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Evans, Illinois Ghost Town

Discover how this once-bustling Illinois railroad town transformed into a haunting reminder of America’s vanishing frontier communities.

Discover the haunting remains of Eros, Arkansas, where a 1850s Christian utopian dream faded into weathered ruins among the Ozarks.

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.