Eagle Mountain, a ghost town three hours outside of Los Angeles, has been abandoned for the past two decades. According to SF Gate, the unoccupied property was purchased for $22.5 million by a mysterious bidder known as Ecology Mountain Holdings. The community has ties to its movie star neighbour to the west, Christopher Nolan, and numerous foremen still live in the region to keep an eye on the dusty lot. Bloggers have uploaded films on YouTube recounting their illegal trips into the desolate plot, providing an unnerving glimpse inside the town's abandoned railway tracks and vacant streets. Ecology Mountain Holdings' aims remain unknown.
Once a mining town, Kaiser Steel employed the majority of the area's 4,000 citizens at its height. By the 1970s, foreign rivalries and environmental concerns had led to cutbacks, population reductions, and eventual phasing out. Eagle Mountain Community Correctional Facility, created in the 1980s, brought some life back into the community but was closed down by the California Department of Corrections in 2003 after a tragic riot.
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