facts ver
presents eight most dangerous abandoned
places in the
world number one Wht Nom Western
Australia during World War II wit n was
a town who mined croad Delite which is
also known as blue asbestos although the
dangers of asbestos were known the
mining didn't stop workers began taking
the dust on their clothes back to town
in 1978 the government wanted to clear
out the town so they encouraged
residents to move by offering to buy
their homes by 1993 the school nursing
post post office and the airport had all
closed eventually the town's name
disappeared off the map of the 20,000
people who lived in the town during its
mining days 2,000 of those people died
from the asbest dust today there are a
few people left in town and the
government is still trying to get them
to leave number two canbec usbekistan
this island was the home of a biological
weapons testing area also
1,500 full-time residents also worked
there one of the laboratory's main
projects was working on an anthrax
vaccine the lab also worked with the
Bubonic plague small poox Taria and
brucelosis in
1971 10 people on the island contracted
smallpox and three of them died in 1988
the staff buried tons of Anthrax spores
on the island in a response to the 1972
Treaty of banning biological weapons in
1992 the lab was abandoned and the town
was left in Ruins scientists believe
that today the island can still be very
dangerous as rodents may have been
exposed to the weapon grade plague it
could still remain on the island by
being passed from rodent to rodent
through fleas number three Love Canal
Niagara Falls in the 1890s a man named
William love launched a project to dig a
canal between the upper and lower
sections of Niagara Rivers when the plan
stalled the area became a dump site for
municipal waste and Industrial chemical
waste when the hooker Chemical Company
failed to maintain the site properly and
decided to sell it they covered it up in
the 1970s the EPA reported a high number
of miscarriages and birth defects among
residents who lived on Love Canal an
autopsy was performed on a child who
died of kidney disease and it was found
that the cause was dioxin poisoning
caused by the buried waste the
government bought the residents houses
and bulldozed the entire area today the
area is mostly just parking lots and
power lines
some residents have moved back to the
area attracted by Cheap housing in 2011
a sewer line burst which was full of
toxic chemicals number four pitcher
Oklahoma the area of pitcher Oklahoma
was a mining town for lead and zinc in
the mid 9s onethird of the children in
the town were found to have elevated
levels of lead in their bloodstreams
this caused huge issues in the town
however it is not not what left it
deserted in 2006 a study found that
because of the mining the ground was at
risk for collapse at one point a driver
died after driving into a gaping hole
into the ground the government bought
out most of the homes as of 2011 only
six houses and one business still
remained the long-term plans for the
town do not include human habitation
number five cent Trulia
Pennsylvania for over 50 years there has
been an underground coal fire burning
beneath this town nobody is sure what
lit the fire in the first place but it
still continues to burn the streets of
the town have buckled from the gases and
heat also the fire has been pouring
toxins into the atmosphere in 1984 a
resident fell into a sinkhole in his
backyard he was saved however the hole
was found to contain lethal amounts of
carbon monoxide in 1984 the government
bought out most of the homes leaving it
a ghost town today the area is still
dangerous the nearby town of Burnsville
was affected by the fire and was leveled
shortly after Cent tralia was vacated
according to scientists there is enough
coal to keep the fire burning for at
least another 250 years number six Prat
Ukraine this is one of the most famous
dangerous abandon places after the
Chernobyl nuclear disaster the entire
population of
49,4 people were evacuated from the area
today it is a ghost town many tourists
and photographers have been attracted to
the area due to all of the crumbling
buildings that were left behind people
also want to see The Haunting amusement
park today the radiation levels have
dropped and there are many companies who
offer tours of the Chernobyl alienation
Zone
there was even a horror movie made about
Cheryl tours in the film residents who
refused to leave the town became
bloodthirsty zombie-like monsters
killing just about everyone on the tour
in real life that would be ridiculous
today the biggest risk is the buildings
that could crumble due to the years of
neglect number seven Fukushima exclusion
Zone in 2011 an earthquake rocked the
Fukushima power plant and and forced the
evacuation of nearby towns since then
Nami mashi is a ghost town the homes and
businesses that were not damaged or
destroyed after the earthquake still
stand in 2013 the wh reported that the
risk of cancer from the power plant is
low however the Japanese government is
still taking precautions residents are
given special permission to return to
their homes however they are not allowed
to spend the night number great new
idria
California the main reason that this
California Town became deserted is
because the new idria Quicksilver Mining
Company closed in
1972 there are however some concerns of
mercury runoff as well as short fiber
asbestos around the town this is not
uncommon for mining towns in 2011 the
Rand MCN road atlas warns people of the
asbest hazard in the area today you can
book a tour through the town according
to Road Trippers it is a great place to
visit if you're planning to pass through
the
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