The peak of Bugarach has always been an asset to the people who live at its base... but the urban myth connecting it to the Mayan calendar and the end of the earth has certainly given a boost to the local economy.
Or at least hopes for the local economy since apocalypse believers claim the mountain will protect the village on doomsday.
It's not just the stones from the mountain selling for 3 euros each, or the Bugarach alien wine for 5 euros a bottle or the water for 15. It's also the local property owners who have been putting their houses and land up for sell at asking prices double the previous sale prices.
However, Mayor Jean-Pierre Delord, who is against the profiteering, says the optimistic sellers are not finding buyers.
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