This West Texas Town Ranked One Of The Creepiest Ghost Towns In America

One of our towns here in West Texas has ranked among the "Creepiest Ghost Towns" in the United States. My question is what makes a town a ghost town anyway? The adjectives desolate, abandoned, barren immediately come to mind, not that there are actual ghosts necessarily. With that being said, I am beyond curious to know which small town in Texas it may be.

WHICH WEST TEXAS TOWN MADE THE LIST OF CREEPIEST GHOST TOWNS IN THE U.S?

According to the Midland Reporter-Telegram, the West Texas town of Terlingua came in #2 on Best Life Magazine's "9 Creepiest Ghost Towns in the U.S."

Wow, and it has been years since I have been so I will have to take this magazine's word for it. A little background on Terlingua:

Terlingua was once the home of the Old Chisos Mining Company which was a quicksilver mining company that operated in Terlingua from its founding in 1903 till it declared bankruptcy and ceased operations in 1943. Terlingua grew around the Old Chisos Mining Company building houses for the workers along with a post office, public school, store, and a jailhouse.

The town was once home to over 3,000 residents at its peak in the 1900s but as of 2020 had a population of 110.

I mean the way I described it before is fairly accurate and just know that it is one of the few ghost towns that has lodging options so you can be close to all the creepiness. And also there is actual sign in the town that says TERLINGUA GHOST TOWN, so there's that.

"Unlike some other ghost towns, you can find some very good lodging options here," said Steve Prohaska, Travel Expert and Founder of See The Best Places. "It's the perfect base from which to explore Big Bend National Park, which itself has spooky places like abandoned ranches and mines, located only a stone's throw from the ghost town."

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