Adventures In Ghost Towns

You can find ghost towns in every country in the world and every state in the United States. For many people visiting a ghost town holds a fascination that is incomparable, perhaps because these towns hold within their deserted buildings and neglected gardens a sense of our past. Here are three of America's most interesting Ghost towns that you might like to visit someday.

Bodie California

Once a booming mining town Bodie California is one of the few ghosts town that has most of the original buildings still standing and a look of a town caught in time. You can walk down the same dusty streets that those gold miners once swaggered through on their way to the local saloon or boarding house. You can find yourself peering into the general store complete with stocked shelves and old pickle barrels. You can peer into homes filled with furniture and dust and get a real feeling for what life must have been like for the people who eked out a living amid the dust of this Californian town. You almost feel as though one of those long ago inhabitants will materialize in front of you and begin to cook dinner, or start the days wash.

This ghost town will give you a look back into history and the everyday lives of the people who once hoped and dreamed in this small little town.

You have to be careful where you park in some ghost towns...

Tombstone, Arizona

For those of you who want the experience of seeing ghostly apparitions there is no better place to visit than Tombstone, Arizona. The violent history of this town both in terms of gun fights and fires is said to have left behind many ghostly spirits seeking revenge or peace and sometimes both. Both locals and visitors to this historic town swear they have seen a variety of ghostly spirits in various locations and various times of the day.

This ghost town is filled with the rich history of people like the Earp brothers as well the sadness of life in the untamed frontier. It is said to be a place where the people of the past reach out to those of the present in sometimes frightening but, always interesting ways.

Rosewood, Florida

Rosewood, Florida is a ghost town that is haunted by echoes of the past. Theonly remaining building is the home owned by the once affluent storekeeper John Wright. While there have been no reported ghost sightings in this once happy little town, it is shrouded in secrecy and sorrow. A town that during a few dark days in the history of this country saw it's inhabitants shot and lynched, it's building burned to the ground, saw incidents of hatred and even heroism. To visit this town to feel the fear, the anger and the sorrow of those who once lived here in the very soil in which you tread. It is difficult to visit this ghost town without feeling empathy and sorrow.

Each ghost town has it's own history and will provide you with a different experience. Visiting one can be an unforgettable adventure.