Sixteen men died in the Pea Ridge Mine during its 40 years of operation from 1961 to 2001. Why this place closed down is still unclear. Around 80% of the richest Iron ore deposits in North America is still under the ground at this location. It is like everyone just left the place for no reason. Strange sounds can be heard coming out of the mineshaft late at night. What did those miners uncover digging so deep in the earth? Was it a secret passage to hell?
September 2004 update/correction. A reader did some research on the Mine in regard to why it shut down. Several newspaper clipping at the two local newspapers and other documents found on-line dealing with economics, prices, etc., state that due to a huge decrease in iron prices, the mine was shut down in 2002 because of operational costs. (Which took me almost two months to find out. Nothing was found about Mine on the town’s main web pages. Really makes it look like they were hiding something. But it looks like all they were hiding was a big money and job loss to the town.)
