Both the US government and the soviet union tested the effects of a nuclear bombs radiation on its own troops the soviet union also used a nuclear bomb to create a hole big enough for a man made lake so stupid yes but probably not the stupidest idea ever.
Emanuel Goldstein I once considered not reading the Bible before bed, this happened almost immediately, luckily there are only a couple more Hell Spawn left.
My dad and I visited Centralia when I was a kid and it was burning much more actively. It had recently snowed, and you could see the hot spots where it had easily melted though the inches of snow, and there were even a couple open vents in the ground with incredible heat coming out, most though were just small smoke vents. We spoke to an old woman who still lived there, refusing to move despite the danger. She was one of the last holdouts.
I know right there's plenty of images regarding Centralia heck there's the footage from a National Geographic documentary made back in 1982 that shows the town during the fire and that could have actually been used as a better source of stock footage for this to be honest
If it were a chimney it wouldnt supply oxygen. A chimney is an outlet, not an inlet. They started fueling the fire because it would output the gasses at the vents close to it, but the vents further away would then have negative pressure so they would pull air down to the coal. So the ones that the gas comes out of are a chimney yes, but the ones that started having an inward draft would be more like bellows pumping a fire
@@eastjm80 oxygen works like liquid. You open it up without a vaccum leading the air in. Unless you have a 2nd hole which is a vaccum the draws the air out.
I’ve been to Centralia dozens of times over the last 30 years, and I used to play Silent Hill on PlayStation, and at no time did I think one inspired the other. Silent Hill was more like a shore town in winter.
I live in Pennsylvania, people really aren’t as crazy about Centralia as you’d think, people that aren’t local seem to make a big deal about it but it’s just as you’d Imagine, an abandoned town.
I’ve driven past it. Personally O think it’s awesome to see the plumes of smoke, knowing that they are part of a fire that has been burning for 60 years.
People say "it's boring there." No shit, what did you expect? It's an abandoned town - how much fun can it be. It's not Disneyland - it's not a designed tourist attraction - it's an abandoned town for Christ's sake. There's nothing there!
I actually live in pa and in January this year me and my buddies drove across the state and visited centralia, it's so cool knowing I literally walked and have pictures of all the same places they were standing in this video
I grew up 30 minutes from Centralia. I remember passing through with my parents and smelling the gasses from the fire, mainly sulphur. Never went through the town though, only around it.
So I suppose these people should just move from the house they spent their lives paying for just to end up homeless with no compensation all because your town does things like a 3 year old
We have turned 3 unreclaimed strip mines into 2 modern lanfills and 1 nonBAT landfill. Never set a fire on purpose but have had reactions. Goal is to reclaim the hillsides with the trash. Under ground fires are nearly impossible to put out. We lost 88 acres and 50 years of life from the landfill with the reaction. This stuff is fascinating
This place only inspired the setting for the first film, the original games it was snow, not ash. They got their shit wrong. But if Pyramid Head walked down main street, that's exactly what would happen lol
@@dickfitzwell1447 they didnt mention either the game or movie specifically. the movie's title is just silent hill sooo technically they are right and they might just be reffering to the movie in the first place , so where are coming up with this acusation from? also silent hill 2 and 3 are basically fire themed. like the other world is tunnels of metal cages and pathways with fire always burning around them. oh and even downpour features the fire other world ...and homecoming. last time i checked the games where in fact inspired by this town, this was being said even before the movie was out. So u got ur shit wrong.
Except that one guy who found a gun with three bullets and didn't have the good sense to leave a spooky, foggy, super creepy small town. Not until he took a good look around and cracked the code on that dang old grandfather clock that doesn't work anyway...
It's likely to complex and too unstable to be feasible. Geothermal relies on already present hot water or supplying a hot area with water to return to turbines. However, this is usually done with fractured hot rocks, not an actual fire. The hot areas also need to stay hot, you can't do it if the hot areas change over time
I live about 5 miles from Centralia. It’s a cool place to see and is very interesting. The coal vein it reached and the coal vein from pioneer tunnel are both some of the longest coal veins in the world. Centralia nowadays is a great place to explore by atv or to just walk around
That's pretty cool! From what I saw in the video, it seems like the fire is moving. This might be a silly question but are you worried it might move to your town anytime soon since you are so close?
@@Empylol that's what's happening in a town east of Centralia called Girardville. You can still see smoke coming out of the ground there. Not sure if people will have to evacuate but it's a possibility
To harness the geothermal energy would be a sensible course of action. The mishandling of Centralia makes it crystal clear that sensibility is beyond the realm of possibility for Pennsylvania.
