Google maps street view won’t show this mysterious building - why?

Google Maps Street View has captured a street in the New York City borough of Brooklyn in the USA. The street itself is completely ordinary and features a row of brick houses with steps

leading up to the front doors. However, there appears to be something highly mysterious going on in this scene. One of the houses seems to be hiding something as it’s completely blurred out.

Where the house should be shown on Google Maps is a large rectangle of blurred image. Nothing of the house can be seen in the slightest, despite the buildings either side being in full

view. So why has Google decided to hide this house? Is something mysterious happening behind the blurred photo? The house has been identified as 291 Clermont Avenue in Brooklyn. Plenty of

people have come together to speculate on the reason why the building is being shielded from public view. Some have wondered whether naked people can be seen in the windows. Other, more

far-fetched theories, include suggestions that a Sasquatch - or Bigfoot - sighting has been covered up. Google Maps regularly blurs out people’s faces and car number plates to protect

identities - but rarely houses. However, there is, in fact, an entirely rational explanation for the blurred image. Google themselves explained what happened to local website Gothamist. The

internet giant said that people can request their houses be blurred. “They can simply click on 'Report a problem' on the bottom left-hand side of the Street View image to submit a

request that our team will review and take action upon as needed,” Google told Gothamist. “In this case, we likely received a request from the person living here to blur their home."

This is far from the first time an unusual sight has been blurred out by Google. One viral photo captured a cow grazing by the River Cam in Cambridge which had its face blurred out.  A

spokesman for Google spoke The Telegraph regarding the image: "We thought you were pulling the udder one when we herd the moos, but it's clear that our automatic face-blurring

technology has been a little overzealous.” Of course, we don't begrudge this cow milking its five minutes of fame."