The problem with Imber is that it was evacuated more than 60 years and, apart from a few days each year when it's open to visitors, the only regular visitors are either soldiers during training or contractors doing a bit of maintenance (the village has been considerably altered to provide a more suitable training ground). Not the most talkative lot to be sure. And it's difficult to spot ghosts when your sergeant's shouting to move on or else...
Probably it developing a kind of sinister reputation like any ghost town around the world, a reputation reinforced by the unearthly silence enveloping it and by the burnt out hulls of tanks used for target practice.
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Fas: Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum.