Exploring Aurora, Nevada 1860's Ghost Town 

I really enjoy how you show the old pictures over the current scenery to give us an idea what it looked like in the past. You guys have a exceptional way of bringing history alive. Thank you.

I used to live on the cattle ranch that ran cattle there and Bodie. I lived in a place called Wichman which is an old house that was a post office.

20:25 With so much conjecture and mystery around a town washed away by history, this is a triumphant little moment of forensics! Great stuff, History Hunters. Such a great channel.

Our family is from Aurora can traced our great grandparents to it

I love the way you guys superimposed the old images into the landscape to give it perspective. That was an awesome video!

For a piece of barren landscape, you managed to correlate a LOT of fascinating information. Thanks.

Keep up the good work! Any history should never be forgotten

you'd have had an easier drive in if you'd gone through Bodie on the California side. in the late 80's, I worked at the Aurora Partnership mine on the other side of the hill from Aurora. I used to hike up into the extinct volcano to the north of the townsite and look for artifacts -- lots of metal stuff from the mining days, but better, tons of projectile points, trade beads, etc. from older times. iirc, Aurora was once the country seat of two counties, Esmeralda in NV and Mono in CA. The survey of the stateline through that area was done to determine which side of the line Aurora lay on.

Wow!! That superimposed shot was really cool. Where you showed the old buildings of the time over the current landscape. Loved that.

Watching history hunters from new zealand love it cant get enough of it its great sarah your husband looks like patrick duffy

"it's illegal to remove anything here' - how's that working out! they took it all! Great video btw.

This is the first I saw of your videos. What a great job! The editing and research makes this better than anything I have seen before....I am a new fan!

Ghosts without a town--very sad to see. Wonderful photo match-ups and detailed history. Great job! 🙌🙌🙌

20:32 This old photo superimposed over modern day was amazing. I kept going back and forth just to try and see where everything was in the vast nothing that is now. I think most amazing was that main road is just gone. If you have no idea, you would not even know that used to be a road, much less an entire city.

I love your videos. I especially enjoy you guys taking me on a ride to visit a ghost town. I'm a history buff and you guys are great history hunters.

Such amazing history. A true gem of a find by you and Sarah. Great video. Stay safe in your travels!!

Jeff you and Sarah do an exceptional job of documenting and researching history. Great job!

Excellent. thank you for the photo over lays. makes it so real.

I loved this episode. Who goes out in the middle of nowhere and draws a crowd? You do! I appreciate you stated several times you couldn't take anything. Looking forward to part two.

This was a GREAT Post...thoroughly enjoyed it!

Loved this video! The old cowboy music scores made it so awesome! Thank you for sharing

I've only recently stumbled across your channel, I am so glad I did! I find historical documentaries - which your videos definitely rival - so interesting I love learning about the history of places like Aurora and Bodie! Being a Brit I am unlikely to ever get to see many of the places you go too. It's absolutely fascinating, you do so much research into the actual history of the places you visit too and the camera work & editing is fantastic. Wonderful seeing the old pictures too. Looking forward to seeing more as I work my way through your video's. Keep up the good work guys!

Can you dig the scenery...It's breath-taking.The West never looked lovelier.Tony has spoken.

What a great vlog! Very well done. Loved hearing the history including the pictures that really brought the town to life. Glad I found your site,

Jeff and Sarah, you are an inspiration! Not only because of your love of history, but I can tell that you love each other. I hope that one day I will have a relationship as wonderful as yours!

Thank goodness a bunch of people got together and saved Bodie. Another xcellent video, rather like being there in person without the nails and smell of sage, but not bad either way.

Very good video and I really like the way you blended historical photos in to match up the view today with the past.

AMAZING HOW THEY GOT LUMBER, EQUIPMENT, AND OTHER BUILDING MATERIAL TO THAT FACILITY .

I really dig the drone footage, upping your game i see!! Good work.

I went there around 1967 or 68 and talked to a guy that said he first visited in the mid 1940’s and was sad to see how much was destroyed or taken, he remembered the boardwalks still in tac. Thanks for sharing 💥

Incredible that you guys made it out there. Absolutely beautiful footage and fascinating history. Mineral County is a special place. Thank you for sharing!

Great work as usual. I really enjoy watching the Mayberry Video. I have the complete set and watch it every night. Such a wonderful place to visit and fall a sleep to.

