The Town That Never Existed

In the early 2000s, an entire town went missing for a year.

There was no evacuation order, no natural disaster, no signs of struggle—just a quiet, abrupt disappearance. One day, the town was there. The next, it wasn’t. Satellite imagery confirmed it. Roads that once led into the settlement faded into overgrown trails. Utility lines stretched into empty fields. Even the town’s name was erased from state records, as if it had never existed at all.

And then, just as suddenly, it came back.