Is it true that the Tiktok user found a field with hundreds of zombies in Google Earth?

In November 2020, the Tiktok user told his subscribers that using the Google Earth application, he found a crowd of zombies. In a short time, the video scored 1.3 million views. We checked whether the field with the living dead actually exists.

Google Earth is a augmented version of the Google Maps application, in which satellite pictures are combined with photos from different points of the planet. The data of these services have repeatedly attracted the attention of Internet users. For example, back in 2013, a photograph from the Netherlands was viral, on which supposedly It is captured how the killer drags the corpse to the lake to get rid of evidence.

November 30, user @google.Earth.Thingss Published In your account in the Tiktok screen recording during use of Google Earth. Gradually increasing the scale, the blogger demonstrated the field in rural areas, where the service proposed to get acquainted with several photographs of rather low quality. On one of them, figures similar to people were depicted. The blogger provided the video with the signature: "Zombies?"

https://www.tiktok.com/@google.earth.things/video/6900705600292834565

The author of the video treacherously issued the inscription “Hiljainen Kansa Tilaideteos Reijo Kela”, which appears in Google Earth while increasing the satellite picture. These words can be translated from Finnish as “quiet people”: installation of Reio Kela. ” Unlike a zombie, this art object really exists-in a clean field in the east of Finland, 1,000 mowers were placed.

Dancer and choreographer Reio Kela Installed This installation for its performance back in 1988. Six years later, the figures of mowers were temporarily transferred to the stairs by the Cathedral in Helsinki, but then returned to its original place - on the field near the highway. A restaurant works next to the installation for travelers, and if you want to spend the night here, then this will be possible Do free In the barn, to feel like a real mower. Figures left by travelers are dressed twice a year in new clothes and stuffed with fresh straw collected on the field, where they are set.

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Read on the topic:

  1. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tiktok-zombies-finland/
  2. https://www.wired.com/story/teens-tiktok-conspiracy-theories/

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