it before putting a real one up in the correct location. And businesses that communicate would likely use similar spots or methods.
My guess is the reason they are clustered on a grid pattern in the ocean is because people at Google deliberately designated empty areas as fall back locations for if the location data, say, gets corrupted. It would be better to have a business appear randomly in the ocean than randomly in a busy city where it could confuse people.
The virtual tour companies are placing the photo spheres in the middle of the ocean and random places so they can host their own photosphere for a client or their portfolio on Google. By copying the link of the photosphere in those coordinates they can for example share it by email or embed it to pages and they don't need to pay for hosting the interactive 3d photosphere.
this makes less sense if analyzed, since photo spheres usually aren't very big in size and hosting a photosphere can be as simple as installing a free library and loading a file from a static page. also, it would be pretty difficult to coordinate the grid placements between multiple tour companies, just to point that out as well.
I like the way you think, but given how widespread it is (and the overarching structure of the locations) I think it's much more likely that this is the result of automated behavior
Every time I had to be somewhere, either for an interview, an appointment, a meet-up or on the way to a new store, I would use street-view beforehand and basically walk myself through it. The ability to see my path and how my destination would look like in the first-person has helped me arrive at places efficiently so many times and it's understated how much more difficult that would be going in blind.
Same. And it also works for me when I know what a place looks like, but can't remember its exact name to get there again. So I just pick the nearest point on the maps and virtually wander the streets as if it were happening in real life :)
I like to do that for toilets! If I'm meeting with friends or family somewhere new, I'll street-view the bathroom before hand to make sure it looks nice.
Before getting to the end of the vid, what this reminds me of is how the insides of buildings in video games are sometimes held out of bounds or in weird spaces in general. Since the Tour Companies maybe didn't want people just clicking on the buildings from street view itself(or that didn't work right) they put them "out of bounds" in a relatively remote location that they could link to from their websites. Though I can't explain why they're clustered around that photo of the ocean. Also makes me think of the likes of Welsh Mythology, where the Otherworld of Annwn was said to be entered beneath the waves.
Omg I didn't even think of that videogame thing, very true. I used to play a lot of GTA Online when I was younger, there was this one mission in the game where you had to rob a casino and if you looked at the map, you'd notice the interior you were in during the heist was apparently under a horse track behind the casino at the far end, despite never going underground, and not walking nearly far enough to be close to the track. GTA 5 also stores a bunch of apartment rooms underneath the map, so it became a thing to try and break the boundaries and parachute into one of these stored interiors.
tl;dr: starting mapping out orbs and found some cool stuff EDIT: I've started to keep an archive of these orbs, and I've mapped out almost the entire South-Atlantic. Took about 2 hours. Interestingly, the orbs are NOT in a grid pattern. All of the orbs are either from some random person or some company. About 9 or 10 of the orbs came from one company based in Brazil, all showing different sections of the same store, which almost looks like a Brazilian Costco. I also found a weird room with a huge mural of the The Creation of Adam painting but with Joker from batman instead. I've discovered this before! One of my favorite activities on Google Earth used to be clicking on random places on the earth to see random parts of the world. Eventually I accidently clicked on the ocean, and low and behold was a photo sphere of Curiosity on Mars. This led me down a whole rabbit hole of clicking on random spots in the ocean in hopes of finding some cool place. I remember there was one of an office space that just KEPT popping up. I think I counted like 5 of those, all of the exact same empty office. Hope this mystery is solved.
12:05 another sh*tpost place near where i live is called "robux mint factory" with 2 or 3 pictures of roblox screenshots. In real life, its just a small apartment building.
I'm not sure what the surprise is. Those are the interior models you get teleported in when entering a location, just like GTA San Andreas Interiors Universe.
My UA-cam was taking like 5 minutes to load with a black screen, then the incogni logo faded in and you started talking and it scared the shit out of me. Great video btw and thanks for the jumpscare.
@JJMcCullough Ottawa! We’ve got our own thing going on in terms of accents, being at the crossroads between Southern Ontario, French Canada, and the Ottawa Valley (where my family is from)
Well shoot, it looks like you discovered our _extreme_ off-grid community. Long story short, I belong to a community of people who were dissatisfied with the hustle and bustle of modern life and decided to move somewhere that no one else would find us: the middle of the ocean. We packed up our stuff, entire houses and even streets, businesses and restaurants, then placed them on top of large floating platforms anchored to the sea floor. How in the hell Google got there though, that's what I want to know. Now, delete this video and never speak of this again.
