Google Maps shows a Phantom Town which only exists online.
If you want to visit the tiny town of Argleton in Lancashire, England, Google Maps can help you get there.
But there’s one small problem: It doesn’t really exist.
ABCNews Reported.
This phantom Town as Google Maps says, is about an hour due west of Manchester. Google Maps even displays photographs of homes, restaurants and hospitals in the area.
Roy Bayfield, who works at an area university, told the U.K.’s Telegraph,
“A colleague of mine spotted the anomaly on Google Maps, and I thought ‘I’ve got to go there, I started to weave this amazing fantasy about the place, an alternative universe, a Narnia-like world. I was really fascinated by the appearance of a non-existent place that the Internet had the power to make real and give a semi-existence.“
He walked to the place which would have been the center of town, according to the Google’s mapping service. But found nothing but empty fields.
A Google search generates more than 25,000 hits for the town and Wikipedia features a dedicated entry for it as ABC news Reported.
