I’m sorry about the Google Street View pin. A dangling little yellow guy, grabbed by millions of mouse cursors around the world and dropped unceremoniously to various locations across the planet, only to silently scream out the visions he sees with his yellow, dead eyes. “Here’s a view of what you’re looking for,” he seems to be saying. Now leave me here, alone and drifting. My goal has been achieved and I must return home.
However, if you happen to throw one of these hapless, pathetic dummies into the middle of the ocean, there’s a chance they’ll report something completely unexpected (via Futurism). This way some redditors hung out and discovered plenty of surprising results, like this liminal-like commercial interior, apparently located along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, north of the Azores.
There’s a spot on Google Maps overlooking the street in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and it’s basically just a hallway to the bathroom in a hardware store With r/Weird
It appears to be the interior of a hardware store labeled “Joca Construção”, although it’s safe and sound to assume it’s not actually located on top of our attractive planet’s second largest ocean basin.
The list was created by “Visual Art Brasil”, which appears to be a digital marketing agency, so there is a possibility that we will all be fooled by an underground viral marketing campaign… paint? Ladders? Curtain hooks at a reasonable price? I’m still not sure.
The mystery continues as Reddit user KillHitlerAgain has also located several other Street View interiors that appear to depict commercial spaces, and as with all the best thrillers, there is an obvious pattern. Cue swelling music, feathers falling from the explorers’ mouths, and a snail-paced zoom in on the characters’ faces: It looks like, wait for it, in the grid.
This is not the moon. Anyway, Futurism poked around a bit more and found a few more things to add to the list, including Street View of a Polish restaurant in Germany also apparently located in the Atlantic. It’s not just the second largest ocean that’s getting in on the action. The mighty South Pacific gets its own erroneous entry, containing what appears to be car parts warehouse post created by Xprasive, another marketing company.
There’s a clue here. You can upload your own Google Street View add-ons via Street View Studioand it looks like these marketing companies may have simply screwed up the geodata and accidentally placed their clients’ companies in the middle of immense bodies of water—ironically, fulfilling their wishes for more visibility by placing them exactly where they don’t belong, and causing a whole lot of confusion on the Internet about what these misreports might mean.
Or it could be intentional, in which case hats off to you. Still, Occam’s Razor and all, it looks like this may simply be a case of some shaky metadata that makes real-world locations appear to float, Twilight Zone-style, above immense bodies of water across the planet. This or these companies are really portals to another dimension or pieces of another universe intruding into ours inappropriate ways.
Rest simple, PC gamers. There’s nothing to see here.
