<p>Learn more than you ever needed to know about the sugar industry, and how the tiny town of Betteravia sprung up outside of Santa Maria and became a ghost town a hundred years later.</p>

Learn more than you ever needed to know about the sugar industry, and how the tiny town of Betteravia sprung up outside of Santa Maria and became a ghost town a hundred years later.

The Betteravia Ghost Town: Santa Maria's Sugar Beet Settlement

Cozy up to true stories of ghosts, murders, weirdness, and the dark history of our town—Santa Barbara, California—and the surrounding Central Coast. Join your hosts Liz, Jen, and Summers each week for a dive into a story of surprising, sometimes-spooky local history. Whether our topic of the week lands you in Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Lompoc, Carpinteria, Solvang, Santa Ynez, Isla Vista, Los Olivos, Guadalupe, Cuyama, at UCSB, or somewhere in between, we promise it’ll be an adventure.

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