Aerial view of Centralia, PA - unedited

[tmerm]

its an abandoned ghost town in eastern pennsylvania a few hours outside philly. mine fires and cancer causing gases caused to people to abandon it.

[PokerOnTour]

never play with matches

[endless313]

why cant they just flood the mine?

[MrSharo21]

this place literally has hell underneath it

[Neighborthatlabors]

ITS BORING NOTHING THERE PROMISE.

Went like two summers ago. They knocked everything over its boring flat land.

[MrSharo21]

@Neighborthatlabors ever tried going beneath all the boring flat land?

[Neighborthatlabors]

@MrSharo21 Yea its just boring highway? Whats there to see. Ive walked those woods as well.

[OneBigmutha1109]

@Neighborthatlabors To some people it's interesting, you should have fell in a hole in those woods as well.

[sarahscareAH]

what happened there?

[floor9]

@sarahscareAH An underground mine fire started burning in the 1960s. The gases have made the town uninhabitable and some of the surrounding roads impassible.

[FriedWitch278]

@floor9 the fire started because of a tire burning tradition that was preformed there. It got bigger and bigger every year until there was a little bit of molten rubber that seeped through a crack. It eventually built up and caught a coal mine on fire, and the coal fire is still burning to this very day. Coal is too hard to put out, especially underground, so no one has been able to stop the fire and salvage the town. People are still there but most left or died because of toxic gas in basements

[manda0313]

yea ur allowed to go there i was there in december 09. everything is gone now no more houses or residents. its so sad.

[BlueCloneTrooper521]

So this is what the gateway to hell looks like?

[zakaslam1]

thier is no fire at centralia people , its all a lie , its some sort on time dimesion rapture , its letting threw demons

[Chiiru]

@zakaslam1 lol, what?

[freddiefernandez]

It's so weird, I was just there yesterday

[Sublime570]

Its not that great of a place to go ATVing. In Carbondale Pa they have jiant coal dumps. its illegal to ride ther but its amazing.

[arne9220]

it gave ideas to some of the silent hill movie

[kingmark323]

the video is ok.

i grew up in that town till my grandmother was forced to sell her house to the government. i was 5 when we moved.

you people have no clue. talkn about rippn around on atvs and 4x4s have some respect for peoples memories

ripp around in your own yard bitches!

m. mekosh

[robertjames111]

i agree totally wiht you

[blackriflex39]

@kingmark323 ha they do to much ripping theyll end up sunk in a 1100 foot hole

[SpookeyR]

Hey, there's a documentary called Centralia on imdb and I was wondering if anyone... knew of it. They have it on their site but they have next to no information about it, virtually nothing, ...& I was also hoping that someone would be able to fill in some of the missing information about it.

Go to imdb & search for "Centralia"

Even if you've never heard of it, please get back to me. I'm determined to track this movie down!

Thanks,

Spookey Ruben

[greekzoegoddess]

no it wouldnt. the ground is very hot. the dust from all the ash thats raised into the air from an atv stir would scourtch your lungs.... in the video "footage from the real silent hill- Centrailia, PA" they lit a match by just putting on the ground in the sand cole pit. never go on a windy day to Centrailia- you will regret it.

[galeforcewinds13]

they do that on the closed down subsided area of old highway 61. at least they were doing it when we were walking down there. I don't advise doing it in town though.

[jacksonfromhell]

theres no regulations against going there right? i live in pa and am a HUUUUUGEEEEEEE silent hill fan, so i figure "COOL! i gotta go there!!"

[floor9]

Yes, you can visit it with no problems.

Just remember that people do still live there. Respect their property and their privacy. And be careful! The posted warnings are no joke.

[jacksonfromhell]

of course id respect the peoples homes, thats a given. how prone to caving away is the ground?

[tjdonaldson15]

i wish i could go there. who knows i might just see pyramid head there... just kiddin.

[bbfunk1220]

seeing a video of this town is nothing compared to actually being there. It is amazing, but still sad. It started behind the cemetary where they were burning debris. It just happened there was coal near the surface. Estimates from the government 40 years ago or so was well above the $100 billion mark to properly put out the fires. The government did not feel it was worth the money.

[wimpie25]

Silent hill, finaly revealed!

[Ace45014]

thats a lie there are alot o fppl to help you if you live there

[donaldjr1969]

Agreed. I have met a total of 3 residents over the course of my 3 visits. The one gentleman I met in 5-08 helps out the older residents by mowing their yards with his tractor. He is the guy I saw driving the yellow and white Cub Cadet shaft drive tractors and he will gladly help out the other residents. Centralia's 38yr old mayor, John Lokitis, also helps people out with mowing and other things. The Hynoskis place Christmas decorations in the town.

[motomissle]

no one to help you if you live there

[JawsJaws]

I was there not long ago. I heard the fire started from someone burning trash behind the church and it hit a hole where there was coal and just spread. If you touch the ground, its war. There is only a few houses there. You can see smoking logs everywhere. The damage is a few miles in each direction. They shut off a road because of the damage.

[sabooo57]

I have seen numbers as low as 8 for current population. The house with the brick columns supporting it on both sides was just leveled recently as well.

[montikea]

Yes, but they still have heat, electrical power, water and sewerage, so what's up with that?

[Mariangela1470]

people still live there and only 12 persons!! and the fire will burn out in 2257!! scary... i know but its the fact...

[XxBogeymanxX]

I'm worried that the fire might spread and devour the whole town.

'Course I'm a paranoid kind of person anyway, so I'm probably (most likely) wrong.

[WadeSimMiser]

I read that the fire will finally burn out its coal supply around the 2200's, well after we're gone.

[keithewilliams]

its sad that the town was lost but they can still strip the coal and seal the fire that way

[PLAY10000]

its a shame, looks like a nice town without sink holes smouldering rock

[tony76ms]

Those people should have left when they were offered money. If anything happens to their homes now they are shit out of luck.

[donaldjr1969]

I think a lot of people have sentimental attachments to their homes and thus do not want to leave. Also, a lot of them feel that the fire will not reach them due to rock and groundwater surrounding their property.

[arroy624]

i think i would stay there for the free hot water. :)

[penguinechef]

and just think, this all started because of trash burning near a coal mind...talk about stupidity.

[WeaselSPARTAN13]

yeah like 15 people still live there

they say its less than that in the footage video...top one

[invisiblegod76]

I think the last count was 10 citizens, the USPS has revoked their zip-code, and the US goverment has quarantined the tow, the people that live there basically don't exist.

Sad though, The Real Silent Hill

[DutchCop]

OMG, do people still live there?! Thats wicked!

[floor9]

Yes, there are a handful of stragglers who still live there. Some prior residents deny that the fire ever existed and accuse the government of fabricating the fumes as a plot to steal the coal.

Which is blatantly ridiculous.

[hxcteenagekicks]

@floor9 I don't think it's a matter of fabricating fumes, more of starting the fire intentionally. The coal beneath Centralia is worth well in the Billions. Once the last resident leaves or dies then the municipality ceases and the state can claim the vast resources underneath.

[themooseisontheloose]

@DutchCop among those living there is the town's mayor who is over 80 years old and has lived there all his life

[JefferyHenryBob]

it was so edited

[gabrielcrimson]

I wish alot of the demolishing hadnt gone through. Then itd be awesome to go to, it could have been a tourist attraction dangers aside.

[floor9]

I think it's mainly because of the severe structural failure of the buildings. If they hadn't been demolished or removed, they wouldn't be there today anyway.

[gabrielcrimson]

Though alot of them would have been, some of the buildings that were standing had been leveled less than 2 years ago.