This year's Ghost Town Trail-a-Thon hit another milestone in fundraising collecting more than $62,000 to be split between the ...

In 1983, the US government spent $43 million to relocate residents, but some refused to leave. The town's story inspired the 2006 horror film "Silent Hill." Over 60 years ago, Centralia, Pennsylvania, ...

And, for those who think ghost towning is only a Western phenomenon, ghost towners are quick to say that even New York has 14 ghost towns. Pennsylvania has what one ghost towner calls a ghost highway, ...

This year’s Chernisky Ghost Town Trail-a-thon combined the foot race and cycling events into a single day of fun, which ...

The most beloved stories all take their inspiration from somewhere. In these seven cases, it comes from real towns in the ...

Many of these once-thriving communities were deserted due to economic collapse, natural calamity, or shifts in industry.

LAKE VALLEY, N.M. — The howling wind across a remote landscape, a creaky metal gate or a run-in with a rattlesnake or gun-toting local are the things that attract ghost towners. They are history buffs ...