Dude you are so underrated! Your videos are always high quality and every video you’ve made has ALWAYS had me interested in something I didn’t even know existed lol! Especially this one! Maybe this minor inconvenience will be fixed soon! But I hope it isn’t because it’s really funny how people are so invested in this! Keep going man!
it's a bit strange that you can easily upload a fake or misplaced photo sphere, but when I submit an update for a section of road in my area that is missing from google maps, it takes them 3 months to review
recently i tried looking for point nemo on google maps and ended up finding one of these out-of-bounds orbs!!! it was a classroom and wasnt in english as far as im aware, and both the contents and quality thoroughly spooked me lol. i dont remember when the photo was taken, but it was super old-looking with that yellowy tint. on one of the walls there were a bunch of artworks of mouths with fake cottonball teeth, and the classroom was (obviously) completely empty. had a super liminal feel and the teeth and the fact it was in the middle of the ocean (near point nemo nontheless) freaked me out xd
In the old MMORPG "Star Wars Galaxies" there was a glitch that sometimes happened where players would have things disappear. One day, someone came across a massive number of random items all occupying the exact coordinates of 0,0 on one of the planet maps. This was where the system dumped all the items that disappeared. The grid pattern we see in the case of the google maps orbs suggests an algorithmic element to the placement of these rogue elements. Regions of the global map with no known settlements or infrastructure are likely classified by the system as void space. Spatially, multiple orbs cannot occupy the same coordinates, so there's logically a static minimum distance between each individual orb associated with a node (the point around which a collection of orbs will be placed). And there's clearly a static minimum distance between nodes. This is likely why the grid pattern persists. The same sort of glitch that occurred in Star Wars Galaxies is likely occurring here. For whatever reason, orb coordinates became undefined and the system algorithmically placed the orbs in nodes that exist in void space. Just a guess, but based on the SWG incident, it makes sense.
I’ve been struggling with focusing issues due to my hyperactive ADHD like brain, this actually got me hooked and interested. A usually I skip to the good parts on videos or play it in the background but I actually watched this all through completion, loved this video man. Keep up the work 👍
1:45 There was once supposedly an island there, and since vanished. It appeared on old maps and Portuguese writings. And yeah, supposedly there are shoals there. And reefs. Which is even weirder...
Another fun unrelated glitch: Back in the day, if you clicked on the name of a country on Google Maps and zoomed into the point that represents that country, you could often find random businesses that didn't set their locations correctly. One time, I left a review on a business that set their location to the point location of Russia, saying that they needed to fix their location. They actually did fix it not too long afterwards. Unfortunately, Google Maps has since changed so that the point location of countries is not visible to the user anymore.
Some people in the comments already suggested a lat/long issue. I have never added a 3D point like that in Maps, so idk how it works now or in the past. However, i have worked with loads of topographic maps and files and till then had NO idea how many different coordinate systems are used worldwide. I just checked out of curiosity and..... "There are hundreds of coordinate systems worldwide, with over 4,000 documented in the EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry." So I dare to assume that something went wrong there, especially if one would have to manually insert the coordinates.
Nobody would have ever really noticed but there are some close to where I live in the US. One time when I was in school I searched up the building on Google earth and found a cluster of street view orbs plotted inside the school. I clicked on them, and without a doubt they were properties and one was an ocean restaurant. I went to another school building and saw another cluster of orbs also inside that building and some on the outside which were also similar things.
My best guess: Google takes photo orbs uploaded by people or groups that have either been contested by people who currently inhabit the location the photos were posted, or Google can’t verify they’re supposed to be in the place they’re claiming to be at. And so, I’m thinking rather than just deleting the photo orbs, Google keeps the record and file, but just logs them away into a random isolated area in the predetermined “grid” where people otherwise won’t likely see them.
I can only assume it's a problem with Google itself. What I mean is that Google Street View is not impenetrable to errors, and I assume any orbs in the wrong place are likely there because there was an error on Google's end. Presumably it read the location the orb belonged to and failed to compute it.
LOVED the video, this was a great find. one friendly suggestion. around 5:00, you insert an anecdote about the witcher portals. ig a large portion of your audience understands that, but I don't - so a few sentences of context might add to the flow of the video. but idk. keep it up man!
