Did the 241 inhabitants of a town called Tremont, Nevada mysteriously disappear overnight in July 1954? No, that's not true: Tremont, Nevada never existed. The story originated in May 2025 on an Instagram account that posts horror fiction.
The claim started in a May 22, 2025, post on Instagram (archived here), and read in part:
"The last call? A child whispering: 'It's not done yet."
Tremont, Nevada was a mining town of 241 people. On July 2, 1954, every resident vanished overnight. No signs of struggle. Breakfasts left on tables. Radios still playing. But what made Tremont different was this: its phone lines kept working. For decades. Calls came in and out, mostly static until one was recorded in 1997. A young voice said: "It's not done yet." Then silence. Analysts traced the call to a payphone... in the center of the abandoned town.
But here's where it breaks reality: that payphone was removed in 1961. No working phone remains in Tremont. And yet, as of this year, the switchboard logs show 17,812 unanswered calls... from numbers that no longer exist. FBI archives list the town's fate as "unresolved temporal disruption." Locals just call it The Town That Rings...
This is what the post looked like at the time of writing:
(Source: Instagram screenshot)
In reality, the story was no more than a work of horror fiction, posted by "thecensoredtext_", an account that regularly publishes such content, with the same layout of text and image:
(Source: Instagram screenshot)
We found no record of any place called Tremont having existed in Nevada in 1954, despite searching the Congressional Record; the Internet Archive; Google; Google Books; and Google News.
Indeed, the earliest references to such a place and year (on Facebook and X) date to no earlier May 22, 2025 -- the date of "thecensoredtext_'s" Instagram post, further underlining the fact that the plight of those 241 inhabitants was a days-old work of fiction rather than a long-hidden piece of history.