You had a good traveling partner. Sarah you were a good partner. Very good video.

It's sad and amazing how a town could spring up like that and then disappear. I can't help to think of the trees that were felled and then only used for a few short years. Unless the wood was taken away also. This was very interesting. Thank you.

I still laugh at the road you guys were on😂😂. The video turned out really cool. I like how you put the old photos in where you were standing. I think Sarah liked it more then she is letting on😁😁 and CHP is always watching... and also, you now have Nevada Pin Striping on the car😁

First time watching one of your productions . I'll tell you that this fine and cohesive production dissolved my A.D.D .. Spellbound !

I lived in NV for 8 years. I explored a lot of the state myself, but two things I never went into the middle of nowhere without, one, my legging snake guards, and two, my GUNS. I wore a .44 mag Taurus Raging Bull on hip in a holster, and my AK-47 on a sling over my shoulder.

You really go to some out there locations, but you help shed light on some of the past that has totally been forgotten THANKS great channel like all the history

I'm glad you both didn't get stranded out in the middle of nowhere. Last year on Memorial Day Weekend I almost got stranded out in the Delta near Walnut Grove. I was curious and also trespassing on private property. By the Grace of God, I found a way out. I learned a valuable lesson that day. Don't Trespass and God is good all the time.

Outstanding you guys I really enjoyed I love this kind of stuff thank you for sharing

I love this kinda stuff!!! Thank you for taking us along!!

Excellent video Jeff & Sara well made best i have seen yet. Keep up the great work AAA+++

I have just stumbled across your channel and i have to say WOW i really enjoyed this and how you placed all the photos into where they once stood. You have done a fantastic job and i'm a new sub to your channel now. I live in Victoria Australia and to see old history such as this is great. :)

Gorgeous scenery.

I love your channel. I’ve spent all afternoon watching. Keep up the great work you guys!

Hey brotha, your videos are very well put together. Appreciate this video.

I've been there looking for the remains of a once beautiful old Ghost town. I did find a couple of old shacks and a few foundations. I came through Bodie to get there this was at least 20 years ago..enjoy your travels!

You guys are awesome. I really liked your blend of photos drones, and just going for it. It is dangerous just being there so Kudos to Sarah for being a super trooper.

Wow, brought back memories of me and mom and dad made a road trip back in 78 up to Aurora, Telluride, into Wyoming, checking out old historic places along the way.

Great video. It's surprising how little is left there. . from over 100 buildings to almost nothing. great video, and documentation of it. there will be nothing left in 100 years , but maybe this video will still be out there

I loved the super imposing photos to your visit.

Amazing how everything is gone but you made it interesting with the old pictures and history.

Great adventure and awesome History! Thanks for taking us along ! Greatful for your interest In the History of our past ! Keep up the adventures!

Nuts how that’s the actual ghost town. I keep waiting for you guys to arrive, but you’re already there! Neat that all that happened there, now just the ghosts and remnants remain..

Thank you for taking us with you

Just love your history adventures, thanks again for another history lesson. 🇦🇺 Australia

Absolutely awesome video and cinematography! I’ve been to Aurora, Wonder Mine, Rawhide, French Station and many more sites around Nevada. Back in the late 70s. Very interesting history there. I did find gold ore outside Virginia City back then. I took it to an assayer and he told me it definitely was gold ore but the cost of getting it seperated would be more than it was worth. Of course that would all be different today! This video popped up on my homepage and it’s the first time I’ve watched it. Thanks Jeff and Sarah! Love your channel!

Hello glad to see you made it to Aurora the telling of the town was the Best glad you both found it and all the great photos just like you were in a time machine thank you for the time travel 🏆

Really like ur videos. We have seen all ur videos keep up the great work that u do. Take care.

Loved then and current area pictures loved it..

Thanks for the tour, I always wanted to see Aurora but was never able to get around to it. Now, this old bag of bones wouldn't make, so thank you.

Really interesting video. I really enjoyed watching it. 👍👏👏. Came up on my RU-vid recommendations.

Loving that spaghetti western music. Good stuff y’all. Also Subarus are tough little cars. ;) Excellent drone flying as well. Great video.

