The time now is Thu May 01, 2025 1:32 pm | Log in to check your private messages View unanswered posts  Ghost forum archive Worldofghosts 24 hour chat room                           Register Strange something on Google Maps?        World of Ghosts - Paranormal Forums Forum Index » Cryptozoology View previous topic | View next topic   Author Message D B Sweeney Joined: 27 Aug 2010 Posts: 2842 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 12:26 am    Post subject: Strange something on Google Maps? This is a story featured on the UK's Daily Mail's website and features an image from Google Maps showing a large finned something or other in the Albert Dock in Liverpool. Out of place Basking Shark or something else?. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339734/Merseyside-Jaws-Is-monster-shark-lurking-Liverpools-Albert-dock.html DB ... Back to top flossy Moderator Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 4924 Location: UK tyne/wear (geordie land) Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 5:09 am    Post subject: it looks big what ever it is! ... Back to top D B Sweeney Joined: 27 Aug 2010 Posts: 2842 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 5:57 am    Post subject: flossy wrote: it looks big what ever it is! That's true Flossy, probably 30-40ft. It's vaguely shark/fish shaped. Sharks and whales are not uncommon in UK waters and whales occasionally beach themselves or swim up our rivers - there was one in the Thames a few years ago. I don't think it's a living (or dead) creature though. DB ... Back to top bitterbuck1 Moderator Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 3963 Location: Arizona, USA Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 8:24 pm    Post subject: I'd go with a shark....possibly a Greenland shark. ... Back to top D B Sweeney Joined: 27 Aug 2010 Posts: 2842 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 12:17 am    Post subject: IMO this is not a fish or indeed living creature of any kind. Quite simply it's the wash/wakes from a small boat or dinghy - possibly from the nearby Yachts. The shutter speed on the camera has captured the wake in the split second that it just happened to vaguely resemble a living creature (from above only) - the human mind and pareidolia do the rest. Isn't it unusual that nobody on the Dock, or in the boats or security cameras saw this huge creature?. The Albert Dock is not exactly a quiet backwater and it will have considerable CCTV security which will have filmed the dinghy - but there would be nothing unusual in that. Only when photographed from above at just the right moment does it become something that it's not. DB ... Back to top bitterbuck1 Moderator Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 3963 Location: Arizona, USA Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 8:36 pm    Post subject: D B Sweeney wrote: IMO this is not a fish or indeed living creature of any kind. Quite simply it's the wash/wakes from a small boat or dinghy - possibly from the nearby Yachts. The shutter speed on the camera has captured the wake in the split second that it just happened to vaguely resemble a living creature (from above only) - the human mind and pareidolia do the rest. Isn't it unusual that nobody on the Dock, or in the boats or security cameras saw this huge creature?. The Albert Dock is not exactly a quiet backwater and it will have considerable CCTV security which will have filmed the dinghy - but there would be nothing unusual in that. Only when photographed from above at just the right moment does it become something that it's not. DB If it is a wake...where is the craft that made it? In these areas there usually is a "no wake zone". Just something to think about. ... Back to top D B Sweeney Joined: 27 Aug 2010 Posts: 2842 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 12:12 am    Post subject: The boat/dinghy is in shadow and is probably of the rigid inflatable hull type which tends to be dark in colour unless it's used in sea rescue. DB ... Back to top YB Moderator Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 2167 Location: Pennsylvania, USA Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 11:39 pm    Post subject: Hmm.. a little late for an opinion, I am thinking some sort of giant squid.. ... Back to top bitterbuck1 Moderator Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 3963 Location: Arizona, USA Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:25 am    Post subject: YB wrote: Hmm.. a little late for an opinion, I am thinking some sort of giant squid.. That is a possibility. We have caught squid 6 to 7 feet long in the Sea of Cortez. The fishermen were telling us that they have seen them longer than the ones we caught. Scary!!! ... Back to top bitterbuck1 Moderator Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 3963 Location: Arizona, USA Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:27 am    Post subject: Also, it is never to late for an opinion. ... 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