It so happens sometimes that people leave the settled territories. Then, on the site of a once prosperous town, it remains empty, a little mysterious and creepy settlement. Ghost town. IN mid-19th century in Grasshopper Creek, in the southwest of the state Montana, found a small gold nugget. Soon on the banks of the stream gold diggers raced. At first, the vein was considered rich, and the population began to grow by leaps and bounds. The village was named Bannak, in the honor of the Indian tribe that once lived in these parts. The places were quite wild, remote from civilization. 
Photo from open sources By 1863, there were open post office, and he received the status of a city. Bannak has become the capital of the county, and then, even for a short while, and the entire state. FROM from the very beginning there was created its own police, not subordinate to the federal. But by the beginning of the 1880s, gold the fever is gone. Mine gave less precious metal, and the population began to thin. However, he was not abandoned finally. The immigrants achieved the status of Bannak historical monument, and now the remaining several dozen houses are preserved and maintained. Voices from Ghost Town has become a favorite destination kind of specialists in paranormal phenomena. After all the supernatural beats there not with the key, but with a real fountain. 4 August 12, 1916, 12-year-old Dorothy Dunn drowned in a stream. She soon began to appear to her friends. Ghost girl in a blue dress like as if calling them somewhere. Over time, she began to be unfamiliar to people. Sometimes she was seen on the way to the stream, sometimes where the Dunn family home was located, sometimes in the lobby of the Mid Hotel. Ghostbuster Greg Burch Field claims he managed to make contact with the ghost of Dorothy in the hotel building. IN proof he shows a tape on which Greg can hear the question: “Is that you, baby?” A teenager answers: – And you check! True, the teenage voice is very obvious synthesized by an electronic device. Curious what dorothy see only girls and very rarely adult men, but never boys, women and the elderly. 
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A photo from open sources Hunting for the sheriff But the main star among the ghosts of Bannak is the former sheriff of this town, Henry Plummer. Most often it can be found at the place where the saloon was located Skinner. At one time it was a real stash. History Sheriff’s life and death, Plummer once shook America. We can safely say that the fate of this man was reflected Wild temper and cruelty of the Wild West. Very young man Plummer arrived in Nevada City. At first he worked hard in bakery and saved up enough money to buy a small ranch. IN 1856 Henry, who was known as educated and educated man, was elected sheriff. He got down to business so cool and enjoyed such respect and authority that in a year he re-elected to the same position. However, the 25-year-old Plummer is not lucky – burned out on a passion for a married woman. One of the local Henry and his wife found the gold diggers one evening. By one version, a cheated husband pounced on the sheriff with fists, by another – challenged to a duel. Plummer immediately proved that shoots better than the opponent. Despite the intercession of local residents claiming it was self-defense, the sheriff was sentenced to 10 years and imprisoned in San Quentin. But supporters of Plummer showed persistence. In addition, a young man was found tuberculosis. And the former sheriff was free after six months. During the conclusion of the Plummer ranch burned down, and again he was left without a penny. For some time he worked as a clerk in a grocery store, and then again got stuck “in a story with a fatal outcome” – shot in poker partner brothel. Plummer was arrested again, but the evidence was not enough. However, in prison, Henry was identified by a petty thief as stage robber. He allegedly accidentally survived. After one of raids and confidently pointed to Plummer. However, the witness himself the former sheriff once arrested, and many felt that he was just settles scores. Henry did not wait for the denouement: his ex sweetheart bribed the jailer, and Plummer fled in the unknown direction. Letters of a Dead Man Perhaps Young the man decided to submit to fate and embarked on the slippery path of the robber it was then or was involved in criminal activity even earlier. First, he tried to cover his tracks: sent to one of California newspaper note according to Henry Plummer with two accomplices were captured and hanged in Washington state, and he headed to Bannak. There, according to one version, he put together a gang and healed on a wide leg. As it turned out, Plummer was pushing for a place Sheriff, but lost the first election. 
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Фотоfrom open sources In January 1863, his lucky opponent was shot dead while trying to apprehend robbery suspects. Plummer was able to present the case in such a way that the murdered sheriff came to a friendly meeting with the bandits, and Henry laid everyone on location. Naturally, Plummer immediately took the coveted post. Yes and he had no rivals – by the spring of 1863, the surrounding mountains flooded with dozens of gangs. At first, the locals were happy with the new Sheriff – in a short time he and his assistants shot and outweighed several dozen robbers. Then some realized: Plummer is playing a double game, and the criminals he caught were only only competitors. The inhabitants of the American West in those days were not defenseless sheep. Prospectors of Bannack and neighboring Virginia created a committee of vigilantes, or vigilantes, and opened a hunt for bandits. In January 1864, they caught and hung four a dozen accomplices Henry. Probably one of them “split”, and the sheriff came under suspicion. In February 1865, a squad of 65 armed vigilantes burst into Plummer’s office. He was twisted judged and immediately hanged. True, for past merits buried according to custom, and not like a bandit. By the way, looting in the surroundings did not stop, although they began to decline. Last the gang was defeated only in 1867. Disputes about guilt Plummer continues to this day. Evidence of his connections with the bandits were sketchy and controversial. No documentation the vigilantes did not lead. Yes and there are no guarantees that they are not in the ranks robbers who wanted to settle accounts with the sheriff. In a year after the death of Plummer on the fences, the walls of the houses of Bannak became the inscriptions appear: “Henry is innocent.” Sometimes they were made chalk, sometimes blood. For a long time it was considered that these are tricks supporters of the executed sheriff. But time passed, the town was abandoned Plummer’s name was forgotten, and inscriptions continued to appear. Moreover, his grave was found open twice. Second time mysterious the grave digger stole the skull of the deceased and for some reason hid it in Skinner’s back room. Shortly afterwards the wooden drinking establishment flared up and burned to the ground. But the platform where there was a saloon, is still a favorite place for “walks” of the ghost Plummer. Sometimes, tourists even manage to take a picture in which the blurry figure of a young man is visible. But the mysterious inscriptions blood stopped appearing when in 1993 a district judge Beaverhead reviewed the Plummer case and delivered a verdict: allegedly innocent. Mark ALTSHULER �
Time
