Inside the Texan desert town dubbed the state's 'last outpost for outcasts' - ... trends now
Shamed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones appears to be living life in the tiny southwest Texan town of Terlingua, close to the Mexican border and has splashed out on land worth $20,000 despite declaring bankruptcy last year.
Sitting on the outskirts of Big Bend National Park, the quirky town of around 150 residents is known as something of a 'last outpost for outcasts'.
Jones and his wife were spotted in the town as they frequented one of the local establishments, the High Sierra Bar & Grill and 'partied pretty hard'.
'Everyone in Terlingua is running from something,' as said realtor Stephanie Neckar to Texas Monthly while another local admits 'We're all here because we're not completely there.'
The Infowars host was ordered to pay more than $1.5 billion to families who sued him over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones appears to be living carefree in a quirky Texas town near Big Bend National Park. He is pictured alongside his wife Erika
The welcome sign to the ghost town of Terlingua, Texas, which was a mining area for mercury but became abandoned after demand declined in the 1930's and 1940's
The High Sierra Bar and Grill in Terlingua, Texas, where Alex Jone has been spotted 'partying pretty hard'
Jones, 50, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December 2022 with recent financial documents submitted by his attorneys putting his personal net worth at around $14 million.
He was ordered to pay damages after he promoted a conspiracy theory that the massacre of 26 women and children at at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, never took place.
Relatives of the victims testified at the trials about being harassed and threatened by Jones´ believers, who sent threats and even confronted the grieving families in person, accusing them of being 'crisis actors' whose children never existed.
Sandy Hook families won the judgments against Jones in 2022 in lawsuits over his repeated promotion of the false theory - but the families are yet to see a penny of the money that juries awarded them.
'I'm officially out of money, personally,' Jones said during his Infowars podcast. 'It's all going to be filed. It's all going to be public. And you will see that Alex Jones has almost no cash.'
Jones was ordered to pay the Sandy Hook families $1 billion, declared bankrupt yet has still managed to purchase land in the secluded town of Terlingua
Jones and his wife were spotted in the town as they frequented one of the local establishments, the High Sierra Bar & Grill
Pub games are seen sitting in the yard outside the premises where Jones was spotted with his wife Erika
But Jones and and his wife, Erika, appear to have cast their cares away having muscled their way into the tight-knit community and splashed out on property in the area.
Property records revealed that despite Jones' financial woes, in June 2023, his wife bought twenty acres in Terlingua Ranch, at a cost of $20,000.
Terlingua Ranch, located north of town, is known for its eccentricity, hosting figures like David Kaczynski, brother of the Unabomber, who sought solace from public attention, and Judith Broughton, who hid her deceased mother beneath her kitchen floor while still collecting her social security benefits.
The town also appears to have a rich tapestry of local sayings one of which describes the town's dating scene: 'The odds are good, but the goods are odd.'
Locals appear surprised by the Jones' purchasing of the land given its lack of development.
'That's a weird piece of land to buy,' Neckar explained. 'There's no development [paved roads, electricity, sewage]; there's some homesteads; it's rough as heck.'
Others, including unnamed neighbor, have described Jones as being amiable but not
