It wasn’t the first time he’d been to Cerro Gordo. “The caretaker here told me that he and another person saw a shadowy apparition moving in the hotel kitchen at 4 p.m. the previous day.”.
His take on pandemic pet adoption was bringing five baby Boer goats and seven kittens up a rocky California mountain to keep him company. “An hour and a half feels like eternity when you’re watching your hopes and dreams and life savings go up in flames in front of you,” he said. ‘These voices aren’t going to stop’: Hundreds in L.A. protest over Breonna Taylor case.
“As the world is trying to isolate themselves, there’s not much further isolation you can do than an abandoned ghost town,” he says. The Yellow Road winds up the Inyo Mountains to the town of Cerro Gordo, where a fire the morning of June 15 burned down the hotel, icehouse and home of the notorious killer Billy Crapo. “What better place to socially distance than a town that has no neighbors for dozens of miles?” he thought. A year ago, the hotel and other Cerro Gordo structures were explored in an episode of the TV show “Ghost Adventures” that focused on two children who died after being trapped in a steamer trunk. On the other, Death Valley, the lowest.
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Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. The problem is: There’s no running water and a snowstorm has him trapped. Brent Underwood learned a tough lesson: Don’t spend millions on a ghost town in which you wouldn’t want to self-isolate. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. A fundraiser organized by the nonprofit Friends of Cerro Gordo has already collected more than $17,000 that will be used to rebuild the hotel to current construction and safety codes. To learn more, visit cerrogordomines.com. After opening the HK Hostel in a Victorian mansion in Austin, Texas, he realized how much he liked combining the past with real estate investment — not just offering a cool place to stay, but a history lesson to each visitor. “There’s no draft, but things drop inside of houses.”. The ground bristles with artifacts: rusty pocket watches, iron tools, shattered window glass and whiskey bottles.
That’s because you’re going to get frustrated, beat up and kicked in the gut. Brent Underwood has been snowed-in at a California ghost town for going on a month.
“For better or worse now, the fire this year was part of Cerro Gordo’s history. “In the absolute worst-case scenario, there’s snowshoes here, and the road is 7 miles long down a steep hill,” he says.
They closed on Friday the 13th.
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