Bodie, California — Take a Souvenir, Pay the Price

High in the hills east of the Sierra Nevada sits Bodie, California. It was once one of the most lawless gold rush boomtowns in the West, and today it's the most famous ghost town in America. Its buildings stand frozen in time, with dishes still on the tables and goods still on the shelves. The town has one rule: take nothing. Visitors who pocketed a nail, a shard of glass or even a pebble have reported illness, accidents and a run of bad luck, and every week the park receives apology letters with the stolen items rattling inside.

On this episode of Destination Terror, Carman Carrion tells an original story about a woman who took one rusty nail from a lonely shack and learned what it was really worth. Then we get into the true history of Bodie: its violent boom years, the fires that nearly wiped it out, the haunted J.S. Cain House, the Angel of Bodie, and where the Bodie Curse really came from.

Look all you want. Just leave Bodie in Bodie.

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