If you look west of Africa, right next to the coast, there is a huge vast cluster of orbs. This time, they aren’t just companies. They are mostly by random people. Most of them are south of Nigeria and west of Gabon.
the orbs are placeholders. Somewhere that is "empty" so content can be made that won't interfere with actual existing places on land... It's like a notebook or collection of post it notes. Once made and shown to prospective customers they are just disregarded and forgotten. It's done like that to be "untraceable", so those who maybe turn down these companies offers (interior designers, architects, etc) can't just then use Google maps to find the location and maybe undercut, or just cause hassle... Creating viewable environments like this is pretty easy. It can impress prospective customers, who think that it has been made with huge expensive software by highly knowledgeable technicians. To them the whole thing look legit, professional and flashy No big conspiracy. Sorry
I seem to recall that, when adding photos alongside an edit for a new location, in the event that the edit was not approved, those orphaned photos would end up in the middle of the ocean somewhere, possibly at 00.00,00.00
Another funny instance was this were when some guy spammed pictures of inside his house in patterns all over the map. Later turned out the guy was a conspiracy theorist/numerologist, and I think SciManDan made a video on him (for different reasons).
unrelated to the video but i just wanted to say you're easily one of my favorite creators!! i'm always so excited to sit down and watch your newest upload :-D criminally underrated imo
11:26 Maybe that company never paid them? Or stopped paying them? So the Virtual Tour company changed the coordinates to the wrong place intentionally?
I just wanted to point out the important difference between 3D and 360° images. While all of these images have 360° viewpoints, they're very much 2D images. Even when applied to a UV sphere, they're still flat images. 3D would entail having two separate images at adjacent angles for each eye.
10:27 yes. In the Hong Kong vetrodome park(in the playground) you can see 3 orbs. 2 are pictures of the playground, but the third one is a picture of the vetrodome in construction, which is 1 or 2 hundred metres away.
Yeah I've been confused by these too. I've not only seen them in the ocean but I've spotted random street view orbs in the Sahara desert too. My best guess is just wrong coordinate inputs somehow.
7:40 The fact that the slovakian hotel is not on the company's official page but is in the middle of the ocean makes me feel like they had a contract to be put on google street view, they made the job, but then after the work was done there was some mis-communication, perhaps they didn't get paid, but since all the work on taking the photos was already done, they would just temoponarily put it in the middle of the ocean to not have to remove all of their work but to not promote the hotel on google street view intentionally until it gets sorted out or sth. There is weridly also an interesting large amount of mentions of CZ/SK in this video. Such small countries...
first of all, awesome video! second of all - i absolutely love the music you made. genuinely, this is some of the nicest ambient stuff i have ever heard i love it so much
Surprised Google doesn't have someone tasked with removing these. Isn't there a way to report them? For example, this could adversely affect AI learning.
i had this too! i also saw an orb like this and when i clicked on it, it brought me into a random bedroom. the strangest part was that there was a low polygon character sitting in a chair in the corner. the character was missing texture too so it was was a uniform pinkish color.
I remember finding a random orb next a small island in Hawaii and it had a broken back rooms looking place and another was like a bathroom. When I checked them again I couldn’t click on them.
I think, all of these are just rival businesses sabotaging popularities of some businesses. I have a shop that is quite far from me me, which I keep correcting but every week, they shift it's location to somewhere at or near my own house
I can confirm it’s actually not an error. I’ve visited all these places before and they are exactly where it says they are. Great places and I would definitely recommend visiting these locations. Just make sure you bring some scuba gear and a towel 😅
I originally thought that the Slovak hotel was that it's just s single "runaway" 3D frame that got teleported to the Atlantic, but no - it's the entire place is mapped in 1:1 scale. Weird
a suggestion to you and my understanding is that LOAB/AI despite being a bit of an older story; maybe it would be something up your alley? I think you have a great ability for storytelling especially in terms of stuff that covers horror/mystery. I LOVE your videos and am a big fan. much love farrell !!
You overlook the possibility this is some sort of hiding in plain sight of encoded messages. More appealing visually than numbers stations on shortwave radio for a start.
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Hello!
An anecdote: I was one of the first employees for the first ridesharing app: Sidecar. We used an SQL database to house our tracking information on drivers and riders.
Every once in a while the database would throw an error, and instead of the driver car icon showing up on a normal street in San Francisco, it would appear to be located out in the ocean off the coast of Africa. Lat/Long error.
Interesting, maybe something similar is happening here.
@farrellmcguire That's my first suspicion, yeah
That spot in particular might be google's (0,0) as it were, since during the Dragon Quest/Warrior April Fools that's where the Dragonlord was hidden
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@@Max_Ohm That would also explain the "grid"
It was not an orb like this, but when I went to boarding school on an island in Norway, there was a random MacDonalds location in the middle of the sea just outside the island. And we all used to joke it was the crusty crab. Unfortunately, whatever bug that was has now been fixed. Fond memories though.
