The gist of the plot is this: two swindlers, Philip Arnold and John Slack, salted a plot of land to get rich from investments. We wrote about that particular hoax before. The Great Diamond Hoax pulled the already dying town into oblivion. Dubbed simply as “Mexican Springs”, the small town was inhabited by Confederate soldiers after the American Civil War. It wasn’t always named after the famous playwright. Even less people are in the mines a handful of bold adventurers may have explored them, but only specters continue to work there.SHAKESPEARENo, not the Bard this is a town in New Mexico. Save for a few bold residents and ghosts, nobody inhabits the towns on this list. NOT GEMSTONES, GHOSTS - SPOOKY ABANDONED MINESIn the spirit of Halloween, let us take a dive into a few abandoned mines and towns.
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