History Main / GhostTown

* Dana Common and Prescott Peninsula in Massachusetts, the last significant above-ground areas of four towns (Dana, Prescott, Enfield, and Greenwich) that were flooded to create the Quabbin Reservoir in the 1930s. Despite the removal of all significant buildings in the area, Dana Common is still regularly kept up by the Massachusetts parks people as a waystation for hikers, parts of the old golf course in Prescott are still visible (but off limits to the public), and building foundations still dot the area, including under the water.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quabbin_Reservoir#Towns_discontinued Prescott, Dana, Greenwich, and Enfield, Massachusetts]]

->''"This town, is coming like a ghost town/all the clubs have been closed down/this place, is coming like a ghost town/bands won't play no more/too much fighting on the dance floor."''

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thistle_utah Thistle, Uath]] was abandoned after a landslide and flood in the early 1980's.

->''"[[AC:Kastuo]] -- Strange...it's deserted..."''
-->-- Link (reading a mailbox), ''ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink''

Compare GhostCity, where this has happened to a major metropolitan area, and GhostPlanet when an entire world ends up this way. Contrast BoomTown, the beginning of the cycle. See also DyingTown, when a community is getting close to becoming a Ghost Town.

Not to be confused with the 2008 film ''Film/GhostTown'', whose [[BigApplesauce town]] is actually quite populous.

->''"[[AC:Town of Kastuo]] -- Strange...it's deserted..."''

** North Haverbrook became a flourishing community again in the episode, "Little Big Girl".

* In Book 11 of the ''LoneWolf'' series, Lone Wolf can visit two Ghost Towns on his cross country trip back home. One village was hit hard by a plague and is completely abandoned. Another one, the town of Amory, is a literal GhostTown. The spirit of an old enemy and CompleteMonster Roark still haunts his former home and his evil presence frightens away any living thing that tries to stay there. After Lone Wolf defeats Roark for the last time and banishes his spirit forever, he is delighted to hear birdsong in the morning after the battle -- life is already returning to Amory. Lone Wolf also finds some hidden money in the floorboards of the house he was sleeping in -- almost as if the town itself was thanking him.

** Snowfield, California, in Dean Koontz's ''Phantoms.''

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* ''JackieChanAdventures'' had a "historical flash back" episode starting by the Chan clan stopping in a ghost town.

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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiar,_British_Columbia]], once a thriving mining town of 1500, it is now devoid of life. The highway in that area retains the name of Cassiar.

--> --'''The Specials''', "Ghost Town"

-->Link (reading a mailbox), ''ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink''

--> Mike Pearson, ''{{Phantasm}} II''

* In FriedGreenTomatoes, all that's left of the town was a graffiti laden cafe that's been closed for years.

* ''ScoobyDoo Where Are You?" episode "Mine Your Own Business" takes place in an Old West Ghost Town.

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* ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'': [[spoiler:Hinamizawa. It gets wiped out in the Great Hinamizawa Disaster in some of the arcs.]]

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania Centralia, Pennsylvania]], built over a mass of coal (possibly lignite) that was hard to ignite but practically impossible to extinguish. The coal seam caught fire decades ago and the town was abandoned as unsafe, due to unstable ground and toxic gases. The seam remains on fire, and is predicted to continue to burn for 250 more years. However, there are still a few holdouts living there. Bill Bryson wrote a book about it, and the film version of ''SilentHill'' was based on it.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri Times Beach, Missouri]] became a ghost town because of dioxin poisoning. The town's buildings were razed and the soil burnt to rid it of the dioxin. It's now a state park.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal Love Canal]], a infamous neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York that was evacuated in 1979 after it was learned that it was built on a toxic waste dump.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramiden Pyramiden, Svalbard]]

* The chorus of SufjanStevens' song "They Are Night Zombies..." name-drops a lot of Illinois ghost towns.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderland,_Ohio Wonderland, Ohio]], the ruins of which are just off the end of one of the runways at Port Columbus Airport
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bay_%28Namibian_ghost_town%29 Elizabeth Bay, Namibia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quneitra Quneitra, Syria]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ghost_towns_in_Western_Australia Western Australia]] has several. The old asbestos mining town of Wittenoom possibly being the most famous and notorious.
* Kolmanskop, Namibia, once a diamond mining town, now half-buried in sand.