The Most Mysterious Google Street View Sightings (PICTURES)

Google Street View, a feature of Google Maps that provides 360-degree horizontal and 290-degree vertical panoramic views from just about any where in the world, has snapped its fair share of oddball scenes.

But beyond displaying embarrassing snafus--from public urination to a photobombing seagull--Google Street View sightings can also be more enigmatic and weird, capturing people, places and poses that don't quite add up.

Recently, for example, a prankster in Scotland dubbed Horse Boy (aka The Human Horse) became an internet sensation after he appeared street-side in an image found on Google Street View.

Google Street View is chock-full of strange sightings. From what looks almost like UFOs and alien landings, to feats that defy physics and appearances by characters that are at once hilarious and baffling--here are some of Google Street View's most enigmatic sightings from around the world. (Check out the craziest Street View pictures here)

 

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[Timothy Knight]

04:52 AM on 08/14/2010

How dare Google put up something anybody walking can see. Forget the usefulness, the street view should remain a private affair between any person walking the street, and the street..

[onecaguy12356]

01:05 AM on 07/02/2010

Street View should be completely banned. Invasion of privacy, and for what? To see the outside of a building? Not worth it.

[Jennifer Hagan]

03:54 PM on 07/14/2010

It is creepy. I saw my friend's new house and I also realized that people could see every entrance and the windows that she has into her basement. I think they should stay out of residential areas. It is a matter of privacy.

[hayness]

02:54 PM on 08/12/2010

Maybe your friend should be aware that people can see into her house. If someone snapping a photo for Google can see it, so can every Peeping Tom who walks by.

[Timothy Knight]

04:57 AM on 08/14/2010

Normally that information would be secret only to those people standing in front of your friends house, or driving by., bicycling by, rollerblading by, etc.

[dontpanic1]

08:52 AM on 06/30/2010

I need someone to explain chia pet man to me... that is just freaky!

[dontpanic1]

08:50 AM on 06/30/2010

wow... those are creepy.

[Taylor Schaberg]

02:12 AM on 06/30/2010

It's just Google employees doing this crap. It's not that "mysterious."

[windowshady]

07:09 PM on 06/29/2010

I suspect these "weird sitings" are the equivalent of the practice/tradition by cartographers of placing an errant object or incorrect name to something on a map in order to prevent others from copying it and claiming it as their own.

[annieluc]

04:15 PM on 06/29/2010

Any view sightings of Sarah in a thong shooting a mosse in Wasilla?

[samthor]

03:35 PM on 06/29/2010

#6 if that's Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; it has an H on the end of it. Just saying.

I love the scuba divers.

[GuiltD]

02:37 PM on 06/29/2010

Now we are commenting on people who did not agree to be on camera, did not agree to be online, and we are laughing at them, just like some sick Fabian society 1984 gameshow.

[tribalogical]

07:54 PM on 06/29/2010

Dressed up in wonky outfits and waving at the camera is "not agreeing to be on camera"?

Something tells me a number of these folks got wind of when/where the next Goggle street view pass was, and made it a point to be there.

Maybe not for alien boy, or the man with three legs, but the ones in outfits (scuba divers on lawn chairs in the middle of the street?)...

Still, it could also be 'red herrings'... interesting stuff is all over Google Maps... fun!

[SwingingFromCenter]

11:33 PM on 06/29/2010

I know for a fact the "love laser" was pre-planned. There's a news story on it, because that ENTIRE STREET has people doing weird things in it.

[GuiltD]

02:33 PM on 06/29/2010

I love how Google spies on us, yet people just use it every day, totally oblivious to the government intelligence agencies connections.

[ohjodi]

02:32 PM on 06/29/2010

#6 is PITTSBURGH, not Pittburg, cripes.

[Bruckley]

02:01 PM on 06/29/2010

Gimpy Waldo is my favorite. Did those people know the google van was going to be coming by or what?

[maigesheng]

01:22 PM on 06/29/2010

You can see the power line that the shoes are hanging on, in "floating shoes" ......

[Archers of October]

12:15 PM on 06/29/2010

I am not a number ..[ or a spot on a Google Map] my qoute
I am a free man!

~Patrick McGoohan,

[L3p3rm3ss14h]

03:00 AM on 06/30/2010

"HA HA HA HA HAAAA!!!"

~Number 2

[topkatnc]

12:06 PM on 06/29/2010

I just got on google map .. looked up where I live and turn it up to look at the sky and got the same object in picture # 5 ... no UFO ... just some kind of shadow that the sun is making ... It most likely is something that will happen if you turn the camera up to the sky ...