Your understanding of geothermal is wrong. Lets say year round ground temps ( below frost line obviously)are 60 degrees Fahrenheit. When its 20 degrees you get heat from it. When its 100 degrees you get cooling from it. Burning coal mines are equvalent to a furnace......no cooling abilities. But none the less i get what you mean
DrSparky Piper the coolant line can be placed anywhere relative to the heat in a heat engine. The more relevant issue is the isntability of the system. No good way to set up a tap on the heat.
Yeah.. till the ground collapses and you fall into a pit thats filled with soot fire smoke and ash.. where you spend the last bit of the rest of your life..
I visited there back in 2013 I think it was, took a walk on graffiti highway before it got to the point it's at now, went to a gravel dump area where there was some steam to get some pictures, the holes were tiny. I touched the ground, and for a fall day, I could already feel the heat through my shoes, my hands confirmed it. We didn't stay more than an hour, and left with a carbon monoxide induced headache. I kept a couple of rocks from the site because I'm a nerd, but I'm sure a little brain damage was the real souvenir. Stay safe folks
Centralia did not inspire Silent Hill. The director of the Silent Hill movie was inspired by Centralia when making the film. But there's no relation between the origins of the Silent Hill games and Centralia. People retroactively made that connection because of the film's director.
Well actually, Pennsylvania has a lot of towns nestled in the mountains that are just like Silent Hill anyway, plus we don't have much else going on here so we're keeping it. Silent Hill is officially based on a place in Pennsylvania!
I LIVE RIGHT NEAR CENTRALIA. I been a Geologist for nearly 20yrs in the area. The truth about how this started is complicated but simple. It all started for MONEY. Reading anthracite had wanted to mine the mammoth vein of coal that goes right through the town for years but people refused to sell so small fights occurred between residents and the coal company for years until it mysteriously caught fire and everyone was made to leave their home. Let me mention this, the mammoth vein is the richest vein of coal in the WORLD!!
@Robert Aegidius I'm pretty sure it's a reference to doom and the doomslayer. Called "the slayer" lmao. You know, the guy who closes portals to hell so he can vacation there?
Thunder Muffin I live about a half hour away and all of my friends who come visit me from out of state want me to take them there. It’s like I’m there every other weekend LOL
Because the air is not going in that way. The ground and rock is porous and there's cracks and fissures all over the place. The fire is so hot it's drawing massive amounts of air from everywhere to feed it.
The noise of Birmingham is beyond description; the hammers seem never to be at rest. I feel as if my throat wanted sweeping like an English chimney. The vicinity was as thickly peopled as that of London. Instead of cottages we saw streets of brick hovels, blackened with the smoke of coal fires, which burn day and night in these dismal regions. The face of the country as we advanced was more hideous that can be described, uncultivated, black and smoking. I asked the coachman from whence the smoke proceeded, and he told me the whole earth beneath us was on fire; some coal-mines had taken fire many years ago, and still continued to burn. " If you were to travel this road by night, sir," said he, " you would see the whole country a-fire, and might fancy you were going to hell!"-A part of the road which is thus undermined gave way lately under one of the stages; it did not sink deep enough to kill the passengers by the fall, but one of them had his thigh broken. -Letters From England, by Don Manuel (Vol 2)
Yeah I live an hour from Centralia. It’s mostly burned itself out now. There’s almost never even steam coming out of the vents even in winter now. And yes it was an exposed coal seam that caught fire when they burned the trash in the dump.
4:30 "Coal Mine Tours! Steam train rides! Open April 1st to October 31st!" I get it. It was a joke at first, but then it ended super spooky. Like your town.
I been i live like an hour and 20ish or so away, its pretty cool and a little erie. On graffiti highway i got saw a spot where there was a crack in the road and it was smoking so wild
My roots are in the Copper Country, and in one neighborhood where families with young kids live, about 1k feet away is a large sign warning of Caving ground. We also have a mine that is burning, if I recall correctly, it has been burning 60 some odd years. Damn, longer than my folks been around!
The Pioneer Tunnel is in Ashland PA. It's only a couple of miles away from Centrailia. My late mother was raised in Ashland. I do have a cousin who was born and raised in Centrailia and I do remember it as a town and not the empty place it is now. I do remember billowing smoke and the smell of smoke when we would go there. The town is gone but Centrailia lives on in the hearts of many.
This same thing almost happened in Vandergrift PA in the late 70's. But from what I gather underground mine fires are not that rare. This one just was not managed properly from the get go.
