Ghost Town

Basic Information

A ghost town is a town that has been abandoned by its inhabitants for some reason. Following is a list of known ghost towns:

• Centralia, Pennsylvania
• Chernobyl
• Dogtown, Massachusetts
• Dudleytown, Connecticut
• Glastenbury, Vermont
• Midian, Kansas
• Monte Ne, Arkansas

• Somerset, Vermont

See Also

• Ghost City
• Ghost Planet
• Mayor Of A Ghost Town
• Nan Madol
• Roanoke Colony
• Thriving Ghost Town
• Urban Prairie

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• News: Hotels In The Afterlife
• News: School's Out Forever

Sources

Bibliography

1. Abandoned Cities, Places and Property - a collection of images from ghost towns and abandoned buildings from around the world.

2. Wikipedia entry

Game and Story Use

• Ghost towns allow for some really impressive firefights and explosions without having to worry about civilian casualties.
• The reason for the abandonment of a ghost town might not be the usual commercial or governmental reasons, but the result of actual ghosts, monsters, or other supernatural hauntings - and this will make such a locale a lot creepier.
  • Especially if the player characters don't know the precise reason, but have the suspicion that it is a nasty one. The game master is then obligated to make it even worse than they could have imagined it.