Picher Oklahoma: America's MOST TOXIC GHOST TOWN | Then and Now 4K 

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I actually live right by Picher. I can see the chat piles from my back deck. This is one of the best videos I’ve seen about picher! The abandoned gas station now has someone living there in a camper.

Im only 30min from there. We used along with hundreds other people, riding atv and dirt bikes on the chat piles. It was open to the public in the mid 90s. They also used the toxic chat in playgrounds and parking lots all over the area. My good friend rode his atv in a sink hole and broke his arm and shoulder

Hot dang. This is a kick a** video! Such a sad story but amazing to see in person! Great vid Nick

What a story. Wow! So sad, and kind of creepy to see. Never heard of this before. Very interesting to see. Thanks for taking us on this journey. Well done!!!

My old hometown. We used to vacation there every other summer growing up to visit family and lived there from 1983-1984. As a matter of fact, I went 5th grade there in Picher and 40 years ago today was the last day of school that year. As it turned out, I was supposed to be in town the day of the tornado but extended my trip in Nashville a couple days. I ended up coming thru and helping out 2 days later and just couldn’t believe what I was seeing from all the damage. 😢

*This has to be one of my favorites. I had heard of Centralia, like everybody else, but I honestly had never heard of Picher!🤔 (You're right. I bet it's because Centralia's issue is still actively burning.)... What a fascinating place Picher is, with some of the town still standing. The tornado took its toll, obviously. It is great that the town is actively guarded. I am not sure that I would want that assignment... It must have really given you a feeling of sadness, as you explored what was not closed off. You did a phenomenal job of highlighting what remains, while wisely following the restrictions, as well as filling in the historical background, and using pics, Nick. Thank you, and your wife so much. excellent 🏚🙏🏻🏚👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I wondered about the missing windows, too. Could they have ALL been blown out so uniformly, during the tornado?🤔 At least all of the debris was removed.😊

The one building on the main drag was. It burned. It was up when I explored it. It was epic when it was around.

I spent a lot of time in pitcher. I had friends that lived there. We use fish in mining ponds around there. They were full of black bass back in the 70's. My dad and uncles, Mickey Mantle worked in the mines around there. We climbed the chat piles swam in the ponds including a famous one of the name skeleton on the south end of Pitcher.

Those parking lots in the housing projects where you were, were parking spaces for each duplex there.

These kind of towns make me sad. I guess I've always have found abandoned places interesting, but I've always have wondered for the reason behind the abandonment. I guess there are many reasons, but I find most of them heartbreaking.

That building on A street down from the school you were wandering about that said Pitcher on it that you thought was creepy was the old auction house.

I grew up around here... my great grandparents house is one of the few still standing... this breaks my heart... I have health issues to this day bc THEY LET US PLAY ON THOSE CHAT PILES!! no one knew they were toxic, supposedly...

You know how close you were to the Tri State marker where you could have been in Kansas, Oklahoma, AND Missouri all 3 at the same time!

It is so sad to see the abandoned places like this. Some time ago people lived there, worked, raised up their kids… and now this 😢

That old building on the main drag you were asking about was Hoppys poolhall.

This is LEGIT! It would’ve been cool to get to talk to the police and get stories from them!

Great video! I've always wanted to visit Picher.

Years ago I used to buy my weed up in picher when I was working out of town in Miami, the guy lived in a trailer park, then after the tornado I went back up to check on him and the whole trailer park was gone, I never knew what happened to him.

Very interesting!

My paternal grandfather was born in Picher and his family was part of the great Okie migration to Central California around 1935ish. By 1940 they were in California. I've been wanting to go there and see the lot where they lived on Oneida St. Although, I didn't know him at all... he was a genetic grandfather. He abandoned my dad as a baby when his under-aged wife died of a diabetic coma. My dad was epileptic and he was adopted by some amazing people, my "real" grandparents. But the story they were often told was the my dad was "damaged" because his father was born in a "town with bad water" -- but that's all we really knew. It wasn't until after my Dad passed and we did some deep genealogy and DNA testing did we learn the whole story. My Mom always said it would be a great book.

I knew a kid that grew up there, he died in his early 50s 2 months ago.

What you called the house with the chimney was the Picher museum.

I was just there today and the high school has a ton of dump trucks and heavy equipment now using it as a staging spot. Looks like they are about to start something big in terms of moving dirt. There's also a few things that you missed. On The west side of town there is a single lot with what appears to be a dedication to two girls who were murdered and their bodies dumped in one of the picture areas, but their remains were not found. To the Northeast, there is a plot of land deemed private property with someone living in a tent on it and some goats in the yard. It appears that they have maintained a home there, even without electricity or other utilities. We also found a house on the east side of town which was still maintained very nicely with several newer vehicles in front of it. It was near the ball fields. I think overall we found six or seven houses in the picture area that were still in use. It's pretty amazing that people still stay there even though they know how toxic it is. As soon as you get outside of town, there's lots of farmland and ranches. I wonder what the effect of the dust from pitcher has on their livestock and on the foods they produce.

That big wall is the football field

wow 😳🤔🤔

These houses were apart of Picher's Low Income Government Housing.

None of the houses have windows.....on purpose?

I live in Quapaw right next to Pitcher and commerce. Home of Mickey mantle lol. Place is closed and nothing but fbi hang around because people dump bodies in the chat piles

TBH i would love to life there far away from everyone and everything.

Believe it or not but the chats are still very popular for people to ride their dirt bikes on. Just don’t get caught lol

I'm just wondering why you didn't have some sort of mask on over your nose and mouth? Weren't you concerned about being contaminated? Like your clothes your shoes and then getting back into your vehicle. Even in your lungs? Cool vid.

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