Indiana Indiana has 49 ghost towns reported, but I know there are more out there. 3. Hindostan (Martin County) It was located on East Fork White River at a waterfall.

Some towns were swallowed by farmland or other development. Others, like Elkinsville, were partially preserved. One of Indiana's newest ghost towns is also one of its most well-known.

Ghost towns in movies need not always be haunted, such as the town in the 1956 western film, “Ghost Town.” But in the 1988 horror film of the same name, phantoms take on prominent roles.

Some believe it's the ghost of Harriet Colfax, the lighthouse keeper from 1861 to 1904. The museum, near downtown Michigan City, has an exhibit dedicated to Colfax, who retired at age 80.

The severe drought scorching much of the nation's Midwest has lowered water levels so drastically that towns that were intentionally submerged decades ago are starting to surface. The historic ...

Just a 30-mile drive from Chicago, the town was once known to rival the Windy City as a steel manufacturing hub, until the legs were cut out from its economy in the 1970s and it sharply declined.