Like that Simpsons episode with the krusty burger oil rig thing
This reminds me of that Podel episode where instead of the krusty krab, it's the Krusty Oil Platform and it explodes lmao
both of you are talking about krusty oil rigs, where the krusty part is normally an in-universe fast food restaurant. but you’re talking about completely different things, and were reminded of them independently. crazy how these things work out!
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Glad you shared that with us, I love a good laugh lmao
Hello, Geographic Information Systems engineer here.
This is a result of a glitch with the coordinate reference system (CRS). A CRS is the proyection in wich your geographic data (the location of a restaurant for example) is saved as. Think of how distinct map proyections can distort countries' shapes and sizes, this is why the CRS is important when handling geographical data. Multiple softwares use different CRS and some times when transfering geographical data from one CRS to another the system can bug out and the data is sent by default to the ocean. This is a pretty common issue on my line of work.
What I imagined happened is that the locations found currently on oceans were first pinpointed on another software and then imported into google maps and there was an issue in the transfer procces. Either this or the Google Servers were under particular strees when this locations were being uploaded and the system setted them on the ocean by default.
Sorry for bad grammar, I am writing this on my phone.
I wonder if Google Maps automatically spreads out invalid geodata so that there isn't just one giant mass of a million error orbs in one place.
exactly. youd have to be a mouth breather not to figure this out within 5 mins,
Thank you for the legitimate great answer, I don't mean to take away from it but CRS is also a very serious syndrome where you Can't Remember Shit. I think it can happen to anyone... cheers! :-)
A bit of a fun fact of the warung madura part: it's an Indonesian in-joke on how small shops that sells basic necessities called "warung madura" can be practically found everywhere here in Indonesia and are basically open 24/7, and sometimes even in the harshest weather like floodings they'd still be open, so the joke's basically that a warung madura in the middle of Antarctica would be out of the blue but no longer surprising for them
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So it's like the Waffle House of Indonesia?
@@notlegoguy2511Stronger than waffle houses
when my brother discovered these in the middle of the ocean he thought it was the backrooms and i had to reassure him over and over again that the backrooms aren't real
i wish they were real
The concept of the backroom is not real but the place is a real place, there is a video of people trying to find it and they actually found it.
@@nabelalifxiiak4565 ahem, no it isnt. that was a bug that sent the camera into a building, thats all.
@@seassed it seems you misunderstood my comment. i was talking about the original backroom photos, the yellow one. it's an actual place in wisconsin that now used as a RC Cars Track.
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@@seassed bro cant read 💀
I once found my own little personal horror story on google street view. Was bored in school and was dropping into a bunch of places at random. Found this like, trail wooden patio thing looking over a giant forest. Looked pretty neat and all, but In the shadow of the wooden structure, you could see the outline of a noose. Wish I remember where the crap that was. Far as I can tell no one else has seen it, or maybe I just haven't looked far enough. I can still picture it vividly.
I believe u, once in school i found a spot in Antarctica. It was an old and creepy shed, and we could look inside, where there were tiny blood stains on a mirror and on a mattress, and there was some tools on the wall in another room. It was really eerie.
@@mlblvchiladybugIt was a shack of some of the first Antarctica exprorers, it's a museum and I don't think that was blood
@@mlblvchiladybugOMFG I JUST FOUND THE SHACK ON THE COAST OF ANTARCTICA
oh god what nightmares... a piece of tied rope. :/
you know that people tie loops in rope for more reasons than hanging people right?
The Antarctica explanations don't make sense why is there a forest in Antarctica Antarctica is a giant ice continent there are no forest in Antarctica
One time I remember clicking on a photo sphere in a giant city in India and it brought me to a random curtain shop in Germany
How was the virtual plane trip from India to Germany
at least you could look at some curtains
Did the curtains match the drapes?
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My immediate thought when I saw a lot of them clustered around a single area was "floating-point error"
Well they definitely are floating points made in error. 😂
A coder's primal instinct.
bravo for this
I assumed the same thing!
how does that make sense at all, the most float imprecision i ever seen is soemthign like 7.19997983 instead of 7.2
feels like someone SHOULD make a game or something based on these. If you enter one of the orb spaces, you can teleport through a nexus into one of the others in that cluster. The clusters in Google Maps are a way to record the clusters for those who know how to use them
yume nikki but street view
I remember there was a game manlybadasshero played that was a horror game based on streetview but I forgot what it was called
@@ainedroid I looked it up, it's called "MAPFRIEND." It's about 2 years old at this point, I think. Wonder if it inspired any more Google street view inspired horror since then?
