A man moved to a ghost town where there are no people: how he got used to it (3 photos + 1 video)

The enthusiast said that he dreams of improving Cerro Gordo and turning it into a "magnet" for tourists from all over the world.





Americans Brent Underwood and John Beer bought the ghost mining town of Cerro Gordo (California, USA) several years ago, where about 4,700 people once lived. Workers mined silver, lead, zinc and even gold there, but after the mines closed in 1957, the settlement turned into a desert.



In 2020, Brent created his YouTube channel called Ghost Town Living to tell subscribers about moving and the peculiarities of life in a depressed region. The enthusiast said that he dreams of improving this place and turning it into a "magnet" for tourists from all over the world.

Later, construction of a hotel began in the abandoned town. According to Underwood, the biggest challenge was the lack of water. For some time, he even had to live without running water, but now he pumps water from mines under the city, although it requires a lot of effort.

The new owner hopes that Cerro Gordo can soon become an attraction like the ghost town of Bodie, which has successfully turned into an amusement park where crowds of travelers come.



Answering a popular question about ghosts, Brent told a mystical story. One day, he passed by an abandoned house and saw a man looking out the window. At that time, the man did not attach much importance to this, since contractors were working on the territory - theoretically, it could have been one of them.

However, then Underwood was told that there was not a single soul on the site for two weeks, so he decided to conduct a small experiment. After turning off the lights and closing the door to the building so no one could enter, the man noticed that the lights came back on even though the door was locked.

Brent isn't sure if it was a ghost, but he still can't explain how it could have happened.