Eerie pictures reveal a near-abandoned ghost town with desolate churches and empty homes littered with once-prized belongings.
The haunting images show deserted houses, overgrown gardens and a church where a calendar remains stuck on September 2002.
Photographer Dave Conlon, known online as Freaktography, captured the forgotten settlement of Solsgirth in Manitoba, Canada.
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The village was once a thriving farming community, boasting shops, a railway station, grain elevators and two churches.
But its population gradually dwindled as residents moved away, with just three households reportedly remaining in 2021.
Remarkably, Solsgirth was originally located around six miles north of its present position.
Known as Toddburn, the settlement relocated after the railway changed its planned route.
“The whole town picked up and followed it,” Dave told Jam Press.
Among its most striking surviving buildings are St Stephen’s Anglican Church, built in 1906, and Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church, which was converted from a former schoolhouse.
The latter’s distinctive domes were handcrafted by Michael “Mike” Swistun, a local carpenter who once performed as the world’s strongest man with a circus.
Both churches held their final services in 2002, just four months apart.
“For 50 years, two faiths worshipped a stone’s throw apart,” Dave said.
St Stephen’s was subsequently sold to a regional museum for just one Canadian dollar, although plans to relocate the building never materialised.
Its wooden pews, pulpit and religious books can still be seen inside.
The photographs offer a fascinating glimpse into a once-bustling community that has almost vanished from the Canadian countryside.
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