Com Rainbolt va geolocalitzar una foto familiar antiga amb una pista gairebé il·legible

Hi Rainbolt. My dad suddenly passed away about 2 months ago. I would do anything to find the location where this photo was taken. This was the only family trip we ever took outside my country. I have no recollection of where since I was so little. I hope it's not too hard to find. And when you look at this, not only is it beautiful, but you also probably think, "Wow, there's so much information here. There's no way that this will ever be difficult to find." You couldn't be more wrong. But it's also one of the most fun geolocations I've ever had because it uses techniques that I don't think I've ever shown on this channel or that I don't think I've ever used in a geolocation before. And so I'll tell you exactly how I found this. So immediately what I did was

obviously we can see in the background here it's Greece. Not only do we have Greek language, you know, some Mediterranean Greek architecture, but we also have a wooden pole here, which is if you, you know, didn't know that's super super common in Greece. So I sent this exact photo to a Greek Geoguessr friend that I wanted to help me translate the sign in the background because, well, when you do it with Google Lens or you use kind of like when there's like not very much context given in the photo and it's kind of blurry with this like kind of kind of quality, it did recognize that this word right here was business, but when there's words cut off or things like that, it's not the best to be able to translate this. So I texted the Geoguessr friend and he said the first word means business, the third word means renting,

and the second word is unclear of what it was. I was hoping, you know, he would text me back and be like, "Yeah, the first word there says like Greek Hotel." And we could just, you know, find it by Googling the name, but that wasn't the case. If that also was the case, it wouldn't make a very good video anyways, so here we are. After that context with renting business, I thought maybe it could be like three things. I thought it could be like one of those room for rent type tourist signs on like beach towns in Greece cuz we do see like a beach towel or towel hanging to dry out on the railing here. I thought it could have been a hotel because there's what looks like a two or three story rendering of a building here that maybe is advertising

the hotel or I thought it could have been a real estate company. That helps a little bit, but there's nothing with the information that you're going to do because you can't search business renting Greece and find a location. But what you can do is use the phone number underneath here to hopefully assist you in finding this location. So you can either do two things. What I did was I went into Photoshop, did control L for the levels, and you can actually just mess with the levels here to make the background text a little more readable in the background. But if you don't have access to Photoshop, you can also use Forensically where it does it automatically and you can read it a little bit better through their magnifying tool there. We already have context that this photo was taken in Greece and Greek mobile numbers typically begin in a 69 format. And so I

thought that that was clearly going to be 69 and then we can see here a three, a two, a point here, a point here. That should have been a four and then this was the digit that I I mean it's quite literally one big blur. I had no idea what it was and then 993 I was like 99.9% confident that every number here identified was correct. But we're missing the one number. But luckily, if you're only missing one number, you only have 10 possible phone numbers that this could be zero through nine. Then using obviously Google, you can search in quotations so it only shows you matches 100% matched to your search. I typed 69324

and then I started with zero because we were going to zero through nine. Zero and 99 and then any quotations. You can see here I've already clicked these websites and I've gone through all of these. So it came back as a number in the database on WhitePages, but I didn't know if it was still active or what it was, but it looked like it was clearly a real phone number, which was encouraging. Like I said, we have only 10 possible digits that this could be. So I you know, I went through one and we got back like this car garage business in Greece that I pretty much ruled out immediately. Like it wasn't an active number with a business, but this is not a car garage renting or whatever business

unless, you know, they rebranded their hotel company or whatever it was. So, I ruled that out. But as I was getting these positive hits on numbers, I was pretty confident that one of these was going to be accurate since there was some. But the rest we can see here. Like this is just like a website that I don't even know what it does to be honest. But I kept getting this website that when you click it it looks like someone's going to take over your computer. So, I was like, uh no, thank you. Don't think that anything there is helpful. So, I went through all possible 10 digits and came back with quite literally nothing helpful. We can see here we have a hit here with seven. And at least this is a real number it seems. There's a couple that we had instances that looked like real numbers in Greece that at least were active still. So,

then I took all those active numbers and I got my Greek Geoguessr friend to call them cuz I thought maybe, you know, just call them up. Maybe they can be like, "Hey, yeah, we have a hotel business in Greece. Here's where it is." No one answered. With investigations like this, it's important to know that in the videos I'm kind of laying out as if it's like one linear path of how I got there. This was like a one or two-day thing that took a lot of time and you get to a lot of dead ends. There's so many different things that happen that it takes a while to like rule out everything confidently. But honestly, I didn't know what else to do because I we didn't get any hits on the phone numbers. I thought, "Well, realistically, what are the odds that in 2011 a business in the background in

