Legend says taking even a rock from the Gold Rush town of Bodie brings terrible misfortune. The curse is so powerful that rangers have been inundated with returned artifacts.

After visiting Bodie State Historic Park, a once thriving but also isolated gold-mining town set 8,275 ft. high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northeastern California, I felt compared to share ...

Explore the abandoned Ghost Town of Bodie and solve the mystery of Evelyn Byers, a little girl who died over a hundred years ago! Tourists have reported seeing the ghost of Evelyn, and twelve ...

From Bodie, a 12-mile unimproved road requiring a 4-wheel drive, high-clearance vehicle leads to the sister ghost town of Aurora, a short distance across the Nevada border.

From Bodie, a 12-mile unimproved road requiring a 4-wheel drive, high-clearance vehicle leads to the sister ghost town of Aurora, a short distance across the Nevada border.

Tucked away in the Sierra Nevada, Bodie isn’t just a ghost town—it’s a perfectly preserved time capsule of the Wild West. Once booming with gold miners and outlaws, it now stands eerily ...

BODIE, Calif. — During a long-ago summer of wandering the Western U.S. in a woefully underpowered 1971 VW bus, we were camped in Yosemite Valley when learning of an exceptional ghost town on the ...

Bodie State Historic Park, founded in 1876 and declared a ghost town in 1915, has up to 7 feet of snow and more is on the way.

Bodie State Historic Park is a genuine California gold-mining ghost town where visitors can walk down the deserted streets of a town that once had a population of nearly 10,000 people.

Haunt a history-laden ghost town this summer and step into the past Bodie State Historic Park has a few memorable warm-weather events, including ghost walks.

Many of the furnishings are still intact, making this ghost town legit. A gift store also serves as a mini-museum, with many original artifacts and possessions from former Bodie residents on display.

Legend has it that any visitor who dares to take anything -- even a rock -- from this Gold Rush ghost town, isolated beyond the eastern Sierra, will be punished. Over the decades, "the curse of Bodie" ...