I lived in cody Wyoming for a couple of months and I loved it. They have a bar you can still smoke in AND a bar called the silver dollar where all the locals flock to every night to get drunk and have fun. I loved it there.
I was raised in Salida Colorado, which is very near St. Elmo. These days St. Elmo is a well maintained tourist destination during the summer and is used by hikers, jeepers, and people wanting to their luck at gold panning. The general store now sells a variety of merchandise, including seeds to hand feed local squirrels, chipmunks, and pigipens. The wildlife in the area is generally a bit more intelligent than their counterparts elsewhere and have very little problems with humans. While the mountains may be mostly deprived of gold, they still have an abundance of precious and semiprecious gems, most notably aquamarine and ruby and the nearby Angel Falls are an incredible sight to behold.
The town of Rhyolite, Nevada, was the setting of Edwin Corle's 1939 book Coarse Gold. This book is Corle's great rumination on the need for raw materials to supply US needs as we prepared for WW II. Although Corle predicted the mine re-opening in preparation for the war, but it didn't actually re-open until the 1980's.
I've been to Rhyolite, it really does look that way. Some artist dude lives there with a dark sense of humor there. Erie looking figures there & a huge statue of a cinder block naked woman. I've been to the Salton Sea, the beaches a chocked with dead fish, & everything is encrusted with a thick layer of salt.
I know Bodie very well my grandfather was William Gregory L. also known as Little Billy but he hated the name Billy. I am named after him his name was William Gregory my name is Gregory William. He was a good man he retired from the Army. He lived out the rest of his adult life in the San Francisco Bay Area. When I was a small child he took me to visit Bodie and where he grew up. They also called him ( Little Billy Bodie )
Just a fyi..Tombstone AZ is still an active town..we have many haunted locations but lots of living people too! Come see us if you visit AZ..its a great find with lots to do for all ages.
Well, maybe, but it ist a shame that this channel owner has to ruin his video's content trustworthiness with such bias, immoral, "Liberal Socialist" political cult advertisements. ..smiles
here in maine we have a few ghost towns from the old logging camp days, my personal favorite is churchill depot, it had about 500 people and had a hotel until about 1997, now the only person left is the ranger
Ghost towns are abandoned towns, that being said Virginia City and Salton Sea both still have residents, in fact there is more then one town, on the shores of the Salton Sea, i cant remember all of them but there is Braley, Desert Hot Springs, Bombay Beach, Niland, El Centro, Salton Sea Beach, Westmoreland, Calipatria, Rockwood, North Shore/Mecca even Slab City ain't far from Salton Sea either. But ill let you know theres an old town some where north of Sausalito thats empty and for sale, its been on the market for a few years, all the buildings, businesses & homes, and then there is an abandonden town in Alameda County that was a base housing community, its now abandoned since the major base closers happened.
I definitely would love to buy a ghost town, call it the Town of Hazard, naturally I would be a Boss Hog,hire an idiot to be Sheriff, 2 deputy's & away we go! Very own Boar's Nest & all!
That ain't Bodie in the first picture. It'sWild Bill Hickok. Says a lot about accuracy in this offering.You only showed old photos but Cody, Wyoming is a thriving modern town. Dalton Sea bit said Bono Bon-o the picture was Sonny & Cher. Sonny Bone-o.They aren't all "Ghost Towns" when they have sizable populations and modern amenities.
In my home town of Redding California there is an old Town under water, it was a boom town but when they built Shasta damn it was purposefully flooded they day you can hear the church bell ring in the dead of the night. I've seen pictures when i was in school.
Briggs Man you have me cracking up on some of your videos! This one was no exception. That dancing lady cop and the look on your face afterwards was GREAT! LOLLLL BTW.. You were wearing the RIGHT shirt that day! JUST DO IT! Add more funny stuff like that as you move forward brother. Also.... F THE TROLLS IN THE COMMENTS! KUTGW! 👊🏽
Tombstone Az is now a well preserved historical destination. Virginia City is still extremely populated. There is a saloon there called The Bucket of Blood that is known to be haunted.
