ghost town

Haltom City Ghost Town Roots Help Round Out This Featured Suburb Sunday

By Shelby Skrhak / October 6, 2019 /

Haltom City, located just five miles northeast of Fort Worth, has a ghost town in its historical roots. You see, Haltom City’s school district is named Birdville ISD, the scarce remains of a former 1840s-era town called Birdville. (Two churches and a cemetery make up the rest of this ghost lot.) Located to the southeast near…

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Yes, You Can Own a Whole Town in Utah for $225K

By Bethany Erickson / May 30, 2018 /
Utah

Sometimes, when doing research for another story, you go down a rabbit hole at 3 a.m. and find another listing that sends you down another rabbit hole of WTF in Utah and then suddenly it’s 5 a.m. and your caffeine consumption for the next day puts your heart rate somewhere around hummingbird wings and over-sugared…

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