Aurora was on my Nevada bucket list to visit, my bro and I rode our dual sport motorcycles south from Yerington, and took the dirt roads all the way to Aurora. I'm glad you mentioned upthread that the road was closed, I don't remember the road from the east being quite that unimproved, though it was almost 30 years ago. When I scrolled back through your index to find the second part of Aurora, I saw a great number of videos I want to watch. I love history like you two do. One Nevada hamlet I'd like to recommend is Jarbidge, north of Elko, in Elko County. That was also on my bucket list, and my cousin took us there a few years ago.

Excellent video. enjoyed it. learned a few things. Thank you.

I could literally listen to you talk all day about these places . Great episode

Impressed......good presentation by History Hunters.....bcuz so much of the town has been destroyed you really had to work to make the show entertaining....i really enjoyed the photos & how you superimposed pic of the old west over where your standing today... Looking forward to more episodes...thanks

I'm so jealous! Tried the back door in about ten years ago bot due to mod and snow melt stopped about 5 miles out. Very cool, good show!

Now that's off the beaten path. We went to Bodie last year. Always wear a hat out in the desert. Cool adventure, I feel like taking a drive now. Thanks for sharing.

As a local historian I can say I really enjoyed your research/old photos and story telling. If in Colo. some time come to Salida and see our very well preserved 1880's historic district. Also the ghost town nearby of St. Elmo.

excellent! thanks, Jeff and Sarah!

Like I say wow love those old pics of that town it’s fun to get where you did beautiful mountains adventure love it

OBTW. Great job. I really like the before and after photos, background music was perfect.

, I love watching your videos they are so informative. I lived in Fowler, calif for acouple of years and I traveled over the serrias as often as I could to explore .alas my time was up and I had to return to Georgia. I'll always cherish my visits to Death Valley , Joshua Tree and the Mojave.

I enjoyed the video, story, narration, editing and time you put in to this video. Very well done! You deserve my thumbs up and subscription. thank you.

Thank you so much! I have tried 5o get there twice…got lost once, almost got washed away by a flash flood. The other time I gave up because it got late . Both times I tried I was coming from Bodie. Thanks so much,

Love your vids!!! Keep them coming. I appreciate the work that you 2 put into these vids. Much respect from Pomona ca

Very well done !!!!!

Best vid i seen in ages and very good quality and informative wish i had found you sooner Thankyou

Great. One of my favorite episodes 👍🏼

Thank You and Sarah For ALL YOUR HARD< HARD WORK For THIS!!..AWESOME!! This was the 3rd time watching this...Stay Safe..

Excellent video !! I love your fricking channel !!!!!

Very nice tour, thanks!

Fun watching and planning our next trip to see some history! You’re the new Houser of neat place to visit with eye candy too 😁

New fan here... Yes, binging...Honestly, I don't know why you don't have more subscribers! Artfully done!

I'm new to the channel. Really happy to have found this gem. I look forward to watching everything else.

Thank you! worth the drive/wait!

Great video! I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you!

Just subscribed. Great job of storytelling editing and video. learned a lot of Mark Twain and others I didn't know. Thanks.

Enjoying your channel very much...looking forward to more videos

As always, very interesting thank you.

Great video! Keep history alive. Thank you!

I enjoyed this very much thanks for Sharing

Love the overlay’s of old photo to present day scenes.

Nice Video! Love Aurora! Been there dozens of times from the Hawthorne side via Lucky Boy Pass. The graveyard is amazing with the most surreal sign. I hope you stopped by Fletchers on the way out/in! Has the best water I have ever tasted filtered down from the volcanic mountains. I always filled my 5 gallon jugs.

that was a piece of obsidian. there's a ton of it just east of Aurora where it was mined by native americans.

That’s sad that there is nothing left !! But thank you for your video & commentary so that we can see where Aurora was & to imagine the people walking around the town and living there I like you love history thank you for your videos👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Enjoyed everything. Thank you for this.

Sad to see some interesting old town like Aurora become a ghost town. It's cool to think that Mark Twain use to be there. 🙂

Very good and well made video. I really liked the repeated attempts to show how the old photos matched the landscape today. You bring a gentle touch to the film which I appreciate. Of the several ways to enter Aurora you seemed to take the one from the Mono Lake area up into the Bodie Hills from the south. The several other ways are much better. I tried and turned back from the road along Bodie Creek twice from Del Monte up and east along Esmeralda Creek. The best way is through Mangum. It leads to the Cemetery first. Please make a film with the similar approach on Candelaria, Belleville, Filben and Basalt.