In the end, after Luke has stirred the locals out of their greed and fear of ghosts, it revives as a prosperous farming town. In that case, it was a Gold Rush mining town that was abandoned after it became obvious there wasn't an ounce of gold around the place.

He once had an adventure in a Ghost Town this is even the title of the book.

Lucky Luke features almost every single Wild West cliché, and therefore:.

Nonetheless, it took a while until people dared to return to the rebuilt town. In Green Lantern: Rebirth, while still under the Spectre's power, Hal Jordan seems to unconsciously recreate the layout of the pre-devastation Coast City.

Green Lantern: Coast City became a ghost town after its destruction at Cyborg Superman's hands.

(Actually, it was a ghostly dog in a doghouse, owned by a prospector who was using it to sniff out gold.) It did, however, have a 'little haunted house' that they were terrified of, which followed them home.

In an old Casper the Friendly Ghost comic book, the Ghostly Trio came home from their vacation upset, claiming that the ghost town they went to had no ghosts, only a guy selling souvenirs.

However, when Alice leads Ai and her companions beyond the black surface, they find themselves in the thriving Ostia of fourteen years ago, a timeloop created when the students of Class 3-4 wished to reset time to prevent a classmate's death.

Sunday Without God has Ostia, abandoned after the students of Class 3-4 suddenly disappeared.

Only to discover that it is a town that belonged to spirits and they appear only at night.

Spirited Away has Chihiro and her parents stumble into what appears to be a ghost town at the beginning of the movie.

Despite this however, Saitama's apartment building still has electrical power and running water.

Saitama from One-Punch Man lives in the Z-City Ghost Town, a mostly uninhabited district of City Z which was abandoned by most of its former residents due to an unusually high frequency of monster attacks which began to plague the area.

Yagouchi, in the side story Nekogoroshi.

It gets wiped out in the Great Hinamizawa Disaster in some of the arcs.

Unfortunately for them, there's also an Ax-Crazy murderer here. In Dragon Crisis!, several of the main girls get sucked into a painting of a ghost town.Kokoro finds a pamphlet discussing babies when she wanders into an abandoned clinic. DARLING in the FRANXX: The children discover one while exploring a tunnel with lots of overgrowth near the beach.If enough people did that, then you got a ghost town. If that dried up, whether or not they owned their house, unless they could grow enough food to feed themselves and supply other basic needs, their only option was to pack up and move on. When people started living in more urbanized areas, since they were not farming, either they needed to go to a job or have customers because they ran some kind of business out of their house.

In a more general sense, in an agricultural society, most people lived on a farm or a ranch and shipped their stuff to the nearest trading town. So the town died, slowly or quickly, and became a Ghost Town.

After the gold was mined out, or the spring went dry, or the railroad went through a town forty miles away instead, there just wasn't much point to living there. Many of these survived and grew, even after the initial rush was over (all major cities in the West Coast got their start like this). Word of a gold or silver strike, or of a good water supply in arid land, and folks would flock in and put up a Boom Town. A town or village that no longer has enough inhabitants to be considered a town (or in extreme cases may be abandoned entirely) note the legal term for this is 'disincorporation'.īack in the days of The Wild West, settlements would spring up practically overnight.

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