People have spotted all kinds of weird and interesting things on Google Maps and Google Earth, from cannabis farms, to secret drone plane bases. There are whole online communities of people who scour the imagery, looking for anything out-of-the-ordinary. While the addition of Google Ocean to the latest version of Earth, we thought we might end up hearing about someone finding a shipwreck or two, but didn't expect anyone to find anything really big. According to the claims of those supporting the theory, the lost ruins of Atlantis may have been spotted on the bottom of the Atlantic.

If you look at the undersea pictures, you can make out a grid-like array of lines on the bottom of the sea. If you want to check them out first-hand, steer your Google Earth to 31 15'15.53N, 24 15'30.53W and adjust your zoom until you can make out the anomaly.

Google was quick to respond to the rumors swarming around this find, explaining it away as a side-effect of gathering the imagery. The straight lines are apparently the path the boat recording the data took as it went back and forth, scanning the ocean floor. While there are a few conspiracy geeks who might think that's just Google trying to hide the truth, the lines sure don't look like any ruins we've ever seen, ignoring the varying seabed terrain, and gigantic in scale. But hey, it's a big ocean, so who knows what legit find someone may come across tomorrow?

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