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!
12:30 yo thank you that is my cat! tbh I made the shitpost because I was bored lol. I will post a update one here in my community tab edit: btw there is a speedpaint of my cat on youtube
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
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?
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.
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.
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
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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)
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
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
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...
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!
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 way this video starts and the things discussed about Google maps remind me of a new video here on yt from Max Lenorsomething: "How Microsoft Accidentally Made the Most Realistic Map". Great stuff!
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 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 😅
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
My TH-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.
Option A: It simply a bug in google street, they are rather old so maybe something in their databases got misplaced Option B: Most of these are businesses, maybe theyre put in random locations cause they want them to be accesible from their own sites and not be found on google Option C: They're old photos, of locations that dont exist anymore, maybe instead of deleting them, they just move to em middle of nowhere
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.
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.
I honestly always figured they put these orbs into these locations to show the customer how the interior view looks like before it gets moved to its correct spot. The grid alignment however would mean that's really unlikely unless it's coordinated between these companies.
as a geoguessr player and map maker iv seen them bevore. you can even find some sort of backrooms or 3D rooms sometimes, of course they are not real places so googel is deleting them quick. And a lot of missplaced locations are for some reason in Chad too
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 !!
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).
We Also have a place with lots of fake reviews for memes in germany. Its in the Town Emskirchen and the Village Altschauerberg. There Onced lived a TH-camr named Drachenlord in the Village Altschauerberg, that was Famous for beeing hated by a lot of people. A lot of normal places in the nearest Town Emskirchen and his Village now have fake reviews with references to him.
These ocean-bound orbs are obviously nothing more than bugs/glitches with Google Earth's positioning system, but even with that in mind, there's something ominous about them.
Me and my friend were playing around with google earth in class and we came across these. We really just laughed about it, but when I look back at it now, I realised it's kinda creepy. We came across places like a light section in a warehouse which felt liminal, and an empty and creepy kindergarten. We even found a cave that looked ancient.
The first time I saw these blobs in the ocean was in early 2024. I was scrolling through shorts and saw this meme showing the map of all Steam users. Then it zoomed in on a dot that implied there was a player in the ocean. I tried searching this location on Google maps to see if this was an island or not. Weirdly there was no land here, but there was street view. I don’t think that this is a problem exclusively to Google maps, and it’s probably not a one time glitch. Maybe if you typed a glitched location it would always output in the middle of the ocean
yeah this was strange. i remember browsing google street view with a friend and finding an orb in the middle of the mediterranean sea. it took us to a random shoreline in crete
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
maybe the contract ended or they hit a problem and said might as well throw the 3D scan in some random place which in this case is in the middle of ocean?
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...
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?
the placement of these spheres is literally just because of a bug, nothing too mysterious. and these companies usually forget, because they have a lot of clients. it's interesting, though.
11:41 I would venture a guess that most of these places are linking directly to the photosphere from at least one or multiple other places (or embedding it into their pages), and thus just aren't aware that they're missing out on the additional views they'd be getting if it were also accessible via its geographical location. They got some message telling them it was successfully added to Maps/Places/Earth, and never went to double check it themselves. They don't necessarily seem like the most tech-oriented businesses/people (albeit from the admittedly minute sample I saw...) so I think it's plausible enough. We also have no way of knowing how many people/businesses DID notice the issue with their uploads, and managed to fix it -- hence removing themselves from our consideration. We're self-selecting for the ones who don't realize anything went wrong
Another commenter just reminded me -- on the DoorDash drivers' app (and I'm pretty sure I recall it happening on other similar gig work apps, like Uber Eats and Instacart, which use the Maps API for the built-in map & navigation, as well) sometimes it will just randomly think I'm in the middle of rural China! And then I have to restart the app or even my phone before it 'remembers' where I really am and can actually get orders... The first couple of times it happened I was worried for a second that maybe my phone had been hacked or something 😆 but it definitely seems like it could be a wider issue affecting Maps generally -- maybe the photospheres were just the tip of the iceberg 🤔
Use code FARRELL at the link below to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan: incogni.com/farrell
No
@@donutgamer6505 DONUT FROM BEEFYDIE?
no
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
null island
@@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!
