ghost towns

The only things left are memories, and a government cleanup project.

Say hello to Magic City, Texas.

An oil boom and a power plant gave birth to Electric City.

Here are twenty five ghost towns that helped shape the identity of the Texas panhandle, Oklahoma panhandle, and western Oklahoma.

No matter how you slice it, Texola may not be much on the map, but it is far from being a ghost town. You could say it's just living on the edge.

Legends say that there were seven Methodist preachers living in that tiny town at one point.

Today, not a trace of this once wild boom-town exists.

The answer really depends on who you ask.

They lost so bad that they don't even exist anymore.

Texas is littered with ghost towns and old homesteads. One of those has a strange, sad story that ends with you never going there.