Accidental Discovery of a Ghost Village! | Photo

According to SAEDNEWS, Jay Curtis, who runs a YouTube channel, was filming in the Llandarcy area of Wales when he suddenly spotted a collection of stone houses, empty streets, and abandoned buildings from above.

The houses had red roofs and decaying walls, with no signs of life around them. This silence and emptiness gave the place an eerie and unusual appearance.

Curtis says he initially thought it might be a film set, since many film projects are shot in Wales in recent years. But when he flew his drone closer, he realized he was looking at a real village—a complete settlement with houses, garages, electricity, and lights that were never actually inhabited.

The footage he released shows rows of empty houses with boarded-up windows, weeds growing in the pathways, and buildings slowly deteriorating. The scene was so strange that many internet users compared it to abandoned horror movie towns.

Later investigations revealed that this abandoned village was part of a large project to build a modern and sustainable township—a project even visited in 2013 by King Charles III, who was then the Prince of Wales.

More than 20 years ago, the area was part of the Llandarcy oil refinery, the first crude oil refinery in the UK, which operated from 1922 until it closed in 1997. After its closure, the land remained unused for years, with industrial remnants and pollution left behind.

In the early 2000s, a plan was launched to transform the industrial site into a modern village with traditional architecture and an environmental focus. After extensive cleanup operations, construction began, and the first phase was built as a model of the final village.

The project was supposed to eventually become a town with around 10,000 residents, but development never continued. Fewer than 300 houses were built before the project suddenly stopped; streets remained unfinished and houses prepared for living were left empty and abandoned.

Jay Curtis’s aerial videos quickly went viral on social media, with many users asking why the project was halted. However, there is still no clear answer. Some speculate that underground pollution or unstable soil conditions may have caused the project’s cancellation. Curtis says: “There is no clear answer, and that is what confuses people.”