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While one man’s big gamble is already fascinating, its time will tell whether it’s actually successful. Take a look inside the town!

YouTube creator Brent Underwood purchased the abandoned Cerro Gordo mine, about 220 miles north of Los Angeles, in July 2020 with his friend, spending the last four years working on it.

In the summer of 2018, Brent Underwood got a text in the middle of the night from a friend saying, "Look at this ghost town for sale!" Within a month, Brent had purchased Cerro Gordo, California, an abandoned silver mining town, with the help of friends and investors. He wants to revive the town for visitors while preserving its history.

An influencer who bought a California ghost town is ready to die there FacebookTwitterEmail This is a story about the history and future of an evil town. Cerro Gordo is a settlement of bloodstained brothels, skeletons and busted up pianos on the wind-battered southern slope of the Inyo Mountains, overlooking Death Valley. It was once the most violent town in America. Into this haunted high desert comes an interloper, an entrepreneur, an adventurer or a TikTok star, depending on who you ask. “...

Texas entrepreneur, 32, who bought an abandoned California mining town for $1.4m and has spent the last year there alone after getting trapped by a snowstorm last spring says the place may be full of ghosts but he NEVER wants to leave Brent Underwood, 32, has spent almost a year living in an abandoned mining town Cerro Gordo The entrepreneur from Austin purchased the remote 300-acre property in California for $1.4million in 2018  He went to visit last March as coronavirus lockdowns ramped up a...