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Abandoned Ghost Town Oil Field in Mentryville
The oil boom town, which Charles Alexander Mentry founded in 1876 as California’s first commercially viable oil well, thrived until the 1920s, when production started to slow down, and its residents began to leave the area in the early 1930s.
Mentryville is a historic ghost town and oil-drilling village outside Santa Clarita, California. Mentryville, the first oil boomtown in California, was named after Charles Alexander Mentry, a California oil tycoon.
Peter Mentry, the father of Charles Alexander Mentry, was found dead on a steep mountain crest four miles east of Newhall. His body was skeletal. Coroner Holland decided against opening an investigation. In 1886, the residents of Pico Canyon were perplexed by a mystery that was finally solved when bones were discovered.
The house they stay in is now abandoned, and it is haunted. If anyone wants to visit the place, you will receive a warning. When a group of the paranormal team investigated the house, it affected them, like there were either getting possessed or driving them crazy.
The house owner did not like them and wanted to kill them all. Even though they provoke the…
