Social media users have noted satellite imagery showing the words "HELP" and "TRAFICO" etched into the ground at a rail yard in Los Angeles.

Authorities have seemingly solved a mystery involving eerie messages seen spelled out in scrap building materials in an empty lot in downtown Los Angeles. The satellite images showed the words "HELP," TRAFICO,

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Ominous “HELP” messages carved onto debris in Los Angeles have raised alarm among social media users. Zoomed in Google Maps satellite images of a rail yard off of the San Bernardino Freeway reveal messages that read “HELP” and “TRAFICO,” which means “traffic” in Spanish.