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* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': Helgen becomes a ghost town after [[BigBad Alduin]] destroys it at the beginning of the game. Few people survive the attack and those who did had to flee the burning village. Should the [[PlayerCharacter Dragonborn]] come back and revisit Helgen later, its only "residents" are bandits using it as a hide-out.
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* In 2020, Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} recorded the song "Living In A Ghost Town", during, and about, the major lockdown period in the first half of 2020 due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Incidentally, this proved to be the last original song the group recorded before drummer Charlie Watts's death in August 2021.
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** Aktemto/Mamom from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'' becomes one as the game continues due to the inhabitant working on the nearby mine eventually [[DugTooDeep digging too deep]] and unleashing an ancient horror sealed underneath the town.
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*** The ruins of Brigadoom is the first mayor dungeon that the hero and his party visit. In the post game, a DLC sidequest reveals that [[spoiler:300 years prior to the events of the game, The king of Stornway from back then made a pact with a powerful demon called Yore to protect the city from the Gittinham Empire and offered Brigadoom as a sacrifice.]]
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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' has Gohn, Town of Ruin. True to its namesake, the entire place is deserted, and no one has been residing within it for many years.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' has Gohn, Town of Ruin. True to its namesake, the entire place is deserted, and no one has been residing within it for many years.
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* ''VideoGame/ArrogationUnlightOfDay'' is set in a 1980s Chinese town called Yunlin, who's devoid of life and seemingly abandoned. You're on a mission to find your sister who's reported missing while investigatign Yunlin, only to find out it's the subject of a Japanese cult from the 1940s which took over and starts using the citizens for HumanSacrifice rituals.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Loopmancer}}'' has Ditch Village, a rural town in the outskirts of Dragon City (what Hong Kong calls itself in 2046) where the local population are completely gone after a viral outbreak years ago. [[spoiler:Except that isn't the case - you discover the citizens in an underground hidden lab, used as HumanResources by the local MegaCorp]]. Yikes.
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* ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'': From ''Princesses in the Darkest Depths'', the party encounters a town that only seemed to have lost all its residents in the last day or two, violently.
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A town or village that no longer has enough inhabitants to be considered a town (or in extreme cases may be abandoned entirely)[[note]]the legal term for this is "disincorporation"[[/note]].
Back in the days of TheWildWest, settlements would spring up practically overnight. Word of a gold or silver strike, or of a good water supply in arid land, and folks would flock in and put up a BoomTown. Many of these survived and grew, even after the initial rush was over (all major cities in the West Coast got their start like this). But many did not. After the gold was mined out, or the spring went dry, or the railroad went through a town forty miles away instead, there just wasn't much point to living there. So the town died, slowly or quickly, and became a Ghost Town.
In a more general sense, in an agricultural society, most people lived on a farm or a ranch and shipped their stuff to the nearest trading town. When people started living in more urbanized areas, since they were not farming, either they needed to go to a job or have customers because they ran some kind of business out of their house. If that dried up, whether or not they owned their house, unless they could grow enough food to feed themselves and supply other basic needs, their only option was to pack up and move on. If enough people did that, then you got a ghost town.
Given their nature, ghost towns tend to be far off the beaten path, and not appear on current maps. Thus people who wind up in ghost towns are usually very lost indeed, or if it was deliberate, have had a rough time getting there. (The big exception is tourist attraction ghost towns, which have relatively easy access, and enough people in nearby areas to keep the place up.)
Ghost towns don't necessarily have actual ghosts in them, [[NothingIsScarier but are generally spooky even without them.]] Banging shutters, creaking floors, a player piano that suddenly activates for no good reason. Sometimes the evacuation will have been so sudden that it appears that people left in the middle of dinner.
Sometimes there will be a [[MayorOfAGhostTown single inhabitant]] who will explain the history of the area, or attempt to drive off intruders. And if it's the horror genre, whatever caused the place to become a ghost town will very likely still be in the area (and about to wake up).
This Trope is sometimes found with the AbandonedMine Trope (one being the reason for the other). 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.
