Stone cold stares! 800 lifelike statues captured by drone footage

Stone statues depicting real people are displayed in an eerie garden park in Toyama, Japan. Around 800 lifelike statues, seen above, were made in 1989 by a Chinese sculptor for local businessman Mutsuo Furukawa, who wanted to keep the statues for eternity. The statues, seen up close bottom left, and arranged in the garden bottom right, are placed in a village named Fureai Sekibutsu no Sato. This translates to ’the village where you can meet Buddhist statues’. Mr Furukawa paid £6billion Yen (£42million) for
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