ghost towns

Text and photographs describe some of the thirty thousand deserted towns in the U.S. The author also examines why people settled in these places and why they left.

A collection of stories about eerie encounters in various ghost towns across the United States; each story is accompanied by an afterword about the actual town on which the story is based.

Thirteen-year-old Spencer Honesty and his imaginary friend, an Indian called Chief Leopard Frog, improbably achieve fame and riches in the abandoned town of Paisley, Kansas, when Spencer begins taking photographs with his deceased father's ancient camera and Chief Leopard Frog has his poems published by a shady businessman in the Cayman Islands.

Examines eleven abandoned towns around the world including the cave dwellings of the ancient Anasazi in Colorado, pyramids of Uxmal, Mexico, and ghost towns of the American West.

During a summer in an abandoned mining town, Katie's relationship with a rebellious stepbrother improves as they probe the past to find out why there seem to be ghosts, literally, beneath their feet.