GHOST TOWN - BODIE ( UNTOUCHED ) 

"it hasn't been touched in over a hundred years" same

Bodie Untouched. Sounds like me

This looks like armadillo from red dead redemption

I love places like this. I think about its history, people, and sometimes I feel dragged into it, and see myself living in those days.

My mom actually went to Bodie and was able to find a picture of her Great Grandpa I was so excited to see this video so I could see what my mom got to see

I've been to ghost towns also. But never have I seen one so fully stocked. Apothecary, canned foods, tools, carriages and saloons that look like they may re-open tomorrow. I want to go there.

OHHH BODIE I thought they found a body

Red Dead Redemption

Many people are complaining about exploring this "shit" place but I totally disagree.. I think this place looks so amazing! I can only imagine what it was like to live in that place. Good video! :)

This is an amazing video of a place practically frozen in time. For those of you complaining this is a bad video, you clearly don't have appreciation for history, or urban exploring in its truest sense, for that matter. I'm sure there are some fake, staged "ghost" videos for those of you who like that sort of thing. Thank you, Josh. This is a great video.

Bodie hasn't actually been untouched for 100 years. The last residents of the town were back in the 1940's when around 90 people still lived there, compare that to the nearly 3,000 who lived there in 1880 and you can see that there was definitely a decline over the decades. By 1950 the town was empty.

"I wonder how many craps have been tooken in this outhouse?" DEEP THOUGHTS by Josh 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Can you go to Glenndale abandoned mental hospital?? It's in Maryland

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This is probably one of my favourite ghost towns. It's so beautiful. And it goes to show that if you take care of something, it'll last a very long time.

Sometimes when seeing old places like this I almost feel a heart-achy feeling of longing. Idk why. Any explanations?

Thank you for posting this. I am a huge Little House on the Prairie fan. Watching what houses look like back in the days. That made my day.

looks like the perfect location for a film.

5:15 "I wonder how many craps have been (taken) in this outhouse". LOL! You gotta love Josh.

Love bodie and ghost towns it's crazy how people just pick up and leave everything!

8:58 to 9:01. What is that sound???? Anybody???? It sounds like a voice but not. Super cool.

1:17 was that English😂

Omg LOVE this place! It's amazing to see all of the original items untouched. So cool! Looks like it was a nice little town ☺

Hey josh I'm a big fan d I suffer with depression and anxiety and your videos are the only thing keeping my happy so please don't stop

When I was a kid we still used well water, sometimes from a bucket and sometimes from a pump/faucet. In some places, outhouses were still used, too. We had indoor plumbing but sometimes it was bad/weak. At some point, something happened and the well water became contaminated. Eventually, the city of Dallas, TX put in the sewer, water, etc. for my little town of only a few hundred.

Ah. I remember this place. I have had some pretty bad run ins here. They used to call the old place Blackwater.

I've been to Bodie twice and I've got to see the entire time I was there you get this very odd eerie feeling, especially when looking inside buildings. Of course, the ghost town is haunted, but in broad daylight you just get this really odd feeling in your chest like you're being watched. Bodie is a really cool place to visit and I feel like everyone should go there at some point if they like historical landmarks.

"Outta da damn way!" Arthur Morgan 1899

It would be so great if developers would make a game or a simulation of the town in its booming years! A simulation game that you can play with a Oculus Rift perhaps. So you can go back in time and see the town with its inhabitants in 3D! If i was a developer, i would make this town come back to life again, wow!

I'm obsessed with you ugh

This was amazing. You have an old soul...just like my daughter and I. I always say I would have loved living back in these times. So great. Thanks again. ~Laura ~

The windows are not new. All of the buildings were once painted. It looks like the windows were repainted. Rather than restoring, they have chosen to preserve the town in this state of deterioration. They keep up the roofs, and spray the exterior with chemicals to protect from the elements.

I when there 2 years ago and wow- it's amazing and beautiful! I'd love to go back there and get more videos! Also I've seen a lot of paranormal activity in Bodie, it was cool!

I asked my mom if anybody lived there and my great grandfather use to live there it was so cool

My parents , brother, sister and I visited Bodie in 1975. It was not as well maintained back then. Very cool place. I could almost hear the old souls voices in the wind. My sister found an old Presidential elections pin under the chapel stairs with James Buchanan's name on it and the year 1856. She gave it to the museum curator on site. I'll never forget that place. Thanks for the trip back!!! :-D ♥♥

The last inhabitants left in the 1950’s and some building still have electricity. For example, the Rangers quarters and the general store he’s looking into at 6:00 has lightbulbs that stay dimly lit hanging from the ceilings. The town itself was also known as one of the deadliest towns in the west, where one of the wealthiest men in town at a time was the coffin maker, whos house and gallery still stand.

