One day, two teens stumbled upon the sheer quantity of ghost towns in Oregon via Wikipedia and ever since have been on a mission of mapping out, researching, and exploring the mysterious relics of history. Milan and Sean's journey has been documented in this new podcast-- Let The Ghosts Talk. A podcast following the intrigue of ghost town history, the thrills of k-turning, and the risk of eating odd roadside jams.
Let The Ghosts Talk.movA
No apparent remains of former settlement exist. In some cases, site may be marked and/or contain a cemetery.
B
Dilapidated buildings and/or remnants of buildings present, along with rubble and debris.
C
No population, but structures are still mostly intact; may be actively preserved.
D
Area is sparsely populated and may boast period structures (of varied physical condition) and/or a cemetery, but no operative town proper.
E
Has retained a small population and historic structures, though typically not as substantive as in its heyday.
All taken by either Milan and Sean on iPhone 12 Pro (not Sean's Samsung, you can thank Milan later).
Graveyard award (not really Ghost town related, but we thought it was cool)
Not classified as a ghost town obviously, but had this cool historical house.
Just outside Jacksonville, beautiful windy forest drive on the way to Buncom.
Cool Historical house by Nunan Sqaure on the drive to Buncom!
The mining house
Boo! REAL photo of ghost we saw in the old Buncom postage office.
Random roadside dilapidated building. Looks very old and was boarded up. Possible old tavern.
Placer Road view
Grave Creek Bridge - we drove across this! It's single lane only. Scary (only got half of the bridge because Sean is insufferably slow at taking photos).
You can walk into the old school house! They had someone put example lessons on the chalk board after careful research of what kids back in the day were learning about.
Had a picnic on this little daisy-covered hill outside of the school house. We talked about how interesting it was that students/kids from the past had probably sat there too, enjoying their lunch as we were.
You can walk inside the church freely! It's all been restructured for safety reasons, but still a cool experience.
Some old kitchen appliances.
An old outhouse outside of the old house. Barely standing.
One-room shed. All of it was wooden planks and empty on the inside.
If you look close enough, you can see old-raggedy newspapers dangling off of the shelves.
Leopold V, honorary worm-on-the-string ghost town explorer.
A friend we saw in Buncom :).
A graffiti quote we found inside the Golden house. Reads: "As you are, I once was. As I am, you will be."
