Posted on 04/19/2020 6:44:36 PM PDT by lowbridge
The 32-year-old marketer took sheltering in place to the next level when he became trapped in a California ghost town he recently purchased. The problem is: There’s no running water and a snowstorm has him trapped.
Plus, it may be haunted.
“When I first got out here, I was in a T-shirt and enjoying myself,” Underwood tells The Post. “And then it snowed for four days straight and now there’s no way to get out.”
He bought Cerro Gordo, a former silver mining town with a murderous history, for $1.4 million in 2018. Aside from monthly visits, Underwood has largely left it in the care of its full-time live-in caretaker of 21 years, Robert Desmarais.
When the scope of the coronavirus pandemic became clear, Underwood agreed to take over duties for a week while Desmarais checked in on his wife in Arizona. But that was about a month ago.
Now, he’s stuck in his ghost town under five feet of snow.
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Underwood says he was aware of the 22-building town’s violent reputation when he bought it, adding that it once had one murder per week. A TV show called “Ghost Adventures” once investigated the town and found that it was haunted by the ghosts of two children who died after being trapped in a closet.
“I stay in the room with the child ghosts,” says Underwood, “but I have yet to see them.”
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“Things are moving around, I’m seeing curtains move, I’m hearing things in the night,” he says. “There’s no draft, but things drop inside of houses.”
In addition to a general ambiance of otherworldliness, a light in the bunkhouse keeps turning on, and his wallet recently disappeared for two days only to reappear in the town hotel.
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Oh, man, there is a good direct-to-video horror movie script in here......
Damn global warming
Bite me dude, and your ghosts included.
ALVIN!
A friend of mine was given free room & board to live in a house built in 1905 if he would renovate it. Yah, that lasted about 3 months. He kept getting woken up at night by a child crying. He doesn’t have any kids and the house was out in the middle of nowhere.
The view from the top of the Inyo mountains is spectacular. At 11,000ft you have an unobstructed vista of the mighty Sierra Nevada. I guess it might get spooky but I’d give it a try.
I ain’t afraid of no ghost. Dems in charge though? That scares the hell out of me. It’s why I carry concealed. Never know when they’ll want to steal your vote.
“town” is a bit much. I’ll give it to the guy though, he has some -PR-promotional Davy;
I don't get it - why would HE have to quarantine?
It sure does. I visited there years ago, I knew the owners, Jody and her husband, now both deceased. Rugged, steep, 4-wheel drive to get up there. Nice view of of Mt. Whitney from up there, highest mountain in the U.S.A. in the lower 48 states.
Dead east of Mt. Whitney/Sequoia National Park.
The man is out in the sticks I tell ya.
There’s a LOT of absolutely nuthin’ out there.
Interesting story
Smart advert to get tourists to come later on...
That’s not how the meme is supposed to work. You’re supposed to get PAID a million dollars to live in a haunted place for a month by yourself, not PAY a million dollars...
SMH, city folk do things wrong again.
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