5 ABANDONED TOWNS You're Not Allowed To Visit

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[tedlebo]

Gotta love videos like this: they ALWAYS mention Centralia, and they ALWAYS get the facts wrong.

[rockypayne]

I live 15 minutes south of Picher/Treece they're practically the same town and should have been put together on the list. The city limits literally touch. While it is very contaminated and the Government has labeled it a "Superfund Site" you can still go there. My grandmother lived in Picher for 75 years until they closed the town after an F-5 tornado rolled thru and leveled everything. She then moved in with my parents where she lived til the age of 96 years old. Its a very interesting town with a history thats wild if anyone likes a good rabbit hole to go down.

[imaniguana]

I've been there several times. You can still walk the abandoned graffiti road. It's broken up and shifting, but local kids ride their quads there. We walked all around the area. There's an old guy that is kind of the self appointed Centralia historianl. He carries a photo album with him and is more than happy to spend hours telling you about the town in it's heyday.

[halo-sdqe]

My family comes from Centralia. It’s a place that will have a piece in my heart for my whole life.

[loditx]

You are totally wrong about Centralia. People willing to accept the risk can and do go there. In addition to that 7 to 10 original residents still live there and one has assumed responsibility for tending the cemetery, mowing grass, etc. The USPS a few years ago tried to stop mail delivery to the remaining residents, but they appealed that decision and won! I don't know what's changed in the last couple of years, but I know it is accessible, no matter who forbids what.

[davidrayner]

Wittenoom is not off limits. You are advised not to go there but there is nothing to stop you from doing so. I visited there around three years ago on my way home from work. Drove around the town with the windows closed and the vents on recirc. Got out of the car to take a selfie in front of the sign that says 'Wittenoom Gems' but took a deep breath before opening the door and held it. Also met Mario, the town's only resident and employed by the weather bureau to take weather readings twice a day. I spoke to him through the open window for a minute or so. Fascinating place.

[braxtonmertz]

Centralia actually isn’t off limits... I went there last month 😂

[fabiananeiros]

Take a shot of tequila every time the speaker says “disturbingly”.

[theduder]

Sad to report an inaccuracy in the video. The first town, Centralia Pennsylvania.
It is not off limits, and we can visit if we wish. As of 2013, 7 people live in the city.
They are allowed to live out their lives there, after which the state will take the property via eminent domain.

The fire has moved quite a bit since it started. The air over Centralia is no longer as bad as it was.
In fact, it's roughly the same quality as a near by city Pennsylvania where there has been no fire.
If the ground were not so dangerous from collapse, it could one day become an active city.
But it hopefully will instead become a wildlife/nature preserve.

[sandylewis]

I lived in Picher most of my life, my father was born there as was his father and mother. I'm healthy, he died of lung cancer but he smoked most of his life. Nothing about Picher made us sick.. And yes I played on the chat hills

[Tierdog]

you're able to go to centralia, I live like 20 mins from the place, there's a tourist scene

[MeatGawds]

Born and raised in pitcher Oklahoma..with Joe Don “rascal flats” I miss my chat piles.

[brianbarker]

A little misinformation here, Centralia still has about 7 residents, and they do day tours to Pripyat.

[TheSpogNYC]

Pripyat, Ukraine isn't off-limits, you can visit, in fact, you can even take a guided tour if you wish. My friend visited the abandoned city, known for the Chernobyl disaster that forced it's desertion. She was allowed to explore and photograph there, walk around, go in the abondoned apartment buildings, etc. She wasn't part of a tour, she just wandered around solo. Radiation levels have dropped significantly since the fatal levels of 1986, and it is now considered generally safe, with only low levels of radiation still existing, as the video stated, you're getting nuked more going through airport security than spending a few hours at Pripyat. Obviously it's still not suitable for people to reside there permanently, as that can be evidenced by the radiation levels of wildlife who live in Pripyat, but it has become kind of an odd tourist attraction. My friend thought it was awesome when she was there. I want to check it out myself sometime.

[TenVeils]

The United States has more than one town unfit for HUMANS. I'm shocked.

[birdygirlstrainvideos]

I use to live in Picher Oklahoma back in 1983.me and my friends used to play on those Dunes.Your absolutely right.no one knew that stuff was poisonous.And because I was around that stuff for so many years I now have health problems.

[xJengie]

I've been to Centralia multiple times. It also serves as a route to Mt Carmel, Ashland and Aristes/Wilburtons 1 and 2, which is pretty heavily traveled by motorists daily. There are also a few residents remaining.

[tommybear]

I grew up in Picher & Treece, Treece is a part of Picher that crossed into Kansas. I grew up on those chat piles and spent over 15 years riding 4 wheelers/dirt bikes on them, hunting on them, shooting etc. There was a large problem with the lead in the ground water but 98% of all chat piles have been removed over the past 10 or so years and the town looks nothing like it used to. There's only 1 resident left in the town and that person lives at the Fire Department. What's absolutely insane about Picher, and it makes the conspiracy theorists bust nuts all over the place; Picher sold out half of their homes to the goverment, the lower end homes were the ones to accept the buyout as they were offered more than their property was worth. However after long talks & debate, the higher end home owners wouldn't sell out as they were taking a loss. One clear blue sunny day a tornado formed in between a group of chat piles and wiped out every single house that wouldn't sell out. It didn't track north into the homes that had already been bought out, instead it rose up out of the basin in these chat piles, tracked east, wiped out every single home that didn't sell out, then rose back up after the last house was hit. It's interesting & funny to hear some of the conspiracies, but it was still a shitty deal as those people lost everything and didn't receive any government assistance and instead relied on red cross etc just to get clothes on their backs. Picher/Cardin/Treece have their demons, but it isn't a hellish nightmare that this vid portrays it as

[greenspiraldragon]

Not supposed to go? Lets go there. Road trip.

[kaylieornelas]

Love the history of how the abandoned towns and cities came to be tells us who and what came before us