Greece was digitizing their phone number online?" In my opinion, the odds of that are extremely low. And so, I kind of got discouraged. So, what I did after that, I kind of ruled out the phone number and I just started manually scanning Greek beach cities because it looked like if they're going on vacation and there's a beach towel or like a towel drying here, you know, potentially that's a red herring. But I thought, "Let me just see if I can come across anything." So, this is kind of the first kind of area I looked at. And honestly, a lot of it looked pretty encouraging. You know, you'd see businesses with like some overhang. But, the thing is is this specific city, like all of these roads don't have coverage. It's just the main road. And then I went through and looked to see if any of these hotels had a matching phone number. I would say like

I did get a lot of positive reinforcement from some of these beach cities where they had like, you know, the overhang. And I thought maybe it could be a sign pointing out that said like um like I I was expecting it to be like a room for rent or like a hotel sign. Oh, this is another thing that I didn't mention, but behind the girls' arms right here is like a a little poster sign in the road. And so when I came across this town right here, I thought it could have been like an advertisement for something like food. So, I thought maybe it was like a more tourist beach town. So, then I looked at every single place in this town. To no surprise, they came up short. And I know looking back at it, it's easy to say in hindsight that you made a mistake, but I should have committed to the phone number. So, then what I did was I went back and fully committed to the phone

number cuz that is a clear indication of something that we have at some point in time I can make a connection to someone business with someone out there. So, what I did was I used OSINT Industries website, which is a paid source. I pay for this with my own money. That this is not an ad, which basically just aggregates all the data from, you know, phones, emails, names, and puts all this data together and searches all these different sources for active accounts using this phone number and things like that and makes it nice and pretty so you can view the data. Again, I went through, you know, I only have 10 possible phone numbers this could be. So, starting with zero. And as it's searching, it comes back. You can see it's a loading here. We're getting names, last seen time, and we have a

WhatsApp, a Telegram, a Facebook, and an icon. And look at the WhatsApp, and we can see we have a a man that's obviously in Greece that looks like a businessman. And so I was like, "Okay, this is going to be the best lead that we possibly could have to find the location of this photo." So, using this and also seeing that we have a couple names here. We have one name here from Truecaller that translates to Vangelis Garden. Excuse my pronunciation. It's probably wrong. And it's in Greek. So, what I did then was obviously search query for Vangelis Garden comes back with a Greek hotel. Dude, I'm When I tell you I started celebrating, I was like, "Oh my gosh, real phone number attached to a

businessman that owns a hotel in Greece." It's clearly not the same place in the background. So, I searched the Greek name and it came back with a biography on a man. This man right here is the same man in the WhatsApp profile picture. Translate to English and when you read the biography you can see he's a businessman and runs a commercial tourist construction real estate business. I'm like, "Okay, that's exactly what the kind of sign in the background would lead us to." And if you keep reading the biography, it turns out I think this man is like an actual politician or mayor of some sort in Greece. As we read down the biography, it says, you know, it's talking about his children and he has a son here named Nikos. And you can read here it says

Nikos was born in 1984 and is a graduate of Merchant Marine School. He is now a businessman, hotel business, and real estate construction service. That's clearly in the background business renting with buildings. It seems like this could be the right guy that we're looking for. I thought it would make sense if his father passed down or they worked together in the same business. But when you Google his name in English, you don't get anything. So, I had to Google his Greek name here that we can read. Search Google and it comes back to a real estate website. Keepoo real estate. Apologies about my pronunciation. Scroll down to the address, search Google, open street

view. And there it is, confirming the exact location. As you're watching this, you're probably thinking, "Rainbolt, none of this was GeoGuessr specific knowledge. You didn't have to know what type of plants, what type of poles, anything that was in this photo to be able to identify it. Investigations like this are really important. Not every geolocation is using Geoguessr specific knowledge because at the end of the day, the internet remembers all. If you know how to follow it, you can find almost anything.