Just out of curiosity I looked up Ghost towns in Vermont. Nothing about the one mentioned about, but this one is suppose to be haunted, and while this one was only abondoned through being on a flood plain, it has some rather creepy looking photos in it. The forest has really reclaimed the place.
Anyway I remember reading that 150 years ago Vermont had three times the population that it has today, it just had such a phenominal emigration level happening in the 19th century that entire towns just disapeared, where abandoned and the forest just swallowed them up.
Concerning abandoned towns, look up Centralia, Pennsylvania. 'Course, it was abandoned for a concrete reason - mine fires that have burned for decades - instead of anything paranormal, but still creepy.
A few years ago I asked my BIL, who works for the Vermont Historical Society, to check into whether or not Momson, Vt. existed, and he confirmed it never did. (The VHS has records of every town that ever existed, even those that long ago disappeared). I later read that King coined the name and considered Momson for the setting of his book before settling on Jerusalem’s Lot, and then used Momson in a fake newspaper article in the prologue instead.
One of the cool things about living in Vermont is that you can be out hiking in the middle of nowhere and run across old stone foundations and walls from farms that used to be there and have long since been abandoned.
Mostly none. The decline of this tiny settlement (it was never a proper town) was due to perfectly mundane factors. There is (of course) no reliable record of any paranormal event at the site.
I hiked to the former site of Dudleytown twenty years ago this month with my girl friend at the time. I don’t remember her telling me anything about alleged supernatural events.
Hmm. It’s definitely a real abandoned town, and it took some digging to find, but there apparently were vague rumors it was haunted too. I kind of want to drive up there now after reading this.
I did the same thing on the Dean Koontz book Phantoms. There’s an expository section where the quirky scientist explains past disappearances and one of the examples he gave was a Chinese battalion (or division or whatever) that disappeared in Manchuria in 1937. I read this pre-internet and did my best to find a reference in the local libraries, but to no avail.
Even now the only reference I can Google up to this story leads me back to the Dean Koontz novel, so I must conclude that it’s purely hookum.
there is a hidden empty town in New Hampshire called Momson that is in the middle of the woods with one house still standing and the other houses just have foundation holes.
