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Maybe he will help to turn our fair city into a `` ghost '' town.
* Albert, Texas, a ghost town
* Ajax, Utah, a ghost town
* Buffalo, Alberta, a ghost town north of Medicine Hat
* Bannack, Montana, town named after the tribe, today a ghost town
( 1964 ), a ghost town inhabited by psychotic cannibals ), which featured splattering blood and body dismemberment.
On his return home, he stopped for a while in Marrakech, which was almost a ghost town following the recent plague and the transfer of the capital to Fez.
* Lincoln, Utah, a ghost town in Utah
* Montezuma, California, a ghost town
A long-defunct " Glenn Rio Motel " recalls Route 66 ghost town Glenrio, New Mexico and Texas, now a national historic district on the state line.
** Quincy ( ghost town ), Wisconsin, a ghost town
* Sulphur, Nevada, a ghost town and railroad siding at the Kamma Mountains in the Black Rock Desert
Asau, with the Potlatch sawmillers and Samoa Forest Products, was one of the busiest parts of Savai ' i in the 1960s and 1970s ; however, the departure of Potlatch and the scaling down of the sawmill has left Asau a ghost town in recent years.
In Italy, there is Bussana Vecchia, a ghost town in Liguria which was abandoned in 1887 following an earthquake and subsequently squatted in the 1960s.
By contrast, the closure of the famous meat-packing plant at Fray Bentos in the department of Río Negro transformed it into a virtual ghost town.
A gifted inventor and tinkerer, he has wired the old ghost town in the valley below so that he can make it come alive at night with lights and sounds as if it were still inhabited.
* Contention City, Arizona, a ghost town in Cochise County in southeast Arizona, sometimes referred to simply as Contention, Arizona.
Horror fiction elements are also found in " The City of Brass " tale, which revolves around a ghost town.
" The City of Brass " features a group of travellers on an archaeological expedition across the Sahara to find an ancient lost city and attempt to recover a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn, and, along the way, encounter a mummified queen, petrified inhabitants, lifelike humanoid robots and automata, seductive marionettes dancing without strings, and a brass horseman robot who directs the party towards the ancient city, which has now become a ghost town.
Berlin, Nevada | Berlin, a ghost town in Nevada, USA

ghost and is
the conflict is not Boris versus Grigori or Shuiski or even the ghost of the murdered child, but Boris versus the Russian people.
His ghost is not laid.
For example, where a person has committed harmful actions of body, speech and mind based on greed, hatred and delusion, rebirth in a lower realm, i. e. an animal, a ghost or a hell realm, is to be expected.
When Thomas Hobbes wrote that " the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof ", he was promulgating an enormously important truth.
* The White Lady is a type of female ghost reportedly seen in rural areas and associated with some local legend of tragedy.
It is sometimes known by the metonym The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street or simply The Old Lady, a name taken from the legend of Sarah Whitehead, whose ghost is said to haunt the bank's garden.
Banquo is in a third of the play's scenes, as both a human and a ghost.
The class is divided into two subclasses: Elasmobranchii ( sharks, rays and skates ) and Holocephali ( chimaeras, sometimes called ghost sharks, which are sometimes separated into their own class ).
If an atom A is double-bonded to an atom B, A is treated as being singly bonded to two atoms: B and a ghost atom that has the same atomic number as B but is not attached to anything except A.
In turn, when B is replaced with a list of attached atoms, A itself is excluded in accordance with the general principle of not doubling back along a bond that has just been followed, but a ghost atom for A is included so that the double bond is properly represented from both ends.
A triple bond is handled the same way except that A and B each carry two ghost atoms instead of one.
When the traversal encounters an atom through which the current path has already passed, a ghost atom is generated in order to keep the tree finite.
In a Knights of Zodiac movie, there is an Eris ' ghost knight, represented by the Southern Cross.
Mather's most fatal influence over the trials was in composing the answer to the question of whether or not to allow Spectral evidence, that is, allowing the afflicted girls to claim that some invisible ghost of the defendant was tormenting them, and for this to be considered evidence of witchcraft by the defendant, even if the defendant denied it and professed their own strongly held Christian beliefs.
* Dartmoor prison is implicated in the local Dartmoor ' Hairy hands ' ghost story / legend.
The problem with matrix circuits is that, when several notes are pressed at once, the current can flow backwards through the circuit and trigger " phantom keys " that cause " ghost " notes to play.
The original Norse meaning of the word is ghost, and older literature makes clear distinctions between sea-draug and land-draug.
The drinking establishment is now known as " The Horse You Came In On ", and local lore insists that a ghost they call " Edgar " haunts the rooms above.
At the beginning of syllables ( i. e. the syllable onset ), the digraph ⟨ gh ⟩ is pronounced, as in the word ghost ( pronounced ).

