'Ghost' dirt track in South Carolina reappears after 30 years

A disused South Carolina race track known as Confederate Motor Speedway has reappeared on Google Maps after about 30 years.

The ‘ghost’ dirt track had not been visible using Google Maps for decades, but you can see it again now.

The reason why it had disappeared is quite clear, it had simply been overgrown with weeds and hedges.

But no one knows why it has suddenly reappeared again.

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The story behind Confederate Motor Speedway

Located in Woodruff, South Carolina, about three hours from where an abandoned jet was found in a forest, Confederate Motor Speedway opened in 1950 as a quarter-mile track.

It closed down after just a few years later but it was revived again in the 1970s and used throughout the late 1980s, mostly as a dirt track.

It’s not exactly Monza or Spa or Silverstone, but it was used quite regularly, and the locals loved it.

There’s also a Facebook Group created by (and for) people who used to go there.

The track was abandoned around 30-odd years ago and gradually disappeared from Google Maps.

Clearing of the land began in late 2022 but, probably due to the fact Google Maps and Google Earth updates sometimes take longer, it only became fully visible now.

The future of the South Carolina track

Now that the track has been cleared, people are hoping to see track open again.

No one knows for sure but one of the reasons why the track closed down, as the story goes, is the organizers as well as the attendees began clashing with local authorities quite often.

In addition to that, maintaining a racetrack can be incredibly expensive.

The owner of Magarigawa Club knows a thing or two about that.

Then again it wouldn’t be the strangest thing to happen in South Carolina.

Not long ago, the South Carolina State Bank randomly discovered a $1.8 billion bank account, and they’ve no idea who it belongs to, or how the money got there.