My son and I took our scuba tanks to a local reservoir and dove to see the abandoned town in the bottom of the lake before it's dam was raisied,and it now takes tri-mix to dive to the bottom. Good memories. Didn't get caught,either :-)
Virginia City, NV used to be quite a thriving little town. It was the home of The Territorial Enterprise, a newspaper that was edited and owned by the famous railroad historian Lucius Beebe and his sidekick Charles Clegg. Together, their photographs (Clegg's mostly) and Beebe's incredible vocabulary chronicled the development of most of America's railroads through the steam era. Their many books are highly sought by railroad hobbyists and historians. The city still has the remains of the steam railroad that connected it to civilization and is still in tourist operation, I believe.
Ummm... Cody, WY has close to 10,000 residents. I think you're thinking of a few areas outside the city or parts of the famous, "Buffalo Bill Museum Center" that thousands upon thousands of visitors visit each year on their way to and from Yellowstone National Park. I'm guessing the BBMC have had some of the abandoned buildings in the area moved to the Museum site.
I live near Centralia....about 30 to 40 minutes away. The last time I was there about 15 or so years ago there was still 2 people living there towards the outskirts. They were old then. So they are either dead or in a nursing home. They were stubborn and refused to leave their property that they worked for all their life.
I love your videos. They are super interesting. I clicked on this one to see specifically if Thurmond was on there and was super pumped to find it! As far as Thurmond goes, there are actually 5 residents currently living there. Also, one of the photos (the street with a row of buildings where one of the windows says "Carolyn's Candles) shown isn't Thurmond. That's Delbarton, WV.
#4......The Salton Sea WAS NOT created by a “storm”! Attempting to clear the silt, (circa 1901) the builder of a system to supply irrigation water to imperial valley, dynamited part of the system near the head of the Alamo river in Mexico.. It caused a breach that flowed unchecked for two years. The Southern Pacific railroad built tracks into the site, hauled in enough rock and plugged the breach after 2 years of flow. The “New Liverpool salt works and mine sits at the bottom of the sea. Learn your history!
I live 9 miles from Virginia City, Nevada. It is NOT a ghost town. There are almost 1,000 people living there, a few brand new homes, almost every home and business is occupied. There are mining tours, steam and diesel train rides, hotels, shops, bars, resturants, gas station, etc.
I have been to Bodie, Ryolite and Virginia City. They are all very picturesque towns. Virginia City is definitely haunted, I have been there many times and you can just feel the spirits as you walk through the town.
In 2010 I rode my motorcycle to Cody. I got a hotel room, went to the local VFW, and had a blast with a bunch of veterans that live in your so called ghost town. I found Cody to be a bustling small city, not a ghost town.
Bro Cody isn’t abandoned...I’m from Montana and go to college in Powell and am a history major. Cody has several thousand people in it and the place you showed a picture of is an old west tourist trap right on the outside of town in fact i don’t even think it’s in city limits.
There's 2 ghost towns in Arizona. Yucca Arizona is acknowledged by Arizona State Records as a ghost town. The 2nd is Alamo Crossing Arizona. This ghost town is intact, submerged under man made Alamo Lake. There are the Antler Mine, Borriana Mine both abandoned. Also still in use The Ford (Crysler) proving grounds which was an Air Force Base during WWII.
Virginia City is far from a "ghost town." There are daily mail and package deliveries to the many residents (who reside in primarily historic buildings), and events with participants from across the planet throughout the year. "Ignore the cars and motorcycles..." please...
Theres still gold and silver in those old mines. They didn't have the technology to get it all. They did what was called high grading. Take the great stuff and leave the little stuff. The Salton sea resort closed because of how salty the lake became.
Really? Cody Wyoming is a ghost town? Last time I checked I went to a museum in Cody, it wasn't abandoned at all, also do research before you put stuff in videos.
Cody, Wyoming has a population of almost 10,000 people so is far from a ghost town. The pictures shown in the video are of a collection of old historic buildings, most brought in from a radius of 150 miles of Cody, to a place called Old Trail Town, located on the western edge of the town of Cody. I enjoy your videos but felt this information should be shared.
Honestly I feel like I should know more about the state I live in, witch is WY. But I forget really easy, and it gets hard when you try and do a test about your states history...sorry for the little rant I'm just saying...
Well, I've been to Bodie a few times and youhave a lot of that town wrong. Also, that's no picture of "Mr. Bodie" (it's Bill Hickock who was never in Bodie. Problems with your Virginia City as well. Why do videos of this stuff if your not even going to try and get it right?
