Thurmond, WV | An Abandoned Ghost Town Gone Bad
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- Thurmond, West Virginia was a built as a railroad town that is now the least populated in the state. Only 4 people still live here. Today as I filmed this, I was the only person in town, and it was amazing! The haunting and eerie feel of a ghost town, Thurmond was a successful town that eventually suffered from the decline of the industrial era and came to an end. In the 1950's this town suffered the worst as the coal industry declined, and railroads changing from steam engines to diesels, thus just about folding up this little amazing town. This is a historic area and lots to cover. Let's take a drive and check it out!
I really like your format. No ads or fill in junk, no music, no voices. Just the music of mother nature. It is a pleasure to watch your videos.
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Thurmond is well known to railfans. It still sees a lot of traffic, both freight and coal. An Amtrak train even still calls here if you want to ride it. It appears as if the grade crossing signals are malfunctioning as they're flashing but no trains are around. I don't know if you could move here. I don't think any homes are for sale. There are no real estate listings for Thurmond. I assume those homes on the hill are still lived in. This is one of the one the more detailed videos I've seen of Thurmond. Interesting. Nice that so much is preserved.
My mother was born on berry mountain, I grew up in lower harvey 6 miles frome Thurmond. Thank you, great video.
I live in railroad hamlet called Cluny in Alberta, Canada. Use to be a hustle and bustle place back in the day. Now our population is around 65. I'd love to explore this place. Thanks for taking your time to provide us with such great content.
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I've seen several videos and accounts of Thurmond, and I like the place. It's never seemed creepy to me even though it's almost deserted. I'm so glad they are preserving what is left, which is quite a lot considering the size of the place. Nice video. I hope you enjoyed your visit to this unique place. Thank you!
Thank you Rosie!
The silence is kind of creepy, in a good way. WVa sure does have some haunting places.
Thanks! This may be the last one for a while. Valve replacement surgery on Tuesday morning. Hope to be back soon. Love this channel.
Thank you so much Linda! Please let me know that you're doing good when you get a chance!
I hope you are ok
there's a sense of tranquility that is calming in this video!
Also not catching your own shadow in some of the panning shots look pretty neat to
West Virginia is a beautiful place, if I was young, I would love to buy a place in an area like this, near a creek.
I love your videos. No unnecessary music, and a little bit of history too, perfect 😊
😍 Hola!!! I am in LOVE with this town!!! I would so live there!!.........
Hola Deborah!! It's a really cool place I wouldnt mind living there either lol
Thank you for sharing this peek into Americana., Stay safe
my personal favoriate video on this channel
As always awesome content thanks for your time to do this video big fan of your channel
Thanks for watching John!
Extremely cool, thanks for sharing!!
Thanks for watching!
Amazing location ❤️👍
Waiting for the video
Such an amazing cool little place!!
Thurmond has been on my bucket list! I know there's not a ton there, but so many great photo ops. How lucky you were the only one there!
It was definitely awesome to look around and be the only one there, I wont forget that!
Great video! Wish it had been longer with some closeups of the storefronts and interiors, but I really appreciate that you took the time to show this place.
Your videos are the best
Thank you so much Mark!
Hauntingly beautiful. Job well done. 👍🏻
Thank you so much 😀
It would be so cool to tour inside those old buildings!
I have seen several videos of Thurmond, would love to visit one day. Hi from Australia.
I have no interest in ghosts but I really enjoyed this video of Thurman WV I live north of that sure love West Virginia what a beautiful state and wonderful people
Thurmond also served as the backdrop for the movie Matewan...
I've seen many videos of Thurmond - a real railfan type of town! Love it to see it again! So glad that they are still preserving it but many un-preserved abandoned and forgotten homes up on the hill/mountain though!
Love this channel. Most underrated on this platform in my opinion. One thing I don’t understand about these smaller towns in WV is that there’s so much land and homes (abandoned) yet nothing is for sale more or less. It’s like people still own those houses but have just allowed them to sit and rot. Maybe someone can fill me in on why this is?
Bet that motel has some wild stories .... Good video.. be well.
Wait that's not a motel ??
It's nice to see that vandals and graffiti-ites haven't found this place yet. It would be so cool to explore the old bldgs...thank you for the video!
I wish I could make Thurmond A population of five. Ah to have peace and quiet and nature!
I think about that, too.
Thank you, 😊
Thank you for sharing. The quality of the video is superb, so crisp it really does feel as if I was just there walking around the town. I am also surprised at how well preserved some structures are.
Thanks so much for watching!
I noticed the bridge has a lookout points. That would be a cool place to fish off of.
Thought the same thing, lol........be well.
Interesting history. Not creepy. Just a little WV mining town that has outlived her prime. The mines are gone, the 'Jumping Bridge' rerouted her highway, and her people left.
I really think just doing interviews with locals if possible would bring in lots of subscribers, people love interviews with locals. I see all the big channels doing that.
Great video without stupid music! Thanks for presentation, from Germany.
Awesome videos you put out!
I appreciate that!
I've traveled there many many times.. it has changed over the last 50 years. My Grandmother is from there. When she was a young child , her sister, and brother and my great-grandparents rode the train from there to Mineral Ridge Ohio where they settled. All they had was their suitcases there was no work or anything..
Have you been to Green Bank, WV? Very interesting place. Wish I could’ve have explored it more.
im gonna be totally real here. i can tottaly 100% see myslef living a happy life in thurmond or anywhere in west virginia
A train wistle is a lonely sound!😢
Great video!!
Wow.
i don't know, it looks better, than many places where people actually live
Beautiful town ,! Why is it abandoned.? You don’t explain 😊
Population 4? Can I be the 5th? I'm not afraid of ghosts. Is there a story behind why the ghosts are there?
Do you know if someone is living in the last house by the RR tracks? Flying two flags?
I wondered about that and will say the house looks lived in.
How does a town that small in population survive? Who pays for all of the improvements, snow removal, garbage removal, etc.?
The Masonic Lodge is maintained by several local Masonic groups and occasionally hosts meetings - obviously everyone travels in from out of town to attend.
Doesn't a train still go through there? Probably freight 🤔
They pretty much haul the typical stuff there as you would expect, and then Amtrak makes its way there throughout the week.
wow no parked cars or anything
I believe te film Matewan was filmed there.
Is the rail line still active thru that town?
Yup definitely. I was waiting for one to come by but didnt this time.
I wonder how fishing would be ?
Obviously the town has no tax base. Who takes care of the roads?
Man if you’d mix in some commentary, interviews with people you see in these places ( if you see them lol ) and maybe a little more exploration into abandoned buildings. I’m positive this channel would explode! Thanks for the videos regardless though ✌🏻super interesting.
When I start a video like this and commentary starts, I immediately click off of it.
The text commentary is just fine.
This channel is only 10 months old and has 43k subs and 9 million views. He's doing just fine ☺️
Honestly, I'd love to live in a town with a population of 4. 😆
3:20 What was this building?
I saw in another video that it was for processing coal.
how can someone move here?
"Gone Bad"? I wouldn't say so. Detroit? Baltimore? Chicago? Those have gone bad. I visit Thurmond time to time. It's just quiet.
My father was born in a coal camp that is truly now GONE (Kaymoor).
As soon as they can commoditize it and charge you per yard to see it, they will.
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