ghost and abandoned
Recently abandoned cities or cities whose location was never in question might be referred to as ruins or ghost towns.
Some writers discount settlements that were abandoned as a result of a natural or human-made disaster, using the term only to describe settlements which were deserted because they were no longer economically viable ; T. Lindsey Baker, author of Ghost Towns of Texas, defines a ghost town as " a town for which the reason for being no longer exists ".
British Columbia has more ghost towns than any other jurisdiction on the North American continent, with one estimate at the number of abandoned and semi-abandoned towns and localities upwards of 1500.
In Québec, Val-Jalbert is a well-known tourist ghost town ; founded in 1901 around a mechanical pulp mill which became obsolete when paper mills began to break down wood fibre by chemical means, it was abandoned when the mill closed in 1927 and re-opened as a park in 1960.
Sometimes a ghost town consists of many old abandoned buildings ( as in Bodie ); elsewhere, there remain only foundations of former buildings ( e. g., Graysonia ).
Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, was abandoned in 1699 when Williamsburg became the new capital of the colony ; the Zwaanendael Colony became a ghost town in 1632, when every one of the colonists were massacred by Indians ; and in 1590, mapmaker John White arrived at the Roanoke Colony in North Carolina to find it deserted, its inhabitants having vanished without a trace.
When residents learned about the discovery, it at first became a ghost town of abandoned ships and businesses, but then boomed as merchants and new people arrived.
The film was shot on location in an actual ghost town, showing scenes of abandoned buildings and scattered vessels.
After DuPont abandoned the city after World War I, moving its manufacturing facilities elsewhere and specializing in other products, the area briefly became a ghost town.
An abandoned building in Palmetto, an Esmeralda County ghost town
There are stories of ' The Blue Lady ', a woman abandoned by her husband who's ghost still haunts the mountains, and more recently the idea of a wild cat living in the Mournes.
When the railroad was constructed from Needles, California to Kingman, Arizona, Hardyville was abandoned and became a ghost town.
Kinross is now essentially a ghost town, having no public businesses or schools, the large closed brick school and an abandoned gas station are the only indicators of a town.
Portions of Neihart have been abandoned, and ghost town ruins can be seen in the city's outer limits.
* Gill Hill – named for Englishman Mark Gill, whose abandoned homestead spurned ghost stories and legends of notoriety before burning and the land became a county reforestation area in the 1920s.
Although the town is mostly abandoned today, and is nearly a ghost town, during the early 1900s Fallis was a whistle-stop for several railroad lines, and was a thriving little community with stores, hotels, banks, lumber yards, and other businesses, as well as a city hall.
Okaton has a closed school, a tourist ghost town, a gas station, and a crumbling grain elevator on the nearby seemingly abandoned Dakota Southern Railroad.
Farms such as this typically are aggregations of fifteen, twenty or more homesteaded quarter sections of land which at one time contained " family farms ", as witnessed by the numerous abandoned farmsteads, ghost towns, and abandoned country churches and cemeteries memorializing a much larger rural population that is long since disappeared forever.
The plot borrows elements of horror and mystery stories, favorites of Barks, such as the old and mostly abandoned castle with dark halls, hidden dungeons and crypts, ancestors ' skeletons buried inside the castle, the old McDuck cemetery with the graves of entire generations of the main characters ' ancestors, the misty swamp, the threatening " ghost " and the eminent danger that the characters feel around them.
It is shown that he has completely abandoned the Jedi way after the New Sith Order attacked the Jedi Academy on Ossus, although he still encounters other Jedi, as well as the ghost of Luke Skywalker.
By the turn of the century, Calico was all but a ghost town, and with the end of borax mining in the region in 1907 the town was completely abandoned.
The ghost town of Lemieux, abandoned in the early-1990s, is also located within the municipality.

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