Meet Argentina's loneliest man - CNN
"This is all that remains, that's it," says 85-year-old Pablo Novak, the ghost village's sole inhabitant. After being buried under 33 feet of water for about 25 years, Epecuen re-emerged in 2009. The water evaporated due to dry weather conditions. When the waters subsided, the man returned to his deserted hometown to become one of the loneliest men in the world. "I spent time looking for a 20-year-old bottle of whiskey and, eventually, I found one that I drank all by myself," he says, bursting out laughing. Novak was 60 when the water gradually submerged the resort town of Epecuen, which at the time had a population of about 5,000 people. Back then he lived outside the town's center, in the countryside, with his cows, lambs and chickens. "There wasn't enough space in the town's center, you know. On November 10, 1985, following years of unprecedented heavy rains, the earthen dam broke at Lago Epecuen, a saltwater lake. Water began overflowing the banks of the town's protective levees. The waters eventually subsided. Nearly 20 years later, Novak moved. Source: www.cnn.com
