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Fixer-Upper 4 Sale Cheap Possibly Haunted
Fixer-Upper 4 Sale Cheap Possibly Haunted
Haunted house east of Charlotte, NC. Very spooky place. Note the ghost on the property.
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Wild Bill's Haunted House
Wild Bill's Haunted House
Now closed due to the passing of eccentric owner, “Wild Bill” Ziegler, the Wild Bill's Nostalgia Center was and amazing place surrounded by fantastic creations. Among those was this incredible haunted house, ordered closed by the county due to a plethora of safety issues. It was used for some movies, but not open to the public. Bill's imagination is clearly evident in the fantismic details of the structure.
Here is a link to a news story about Wild Bill's: https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/19394
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Wild Bill's Haunted House Detail
Wild Bill's Haunted House Detail
Unsafe to use, the haunted house was demolished along with many other "treasures" on the site after Wild Bill passed. His family could not afford to keep Bill's labor of love, or perhaps obsession, in operation. I will develop a section of this web site devoted to this now extinct roadside treasure at a later date.
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Pullman Bunkhouse
Pullman Bunkhouse
Old Pullman cars often served as bunkhouses on Colorado ranches before WWII.
Overgrown!
Overgrown!
Because of stone construction, abandoned buildings in Europe and the UK can be much older than we find here. Fences can be over a thousand years old. This farmhouse was abandoned and allowed to be completely overgrown with lush greenery.
County Kerry, Ireland
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Gone Bust!
Gone Bust!
Colorado
Many ghost towns in the western United States are the result of the boom and bust mining industry. Town grew rapidly when ore was discovered, and were then quickly abandoned when the ore petered out.
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Fallen on Hard Times
Fallen on Hard Times
Somewhere in California
Sometimes life on a ranch just became too hard, or an illness or injury led to a place being abandoned. I often wonder what human story lays behind the ruins.
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Abandoned
Abandoned
This Irish farm may have been abandoned fifty years ago, or five hundred years ago. Due to fitted stone construction, it can be hard to tell. Once abandoned, the wooden roof can collapse in a few decades. Here. plants have grown up through the roof. Did the farmer get evicted, die, or get drafted into a regional war hundreds of years ago?
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Out of Work
Out of Work
This abandoned tow truck has outlived its life. I brought back some of its original bright colors in this image. The truck is fading into the hillside behind it, being taken over by the plants.
Somewhere in Colorado
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End of the Line
End of the Line
This caboose sit on a property in the English Hills area of Vacaville, CA. Once used as a guest house, then a play house, then for storage, it was burnt out by a wildfire that destroyed scores of homes in the area in the 2020s.
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Out of Gas
Out of Gas
I found this abandoned car and gas pumps near the Black Bayou in north central Louisiana. There has to be a story here! Where did the engine go? Who ripped out the seats?
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The Mary Duncan Hume
The Mary Duncan Hume
The Mary Duncan Hume was a steamer built in 1881, transported freight between Oregon and San Francisco, worked as a whaler, then a tug. She retired in 1977, and sank at mooring in the Rogue River. Image taken in 2004. Now, only a few timbers remain.
Gold Beach, Oregon
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Barn and Cut Timber
Barn and Cut Timber
This abandoned barn is now a state property along Highway 1 in Mendocino County. I felt black and white created a dramatic impression with the strong lines, shadows and sky.
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Cisco, Utah
Cisco, Utah
Cisco is a ghost town in Utah. Note the warning signs in front of the "city center', and the City Center Motor Hotel.
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Cisco Art Gallery
Cisco Art Gallery
This is the art gallery for the ghost town of Cisco, Utah
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San Gregorio Stage Stop
San Gregorio Stage Stop
The late 19th century San Gregorio Stage Stop, San Gregorio, CA was once a stop on the route from San Francisco to Santa Cruz. The stage stop was put out of commission when rail service was established between the cities.
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Randsburg, California Composite Image
Randsburg, California Composite Image
A former mining town, Randsburg is now a ghost town with a number of buildings that have been maintained for historical purposes. There is still and active salloon in town, as well as lodging, and several inhabited homes. WEB-Randsburg-composite-01.jpg
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