Aerial view of Centralia, PA - unedited

Mostly unedited footage from flying over Centralia, Pennsylvania -- the real-life Silent Hill. See my other Centralia video for a more tolerable version; this is mostly for the benefit of anyone familiar with the area who doesn't mind some shaky camerawork.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Centralia
• PA
• flying
• Silent
• Hill

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[redneck2010ize]

@PokerOnTour the fire was started in 1962 a local fire dept was burning trash in an old pit they never knew at that point and time there was coal laying under their pit they were burning trash in so thats how it happend

[redneck2010ize]

@blackriflex39 yah they will lmfao

[blackriflex39]

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

[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?

[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.

[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

[OneBigmutha1109]

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

[Neighborthatlabors]

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