Explore the world’s most hazardous abandoned places, where nature has been tainted by toxic waste, chemicals, and dangerous ...

In places like Oklahoma, what is so special is that people do have this deeply rooted connection to place — that I think, if you live in other places, maybe that’s in America, maybe that’s ...

Picher, Oklahoma was incorporated in 1918 after ore was discovered. All that remains in the ghost town are empty buildings and piles of toxic waste.

Whenever possible he seeks; the forgotten, the abandoned, the Oklahoma towns whose populations have gone on to greener pastures. Citing reasons why some towns die, Schmidt offers, “Rivers dry up ...

Archaeological sites linked to the Spiro Mounds have been named one of Oklahoma’s Most Endangered Places for 2025 by ...

OTTAWA COUNTY – The Tulsa Medical Examiner’s office is in the abandoned community of Picher on Saturday after human bones were found Friday evening. Angela Berg, a forensic anthropologist, is ...

It declined into a ghost town early in the 20th century and in 1962 became a state park. Park officials maintain its 110 surviving buildings to prevent them from declining further so that some ...

Unlike many of the mining ghost towns of the Black Hills, Ardmore was not completely abandoned until the 1980s. Kelsey Sinclair, Journal correspondent Facebook ...

For three decades, 2 News Oklahoma's Cathy Tatom reported on efforts to clean up the Tar Creek Superfund site in Ottawa Co. Cleanup is still estimated to be 50 years away from complete.

Some say Florida has more than 200 ghost towns. Here's a list of some and the story of one that was founded by a 19th-century Florida governor.

A family’s search for missing Oklahoma woman Aubrey Dameron has come to a tragic end.. On Wednesday, February 5, 2025, officials with the Quapaw Nation Marshal Service announced that human remains ...