5 Google Earth Black Sites

The Paracel Islands, also known as the Hoang Sa Archipelago, are a cluster of approximately 130 small islands and coral reefs in the South China Sea, and the location of one of Google Earth’s mysterious black sites.

This place, seen by few human eyes, appears on Google Earth as a series of blurred and blacked out images, for reasons not entirely understood.

The Paracels are also home to the world’s deepest underwater sinkhole, known as Dragon Hole, which appears to have been deliberately scrubbed from Google Earth.

Approximately 1,000 feet deep and referred to by local fishermen as “the eye of the South China Sea”, photographs of Dragon Hole exist despite the lack of satellite imagery. It was, however, only officially revealed by the Chinese government less than a decade ago.

Further adding to the intrigue of this location, legend claims that the Dragon Hole is where the much fabled Monkey King once found his golden cudgel.

Many have sought an explanation for why the site is not visible on Google Earth. Measures such as blurring and blacking out locations are typically reserved for military bases, prisons and areas whose discovery could represent a security threat...

[dolfy]

That intro still hits hard after all these years.

[jorgepais]

Here in Portugal they blurred the apartment of a former prime-minister on Street View. Before I was only "sailing" through his street and seeing a lot of buildings. Now I "sail" through his street and the blur tells me exactly where he lives... 🤦‍♂️

[Nick-fcwu]

Bro your voice makes me feel like I'm being briefed before going somewhere weird. I love it.

[SeanRiddolls]

Shortcuts:
0:01 - Parcel Islands
2:30 - Jeanette Island
4:52 - Sandy Island
7:13 - Amchitka Island
9:18 - Prison De MontLuçon

[mrvwbug]

Paracel islands are visible in Bing maps, but it is possible those are old images that predate the buildup of artificial islands. Jeanette Island is clearly visible on Bing maps, is entirely covered in snow/ice so any bases located there are probably underground. Amchitka island is visible, but the central mountain range is very blurry in Google maps, and several blocks are censored in Bing maps if you zoom in too far. Also funny that French prisons are censored, but US prisons are not, even the imfamous ADX supermax is clearly visible. Even Groom Lake aka Area 51 is not censored

[thegoodnessness]

The islands in south China Sea are military bases on man made islands. Back a few years ago you could see they had airstrips, naval docks and warehouses. I saw them when I was looking at the area during the controversy of non Chinese fishing ships getting wrecked then "rescued" by Chinese ships

[jamiehattingh]

Thank you Dark5, still going strong!
There's just something about your style of narrating, subject choice and footage used in your videos that somehow always leaves me feeling unsettled after I watch.😁

[tacticalmattfoley]

The issues with Sandy Island shouldn't be up for debate. Satellite imagery should easily confirm whether the island exists or doesn't exist.

[antr]

and here i thought you were going to talk about Area 51, HARRP and Mount Weather. Awesome video

[EnkiTwo]

I love the direction you're headed... Thanks for the ride! It's awesome!

[david]

I love when you do videos like this! Please do more!

[kevd]

favourite channel on YouTube for view years now..best into music and voice over on any channel..class👍

[mjw]

I learn so much from these videos thanks

[CHFlyingtwinkie]

I'm glad he opted to talk instead of his early silent work.

[Riclmnopp]

I wish your videos were longer. Good topics and good narration.

[fionahelmer]

What an excellent video; clear, well researched and most images are relevant...the stock photos are ok too, not too cheesy. Well done

[TheSpeedyCola]

The Archipelago up in Russia could be for an EISCAT/Early Warning system from the cold war. We did it all along the Aleutian islands, my grandfather was on the military base at Nikolski

[bigknockersOO]

This is one of my favorite channels. These kinds of youtube videos are basically extinct after they purged all the conspiracy related channels. Thanks for the uploads.

[unavoidablycanadian]

Great video! 👍 some of those were so intriguing

[Guizmopeg]

Parecel islands are quite clear on Google maps actually. Yes the outline looks weird and clearly there are satellite photos from different moments to constitute the archipelago, but when you zoom in you see everything (I'm mainly shocked by the architecture of some buildings there actually)... same goes with Amchitka where you can still see the old US airstrips in pretty decent definition, and Jeannette can be seen clearly on bing maps - looks like a big desert ice rock.