Ghost Town Stories and Wicked Legends

Do you believe in haunted places, undead spirits or ghosts? If not, some of these stories just might change your mind. This is a collection of 13 short, allegorical legends and unforgettable ghost stories. Learn the history behind some dramatic moments in time that left indelible footprints into the unknown. There is a reason they call this small mining town in Central Arizona, The Ghost City .Jerome, Arizona is located in Central Arizona. In the early twenties this prosperous copper mining town’s population exceeded 15,000. The town was packed with hard rock miners, bootlegger, dope peddlers, crooked bureaucrats and prostitutes. It was so filled with vice that the New York Sun’s newspaper dubbed it the Wickedest town in the West. With all this dangerous living, tragic deaths were sure to follow. People died in mining accidents, gunfights, opium overdoses and alcoholism along with a number of other unnatural events. With its violent past, it comes as no surprise that this Ghost City on the hill is purportedly filled with wandering spirits.