Ghost Town was well over a couple 
thousand acres of houses that a Corp-  
oration had bought up ten years ago.   
     They were then immediately sued in
court by first a couple real estate    
agents, and then later, a couple dozen 
more.                                  
     One thing they all knew was real  
estate law, and they used it to keep   
that Corporation in court for the last 
ten years, filing a new suit every     
year, and sometimes every few months.  
     A court order from the original   
suit had frozen the assets of the Corp-
oration, which included all their prop-
erty, specifically the more than two   
thousand acres of empty houses that sat
in Ghost Town.                         
     What the Corporation had done was 
go directly to the owners and pay them 
* cash for their houses, but before they   
got their cash, they had to sign a non-
disclosure agreement. If they ever     
revealed what they were paid, they     
would not only lose the money, but also
their house.                           
     In less than a month, the Corp-   
oration had bought up almost every     
house there, and everyone promptly     
disappeared. Most of them have since   
been found, but a handful are still    
missing.                               
     Jeremiah Jacobs was the last      
holdout.                               
     Everyone called him JJ for short, 
or just plain Jay. He’d told his       
friends that he couldn't see how he    
could move out of there. That's where  
his wife died, and where she lived with
him for forty plus years.              



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