Bodie: a brief history of California's ghost town

This is a brief history of the town of Bodie in California.

It's called arrested decay, a term to describe the feeling of a place being frozen in time, that is what the ghost town of Bodie in California is. It all began with a man named William Bodey in 1859. He found gold at what is called Bodie Bluff just a few months later he died in a snowstorm found months later frozen solid. His partner Black Taylor continued on there, silver was discovered not too far away in Nevada so those mining towns boomed while Bodie stayed small Bodie's boom came in 1876. Bodie is the kind of town you think of when you imagine the wild west a quote from a girl moving from San Francisco says it all "goodbye God I'm going to Bodie" described by a visiting preacher as a sea of sin lashed by the tempests of lust and passion. At its height there were about 30 gold mines 65 saloons and plenty of brothels, gambling halls and opium dens. It is said that whiskey was brought into town in 100 gallon barrels and three of the breweries in town worked 24/7. Bodie's decline came around 1881, mines were not producing much anymore and there were stories of boom towns all over the west they could move to. The great depression and prohibition continued to kill off Bodie, and after world war 2 only six people still lived there. Of those six, one man shot and killed his wife and then was killed by three other men and those three all died from strange diseases soon after.

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