Bizarre ‘naked’ creature freaks out visitors to Google Street View: ‘Creepy’
Was it a sextra-terrestrial?
Social media sleuths were left baffled over an eerie Google Street View image that appeared to depict a nearly naked, floppy-armed creature in Utah.
The image showed the critter with elongated limbs seemingly sprinting across a field like an interstellar streaker near the Bears Ears Visitor Center in the town of Buff, Jam Press reported.
While the cosmic chupacabra left conspiracy theorists’ tinfoil hats at full mast and otherwise freaked out others — commenters on TikTok called it “so scary” and “insane” while one Reddit user labeled it “creepy” — the nude figure’s identity was a bit of a letdown.
The naked body-snatcher was actually just a bizarro statue that serves as a type of scarecrow used to fend off animals and unwanted visitors — one of many such whacky figures in the town of Buff.
Speaking of scarecrows, Google Maps is also home to a creepy image showing about 1,000 of the bird deterrents gathered in a field in Finland like some cultish “Children of the Corn” congregation — an unnerving opus called “The Silent People” by artist Reijo Kela.
Unsettling scarecrows are far from the only unusual images to surface on Google Street View.
In August, a woman had true crime fans salivating after uploading a GSV image to Facebook that appeared to show a man transporting a dead body on a bicycle in Akron, Ohio.
However, locals speculated that the body bag-looking item could actually be a tent, given the plethora of homeless people camped out near where the pic was snapped.
Other notable nightmares on Google Street include a pair of giant “lips” in the Sudan desert, a “phantom” island off of Australia and a “Romanian UFO.”
