If they have a lair at all, it is unclear where. They seemingly exist only to lurk through the villa ruins, forever seeking prey. Dean Domino questions whether being "alive" applies to the ghost people, and claims there are hordes of ghost people living under the Sierra Madre's streets, comparing it to a hornet's nest. Their manner, movements, and general presence are seemingly much akin to a malignant haunting to any who have survived and fled attempts to breach the Sierra Madre. The moniker "ghost people" can also be ascribed to the ghostly manner in which they inhabit the ruins. Virtual immortality and death only with limb amputation is also a mutation very specific to them. However, they seem to be a different mutated evolution and not simply a feral ghoul or glowing one in appearance, as their ability to use and construct weapons is still intact. Dismembering them reveals bright, glowing blood, akin to that of a glowing one and they also shriek before attacking. Ghost people are similar to feral ghouls in several aspects. The locking mechanisms would quickly corrode when in contact with the Cloud, to the point where the hazmat suit had to be cut open with a cosmic knife, yet the suits still did not provide proper protection from the poisonous gas cloud. Incidentally, the gas leak itself was also created at Big MT, and with the hazmat suits being an "experiment within an experiment." The hazmat suits were bulky, nearly impossible to speak through and grew stiff with use. Hazmat suits designed specially in Big MT arrived to protect against the noxious gas. During construction, a strange gas that would evolve into the Cloud began leaking from the pipes and hospitalized a worker with severe lung and tissue damage further progress was called off until protective gear could be issued. The ghost people originate from construction workers that worked on the Sierra Madre Villa before the war.
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They are the only ones able to walk in and out of the Cloud unharmed. A green vapor that seems to be a by-product of the Cloud escapes and is reabsorbed continuously from their hazmat suits by means of aeration on their thighs, elbows and face mask, indicating that their mutation originates from permanent exposure to the Cloud. Ghost people are mutated humans changed forever by the Cloud, a combination of corrosive rust-like toxins unique to the Sierra Madre. I’ve been meaning to try and do some night photography out here.“ The origins of the Ghost People are a mystery, as is their strange reverence of the holographic ghosts that fill the city streets. Five of the original 30 structures in town remain (and all have been restored and are in good condition – you can even go inside some), and there’s an interesting old graveyard on the way to town with very Wild West-ish tombstones.
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This is one of the places that’s been restored with some effort at preserving the Ghost Towny-ness of the area (as opposed to something like Calico), which was probably less of a stretch since people lived here until 1944. I like visiting Ghost Towns – I like imaging what they were like when they weren’t ghosts and I enjoy the slightly creepy picturesque quality of them. What’s Nearby?: The Subway (Bottom Up) Hike, The Subway (Top Down) Canyon, Right Fork of North Creek (Hammerhead Approach) See this website for more detailed direction and information on Grafton’s history. Red Tape/Notes: Grafton is reached by driving through Rockville along highway 9, then branching off onto an unpaved dirt road for 2 miles. Location: near Rockville, just outside Zion National Park, Utah Epic Travel → North America → Mountain States → Utah → Zion National Park → Grafton Ghost Town