Top 10 Creepiest ghost towns from around the world – According to Wikipedia, a ghost town is “a once-populated but since-abandoned village, town or city, which contains substantial visible remains.”
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Based on that, you’d expect all of them to be off the beaten track, pretty far away from civilization. But you’d be wrong; for example, did you know that Seattle is built on top of another Seattle?
The Seattle Underground is a network of passageways under what has become downtown Seattle. These spaces were the actual streets of the city, till the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 occurred. After 31 blocks of the mostly wooden town were destroyed, the city was rebuilt with bricks, and elevated the streets by 22 feet.
But Seattle isn’t the only town with secret tunnels; Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan also has miles of tunnels criss-crossing beneath the surface. They were used for rum-running during the Prohibition Era, and also harbored immigrant Chinese railway workers. These days, both sites have been restored and have been turned into tourist attractions.
The U.S. is dotted with these ghost towns; in Texas alone, there are 450 of these abandoned settlements. But America is one of the few places where ghost towns are usually left behind when major economic activity in the area ceases. One exception is the Centralia mine in Pennsylvania, where a fire has blazed since 1962. The environmental impact has led to an evacuation of Centralia and Byrnesville, its closest neighbour to the south.
In other parts of the world, once-bustling towns have been rendered uninhabitable due to the forces of nature, civil disturbance or man-made disasters. One example is the abandonment of the Central African town of Paoua. Following clashes between rebels and government forces in 2007, all 17,000 residents fled to save their lives and the town has remained abandoned since then.
The Earth is littered with many of these abandoned settlements; below are ten of these once-bustling towns that have now been reduced to creepy, yet fascinating ghost towns.
10. Tawergha, Libya
As recently as 2006, this town still had a population of 24, 223; but today, it’s totally uninhabited. Located 38 km from Misrata, it was once famous for its palm trees, date fruits, and its idyll location only a few miles from the sea. The peace was shattered when anti-Ghadaffi forces descended on the town in 2011 and accused the residents of aiding Ghadaffi’s forces.
Despite the townspeople’s denial, they were given a 30-day ultimatum: get out of town or face ‘ethnic’ cleansing. The rebels wasted no time in decimating the entire town in what has since been branded a war crime. These days, apartment blocks stand empty with broken glass and anti personnel mines strewn around.
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