Abandoned Mining Town
Created on: November 7th, 2006
Abandoned Mining Town
OreoForius 
centralia.ytmnd.com
The abandoned mining town of Centralia, Pennsylvania. The inspiration for the Silent Hill film adaptation. more here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=296376038844101265&q=centralia+pennsylvania&hl=en
www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm
Silent Hill 3 - Never Forgive Me, Never Forget Me

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Dethlokk
November 7th, 2006
11:12:56 PM CST
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Interesting and eerie.
pozzumgee
November 7th, 2006
11:14:02 PM CST
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creepy
fuel
November 7th, 2006
11:16:20 PM CST
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If Im not mistaken, this was the insparation for the silent hill movie plot base. The mines are burning underground. The fumes are noxious, and the town cant be inhabited. There can be 3 feet of snow in the surrounding area, but none sticks in this town, the ground is always warm.
thePlease
November 7th, 2006
11:18:21 PM CST
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This is f*cked up.
ILoveRuM
November 7th, 2006
11:18:22 PM CST
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Keep 'em comin'!
OreoForius
November 7th, 2006
11:18:54 PM CST
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fuel: yep, all correct. I had a lot of that in the site description already. A lot more info is in the video link... at one point they put an unlit match against the ground and it lights on contact.
ChibiGoku
November 7th, 2006
11:20:38 PM CST
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Wow, I wonder how far away this is from where I love...
OreoForius
November 7th, 2006
11:25:08 PM CST
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Goku: it's neighboring Ashland.
TheDivineTurtle
November 7th, 2006
11:27:27 PM CST
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Cool..
Balalaika0
November 7th, 2006
11:29:44 PM CST
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i'm gonna go start a city there, who's with me?
Balalaika0
November 7th, 2006
11:30:39 PM CST
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p.s. I call mayor!
Internet-Troll
November 7th, 2006
11:30:42 PM CST
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Quite interesting.
DynX
November 7th, 2006
11:31:35 PM CST
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I really, really, don't like where this fad is going...
Superdome
November 7th, 2006
11:31:45 PM CST
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there are still a few people living there
LadBunyan
November 7th, 2006
11:32:49 PM CST
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Lets go make it YTMND land.
OreoForius
November 7th, 2006
11:38:56 PM CST
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The mayor still lives there, he's in his 80's. no one knows for sure exactly how many people live there, but it's estimated at 15. in the hayday of the mining operation there was over 1000
wisdumcube
November 7th, 2006
11:40:24 PM CST
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Interesting. So, I am not saying that this isn't, but some of the pics don't give off the impression that it is completely deserted...That town must have been abandoned very recently....
OreoForius
November 7th, 2006
11:44:39 PM CST
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The fires started in 1962. Since it is a blue collar town, many families wanted to keep their roots there. The few people try to keep the cemetary and such clean, but it's hard when enough coal to keep a 1000 year old fire is making sink holes.
OreoForius
November 7th, 2006
11:45:35 PM CST
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Sorry, 100. added an extra 0
Balalaika0
November 7th, 2006
11:47:07 PM CST
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F*ck the old geezer mayor, we'll have a coup and raise the flag of the internets! also, did anyone notice the song playing towards the middle in the YouTube vid? around 3:45? lol
TomatoCannon
November 7th, 2006
11:54:49 PM CST
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I was under the impression I was going to see some creepy mines. Still, I demand more of these ytmnds.
ALMusic
November 8th, 2006
12:19:02 AM CST
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Centralia is one of my favorite stories.
Symbolite
November 8th, 2006
12:21:44 AM CST
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Oh SNap!
OreoForius
November 8th, 2006
12:22:02 AM CST
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Test: yeah, except watch the site and realize that the heat of the fire has caused the roads to buckle and crack. The only road that isn't a back road is Route 61, and it's closed off due to the buckling and the random sink holes.
Symbolite
November 8th, 2006
12:22:18 AM CST
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Good Luck drag racing with those huge bumps and potholes in the road!
BluToof
November 8th, 2006
12:23:58 AM CST
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Drag Racing? What with the random sinkholes in the road, the pavement hot enough to melt tires and the poisonous gases rising from the earth? F*CKING GREAT IDEA! I will watch!
