Centralia From Above

Centralia, PA -- the "original" Silent Hill. A mine fire has been burning under this town for over 30 years, but the town still stands -- sort of. Sorry for the shaky quality, but it's hard to get a steady shot while flying that low.

This was shot in a Cessna 172SP (N318ME), BTW, with me as pilot. Nancy had the camera in the back seat. The cabin radio speaker was left on for effect. As we were filming this, one of the plane's dynamos failed and went unnoticed for a minute or two. This area a fun place to do an emergency landing from 2000'.

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Travel & Events

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• centralia
• pa
• flying
• silent
• hill

[joeygsmom]

Ive driven thru there is it really that dangerous?

[floor9]

It's not dangerous if you stick to the main road. The side roads *might* be safe. We stupidly went walking through yards & woods once, and we're still alive. But I wouldn't do that again.

[SoWierd612]

by giving people directions to a ghost town is a bad idea. youre practacaly killing innocent people in a giant mine fire that will burn for hundreds of years. THERES A REASON ITS NOT ON MAPS AND THERES NO ONE THERE! jackass.

[floor9]

You're an idiot.

[MsArbitrary]

It's not called Silent Hill, it's called Centralia, it's where the creators of Silent Hill got the idea for the town, supposedly.

[alamiator]

it would suck if silent hill became real...

[kent06403]

It's a crime what happened there making a whole town leave due to the fire. The coal burns amazingly hot

[jossluiss]

i want to visit that place

[miamidetodos]

miren bola de pendejos dejen hacer a la naturaleza su trabajo y poinganse a trabajar al fin que al cabo cuando se cabe el carbon esta pendejada se acaba y ya y dejen de estar diciendo estupideces

[Fabzil]

@nukem500 pennysbox11 just told you the stuff. But what she didn't told you (but maybe she knows it ?) is that the fire is actually sucking the air, 'case its needs to breathe, so some places in the town have a low oxygen level :P

[pennysbox11]

@nukem500 its because the tunnels the old mines excavated had enough ventilation holes and were sufficiently wide to allow mine workers to breathe underground. Unfortunately now it is letting the fire breathe as well. This could be avoided by keeping underground coal mines anaerobic environments and forcing workers to wear breathing apparatus, this too has its downside such as in the event of a cave in or similar disaster.

[Zure467]

@Tiffmidon the ground is just really unstable and through fissures in the soil and roads steam pours through

there is a chance of falling in a hole and burning alive but i doubt it would happen

[groovaholic23]

@qmarcesq yes you can goto Centralia, PA and walk around! There is much to see and do but it is very dangerous! If you do plan a trip be sure to do enough research of where to go, what to see and take a first aid kit just in case something were to happen!

[QmarcesQ]

Would we be allowed to go exploring if we wanted to?

[barca2022]

all i want from silent hill ..is that hot cop ..!!

[Zethux]

@Tiffmidon Under the thin layer of dirt is a massive cave. If for some reason it (god forbid) collapsed. There would probably be a crater in the Earth.