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Shoutout to whichever Niantic Wayfarer reviewer originally looked at a sundial on a highly restricted private island and thought, 'Ah yes, a perfect, accessible landmark for the local community to gather and explore.' Solid 5-star rating.
The Pokéstop got added sometime between 2020 and 2021, pulled into Pokémon Go's map data from Niantic's older game Ingress, where someone had submitted the island's large sundial as a real world landmark. Nobody caught it. It sat there for about five years, reachable by anyone willing to fake their GPS location, on a private island that requires a boat or plane to actually visit. The document dump that originally exposed the Pokéstop also revealed some bizarre gaming crossovers. Emails reportedly show Epstein recommending Pokémon Go to a Qatari royal right after it launched in 2016.
Niantic really left a Pokéstop on Epstein Island for five years without noticing, but the second I try to spin a stop while riding shotgun in a Honda Civic going 15mph, they soft-ban me for being a menace to society.
It got noticed after the Department of Justice released close to three million pages of Epstein documents on January 30, 2026. Within days, Reddit users digging through the coverage found the stop, r/TheSilphRoad turned tracking it into a small group project, and people started spoofing their location just to spin it. Niantic, owned by Scopely since a $3.5 billion deal in 2025, quietly deleted the Pokéstop around February 9 and only confirmed it happened when GamingBible asked. No statement, no explanation for how a landmark with zero public access got approved as a location in the first place.
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