Ghost Town
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Al Madam Buried Village
Al Madam Buried Village, often called the Ghost Village of Sharjah, is a haunting complex of twelve houses and a mosque built in the 1970s that is slowly being swallowed by shifting red sand dunes. Constructed as part of a government housing project for the semi-nomadic Al Ketbi Bedouin tribe, the settlement was mysteriously deserted by the mid-1990s. Regional rumors attribute its rapid abandonment to an unsettling supernatural force, specifically the mythical female jinn Umm Duwais.