Ghost Towns

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Who on here is fascinated with ghost towns?

I am particularly fascinated with the town of Rhyolite, Nevada (near the Nevada side of Death Valley). The train station is fully intact and there is a house made of beer bottles that is also fully intact (amazing, considering that the city has not had any inhabitants since 1916). And there is a bank building with only three partial walls left.

Tim

im scared of gosts

i dont really care about ghost since i havent meet even one and im 17 though i would like to see one(and then douple my medications ) but if u tim like ghost then i really recomment movie called exsortic...any one whith bad nerves should not look it....seriously i was 2 nigths paranoid after it

I find ghost towns intriguing to say the least. There are a few ghost towns in oklahoma that are great to check out. The best one has to be Guthrie, ok. This place creeps me out. A large amount of original buildings still stand and are still in use on main street. There is an old brothel that was located by the old courthouse. there where lots of politicians who moved back and forth between the two buildings. There is also at least one haunted hotel there, as well as an orphanage that has been renovated. Just about anywhere you turn there is a creepy place in that town. There is, i believe the 'islands' which is a part of town that was flooded and is abandoned now. It was the 'black' part of town if you will because segregation was slower to die out in Ok. Properties and items were just left out there. everywhere in that damn town is haunted.

the creepiest and probably most guarded haunted property in Guthrie is the logan County Hospital. Dont quote me, but supposedly a lot of people died in there due to a polio epidemic and it is haunted as heck. I accidentally found that hospital on the way back from a catering. I took an old street from the new hospital that led me directly to it. When i saw it, i didnt know anything about it, except that i instantly got the creeps and there was something about the third floor windows that i was intrigued about.. The place is boarded up to the third floor and like a fortress to get in. Its also a hotbed for paranormal studies and is boobie trapped inside with motion sensor cameras and trip wires. These people dont fool around. It is broken into so much that the cops are constantly watching it. Supposedly an old coworker of mine has a photo of the third floor with faces in the windows. Never saw the picture, but there is something just scary about that whole place.

I think there is a website http://theshadowlands.net/places/oklahoma.htm that is a listing of haunted towns in oklahoma. there are also a lot of listed ghost towns there too.

And it's not just the Old West. There was a subdivision in Houston that was built in the early 1980s that had to be abandoned when it was discovered that there was a toxic waste dump underneath the new subdivision.

The Love Canal, near Niagara Falls, New York is considered a ghost town for the same reason.

Tim

Cushing - Norfolk School - The interior of the school burned down years ago, and in the basement two children were trapped. If you go in the basement they are still sometimes heard crying "Help Me!! !"
scary

I'm fascinated with different places in general so I guess that includes ghost towns but there is nothing in particular about ghost towns that affects me at all.

Ghost towns have nothing to do with ghosts. They are towns that have very few (1,000 or less), if any, inhabitants. In the U.S., many such towns were incorporated between 1840 and 1900, and were often associated with the mining or oil industries. Many of these towns were in the western U.S., or Texas or Oklahoma. Some towns, like Virginia City, Nevada (which also gained fame due to the TV show "Bonanza", which aired from 1958 to 1973), had populations reaching 30,000 at one point. When the mines became exhausted, or when the automobile and airplane reduced demand for rail services, the economies of these towns suffered greatly, and the residents left the towns in search of work elsewhere.

Today, some ghost towns are major tourist attractions (like Virginia City, Nevada, Tombstone, Arizona, and Deadwood, South Dakota) and still have some inhabitants. Others, like Rhyolite, Nevada, have no inhabitants and most buildings are in total disrepair or partially collapsed. Still others, like Arispe, Texas (about 100 miles east of El Paso), only consist of a railroad switch and a spot on a road map.

Tim

I like creepy ghost towns like Centralia in Pennsylvania which partly inspired the town for the Silent Hill movie.

Or creep abandoned amusement parks are cool too.