Why not put out the fire??? Fire needs oxygen... So locate all entry ways to the mines... And collapse them.. Use dynamite if need be.. Then look for any other spots air getting in and seal them... Also bring in multiple tankers of fire foam... Pump into any openings. This should snuff out the flames by starving of oxygen...... If possible do it all as a coordinated effort all at once. So if there is six mine open shafts collapse all six at same time.
I spent 8 days in ICU & 2 weeks in the hospital from this I was a kid at the age of 16 & was dove hunting and fell into a pit & burned from my knees down ! Still suffering from the effects of this toxic crap & never was compensated from it because no one would claim who owned the land yet it was mysteriously re claimed & re-exvated
If anyone decides to visit Graffiti Highway, don't. The local authorities just covered it up sometime last week due to people littering, getting into accidents and having bon fires during the pandemic.
In the 1970’s the government was done fighting the fire, the estimated cost to finalize it getting put out was about $100,000. Instead of the town finding the money to finish the job, they bellyached instead for years. The fire grew and killed the town. Silly humans.
That's the problem with this country the government just argues back and forth for ages while problem get worse and more often than not nothing get accomplish, that's why I like Trump gets things done NOW if not damn soon
@@matthewvanderhorst4862 Someday humanity might evolve to the point where people are intelligent enough to wake up to the FACT that governments, and yes even religions which behave like governments are by far the greatest danger to humans. In just the 20th century, big, central planning, all powerful, regulate everything type governments killed/starved to death over 100 million of THEIR OWN PEOPLE plus millions of their enemies. Time to stop the love affair of big governments EVERYWHERE. They behave like the mafia and their "Protection" rackets. They protect you from other governments. What a great scam they are running. Governments are EXACTLY like fire. A useful tool when kept small and under control but ALWAYS dangerous and deadly when allowed to become large and no longer controlled by the very people it is supposed to serve. The founders of the USA understood this and it has taken decades of socialist government schools to remove that message from our collective minds.
Petere Poet oh fuck off stop acting like you are some special intellectual above everyone else. Saying “silly humans” makes you sound like you browse r/incels, it just makes you sound like a big sloppy turd waiting for someone to get trapped in your smelly undersides. Fuck off
Matthew Vanderhorst Trump Is something( good or bad) he is taking full advantage of the show of our fake system and the people who really pulling the strings are ........ stress that he does things his own way ( he isn’t really for the people but also not the government he is a business man who is using his cooperate skills to his advantage which any CEO or high business person would)
I haven't listened to the video yet, but I've heard the story of Centralia many times but discovery uk usually finds unique views on different subjects so it will be really interesting to hear your perspective to see if it's any different than the stories I've heard by US based groups.
They missed their chance to cut it off, this is a different animal now. If you added just water the resulting disturbance in the Thermal Layering will cause a massive steam explosion, you're talking a 1,700 times expansion on volume of water. The resulting explosion could change this fire from Smoldering/Incipient stages to a Growth/fully Involved stages by giving it significantly more Ventiliation. It's fairly sealed at this time ( at least alot more than if it was ripped open by a Steam Explosion) but like they showed you won't seal it off forever, they buckled roads, cracked ground. The Sinkholes caused by the Coal being burnt away and the area collapsing, and the rises in the ground and roads are caused by expansion naturally that's the reason for the physical appearances. Wonder how big this seam is?? I'm trying to appreciate it other than Town sized, but either way that's a hell of a fire to have.
The seam is huge. All the hills and mountains around it are coal country and active mining is still big business. Another thing is the rock has a high sulfur content so dumping water would also create a lot of sulphuric acid.
Fun fact. This town did NOT inspire silent hill. The story was inspired by many western horror authors and stories such as lovecraft, Poe, and Steven king. The fog was brought about to hide the ps1 draw distance. In other words the title of this video is bogus. This is a common misconception that I constantly see get spread.
We had three 10 tonne bins of coal catch fire a few years ago. We poured gallons of water through the coal and two weeks later ended up augering the coal out to extinguish the fire. meanwhile 3 tonnes of coal became ash in each bin.
Actually "Team Silent" who created "Silent Hill" Were inspired by Stephen King's The Mist, H.P.lovecraft, Crime and Punishment. They never heard of Centralia. The movie adapt took inspiration for the location. please do your research.
Not only do you put the fire out and make the ground more solid than before the fire started. You also get more rare minerals than you'll know what to do with. You should do it. Than send each family that was involed a bucket of gems and a few bars of gold for the hardships they went through.
