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Big Read: Could ‘hilbilly Palm Beach’ provide the setting for Alex Jones’ second act?

The notorious conspiracy theorist has bought land outside the ghost town of Terlingua in west Texas, as his unlikely comeback continues

Alex Jones has bought 20 acres of scrubland outside the west Texas ghost town of Terlingua for $20,000

The west Texas ghost town of Terlingua is one of America’s most eccentric off-grid hamlets. It currently has a population of around 150, double what it was when this reporter first visited it two decades ago.

For decades, locals have lived in refurbished school buses, ramshackle trailers and the most rudimentary of housing. Many of the homes look as though they were fashioned out of the contents of a skip – mismatched pieces of tin, ...