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Entrepreneur and post-apocalypse thriller author Jayson Orvis has opened up his 300-acre doomsday compound to journalists for the first time

Orvis spent more than a decade working to transform the property into a self-supporting sanctuary for 200 people in the event of a civilization-ending catastrophe.

His Homestead film and TV series is a fictional account of how life on his compound could unfold after the detonation of a nuclear bomb

On a recent rainy afternoon in the hills above Bountiful, Utah, multimillionaire Jayson Orvis trudged through the mud on a 300-acre self-sustaining sanctuary he built for him and his family, along with 200 friends, to gather in the event of a civilization-ending apocalypse.

Orvis was touring a small number of journalists for the first ti

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