It does draw a Hell of a lot of people. Not much to see other than the graffiti highway. Very popular spot for off roading. Some enterprising lad had a hot dog truck set up near the cemetery but he got chased away for not having proper permit or some such nonsense.
Been there a few times in the last few years. Don’t bother going, it’s just a bunch of empty, grown over city blocks and a section of old road that’s just a hub for off-roaders.
Hayden “Lack of People” Last i was there it was swamped. Dozens of folks walking the old road, 4-wheelers and buggy’s galore. Never been to an ‘abandoned’ town that busy. It sucks now.
Been there. Visited, as a surprise, when 2 of my sons were right at the age where they played Silent Hill. I went out there after Lancaster, then Hershey, then did a coal mine tour, and stopped in Centralia. Then smallmouth in the Susquehanna. The fishing was amazing. The smallmouth took a bad hit from environmental problems and a (gasp) virus, and are just coming back now.
I suggest watching Bright Sun Films’s video on TH-cam on centralia if you’re interested in this topic. It goes in depth on the history and events that went down in the town m.
That yellow truck by the house at 4:26 shows up on Google Earth in the same spot! Go back on the time line. Its sad to see all the missing houses. And the blocked off highway has so much graffiti on it that it almost looks likes a gravel road.
That pipe right in the camera mans face: -A real whitches brew comming out of that pipe. -Yeah nasty stuff. ... Camera man quietly stepss to the right...
i love how at 3:50 they talk about how shitty the smoke coming outta the pipe is then the camera man slowly tries too get the fuck out of the smoke as fast as possible without ruining the shot😂😂😂😂
It has nothing to do with Silent Hill, the idea that SH is based on Centrailia is based on an interview with the movie's director and the team that made the games did not use it as inspiration.
Iv never heard that before, i live in PA and the shits everywhere thousands of miles of abandoned mines all over the northeast of the state, theres even an old guy who dredges coal from the Susquehanna river and sells it for a nice penny
I'm assuming they abandon alot of these mines due to safety concerns or because it cost more to run the mines than the actual money they make from the coal they were getting out of them.
I remember driving through this town with my dad when I was about 10 going to Bradford. I even remember driving on the road which is now known as “graffiti road”! The road was deemed dangerous so they made another road which took you down and around the road. I feel bad for the people that lost there houses, they had to move from where they possibly lived since they where a child. I know In the past you could see smoke/steam depending on what time of the year you went through this place. Winter time you used to be able to see steam/smoke more easier. Route of all evil....money! We all know well enough if the government put enough money into it, it could be stopped, somehow, someway! I know there used to be a cemetery there.....did they dig up all there dead and relocate them?? Just a shame.... Sounds to me like there few attempts of trying to put this fire out has piss poor planning, or half ass planning. They dug down and dug behind the fire.....idiots.....
Using a coal mine as a burn pit has got to be one of the dumbest damn ideas anyone has ever come up with.
Corwin Kelly Don't underestimate the stupidity of Government
It's like dumping water to an overfilled lake
Both the US government and the soviet union tested the effects of a nuclear bombs radiation on its own troops the soviet union also used a nuclear bomb to create a hole big enough for a man made lake so stupid yes but probably not the stupidest idea ever.
Pretty dumb indeed!
@@wetdroidedition2549 Government is just as smart or stupid as the people it governs.
Only exception is an foreign occupation.
"nasty stuff coming out of the pipes"
as the cameraman just took a big whiff of it
It’s them purple ones you gotta watch out for.
We gotta know what will give us a high.
If you don't know what it is then huff it.
Y'all try huffing gas fumes, don't recommend.
Macaroni Art thats like, internet racism
Apple User 2 stop filling in shit thats not needing to be filled
@@macaroniart7523 grey lives matter
Dude...imagine being in your house and out of nowhere a frickin' flaming pit opens up under your house and you fall into what looks like biblical Hell
Emanuel Goldstein I once considered not reading the Bible before bed, this happened almost immediately, luckily there are only a couple more Hell Spawn left.
The Devil was pissed after going to Georgia so he went to Pennsylvania instead.
*Doom Music Starts to Play*
One day you'll get married and sometime later mother-in-law will visit.
You'll yearn for flaming pits of hell...
Id assume I was high af
"Hey, was that hole holding fuel at one point?"
"Yea, why?"
"We should burn garbage in it"
"Should we?"
"Why not?"
Not a good idea unless we set it on fire.
