Pokémon Go has been available in the US for a twosome of days now , and by any measurement it ’s a runaway success . My only ill so far is that the biz keep making me walk to weird places , and I ’m not the only one .
YouTuberBeware The Floodwas force back around with his girlfriend look for a gymnasium — basically the Pokémon combining weight of a boss battle — to test their heart at , when they realized the in - secret plan map was directing them towards a strip club . Sure , why not ! But after turning onto that street it became clear-cut the gymnasium was further down the road , where there happened to be a belittled graveyard . [ Insert joke about ghost Pokémon ] .
GPS spoofingexists and it ’s possible this brusk video is a hoax . However , sight of players have already report that the biz has a strange substance abuse oftaking them to church , and the closelipped gymnasium to my flat is an Ayurvedic yoga studio apartment . It ’s safe to say landmark placement in the game is semi - random . And on a bleaker note , I now know that somewhere in America ( most likely this exact fix in Allentown , PA ) there ’s a strip clubhouse next to an actual graveyard .
So : what ’s the weirdest place Pokémon Go has contract you so far ?
Update July 8 , 12:20pm : Twitter userErica H.sent us a screengrab which appear to show that one of the secret plan ’s many PokéStops — position to store monsters and get detail — is the pool outside the 9/11 Memorial .
https://twitter.com/embed/status/750872353383575553
As many of our commenters pointed out , the localisation of gyms and PokéStops are mostly culled from Niantic ’s early gameIngress , where players would attempt to maintain restraint of “ portals ” in real - man landmarks . Lifehacker editorAlan Henrywas capable to find the Ingress map of the region , which is litter with portal site . If the 9/11 Memorial pool really is an in - game emplacement for Pokémon Go , it ’s strange of Niantic not to filter out out localisation like this for a secret plan that is , ostensibly , for shaver .
The Ingress portal for the 9/11 Memorial pool is presently controlled by a musician charmingly named SuperEbola .
Correction July 12 , 1:59pm : YouTuber mind The Flood bugger off in skin senses via Twitter to inform Gizmodo that his girl is not a veritable part of the channel , and that the strip club / graveyard in enquiry isactually in Columbia , SC . The odds of two such businesses with the same name progress next to a cemetery is truly mind - boggling and we deeply repent any inconvenience this may have cause the Platinum Plus in Allentown .
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