Also to add to the mistakes, there were no Jet skis in the 1950s and 60s at the salton sea as well showing a picture of Sonny & Cher "Bono" not Bono from U2, he was just a little kid in the 60s. The narrative from a clueless millennial seems rather disconnected from the video...
The last time I was in St. Elmo (1990's) a few shops were open selling trinkets. It's along the old Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad (narrow guage) roadbed that went through the Alpine Tunnel.
In the 70s as a young lad my family went to bodie in a camper pulling a bung buggy.we had a flat on the original dirt road in.this was before it became a park.we sat on that road while my dad to the buggy with the flat to get fix.anyway when we got to town we were the only ones their in a camper.it was dark it was spooky we can hear people we could hear the saloons.but no one was in town.i didnt sleep that night
I have been to Bodie, Rhyolite and Virginia City. There is another place called Berlin, Nevada that is a ghost town and a place they found Ichthyosaurs.
Thurmond, WV was a railroad town not a mining town, It is in the southern part of the state not the center, The railroad depot didn't have anything to do with tourism nobody cared about tourism in 1888, The population never reached zero and today stands at 8. Thurmond is part of the new river gorge national park and is largely maintained by the NPS as a tourist attraction.
I lived in cody Wyoming for a couple of months and I loved it. They have a bar you can still smoke in AND a bar called the silver dollar where all the locals flock to every night to get drunk and have fun. I loved it there.
The "Cody" they talk about here does not exist.
"This tourist attraction is actually closed to the public."
I think you need to look up what tourist attraction means.
You can spend days exploring ghost towns between Ryolite and Goldfield. Its a great camping trip.
I was raised in Salida Colorado, which is very near St. Elmo. These days St. Elmo is a well maintained tourist destination during the summer and is used by hikers, jeepers, and people wanting to their luck at gold panning. The general store now sells a variety of merchandise, including seeds to hand feed local squirrels, chipmunks, and pigipens. The wildlife in the area is generally a bit more intelligent than their counterparts elsewhere and have very little problems with humans.
While the mountains may be mostly deprived of gold, they still have an abundance of precious and semiprecious gems, most notably aquamarine and ruby and the nearby Angel Falls are an incredible sight to behold.
Centralia was an inspiration for Silent Hill.
thank you for the info you give great info and do it fast!
The town of Rhyolite, Nevada, was the setting of Edwin Corle's 1939 book Coarse Gold. This book is Corle's great rumination on the need for raw materials to supply US needs as we prepared for WW II. Although Corle predicted the mine re-opening in preparation for the war, but it didn't actually re-open until the 1980's.
I've slowly watched Centrailia fall apart. My grand father had photos of it each year. When I went it felt very weird
Bro?
I've been to Ryolite, very cool place! The Ryolite casino isn't accessible but you can walk around the outside of it, it seems still intact.
I've been to Rhyolite, it really does look that way. Some artist dude lives there with a dark sense of humor there. Erie looking figures there & a huge statue of a cinder block naked woman.
I've been to the Salton Sea, the beaches a chocked with dead fish, & everything is encrusted with a thick layer of salt.
7:39 Bono? That was Sonny and Cher Bono, the Os are long.
i used to live in centralia pennsylvania until 1972, and there are still people living there. so, technically its not a ghost town yet
Bono? Not likely in the 50's. I think you meant Sonny Bono, particularly since that who's picture you flashed.
IKR! Yeah, that was like, Sonny and Cher, dude. Y'all young folks are hilarious.
Wow very interesting i love history. Thanks for sharing.
I've been to Centralia! It was incredibly creepy, but the remaining residents were super nice and told us their story!
Best UA-cam Content i know keep it up this awesome work always cant wait your next video!
Rhyolite is amazing, the bottle house is my favorite.
I love your videos. You come up with some neat and interesting topics to cover. You ROCK! Keep up the good work!
Ive been to Thurmond WV, beatiful area of West Virginia. Nothing but hills, river, railroad, thats it.
My aunt used to take me to Virginia City my gosh it brings back memories.
Loved Rhyolite! The bottle house fascinates me!