12:30 yo thank you that is my cat! tbh I made the shitpost because I was bored lol. I will post a update one here in my community tab
edit: btw there is a speedpaint of my cat on youtube
Lmao that’s crazy
@@farrellmcguirelol
your cat is very very very adorable
Cat forever saved in the net
if you knew... (linkrot and so)
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
Wow， it's pretty Cool. Right. Or is it?
vsauce music starts playing
bang main amogus
So it's like the Waffle House of Indonesia?
@@notlegoguy2511Stronger than waffle houses
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
Null island is at it again!
I assumed the same thing!
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?
germany jumpscare
@@loweffortwizard AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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?
5:25 end of sponsor
W
Thx bro
W
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.
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
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
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
This feels like a video that would show up as one from 2 - 4 years ago. Surprised to see its only 17 hours ago
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.
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
Really fascinating story. Great video!
Thank you fellow Canadian :)
@@farrellmcguire30 seconds ago
@ 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)
7:19 as a Czech, the way you've said "CZ" hurts
Seeeeeezeeeeeeee
whats a zech
Nah, you're wrong. It's clearly Atlantis!
the rental property market in atlantis is hot right now
3:40 WISCONSIN MENTIONED 🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀
YELLOW ROOM MOMENT🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀
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
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
Finally some one is talking about this!!! I’m so happy that I get to figure this out!
Wouldn't it be funny to use these on GeoGuessr
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...
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
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.
Did not expect to see that restaurant from old Québec, salutation de Montréal !
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.
If you conect the dots with a line it kinda looks like a rick roll 3:23
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!
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.
I do have another strange location I know on Google Maps. Type 'islas de san benito' and make sure you're in satellite mode
I see a few of these when I check out islands. Sometimes certain bodies of water are of higher quality than other pics.
The way this video starts and the things discussed about Google maps remind me of a new video here on yt from Max Lenorsomething: "How Microsoft Accidentally Made the Most Realistic Map". Great stuff!
oh good, I'm not the only person who will just randomly go looking around google maps
We need a club
There are prisons in North Korea with five star reviews
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 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 😅
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
My TH-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.
Option A:
It simply a bug in google street, they are rather old so maybe something in their databases got misplaced
Option B:
Most of these are businesses, maybe theyre put in random locations cause they want them to be accesible from their own sites and not be found on google
Option C:
They're old photos, of locations that dont exist anymore, maybe instead of deleting them, they just move to em middle of nowhere
13:03 LOL is that a picture of Monster Legends?
Most interesting video I’ve seen in a while!
(this is a great video)
I found out about these like a month ago and I have been obsessed with these photos in the middle of nowhere
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.
Never would I ever thought I would hear "Going Out of Bounds In Google Street View" in my entire life
holy shit! that music at the start is amazing! sounds like it was taken right out of watermusic
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!
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.
I honestly always figured they put these orbs into these locations to show the customer how the interior view looks like before it gets moved to its correct spot. The grid alignment however would mean that's really unlikely unless it's coordinated between these companies.
as a geoguessr player and map maker iv seen them bevore. you can even find some sort of backrooms or 3D rooms sometimes, of course they are not real places so googel is deleting them quick. And a lot of missplaced locations are for some reason in Chad too
Great video Farrell
2:01 Let’s split up gang!
I use Maps all the time as entertainment. I would make a video about my finds, however it's not the content I post.. Great vid!
You almost got me with that advertisement I'm not gone lie .
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 !!
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).
SLOVAKIA MENTIONED 🦅🔥🔥🔥🔥
NAD TATROU SA BLÝSKA
always a great day whenever farrell uploads ^_^
@ go away
I think a lot of it is either companies doing test uploads or people just uploading to an empty place for the funnies
We Also have a place with lots of fake reviews for memes in germany. Its in the Town Emskirchen and the Village Altschauerberg.
There Onced lived a TH-camr named Drachenlord in the Village Altschauerberg, that was Famous for beeing hated by a lot of people.
A lot of normal places in the nearest Town Emskirchen and his Village now have fake reviews with references to him.
