Why Places became Ghost Towns - Multiple Choice

Pripyat was evacuated after the Chernobyl disaster.

Pyramiden, on Svalbard, was sold to the Soviet Union in 1927. The state-owned Russian mining company Arktikugol Trust abandoned the village in the 1990s when the mine closed.

Beaumont-en-Verdunois was destroyed during the Battle of Verdun in 1916, and never rebuilt.

In the late 1990s Pleasure Beach peninsula was cut off from the rest of Connecticut by a fire destroying the bridge connecting it, after which it was abandoned. It now is a tourist attraction.

Saint-Pierre was fully destroyed by the eruption of Mount Pelée in 1902, leaving (according to the legends) all but 2 residents dead.

Hurricane Irma destroyed 95% of the village on 6 September 2017, after which it was abandoned.

Jonestown was established by the Peoples Temple Cult. The cult committed "revolutionary suicide" on 18 November 1978, after which the few survivors were relocated and the town was sealed.

Caraíbas was located over a geological fault. After a strong earthquake on 9 December 2007 the village was evacuated and abandoned.

Armero was covered by volcanic lahars from the Nevado del Ruiz volcano on 13 November 1985.

Agdam was captured in July 1993 by Armenian forces. The population was forced to flee, and the city partially destroyed.

Old Goa was the second capital of Bijapur, and the administrative seat of Portuguese India. The population of 200,000 was ravaged by malaria and cholera epidemics, after which the last 1,500 residents were moved away to a nearby village in 1775.

Old Ayutthaya was the capital of the Ayutthaya Kingdom in modern Thailand until it was destroyed by Burmese forces in 1767.

Paoua and many villages in the region have been abandoned after heavy fighting and killings by both government and rebel forces between 2005 and 2008.

Kolmanskop was a German diamond mining settlement created in 1908. It was abandoned in 1956 after the diamond supply dried up.

São Martinho dos Tigres was a fishing settlement on Ilha dos Tigres. Its water supply came from a nearby town on the mainland, but as sea levels rose the supply line was severed. São Martinho dos Tigres was abandoned shortly afterwards.

Kelso was repeatedly flooded by the Clutcha river. After a major flood in 1980 it was decided to move the settlement entirely.

The town was established in 1878 when rain was plentiful as a farming community in the outback of South Australia along a newly established railway line. It was abandoned when inhabitants discovered crops did not grow well under normal rain conditions.

Venture used to process beech bark, but as the value of bark declined and costs of transport rose the village was abandoned.

The last resident of Lindenfeld, Paul Schwirzenbeck, died in 1998.

Bommenede was flooded multiple times, with the last flood in 1682 leaving the village too destroyed to rebuild. It was left in the water, and can still be seen in the Grevelingen lake.