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By Ryan Merrifield A elderly man is the sole inhabitant of a ghost town that was engulfed underwater nearly 40 years ago. Pablo Novak, 93, has been described as the world’s loneliest man. Epecuen, which sits 300 miles southwest of Argentinian capital Buenos Aires, re-emerged in 2009 as flood waters that had submerged it finally evaporated. The receding waters revealed something similar to a war zone, with ruins bleached white by salt and sunlight. Pablo grew up in the town and returned when it re-emerged, settling in an abandoned house with a garden. He has described how he was “totally alone….

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