Ghost Town-Temple, ND

[pyrofella]

I check out the town on Google Earth.... it appears now that the school has either fallen down or has been partly demolished...

[jpipsqueak]

@pyrofella the school was moved to another property to be used as a house addition from what I have heard. There was an old store that has fallen down too, and the old car that was in the shed has been removed by someone too.

[tarzanzardoz007]

kinda boring

[97rwjlover]

Nicoleasmaes99

They don't really abandon it everyone just started moving and soon hardly anyone lived there so buildings just closed down and soon everybody was just gone.

[jpipsqueak]

@97rwjlover I think that would fit the definition of abandonment rather well.

[nikolasmaes99]

why would you abandone a town? its not like there was a nuclear meltdown or somehting..

[raley87]

i love things like this! too bad we dont have much of this in florida :(

[TREYDAWS]

I live here in williston i have lived here my whole life

[stevensj13]

Looks like a great place to rip around on dirt bikes

[nikolaidrostdov]

You have an extremely soothing voice. I'm gonna go watch some more of your videos now.

[prettypinkslip]

Yea dendu they leave because there are no jobs over there. I grew up in a small town in MN of 300. There might still be 300 people there but 30 years after I left the only business in town is the bars.

[SaveOldCars]

Take home that Pontiac! Cool video pal.

[CaterpillarDiesel]

I use to live around Watford City. I also went to school there, 6th, 7th and 8th grade. Really enjoyed the area!!

[67DieHardPatriot454]

LOL I would stay there it would be the most peaceful place in the world. Hardly any nosey people hardly any cops. Thats where i need to go. I willbe happy there.

[Bllackguard666]

Reminds me of a few towns I explored in MT, out past west of Glasgow. Lots of abandoned shit out there, history is really well preserved, and un chaved...unlike bigger cities.

[humvee600]

ahhhhh ty 4 finding my car

[gumdokim]

There must be someone residing there...who do the cows belong too?

[jpipsqueak]

@gumdokim

When these places become abandoned, farmers and ranchers end up buying the land and using it for grazing since they need a lot of it. There is no one in the town, but there are ranches in the area.

[505197]

This place jogs a memory, I may have been there a few decades ago when I was stationed in Minot. It looks so familiar, I remember being in a place like this and finding an old model a or T headlight lens at an old farm, seems like it was near the barn. It's been a long time since I've seen that long view landscape. Truth be told I don't miss it either, it feels forlorn and lonely.

[BrookParkour]

:P. lawl nice vid.

[hi5534]

Damn, have you been out by wyoming at all? this kinda reminds me of a place called superior ( i think that was what it was called).

[AeroPolice]

People come and people go.

[itsthatsebguy93]

i hate seeing nice old cars like that all fucked up and abandoned

[gandalfx77]

lol it was someone car if you enter ghos town respect ppl stuff what left behind and leave it there meaby ttheyer kids will come to there

[oOMarsmannOo]

That looks like a scene for the next Jeepers Creepers movie. Grab yourself a film crew cos I'll be the first one in the cinema.

[erwintipton]

someone still must live there becouse there cattle there. It would be cool to go there at night and see if theres any ghost .

[BigEvan96]

amazing

[x62617]

i played paintball in this abandoned town when I was a kid. there are some cool abandoned farms around there to that are good for paintball.

[handclamp]

I found you video to be very interesting. I like to take a walk back in time.

[dendu]

Why did residents leave this town?

[jpipsqueak]

@dendu

There is a larger town about 10 miles East of there that has a decent-sized population, so after the post office closed in the 1960's, there really were no services there, so I think people just packed up and moved out. The Lutheran Church merged with a nearby church also, so that is why that one closed.

[dendu]

@jpipsqueak  thanks for the info.

[jadrtr]

@jpipsqueak ITs always so sad when that happens. All these cute little towns that were there first r rapidly disapearing. To bad we cant preserve our history better. :-/ Where i live all the places that have been abandon r almost instantly torn down and made into something new.