Back in the days of TheWildWest, settlements would spring up practically overnight. Word of a gold or silver strike, or of a good water supply in arid land, and folks would flock in and put up a BoomTown. Many of these survived and grew, even after the initial rush was over (all major cities in the West Coast got their start like this). But many did not. After the gold was mined out, or the spring went dry, or the railroad went through a town forty miles away instead, there just wasn't much point to living there. So the town died, slowly or quickly, and became a Ghost Town.
In a more general sense, in an agricultural society, most people lived on a farm or a ranch and shipped their stuff to the nearest trading town. When people started living in more urbanized areas, since they were not farming, either they needed to go to a job or have customers because they ran some kind of business out of their house. If that dried up, whether or not they owned their house, unless they could grow enough food to feed themselves and supply other basic needs, their only option was to pack up and move on. If enough people did that, then you got a ghost town.
Given their nature, ghost towns tend to be far off the beaten path, and not appear on current maps. Thus people who wind up in ghost towns are usually very lost indeed, or if it was deliberate, have had a rough time getting there. (The big exception is tourist attraction ghost towns, which have relatively easy access, and enough people in nearby areas to keep the place up.)
Ghost towns don't necessarily have actual ghosts in them, [[NothingIsScarier but are generally spooky even without them.]] Banging shutters, creaking floors, a player piano that suddenly activates for no good reason. Sometimes the evacuation will have been so sudden that it appears that people left in the middle of dinner.
Sometimes there will be a [[MayorOfAGhostTown single inhabitant]] who will explain the history of the area, or attempt to drive off intruders. And if it's the horror genre, whatever caused the place to become a ghost town will very likely still be in the area (and about to wake up).
This Trope is sometimes found with the AbandonedMine Trope (one being the reason for the other). 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.
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A town or village that no longer has enough inhabitants to be considered a town (or in extreme cases may be abandoned entirely)[[note]]the legal term for this is "disincorporation"[[/note]].
"disincorporation"[[/note]]. The term "ghost town" is used because the town's business buildings and houses are still there, except they are [[AbandonedArea boarded up and derelict]], which gives the place a spooky feeling.
Back in the days of TheWildWest, settlements would spring uppractically overnight. Word quickly if news came of a gold or silver strike, or of a good water supply in arid land, and folks would flock in and put up a BoomTown. Many of these survived and grew, even after the initial rush was over (all major cities in the West Coast got their start like this). But many did not. died out and were abandoned. After the gold was mined out, or the spring went dry, or the railroad went through a town forty 100 miles away instead, there just wasn't much point was no way to earn a living there. So the town died, slowly or quickly, and became a Ghost Town.
In a more general sense, in an agricultural society, most people lived on a farm or a ranch and shipped theirstuff grain or cattle to the nearest big trading town. center. When most people started living in more urbanized areas, since they were not farming, either they needed to go to a job or have customers because they ran some kind of business out of their house. If that dried up, whether or not they owned their house, unless they could grow enough food to feed themselves and supply other basic needs, their only option was to pack up and move on. If enough people did that, then you got a ghost town.
Given their nature, ghost towns tend to be far off the beaten path, and not appear on current maps. Thus people who wind up in ghost towns areusually very usually lost indeed, on a [[RoadTripPlot road trip]], or if it was deliberate, have because they want to explore the ghost town, they had a rough hard time getting there. (The big exception is tourist attraction ghost towns, which have relatively easy access, and enough people in nearby areas to keep the place up.)
Ghost towns don't necessarily have actual ghosts in them, [[NothingIsScarier but are generally spooky even without them.]]Banging Crumbling buildings, rotting wooden siding, rusting iron, banging shutters, creaking floors, (or in a Western, an old player piano that suddenly activates for no good reason. activates) is spooky. Sometimes the evacuation will have been so sudden that it appears that people left in the middle of dinner.
dinner; there may be old crockery and rusted cans in the cupboards.
Sometimes there will be a [[MayorOfAGhostTown single octagenarian inhabitant]] who will explain the history of the area,or or, who will brandish an ancient shotgun and attempt to drive off the intruders. And if it's the horror genre, whatever evil spirits/monsters that caused the place to become a ghost town will very likely still be in the area (and about to wake up).
up snd be hungry for a human meal).