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Wouldn't it be funny to use these on GeoGuessr
Lol
Although these orbs are definitely just bugs in Google Maps/Earth, there's this ominous feeling to it that I just love. It's like looking at places in a parallel universe.
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This feels like a video that would show up as one from 2 - 4 years ago. Surprised to see its only 17 hours ago
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If you conect the dots with a line it kinda looks like a rick roll 3:23
I clicked on the timestamp, fully expecting to be trolled and lied to, but you’re actually right.
@@makennarudolph And still got rickrolled.
Rickrolling in 2024 😭
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@@HØTTiCAK3S8707Well yeah. The meme is alive and well.
My gut reaction is that this is just people dropping their orbs in a random location to test it before putting a real one up in the correct location. And businesses that communicate would likely use similar spots or methods.
That's essentially what I was thinking and I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned.
My guess is the reason they are clustered on a grid pattern in the ocean is because people at Google deliberately designated empty areas as fall back locations for if the location data, say, gets corrupted. It would be better to have a business appear randomly in the ocean than randomly in a busy city where it could confuse people.
Exactly what I thought
I remember when I was 14, I kept adding fnaf pictures to random pizza places in my state.
hahaha why have i never thought of that
The virtual tour companies are placing the photo spheres in the middle of the ocean and random places so they can host their own photosphere for a client or their portfolio on Google. By copying the link of the photosphere in those coordinates they can for example share it by email or embed it to pages and they don't need to pay for hosting the interactive 3d photosphere.
Yess that was my first thought
That actually makes sense ngl
this makes less sense if analyzed, since photo spheres usually aren't very big in size and hosting a photosphere can be as simple as installing a free library and loading a file from a static page.
also, it would be pretty difficult to coordinate the grid placements between multiple tour companies, just to point that out as well.
I like the way you think, but given how widespread it is (and the overarching structure of the locations) I think it's much more likely that this is the result of automated behavior
Thanks for sharing. I will do this for my business as well 😅 Bring me more ideas. I'm all ears
Every time I had to be somewhere, either for an interview, an appointment, a meet-up or on the way to a new store, I would use street-view beforehand and basically walk myself through it. The ability to see my path and how my destination would look like in the first-person has helped me arrive at places efficiently so many times and it's understated how much more difficult that would be going in blind.
same
Same. And it also works for me when I know what a place looks like, but can't remember its exact name to get there again. So I just pick the nearest point on the maps and virtually wander the streets as if it were happening in real life :)
I like to do that for toilets! If I'm meeting with friends or family somewhere new, I'll street-view the bathroom before hand to make sure it looks nice.
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Before getting to the end of the vid, what this reminds me of is how the insides of buildings in video games are sometimes held out of bounds or in weird spaces in general. Since the Tour Companies maybe didn't want people just clicking on the buildings from street view itself(or that didn't work right) they put them "out of bounds" in a relatively remote location that they could link to from their websites. Though I can't explain why they're clustered around that photo of the ocean.
Also makes me think of the likes of Welsh Mythology, where the Otherworld of Annwn was said to be entered beneath the waves.
Omg I didn't even think of that videogame thing, very true. I used to play a lot of GTA Online when I was younger, there was this one mission in the game where you had to rob a casino and if you looked at the map, you'd notice the interior you were in during the heist was apparently under a horse track behind the casino at the far end, despite never going underground, and not walking nearly far enough to be close to the track. GTA 5 also stores a bunch of apartment rooms underneath the map, so it became a thing to try and break the boundaries and parachute into one of these stored interiors.
tl;dr: starting mapping out orbs and found some cool stuff
EDIT: I've started to keep an archive of these orbs, and I've mapped out almost the entire South-Atlantic. Took about 2 hours. Interestingly, the orbs are NOT in a grid pattern. All of the orbs are either from some random person or some company. About 9 or 10 of the orbs came from one company based in Brazil, all showing different sections of the same store, which almost looks like a Brazilian Costco. I also found a weird room with a huge mural of the The Creation of Adam painting but with Joker from batman instead.
I've discovered this before! One of my favorite activities on Google Earth used to be clicking on random places on the earth to see random parts of the world. Eventually I accidently clicked on the ocean, and low and behold was a photo sphere of Curiosity on Mars. This led me down a whole rabbit hole of clicking on random spots in the ocean in hopes of finding some cool place. I remember there was one of an office space that just KEPT popping up. I think I counted like 5 of those, all of the exact same empty office. Hope this mystery is solved.
