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    Medieval Ghosts in Google Maps - Again?

    Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
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    Image of Insomnia Bob Insomnia Bob
    09/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    That's not a ghost. And it's not a woman, either.

    Hm. Long coat. Absurdly long scarf. Mop of curly hair on top of the head...

    All that's missing is a little robotic dog shaped like a toaster.
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    04/08/09

    In reply to Medieval Ghosts in Google Maps - Again?
    I'm glad my hometown can give people so many larp lolz. I remember when the news first broke a month or two ago. People around the office were giggling about it for days. :) ILU, Pittsburgh!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/09/09

    @meirelle wants an F-15: Your city also is the home of some top-shelf roboticsismology! Hooray for Hans Moravec!
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    Image of sega8800 sega8800
    04/08/09

    In reply to Medieval Ghosts in Google Maps - Again?
    dude, you guys need to lay off the google ghost story. this pic was published a long time ago, it was just 2 dumb kids play samurai. oh god, io9? what has happened to you.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/09/09

    @sega8800: The influx of dull, unimaginative commenters has driven io9 insane.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    04/08/09

    In reply to Medieval Ghosts in Google Maps - Again?
    Incidentally, I am going to take medieval swordsmanship at my school's rec center this semester.
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    Image of ShamelessSingingRennie ShamelessSingingRennie
    04/08/09

    @Pessimippopotamus is at 0% productivity: ...Can I be you?
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    04/08/09

    @ShamelessSingingRennie: No. And yes, it is very enjoyable.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/08/09

    In reply to Medieval Ghosts in Google Maps - Again?
    Dang. Last year I was smoking a cigarette outside work when the Googlemobile went pass and then again two days later outside my local bar. I was really hoping I could use the Street Views to show that I had a twin but they didn't use those shots.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/08/09

    @Grey_Area: Or maybe I'm invisible whenever I smoke!
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    04/08/09

    @Grey_Area:

    Invisible = Cool.

    Smoking = Cool, except when Smoking = Kool.

    Therefore:

    Smoking anything except Kool = Invisible!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/08/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Of course, it's so simple! Why didn't I see it before?!
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    04/08/09

    In reply to Medieval Ghosts in Google Maps - Again?
    This is one place where being a buzzkill may be even more fun than the actual story. The redorbit project mentioned by omgwtflolbbqbye is well worth checking out all the way through.


    [www.streetwithaview.com]

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/08/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: THANK YOU!! That was so beautiful, more communities have to do things like this.

    Samsonia Way Pittsburgh,PA Roolz 4 Eva!!!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/08/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Love the Meat Market at the corner of Sampsonia & Arch.

    It's Scout!!
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    Image of Dunny0 Dunny0
    04/08/09

    In reply to Medieval Ghosts in Google Maps - Again?
    Are those vikings or samurai?

    Or maybe... A viking fighting a samurai?


    I had no idea that Pittsburgh had such a long and varied history...

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    04/08/09

    @Dunny0 and I Think We're Property: As long as you both recognize that the Ninja actually won the fight.
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    04/08/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: What? Where's the ninja? I don't see a...

    Oh!
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    Image of Hedgeworth Hedgeworth
    04/08/09

    In reply to Medieval Ghosts in Google Maps - Again?
    This is really, really, really old news. Wasn't Gizmodo the one who originally reported on this late last year/early 2009? This one happened before the half-ghost in Wales.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    04/08/09

    @Hedgeworth: Well of course it's old news. These guys have been fighting FOR 500 YEARS.
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    Image of Plague Plague
    03/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    Well, Spandau Ballet IS reforming, so that could explain it.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/27/09

    @Plague: REALLY?
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    03/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    "because no contemporary woman would ever dress like this."


    Clearly the expert quoted has never been to Cardiff, for as far as I was able to tell, there ain't much to do there except cosplay. To wit: this photograph I took at the Millenium Centre last month.


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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    03/27/09

    @Elizabeth Weinbloom: Ugh, photo embed fail. Seriously, where did the "preview comment" feature go?


    And if that fails, [2.bp.blogspot.com]

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    Image of Dunny0 Dunny0
    03/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    ... so much hate in one post.


    I guess the internet is just not ready for Welsh Ghost humor.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/27/09

    @Dunny0: I know, so terribly sad. Do we really have to slap emoticons on everything so that these people "get it"?


    By the bye, have you been to deaddaffyddhahaha.com?

    Hysterical!

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    03/27/09

    @Grey_Area: If they need those damn twitching graphic smileys that are always in the banner and pop-up ads, they need to stay off the internet.
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    Image of Magicant Magicant
    03/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    C'mon you guys. Certainly the rift in Cardiff could lead to all sorts of strange activity that Google happened to pick up.


    Shoot. Am I mixing up fiction with real life again?

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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    03/27/09

    @magicant: Its all fiction. Some is just better written.
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    Image of Peter Pixie Peter Pixie
    03/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    Google maps is also used to find Yeti (aka Snow Bigfoot) [english.pravda.ru]


    I dont know if dracula has been listed on google maps yet, but maybe it's worth a look?

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    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    03/27/09

    @Peter Pixie: Where exactly is Transylvania, anyway?
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    03/27/09

    @Anekanta: Romania, I think.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    03/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    It's a viral marketing ploy for a Laudinum and lacework website.
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    Image of Brine Brine
    03/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    A medium is quoted as saying the image is clearly a ghost, because no contemporary woman would ever dress like this.


    False.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    03/27/09

    @Brine: I hope that the Google van drives through San Francisco next year during the Dickens Fair, so that we can have hundreds of "ghostly figures" in Street View.
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