This Trope is sometimes found with the AbandonedMine Trope (one being the reason for the other). 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 poor community is getting close to becoming a GhostTown.
Town.
Ghost towns are TruthInTelevision, for a range of reasons. In North America, in addition to the previously-described 1800s-era ghost towns, there are 1900s ghost towns caused by chemical pollution or natural disasters. In Europe, there is a French ghost town which the Nazi Waffen-SS burned down and killed the people; the destroyed town has been kept intact as a monument to this atrocity. Japan has 1990s-era ghost towns caused by that era's economic downturn.
Back in the days of TheWildWest, settlements would spring up
In a more general sense, in an agricultural society, most people lived on a farm or a ranch and shipped their
Given their nature, ghost towns tend to be far off the beaten path, and not appear on current maps. Thus people who wind up in ghost towns are
Ghost towns don't necessarily have actual ghosts in them, [[NothingIsScarier but are generally spooky even without them.]]
Sometimes there will be a [[MayorOfAGhostTown single octagenarian inhabitant]] who will explain the history of the area,
This Trope is sometimes found with the AbandonedMine Trope (one being the reason for the other). 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 poor community is getting close to becoming a Ghost
Ghost towns are TruthInTelevision, for a range of reasons. In North America, in addition to the previously-described 1800s-era ghost towns, there are 1900s ghost towns caused by chemical pollution or natural disasters. In Europe, there is a French ghost town which the Nazi Waffen-SS burned down and killed the people; the destroyed town has been kept intact as a monument to this atrocity. Japan has 1990s-era ghost towns caused by that era's economic downturn.
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* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'' has Healeaks (or the Abandoned Village as it's called on the world map), home to only the old man who first found the village after it was abandoned, a thief, and a man running a makeshift tavern in the dilapidated town square. [[spoiler:In Castti's story, it is revealed that Healeaks was ground zero for a MagicalPlague that wiped out all of the village's inhabitants, as well as all of Eir's Apothecaries except for Castti herself and [[EvilFormerFriend Trousseau]].]]
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* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'' has Healeaks (or the Abandoned Village as it's called on the world map), home to only the old man who first found the village after it was abandoned, a thief, and a man running a makeshift tavern in the dilapidated town square. [[spoiler:In Castti's story, it is revealed that Healeaks was ground zero for a MagicalPlague MysticalPlague that wiped out all of the village's inhabitants, as well as all of Eir's Apothecaries except for Castti herself and [[EvilFormerFriend Trousseau]].]]
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* ''Manga/ShouanDays'' has Hashima Island, an abandoned island where coal miners used to live within its one and only town, is now virtually a [[TitleDrop ghost town]] where the only resident is the dynamite girl.
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* In ''LightNovel/DragonCrisis'', several of the main girls get sucked into a painting of a ghost town. Unfortunately for them, there's also an AxCrazy murderer here.
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* ''LightNovel/SundayWithoutGod'' has Ostia, abandoned after the students of Class 3-4 suddenly disappeared. However, when Alice leads Ai and her companions beyond the black surface, [[spoiler:they find themselves in the thriving Ostia of fourteen years ago, a [[GroundhogDayLoop timeloop]] created when the students of Class 3-4 wished to reset time to prevent a classmate's death]].
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* ''LightNovel/SundayWithoutGod'' ''Literature/SundayWithoutGod'' has Ostia, abandoned after the students of Class 3-4 suddenly disappeared. However, when Alice leads Ai and her companions beyond the black surface, [[spoiler:they find themselves in the thriving Ostia of fourteen years ago, a [[GroundhogDayLoop timeloop]] created when the students of Class 3-4 wished to reset time to prevent a classmate's death]].
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** And ''plenty'' of these in ''Literature/TheStand'', post-Captain Trips.
