There once was a town named...Centralia

Since YouTube and WMG decided to pull all audio from this video, I decided to upload this interesting interview from St. Patrick's Day 1997. The voice of Shamokin, WiSL's own Tom Kutza interviews Joseph John "The Polish Leprechaun", a one of a kind resident of Centralia who recalls the towns past through songs and jokes. Towards the end of the video The Leprechaun delivers a heart felt summation of his home town of Centralia in the tune of "Give My Regards to Broadway". A must listen! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egOEPvW3s2A

"There once was a town named Centralia" covers a brief history on the underground mine fire that has been going strong since 1962. There have been many attempts to try and extinglish the underground inferno but nothing worked. Today, Centralia is comprised of 12 citizens compared to the 1100 present during the mid 60's. This was a high school project of mine and since then I wanted to do an indepth coverage of this town and it's history. The final documentary will take me well over a year, keep checking back in the upcoming months. Thanks for watching! ... (more)

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• centralia
• pa
• crownstar
• shamokin
• coal
• mine
• fire

[treesew]

If you want to hear that "beautiful score" again that WMG blocked, here's a link for your listening pleasure :P watch?v=LeKkclgYL-g

[ramborick123]

Hey Youtube, you need to knock it off with cutting audio on peoples videos. I noticed your doing it to almost everyones videos. Are you trying to have your subscribers leave and find another site? Think about it!!!

[MegaFragger]

YOUTUBE FUCK

[szkielet48]

fuck youtube

[jin54363]

@ramborick123

youtube are nothing but bots, they simply ignore others comments and keep doing the same shit over and over without listening to complains

[reddalways]

Put your audio back....Youtube can suck it.

[arakano]

oh man! Stupid audio cutting!!! Now the subscriber can't tell us a damn thing! >:0

[ncshuriken]

So this is the town that inspired Cristoph Gans movie take of Silent Hill? Interesting man, i didn't think this was based on a real place. So this underground inferno's been burning for more than half a century? thats f*cking crazy, just crazy, just think of the bodies or evidence you could dispose of down there. You want to get rid of your boss or your ex, then dump them down there, and burn the evidence. Jokes aside, surely all those pipes venting (carbon dioxide/monoxide?) cant be healthy!

[computerchris122]

ramborick123 cant agree more youtube what are you doing

[fairycharmed]

Unless Nature resembles a Pennsylvania DOT bulldozer... Nature has done nothing to the town physically.

The houses were bulldozed simply to stop people from moving back to town and taking up their mineral rights agian.

[benfromthestreets]

They did not destroy the buildings, that is the nature does.

[Devinfilms6679]

i still dont know the true reason why they destroyed the buildings... its pointless, they should have left it standing to mark that once before that this was a town,... let it stand