Ghost Town: Fallis, Oklahoma
by Brian A. Hopkins

The wall was blackened by the old floor heater, except where portraits of loved ones once hung on the wall. Do their ghosts haunt these old abandoned homes?

If so, they're smokers. And they like orange soda. Another Zenith television. Does Zenith even exist anymore?

Another empty refrigerator. They're hungry ghosts if they haunt these abodes.

Again, the ghosts of old portraits and paintings haunt the walls.

You can almost imagine someone still sitting in that rocker, can't you?

What significance, the red door?

The Leaning House of Fallis.

I would not advise lingering beneath that old chimney stack.

This one's too far gone.

Fallis Community Center. No more community, though, and the vines they creepeth forth to reclaim their own.

Lots of junk left behind.

But still no lunch for our weary adventurer ... or the ghosts of Fallis.

Oh my god, they left Leo behind! On vinyl no less!

Ho, ho, ho.

Leftovers.

The old ivories.

A couch on which you could make out with your sweetie.

And a parting shot.

That concludes my exploration of the Oklahoma ghost town Fallis. Why did the town die? Where did all the people go? Why did they leave so much behind?

The ghosts aren't talking...

 

Addendum: Just a few followups, compliments of Google...

This link will take you to an excerpt from the book Ghost Towns of Oklahoma by John Wesley Morris (source of the material I excerpted). It tells a bit more about Fallis, but still doesn't clarify the reasons for the town's demise.

Wikipedia has some brief information and census data for Fallis (pop. of 28 in the 2000 OK census).