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I swear it was just a joke
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I swear it was just a joke
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. “I don’t have an exit plan. Dying here is the exit plan,” Brent Underwood tells me from somewhere...