Inside ghost town abandoned 60yrs ago before eerie prediction of tragic events came true…but visitors now flooding back
A CREEPY ghost town - dramatically abandoned by its residents over 60 years ago - has started to see visitors flood back to the eerie streets.
The forgotten town of Yukon, Florida, inside the city of Jacksonville, was ditched years before tragic predictions about the area came true.
These once vibrant streets were filled with homes, paved streets, and even had its own streetcar line.
Despite this, the town quickly turned into an eerily quiet spot inside a major Florida city.
Yukon’s vibrancy was suddenly and unexpectedly extinguished in 1963.
The area’s fate changed after 1939 when the government started to build the huge Jacksonville Naval Air Station right next door.
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This once thriving community was met with the shock news in 1963 that changed the history of the community forever.
The US Navy told the shocked community that their town would be shut down because it had become a flight and safety hazard.
This terrifying prediction wiped this bustling town of its community and 176 years of life and history.
These terrifying worries came true when three crashes confirmed the navy’s fears had been wise.
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A Navy Conair C-131F transport plane plunged into nearby waters while attempting to make an emergency landing at the military site, in 1983.
After this, a Navy jet crashed near the former town during a rainstorm in 2005.
Even a commercial plane faced disaster in this former town.
The plane, with 143 people slid into St. Johns River after landing on a slippery runway went wrong, in 2019.
Despite these terrifying accidents and its eerie past, the deserted area has transformed into a visitor’s spot.
Most buildings were demolished after residents fled but some history junkies are still able to see spooky remnants of the old town around.
This includes a historic brick road, a former Post Office, and even a Baptist church.
The traces also include the spine-chilling Mulberry Grove Plantation cemetery, where the graves of enslaved people and others from the area still stand.
Yukon is now also a popular spot with hikers as the Navy handed the land to the local council in 1989 and it became Tillie K. Fowler Regional Park.
PAST LIFE
Yukon started as the Mulberry Grove Plantation in 1787, after the land was granted to Englishman Timothy Hollingsworth by the Spanish.
The town’s second phase of life came after the US Civil War.
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Arthur M. Reed - the plantation’s final owner - sold part of this land to the enslaved people who stayed there.
The area then became known as Blackpoint Settlement before it turned into Yukon during World War One.
