Random Terrifying Google Maps Led People Into Horror Country (13 items)

• (#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.
• (#1) If Y'All Hurt One Of My Dogs I'm Gunna Shoot You

  From Redditor /u/girlingboyer

  Balmorhea, Texas.

  Driving across the country with my girlfriend from NYC. Google Maps takes us off the main road, but I zoom out to double check and it looks like a good shortcut to get where we’re going. The trail gets dustier, and suddenly we’re at an open gate through which the “road” keeps going. I check the map again, and it looks OK, so we enter through. I figure, if the gate is wide open, we’re probably safe.

  Passing a large barn, suddenly about 15 huge dogs come running after us. Real big dogs. Barking, angry dogs. We keep driving as per Google’s instructions but the “road” suddenly ends and there’s a creek that we could in no way cross to keep driving. So, we manage to turn around with these huge dogs surrounding us and slowly drive back the other way. Only when we get back to the gate this time, it’s closed.

  In our rear-view, we see a golf cart sputtering towards us. It’s an old lady. We roll down the window, not long before we hear “Y’all better get the hell out of here NOW!” We try to tell her we’re sorry and explain what happened, but she’s not hearing it. “If y’all hurt one of my dogs, I’m gon SHOOT YOU!”

  My girlfriend is freaking out, but the gate is closed, so the old lady pretty hilariously has to explain to us that it will open automatically if we approach it closer. “It’ll OPEN automatically if you just PULL UP!” So we drive up and it starts to open, but we’re too close to it, and awkwardly back up to let it open all the way before hightailing the F out of there. Never taking the “shortcut” in the middle of nowhere ever again.

  I actually submitted a report to Google about this and never heard back from them.
• (#9) A Panic Attack Saved My Life

  From Redditor /u/pmmeyourproblemsolva

  Let me preface this by saying I've never had a panic attack before or since.

  Leaving from Cuba, NM for Pagosa Springs, Google Maps told my wife we needed to take this one road. Well, the road was great, then it turned into an unpaved park service road. F*** it, this is New Mexico, forest service roads are a big thing here, you can cut hundreds of miles off a trip if you use them right. Of course I can't get cell service to confirm this is real and good way to go.

  F*** it, road looks good, Google says to use it, 22 miles of park service road, then NM route 4. At first the road is great, then it's good, then it is okay, finally near the end the road is shit. My truck is only a 2wd, and if it gets stuck on this powder road I'm f***ed, no cell phone, 40 miles from any civilization. Make it to the top of a large hill that was just powder all the way up, sliding around narrow corners, road is one lane at this point. Everyone in the truck was having panic attack, I pull over in the only pull out on the side of road, hands shaking so badly I can barely open the door. Not three seconds later, a GMC SUV flies down the road in the opposite direction at like 60 mph.

  If I hadn't pulled over that instant, he would have hit us head-on, the way he was flying around those blind turns he had absolutely no hope of stopping. That's how close we all came to dying that day.

  I turned around and went back to Cuba, confirmed this route would not have taken me to Pagosa Springs but would have taken to the back entrance Las Alamos National Labs.

  Weirdest thing, all our watches are about 30 minutes behind our cell phones at the end when we got back into cell coverage and could sync them.

  TLDR: A panic attack saved my life, or more correctly, all of us having panic attacks saved all our lives, somehow the time on our watches does not match the time on our phones when we re-join civilization.
• (#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.
• (#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.
• (#11) Beware Of The Increased Radiation

  From Redditor /u/Ibce

  So, my partner and I had been visiting Kiev in autumn of 2015 and we picked up a cat from the street. So we moved to a different room, one that allowed cats. The owner had a dog. I asked him if he knew any good vet clinics and he recommended one nearby.

  We were visiting it semi-regularly, with the cat we went per public transport, but to pick up some stuff we went by feet, because it's just cheaper. Also, to note: it was in a pretty central area of Kiev, definitely not the outskirts.

  So the first time we were going back from the clinic I whipped out my phone and we just lazily followed the blue line.

  The whole area was built a little bit like the blocks in NYC and in many other places on Earth - straight streets with intersections spaced out somewhat evenly. Imagine my surprise when I started to turn into one of the intersections, led by the always trusty Mr. Google Maps, and saw a huge fcking sign that said to beware of the increased radiation. We were about to walk into the territory of a nuclear reactor.

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