👉 Colma, California: The City of the Dead 💀

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💀 Welcome to Colma, California — the town where the dead outnumber the living!   Just outside San Francisco, Colma is home to more cemeteries than houses.    😱 For every 1 living person, there are thousands buried.   🌍 Discover why this “City of the Dead” exists and how it became America’s strangest town.    ✅ Fascinating geography + history facts   ✅ Viral trivia perfect for sharing   ✅ A must-watch for curious minds    🔔 Follow for more viral geography shorts and history mysteries!    - #colmacalifornia,  - #cityofthedead,  - #strangesttowninamerica,  - #sanfranciscofacts,  - #ghosttowncemetery,  - #viralgeography,  - #historyshorts,  - #geographyshorts,  - #weirdamerica,  - #triviafacts,  - #viralhistory,  - #fypgeography,

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00:00Did you know there's a city where for every living person there are a thousand dead ones?

00:05Sounds like the start of a horror movie, but it's a real place, and it's in California.

00:09The town of Colma, known as the City of the Dead.

00:12It's half the size of Central Park in New York City, but the population is just 1,500,

00:16while 1.5 million are underground residents.

00:19And the town's official motto says, it's great to be alive in Colma.

00:23It all started in 1849, when the gold rush hit San Francisco.

00:27Hundreds of thousands of migrants flooded the city, searching for wealth and a better life,

00:32which led to a rise in disease and death.

00:34Cemeteries started to overflow, and because of fast expansion, ended up right in the city center.

00:39So the authorities made a decision to ban new burials and move the old cemeteries outside the city boundaries.

00:45That's when Colma was founded, as a necropolis.

00:48It soon became an official town, and since then, almost all of its land has been occupied by cemeteries.

00:54There are about 16 of them, and only a small part of the land is reserved for regular town life.

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