12:05 another sh*tpost place near where i live is called "robux mint factory" with 2 or 3 pictures of roblox screenshots. In real life, its just a small apartment building.
lmaoooo
I'm not sure what the surprise is. Those are the interior models you get teleported in when entering a location, just like GTA San Andreas Interiors Universe.
My UA-cam was taking like 5 minutes to load with a black screen, then the incogni logo faded in and you started talking and it scared the shit out of me. Great video btw and thanks for the jumpscare.
7:19 as a Czech, the way you've said "CZ" hurts
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whats a zech
@@PoopiePantZ1234 ppl from the Czech Republic
@@PoopiePantZ1234 person form czechia, a country in central europe that borders germany and poland
@@PoopiePantZ1234is education illegal in america or what
Really fascinating story. Great video!
Thank you fellow Canadian :)
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@ I could tell from your accent!
Are you from Nova Scotia?
@JJMcCullough Ottawa! We’ve got our own thing going on in terms of accents, being at the crossroads between Southern Ontario, French Canada, and the Ottawa Valley (where my family is from)
Well shoot, it looks like you discovered our _extreme_ off-grid community. Long story short, I belong to a community of people who were dissatisfied with the hustle and bustle of modern life and decided to move somewhere that no one else would find us: the middle of the ocean. We packed up our stuff, entire houses and even streets, businesses and restaurants, then placed them on top of large floating platforms anchored to the sea floor. How in the hell Google got there though, that's what I want to know. Now, delete this video and never speak of this again.
They are in your walls
XD
@@heleakedallovertheplace carbon monoxide :(
America?
take me with you
One time I accidentally got inside a Chinese restraunt's toilet. Looks like the guy who took photos of the toilet really liked it😅
Dude you are so underrated! Your videos are always high quality and every video you’ve made has ALWAYS had me interested in something I didn’t even know existed lol! Especially this one! Maybe this minor inconvenience will be fixed soon! But I hope it isn’t because it’s really funny how people are so invested in this! Keep going man!
In southern Saudi Arabia, theres many photo spheres in the middle of the desert, where when you go on them, they depict a city of some kind
Maybe it’s that construction project known as the line
it's a bit strange that you can easily upload a fake or misplaced photo sphere, but when I submit an update for a section of road in my area that is missing from google maps, it takes them 3 months to review
recently i tried looking for point nemo on google maps and ended up finding one of these out-of-bounds orbs!!! it was a classroom and wasnt in english as far as im aware, and both the contents and quality thoroughly spooked me lol. i dont remember when the photo was taken, but it was super old-looking with that yellowy tint. on one of the walls there were a bunch of artworks of mouths with fake cottonball teeth, and the classroom was (obviously) completely empty. had a super liminal feel and the teeth and the fact it was in the middle of the ocean (near point nemo nontheless) freaked me out xd
I work in education and one of my tactics for teaching geography is virtual "field trips." I've come across several of these random orbs.
There are prisons in North Korea with five star reviews
"The flogging was exquisite."
In the old MMORPG "Star Wars Galaxies" there was a glitch that sometimes happened where players would have things disappear. One day, someone came across a massive number of random items all occupying the exact coordinates of 0,0 on one of the planet maps. This was where the system dumped all the items that disappeared.
The grid pattern we see in the case of the google maps orbs suggests an algorithmic element to the placement of these rogue elements. Regions of the global map with no known settlements or infrastructure are likely classified by the system as void space. Spatially, multiple orbs cannot occupy the same coordinates, so there's logically a static minimum distance between each individual orb associated with a node (the point around which a collection of orbs will be placed). And there's clearly a static minimum distance between nodes. This is likely why the grid pattern persists.
The same sort of glitch that occurred in Star Wars Galaxies is likely occurring here. For whatever reason, orb coordinates became undefined and the system algorithmically placed the orbs in nodes that exist in void space.
Just a guess, but based on the SWG incident, it makes sense.
I’ve been struggling with focusing issues due to my hyperactive ADHD like brain, this actually got me hooked and interested. A usually I skip to the good parts on videos or play it in the background but I actually watched this all through completion, loved this video man. Keep up the work 👍
So you watched a video?
@Kamal_AL-Hinai Did you suddenly become unable to read the entire message or what's the problem here?
1:45
There was once supposedly an island there, and since vanished.
It appeared on old maps and Portuguese writings.
And yeah, supposedly there are shoals there. And reefs.
Which is even weirder...
Another fun unrelated glitch: Back in the day, if you clicked on the name of a country on Google Maps and zoomed into the point that represents that country, you could often find random businesses that didn't set their locations correctly. One time, I left a review on a business that set their location to the point location of Russia, saying that they needed to fix their location. They actually did fix it not too long afterwards. Unfortunately, Google Maps has since changed so that the point location of countries is not visible to the user anymore.
