Murder Coordinates — Two-panel SpongeBob meme referencing a severed head at Applebee's in Onalaska WI and a headless body at specific GPS coordinates.

Murder Coordinates

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Published October 18, 2026

Murder Coordinates refers to a group of SpongeBob SquarePants image macros that casually share the supposed GPS location of a decapitated body or severed head. An iFunny user kicked off the format in November 2020 with a demotivational poster claiming a severed head sat in the toilet at an Applebee's in Onalaska, Wisconsin. By January 2021, follow-up posts had added real latitude and longitude leading to a lone house in Winthrop, Minnesota, and Google reviewers were spamming the Applebee's listing with jokes about the head.

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Overview

Each Murder Coordinates post follows the same deadpan structure. A SpongeBob SquarePants screenshot, usually a fish character or Squidward being bothered by SpongeBob, delivers a flat statement about where a body or body part is sitting. The specificity, often a real street address or exact latitude and longitude, is the whole joke1. Readers can plug the numbers into Google Maps and see an ordinary house or restaurant, which makes the matter-of-fact tone funnier5.

The format strips out everything a crime report usually includes. No victim name, no motive, no story, just a location and the implicit claim that something terrible is there right now2. Later variants held onto the SpongeBob delivery while changing the specific crime, body part, or address6.

Origin & Background

Platform
iFunny / Tumblr (viral spread)
Creator
iFunny user FreeGuy
Date
2020

iFunny user FreeGuy posted the earliest known example on November 17, 2020, a demotivational image of a SpongeBob fish character staring into a toilet, captioned with the claim that a severed head sat in the restroom at the Applebee's at 9364 WI-16 in Onalaska, Wisconsin1. The image collected only 152 smiles on iFunny over ten months, but a November 24, 2020 Tumblr repost by petits-pois-carotide gained more than 31,000 notes within the same period2.

iFunny user azerbaijanlawngnome extended the Murder Coordinates premise on January 15, 2021 with a SpongeBob and Squidward edit telling Squidward he would find a headless body at 44.542094, -94.305717, coordinates that point to a single house in Winthrop, Minnesota4. No decapitation has ever been recorded at the site, and the reference has no known tie to any real crime5.

How It Spread

iFunny users responded to the Applebee's post with more low-context riffs on the same premise. On November 19, 2020, user Warsaw posted a POV version written from the perspective of the severed head, which earned over 2,100 smiles7. The Google Maps listing for the Onalaska Applebee's filled with gag reviews about the toilet, holding over 1,100 reviews and a 3.8 star rating by September 20, 20219.

The coordinates version attracted curious outsiders asking what it meant. On September 14, 2021, u/LazarusisGay opened an r/OutOfTheLoop thread titled 'What is the deal with Hey Squidward, did you know you'll find a decapitated body at 44.542094, -94.305717,' which gained more than 1,600 upvotes in six days3. One top comment speculated the reference might trace back to a Randonautica video in which two TikTokers found a suitcase with a body inside, a story later recapped in a June 6, 2021 TikTok by @makingatruecrimerer8. The connection between that incident and the SpongeBob image stays unconfirmed6.

Timeline

2020-11-17

IFunny user FreeGuy posts the earliest known Murder Coordinates image, claiming a severed head is in an Applebee's bathroom in Onalaska, Wisconsin[1].

2020-11-19

IFunny user Warsaw posts a POV riff written from the perspective of the severed head[7].

2020-11-24

Tumblr user petits-pois-carotide reposts the Applebee's image, where it eventually gains more than 31,000 notes[2].

2021-01-15

IFunny user azerbaijanlawngnome posts the SpongeBob and Squidward 'headless body at 44.542094, -94.305717' edit pointing to a house in Winthrop, Minnesota[4].

2021-06-06

TikToker @makingatruecrimerer recaps the deleted Randonautica suitcase video that some redditors linked to the coordinates meme[8].

2021-09-14

U/LazarusisGay opens an r/OutOfTheLoop thread asking about the coordinates meme, drawing over 1,600 upvotes in six days[3].

2021-09-20

The Onalaska Applebee's Google Maps listing is holding over 1,100 reviews filled with jokes about the toilet, at a 3.8 star rating[9].

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