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Erie, Alabama Ghost Town

What caused an entire Alabama river town of 1,500 people to vanish without a trace in the mid-1800s?

Located in Idaho’s mining country, Era’s abandoned mills and ruins tell a tale of silver fortunes won and lost.

Concealed beneath modern-day Springfield, the forgotten ghost town of Enos holds untold secrets of Underground Railroad tunnels and frontier dreams.

Curious pioneers once flocked to Elm Point, Illinois, but the ghost town’s sudden decline holds a fascinating secret.

Ghost town Elliot City vanished beneath Louisiana’s waters in 1939, but its secrets still emerge during roadwork along U.S. 190.

Catastrophic floods in 2004 transformed Elkport from a thriving Iowa river town into an abandoned ghost town reclaimed by nature.

When Lake Monroe’s waters rose in the 1960s, an entire Indiana frontier town vanished beneath the surface—but its secrets refuse to stay buried.

Situated along the Mississinewa River, this vanished Indiana mill town holds secrets of frontier life beneath its farm fields.

Lost in time, Ebenezer’s crumbling ruins whisper tales of German settlers who built a thriving religious sanctuary before its mysterious decline.

Under the Atchafalaya’s waters lies East Krotz Springs, a lumber town’s haunting tale of prosperity, floods, and ultimate surrender.