It all sounds fishy
Again, that's not what happened.
I read this in Jim Gaffigans voice first read lol. At least by the last sentence.
My dad and I visited Centralia when I was a kid and it was burning much more actively. It had recently snowed, and you could see the hot spots where it had easily melted though the inches of snow, and there were even a couple open vents in the ground with incredible heat coming out, most though were just small smoke vents. We spoke to an old woman who still lived there, refusing to move despite the danger. She was one of the last holdouts.
What were her thoughts on the whole thing
@@psychoticdaizyproductions569 a little bit warm.
@@Xalimur95 And she was saving a fortune on snow plowing fees.
Bet she never gets a heating bill neither
When discovery channel finds 3 stock images...
This video editor: “ehh, showem repeatedly”
*heads out*
I know right there's plenty of images regarding Centralia heck there's the footage from a National Geographic documentary made back in 1982 that shows the town during the fire and that could have actually been used as a better source of stock footage for this to be honest
Also Discovery Channel: "Get two women in a photo shoot studio. They're musicians and actors, but they'll act the part."
Sounds like everything they did to try and stop the fire made it worse.
coco cornflake my dad worked for a guy who owned the coal company that tried to stop it and by time they got through they missed it by 20 feet.
@@jakezark
Just 20 feet?
They were so close.
No shit
Should have just drilled in and filled with bentonite or flow fill.
Why cant they take the town and push it somewhere else
Funny. When they explained the vents I thought to myself ‘isn’t that basically a chimney? Which would supply the fire with oxygen to spread?
If it were a chimney it wouldnt supply oxygen. A chimney is an outlet, not an inlet. They started fueling the fire because it would output the gasses at the vents close to it, but the vents further away would then have negative pressure so they would pull air down to the coal. So the ones that the gas comes out of are a chimney yes, but the ones that started having an inward draft would be more like bellows pumping a fire
Couldn’t they make the vents a one way valve to stop any oxygen getting back in the mine?
@@eastjm80 oxygen works like liquid. You open it up without a vaccum leading the air in. Unless you have a 2nd hole which is a vaccum the draws the air out.
right?!
im a drooling idiot and even i was grunting at this "air make fire big!"
yes
I’ve been to Centralia dozens of times over the last 30 years, and I used to play Silent Hill on PlayStation, and at no time did I think one inspired the other. Silent Hill was more like a shore town in winter.
That's because Centralia was not the inspiration for the game. It only inspired the movie.
@@Rilumai 👍
Silent hill in the movie is in West Virginia.
Silent hill in the game's is new England.
Ive been there 6 times now since 99. Pretty wild place. The church still stands. Thats where silent hill got the idea.
I’m wondering what’s so “wild” about a bunch of trees where houses used to be?
@@handle-schmandle the houses were still there for a long time. It was fun to explore. Not so much now
I live in Pennsylvania, people really aren’t as crazy about Centralia as you’d think, people that aren’t local seem to make a big deal about it but it’s just as you’d Imagine, an abandoned town.
Zachury Strawcutter I went there this past summer and it was a lot more boring then I expected. Except for the graffiti highway which was pretty cool
I’ve driven past it. Personally O think it’s awesome to see the plumes of smoke, knowing that they are part of a fire that has been burning for 60 years.
@@nbwboomstick4067 unfortunately they covered graffiti highway with soil so people would stop going
People say "it's boring there." No shit, what did you expect? It's an abandoned town - how much fun can it be. It's not Disneyland - it's not a designed tourist attraction - it's an abandoned town for Christ's sake. There's nothing there!
Big fire though
i go there all the time! how do you get to the mines??
Abandoned, intact and unmolested places are fun. Bulldozed empty lots with people ripping up & down the roads with buggies is boring.
Use abandon town as a paint ball tournament venue.
Brian Barcus you seem upset. Do you need a hug ?
I actually live in pa and in January this year me and my buddies drove across the state and visited centralia, it's so cool knowing I literally walked and have pictures of all the same places they were standing in this video
Didnt u see the video? Soil could open a pit while u at top.
I grew up 30 minutes from Centralia. I remember passing through with my parents and smelling the gasses from the fire, mainly sulphur. Never went through the town though, only around it.
It’s always been like this, people won’t move away from a dangerous place until someone gets hurts or killed
yeah its almost like the state paid for them to leave..
@@slumbdog5635 To be fair, that would be what it takes for me to leave aswell. Aint got the money to just move and start over.
