WEB9 hours ago · Tom McGhie. Colma is known as a 'zombie town' (Image: Weird History/Youtube) A town in California has so many cemeteries it’s been dubbed ‘City of the Souls’ as the dead outnumber the living at a rate of 1000 to 1. Colma, eight miles south of San Francisco, California, is the final resting place of an estimated 1.5 million bodies.