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- Dan Bell narrates this documentary short that details the history of the now abandoned super fund town of Picher, OK. Once a booming town that depended on iron and zinc mining, the residents were unaware that although the mines sat abandoned since 1970, the remaining byproducts were toxic and poisoning the town. Dan takes us on a tour of a school, a church and several homes that are now ruins, painful reminders of the lives and community devastated by tragedy in this haunting film.
- 2022–6.9 (9)TV EpisodeAn upstart mining town fuels the American war effort in both World Wars with its bountiful deposits of lead and zinc; the dusty remains of the mining efforts that put Picher on the map would condemn the city to abandonment years later.
- A brief look at the rise and fall from greatness of various locations in the United States such as Detroit, the Salton Sea, Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and the towns of Picher, Oklahoma and Bodie, California. The decay of these sites as they are retaken by nature have strange beauty that is difficult to look away from.