While the town's mines opened in 1861, Bodie's decline started in 1879. It was fully abandoned by 1942 when the last mine closed, and it became a State Historic Park in 1962. Bodie sits at an ...

Bodie, which sits at an elevation of 8,379 feet about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, became a boomtown in 1876 with the discovery of a profitable line of gold but had become a ghost town by 1915.

It seems appropriate that a building in a ghost town should be haunted, and Noella Ballenger insists this one is. It's the former home of Lottie Johl, a Bodie, Calif., prostitute who entertained ...

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

Walking around this former gold mining town, now nicknamed Bodie Ghost Town, put it into perspective for me the life I now have – why I can be grateful for it, how I can give thanks to those who ...

Bodie eventually became a ghost town in the 1940s, and in 1962 the part of the town that had withstood the disastrous fire was designated a State Historic Park and National Historic Landmark.

Bodie State Historic Park, founded in 1876 and declared a ghost town in 1 An historic California gold-mining town located at an elevation of 8,375 feet south of Bridgeport is—like most of the ...

Bodie Ghost town was named one of the most haunted ghost towns in the USA … A photo posted by @sammypierotti on Oct 10, 2015 at 10:39pm PDT Tefelsberg, Berlin ...

Bodie is a ghost town in a state of arrested decay on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Range in California. We test the new BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A KO2 ... See All 20 Photos.

From Bodie, a 12-mile unimproved road requiring a 4-wheel drive, high-clearance vehicle leads to the sister ghost town of Aurora, a short distance across the Nevada border.

Centralia, Pennsylvania was once a bustling coal mining community that reached a population of 2,761 by 1890. Though the town was small, it held seven churches, five hotels, a variety of grocery ...