The haunting remnants of America's ghost towns

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1. CLEFT T. BROOM STILL LIVES CLOAE BY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2. Abandoned,,, neglected towns

3. 6:29 look at the bottom of the door… I think I just saw a spirit

4. how do you get a job minding a ghost town as I would love to do that

5. I would love to explore an old ghost town so interesting

6. Every town is a ghost town. We are just too busy and noisy to notice any of them. Imagine all the generations that have died in your town or city since before it was even a town. There were people here long before there were settlers.

   We need to honor our ancestors, and not fear them. They lived through some amazing times and through difficult conditions, when there were many billions less people in the world to rely on.

   It's the town itself that is the ghost. The town has died.

   If it's quiet enough, you can sense the echoes of life in a place. That is the draw of a ghost town. For now, you can still see where the people lived and created energy there. As the buildings fade, so will the echoes.

7. People left quickly because they had to have the work, there were no government benefits or unemployment back then. So each day you stayed was closer to starvation. And as soon as the mine dried up, so did all the support services. People probably all left in big groups on a train, just taking what they could carry. So the grocer, the post office, the saloon, everything they needed to live out there just stopped existing. I think miners are opportunists. They didn't get sentimental about a place. They didn't build permanent structures to last for the long term, because mines are unsustainable, even today. They are in remote locations far from water, and farms. Everything had to be shipped in. And that's expensive. It's an expensive lifestyle. They were probably more like nomads or gypsies, going wherever the work is.

8. Probably most of the short coffins were because a lot of the miners were young kids. And the mines were toxic, so probably a lot of them didn't make it to adulthood. And others were Chinese, who tend to be a lot shorter and smaller as adults.

9. They are not abandoned. They are only temporarily forgotten. Just watch.

10. 2:36 Something seen in the glass of the window

11. I live in Idaho and when I was a young man in the fifties there were ghost towns all over. Now that I'm in my seventies those same places are sadly almost leveled by fires, snow, and wind. Many of the houses I lived in near Shoup, Hailey, and Idaho City, Idaho were built before or just after the turn of the century and I saw the last of the old west…

12. America ghost towns older than Europe, maybe

13. Bodie actually had 3 churches, from 1881 till 1937

14. There's no such things as ghost.

15. Dang that guide has some super white teeth.

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17. All of America is becoming a ghost town.

18. BROUHAHA

19. 1:55 – She kind of reminds me of Gayle Rankin from Netflix TV Show "G.L.O.W"

20. 202 marker she's pretty cute

21. 237 marker right when she says does she's a believer in ghosts in ghost towns The Apparition a few children walking out of the building across the street shadow in the window behind her

22. Spent the night in Bodie back in the late 80's. Very creepy at night as there wasn't any electricity there at that time. While I did hear some noises that sounded like horse-drawn wagons and voices, I never actually saw anything. Creeped me out, though. Had a similar experience at Death Valley near Furnace Creek. Thought I heard voices and horse-drawn wagons moving through the desert up there as well. Learned later about the borax mining and the mule teams. Must have been what I heard.

23. Seventy saloons is a good start. There are snakes in the desert and a lot of snake bite liquid must be kept handy.

24. This is a respected TV-Station and they want to tell people that ghosts exist? What is wrong with the U.S.?

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26. What you may be feeling are demons, Not ghosts.

27. Why did they leave so fast?

28. Wish I could go back for a week

29. After they find all that gold in California 15 tribes were massacred in California they bring the bible over here and some of them don't believe in it and it a real alive book

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31. Bodie does have a church. It just wasn't there in the beginning. They should've clarified that. It is one of the more interesting and intact buildings left. https://www.bodie.com/history/structures/methodist-church/

32. Don't let them kid you. Bodie was fixed up for the tourist. Even though things are dusty it was in a lot worse shape when it was last lived in. Notice how everything is arranged neat. Some of that stuff is not even old enough to be there. But it is a good depiction of like in the 1880's I must say

33. at 2:38 , there are two people wearing red walking along a sidewalk seen in the reflection of the glass when she says, "I am a believer . . . " Is it a fake?

34. A town without a church is a GOOD place to live!

35. I've been to Bodie California ghost town 2 different times and I never felt like any spirit of anyone before. Of course if so I'm not bother by them. I've lived in a house one time that was haunted and I never freaked out. They never bother me except had my big toe tugged on a few times.

36. What is so eerie is someday , people will look back at how you & I live 'today'
    and wonder ,How did they do it way back then.
    Time marches ON!

37. Tori ain't bad lookin at all

38. At 6:32 you can see someone passing the door !

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