On the 26th of April, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near the town of Prypiat, sent forth a plume of radioactive fallout. The plume was birthed from an explosion that occurred in reactor number four at the Chernobyl plant. Since that explosion, some 350,400 people have been evacuated and resettled from areas around [...]
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Ghost Towns from Around the World: Thursday – Prypiat, Ukraine
Posted: 10th February 2011 by Dale Rappaneau in Halloween FunTags: Chernobyl, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, ghost town, ghost towns, prypiat
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Ghost Towns from Around the World: Wednesday – Hashima Island
Posted: 9th February 2011 by Dale Rappaneau in Halloween FunTags: ghost island, ghost town, ghost towns, Gunkanjima, Hashima Island
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Departing from the hellish fires of yesterday, we travel across the globe and out into the ocean to visit Hashima Island, one of the only known ghost islands. Between 1887 and 1974, the island was a coal mining facility. Most of the coal was mined from undersea deposits, making the work extremely dangerous. Plus, it’s [...]
Ghost Towns from Around the World: Tuesday – Centralia, Pennsylvania
Posted: 8th February 2011 by Dale Rappaneau in Halloween FunTags: centralia, centralia fire, ghost town, ghost towns
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So, yesterday we saw what happened when a whole town was left to be consumed by the harsh desert. Today, though, we are traveling a little closer to home – Centralia, Pennsylvania, a ghost town that may be a little more comparable to hell on Earth. Centralia is a borough located in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. [...]
Ghost Towns from Around the World: Monday – Kolmanskop
Posted: 7th February 2011 by Dale Rappaneau in Halloween FunTags: ghost town, ghost towns, kolmanskop
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Kolmanskop, or Coleman’s Hill, was once a small mining settlement located in the Namib Desert in southern Namibia. The settlement’s name comes from a transport driver named Johnny Coleman, who left his ox wagon on a small hill opposite the settlement. In 1908, when one of the miners discovered a large diamond, people rushed to [...]