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(#7) Sometimes When I'm Bored I Find Nuclear Missile Silos
From Redditor /u/830_L
I live not so far from a nuclear missile wing. Sometimes when I'm bored, I find nuclear missile silos on Google Maps.
The closest I've found is 45 miles from my house. Though it may not be deemed creepy by everyone, nuclear missiles creep me the hell out. How many people does each one have the power to kill? And what's going to happen to me if they have to be fired someday? Sometimes, when you're driving around out in the country here, you'll see a bare, fenced off rectangle in a farmer's field, and that's a silo. Or you'll see a control bunker, which on the surface is basically a ranch style house surrounded by a giant fence with barbed wire around the top.
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(#2) Cue Black Flashing Lights And An SUV Full Of Cop-Type Guys
From Redditor /u/jrhooo
The NSA.
It wasn't so much visiting it, as trying to get somewhere completely else, and the GPS refusing to recognize that the facility was even there, thus refusing to go around it.
The road it wanted you to take just stuck on the lane that goes to their gate, without a real way to turn off.
So you get there and the security guy is like, "badge?"
"Oh, sorry I don't work here. I just got turned around. I am not supposed to be here."
"Ok, then. You'll just have to turn around and go that way."
"Yeah, can I just turn around here and drive back out the gate?"
"You can pull over right here and that security car will escort you back the gate"
Cue black flashing lights and an SUV full of cop-type guys.
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(#3) Cementland
From Redditor /u/murraythedog
Cementland in St. Louis.
An artist known for creating the town’s renowned City Museum, basically an adult jungle gym in an old downtown office building, tried to outdo himself by turning an abandoned cement factory into the same thing. He did a lot of it himself and died when his bulldozer flipped over.
The site now has these creepy carnival-style painted concrete domes along the street and giant abandoned machinery behind them.
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(#4) A Scraggily Looking Guy Opened the Door and Waved for Me to Come In
From Redditor /u/roseblack18
I once applied for a job at a tanning salon at the next town over. The online ad made it seem really chill and like it would work well with my school hours. They were specifically looking for high school or college girls, so that fit the bill -- plus free tanning or whatever. I sent in my resume and they emailed for me to come to a job interview.
When I followed Google Maps to the address (there aren't any Street Views of it) it was a dilapidated looking old house. A scraggly looking guy opened the door and waved for me to come in. I noped out of there really fast.
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(#6) The Pee Spot
From Redditor /u/GReeeNIsSystem
Once I was on holiday in Singapore with my mother. On one day we decided to check out a nearby place where the movie park is located at which we haven't had much information on -- usually my mother plans everything as careful as possible with plenty of maps and information from tour guides and the hotel people.
Anyway, we're having a good time enjoying nature and stuff and noticed a little side road leading to a small "cave." My mother took a bunch of pictures and we kept going. Eventually we didn't quite know where we were so I pulled out the phone the hotel had given us on our rooms which had internet and therefore Google Maps. I navigated us around but we weren't really getting to where we wanted to.
Suddenly we noticed a man in a construction worker uniform and we decided to follow since he looked like he knew what he was doing. We followed him about 10 meters behind until we're in a rather dark area surrounded by trees which looked like a dead end. The man stops at the wall, pulls out his wiener, and pees against the wall. My mom and I then realized we've been following this poor guy to his peeing spot instead of somewhere where we could find a bus stop or anything.
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(#10) The Fog
From Redditor /u/StrangeLob
This sort of fits the prompt so in traditional AskReddit style I'll still tell you the story of The Fog.
One day back in college I wanted to smoke some weed, and told my then-roommate that rather than go to our usual spot, I wanted to go on an adventure. So we looked around on Google maps for somewhere which looked secluded, and found a spot off a road in the boonies.
Turns out, that road was actually pretty busy, and me being paranoid I decided we needed to go somewhere less busy. Since we had phones with GPS, we decided we could just drive around randomly until we found somewhere good, light up, and GPS our way back.
So we found a closed gas station (it was like 1am at this point) out in the country and drove out behind it, and lit up. So we're waiting for a little while to come down a bit before driving back, and we start hearing this noise off in the distance, it sounds like a small motorbike, or a chainsaw. It starts getting closer, then SPEEDS UP until it sounds like it must be within 50 yards, then just cuts out.
F*** whatever THAT is so we get in the car and drive off. Around 3 minutes later my roommate decides he's too high to keep driving, so we pull off the road. At that point, we realize part of the problem is that we drove into some fog so thick we could barely see 10 feet in front of us. Having avoided the danger, we decide to wait out the fog of the mind, or the fog of the earth, whichever left first.
The fog is very eerie; we're seeing faint lights come on the horizon and slowly grow in intensity for what felt like minutes until finally a car would pass by. Being high and paranoid augmented this eerie feeling of course. We sit here for probably a half hour... and we start hearing the noise again, in the distance... slowly getting closer and closer, until it sounds like it's right outside our car, then it cuts out.
So we've obviously been followed by some serial killer, and we accept our demise at this point. But... it never comes, and we never see anything. After about 15 minutes, we feel ready to go again, so we leave, and make it home unscathed. We never did find out what the noise was...
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Maps used to be printed on books or hung on the wall, but are now installed in your smartphone. Google Maps has become an essential app for modern travel. Users can use voice control where they want to go. Except for navigation, Google Maps has many super useful functions worthy of everyone's understanding and use. Whether you need to find gas stations, restaurants, hotels, ATMs, etc., Google Maps will be your best assistant.
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