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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 825770" data-attributes="member: 16749">Will a ghost town do?&nbsp; Not really spooky, eerie, or scary, but there is something about a place like this, almost completely abandoned.This is <a href="https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=509" target="_blank">Bodie</a>, (well, part of it, anyway; there's more to it that I could reasonably take in in one picture, even in a stitched panorama) a ghost town that has been turned into a state park, preserved in a state of “arrested decay”.&nbsp; It is said that there is a <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11640709/how-this-ghost-towns-curse-backfired-on-park-rangers" target="_blank">curse</a> on this place, that if you take anything out of this place, even a pebble, that bad things will happen to you.&nbsp; Reportedly, the California State Parks&nbsp; agency receives significant numbers of packages containing small items taken from Bodie, sent by people who hope that returning those items will lift the curse that they claim to have experienced.&nbsp; As a practical matter, it is very much illegal to take anything from Bodie, because doing so is contrary to the goal of preserving the ghost town.&nbsp; Anything that is removed, even if it is later returned, cannot reliably be put back where it was.[ATTACH=full]411875[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]411880[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 825770, member: 16749"] Will a ghost town do? Not really spooky, eerie, or scary, but there is something about a place like this, almost completely abandoned. This is [URL='https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=509']Bodie[/URL], (well, part of it, anyway; there's more to it that I could reasonably take in in one picture, even in a stitched panorama) a ghost town that has been turned into a state park, preserved in a state of [I]“arrested decay”[/I]. It is said that there is a [URL='https://www.kqed.org/news/11640709/how-this-ghost-towns-curse-backfired-on-park-rangers']curse[/URL] on this place, that if you take anything out of this place, even a pebble, that bad things will happen to you. Reportedly, the California State Parks agency receives significant numbers of packages containing small items taken from Bodie, sent by people who hope that returning those items will lift the curse that they claim to have experienced. As a practical matter, it is very much illegal to take anything from Bodie, because doing so is contrary to the goal of preserving the ghost town. Anything that is removed, even if it is later returned, cannot reliably be put back where it was. [ATTACH=full]411875[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]411880[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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