So I suppose these people should just move from the house they spent their lives paying for just to end up homeless with no compensation all because your town does things like a 3 year old
The fire was never a threat to the entire town. Watch any recent video and tell me where the “danger” is.
We have turned 3 unreclaimed strip mines into 2 modern lanfills and 1 nonBAT landfill. Never set a fire on purpose but have had reactions. Goal is to reclaim the hillsides with the trash. Under ground fires are nearly impossible to put out. We lost 88 acres and 50 years of life from the landfill with the reaction. This stuff is fascinating
Towns fine
He's delusional
Take him to the infirmary
You didn't see smoke coming up from the ground because it's not there!
I know now how a coal mine fire works. Now I don't need you.
joe Domjan sarcasm
We did everything right.
Watzyatho please, go back and watch the series.
And then Pyramid Head showed up. Residents evacuated days later.
Your comment deserves far more likes.
This place only inspired the setting for the first film, the original games it was snow, not ash. They got their shit wrong. But if Pyramid Head walked down main street, that's exactly what would happen lol
@@dickfitzwell1447 they didnt mention either the game or movie specifically. the movie's title is just silent hill sooo technically they are right and they might just be reffering to the movie in the first place , so where are coming up with this acusation from? also silent hill 2 and 3 are basically fire themed. like the other world is tunnels of metal cages and pathways with fire always burning around them. oh and even downpour features the fire other world ...and homecoming. last time i checked the games where in fact inspired by this town, this was being said even before the movie was out. So u got ur shit wrong.
He scared the shit outta me when that movie came out. I was a kid.
Except that one guy who found a gun with three bullets and didn't have the good sense to leave a spooky, foggy, super creepy small town. Not until he took a good look around and cracked the code on that dang old grandfather clock that doesn't work anyway...
why not turn the whole place into a giant thermal power plant?
Meowoofius Great idea!!
costs
I don’t know how they work, but that sounds like quite the meme
It's likely to complex and too unstable to be feasible. Geothermal relies on already present hot water or supplying a hot area with water to return to turbines. However, this is usually done with fractured hot rocks, not an actual fire. The hot areas also need to stay hot, you can't do it if the hot areas change over time
I can walk to a part of it in 5 minutes its close to a lot of people not the best spot to put a giant plant
I live about 5 miles from Centralia. It’s a cool place to see and is very interesting. The coal vein it reached and the coal vein from pioneer tunnel are both some of the longest coal veins in the world. Centralia nowadays is a great place to explore by atv or to just walk around
That's pretty cool! From what I saw in the video, it seems like the fire is moving. This might be a silly question but are you worried it might move to your town anytime soon since you are so close?
@@kalyda211 I’m also wondering this
@@Empylol that's what's happening in a town east of Centralia called Girardville. You can still see smoke coming out of the ground there. Not sure if people will have to evacuate but it's a possibility
All that geothermal energy going to waste
Exactly! Stupid people with PHDs.
To harness the geothermal energy would be a sensible course of action. The mishandling of Centralia makes it crystal clear that sensibility is beyond the realm of possibility for Pennsylvania.
Your understanding of geothermal is wrong. Lets say year round ground temps ( below frost line obviously)are 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
When its 20 degrees you get heat from it.
When its 100 degrees you get cooling from it.
Burning coal mines are equvalent to a furnace......no cooling abilities.
But none the less i get what you mean
There are more places like this on our planet. I doubt they are in the climate change models. But yes completely mismanaged.
DrSparky Piper the coolant line can be placed anywhere relative to the heat in a heat engine. The more relevant issue is the isntability of the system. No good way to set up a tap on the heat.
Everyone who says this place is boring clearly doesn’t have an off road vehicle.
Until you fall into a sinkhole.
@@AllenHanPR The possibility you state wouldn't be considered boring by most.
Been there many times I grew up am hour away and it's definitely amazing and fun to go to
Yeah.. till the ground collapses and you fall into a pit thats filled with soot fire smoke and ash.. where you spend the last bit of the rest of your life..
@@gunners4129 or one might just die driving to get some milk u can't worry bout everything lol
I visited there back in 2013 I think it was, took a walk on graffiti highway before it got to the point it's at now, went to a gravel dump area where there was some steam to get some pictures, the holes were tiny. I touched the ground, and for a fall day, I could already feel the heat through my shoes, my hands confirmed it. We didn't stay more than an hour, and left with a carbon monoxide induced headache. I kept a couple of rocks from the site because I'm a nerd, but I'm sure a little brain damage was the real souvenir. Stay safe folks
Nice story 😂😅
seems like the "engineers" here tried only solving this problem with one option and left out the rest here lol
..I.
