Bodie, California — Take a Souvenir, Pay the Price

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High in the hills east of the Sierra Nevada sits Bodie, California. It was once one of the most lawless gold rush boomtowns in the West, and today it's the most famous ghost town in America. Its buildings stand frozen in time, with dishes still on the tables and goods still on the shelves. The town has one rule: take nothing. Visitors who pocketed a nail, a shard of glass or even a pebble have reported illness, accidents and a run of bad luck, and every week the park receives apology letters with the stolen items rattling inside. On this episode of Destination Terror, Carman Carrion tells an original story about a woman who took one rusty nail from a lonely shack and learned what it was…