Kid on Google Earth finds woman trapped on deserted island for 7 years.

That is the story from a history channel special with the guy that walked the Amazon (real guy, that British dude). They made a survival challenge special with him right before naked and afraid came out.

Someone watched the show and then rewrote the events to Suit themselves
 
uxo2 said:
could it be because of .


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or

http://newslinq.com

that tipped you off
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No, people have been posting this everywhere this month and I already vetted it. As someone already mentioned, part of the story is from another story. The picture they're using is a cropped picture from Syria (says S.O.S. scribed in dirt), and the website that originally posted it is a website that ONLY posts bullshit stories (like a planetary alignment causing gravity to stop for 5 minutes one day - I think it might be the news-hound website someone else shared where this originated). Just search it on Google - you'll probably find a few websites re-posting the story because they are too stupid to check sources, and you'll find some websites debunking it.

The fact that the link was dead didn't play a part in it - I assume the site that posted it didn't check the sources until afterward, and then promptly took it down. If it was a real, true story, it wouldn't surprise me if the originating site didn't crash shortly after reporting it because it's definitely surreal. I knew the story OP was talking about, and already knew it was bullshit.
 
Heh I just realized why the link in the first post is broken. It doesn't link to the full URL. OP probably copied the shortened version from somewhere.

newslinq.com/google-earth-fin...sland-7-years
vs
newslinq.com/google-earth-finds-woman-trapped-deserted-island-7-years

These things happen, no worries. ;)
 
Quoted from The Independent online newspaper;

"The extraordinary story of Gemma Sheridan, a woman from Liverpool saved by Google Earth after seven years stranded on a desert island, has whipped up a storm among social media users – despite being quite spectacularly fake.
Posted on the website News-Hound.org, it claimed Ms Sheridan and two friends had embarked on a voyage to Hawaii when they met bad weather, damaging the boat and knocking her unconscious.
According to the tale, she awoke to find herself on the beach of a remote island. Ms Sheridan then apparently spent seven years carving out a difficult survival before an SOS sign she made was spotted on Google Earth satellite images by “some kid from Minnesota”, at which point she was saved.
The article has been shared widely on Twitter – at times accompanied by “#truestory”, and with various messages along the lines of this from one user: “Thank you technology.”
Aside from the fairly incredible details involved in the story, the conspiracy theory and rumour-debunking website Waffles at Noon has pointed out a wide range of issues that show it is quite clearly a hoax.
Firstly, the so-called Google Earth picture of the “island” and its SOS message actually comes from a 2010 Amnesty International report on violence in Kyrgyzstan - the uncropped image shows buildings in the background.
The website News-Hound.org itself has, according to Waffles at Noon, a history of posting outlandish stories – and has put up articles which appear to pre-date the site’s own registration earlier this year.
Finally, the details of “Ms Sheridan’s” survival are not only fake but they are plagiarised – with huge chunks taken from a report into a Pacific island survival exercise undertaken by the explorer Ed Stafford.
There are some amazing true stories out there about survival over long periods at sea – sadly, this wasn’t one of them."

Good read though, anyway good enough to get me hunting about.


Paul
 
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