Peas on earth: actress Calista Flockhart goes all flower power while boyfriend Harrison Ford enhances his green credentials.

Staff on the NBC 'Today' television programme, dress as fairy-tale characters for their annual Halloween show in New York's Rockefeller Centre.

Revellers celebrate Halloween in the Lan Kwai Fong night life district of Hong Kong, China.

A resident of Manila's Marikina suburb parades in Halloween costume during a parade.

Scarily good fun: revellers enjoy their Halloween celebrations in Hong Kong.

Dead funny: A young boy lays beside a mock grave in the garden of his home in Australia.

Children collect treats from local residents on Halloween Day in North Bondi, Sydney, Australia.

Breakfast DJ Chris Moyles in Halloween garb as he heads to a private party thrown by the controversial BBC presenter, Jonathan Ross.

A young girl dress in costume while trick or treating homes on Halloween Day in North Bondi, Sydney.

A child gets painted by a relative as they prepare for a Halloween costume contest in Manila.

Youths wearing Halloween costumes make the rounds of Manila's Makati city to receive candies and sweets.

Men dressed in chicken suits for Halloween dance on the pavement near the New York Stock Exchange.

US Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama campaigns in front of carved Halloween pumpkins during an election rally in Columbia.

A contestant participating as a Mummy poses before the start of a Hallowe'en costume contest inside an amusement park in Manila.

Hosts get into the swing of things for NBC's Annual Halloween Show.

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In the early 1900’s, things seemed very different, At the beginning of the 20th century diamonds were discovered in the desert area just outside Lüderitz. Sometimes these diamonds lay fully exposed on top of the sand. This caused a diamond rush from all over the world and the once desolated lonely desert was engulfed with the influx of fortune seekers.

Out of this desert grew the elegant town of Kolmanskop, which included facilities like a casino, theatre, skittle alley, butchery, bakery, soda water and lemonade plant, swimming pool and a hospital with the first x-ray machine in the Southern Hemisphere.

Some 700 families lived in the town, including about 300 German adults, 40 children and 800 Owambo contract workers.

Each morning the ice – vendor came down the streets, which were even then smothered with sand, to deliver the daily ration of ice blocks and cold drinks to each household. Wages were good and virtually everything was free, including company houses, milk deliveries and other fringe benefits.

Shortly after the drop in diamond sales after the First World War and the discovery of richer deposits further south at Oranjemund, the beginning of the end started.

So within 40 years the town was born, flourished and then died. One day Kolmanskop’s sand-clearing squad failed to turn up, the ice-man stayed away, the school bell rang no more. During the 1950's the town was deserted and the dunes began to reclaim what was always theirs.

Soon the metal screens collapsed and the pretty gardens and tidy streets were buried under the sand. Doors and windows creaked on their hinges, cracked window panes stared sightlessly across the desert. A new ghost town had been born.

A couple of old buildings are still standing and some interiors like the theatre is still in very good condition, but the rest are crumbling ruins demolished from grandeur to ghost houses. One can explore the whole area within the fences and it creates the perfect set up for good photographic opportunities.

It is important to buy special permits before visiting the town. Permits can be bought from the travel agency next to Pension Zum Sperrgebiet in Lüderitz.

The area is still mined and it is part of the ‘Sperrgebiet’ (Restricted Area). Visitors who apply for a permit must prove that they have no criminal record.

Tourists must provide their own transport from the town. To get to Kolmanskop, drive east on the B4 from Lüderitz for some 10 km and turn south on a well sign posted road.
The other ghost town in the Namib Desert is Elizabeth Bay, but tourists are not allowed to visit it.

In short : Kolmanskop is a ghost town in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the port of Lüderitz. In 1908, Luederitz was plunged into diamond fever and people rushed into the Namib desert hoping to make an easy fortune. Within two years, a town, complete with a casino, school, hospital and exclusive residential buildings, was established in the barren sandy desert.

But shortly after the drop in diamond sales after the First World War, the beginning of the end started. During the 1950’s the town was deserted and the dunes began to reclaim what was always theirs.

Note: Check out another most scary ghost town at HERE

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An unusual competition to create makeup for horror films... crazy peoples are applying halloween makesup that can make people scared. This is really horrible !

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Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, is a medium-security prison for men in Atlanta, Georgia. For many years it has been a notorious part of the U.S. federal prison system. It also has a detention center for pre-trial and holdover inmates and a camp for minimum security male inmates. It was primarily used as a detention center for Cuban refugees from the Mariel Boatlift who were ineligible for release into American society. The prison is located in southeast Atlanta at the junction of Boulevard and McDonough Boulevard. Its population as of July 6, 2006 is 1909 in the penitentiary and 554 in the camp.

 



There's an abandoned prison farm in SE Atlanta, hidden in the woods and completely covered by kudzu.










Buildings are so overgrown that they are deeply hidden in trees.
According to Atlanta's "History of the Dept of Corrections" page, the prison farm was operated from 1945 to 1995.




There are rumors of the 290 acres being converted into a park soon. Increased patrols are also occurring so don't park next to the road.

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