The curse of Bodie: legacy of ghost-town ghosts?(Bodie, California )(Investigative Files)

From: The Skeptical Inquirer | Date: November 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Today, the ghost town of Bodie, California, is one of the most authentic abandoned gold-mining towns of the Old West (figure 1). It is also reputed to be a "ghost" town in another sense: Some claim, according to a TV documentary, that Bodie is inhabited by ghosts who guard the town against pilferers (Beyond 2000). Supposedly, a visitor who dares to remove any artifact can be plagued by the dreaded "curse of Bodie."

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Boom Town

The 1849 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in the western Sierra foothills lured men and women to California from across the ...

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