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I recently learned that Mark Cuban, the billionaire and former owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team, bought an entire "ghost town'" called Mustang for about $2 million in 2021.

Mustang is about an hour away from the part of Dallas I live in. But until now, I had never come across it — and almost nobody in my circles had, either.

The Census reports that Mustang's population is zero, so maybe that makes sense.

Typically, I would file away this newfound knowledge in the recesses of my mind — an unusual story I could later impress my friends with over coffee or dinner.

But my curiosity refused to wane.

Numerous questions crowded my thoughts: Why would someone be interested in buying a town without people? Is it genuinely abandoned? What might be worth saving there?

I even reached out to Cuban by email to get some answers. He had little to say about it.

"I bought it to help out a basketball buddy who was dying of cancer, he needed it for his family," Cuban, who Forbes said has a $6.2 billion net worth, told me. "I have zero plans for it, I haven't ever been there."

I did some reading. NBC News, who spoke with Mike Turner, a real-estate agent who brokered the deal, said that Cuban bought Mustang from........

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