28 Freaky Ghost Towns You Can Visit
A collection of once populated, now empty, ghost towns!
Published 12 years ago
A collection of once populated, now empty, ghost towns!
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Craco, Italy In the mid-twentieth century, several earthquakes took a toll on the viability of this town. It was then rendered uninhabitable by a series of landslides. These geological threats were due to Cracos location on a hill of Pliocene sands with overhanging clays and ravines causing progressive incisions.
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Bodie, California Bodie began its initial decline with the 1912 closure of its newspaper, the Bodie Miner. By the following year the Standard Consolidated Mine had closed. In 1914 mining profits were at an all-time low of 6,821. Three years later, the Bodie Railway abandoned service and scrapped its iron tracks. The last mine closed in 1942. Mining never resumed.
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Montefalcone, Italy In 1376 the Lord of Monteverde won control of Fermo with the help of an army of foreign mercenaries. His sheer cruelty earned him the title The Second Nero. Three years after his takeover, the citizens rose up against the tyrant, and he fled along with one thousand knights to take refuge in Montefalcone.
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Outside of Le Havre, FranceLe Havre was once a German-occupied city devastated by the Battle of Normandy. 5,000 people were killed and nearly 12,000 homes were destroyed by Allied air attacks. Despite this the city became the site of one of the biggest Replacement Depots in the European Theatre of operations in WWII.
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Ludlow, California Ludlow was founded as a water stop for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in 1883. Several years later miners found ore in the nearby hills. The town boomed from 1906 to 1940 as a railroad town operated by the Pacific Coast Borax Company, which brought borax and other mining products from Death Valley to the rest of the country via long-distance Santa Fe Railway lines.
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Pripyat, Ukraine In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, releasing a radioactive cloud that spread over much of Europe and western Russia. The disaster affected the lives of millions of people, 350,000 of which were permanently evacuated from their homes in the immediately surrounding area. Pripyat became a ghost town overnight.
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Kennecott, Alaska In the summer of 1900, two prospectors in Alaska spotted a green patch of hillside that looked like itd be good grazing land for their horses. The green turned out to be on top of a mountain of copper ore. They, together with several friends, formed the Chitina Mining and Exploration Company.
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