Sam Parr describes how a group bought an abandoned ghost town for $1.3 million in 2014-2015. One member, Brent, started a YouTube channel that hit a million subscribers in six months, posting 20-30 minute videos of him exploring local sites like old mines.
In 2015 or '14, you guys like got some money together and you bought this town that went viral for $1.3 million, a ghost town. And Brent spin-ups this YouTube channel and it felt like in a matter of 6 months it got a million subscribers. 20 or 30-minute videos of this charming, cute dude named Brent saying like, hey, so here's this old mine that I just found in my town. Let's just like, you know, walk 100 feet into this mine and let's just see what we find.