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** ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'': Chamberlain, Maine, is revealed to have become this in the epilogue, after the "Black Prom", and Carrie Whites subsequent telekinetic rampage through the town. With most of their teenaged children dead, alongside several of the adults, something vital seems to have been lost, and the survivors are drifting away rather than trying to rebuild. The local factory is even shutting down because they don't have enough workers left to keep business going.
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** He once had an adventure in a Ghost Town; this is even the title of the book. In that case, it was a Gold Rush mining town that was abandoned after it became obvious there wasn't an ounce of gold around the place. [[spoiler:In the end, after Luke has stirred the locals out of their greed and fear of ghosts, it revives as a prosperous farming town.]]
** In ''The Oklahoma Land Rush'', [[spoiler:the boom town eventually faces drought, culminating in a sandstorm, and is abandoned.]]
** In ''The Oklahoma Land Rush'', [[spoiler:the boom town eventually faces drought, culminating in a sandstorm, and is abandoned.]]
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** He once had an adventure in a Ghost Town; this is even the title of the book. In that case, it was a Gold Rush mining town named Gold Hill that was abandoned after it became obvious there wasn't an ounce of gold around the place. place (The original gold rush had been started by a man named Powell, who'd been tricked into buying a "seeded" gold mine, and still lives in the town as an old man, refusing to accept that the mine was a fake). [[spoiler:In the end, after Luke has and Powell have stirred the locals out of their greed and fear of ghosts, greed, it revives as a prosperous farming town.town. Ironically, almost immediately afterwards, Powell DOES find gold in his seemingly worthless mine, but Luke convinces him to let it go so Gold Hill can prosper.]]
** In ''The Oklahoma Land Rush'',[[spoiler:the boom the plot centers around a town eventually faces drought, culminating in a sandstorm, called Boomville, the first settlement built during the titular Land Rush, when Oklahoma was bought from the Indians and opened for settlers. [[spoiler: It turns out to be a ShaggyDogStory; Oklahoma is abandoned.]]too dry and arid for a typical Western town, plagued by dust storms and droughts, making the conflict between the heroes and the villains utterly pointless. In the end, Boomville is abandoned, with the only real positive outcome of the story being the HeelFaceTurn of Dopey, one of the bad guys mooks.]]
** ''The Grand Duke'': Luke sets up camp in one of these during his journey through the West with Grand Duke Leonid and Colonel Fedor, explaining the prevalence of these types of western towns to his Russian friends.
** ''Daisy Town'' ends this way, making the entire fight with the Daltons and the Indians pointless, as all the citizens run off once they hear news about gold being discovered elsewhere. Unlike other stories with a similar ending, Luke doesn't seem too bothered by it, and even laughs about how everything turned out.
** In ''The Oklahoma Land Rush'',
** ''The Grand Duke'': Luke sets up camp in one of these during his journey through the West with Grand Duke Leonid and Colonel Fedor, explaining the prevalence of these types of western towns to his Russian friends.
** ''Daisy Town'' ends this way, making the entire fight with the Daltons and the Indians pointless, as all the citizens run off once they hear news about gold being discovered elsewhere. Unlike other stories with a similar ending, Luke doesn't seem too bothered by it, and even laughs about how everything turned out.
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* In an old ''WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost'' comic book, the Ghostly Trio came home from their vacation upset, claiming that the ghost town they went to had no ghosts, only a guy selling souvenirs. It ''did'', however, have a "little haunted house" that they were terrified of, which followed them home. (Actually, it was a ghostly dog in a doghouse, owned by a prospector who was using it to sniff out gold.)
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* ''WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost'': In an old ''WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost'' comic book, the Ghostly Trio came home from their vacation upset, claiming that the ghost town they went to had no ghosts, only a guy selling souvenirs. It ''did'', however, have a "little haunted house" that they were terrified of, which followed them home. (Actually, it was a ghostly dog in a doghouse, owned by a prospector who was using it to sniff out gold.)
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* Lawless, Arizona in ''ComicBook/MarvelTwoInOne #14''. This one had a literal ghost, a hanged {{outlaw}} that the ComicBook/TheThing and Daimon Hellstrom AKA the ComicBook/SonOfSatan battled.