These ocean-bound orbs are obviously nothing more than bugs/glitches with Google Earth's positioning system, but even with that in mind, there's something ominous about them.
if the people got them fixed you wouldnt find them. thats why you cant see ones that moved. That seems kinda obvious. love the video
Me and my friend were playing around with google earth in class and we came across these. We really just laughed about it, but when I look back at it now, I realised it's kinda creepy. We came across places like a light section in a warehouse which felt liminal, and an empty and creepy kindergarten. We even found a cave that looked ancient.
The first time I saw these blobs in the ocean was in early 2024. I was scrolling through shorts and saw this meme showing the map of all Steam users. Then it zoomed in on a dot that implied there was a player in the ocean. I tried searching this location on Google maps to see if this was an island or not. Weirdly there was no land here, but there was street view.
I don’t think that this is a problem exclusively to Google maps, and it’s probably not a one time glitch. Maybe if you typed a glitched location it would always output in the middle of the ocean
yeah this was strange. i remember browsing google street view with a friend and finding an orb in the middle of the mediterranean sea. it took us to a random shoreline in crete
Thanks, Jared Fogle. Great video as always
💀
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
maybe the contract ended or they hit a problem and said might as well throw the 3D scan in some random place which in this case is in the middle of ocean?
this would be a fun little video if there wasn't that strangely beautifully haunting ambience playing
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...
😅 perhaps it’s folded space … someone should crunch the available numbers 🗿🗺️🗿who knows what we could uncover. Giggle-Maps 🤭
One time, i clicked an orb in colorado, and now I'm in a Space Ship off of Earth
I've absolutely stumbled across one of these in the middle of a lake somewhere in the Midwest like Kansas or Oklahoma
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 think the ones from 360arti appear to have had their longitude flipped. Positive 29 degrees is very close to Istanbul
11:42 nice to see that somebody changed the default Windows XP wallpaper to stonehenge!
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
Funfact: warung maduras (yes there is multiple of them) always open 24/7
the placement of these spheres is literally just because of a bug, nothing too mysterious. and these companies usually forget, because they have a lot of clients. it's interesting, though.
Finally, a worthy geoguesser challenge - find out where the stuff actually is 🤣🤣🤣
I've come across this stuff so much! I see a lot of misplaced orbs from 'Fine Art Brasil' in particular
I remember going to north korea on street view and there was a 360deg pov of a guy running up a mountain on the run
That made me cackle.
They put them there for the teleporter sequence when you pack a punch like obviously if they were on the map you would be running into them
Real sly there "SLY". with that ad placement. 🤣
It reminds me of the “underworld” or “blue hell” building interior map you can glitch yourself into in San Andreas
Well there is one in Antarctica where it shows an empty movie theatre with AR Sonic the hedgehog.
11:41 I would venture a guess that most of these places are linking directly to the photosphere from at least one or multiple other places (or embedding it into their pages), and thus just aren't aware that they're missing out on the additional views they'd be getting if it were also accessible via its geographical location. They got some message telling them it was successfully added to Maps/Places/Earth, and never went to double check it themselves. They don't necessarily seem like the most tech-oriented businesses/people (albeit from the admittedly minute sample I saw...) so I think it's plausible enough.
We also have no way of knowing how many people/businesses DID notice the issue with their uploads, and managed to fix it -- hence removing themselves from our consideration. We're self-selecting for the ones who don't realize anything went wrong
Another commenter just reminded me -- on the DoorDash drivers' app (and I'm pretty sure I recall it happening on other similar gig work apps, like Uber Eats and Instacart, which use the Maps API for the built-in map & navigation, as well) sometimes it will just randomly think I'm in the middle of rural China! And then I have to restart the app or even my phone before it 'remembers' where I really am and can actually get orders...
The first couple of times it happened I was worried for a second that maybe my phone had been hacked or something 😆 but it definitely seems like it could be a wider issue affecting Maps generally -- maybe the photospheres were just the tip of the iceberg 🤔
Every Google maps session is personalized
From my knowledge this is a trick ment to mess with geo guesser players but it is very interesting how they are uploaded by companies
A couple of years ago there was one of those fake reviewable location things in the Pitcairn Islands which had some kind of link to a CP ring
SLOVAKIA MENTIONED!!! (I'm from Czechia)
Each google street view ocean orb cluster is personalized