For decades, the town of Dunwich, Arizona was just a ghost story whispered in desert truck stops and local legends — a place that allegedly vanished without a trace in the summer of 1957.

One scorching June morning that year, all 312 residents of Dunwich were simply… gone. Postcards stopped arriving. Phone calls went unanswered. Rescue teams sent by the county sheriff found nothing but eerily abandoned homes, meals still sitting on tables, cars parked, radios playing static. There were no signs of violence — just absence.

The government blamed an “unexplained geological sinkhole,” sealed off the area, and scrubbed Dunwich from all official maps.

But last week, Reddit user @theRealMapHunter posted something that made the internet spiral into speculation: a red pin for Dunwich had suddenly appeared on Google Maps satellite view — with street names, coordinates, and even 3D-rendered buildings. The post went viral.

Curious digital explorers using GPS coordinates found something even stranger: the town is visible again on satellite images. Faded signs. A diner. A church. Even cars — frozen in time. Some users claimed they saw movement when zooming in. A man in a hat. A woman in a blue dress. Both blurry. Neither acknowledged by Google.

Urban explorer and YouTuber Jake Ramirez attempted to drive there. His live stream cut out 3 miles away. When he returned, he had no memory of the trip and had deleted all related footage.

Locals in nearby towns say the name “Dunwich” wasn’t even uttered aloud for decades. “We were told to forget it ever existed,” said one elderly man. “Now it’s back? That’s not good.”

As of this week, the town has disappeared again from Google Maps.

So what did people see?

A glitch? A cover-up? Or is Dunwich a place that only appears when it wants to be found?

One thing’s for sure — if you ever see it on your map…
Don’t go alone.