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Oct 28, 2009 | Posted by: roboblogger

Ghost town resurrected

Full story: Villager Journal Online

Photo/Tammy Curtis Echoe's of the Past, a ghost town in Thayer, Mo that has been resurrected by Larry and Diane Pugh.

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alice nelson
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Friday Oct 30
 
l would like to know where this is
Thayer Tax Payer

Spokane, MO

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Friday Oct 30
 
ABOUT 2 MILES NORTH ON 63. Than take HWYOOabout 3 miles on left
Brian

Talladega, AL

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Monday Nov 2
 
The entrance on HWY double 0 is not the current entrance to the "Ghost Town" it has been closed since the property was split into two parcels. Alice if you are interested in knowing where the town is I would recommend contacting the current owners. It is on private property but they are almost always willing to give a tour if they aren't to busy.
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San Mateo, CA

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Monday Nov 2
 
I read the "Full story: Villager Journal Online" and I must admit that I have a problem with calling this place a "ghost town". Once in Nevada I followed a little trail into the mountains and found the remains of a town 100 years old with a mine, out buildings, miner houses and an old trading post, now that was a ghost town. Once in Arizona, I followed a little trail up a ridge 20 miles north of Phoenix and found the 800 year old remains of an Indian camp on top of a mesa, complete with arrow slit fortifications, foundations for houses and communal grinding holes, that was a ghost town.
But a bunch of buildings made by a religion zealot to promote his religion zealot-ism, NO, that's not a ghost town, that's a bunch of old buildings.
Brian

Talladega, AL

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Wednesday Nov 4
 
Searcher wrote:
I read the "Full story: Villager Journal Online" and I must admit that I have a problem with calling this place a "ghost town".......
But a bunch of buildings made by a religion zealot to promote his religion zealot-ism, NO, that's not a ghost town, that's a bunch of old buildings.
I think the title would read more appropriately as "ghost" town. This was a story published two days before Halloween it was not written two days before celebrating the 150th anniversary of Thayer. The current owners do not act as though they are restoring an 1820's homestead nor was the article written as though it was a place of historic significance. Try not to take things to literal or serious, its a fun place with some local "culture" to it nothing more and nothing less.
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Oakland, CA

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Friday Nov 6
 
Brian wrote:
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I think the title would read more appropriately as "ghost" town. This was a story published two days before Halloween it was not written two days before celebrating the 150th anniversary of Thayer. The current owners do not act as though they are restoring an 1820's homestead nor was the article written as though it was a place of historic significance. Try not to take things to literal or serious, its a fun place with some local "culture" to it nothing more and nothing less.
Your right, but I don't think they were going for a "ghost" story, I think they wrongfully called this place a "ghost town".
Ghost Hunter
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Monday Nov 9
 
SEARCHER,

Apparently you did not know Dode Jones.
If you had, You would not question the term "ghost town"
The disembodied sole of Dode Jones is still here.
I don't believe it takes 800 years to make a ghost.
Lots of lives were changed, for the good, because they attended service at this now ghost town.
To bad you did not attend some of the sevices. You might have a different opinion of "religion zealot"
How long should we wait to re-submit this article, where the term ghost town would not offend you.
Until then, Probably the best term to use is HOLY GHOST TOWN.
Hey

Ozark, MO

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Monday Nov 9
 
Thats a bullshit story in the paper!!!!
old resident

Phoenix, AZ

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Sunday Nov 15
 
jim jones comes to mind when i read this
COB
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Sunday Nov 15
 
old resident wrote:
jim jones comes to mind when i read this
... that's what I called it as a young kid growing up around here
Seems kinda creepy to me. The whole concept of the place. Then there were always the stories i would hear about Alein abudctions, burried cars and buses and the like.

Course to me these were always stories ... I never verified any of it ... but that Jones fellar sured seemed a might odd to me
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