Brent Underwood moved from Austin to the abandoned mining town of Cerro Gordo, California, in 2020. He spent three years living there alone working to bring a relic of the past back to life. Some ...

There might only be a few people on Planet Earth who can say they've been more socially-distant during the pandemic than Brent Underwood. "I thought, hey, you know, what better place to ...

An entrepreneur has documented the progress he has made in rebuilding a California ghost town that he purchased to develop into a tourist attraction. Cerro Gordo—meaning fat hill in Spanish—was a ...

It is possible to buy entire towns these days. A little over a month after a 19th century ghost town in California called Cerro Gordo went on sale, Brent Underwood bought it for $1.4 million, real ...

This episode was originally released on August 7, 2020. The old Latin phrase "memento mori" is a favorite of 33 year-old Brent Underwood's. It refers to the inevitability of death, which is fitting ...

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 ...

Brent Underwood, who rose to fame as the sole permanent resident of abandoned town Cerro Gordo, is the author of the new book called “Ghost Town Living.” Brent Underwood is the owner of Cerro Gordo in ...

Brent Underwood has had quite the spring and summer. In April, he lived out a real-life adaptation of "The Shining" when a snowstorm trapped him in an Old West mining ghost town he purchased in 2018.

I live in a ghost town — once the most lucrative silver mine in California. For the past five years, I’ve spent nearly every day rebuilding Cerro Gordo, a long-abandoned boomtown perched high in the ...

Brent Underwood, 32, and his friend, Jon Bier, shelled out a whopping $1.4 million in 2018 to buy Cerro Gordo, a former silver mining town with a storied past in the Inyo Mountains, near Death Valley, ...

It is possible to buy entire towns these days. A little over a month after a 19th century ghost town in California called Cerro Gordo went on sale, Brent Underwood bought it for $1.4 million, real ...