On April 26, 1986, an explosion occurred at the No. 4 reactor of the nuclear power station at, in the then-Soviet state of Ukraine. It was the worst disaster in the history of nuclear energy production. The radiation spread by…
In May 2008, officials in the Chinese province of Sichuan announced that the city of Beichuan may be moved to a neighboring county leaving the old city abandoned. Beichuan was one of the areas hardest hit by an earthquake…
Before the division of Cyprus in 1974, Varosha – a resort in Famagusta – was booming. The rich and famous were drawn by some of the best beaches on the island. Richard Burton and Brigitte Bardot all dropped by –…
The Village That Vanished In 1923, more than 600 people vanished from the village of Hoer Verde, Brazil, and still to this day there is no explanation for the mystery. Travelers who cut through the town discovered all the buildings,…
The Curse of Dudleytown It’s called the “Village of the Damned”, and it’s one of the most mysterious ‘ghost towns’ in America Dudleytown is a ghost town, located in northwestern Connecticut within the town of Cornwall. Many unexplained events, mysterious…
The people of Helltown, Ohio were helpless when the U.S. National Parks Service swooped in, purchased all their homes, and evacuated the town. The government was going to build a national park. That was in 1974. Today, Helltown is closed…
Jazirat al Hamra, which translates to Red Island, has a reputation for being haunted. Established sometime in the 14th century, the once thriving fishing and pearl-diving village of over 300 houses and 13 mosques was suddenly abandoned in 1968. And…
Mologa was a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, formerly situated at the confluence of Mologa and Volga Rivers, but now submerged under the waters of the Rybinsk Reservoir. Mologa existed at least since the 12th century. During the construction of…
The strange ghost town Kantubek in Uzbekistan, Kantubek was a town on Vozrozhdeniya Island in the Aral Sea. The town is still found on maps, but is uninhabited, and lies in ruins today. This shabby collection of long-abandoned buildings in…
Bodie, California is a ghost town east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. The ghost town has been administered by California State Parks since becoming…
Prypiat is probably the most famous nuclear ghost town The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear reactor accident in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Northern Ukraine). It was the worst nuclear power plant accident in history…
The Indian Ghost Town of Bhangarh, Rajasthan is one of the scariest places in India to visit, in addition to being one of the most abandoned places in India. However, this tag has not perturbed visitors from making frequent trips…
