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Ghost Towns are strangely haunting to us. The empty buildings, which we know to be empty and devoid of life, seem to watch us still, with figures hidden just out of sight, similar to a school or a mall after everyone has gone home.
Such places, reduced to their shells, hold nothing but memories of the places they used to be. Here are eight such ghost towns, and the lost stories on which they were built.
1. Akamara and Tkvarcheli
2. Kuldhara, the Haunted Village
3. Oradour-sur-Glane: The D-Day Massacre
4. Aceredo, Drowned for Profit
5. Dhanushkodi: Cursed by Nature
6. Lake Nyos and the Lost Town of Chah
7. Val Jalbert: From Ghost Town to Model Town
8. Pripyat and Chernobyl
Top Image: Cars lie abandoned in the ghost town of Oradour-sur-Glane, declared a national monument after the Second World War by Charles de Gaulle. Source: ChGuss / Adobe Stock.
By Joseph Green