Garnet montanna,totally preserved town from 1800s at 7000 ft,amazing
Sounds like your selling it on eBay
I know Bodie very well my grandfather was William Gregory L. also known as Little Billy but he hated the name Billy. I am named after him his name was William Gregory my name is Gregory William. He was a good man he retired from the Army. He lived out the rest of his adult life in the San Francisco Bay Area. When I was a small child he took me to visit Bodie and where he grew up. They also called him ( Little Billy Bodie )
That's not Bono. That's Sonny and Cher
Sonny’s last name was Bono.
Just a fyi..Tombstone AZ is still an active town..we have many haunted locations but lots of living people too! Come see us if you visit AZ..its a great find with lots to do for all ages.
this channel proves that any 'top 10' channel on youtube can gain traction; no matter how cringey your voice is..
Well, maybe, but it ist a shame that this channel owner has to ruin his video's content trustworthiness with such bias, immoral, "Liberal Socialist" political cult advertisements. ..smiles
@@BixbiteBungo I think the worse your voice the more successful you'll be
here in maine we have a few ghost towns from the old logging camp days, my personal favorite is churchill depot, it had about 500 people and had a hotel until about 1997, now the only person left is the ranger
and there are towns under lakes around here
Ghost towns are abandoned towns, that being said Virginia City and Salton Sea both still have residents, in fact there is more then one town, on the shores of the Salton Sea, i cant remember all of them but there is Braley, Desert Hot Springs, Bombay Beach, Niland, El Centro, Salton Sea Beach, Westmoreland, Calipatria, Rockwood, North Shore/Mecca even Slab City ain't far from Salton Sea either. But ill let you know theres an old town some where north of Sausalito thats empty and for sale, its been on the market for a few years, all the buildings, businesses & homes, and then there is an abandonden town in Alameda County that was a base housing community, its now abandoned since the major base closers happened.
Went to Tombstone and Tucumcari many times when I lived in Tucson when I was younger. Picher is a trip.
I definitely would love to buy a ghost town, call it the Town of Hazard,
naturally I would be a Boss Hog,hire an idiot to be Sheriff, 2 deputy's & away we go!
Very own Boar's Nest & all!
6:33 isn't a picture of thurmond west Virginia, its a picture if delbarton west Virginia. I live here and its no ghost town
Thank you.
I don't live either place but not so far away. I was going to point out his error but you beat me to it.
Haha
The image of "William S. Bodey" 1:56 isn't W. S. Bodey, that's a picture of James Butler Hickok.
In this video I learn that W.S. Bodey bore an amazing resemblance to Wild Bill Hickok.
Everytime the narrator starts talking at the beginning of a video I think i'm hearing southpark
That ain't Bodie in the first picture. It'sWild Bill Hickok. Says a lot about accuracy in this offering.You only showed old photos but Cody, Wyoming is a thriving modern town. Dalton Sea bit said Bono Bon-o the picture was Sonny & Cher. Sonny Bone-o.They aren't all "Ghost Towns" when they have sizable populations and modern amenities.
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oregon has the most ghost towns in america. Go shaniko!
Great video , Thanks!
Love the American Southwest for this reason, great venues for telling spooky stories.
In my home town of Redding California there is an old Town under water, it was a boom town but when they built Shasta damn it was purposefully flooded they day you can hear the church bell ring in the dead of the night. I've seen pictures when i was in school.
1:57 That's not W.S. Bodie, that's a picture of Wild Bill Hickok. Seriously do your research.
Ok, Dynamite TV has my respect: he pronounces Nevada correctly.
There was a ghost town named Drawbridge and is located in Fremont, California. Hope you guys can dig into more details of this.
Briggs
Man you have me cracking up on some of your videos! This one was no exception. That dancing lady cop and the look on your face afterwards was GREAT! LOLLLL
BTW.. You were wearing the RIGHT shirt that day! JUST DO IT!
Add more funny stuff like that as you move forward brother.
Also.... F THE TROLLS IN THE COMMENTS!
KUTGW! 👊🏽
Tombstone Az is now a well preserved historical destination. Virginia City is still extremely populated. There is a saloon there called The Bucket of Blood that is known to be haunted.
Tour vids are killer. Love watching, thanks.