I don't know how can you hate Josh just because he is not exploring haunted shits all the time. Like ffs, this ghost town looks insane dude, i always like to imagine how it was back then.

I really like this young man, every time I see one of his videos he makes my heart smile, bless him & his family 😇👍👍

The people during that time would never have thought that 100 years down the line, their home, work, and school would be a tourist destination, and flying machines that took moving pictures would be scaling over it...awesome video!

Hey Josh, Some of the building remind me of the TV series "Little House on the Prairie"...

4:19 Josh: so they block off the other one and not this one? Me: probably because they thought no one would be dumb enough to go in. Except josh. And me.

Dude, you have to go to Hoia Baciu forst in Romania :D. They say that there is a ghost forest and it has very paranormal activity and alien sightings and all of that.

I love this. Old friend was park ranger here. I slept in old house one night & literally saw a ghost. Truth. Head Park Rangers wife had me for breakfast next morn to know what I saw. She told me all the rangers that live in Bodie (about 1975) saw ghosts & even heard ghosts talking in the mine which at that time was closed off to public. She also stated that the school bell would ring on its own... in the morn when school began or the afternoon when school out. Only rangers were allowed in & worked to stabilized both mine & homes..

I grew up in the area and went here on a school trip. Changed my whole life.

I've been to Bodie. It's a really cool ghost town and is kept in a state of arrested deterioration by the park service just so people can come and explore the town. It's all in it's original state aside from the few homes which have been restored for the park employees to live in. Bodie itself is a really cool mining town which played a big part in developing modern mining practices and technology. Fun Fact, it was the first towns to recieve electricity from a dam a few miles away and the power plant is still in the town, though not featured in this video. It was the first real field test for transferring electrical power over power lines.

A wooden house survives about 150 years and an concrete mansion breaks after 50 years........

I have had water drawn from a well like the one here, in a bucket. The water tastes like nothing else! It is always ice cold and tastes wonderful. There was always a metal dipper to dip the water from the bucket into your cup. Or you brought your own bucket to pour the water in and your bucket had a metal dipper, also, that had a flat hook at the end so it would hang on the side of the bucket. My grandfather had a well like this on his farm when I was growing up. He had no running water. The water would stay very cold in a metal bucket in the shade on the back porch.

i wonder why they left in the first place

Great to see bodie threw your lens, just visited this amazing town with my wife, click my face to check the video and what Bodie looks like in 2019. Thanks for sharing

5:30 reminds me of red dead redemption... Anyone else?

It's fascinating for me to look at those old structures and think about who slept or sat there, or who walked through those buildings and what their lives were like.

8:02 Warning to headphone users 😂😂

What makes me happy is that I've been here before a long time ago I was 12 I went with my family and my mom thought it would be hot so I wore my overalls with the shorts and had a tank top and was freezing the entire time. It was snowing. This brought back memories. :) I'm almost 32 now.

Dee-cayed? You're putting the em-phasis on the wrong sy-llable.

I actually visited bodie back when i lived in cali. Its insane how well the dry heat of the california desert preserves these towns. If it was anything like central US the buildings wouldve been long gone.

The town of bodie is so haunted that if you steal something from one of the buildings or even just take a small memento to remember your trip you will be plagued by the bodies curse until you return the item you took. The lady that works at the post office in the next town over (since bodie itself doesn't have a postal address any longer) has testified to the fact that she gets tens of letters and packages every year from people in other states and countries that are mailing back the items they had pocketed since their vacation there along with a letter explaining all the horrible luck that had befallen them since they had taken the items from the town, and would the post Lady kindly return the item to bodie for them. One such story is a man that drove his pickup truck into bodie and took an old piano from one of the houses (back in the early 1990s when the town wasn't an attraction and before security was ever there) and within 5 months his wife left him, his son was killed in a swimming accident, he lost his job and his entire pension and his father came down with a sudden deathly case of cancer and had only months to live. Very sad. The bodie curse lives on.

I can remember exploring Bodie when I was a kid. It was a State Park, but had just become one. This is in the late 60's. You could go into most if not all of the buildings, and even some of the mine shafts. (although my parents wouldn't let me). We weren't allowed to take anything, it was a state park, but I picked up some hand made nails. I thought they were really cool as they were hand hammered and square. Those people went thru some really hard winters, it is freezing butt in the Seirra's.

Great video. Would love to see this for real

The carriage at 7:20 is just like one of the carriages we drive at home (Scotland). It is just amazing to see one from back in those times still preserved. There arent many left around the world. They now cost a fortune, it took us ages to get our hands on one!!. Love your videos and all of the other Exploring with crews' videos :-D

My grandpa was making a video and a ghost said “look in there” in a very deep voice

LOve the store, the big barrels for flour and pickles. Oh I could just see myself in those days walking to the store and church. Oh the barn wood to have it and have a piece of history. I love it. the kids in class were learning the mining process which was neat.

