Related: This Picturesque River Town in Ohio is One of the Best-Kept Secrets in the Midwest The ornate ceiling and vintage details transport visitors to a time when going to the movies was an event ...

Van Wert rises from northwest Ohio farmland like a testament to sensible retirement living. This community demonstrates what happens when towns put residents before revenue generation. The courthouse ...

Fog drifts through the trees, wrapping the hills in a silence that feels almost sacred. Faint traces of footpaths and broken ...

Bodie is the quintessential ghost town, frozen in time high in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once a booming gold mining town ...

The halls are quiet, the air feels heavy, and every sound makes you look twice. Ohio has plenty of spooky spots, but this one ...

Across Illinois, once-bustling river ports and mining towns now sit silent, their fading buildings quietly preserving the stories of a forgotten past.

Chris Stuckmann’s debut film, "Shelby Oaks," integrates classic tropes and internet culture to create a unique, horrifying experience.

The iconic backdrop to the 1994 film “The Shawshank Redemption” has long been a popular historic site. However, the stories behind the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield rival the tale of Andy and ...

Editor’s note: Caprock Chronicles is edited by Jack Becker, Librarian Emeritus, Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at [email protected]. Today’s article about Lubbock’s forgotten ...

SPECTRAL STORIES: John Badger talks to a Haunts of Hendo tour group outside the Historic Courthouse in Hendersonville. "The historicity of it is very important to me — making it entertaining and ...

Garnet is one of Montana’s best-preserved ghost towns, where original buildings and guided tours bring 19th-century mining history to life for travelers. Lydia Mansel is a writer with more than eight ...

Join us as we travel through 14 ghost towns in Greenwood County, Kansas, where the echoes of the past still linger in abandoned homes, silent churches, and forgotten cemeteries. These small towns once ...