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My husband finally got my avatar up for me! It is of the church in the ghost town of Bodie in California. That is also where one of my quotes is from.

So now I can show you a little bit of who I am. Thanks.

that is a striking photo. love it.
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Thats a beautiful picture

I love it!

Its an amazing photo, it really is. Do you have more ghost town photos? ghost towns fascinate me.

Yeah, we have more photos of ghost towns. I'll see if I can get some up. Exploring and photographing them is what my husband and I do together as a hobby. I use the digital camera and take pictures of whole buildings and parts of the town and the landscape around the town. My husband uses black and white film and takes some wonderful detailed photos. This is just his hobby, he's a computer programmer by day.

Ghost Towns in the West U.S, especially the mountain and desert areas, are usually mining towns where it was/is no longer profitable to mine. There was no more of what they were mining or there wasn't enough of it. A lot of silver mining towns became ghost when the U.S. govt changed monetary policies in the late 1800's. Not only are some of the abandoned stores and homes there, some of the mining equipment and structures may be around or nearby. In some the government has blasted the mining shafts closed or at least put fences around the holes to avoid liability. In others, we travel at our own risk.
The towns that have gone ghost are that way because there was no other reason for the town to exist. There are old mining towns that are economically used some other way so they are not ghost. Aspen Colorado was once a mining town then someone discovered that it would be a good place to put a $ki re$ort.

Some ghost towns are totally abandoned and gradually disappearing. There are a couple of those we like to return to every year or two to record the changes. Some are turned into total tourist sites, like Virginia City Nevada. Some, like Bodie in the photo, are kept as state parks in a state of "arrested decay." That is they're not turned totally tourist, there may only one building that is used as a museum/souvenier(sp) store. The rest of the buildings are not allowed to fall down, the visitor may see some new wood on a building or a foundation stabilized. The places where the ghost towns are may be spectacular or bleak or both.

btw, fyi, Bodie is at 9000 feet and is only open a few months a year.

Can you tell that I'm totally passionate about this?:eyeroll: :yeah:

Thanks for the input. <3 I'll see if my husband can help get a few more photos posted.

Wow!

I would really love to see them. You have rekindled my interesting, and Im now on google looking around at ghost townie things.

Is it eerie going to a ghost town?

Turn your speakers down or off before you go to this site! www.ghosttowns.com

Some are empty and sad. Some are serenely sinking back into the landscape.
There have been a couple of eerie ones. My husband doesn't sense the things do but accepts that I do and accepts it. One from about a century ago, the town was okay. But there was a car from the 1950's, tail fins etc. and there were two spirits in the front seat, quite malevelont Grandma was with us, she sensed them first, then I picked them up. Then we got out of there!

Another one, we got to just after dark after a long search. We marked it on our GPS with plans to go back the next day which we did. While we were there that night, I saw what had likely been the office. I told my husband that there had been a decision made in that office that had caused the death of some of the miners. It wasn't as scary the next day, but it still felt like there had been death there.

My favorite ghost towns:
Bodie California
Garnet Montana
Leadville Colorado tourist ghost with a very interesting history and lots of abandoned mining equipment for miles in every direction. btw is at 10,000+ (feet) elevation
Rhyolite Nevada one that we check on once every year or two we're watching the old bank building fall down a bit at a time
Swansea Arizona we check every year or two

(Should I have warned you, never ask a question of someone who was a career student?)

No no, please, tell me. I love reading about it. Especially the eerie side of things.

Im just about to pop out, so ill look at that site when i get back.

Thank you for sharing :D

Wow It is beautiful