For weeks, the sale of the ghost town generated hype and fear about its future, and now the auction for the village of Johnsonville in Moodus, Connecticut, ended Thursday with a winning bid of $1. ...

With modernization, work dried up and the village became a ghost town. Then a millionaire named Ray Schmitt bought the town in the 1960s and began restoring it as a tourist attraction, moving a ...

Connecticut has options for you — but only in fiction. The state’s two most popular towns are also two that do not exist, at least not anymore, according to data from Google Trends. The ghost ...

[The Providence Journal, file / Bob Breidenbach] Seaside Shadows offers historic tours of two ghost-infested waterfront towns: Westerly, Rhode Island and Mystic, Connecticut. The one-mile downtown ...

A ghost town in Connecticut is going up for auction just in time for Halloween. Johnsonville Village will go for $800,000 on Oct. 28, according to an Auction.com news release. The 62-acre property ...

These neglected ghost towns often come with unnerving stories that explain the end of life there. I have waded through the thick of such legends so that those who wish to stroll through American ...

Connecticut, it appears, is not messing around in the nefarious spirits department. — near the Tennessee border is the ...