Despite a recent attack to reopen it , Ghost Town in the Sky — an allegedly cursedamusement parkin North Carolina — has recently been put on the market for $ 5.95 million , The Charlotte Observerreports .
The 250 - Akko Wild West - themed attractive feature , which open in 1961 , posture atop Maggie Valley ’s Buck Mountain near Asheville , North Carolina . Perched at a 4600 - foot elevation , it can only be reached by a chair lift , an incline railcar , or a really long hike .
Valerie and Spencer Oberle have been working tobuy the parking area , animate it , and reopen it , but have faced severalsetbacksalong the manner , including serious financingissues . Valerie Oberle toldThe Charlotte Observerthat although their crack has exit , they have n’t abandoned their hopes of resurrecting the abandoned mountaintop attraction . It ’s unmanageable , she enunciate , since “ the property retain to degenerate as the owner has not taken any measure to preserve , ” but the duad is still essay to raise funds to purchase the Mungo Park . In the meantime , the park is still up for grab .
Ghost Town in the Sky bring in its cursed reputation for a few different reason . In 2002 , a mechanically skillful malfunction trapped holidaymaker in the chair lift for hours , and in 2010 , a catastrophicmudslideblocked the only route to the Mungo Park . But perhaps the most unsettling event occurred in 2013 : A cowboy , in the middle of staging a routine ( pretend ) shootout , wasshotand injure with an actual fastball . We do n’t know how or why the gun was loaded , but the incident seems a littleWestworld - ian .
Along withWestworld , movies likeZombielandandFinal Destination 3have popularized the idea of the creepy forsake musical theme park , and social media has become a consummate platform for adventurers to divvy up photograph and videos acquire at the parks themselves . The blogger known asThe Carpetbaggercovered Ghost Town in the Sky for his YouTube channel in 2017 .
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[ h / tThe Charlotte Observer ]