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* Lawless, Arizona in ''ComicBook/MarvelTwoInOne #14''.#14'': Lawless, Arizona. This one had a literal ghost, a hanged {{outlaw}} that the ComicBook/TheThing and Daimon Hellstrom AKA the ComicBook/SonOfSatan battled.
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* In ''Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn'', [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} the main character]] returns to her abandoned hometown Argo City and finds it's still a silent, cold place littered with corpses.
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* Hollow Shades from ''Fanfic/TheTaleOfLordBarleycorn'' lost its lifeblood when the lumber mill was closed and is slowly falling apart into physical and financial ruin. Most of the ponies have left, while those who've remained mostly don't have anywhere to go or else can't afford to leave.
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* ''Fanfic/TheTaleOfLordBarleycorn'': Hollow Shades from ''Fanfic/TheTaleOfLordBarleycorn'' lost its lifeblood when the lumber mill was closed and is slowly falling apart into physical and financial ruin. Most of the ponies have left, while those who've remained mostly don't have anywhere to go or else can't afford to leave.
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* An interesting version happens in the sixth ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' film, ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare''. "Ten years from now" (2001) Freddy has managed to kill off all of the teenagers and children of Springwood, leaving only the adults. The town is a complete wreck, near abandonment, except the adults are still there. They've all been left in a state of psychosis, possibly due to Freddy's influence.
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* An interesting version happens in the sixth ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' film, ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare''. film ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'': "Ten years from now" (2001) Freddy has managed to kill off all of the teenagers and children of Springwood, leaving only the adults. The town is a complete wreck, near abandonment, except the adults are still there. They've all been left in a state of psychosis, possibly due to Freddy's influence.
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* Most of ''Film/LeftForDead'' is set in the ghost town of Amnesty: a mining town that was abandoned after every inhabitant was murdered. The town is 'occupied' by a ghost that is bound to the town's cemetery and who murders anyone who enters the town.
* In ''Film/MoreDeadThanAlive'', Cain first stumbles into the ghost town of Drywood as he is making his way back from the ambush at the mine. It is here that he first meets Monica, who is painting the deserted town as a symbol of [[TwilightOfTheOldWest the dying of the West]]. Later Billy flees here after [[spoiler:murdering Ruffalo and stealing the cashbox]], and it is here that Cain has his final showdown with Luke Santee after Santee has [[spoiler:killed Billy]].
* In ''Film/MoreDeadThanAlive'', Cain first stumbles into the ghost town of Drywood as he is making his way back from the ambush at the mine. It is here that he first meets Monica, who is painting the deserted town as a symbol of [[TwilightOfTheOldWest the dying of the West]]. Later Billy flees here after [[spoiler:murdering Ruffalo and stealing the cashbox]], and it is here that Cain has his final showdown with Luke Santee after Santee has [[spoiler:killed Billy]].
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* ''Film/LeftForDead'': Most of ''Film/LeftForDead'' the movie is set in the ghost town of Amnesty: a mining town that was abandoned after every inhabitant was murdered. The town is 'occupied' by a ghost that is bound to the town's cemetery and who murders anyone who enters the town.
*In ''Film/MoreDeadThanAlive'', ''Film/MoreDeadThanAlive'': Cain first stumbles into the ghost town of Drywood as he is making his way back from the ambush at the mine. It is here that he first meets Monica, who is painting the deserted town as a symbol of [[TwilightOfTheOldWest the dying of the West]]. Later Billy flees here after [[spoiler:murdering Ruffalo and stealing the cashbox]], and it is here that Cain has his final showdown with Luke Santee after Santee has [[spoiler:killed Billy]].
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* The town where the Twentieth Century Motor Company used to exist in ''Literature/AtlasShrugged''.
* ''Literature/BenSnow'': In "Ghost Town", Ben visits the ghost town of Raindeer looking for a place to spend the night, and is captured by a quartet of train robbers. Then someone starts [[TenLittleMurderVictims picking the robbers off one by one...]]
