Empty Houses, Abandoned Graves: Negative Population Growth and New Ideas in Neorural JapanTRAPHAGAN, JOHN W.Brown Journal of World Affairs
Hashima island in Japan has a wide array of nicknames, including Battleship Island (for its shape) and Ghost Island. From the late 1800s to late 1900s, the island was populated because of the access it granted to undersea coal mines. However, as Japan gradually switched from coal to petro...
What's fun sometimes is to go back in time, and look at how certain places or locations changed over the years. One place that was once a busy family-fun destination in Ramsey that has been long closed was just photographed from the sky, and it's SO beautiful but eerie at the same ...
Several club houses, a hotel, a really big golf course, several other buildings – even a ski slope or two, as I found out afterwards. That thing was gigantic, potentially a whole day exploration! We stayed in a hotel about 20 kilometers away, maybe half an hour on countryside roads. ...
Murder victim in the brewery section, tooth-pulled victim, bandolier on a diet, bubble-bath lady. I managed to get inside the ghost house, of course pitch black, and get up close and personal with some of the models. Are ghost houses scary when they’re dead? Basically, no. They may...