You pronounce Beatty as Baity, it was where I lived when I was younger and it's slowly becoming a ghost town in itself lol
My son and I took our scuba tanks to a local reservoir and dove to see the abandoned town in the bottom of the lake before it's dam was raisied,and it now takes tri-mix to dive to the bottom. Good memories. Didn't get caught,either :-)
#1 is a great place to go and can get great pic.
Virginia City, NV used to be quite a thriving little town. It was the home of The Territorial Enterprise, a newspaper that was edited and owned by the famous railroad historian Lucius Beebe and his sidekick Charles Clegg. Together, their photographs (Clegg's mostly) and Beebe's incredible vocabulary chronicled the development of most of America's railroads through the steam era. Their many books are highly sought by railroad hobbyists and historians. The city still has the remains of the steam railroad that connected it to civilization and is still in tourist operation, I believe.
I love your videos American eye keep it up you will always the best❤️💖
I've explored Picher, Oklahoma. The place is super spooky but really cool and sobering when it comes to what happened there.
Ummm... Cody, WY has close to 10,000 residents. I think you're thinking of a few areas outside the city or parts of the famous, "Buffalo Bill Museum Center" that thousands upon thousands of visitors visit each year on their way to and from Yellowstone National Park. I'm guessing the BBMC have had some of the abandoned buildings in the area moved to the Museum site.
I live near Centralia....about 30 to 40 minutes away. The last time I was there about 15 or so years ago there was still 2 people living there towards the outskirts. They were old then. So they are either dead or in a nursing home. They were stubborn and refused to leave their property that they worked for all their life.
I love your videos. They are super interesting. I clicked on this one to see specifically if Thurmond was on there and was super pumped to find it! As far as Thurmond goes, there are actually 5 residents currently living there. Also, one of the photos (the street with a row of buildings where one of the windows says "Carolyn's Candles) shown isn't Thurmond. That's Delbarton, WV.
#4......The Salton Sea WAS NOT created by a “storm”! Attempting to clear the silt, (circa 1901) the builder of a system to supply irrigation water to imperial valley, dynamited part of the system near the head of the Alamo river in Mexico.. It caused a breach that flowed unchecked for two years. The Southern Pacific railroad built tracks into the site, hauled in enough rock and plugged the breach after 2 years of flow. The “New Liverpool salt works and mine sits at the bottom of the sea. Learn your history!
I live 9 miles from Virginia City, Nevada. It is NOT a ghost town. There are almost 1,000 people living there, a few brand new homes, almost every home and business is occupied. There are mining tours, steam and diesel train rides, hotels, shops, bars, resturants, gas station, etc.
I have been to Bodie, Ryolite and Virginia City. They are all very picturesque towns. Virginia City is definitely haunted, I have been there many times and you can just feel the spirits as you walk through the town.
Cody, Wyoming? Today's population is nearly 10,000. I don't call that a ghost town..... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cody,_Wyoming
In 2010 I rode my motorcycle to Cody. I got a hotel room, went to the local VFW, and had a blast with a bunch of veterans that live in your so called ghost town. I found Cody to be a bustling small city, not a ghost town.
ive been to Cody and Kennicott, loved both of them. Modern Cody has the Buffalo Bill Museum Center of the West, my favourite place to visit
Bro Cody isn’t abandoned...I’m from Montana and go to college in Powell and am a history major. Cody has several thousand people in it and the place you showed a picture of is an old west tourist trap right on the outside of town in fact i don’t even think it’s in city limits.
Nice picture of Wild Bill
sonny bono is not bono from u2
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Should have mentioned the Berkley pit in Montana. Imagine a lake of battery acid.
thanks...newbee here...very cool reporting
Your voice makes me think you’re being sarcastic
Oh god...... I feel another top 10 channel rising to power. Hopefully this one doesn't turn shitty.
been there a number of times and I love it. and believe maybe some feel the presents of the spirits
There's 2 ghost towns in Arizona. Yucca Arizona is acknowledged by Arizona State Records as a ghost town. The 2nd is Alamo Crossing Arizona. This ghost town is intact, submerged under man made Alamo Lake. There are the Antler Mine, Borriana Mine both abandoned. Also still in use The Ford (Crysler) proving grounds which was an Air Force Base during WWII.