3:40 WISCONSIN MENTIONED 🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀
Nah, you're wrong. It's clearly Atlantis!
the rental property market in atlantis is hot right now
Atlantis homeland of amazigh we welcome yall
love the barbecue there in atlantis❤
Its how many krusty means are there
Some people in the comments already suggested a lat/long issue. I have never added a 3D point like that in Maps, so idk how it works now or in the past. However, i have worked with loads of topographic maps and files and till then had NO idea how many different coordinate systems are used worldwide. I just checked out of curiosity and.....
"There are hundreds of coordinate systems worldwide, with over 4,000 documented in the EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry."
So I dare to assume that something went wrong there, especially if one would have to manually insert the coordinates.
Never would I ever thought I would hear "Going Out of Bounds In Google Street View" in my entire life
Nobody would have ever really noticed but there are some close to where I live in the US. One time when I was in school I searched up the building on Google earth and found a cluster of street view orbs plotted inside the school. I clicked on them, and without a doubt they were properties and one was an ocean restaurant. I went to another school building and saw another cluster of orbs also inside that building and some on the outside which were also similar things.
My best guess: Google takes photo orbs uploaded by people or groups that have either been contested by people who currently inhabit the location the photos were posted, or Google can’t verify they’re supposed to be in the place they’re claiming to be at. And so, I’m thinking rather than just deleting the photo orbs, Google keeps the record and file, but just logs them away into a random isolated area in the predetermined “grid” where people otherwise won’t likely see them.
I can only assume it's a problem with Google itself. What I mean is that Google Street View is not impenetrable to errors, and I assume any orbs in the wrong place are likely there because there was an error on Google's end. Presumably it read the location the orb belonged to and failed to compute it.
I do have another strange location I know on Google Maps. Type 'islas de san benito' and make sure you're in satellite mode
not sure whats strange can you explain?
LOVED the video, this was a great find.
one friendly suggestion. around 5:00, you insert an anecdote about the witcher portals. ig a large portion of your audience understands that, but I don't - so a few sentences of context might add to the flow of the video. but idk. keep it up man!
The footage of the game is enough context
If you look west of Africa, right next to the coast, there is a huge vast cluster of orbs. This time, they aren’t just companies. They are mostly by random people. Most of them are south of Nigeria and west of Gabon.
the orbs are placeholders. Somewhere that is "empty" so content can be made that won't interfere with actual existing places on land... It's like a notebook or collection of post it notes. Once made and shown to prospective customers they are just disregarded and forgotten. It's done like that to be "untraceable", so those who maybe turn down these companies offers (interior designers, architects, etc) can't just then use Google maps to find the location and maybe undercut, or just cause hassle... Creating viewable environments like this is pretty easy. It can impress prospective customers, who think that it has been made with huge expensive software by highly knowledgeable technicians. To them the whole thing look legit, professional and flashy No big conspiracy. Sorry
11:08 to 11:13
That's in my hometown (Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil)
Written on the truck is Rei das Lonas (King of Tarp)
oh good, I'm not the only person who will just randomly go looking around google maps
We need a club
I seem to recall that, when adding photos alongside an edit for a new location, in the event that the edit was not approved, those orphaned photos would end up in the middle of the ocean somewhere, possibly at 00.00,00.00
Another funny instance was this were when some guy spammed pictures of inside his house in patterns all over the map. Later turned out the guy was a conspiracy theorist/numerologist, and I think SciManDan made a video on him (for different reasons).
unrelated to the video but i just wanted to say you're easily one of my favorite creators!! i'm always so excited to sit down and watch your newest upload :-D criminally underrated imo
11:26 Maybe that company never paid them? Or stopped paying them? So the Virtual Tour company changed the coordinates to the wrong place intentionally?
I just wanted to point out the important difference between 3D and 360° images. While all of these images have 360° viewpoints, they're very much 2D images. Even when applied to a UV sphere, they're still flat images. 3D would entail having two separate images at adjacent angles for each eye.
10:27 yes.
In the Hong Kong vetrodome park(in the playground) you can see 3 orbs. 2 are pictures of the playground, but the third one is a picture of the vetrodome in construction, which is 1 or 2 hundred metres away.
Yeah I've been confused by these too. I've not only seen them in the ocean but I've spotted random street view orbs in the Sahara desert too. My best guess is just wrong coordinate inputs somehow.
Did not expect to see that restaurant from old Québec, salutation de Montréal !
