Truth is stranger than fiction
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I've been reading about an anomaly in Google Maps where people are looking at maps that display weird objects in places where they shouldn't be,
For instance, one of the recent occurrences of this places a plane, either an Airbus A320 or a Boeing 737, is on the ground, in the middle of a clearing of a dense forest with trees all around it.
No one is missing a plane so where did it come from, and how could it possibly get there?
Another occurrence was a car at the bottom of a lake, though there has been more than one occurrence of this.
But, sometimes those objects actually are there, like, for instance, one of those cars where the body of a man who had been missing for 20-odd years was discovered.
There is a rational reason why people are seeing what are objects that cannot be explained. It is an instance where two images have been taken, and one is a 'ghost', and in the case of the aeroplane, it could have been flying very low over the area in question when the photo was taken.
So.
What if ...
Someone was using the map program to look at various places, places that did not get the usual public scrutiny, or perhaps not at all.
After all, what does one do with the leisure hours when there's nothing else to do?
Mick was a tramper, one of those people who liked to trail blaze, find new paths through forests and make odd discoveries, one of which, several years before, had uncovered a lost village of some archaeological value.
He sees what seems to be wreckage dispersed in the forest, notes the date of the photograph, nearly a year before, and checks newspapers and media sources for any news of missing small lanes, but discovers none.
But just in case his mind is playing tricks, he asks a friend to come and verify the discovery, and, lo and behold, it is no longer there.
Perhaps it was his imagination, wanting to find something.
Until he checked the date of the photograph and notes it's been updated to another, a year later.
With nothing else to do, perhaps it was time for another walking holiday, and to see what was there.
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