31 Ghost Towns in America That Are Hauntingly Frozen in Time
20. Eagle Mountain, California – A Modern Ghost Town from the 1980s
Most ghost towns date back to the 1800s, but Eagle Mountain, California, is a rare modern example, abandoned in 1983. Built as a company town for iron ore miners, Eagle Mountain had schools, shops, and hundreds of homes, but when the mining industry collapsed, the town emptied almost overnight. Today, Eagle Mountain is eerily frozen in time, with abandoned houses, rusting vehicles, and even a deserted high school. Though access is restricted due to private ownership, aerial views and past photographs show a hauntingly modern ghost town—one where life ended far more recently than in the Old West.
