# Okay, what's really going on at this Google Maps location? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 15, 2013, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784 "2013-04-15T20:22:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/1 "2013-04-15T20:22:25Z")
Go to Google Maps, and zoom in on the coordinates 52.376552,5.198303. It’s making the rounds of the Internet as “somebody dragging a dead body into a lake.” I’m… skeptical to say the least (especially since it’s daylight in an urban public park), but I’m unwilling to wade through pages of commentary to figure out what it really is. Anyone know, or have a guess? ---
**Author:** ![Shearer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@Shearer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shearer)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/2 "2013-04-15T20:28:00Z")
Probably water. If it was blood you’d see it on the path. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/3 "2013-04-15T20:33:35Z")
[Link](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.376552,5.198303&hl=en&ll=52.376532,5.19836&spn=0.000151,0.0003&sll=39.779784,-86.13275&sspn=0.389962,0.614548&t=h&z=22) ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/4 "2013-04-15T21:19:27Z")
Just water on the planks. Notice how the wood is slightly reddish, even where it’s dry? When it’s wet, it turns that darker color. That’s also why the variations in shade neatly match the lines of the planks–blood, paint, alien ichor, or whatever would obscure those lines. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/5 "2013-04-17T04:35:47Z")
I saw someone mentin a dog. If a dog had jumped into the lake, then padded onto the platform before shaking itself dry, that’s the kind of pattern it would make. I can’t see a dog in that image, but then I can’t not see a dog either. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/6 "2013-04-17T05:22:12Z")
If you zoom out, it looks like a terrible place to dump a body. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/7 "2013-04-17T14:52:38Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > If you zoom out, it looks like a terrible place to dump a body. Are you kidding? It would be perfect! Since I’ve never been to the Netherlands, no one would suspect me! ---
**Author:** ![criticalius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@criticalius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criticalius)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/8 "2013-04-17T15:00:54Z")
or maybe someone just likes to keep us all busy 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/9 "2013-04-17T19:55:35Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Are you kidding? It would be perfect! Since I’ve never been to the Netherlands, no one would suspect me! Yeah, but you are you going to transport the body there? Have you seen carry-on fees lately? ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/10 "2013-04-17T21:04:09Z")
Looks to me like a person standing with their back to the railing looking at a dog (probably wet) lying at their feet. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/11 "2013-04-17T22:37:19Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > Yeah, but you are you going to transport the body there? Have you seen carry-on fees lately? Don’t you mean carrion fees? ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/12 "2013-04-17T22:56:14Z")
…I read the OP, and my first thought was “MURDER!” And then my brain thought of the scene in Hot Fuzz where Doris says “murderrr!” in a funny way! So I went off to the internet to find that scene. And I ended up finding this version of the scene, which was in what I suspect is dubbed into German, which made me laugh. So I’m sharing here for [no particular reason.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlxUO0eTsxY) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/13 "2013-04-18T17:57:58Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > Yeah, but you are you going to transport the body there? Have you seen carry-on fees lately? I’m not taking it there! That would ruin the “never been there” alibi. I don’t know how the damn body will get there, that’s his (or her) problem. Once it’s there, though, I’m in the clear! > [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > Don’t you mean carrion fees? There’s an idea - carrier buzzards! ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy8467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Cowboy8467](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy8467)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/14 "2013-04-18T18:02:22Z")
[Snopes says it’s a dog.](http://www.snopes.com/photos/crime/parkbody.asp) ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/15 "2013-04-18T18:07:38Z")
Okay, so a man is dumping a dog into the water. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/16 "2013-04-19T03:13:51Z")
> [@Cowboy8467](#): > > [Snopes says it’s a dog.](http://www.snopes.com/photos/crime/parkbody.asp) though snopes labelled it as false as logic points to it not being a body, the part about the dog is just a wag. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/17 "2013-04-19T03:25:56Z")
Snopes is labeling things “false,” just on the basis of, “I really doubt it”? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/18 "2013-04-19T05:18:56Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > Snopes is labeling things “false,” just on the basis of, “I really doubt it”? No. Based on the points stated here and in the Snopes link, beyond the shadow of a doubt that IS NOT someone disposing of a dead body. So, \*FALSE \*is entirely justified. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/19 "2013-04-19T05:20:45Z")
It seems obvious to me that there are two people in the picture. One is by the railing, but the other is in front of him. Check the shadows, and you will see two different human shadows. I don’t see a dog. ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784/20 "2013-04-19T07:12:22Z")
We lived a few miles away from this spot. The owner of the dog has been traced. No body. [Link (in Dutch)](http://www.dichtbij.nl/almere/regionaal-nieuws/artikel/2745953/google-earthmysterie-opgelost-het-is-een-hond.aspx?utm_source=Telegraaf&utm_medium=Crosspromotion&utm_term=Lijstartikel&utm_campaign=Telegraaf). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-whats-really-going-on-at-this-google-maps-location/655784.md?page=2)