So what’s to be done with an abandoned ghost town? Obviously the answer is to make it into a National Historic Site and turn it into a tourist hotspot where people could come and visit a genuine Wild West mining town.

While it gets loads of visitors each year, Bodie is kept in a state of ‘arrested decay’ so things will look the way they used to.

It’s been over 50 years since any significant amount of people actually lived in the town and everything has pretty much been left where it was put.

As you can imagine the place is spooky enough to visit by itself, but you can imagine the number of ghost stories that plague such a town.

Being a ghost town, it has the common curse that anyone who tries to disturb the place or take anything with them will suffer misfortune.

People who’ve visited Bodie and decided to pilfer a little piece of it for themselves have made the creepy discovery that their lives seem to be cursed afterwards.

Those who run the town as a tourist attraction and maintain it as it was have met people returning to the ghost town to give back what they’ve stolen and hopefully lift the curse.

It’s not dissimilar from the ‘Pompeii Curse’, where many people took a souvenir from the ruins only to return what they’d taken and repent in the hopes that they would no longer be plagued by rotten luck.

Remember, if you ever find yourself in a ghost town resist the urge to start stealing things, or the vengeful ghosts of the past might decide to inconvenience your life.