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" ...

It is a bona fide ghost town. The only people who live here are the state park rangers. ... The curse of Bodie has nothing to do with its ghosts. Instead, the curse hinges on these bygone relics.

Rangers at Bodie Ghost Town State Historic Park say they receive a steady stream of letters explaining how a terrible hex ... GHOST TOWN’S CURSE LIVES ON Share this: Click to share on Facebook ...

EERIE photos inside an abandoned ghost town show a once booming area frozen in time. Nestled in the hills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Bodie was established in 1859 as a modest camp after gold w… ...

While the town's mines opened in 1861, Bodie's decline started in 1879. It was fully abandoned by 1942 when the last mine closed, and it became a State Historic Park in 1962. Bodie sits at an ...

Because of its remoteness, Bodie. has not been stripped clean like other ghost towns. Thirteen miles off the nearest. highway, the last three by dirt road, it's a chore to reach in even the best ...

Bodie, which sits at an elevation of 8,379 feet about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, became a boomtown in 1876 with the discovery of a profitable line of gold but had become a ghost town by 1915.

Travel; USA & Canada; Halloween; Inside the abandoned town you can visit - but watch out for its ghosts and curse The abandoned ghost town of Bodie is known for its 'danger and depravity' and has ...

Walking around this former gold mining town, now nicknamed Bodie Ghost Town, put it into perspective for me the life I now have – why I can be grateful for it, how I can give thanks to those who ...

2002-06-24 04:00:00 PDT Sacramento-- One is more Disneyland than ghost town, complete with shopkeepers in 1880s costume, re-enacted gunfights and mining tours. The other is desolate and dusty ...

A bill to designate Bodie as the official state ghost town has died in the Senate after pressure from backers of a rival ghost town--Calico--turned some lawmakers against it.