OreoForius
November 8th, 2006
12:27:36 AM CST
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I was aware. Just didn't want noobs trying it and hurting themselves. Actually, I didn't want them trying it unless they got it on film. "Epic Silent Hill Drag Race Maneuver"
Symbolite
November 8th, 2006
12:31:47 AM CST
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XD
Zarquon
November 8th, 2006
12:34:35 AM CST
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That Centralia story always interested me. The fact that a fire has been burning under the town for so long is intriguing if nothing else. I'd love to go there someday and check it out for myself. With a respirator and a canary, just in case.
AngryBrian
November 8th, 2006
12:54:37 AM CST
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I know where that is, Fires started along time ago when a dump fire caught a coal vein on fire, eventually it spread throughout the whole area. Sudden sink holes, random fires, toxic gas spurts out at random, the place is a real hell.
G-Epsilon
November 8th, 2006
12:56:28 AM CST
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Very cool and useful description too, eerie sh*t.
Leontokanova
November 8th, 2006
12:58:25 AM CST
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Sooo...Whose up for a road trip next summer, to this place? Hell, I might look into buying a house there for YTMND Vacation Partying.
JThundley
November 8th, 2006
12:59:20 AM CST
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flash :(
Spo8
November 8th, 2006
1:13:15 AM CST
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You better get the hell out of there before that damn siren starts up again.
Dali
November 8th, 2006
1:32:11 AM CST
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I'm just gonna auto-1 all abandoned sites from now on. They require no effort whatsoever, aren't funny, aren't interesting, and aren't even original anymore.
Econojon
November 8th, 2006
1:32:33 AM CST
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lol, RL Silent Hill. Where the zombies at?
nickster2006
November 8th, 2006
2:00:50 AM CST
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very last picture = penis tree
Godknown
November 8th, 2006
2:11:00 AM CST
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I love this song.
Khono
November 8th, 2006
2:13:03 AM CST
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It's places like this that make me eventually buy a car.
Khono
November 8th, 2006
2:16:11 AM CST
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Can't they just block off the mines, starving the fires of oxygen? Allll that coal needlessly poluting. I know it wouldn't be easy to block it off due to the movement of the earth, but I think it's something they should probably try.
Zenzizenzizenzic
November 8th, 2006
2:16:59 AM CST
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resize your photos and don’t center yourr GIF.
raptorcardz
November 8th, 2006
2:22:30 AM CST
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5 for very interesting knowledge. I live in PA also
Zenzizenzizenzic
November 8th, 2006
2:23:36 AM CST
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I’m trying to be helpful, not critical. This site has potential. Just clean it up a bit.
Calx
November 8th, 2006
3:52:40 AM CST
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desperately need buttracers on the centralia roads
k3lit0
November 8th, 2006
9:34:56 AM CST
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"lol, RL Silent Hill. Where the zombies at?" They weren't zombies STOOOOOPIDDDD they were...uh...ghosts? er, i dont know. that movie had a lot of wtf's.. ;D good YTMND, very creepy. I like that you picked silent hill music. nice touch. :O
OreoForius
November 8th, 2006
10:59:02 AM CST
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Khono: it would cost rediculous ammounts of money to stop the fires, and the federal goverment said it wasn't cost effective. Zen: the pictures are pixelated enough as is. If I make em bigger it will go from small looking decent pictures to huge pieces of crap. k3l: wouldn't be a SILENTMND without the music.
OreoForius
November 8th, 2006
11:05:59 AM CST
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Zen: nvm, will give it a shot
OreoForius
November 8th, 2006
11:33:45 AM CST
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Updated. Looks much better, good call Zen.
ColdStone
November 8th, 2006
6:23:31 PM CST
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All those buildings aren't abandoned, there's the fresh undirtied US flag flying from one of them
OreoForius
November 9th, 2006
4:44:03 PM CST
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The 15 people left in the town take good care of it. since it had maybe 100 times the ammount of people in it before, I would consider it abandoned.
sawine
November 9th, 2006
9:24:48 PM CST
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Thinking of a place like this to exist on earth scares me a bit lol...
BTVagrant
October 7th, 2008
12:28:27 AM CDT
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The "real" Silent Hill...