I love your videos. Whenever I see you I think of the song "Play that funky music whiiiittteeee boooooyyyy." Keep up the good work, Farrell!
The random hallway off the coast of WA/OR is the Glen Cove Center for Nursing Rehabilitation in NY--it's part of their virtual tour.
The ocean orbs are interesting but they shouldn’t be deleted, because they are legit photos. They should just the moved.
7:40 The fact that the slovakian hotel is not on the company's official page but is in the middle of the ocean makes me feel like they had a contract to be put on google street view, they made the job, but then after the work was done there was some mis-communication, perhaps they didn't get paid, but since all the work on taking the photos was already done, they would just temoponarily put it in the middle of the ocean to not have to remove all of their work but to not promote the hotel on google street view intentionally until it gets sorted out or sth.
There is weridly also an interesting large amount of mentions of CZ/SK in this video. Such small countries...
I really enjoy your content. Always excited to see a new Farrell vid in my feed!
PS: very stoked for your next album, can't wait!
SLOVAKIA MENTIONED 🦅🔥🔥🔥🔥
NAD TATROU SA BLÝSKA
first of all, awesome video! second of all - i absolutely love the music you made. genuinely, this is some of the nicest ambient stuff i have ever heard i love it so much
I remeber when i was younger i went on google maps and found a lone orb in the midde of the ocean and i got taken to some random ass persons house
Imagine getting these on Geoguesser 💀
Surprised Google doesn't have someone tasked with removing these. Isn't there a way to report them? For example, this could adversely affect AI learning.
Reporting them would make Google flag them as fictitious, but leave them in so everyone else's AIs get confused.
There are places on Google Maps that are шitposts and may sometimes contain racial slurs in the title. Google does remove them from my experience.
@@scipion34creative filter bypass
i had this too! i also saw an orb like this and when i clicked on it, it brought me into a random bedroom. the strangest part was that there was a low polygon character sitting in a chair in the corner. the character was missing texture too so it was was a uniform pinkish color.
if it was just a glitch why did it take you 12 minutes to reach that conclusion?
I remember finding a random orb next a small island in Hawaii and it had a broken back rooms looking place and another was like a bathroom. When I checked them again I couldn’t click on them.
9:50 that’s definitely MissingNo.
One time, i clicked an orb in colorado, and now I'm in a Space Ship off of Earth
did bro just do an horror video about streetview?
I think, all of these are just rival businesses sabotaging popularities of some businesses.
I have a shop that is quite far from me me, which I keep correcting but every week, they shift it's location to somewhere at or near my own house
I see a few of these when I check out islands. Sometimes certain bodies of water are of higher quality than other pics.
I don't know why this video made me so happy but it DID AND I THANK YOU! I laughed out loud a few times and really needed it today.
9:03 anyone notice this voice crack
if only I knew I could submit photos so I could’ve preserved my dead grandma’s house
I can confirm it’s actually not an error. I’ve visited all these places before and they are exactly where it says they are. Great places and I would definitely recommend visiting these locations. Just make sure you bring some scuba gear and a towel 😅
holy shit! that music at the start is amazing! sounds like it was taken right out of watermusic
12:30 oh i love this cat
Finally some one is talking about this!!! I’m so happy that I get to figure this out!
Thanks, Jared Fogle. Great video as always
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I originally thought that the Slovak hotel was that it's just s single "runaway" 3D frame that got teleported to the Atlantic, but no - it's the entire place is mapped in 1:1 scale. Weird
13:03 LOL is that a picture of Monster Legends?
Most interesting video I’ve seen in a while!
(this is a great video)
1:30 song name?
All the music is from an album by NeverEndingCorridor
you are my favorite youtuber currently
a suggestion to you and my understanding is that LOAB/AI despite being a bit of an older story; maybe it would be something up your alley? I think you have a great ability for storytelling especially in terms of stuff that covers horror/mystery. I LOVE your videos and am a big fan. much love farrell !!
so no one is going to mention the weed at 12:18 ?
I also found an orb in the ocean that showed an place in brasil but it was uploaded this year
😅 perhaps it’s folded space … someone should crunch the available numbers 🗿🗺️🗿who knows what we could uncover. Giggle-Maps 🤭
I remember spending at least an hour each time i log into Google Earth and getting my mind blown each time
UA-camrs "investigating a mystery" when the mystery is just people fucking around lol
Mate, you need to team up with Nexpo, your voice ROCKS.
Keep up the good work.
9:30 that logo is the pedo symbol
You overlook the possibility this is some sort of hiding in plain sight of encoded messages. More appealing visually than numbers stations on shortwave radio for a start.