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A researcher poring over dusty maps in libraries and county courthouses is helping bring long-forgotten Ohio towns back to life.

Richard Helwig, owner of the Center of Ghost Town Research in Ohio, said he has uncovered about 6,000 such towns and is still looking.

They were once colorful characters on Ohio's landscape -- communities with names such as Henpeck, Lickskillet, Worstville and even Pee Pee.

"In Ohio, because of our climate and population density, once a town is abandoned it quickly disappears," Helwig said.

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