* Chamberlin, Maine in ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' becomes one shortly after the title character's rampage through town, wherein more than 200 students at the high school are burned to death when trapped inside the building on prom night, the result of Carrie exacting telekinetic revenge for years of being bullied (by a small group of students) and nothing being done about it; more people are killed as she spreads her fury throughout the town. In the aftermath, the town is so deeply consumed by grief that most of the residents leave town as the town's entire industrial base also closes, as most of their workers leave and they're unable to recruit new ones.
* The unnamed protagonist encounters vampiric activity in Creator/BramStoker's short story "Dracula's Guest" when he goes to investigate an abandoned town in the German countryside.
* ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'': The town on D'vouran is small but lively when Tash decides to follow an apparently crazy man who wants to show her something relating to the world's dark secret. Within hours she comes back, shaken, and finds that everyone has vanished.
** Other books in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' explain that in the initial days of Tibanna gas exploitation on the gas giant [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Bespin]], numerous floating boom towns were constructed to try to get in on the market. When most of these went bust, their owners simply cut the power to the repulsorlifts and let the installations fall into the gas giant's depths. The exception is Tibannopolis, a floating ghost town that's been stripped by scavengers to a bare skeleton. Its generators are slowly failing so that the thing currently hovers at a slight tilt, but it serves as Bespin's local "haunted house," a place for daredevil pilots to show off, or for lovers to have a private moment. And in the Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy, it's where Luke recruits Streen, a Force-sensitive hermit whose PowerIncontinence drove him away from other people's thoughts.
* ''Literature/BenSnow'': In "Ghost Town", Ben visits the ghost town of Raindeer looking for a place to spend the night, and is captured by a quartet of train robbers. Then someone starts [[TenLittleMurderVictims picking the robbers off one by one...]]
* Chamberlin, Maine in ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' becomes one shortly after the title character's rampage through town, wherein more than 200 students at the high school are burned to death when trapped inside the building on prom night, the result of Carrie exacting telekinetic revenge for years of being bullied (by a small group of students) and nothing being done about it; more people are killed as she spreads her fury throughout the town. In the aftermath, the town is so deeply consumed by grief that most of the residents leave town as the town's entire industrial base also closes, as most of their workers leave and they're unable to recruit new ones.
* The unnamed protagonist encounters vampiric activity in Creator/BramStoker's short story "Dracula's Guest" when he goes to investigate an abandoned town in the German countryside.
* ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'': The town on D'vouran is small but lively when Tash decides to follow an apparently crazy man who wants to show her something relating to the world's dark secret. Within hours she comes back, shaken, and finds that everyone has vanished.
** Other books in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' explain that in the initial days of Tibanna gas exploitation on the gas giant [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Bespin]], numerous floating boom towns were constructed to try to get in on the market. When most of these went bust, their owners simply cut the power to the repulsorlifts and let the installations fall into the gas giant's depths. The exception is Tibannopolis, a floating ghost town that's been stripped by scavengers to a bare skeleton. Its generators are slowly failing so that the thing currently hovers at a slight tilt, but it serves as Bespin's local "haunted house," a place for daredevil pilots to show off, or for lovers to have a private moment. And in the Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy, it's where Luke recruits Streen, a Force-sensitive hermit whose PowerIncontinence drove him away from other people's thoughts.
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* ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'': The town where the Twentieth Century Motor Company used to exist in ''Literature/AtlasShrugged''.
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* ''Literature/BenSnow'': In "Ghost Town", Ben visits the ghost town of Raindeer looking for a place to spend the night, and is captured by a quartet of train robbers. Then someone starts[[TenLittleMurderVictims picking the robbers off one by one...]]
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*Chamberlin, Maine in ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' becomes one shortly after the title character's rampage through town, wherein more than 200 students at the high school are burned to death when trapped inside the building on prom night, the result of Carrie exacting telekinetic revenge for years of being bullied (by a small group of students) and nothing being done about it; more people are killed as she spreads her fury throughout the town. In the aftermath, the town is so deeply consumed by grief that most of the residents leave town as the town's entire industrial base also closes, as most of their workers leave and they're unable to recruit new ones.
* The unnamed protagonist encounters vampiric activity inCreator/BramStoker's short story "Dracula's Guest" Guest": The unnamed protagonist encounters vampiric activity when he goes to investigate an abandoned town in the German countryside.
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** ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'': The town on D'vouran is small but lively when Tash decides to follow an apparently crazy man who wants to show her something relating to the world's dark secret. Within hours she comes back, shaken, and finds that everyone has vanished.
** Other booksin ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' explain that in the initial days of Tibanna gas exploitation on the gas giant [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Bespin]], numerous floating boom towns were constructed to try to get in on the market. When most of these went bust, their owners simply cut the power to the repulsorlifts and let the installations fall into the gas giant's depths. The exception is Tibannopolis, a floating ghost town that's been stripped by scavengers to a bare skeleton. Its generators are slowly failing so that the thing currently hovers at a slight tilt, but it serves as Bespin's local "haunted house," a place for daredevil pilots to show off, or for lovers to have a private moment. And in the Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy, it's where Luke recruits Streen, a Force-sensitive hermit whose PowerIncontinence drove him away from other people's thoughts.
* ''Literature/BenSnow'': In "Ghost Town", Ben visits the ghost town of Raindeer looking for a place to spend the night, and is captured by a quartet of train robbers. Then someone starts
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** ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'': The town on D'vouran is small but lively when Tash decides to follow an apparently crazy man who wants to show her something relating to the world's dark secret. Within hours she comes back, shaken, and finds that everyone has vanished.
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* In Book 19 of the ''Literature/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 old enemy 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.
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* ''Literature/LoneWolf'': In Book 19 of the ''Literature/LoneWolf'' series, 19, 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 old enemy 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.him.
* ''Literature/LumbanicoTheCubicPlanet'': As exploring the Arista's mountains, the protagonist trio find a beautiful city constructed of blue stone...and completely quiet and abandoned, all signs suggesting that its inhabitants fled abruptly many centuries ago. Later, the kids learn the city used to be known as Astrópolis, "the Fallen Star", and used to be the Arista's capital city. However, the Astropolitans fled the city when a group of refugees of the outer lands travelled through the area. Shortly after, the mountain passes were blocked by an earthquake, and the Aristans were unable to return or find again their city. Seven hundred years later, many people believed Astrópolis to be only a legend.
* ''Literature/LumbanicoTheCubicPlanet'': As exploring the Arista's mountains, the protagonist trio find a beautiful city constructed of blue stone...and completely quiet and abandoned, all signs suggesting that its inhabitants fled abruptly many centuries ago. Later, the kids learn the city used to be known as Astrópolis, "the Fallen Star", and used to be the Arista's capital city. However, the Astropolitans fled the city when a group of refugees of the outer lands travelled through the area. Shortly after, the mountain passes were blocked by an earthquake, and the Aristans were unable to return or find again their city. Seven hundred years later, many people believed Astrópolis to be only a legend.
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** ''VideoGame/Fallout2'': This is the fate of Broken Hills in the game's epilogue, regardless of what you do while in it. If you sabotage or simply don't fix the air purifier in the mine, the down becomes abandoned quickly. If you do fix the purifier, it will thrive for a time before the mine gives out, at which point it's abandoned anyway. Vault 13 becomes this some time after you find it, due to the Enclave going in and massacring all the inhabitants.
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* ''Fanfic/JurassicWorld2020'': A grey guard platoon crosses the ruins of San Fernandez during their track of the Indominus. San Fernandez is a mining colony that the Spaniards had built on Isla Nublar in the 16th century and was destroyed during an eruption of Mount Sibo.
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* ''Fanfic/JurassicWorld2020'': ''Fanfic/JurassicWorldTheGeekyZoologist'': A grey guard platoon crosses the ruins of San Fernandez during their track of the Indominus. San Fernandez is a mining colony that the Spaniards had built on Isla Nublar in the 16th century and was destroyed during an eruption of Mount Sibo.
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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'': The Necrohol of Nabudis is all that remains of the capital of Nabradia, a kingdom destroyed by the Arcadian Empire two years prior of the events of the game. The place is now nothing but ruins infested with powerful monsters, including three [[BonusBoss optional bosses]] fought as part of a sidequest.