Is it because I am really sleepy, or does this comment make no sense? What is OP saying?
@@the_original_Bilb_Ono they tried one time to stop it then said "Fuck it. It'll sort itself out"
Agent J Your telling me buying the cheapest parachute isn’t a good idea?
But I save so much moneyyyyyy
Reeeee
😂
They are also in a video about wind turbines which is equally as inept.
They should make electricity with all that hot air .
if you could make energy with just hot air trump would make a pretty good power plant
@@thatjokerperson7062 Damn 🃏 you dumb
@@iwishyouwould1781 how?
@@jerichopascual4416 guess he doesn't like dad jokes. or he is a trumptard. probably both
magnumtrooper17 or because heat is energy........... smh
3:47 camera man is standing in the smoke trail, and as they say how bad the stuff is coming out he moves away
I went here several years ago and it's fairly well known that it wasn't a trash burn that started it but rather a wildfire that kicked it off.
Centralia did not inspire Silent Hill. The director of the Silent Hill movie was inspired by Centralia when making the film. But there's no relation between the origins of the Silent Hill games and Centralia. People retroactively made that connection because of the film's director.
Well actually, Pennsylvania has a lot of towns nestled in the mountains that are just like Silent Hill anyway, plus we don't have much else going on here so we're keeping it. Silent Hill is officially based on a place in Pennsylvania!
@@nicholassnyder2241 In the games its Maine.
It's amazing that their was enough oxygen underground to keep the fire burning.
Also, it's amazing that the state intervened to buy out the residents.
3:12 - looks like a character straight out Mass effect
I LIVE RIGHT NEAR CENTRALIA. I been a Geologist for nearly 20yrs in the area. The truth about how this started is complicated but simple. It all started for MONEY. Reading anthracite had wanted to mine the mammoth vein of coal that goes right through the town for years but people refused to sell so small fights occurred between residents and the coal company for years until it mysteriously caught fire and everyone was made to leave their home. Let me mention this, the mammoth vein is the richest vein of coal in the WORLD!!
One day the real story will be revealed, about how this towns Slayer died sealing a hell mouth
Let me know when the fanfic is done
Yseson _ interesting I’ve never herd of that one please enlighten me
Robert Aegidius oh my b
@Robert Aegidius I'm pretty sure it's a reference to doom and the doomslayer. Called "the slayer" lmao. You know, the guy who closes portals to hell so he can vacation there?
3:45. Over there talking about the noxious gases and fumes while they stand 2 feet away from the pipe, lol
My boyfriend and I went there, there’s nothing to see but the graffiti highway 😂 the history is great but not really worth the drive
Thunder Muffin I live about a half hour away and all of my friends who come visit me from out of state want me to take them there. It’s like I’m there every other weekend LOL
xxSK1LL10NA1RExx hahahahahahahahahaha
We can see your profile pic, that’s evidence enough you and your boyfriend went their to look at the graffiti
Yea that's why you take a dirt bike. Theres a ton to see
Yea I'll take you for a real tour you can come riding with men lol
Why didn’t they make the vents a one way valve like when making alcohol, so the gas could escape but oxygen couldn’t get back into the mine ?
Because that is to smart
@@kyle18934 too*
Because the air is not going in that way. The ground and rock is porous and there's cracks and fissures all over the place. The fire is so hot it's drawing massive amounts of air from everywhere to feed it.
The noise of Birmingham is beyond description; the hammers seem never to be at rest. I feel as if my throat wanted sweeping like an English chimney. The vicinity was as thickly peopled as that of London. Instead of cottages we saw streets of brick hovels, blackened with the smoke of coal fires, which burn day and night in these dismal regions. The face of the country as we advanced was more hideous that can be described, uncultivated, black and smoking. I asked the coachman from whence the smoke proceeded, and he told me the whole earth beneath us was on fire; some coal-mines had taken fire many years ago, and still continued to burn. " If you were to travel this road by night, sir," said he, " you would see the whole country a-fire, and might fancy you were going to hell!"-A part of the road which is thus undermined gave way lately under one of the stages; it did not sink deep enough to kill the passengers by the fall, but one of them had his thigh broken.
-Letters From England, by Don Manuel (Vol 2)
That coal sounds amazing, we should use it as a fuel.
Her eyes are escaping her face 3:04
Kind of like Uma Thurman lol
I've seen far worse eye balls!
