Why is this house blurred out on Google Maps?

Em3bbs said:
Nice trolling, I fell for it for a moment. 9/10 :D
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Don't make fun of him... people like Lysander pay my bills and don't complain when the WiFi goes down due to "ley lines" distorting the signal :p:cry:
 
There is something called the Barbara Streisand effect.

The famous singer saw her house on Google Maps (or a similar internet service) and she asked for it to be removed. This was in an attempt to draw less attention to her and her house. Instead, it drew more attention to her and so it gave the opposite effect to what she intended.

I guess something similar will happen to the owners of the house in the OP and other owners who have done similar. People are curious beings.
 
The satellite view doesn't match the building outlines on the normal map and there a little '01' if you zoom in
 
demusss said:
The satellite view doesn't match the building outlines on the normal map and there a little '01' if you zoom in
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The aircraft photos do match the street view photos, and '01' is the property number. If Google knows the property number it will add it, look in other areas and you will see the same.
 
Einskis Nokkur said:
Borley Rectory, the "most haunted house in england" was shown to be nothing but a hoax largely perpetrated buy the man who happened to write a couple of books about the subject.
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There was activity that was hoaxed in order to increase the fame and funds of the residents, but there were plenty of other phenomena there which remain unexplained. For instance:

Mayerling admits there was one incident he is unable to explain and which could prove there is still more to the Borley stories than meets the eye. In Easter 1935, Shaw, Norman, Spilsbury, Mayerling and Marianne Foyster attended a séance at Borley. 'We chose an ill-lit and underground cellar at about midnight and sat in silence,' he remembered. 'Someone gave a nervous cough and was about to speak when an extraordinary thing happened: the kitchen bells seemed to clang together in one single clash.'

Apart from those sitting at the table, the house was empty, and both Foyster and Mayerling knew from experience that it was impossible to make the bells ring at the same time.

'Norman jumped up and then there was a lightning strike of silver-blue light which appeared to implode from all walls and the ceiling of the cellars and then there was a dead silence,' he said. 'Shaw had been in the process of pushing a box of matches diagonally across the table and Norman was half off his chair in a turning position, but every member of the séance was struck with an instant paralysis which lasted about five seconds.'

Afterwards, Mayerling was blinded - he eventually recovered sight in one eye - and Norman and Shaw refused to stay the night in the house.

'I can't explain that occurrence and, to be honest, it still makes me feel rather shaken,' he said. 'The rest of the hauntings were, without exception, the most successful hoax of the age, but that still sets my spine tingling.'
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/31/books.booksnews
 
Einskis Nokkur said:
Borley Rectory, the "most haunted house in england" was shown to be nothing but a hoax largely perpetrated buy the man who happened to write a couple of books about the subject.

As for the earth emiting paranormal activity, what a load of bunkum. Has anyone, ever been able to show any evidence whatsoever of paranormal activity under controlled circumstances despte there being huge financial awards on offer? No. It is rubbish. I expect the OP believes everything he sees on most haunted as well.
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There is no evidence of any of it, even after 1000s of years of claims no one has provided any. Yet in less than 200 years we have figured out how the whole universe evolved.
 
Nasher said:
Does anyone check the reports, or can you just go round getting random stuff blurred? :D
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Watched a vid on yt a while back from a cyber security guy who was pointing out a massive flaw in modern security.

What he'd done was setup a phoney business on google maps claiming to be the cia headquarters with a phone number for the helpdesk, this allowed him to forward calls to the real cia helpdesk but as it was being routed through his fake setup he could record all the calls being made (presumably folks ringing in tips etc)

His intentions were noble- he only did it to show it was possible. Think he only narrowly avoided jailtime for it though.

Of course possibly with that having happened google might be a bit more stringent.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
There is something called the Barbara Streisand effect.

The famous singer saw her house on Google Maps (or a similar internet service) and she asked for it to be removed. This was in an attempt to draw less attention to her and her house. Instead, it drew more attention to her and so it gave the opposite effect to what she intended.

I guess something similar will happen to the owners of the house in the OP and other owners who have done similar. People are curious beings.
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Yupp...semi detached house across the road from me has been blurred out at some point.. after new owners moved in I guess, in a development where the houses are almost identical except for size. It def wasn't blurred out when I moved in years ago, I'd have noticed it, sticks out like a sore thumb now

Wonder if you can ask to have your flat blurred out, so its just your 'section' of the block that's blurred, than would be even more strange!
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
There is something called the Barbara Streisand effect.

The famous singer saw her house on Google Maps (or a similar internet service) and she asked for it to be removed. This was in an attempt to draw less attention to her and her house. Instead, it drew more attention to her and so it gave the opposite effect to what she intended.

I guess something similar will happen to the owners of the house in the OP and other owners who have done similar. People are curious beings.
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Indeed. I have now installed a ghost detector on my phone and am seriously considering going up to Sudbury.
 
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