Gold rush ghost town frozen in time becomes tourist hotspot - but it hides a chilling secret

A California ghost municipality abandoned decades agone has transformed into a tourer hotspot - but visitors pass it is plagued by a 'curse'.

Bodie is simply a tiny erstwhile gold-mining municipality adjacent the the Nevada border that was erstwhile location to astir 8,000 radical and 2,000 buildings.

It was named aft the antheral who archetypal recovered golden buried successful the hills conscionable northbound of Mono Lake successful 1859.  Two years later, a mill was acceptable up and the municipality began to boom, with miners flooding successful from each astir the country. 

But its bully fortunes didn't past and by 1881, the municipality began to spell bust, with residents leaving en wide and mining officially ending successful 1942. 

Today, tourists from each implicit flock to sojourn the municipality that remains frozen successful time. But visitors are urged not to disturb what remains oregon pilfer items for themselves amid reports those who bash extremity up plagued by atrocious luck, LADbible reported.   

During its roar years, the municipality boasted houses, a school, a Wells Fargo bank, 4 unpaid occurrence companies, hotels, a jail, cemeteries, stores, churches, newspapers, a mortuary, and different structures that supported the ample assemblage of residents. 

There were once 65 saloons successful area, including galore brothels and 'houses of sick repute', gambling halls and opium dens, the town's website reports.

This led to a immense emergence successful nightly shootings, stabbings and brawls, with the country soon becoming notorious for unit successful the surrounding area.

Coupled with a crisp diminution successful mineable worldly and rising racism against Chinese immigrants, Bodie's colonisation began to plummet and by 1886 determination were lone astir 1,500 residents left. 

Meanwhile, 2 devastating fires successful 1892 and 1932 destroyed immense numbers of buildings, with the harsh clime besides contributing to the town's decline.

Today, lone astir 200 buildings inactive basal successful the deserted community.

Eventually, Bodie became a National Historic Landmark District successful 1961 and a State Historic Park successful 1962. 

While it receives scores of visitors each year, the country is kept successful a authorities of 'arrested decay' to guarantee things proceed to look however they did then. 

However, those who sojourn judge that the dormant municipality is plagued by a curse. 

Multiple sightseers person reportedly sent backmost souvenirs they had stolen from sites crossed Bodie aft suffering misfortune.

Aaron Scarborough, a parkland adjutant astatine Bodie, previously said: 'The streets are covered with their ain souvenirs, from aged solid and nails to an occasional coin. But parkland aides counsel you not to shoplift successful Bodie. Not due to the fact that of immoderate motivation code, but due to the fact that of the curse.

'People instrumentality aged rusty nails arsenic souvenirs and nonstop them back. They get them location and their luck goes bad. Just bad.' 

'As proof, helium points to a array successful the museum, covered with bits of solid and metal, lined with letters from radical apologizing for looting, telling tales of atrocious luck — taxation investigations, car repairs, fires and fights,' a paper nonfiction from 1993 added.

Some person since compared the rumors to the 'Pompeii Curse' - wherever visitors  to the past metropolis destroyed successful 79AD erstwhile Mount Vesuvius erupted reportedly suffered tragedies aft taking location items from the ruins. 

Meanwhile, others assertion assorted buildings and areas successful the deserted municipality are haunted by ghosts. 

According to the Little House of Horrors, immoderate judge that the J.S Cain House, erstwhile owned by a affluent businessman, is haunted by a Chinese maid. 

Legend suggests that the maid killed herself aft she was accused by Cain's woman of being his mistress and subsequently fired. 

The work besides alleges that the Bodie Cemetery is haunted by an angel 'ghost' of three-year-old Evelyn, girl of Albert and Fanny Myers who was 'accidentally' killed in 1897 by a miner's pick.