Google Maps is meant to look up addresses, but it can also provide a window into the lives of the recently deceased.
Three years after her grandparents’ deaths, 19-year-old Luisa Hoenle looked up their old house on Google Maps. Feeling nostalgic if not a bit masochistic, the Switzerland-based art school student input their street address and then clicked on the Street View icon, which showed panoramic photos of the property.
Built decades ago by her grandfather Siegfried, the house had fallen into disrepair since his death from cancer in 2016, its once lush lawn now filled with withered and dying plants. But on Google Street View, Hoenle found older images of the home from before its decline. She scrolled through the photographs, reminiscing when she noticed something else: her grandfather.
Read more of this story from JESSIE SCHIEWE at https://www.okwhatever.org/topics/things/dead-relative-google-street-view