[robi2000]

I bet the rent is cheap there.

[171apples171]

HOLY SHIT, my dad owned a pontiac catalina. An indian head pops up in the dash when you flip on the highbeams. cool as shit. I would try to get it running for shits and giggles. Pop a battery in there and see if it turns over:D

[commanderwhite12]

por pontiac why do punk alway beat the crap out of old cars but hey they can take a hell of a beating and still live

[mazdaman1982]

ya thats crazy, but what dose the Goverment do about places like this?

[usuk173]

THE COWS......

[pokeahienie]

i see obamas stimulus plan in 3 mo years

[HattieLovesCattie]

Duh.This town has been like this since JFK's time coz no one wants to live where there are no jobs.

[skidmarkpro]

@pokeahienie Yeah

[BrookParkour]

@pokeahienie ROFL!

[ULTIMATEGUITARIST3]

At three 3:00 to 3:01 there is a white line moving at the left side of the road....what was it???..I used a video editor to take any fake items out of the video but this white line is 100% genuine

[jpipsqueak]

Upon further review, I think it was a bird.

[dubbeh]

@jpipsqueak yeah my first impression was a butterfly lol

[audiofringe]

@ULTIMATEGUITARIST3 it looks like a butterfly being blown fast by the wind

[funtarded]

@ULTIMATEGUITARIST3 chaff, you get that outside sometimes.

[grettagrids]

I'd get that catalina and restore it!!!! Dude those old cars are worth mega bucks!!! I have seen some go for as much as 60 grand restored! For that one you might get 2-3 grand. I work in a vintage junkyard:D

[jpipsqueak]

Somebody already took it. In the time between when I shot this video and one year later, someone must have loaded it up and took it away. Have you seen one on craigslist lately?

[muta157]

@grettagrids I KNOW!!! I saw that, and I thought "OMG he doesn't know he's standing next to GOLD." Despite how it looked, the car didn't appear to be that bad of shape. Easily restorable.

[JCREW365]

wat car was that

[jrockstedy]

looks more like an abandoned farming town.

[bernardevans]

Yes (re comment below) what is that white thing that goes across in the fottage 3:00 3:01 (Right to to left along the top of the road)

[josh666675]

this video needed to be longer and better but i ugess it was ok u pressed buttons and wrong times also u went go karrting

[gatetwelve]

I just got back home from visiting Temple.

The Pontiac is no longer in that garage (but the TV is, *whew*).

There is a spray painted sign on the fence surrounding the school, saying "Keep Out - Private". There is also a large hole in the school floor - apparently from a fire. There is a wonderful decomposing deer carcass hanged through the window of the white house, closest the school.

Neither my wife, nor I, could find a good explanation for all the recent household trash around.

[HattieLovesCattie]

I touched ND over a year ago.We drove from Minn to Fargo then back.ND was state # 49 for me.Later in the year I flew to Hawaii so that was my final state.

[mikee8100]

why was it abandoned?

[jovifan771]

cool, love ghost towns!

[Revelation181]

Some days I miss living in North Dakota. I went through Williston, but I must have missed Temple (looks easy to miss).

Glad you took some video of it before it all falls to pieces.

[WaskiSquirrel]

I finally went through this town over Easter break. I took some photographs (not video) and posted them to Flickr.

I wasn't brave enough to enter the school or other buildings, so I'm glad you took the time.

[jpipsqueak]

You should really go back and check out the inside sometime. The school is open and some of the houses still have some stuff in them. I checked out some of your photos on flickr, nice job. If you get out that way again, the St. Olaf Church 10 miles nw of tioga is great too. I have photos of that on Flickr and a video here as well.

[layzie45]

did you guys see that white thing go across the camera at 3:00

[watwifthisguy]

yeah that thing is like an insect

[anabaptistSue]

If they find OIL there it will revive

[judgegixxer]

thanks for posting. A good song for this would have been John Mellencamps "Scarecrow"

[Mollweidekadet]

Excellent footage.