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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'': The Necrohol of Nabudis is all that remains of the capital of Nabradia, a kingdom destroyed by the Arcadian Empire two years prior of the events of the game. The place is now nothing but ruins infested with powerful monsters, including three [[BonusBoss [[OptionalBoss optional bosses]] fought as part of a sidequest.
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* The 1953 thriller ''Split Second'' has escaped criminals take hostages and hide out in a ghost town, not realising it's the intended target of an atomic bomb test.
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* In the 2017 Arnold Schwarzenegger film "Aftermath" (based on the Uberlingen Mid-Air Collision), the airport the doomed plane was supposed to land at is entirely unpopulated except for staff. As anyone who has flown knows, this would not happen - planes fly 24 hours a day, and you would also have family members/taxi drivers waiting to pick passengers up. Later in the film, Arnold's character arrives in a hotel which doesn't seem to have anyone else staying there, nor any traffic outside. The only indication in the film that there's a population beyond people he interacts with in the film is when he attends a memorial for the 217 crash victims. The movie may have been low budget, but it feels glaringly unfinished as a result of this.
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* In ''Film/{{Blackthorn}}'', Eduardo hid the money he stole from Simón Patiño in the AbandonedMine at a mine settlement that has been abandoned for 8 years.
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* In ''Film/{{Blackthorn}}'', Eduardo hid the money he stole from Simón Patiño in the AbandonedMine at a mine settlement that has been abandoned for 8 years.
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* ''Fanfic/{{Respect}}'': At the end, [[spoiler:[[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Nanairogaoka]] has become this, after Yayoi's rampage.]]
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* ''Fanfic/{{Respect}}'': At the end, [[spoiler:[[Anime/SmilePrettyCure [[spoiler:[[Anime/SmilePrecure Nanairogaoka]] has become this, after Yayoi's rampage.]]
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* This makes up part of the reasoning of ''Toys/TheGrosseryGang''. After a mega motorway was built towards Sales City, Cheap Town, the location the series takes place in, was abandoned. This left multiple businesses empty. Empty businesses never cleared out of rotting food, combined with a strange toxic leak, caused the Grosseries to take form.
* Trash Town from ''Toys/TheTrashPack'' was originally a bustling beach town. However, too many litterbugs flocked to it, causing the town to become uninhabitable, while also bringing rise to the Trashies.
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* This makes up part of the reasoning of ''Toys/TheGrosseryGang''. After a mega motorway was built towards Sales City, Cheap Town, the location the series takes place in, was abandoned. This left multiple businesses empty. Empty businesses never cleared out of rotting food, combined with a strange toxic leak, caused the Grosseries to take form.
* Trash Town from ''Toys/TheTrashPack'' was originally a bustling beach town. However, too many litterbugs flocked to it, causing the town to become uninhabitable, while also bringing rise to the Trashies.
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* ''Series/KidNation'' revolved around sending a bunch of kids to the ghost town of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonanza_City,_New_Mexico Bonanza City, New Mexico]], where their goal was to make the town work, set up a form of government, and ''not'' go ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' on each other. While it was largely real, at least as real as reality television gets and garnered some injuries, legal trouble, and controversy along the way, the location itself was actually the fictional Bonanza Creek Movie Ranch.
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** Fort Ord also serves as the base housing for servicemembers and their families stationed at the Presidio of Monterey, which specializes in language training. Since billets are limited, most end up living off post anyway. Even without a more or less permanent military presence via that, large areas of Fort Ord are kept under the ownership of the United States Army and are ''explicitly'' government property due to unexploded ordinance and other hazards from the vairous training ranges.
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A town or village that no longer has enough inhabitanfts to be considered a town (or in extreme cases may be abandoned entirely)[[note]]the legal term for this is "disincorporation"[[/note]].
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A town or village that no longer has enough inhabitanfts inhabitants to be considered a town (or in extreme cases may be abandoned entirely)[[note]]the legal term for this is "disincorporation"[[/note]].
