‘Ghost town’ with hundreds of uninhabited houses, but the lights are still on at night

This beautiful town once had a brilliant heyday but is now deserted and uninhabited.
Usually, when it comes to “ghost town”, people often think of patchy walls, dilapidated buildings, dusty windows… However, the ghost town of Kitsault is completely different. .

The romantic town of Kitsault is located on the coast. (Photo: Internet) Coming to the town of Kitsault located on the North coast of British Columbia, Canada, you will find rows of fortified houses, shopping centers, restaurants, banks, pubs and theaters that are clean, intact, even though the wilderness is not a shadow of a person. Street lights throughout the town are still on every night and the streets are still green with trees, neatly trimmed even though no one has lived for more than 30 years. Kitsault has been abandoned for over 30 years. (Photo: Internet) But every night the street lights are still on and the trees are still neatly trimmed. (Photo: Internet) The town of Kitsaukt existed for a very short time but had a construction cost of up to 6,800 billion VND. In 1979, this was once inhabited by a community of workers working in the molybdenum mines. Molybdenum is a solid alloy, often used to increase hardness and prevent rusting of steel products. However, after the 1970s, the US began to expand mining in Alaska and discovered mineral and oil deposits, which caused the production competitiveness and metal ore prices in the town of Kitsault to decline. rapidly decrease. Thousands of mining workers in 300 family-owned industries have lost their jobs. The town of Kitsault was completely abandoned during the global economic crisis of the 1980s, becoming the first industrial town in Canada to be abandoned. More than 1,200 residents left after molybdenum prices dropped. (Photo: Internet) This town’s existence and existence were short-lived despite the lack of facilities. (Photo: Internet) At that time, more than a hundred single-family homes were built, plus seven apartment complexes with hundreds of apartments. There is also a modern hospital, a shopping mall, restaurant, bank, post office, pub, swimming pool, library, two entertainment centers with jacuzzi, sauna and theater. Telephone and television lines are buried underground. There is even a wastewater treatment plant to ensure the quality of life of the people in the town. The swimming pool stopped working for a long time. (Photo: Internet) Quiet scene at a post office. (Photo: Internet) A bank facility that is no longer in operation but still lights up. (Photo: Internet) Almost 18 months after the first family settled in Kitsault, the molybdenum market began to decline due to severe degradation and the appearance of man-made molybdenum. The mines gradually closed and the people of Kitsault abandoned the town. Empty offices are neatly cleaned. (Photo: Internet) The library is still full of books, neat and clean as if used every day. (Photo: Internet) In 2005, Indian-American businessman Krishnan Suthanthiran bought the town for $7 million and planned to revive it. Since then, this millionaire has poured in here $ 25 million for upgrades and maintenance. More than 10 employees are employed to inspect and maintain buildings, mow lawns and sweep streets. So, even though no one lived, the town street lights were still on at night. After cleaning up, this town had difficulty being uninhabited, so the businessman asked the Canadian government to govern this town, which officially became the smallest autonomous town. in Canada. Hundreds of villas in the photo are still abandoned to this day. (Photo: Internet) During the crisis in the US, many people declared bankruptcy, the Canadian government stepped in to help and announced that the town of Kitsault would be a free place for everyone, the crisis was over and they started. fees until now. At this time, the town of Kitsault is fully equipped, brilliant all day and night, but still very few tourists come to visit.