I have been to Calico , California and had some very ghostly encountering their.
When ever your having a bad day just remember There are people that actually live in Wyoming
totally wanna see 5!
Who else thought that guy was trying to impersonate
Shia LaBeouf?
just waiting for him to go *just do it* lmao
the name of the channel should be butthurt millenial tv
Definitely
Number 7 is like a real wild west town with cowboys and outlaws :)
I actually went to bodie, it was rather cool, I managed to catch some paranormal activity but, it was deleted so...but a massive town and I love it
that's awesome. a communit just a 15 minute drive away from me made the number 1 spot
The picture you used as Bodey is actually Wild Bill Hicock .
Virginia City is far from a "ghost town." There are daily mail and package deliveries to the many residents (who reside in primarily historic buildings), and events with participants from across the planet throughout the year. "Ignore the cars and motorcycles..." please...
I've been to Bodie. Spent the better part of a day there. It was very quiet and a bit spooky. It is a State Park now in California.
Cool vids
Theres still gold and silver in those old mines. They didn't have the technology to get it all. They did what was called high grading. Take the great stuff and leave the little stuff. The Salton sea resort closed because of how salty the lake became.
You forgot to mention that at one point half of bode was burnt down on accident and I can lend you some insight on that.
Really? Cody Wyoming is a ghost town? Last time I checked I went to a museum in Cody, it wasn't abandoned at all, also do research before you put stuff in videos.
Cody, Wyoming has a population of almost 10,000 people so is far from a ghost town. The pictures shown in the video are of a collection of old historic buildings, most brought in from a radius of 150 miles of Cody, to a place called Old Trail Town, located on the western edge of the town of Cody. I enjoy your videos but felt this information should be shared.
Honestly I feel like I should know more about the state I live in, witch is WY. But I forget really easy, and it gets hard when you try and do a test about your states history...sorry for the little rant I'm just saying...
Harpoon Hands legit my friend still lives in Cody to this day!
Mmm... yes, I think having a Walmart automatically precludes a town from being considered a ghost town. :D
Mrs. Catt yeah. We have friends there & I think they might disagree
Well, I've been to Bodie a few times and youhave a lot of that town wrong. Also, that's no picture of "Mr. Bodie" (it's Bill Hickock who was never in Bodie. Problems with your Virginia City as well. Why do videos of this stuff if your not even going to try and get it right?
Doug Polk what’s wrong?
I thought that looked like Wild Bill. Lol
Also to add to the mistakes, there were no Jet skis in the 1950s and 60s at the salton sea as well showing a picture of Sonny & Cher "Bono" not Bono from U2, he was just a little kid in the 60s.
The narrative from a clueless millennial seems rather disconnected from the video...
Dynamite TransVestite clearly got that wrong...That's a pic, of Hickok
This is my first video of yours. Would you please do a video about Canadian ghost towns (I'm from Canada) if you haven't already done
Why do you have to fling your hands around so much???
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The last time I was in St. Elmo (1990's) a few shops were open selling trinkets. It's along the old Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad (narrow guage) roadbed that went through the Alpine Tunnel.
In the 70s as a young lad my family went to bodie in a camper pulling a bung buggy.we had a flat on the original dirt road in.this was before it became a park.we sat on that road while my dad to the buggy with the flat to get fix.anyway when we got to town we were the only ones their in a camper.it was dark it was spooky we can hear people we could hear the saloons.but no one was in town.i didnt sleep that night
You voice sounds like a teacher trying to coheres her kindergarten class to take nap time
I have been too centraila a few times its really creepy and 3 years ago there was one house with people and the highway is cool to walk on
Good video
Used to go to Centralia when I was in college
Attention!!! U forget that small town in Pennsylvania where the cars are still in the garages and no one knows why they left !!!!
Thurmond's about to make a comeback now!
Interesting
I have been to Bodie, Rhyolite and Virginia City. There is another place called Berlin, Nevada that is a ghost town and a place they found Ichthyosaurs.
Thurmond, WV was a railroad town not a mining town, It is in the southern part of the state not the center, The railroad depot didn't have anything to do with tourism nobody cared about tourism in 1888, The population never reached zero and today stands at 8. Thurmond is part of the new river gorge national park and is largely maintained by the NPS as a tourist attraction.