Humberstone and LaNoria
The two abandoned mining towns of Humberstone and LaNoris in Chile have earned themselves a haunted reputation. In 1872, the towns were founded and flourished around a nearby saltpeter mine. However, after the Great Depression business declined and by 1960 the towns had been abandoned… by the living that is. It’s said that treatment of miners was so bad it bordered on slavery, which perhaps goes some way to explaining why the dead supposedly rise from their graves each night. Local residents of nearby towns are so terrified that they refuse to step foot in either town day or night.
Today, tourists and ghost hunters are the only ones brave enough enter and join the walking dead, snapping pictures of the ghostly night-time march. Co-incidentally the cemetery contains open graves where the bodies are left fully exposed, leaving you to wonder is this local custom, or an open invitation for the ghosts to rise at night?
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