Google Maps user finds suspected pile of bones and handcuffs near Chernobyl

A video uploaded to TIC Tac in the last hours have caused a sensation by showing what they could be remains humans in Chernobyl, near the site of the nuclear explosion, in what is called the “exclusion zone”.

With horror music playing in the background, user @googlemapsfun walks around the nuclear power plant, which has been closed since 1986, and zooms in on it. they appear to be human bones and handcuffs. “What is this?” The user asks next to a frightened emoji. “It’s Chernobyl”says the post.

The video quickly went viral and has already 423,000 likes and nearly 10,000 comments.

From tragedy to tourist boom

After the success of the series Chernobyl, of HBO, which fictitiously reconstructs the events that led to the disaster, by 2019 there was a flood of tourism in the area. It is estimated that that year there was at least 100,000 tourists.

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According to data from the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, since 2015 visits to the region increased tenfold. 80% of visitors are foreign tourists, mainly from the United Kingdom (15,738), Poland (9,387), Germany (7,826), the United States (5,580) and the Czech Republic (4,063) .

Now, with the restrictions on international travel imposed in different countries by the coronavirus epidemic, thousands of people have virtually made their way to Chernobyl.

An unforgettable tragedy

April 26, 1986, the nuclear power plant located in what is now central Ukraine and at the time was part of the Soviet Union, launched a cloud of uranium dioxide and other elements into the sky. 31 people died. The drama did not end there: an expansive wave caused pollution affecting, to varying degrees, the five million people who lived in the region and surrounding towns. It is considered the worst nuclear accident in history.

In 2019, HBO created a series based on this tragedy. Created by Craig mazin and based on the work of Premio Nobel Svetlana Alexievich , the series chronicles the more unknown aspects of the affair and the efforts of the Soviet government to try to hide what had happened.

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“The lesson of Chernobyl not that nuclear energy is dangerous. The lesson is that lies, arrogance and repression of critics is dangerous, ”Mazin told reporters when presenting his work, developed since 2014. When he started reading people’s life stories who had worked in the days after the disaster, he knew there was a story to tell.

Co-produced between the North American signal and Sky, from the United Kingdom, has become one of the most beloved dramas and has again sparked interest in the case.