Why does his Google history show he was at an industrial estate at night

Also I don’t think it’s weird that your partner goes to see a friend but from what you’ve said the frequency seems odd.. do you not spend any time together in the evening?

If it were me id follow him.
Let him think you've fell asleep then drive out.

I’m absolutely not saying that this is what’s happened, however a similar thing happened to my friend: she realised he was taking a little longer than usual on his way back from somewhere & looked him up on FindMyFriends, he was parked 2 minutes away in a car park. She rang him & he said he was almost home & just coming to a nearby roundabout (but he wasn’t, she could clearly see he was parked).. it turned out he was messaging / paying for girls online to chat with him, the X rated kind.. she managed to look on his timeline & it showed him in really random places where he could just stop for a bit 🤷🏼‍♀️

Almost certainly a simple error in the history, especially given the "Missing travel" entry. My history shows that yesterday I was somewhere around 50 miles away from my actual location.

He was getting buggered by a prize winning leek.

Maybe ask him? Failing that stick an AirTag under the seat of his car - that way you’ll know if he’s actually going someplace strange or if google is acting up!

Could it be a mistake with the location thingme? Me and DH were just on holiday in Wales when he got a random text from his phone provider ( while I was standing right next to him) to say that since he was in Jersey he would be getting charged more ( I didn’t get the exact details as it was obviously bonkers) my phone was fine ( same provider) then his went back to normal.

More likely than dogging or shagging a prostitute in an RV while the pimp sits in the front is that his mates not allowed to smoke weed in the house anymore so they've gone and parked up to smoke.

Can you access his messages or call history? I’d have to find out more now.

Drugs/sex worker

Just checked my location history for the first time in about a year (forgot it was a thing) and it was just so inaccurate I wouldn't rely on it for something serious!

I only checked over the past week, and every day there are errors. Even now it has me at an address a few streets away. You'll need to find out by other means, I think.

This sounds more like someone is logged onto your Google in these locations - is this possible? This sounds a bit too glitches in my experience

@Nachosanddips I've done a bit of stalking on Google maps when checking up on someone I was very worried about so can shed light from my own experience.

Sometimes if he has signal issues it might have recorded him being there longer than he actually was. As in Google chronology sometimes fills in assumed gaps in my experience. He may well have gone to get petrol. Did it show precisely where he was in the industrial estate? Usually the location is very exact so you can see where he was and maybe check out that precise location.

Maybe ask him, when did you last fill up the car last casually or something like that?

It could be that Google is wrong, glitches happen.

I have my location history turned on and occasionally my Google Timeline goes 'bananas.' Not that long ago it showed me as being in the middle of Germany for two days running.... and coming back to the UK in between. I hadn't even left the country. Apparently, I was visiting a customer there (he doesn't live in Germany, he's in the UK) but his company name/location was showing up as being there.

Just last week it showed me as being somewhere else I'd never been to, and I wasn't even near to that location either. A bug in Google's location data is certainly a possibility.

Sorry I didn’t say/mean I looked also on his phone a month ago, when I looked, I went back a month on the history, looked at the entries for around a month ago

Apologies, I misread this as you having looked at his phone a month ago, rather than you having gone back a month.

Did you check his call log? Any chance he got a phone call from someone and pulled over to talk?

There's not a single person on this thread that confirm or deny where your OH was OP.

Popping out randomly to a garage, to me, is odd.

You also mention he drives to a friend's for beers and a smoke. Then comes home. Drinking and driving? Smoking weed and driving? Reckless and immature.

Slipping out the house and going to an industrial estate at night for an hour is frankly bizarre unless he knows the place and works there.

Google the area. If it has a name look it up in regard to prostitution or drugs. Check the area on a crime stats map, if they're a thing where you are. Might show arrests for dealing or Solicitation etc.

Ultimately though, theres one person who knows why he was there ...

Sometimes when I've just googled a shop or restaurant or place it'll come up with a notification later saying I visited it and ask me to rate it. Could it be that?

Mine showed me as being in Birmingham when I've not been there in years, I live in the north

Strange

Quite close to us there is a brewery on an industrial estate with a tap room at the side. DH has been there on occasion and I have been once. not really my sort of thing but I really would not think hookers or drugs unless DH had form for that sort of thing. On occasion maps can be slightly inaccurate, so again is ther anything close by. Easiest just to ask I guess.

I would imagine a prostitute parks up there in an RV type vehicle with her partner/pimp/bodyguard in the driving seat and her in the back doing business.

@Nachosanddips People really need to educate themselves on technology.

Your husbands phone will usually be recording its location via GPS using a cluster of satellites to triangulate its position and is pretty accurate to a few meters most of the time.

When a majority of mobiles phones loose the GPS signal,down too a multitude of every day factors, the phone will attempt to find its location via triangulation of telephone masts. Which can vary vastly from a Meters to a few Kilometers but usually a radius around 500 m depending on how many phone masts it can see to triangulate the position.

In built up areas it may only see one, so the location its supplying too google is way way off. Which is why you occasionally see, silly locations on google you never were.

So to start accusing him is fairly pointless, unless you can see he is at that location regularly for long periods of time, it's a location glitch.

It's not odd at all.
To me, it seems odd to think that it's odd

Maybe he went out for a takeaway then pulled over there and ate it. Myself and my DP have random drives together or alone all the time, a few weeks ago we went for a picnic plans changed and we ate our sandwiches on a bank with pretty flowers on an industrial estate we don’t even know about 30miles away.

More importantly I don’t understand the going out bit, does this mean you don’t even know if he’s gone outa. I do find that strange as we either call up to one another or leave a note if we pop out day or night.