Someone has discovered a deeply disturbing message hidden on Google Maps in North Korea.
People have been known to make some pretty strange and disturbing discoveries while scrolling through Google Earth.
A man searching through his own neighborhood on the site once ended up solving a 22-year missing person mystery after noticing a car submerged in water near his old home.
A disturbing message was spotted in North Korea through Google Maps (Contributor/Getty Images)
But if you zoom in on a small area in the Czech Republic, you might be left with more questions than answers about what appears to be a ghost town.
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Zooming in on a church you can take a peek inside, but you might be in for a fright as it is filled with ‘ghost-like’ statues, some even sitting in the pews as if they’re real people.
Now, someone has uncovered another disturbing revelation after searching up a North Korean street on Google Maps.
Taking to Reddit to share a screenshot of what they’d found, the user captioned it with: “I found this looking around Pyongyang.”
The person had captured the image while examining the streets of the capital city in a country that is kept very isolated from the rest of the world.
The picture shows a bird’s eye view of a building and the user took to the comment section to explain more about why the image was so chilling.
The building seems to be named ‘Help Me’ (Google Maps)
They said: “There’s a random apartment complex near Pyongyang called ‘Help Me’ meaning someone there could have added that name to Google Maps to get help.
“It could be fake too, but I figured I’d share just in case.”
The picture caused a stir on social media, with many people replying with their own reactions to it.
One user wrote: “There are not many things that pop up for Google Earth and I would say this is truly risky for the person who created it, just as a ‘joke’.
“Too bad no one can investigate something like this .”
A second user said: “The entire country needs help, that is what that means.”
And a third person commented with: “That’s disturbing.”
However, there might be a less morbid explanation for why the building is named ‘Help Me’.
One user shared their own theory, writing: “People spoof their location and register buildings in nk. Super common, Google has cracked down a bit on it.”
And another person said: “LOL. Guys come on. This is absurd. Clearly an internet troll.”
The most disturbing mysteries that were solved with Google Maps
Cases are being solved on Google Maps long after they go cold
We’re all guilty of searching our own house on Google Maps, hoping to spot a familiar car in the driveway or even a glimpse of ourselves on “street view”.
There’s a universal fascination with virtually visiting our own neighborhoods but sometimes, that curiosity can unlock answers to mysteries.
The search engine has proven to be vital in solving several cases that have otherwise gone cold.
The truth behind the 83-year-old woman’s disappearance was discovered two years later (Google Maps)
One disturbing incident occurred in November 2020 when an 83-year-old woman, Paulette Landrieux, disappeared from her home in Andenne, Belgium.
She suffered from Alzheimer’s and a huge search for her began but after several weeks with no leads, it was called off
It wasn’t until almost two years later, in October 2022, when a police officer searched the house on Google Maps, that a shocking discovery was made.
Landrieux had been photographed leaving her home and walking to a neighbor’s house by a Google Maps camera.
She was found lying at the bottom of a hill below the neighbor’s garden and an autopsy report revealed that she had died shortly after the fall.
A car could be seen on Google Maps submerged in a pond (Google Maps)
Over in Michigan, one man named David Lee Niles vanished after a night out in a bar.
The 72-year-old was reported missing by family in 2006 after they failed to reach him.
A search ensued but it ultimately went cold after no progress was made in finding him, and he was presumed to be dead.
It wasn’t until 2015, when a tree decorator working at a height noticed something unusual in a nearby pond.
Taking to Google Maps, he could see from a bird’s eye view that the object appeared to be a submerged car.
Police were alerted and a dive team confirmed that it was in fact a car.
After it was dragged out of the water, police found the skeletal remains of Niles inside.
The news finally gave his family closure after nine years of searching for him.
Two men were captured on camera moments before they committed armed robbery (Google Maps)
In 2011, a terrifying incident took place when a woman returned home to find two men robbing her house.
The pair held the unnamed woman at gunpoint before fleeing the scene and she was so scared of a retaliation that she never revealed her identity to the press.
The thieves were never caught and the case went cold until a neighbor was looking at her own home on Google Maps one day and spotted two men on “street view” who matched the robbers’ descriptions.
It’s now hoped that with an image of the assailants, police will soon be able to bring them to justice.
When you search location of iconic ‘ghost car’ video on Google Maps this eerie thing happens
It’s a video that terrified a generation
Fans of an iconic ‘ghost car’ have spotted that something eerie happens on Google Maps when you search for its location.
The vehicle was filmed for a 2004 advert and later uploaded online, scarring a generation of people who searched for the clip online.
The early 2000s was a simpler time and the dawn of YouTube saw us witnessing some of the very first ‘jump scare’ clips we had ever seen.
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We had no idea what was about to happen (K-fee)
One particular video was taken from K-fee, which is a German energy drink company.
It starts off looking like it’s a normal car commercial, with a vehicle breezing down a road in a picturesque scene.
There’s soft music playing and all-round calm vibes right up until the car disappears behind some bushes.
Out of nowhere, a terrifying zombie pops up and lets out a spine-chilling scream.
At the time, it was petrifying and gave a lot of kids plenty of nightmares as many were taken aback by the scary AF zombie visual.
The sudden scare was the central element of the ad, as the slogan ‘So wach warst du noch nie’ appears on screen, which means ‘You’ve never been so awake’.
K-fee did the commercial to showcase how their energy drinks can deliver a sudden surge of alertness.
Pretty sure they didn’t warn us of the s**tting of the pants though.
The jump scare terrified a generation (K-fee)
The video was one of the very first to go viral, spreading across email chains and early video-sharing websites.
It became one of the earliest examples of online ‘shock content’ blowing up on the net.
Now, if the ad isn’t something that still haunts you to this day, you might feel brave enough to search up the following location on Google Maps: “36°46’9.27″N, 119°15’21.93″W.”
Once you copy and paste over the co-ordinates, it doesn’t just show you the famous scenery, but it also displays an image of the eerie car that shows up in the scary video.
Meanwhile, people have taken to social media to reminisce about the clip, with one person commenting: “I remember first seeing this back in elementary school. Some friends of mine suggested I’d watch it. Now I no longer see them as friends.”
“That was a good jump-scare I couldn’t feel my hands for a second,” a second added.
While a third person pointed out: “This video is the proof that reading comments before watching certain videos is important.”
