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  • 2020-12-07 (xsd:date)
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  • Are 'Zombies' Visible at Google Maps 65.0929814,28.9031617? (fr)
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  • On Nov. 30, 2020, TikTok user @google.earth.thingss uploaded a new video that purportedly showed zombies found in Google Maps. The TikTok user superimposed the one-word question: Zombies? This is not be the first time we've covered purportedly scary finds on satellite images. The zombies video that @google.earth.thingss posted has racked up 1.1 million views and counting. It began with a satellite view of a rural area: The Google Maps view zoomed in closer to the ground, with the words Hiljainen kansa tilataideteos Reijo Kela visible on the screen: The video ended with a low quality Google Street View image that depicted what the video referred to as zombies roaming a field: The TikTok video obviously did not show a large field of actual zombies on Google Maps. While most of the top comments referred to the television series The Walking Dead, it turned out that the image showed part of an art installation. The text from the TikTok video, Hiljainen kansa tilataideteos Reijo Kela, roughly translates to A Quiet People Spatial Artwork by Reijo Kela. The field was full of nearly 1,000 hay heads along Highway 5 in Suomussalmi, Finland. The real name of the art installation was The Quiet People. It was also referred to in several places as Silent People: The website for The Quiet People said that travellers on Highway 5 are greeted by a peculiar sight of people-like figures. The Quiet People figures are clothed with new, clean clothes twice a year, at the beginning of the summer and in the autumn. They also receive new heads straight from the field at the beginning of every summer. Their clothes are from donations. The art installation is located next to the Niittykahvila CafĂ©, which offers Finnish crepes to visitors. The Meadow Cottage restaurant is also part of the same property. Also offered by the same website is a free night in the hay barn for any travelers needing a night of rest: The website also offered a video of the art installation shot from a drone, plus a 360-degree video at 4K quality: The property may have somewhat reminded a few visitors of Schrute Farms, the fictional location run by a character named Dwight Schrute on the American television series, The Office. At least a few times on the show, Schrute brought up haymaking, and even mentioned Finland near the end of an entry in his now-defunct Schrute-Space blog. The TikTok video that appeared to some viewers to be a Google Maps discovery of a spooky field filled with zombies turned out to be nothing more than a lovely stop for anyone visiting Finland in the future. (en)
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