A DOOMSDAY-ready home in South Carolina is up for sale after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sparked a frenzy for apocalypse homes with his secret compound.
Zuckerberg made fans and analysts alike question what the billionaire might know that they didn’t when he reportedly planned to invest $270 million in an apocalypse-proof luxury compound in Hawaii.
The founder of Facebook first broke ground on the project — which includes a sprawling 5,000-foot underground bunker along with several buildings and over 30 bedrooms and bathrooms — in 2021.
Other uber-wealthy celebrities have also invested in Doomsday properties in recent years, including underground bomb shelters, reinforced doors, and security systems that are the envy of the military, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“Now that Zuckerberg has let the cat out of the bag, that’s got other people who share his status or are near his status starting to think, ‘Oh God, if he’s doing that, maybe he knows something that I don’t, maybe I should seek this out myself,'” said Robert Vicino, founder of Vivos, a California-based company that creates underground survival shelters.
The prepper and survival tech industry is expected to be worth $2.5 billion by 2030, according to Newsweek.
And while Zuckerburg’s top-secret compound on the smallest of Hawaii’s four main islands, Kauai, remains under construction, survivalists can scoop up a much smaller (and more affordable) South Carolina home that was put on the market earlier this year.
This 4-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom house on a 20-acre property in Gaffney boasts a single-car garage, pool, hot tub — and underground bunker, according to Realtor.com.
The 5,970-square-foot home is surrounded by lush pastures and forests, offering great privacy too.
Priced at $1.15 million and including a 4,228-square-foot workshop, it was built for the working wealthy.
