Inside Belgium’s strange ‘traffic jam forest’ full of abandoned cars for 70 years
The Châtillon car graveyard in Belgium confounded people when pictures of it began circling in the late 20th century, leading many to speculate it has been formed by US soldiers abandoning a nearby town.
A man stands atop a car in the woods
The Châtillon car graveyard remained a mystery for years
By Milo Boyd Travel Reporter
You’d have been forgiven for thinking that you’d stepped into a storybook, wandering through the Châtillon car graveyard in Belgium.
That’s because it was here that a long line of abandoned cars ran through dense woodland, with rusting bonnets and dented bumpers slowly collapsing as the plants moved in.
When photos of the vehicles first began to circulate, the story went that American soldiers stationed in the nearby town Châtillon during WWII had left following the fall of the Nazis, and were unable to take their cars home with them.
Instead the once valuable vehicles were dumped in a line in a clearing of tress and left to rust, a strange reminder of the Allied war effort that appeared like a traffic jam.
A picture of one of the cars covered in green moss
The cars were left in the forest to rust and rot ( Image: amazingbelgium.be)
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