The internet, at the moment, is overwhelmed with just one thing and that is Pokémon Go. The mobile game is only available in a few countries at the moment but it already has millions of players scampering about cities by living the dream of being an actual Pokémon trainer.
This game might not be different from the various versions released on the Gameboy Color or the Nintendo DS but the clever use of GSP tagging ensures that a player has to physically travel from location to location in search of that elusive Squirtle or Bulbasaur.
Niantic has cleverly worked out a formula to enable users to capture water Pokémon near water bodies or grass Pokémon near parks but even the best coding might not work out all the time. The use of a mobile’s camera to see a Pokémon in the real life world does work well in certain cases and not so much in others.
Players would want to be the first to capture all the Pokémon in the game but some of the locations for finding Pokémon leave a lot to be desired. Without further ado, here are the 5 weirdest places Pokémon have been spotted, so far.
1) Holocaust museum
Not the greatest place to play a game, the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC seems to have become a Poke Stop, where numerous Pokémon can be found among other items. The museum is a memorial for the victims of Nazism and the authorities are trying their best to remove the venue from the game.
Either way, the game did allow one user to catch a Koffing, though there are reports stating that the image for the poison-gas Pokémon was a hoax, though many other Pokémon have been seen in the museum, such as a Doduo.
Although the museum has three Poke Stops, it could soon stop being the place to catch 'em all.
2) Toilets
Every Pokémon trainer knows about the rest stops in the game called Poke Centres where players can refresh their Pokémon and get them charged up for the next battle but this game takes the “rest” to a completely new level.
Many users have captured Pokémon in toilets and some of them are rare ones too. Abras, which are extremely tough to capture in the earlier versions of the game, have been spotted in these rather weird places and even the likes of Squirtles have been seen. In fact, one of my colleagues snagged a Charmander in his toilet!
We do not know what tag is being used to find such Pokémon in these regions but whatever it is, at least you are guaranteed to find a Pokémon wherever and whenever you go.
3) Airplane
Pokémon are known to fly, so getting a flying Pokémon near an airport does make sense but not when the plane is in the air! A trainer posted this picture after they found a Squirtle on the wing of an airplane.
The funny thing about this is that Squirtle is a water type Pokémon and cannot fly, so being able to find one of the starter Pokémon from the original series is great but certainly, this isn’t what anyone would have expected to see outside their window.
The user might not have been able to catch the Pokémon, given the altitude of the plane and maybe they should wait a bit more and bag a Pidgeot or Fearow.
4) War zone
A Pokémon battle is tough, especially when you do not have the right set of Pokémon by your side but a real life war zone is the last place you would expect to see anyone play Pokémon let alone take out their phone to play the newest game.
Louis Park, who has been deployed to Iraq to fight the menace of ISIS, was able to bag a Squirtle and he had this to say to the Verge, "Just caught my first Pokémon on the Mosul frontline by Teleskuf”. The 26-year-old also stated that a lot of regions within Iraq had gyms and Poke Stops as well, which is a bit weird, to say the least.
Even when Park was heading back to his safe house, he was able to bag a Zubat; again, not the greatest Pokémon but what can one do at a war zone? It certainly is amazing that Pokémon Go has travelled far and wide; wait that’s from the original theme song, isn’t it?
5) Colon
In what has to be the weirdest place to find Pokémon, gastroenterologist Jonathan Wilcox decided to try the game out when doing a routine colonoscopy and much to his surprise, he did find a Pikachu within his patient’s colon.
Pokémon Go displays the creatures based on the location being set by the GPS so it is a bit of a surprise seeing a Pikachu in a hospital, you would have expected a Chansey (nurse-type) Pokémon or even a Muk or Grimer, given the rather obscure location where Pikachu was found.
The doctor in question though stated to Gomerblog, “This is going to be one weird but awesome procedure note”, surely it might be difficult to explain the situation to his seniors.
We agree that the note would be one of the weirdest one’s ever written. Oh, by the way, it seems that the number of people asking for colonoscopies to capture a Pikachu is rising, though we would not recommend going to such extremes to nab the furry little creature.
