(The snow-covered, saw-toothed mountain range)
The ghost town Bodie. Picture found here.
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Take anything from Bodie, and you will fall victim to the Bodie Curse ...
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Below: Remnants of Bodie
Pictures from here.
Bodie Curse
Legends of ghastly deeds and happenings surround the ghost town of Bodie.
Bodie is south of Lake Tahoe and at the edge of the Sierra Nevada.
Like so many of the other small Sierra Nevada towns, Bodie was founded as a mining camp in 1859. Its key founder, W.S. Bodey, died mysteriously that same year in a blizzard and never saw the town rise to prospertiy.
Bodie prospered for more than 20 years and was even California's third largest city at one point. But the fate of Bodie was that of a steady decline, officially being labeled a ghost town in 1915 when its population sank to about 100 residents. Today, Bodie is a California State Park officially maintained in a state of "arrested decay." About 200,000 people a year visit the park.
The Bodie Curse suggests that anyone who steals anything from Bodie will be cursed with hardships until the item is returned. The curse is such that any item stolen, no matter how small, will inflict its wrath on the responsible party. There are many people who have claimed to be victim of this curse. Some say that they intentionally stole to prove the myth wrong.
Most pass through and pay respectful attention to Bodie these days rather than test the curse. The curse is said to be caused by the spirits and ghosts of Bodie who protect its undiscovered treasures from being unearthed.
Many of the structures still standing are said to be haunted by numerous ghosts. One of the most creepy is the Angel of Bodie, at the cemetery, where a 3-year-old child reportedly haunts the area.
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