Thanks for posting.

[bigchap29]

hey dog there is still cattle in the field whys that

[jpipsqueak]

somebody rents out the land for grazing range for their cattle...

[bammargerarocks99]

how many miles ne of williston cause i live in williston!

[jpipsqueak]

It is on the gravel road between Tioga and Ray that runs along the BN rail line.

[CookieOnMyShoulder]

wait nvm i dont live around there

[CookieOnMyShoulder]

oh sh*t i live around there

[disturbedone5009]

does anyone know why this town was abandoned?

[jpipsqueak]

There are towns on each side of it that are larger and have some businesses and post offices. It probably wasn't practical to live out there when you could find what you needed so close by. There probably weren't enough kids for the school anymore either.

[disturbedone5009]

oh ok that makes sense.

[kimmarie801]

It looks like farm land. Way back when, farmers had no rights. They lost their lands,their houses were sold, everything on their land was auctioned off if they had a bad season and the crops would'nt grow ect. They made a movie about it in the 80's. This is probably what happened here. Sad as hell. Farmers houses were passed down to them for generations and then taken from them by the law.

[Feterlj]

The movie that your referring to in the 80's was due to the farm economy and banking which went to hell temporarily in the 80's...thats why there were farmers in the 80s that lost their farms.

[kimmarie801]

thanks feterlj, also, would you happen to know the name of that other movie that was made in the early 80's about the couple who moved onto a farm and the milk went bad due to something in the feed- people died, a true story?

[Feterlj]

Not too sure about that movie. Probably worms or chemicals in the feed or something lol, who knows lol.

[kimmarie801]

The movie portrays the true story of what happened in the ealy 80's- people all over the US were dieing from drinking the milk and mothers breast feeding their kids were going to the doc to get tested to see if they had it in their milk. This went on for 2 years. It was reported at first, when the farmer discovered it and no one took him seriously, even though his own baby died from it.

[Feterlj]

Yea I dont know the name of that movie. The only farming tradegy that I know about is the banking/farm economy crisis in the 80's...we watched that movie in my AG class when I was in high school...

[kimmarie801]

lol ok

[Feterlj]

Also this was an abandon town, not an abandon farm...it is now farm land but used to be a town. There are abandon ghost towns scattered all over the midwest... there was two of them north of Salem, SD where I grew up.

[kxmd21]

It is sad to see old abandoned towns in our state but even sadder to see the results of sick and twisted minds that have had to wreck, destroy and demolish everything that former inhabitants of these towns have left. Old historic buildings, schools, churches, etc. have been destroyed by these sick individuals. Alot of memories have vanished with this destruction.

[athrowz]

haha i know that place in live in williston

[176807]

I live in Williston so I go here alot but the last time i was there a farmer came and told me and my friends to leave. Once we were there at night and the bell started ringing. When was this taken?

[jpipsqueak]

It was august 2007. I only saw one other car and that was driven by an old lady who came out there with 2 other old ladies just because they didn't have anything to do on a sunday afternoon and decided to drive out to Temple.

[deathshelper1]

Used to go to school in nearby Ray ND, screwed around in Temple a few times. Its creepy at night.

[WaskiSquirrel]

I liked the tour of the school. I've seen buildings like it. There is one in use in Baldwin (north of Bismarck), and one in use in Amidon (western end of the state).

They're all so similar, but with subtle differences. I've never seen one with the bell tower like the one in Temple.

Keep up the good work!

[jpipsqueak]

Thanks for the comments, my in-laws live in Williston, so I always go exploring the backroads when I'm out there, it's lots of fun.

[nhoverhaulinfan2]

Nice Job, 5 Stars

[PrincessWolf81]

You got some nice videos. Are you going to post anymore, if so, I'll definitely subscribe!!!