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Other alleged paranormal phenomena reported are ghost witches and UFO sightings – allegedly, the Witches' Sabbath was often celebrated there in the past. [106] Real de Catorce in Sierra de Catorce, San Luis Potosí: a ghost town founded in 1770 and abandoned in 1920; [107] supposedly the town is haunted. According to legend one of the most ...
Abandoned site - Dawson-Colfax: 1901: 1950: Abandoned Site: Once Large City, suffered two major mining incidents totaling some 400 casualties, Phelps Dodge Company cleared the town of relics and infrastructure El Ojo Del Padre-Sandoval---- Elephant Butte-Sierra---- Elizabethtown-Colfax: 1866: 1917: Abandoned Site: Once largest town in New ...
Ghost towns in Mexico. Pages in category "Ghost towns in Mexico" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Balestrino, a town and municipality in Liguria whose old town was abandoned in 1953. Bussana Vecchia is a town in Liguria that was abandoned following an earthquake in 1887. Campomaggiore Vecchio was a town in Potenza that was destroyed by an avalanche in 1885.
Dawson (also Mountview) is a ghost town in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States. [1] Dawson is located approximately 17 miles (27.4 km) northeast of Cimarron, and was the site of two separate coal mining disasters in 1913 and 1923. In 1950, the mines were closed, [2] and by 1954 the last residents had left and the post office closed. [3]
Shakespeare is a ghost town in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States. [2] It is currently part of a privately owned ranch, sometimes open to tourists. The entire community was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
After the Santa Rita mine was converted to an open pit in 1901, the town was forced to move several times as the pit grew. Shortly after the town relocated in 1957, heavy rains washed boulders and mud into the new townsite. [8] The town was abandoned once and for all in 1967, and the school system for the area was discontinued in 1972. [9]
Cusihuiriachi is a town in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Although it is now practically a ghost town , it serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name . "Cusihuiriachi" is a Tarahumara word meaning "erect pole".