AUSTIN (KXAN) — What happened to the town of Bluffton, Texas, and why is it called an underwater ghost town? Bluffton was originally located near the western shore of Lake Buchanan. That’s 12 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — What happened to the town of Bluffton, Texas, and why is it called an underwater ghost town? Bluffton was originally located near the western shore of Lake Buchanan. That’s 12 miles ...

Texas is home to more than 500 ghost towns, mostly abandoned because of economic decline, while others were emptied because of natural disasters.

The creation of the lake flooded the townsite of Bluffton, leading to the underwater ghost town. The town moved again ... is not the only lake to flood out old towns. According to an article ...

If you want to keep the spooky spirit going beyond Halloween, maybe a trip to a Texas ghost town will do ... site now called New Bluffton. Occasionally, remnants of Old Bluffton become visible ...

The powerplant closed in 2015, leaving it as a ghost town — with the cemetery being what remains of the once bustling mining town. The Old Schoolhouse Grafton Ghost ... Thistle becoming completely ...

More than 18 months after the incident, state investigators arrested a 21-year-old Bluffton man in connection with a March 2023 shooting at South Carolina State University that injured one student.