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Visiting Kitsault: Canada’s $50 million 1980s ghost town

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  1. Lapbunny
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    These pictures invoke a level of existential dread in me that I don't think I've ever felt from liminal spaces before. On one hand, I feel like they should use the fucking space for something...

    These pictures invoke a level of existential dread in me that I don't think I've ever felt from liminal spaces before.

    On one hand, I feel like they should use the fucking space for something useful already. On the other hand, having a stuffed cat that hasn't been played with for forty years is one of those things that it may be worth keeping as it is for the utter depths in my soul it's digging. Jesus.

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  2. AnxiousCucumber
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    Hey I've been there! About 4 hours drive from Terrace. BC. Wikipedia kitsault summary It's gated, not open to the public. A few resident caretakers are the only residents. Long, bumpy, ungraded,...

    Hey I've been there! About 4 hours drive from Terrace. BC.
    Wikipedia kitsault summary
    It's gated, not open to the public. A few resident caretakers are the only residents. Long, bumpy, ungraded, unmaintained logging road to get there.
    Current owner is allowing mineral exploration companies to use the waterfront as a staging area before helicopter moving equipment into the field. It's eerie driving through this town, empty streets and abandoned buildings for the most part, overgrown yards and roads. Looks like it's from the Last of Us.

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  3. 1338
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    That's so cool. Article comments seem to suggest they stopped allowing tours, or perhaps they're just highly exclusive. Too bad, going and wandering around for a day or two would be a cool vacation.

    That's so cool. Article comments seem to suggest they stopped allowing tours, or perhaps they're just highly exclusive. Too bad, going and wandering around for a day or two would be a cool vacation.