Slideshow Presentation“10 Largest Ghost Towns in the World. These will drop your jaw.”

Tyler Hall10-19-2015Multimedia Storytelling

#1 : Ordos, China

• This city was supposed to be able to inhabitant 2.5 million people, only up to 25,000 did.

• Hundreds of massive skyscrapers were constructed and many have been left abandoned halfway through construction.

#2: Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

• Back between A.D. 800-1100 was the time to go visit Chaco; served as a ceremonial, civic and commercial center.

• Consists of four villages and other sparse ruins. • Planning a time to Chaco? There’s a perfect 9 mile

(14km) paved loop road that runs through the canyon.

#3: St. Elmo, Colorado

• St. Elmo used to be a booming mining town and was an ideal trading post along the railroad routes running through Central Colorado.

• In 1922, the railway shut down and that resulted in the town shutting down as the money just wasn’t there anymore.

• People who love to hike and offroad drive, pay a visit to St. Elmo.

#4: Wenzhou, China

• China has invested in several multi-billion dollar construction projects that are throwing up gigantic cities all over the country and Wenzhou is one of them.

• Supposed to hold 2 million people, only 20-30 thousand people live there.

• China uses popular cities around the world to replicate and make their own version. (Wenzhou resembles Paris.)

#5: Bhangarh, Rajasthan, India

• Bhangarh was once the local capital of Northwestern India.

• Legend contests that this town is severely haunted and there’s crazier stories surrounding the city’s rise and extremely rapid decline.

• Bhangarh Fort is haunted and entry into it is prohibited by Indian Authorities because of many unholy happenings around it. (Hanging out around sunset is also not allowed.)

#6: Humberstone & Santa Laura, Atacama Desert, Chile

• Both abandoned by 1958; Humberstone and Santa Laura are sister towns that were mainly used by saltpeter (or sodium nitrate) miners.

• Preserved well through time, these buildings and the main attractions include a theater with original chairs, houses, a cast-iron swimming pool made from the hull of a ship; a hotel, and grocery shops complete with prices.

#7: Bodie, California

• Once a town of over 8,000 residents and a booming gold mining town, Bodie used to be a rather hoppin’ town.

• Famous in the later part of the 19th century for gunfights and brawls.

• In the 1880’s, the mines became largely depleted and the people began to flee town, ending in complete abandonment.

#8: Pyramiden, Svalbard, Norway

• Used to be an arctic coal mining town controlled by the U.S.S.R. (In it’s past life, it was a premiere Soviet settlement with barrack’s for worker’s, a sports center and a dire love for their leader Lenin.)

• Abandoned in 1998; it’s definitely a ghost town with all the buildings, library, theater, and a music hall with the world’s northernmost grand piano.

#9: Herculaneum, Naples, Italy

• Once a wealthy Roman seaside resort, this town was buried under ash and rock back in A.D. 79 due to Mount Vesuvius deciding to erupt.

• To this present day, there are excavations done by archeologists all the time and they have discovered a rather fascinating list of objects including villas, shops, bathhouses, and an incredible range of everyday objects.

#10: Kayakoy, Anatolia, Turkey

• After the Greco-Turkish war concluded in 1923, Greeks were sent back to their homeland and due to that, it forced towns such a these (Kayakoy) to be completely abandoned.

• Remains of this village are being preserved as a historical site and even to this day, many tourists visit.

Concluding / Content Slide:

• To conclude on this Power point; this was a very fun topic to research and do a slideshow on.

• I loved doing this topic because I’m a big traveler and have really increased my travels around the U.S. a ton in the past few years!

• As far as content goes for this slideshow, I got all the pictures and information off of the site I got through Forbes at Vault of Variety.

• On Vault of Variety; there’s plenty of other slideshow opportunities to look at.