Ghost towns are famous all over the world for ... oil

Over the past 150 years, oil prices have risen, causing many parts of the world to fall into wilderness and become ghost towns.

The eruption of oil also means that there will be an explosion of new residential areas right there, including those previously uninhabited. But due to the rising and falling cycle of oil prices, this place has become the world famous ghost town.

1. City of Pithole, Pennsylvania

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Previously, the area was uninhabited, but the drills poured in and opened a developed town with a population of 20,000 peaks. But after only 5 years, the population here is only 237 people due to the rapid decline in oil demand.

2. Mentryville, California

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The current village of Mentryville, California was completely abandoned after people left in the 1930s. They were too poor to buy or rebuild houses elsewhere, so they removed all their houses and brought them. those materials follow. The deserted, deserted place has been used to film some episodes of films like The X-files, The A-Team and Murder, She Wrote.

3. Orla, Texas

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There are several villages that have become camps or temporary accommodation for workers, as is the case in Orla, Texas. Sandy Countryman, a man who used to live here when he was a kid, posted a few lines on the Internet to talk about his memories. She mentioned the Baptist church, where her mother used to play the piano in the past. She wrote: "Recently when I returned, I realized that the roof of the church was leaking, the doors were opened, the old documents about the Bible were scattered, there was a fox behind the church. "

4. Burbank, Oklahoma

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Oklahoma is also a state containing forgotten ghost villages, including Burbank. In the 1920s, it was home to 3,000 people, but after only 10 years, this figure was reduced to 372. Due to falling oil prices, or because production turned to automation, other state villages , like Three Sands and Whizbang, also suffer from a population decline.

5. Williston, North Dakota

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Four years ago, rumors of rising oil prices made investors and workers drag to villages like Williston, North Dakota, bringing wealth and prosperity. The development took place so quickly that it was necessary to build houses for recognition near Bakken Rock - where most oil and gas drilling took place. However, the current low oil prices have made this industry disappear, and people leave here. Currently there are only a few houses that are inhabited and the majority are vacant.

6. Polphail, Scotland

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Even the village of Polphail in Scotland was built in the 1970s to serve as a residence for about 500 workers working at an oil rig nearby that has never been inhabited. Oil drilling work was not carried out, Polphail became a ruin.

7. Al Jazirah Al Hamra, United Arab Emirates

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The charm of oil can drag people away from villages that had a stable population, like Al Jazirah Al Hamra - which was once a fishing port, in the United Arab Emirates, as a specific example. In the late 1960s, the population left to make room for oil rigs that left many houses abandoned.

" Perhaps the future of the world is the ghost village ," Caraher said, based on a long list of places created and then destroyed by drilling oil and mining from precious resources. .

People will always pursue opportunities to make their dreams come true - but there are things that are not necessarily opportunities, around us there are still other paths.