"Look at these mountains" - shows hills

Rather not wishing you a time machine, because you could do a lot of damage in the present. This place is one type of museum in the open air. According to the movie the ring is made forward in japan. On the subject of legend or a real story they made a movie..maybe.

you should explore abandoned places with FaZe Rug

Ghost Adventures from Travel Channel were in Bodie.

Is there something on his camera on the right hand side?

Omg that horse carriage was the coolest thing I've ever seen !!!!!

I was there about 30 years ago when I was camping at death valley. The place was only accessible by a dirt and gravel road in good weather

It was so funny to hear you talk about how old things were.....the sewing machine I use all the time is older than the one you were looking at.

Josh you need to clean your camera lens

Wow wow wow! This is by far my favorite exploring video that you have done yet! Thank you for a glimpse into this stunning piece of history!

I've been there. isn't it called Bodie? :p cool place!

Fascinating video! I wonder if there is someone still alive (80 - 90 years old) who lived there as a kid in the 30's to 50's who can still remember it.

What's your main camera?

In the late 50's, my family went there (I'm just outside of Yosemite ), before it was a State park... I have an old spittoon from there, and some dishes... Their used to be a bunch of old rusty cars to play on... And you could run all over, and inside everywhere... I remember they had a big picture window, and four skeletons playing poker at a table.. THAT terrified me !!!!! I miss the old days where you could just go anywhere, and fly kites in fields, have picnics and things... Those were the innocent times, it sure has changed !!!!! You could also do that at Columbia too, but not anymore....

JOSH OMG I think a spirit said your name at 8:57 Please reply if you think it too!

This so said abandoned village, bodie, was the inspiration behind the Alton towers resort scarefest maze, altonville mine tours.

1:16 what?

I've seen photos of this place, but never realized it was so big, the drone shots helped put it into perspective. Seems like it would be a wonderful relaxing trip. It's one of my dreams to go here... it's even more of a priority now. Great video as usual! Thank you! :)

amazing

It’s good to see your appreciation for the beauty of keeping these things exactly as they were left so long ago, untouched. And also the way you try to put into words the beauty of how it has naturally been slowly touched by the weather and elements over the years. I also like to try to mentally place myself in these places as if I were rewinding the calendar and imagining it as if I were there originally

"6-3=2"

Legend has it, if you take or “steal” something from this place the ghosts will haunt the shit out of you and that’s how it has stayed “preserved” over the years

they actually filmed Back to the future , in that place

Bodie was actually known as one of the worst towns in California in it's heyday. It was just a very hard town, with miners and cowboys and the like trying to make money moving lumber across the lake after the gold ran out. There were actually people living in the town until the 40's. And the city of Bodie burned several times from the 1860's to the 1930's. I'm no expert on the city itself or the Mono Lake area history but from what I know of it, Bodie is a fascinating place

wheres the bodie

Song at 7:34 and 9:59 Among Starlight-Godforsaken (Instrumental)

That globe!! There's Greta's climate change proof!! LOL.

I went to bodie in 2015 with my family & Damn i didn't know any of this back then..

4:28 Two years later you get an answer. That is part of morse code equipment. You are right, a switch was there, and it could be set to anywhere on those metal peices dependent on the needs of telegraphy.

There's a church in San Pedro that was built in 1882. It looks just like the one sitting in the ghost town. But it was white. It had been relocated three times to preserve it. It used to be in a tiny cemetery in my town that was built by a guy with the last name Timm. Some of the graves date back to the 1700!

My grandpa was born there. The road coming in from Hawthorne, Nv side is rugged...but many little kewl houses there.

6:28 looks just like a general store out of rdr2, makes you appreciate the research they put into the gsme

If you guys come to Redding California, (Northern California) then I highly suggest you explore "old shasta" they have preserved the meat chamber and the whole town. You can walk inside the courthouse and the old hanging place. It was a hotspot during the gold rush

I loveeeee seeing abandoned untouched buildings w/stuffs in it! Its vintage and cool how things looked like back in the day! Thanks for sharing, Aloha from Hawaii 🤙🤙🤙

I absolutely love your abandoned adventures & the risks you take. I have learned so much history about the world just from your amazing videos! I can't believe how many places are abandoned all over the world! Thank you so much Josh for all you do!

I love the way you say "Decayed" It sounds like your talking about Donkey Kong... "It's DK!"

I found this video fascinating. The original furnishings let you really feel what life would have been like.

josh I can not travel to well due to my health .watching your videos and how you describe things and tell the history it makes me feel I'm there .I also have learned a lot