On this day we call it distance eyes filter on TikTok 😂
Yeah I live an hour from Centralia. It’s mostly burned itself out now. There’s almost never even steam coming out of the vents even in winter now. And yes it was an exposed coal seam that caught fire when they burned the trash in the dump.
From what I've read, they estimate that it will take about 250 years for that fire to finally burn itself out.
The fire is following the coal seams. It's just spread out away from the epicenter.
Yea i live like 40 mins away from there its sad really
"In this region"... Welcome to Pennsyltucky Y'all
Nope all Pennsylvania here. Never go south of the Mason Dixon Line EVER!
They call PA pennsyltucky cause of all the rasisisim and as much as I want to defend PA cause I absolutely love this state it is a very racist state.
@@dereklutz6935 That made absolutely no sense there bud. It was posted in the sense of the old joke, not for some liberal rant.
Worse than Ky.
PA sucks...
Cheryl is my little girl. I can't leave her in there by herself!
Do you mean Radiation Generator, Cancer Maker, and Life Taker?
@@solchapeau6343 Chernobyl?
@@solchapeau6343 Cheryl is after adopted name. So both name are used xD.
Three Mil’ is also my lil’ boy. Accidentally left him down there too!
4:30 "Coal Mine Tours! Steam train rides! Open April 1st to October 31st!" I get it. It was a joke at first, but then it ended super spooky. Like your town.
Love all these “TH-cam Engineers.” Who have all the answers. Hope you, unlike this poor town, have the money to back up your ideas.
Yeah they also have youtube money were they got there TH-cam engineering degrees, to help they world one commit at a time 😂😂
Yes, let's not start a fire in a coal mine. Novel idea!
Hey in 32 years I graduate with a 2.6 gpa and then the world will be my playground sir. And no student loan to payback.
mad monkey
Oh, forgive me please sir. Clearly I am amongst my social betters (Bows out of room with grace).
lets just push the town out of harms way, problem solved
I live fairly close to here. I've been meaning to take a daytrip for years but just never found the time or anyone else interested in going.
D Hawthorne just get up n go one day
I been i live like an hour and 20ish or so away, its pretty cool and a little erie. On graffiti highway i got saw a spot where there was a crack in the road and it was smoking so wild
It's nothing special honestly and you gotta watch out for tweakers up that way. Ho bud.
@@zip-un5tz very true haha
@@zip-un5tz what's a tweaker?
My roots are in the Copper Country, and in one neighborhood where families with young kids live, about 1k feet away is a large sign warning of Caving ground.
We also have a mine that is burning, if I recall correctly, it has been burning 60 some odd years. Damn, longer than my folks been around!
Now does the town have air raid sirens that go off when the town goes dark and the monsters come out?
The Pioneer Tunnel is in Ashland PA. It's only a couple of miles away from Centrailia. My late mother was raised in Ashland. I do have a cousin who was born and raised in Centrailia and I do remember it as a town and not the empty place it is now. I do remember billowing smoke and the smell of smoke when we would go there. The town is gone but Centrailia lives on in the hearts of many.
This same thing almost happened in Vandergrift PA in the late 70's. But from what I gather underground mine fires are not that rare. This one just was not managed properly from the get go.
"Who wouldn't want to live here. It's perfect!"
- Demonic cult member
Matty Jay no joke the towns in central PA are so beautiful…
*The executioner
Does that fire STILL BURN TODAY 2019
Yes
Yup still on fire
If no action is taken in the future, it's said that the fires may burn for another 200 years.
yes and will most likely burn for 25 years more
Why not put out the fire??? Fire needs oxygen... So locate all entry ways to the mines... And collapse them.. Use dynamite if need be.. Then look for any other spots air getting in and seal them... Also bring in multiple tankers of fire foam... Pump into any openings. This should snuff out the flames by starving of oxygen...... If possible do it all as a coordinated effort all at once. So if there is six mine open shafts collapse all six at same time.
I went there to check out the spray painted road and you can see the smoke coming out of the ground in one spot
Cool?
It's buried under dirt now.
@@s.sestric9929 y?
Leave it an English guy to always perfectly explain a situation
I spent 8 days in ICU & 2 weeks in the hospital from this I was a kid at the age of 16 & was dove hunting and fell into a pit & burned from my knees down ! Still suffering from the effects of this toxic crap & never was compensated from it because no one would claim who owned the land yet it was mysteriously re claimed & re-exvated
Why did this just randomly end??
Editors got bored after they ran out of stock images
If anyone decides to visit Graffiti Highway, don't. The local authorities just covered it up sometime last week due to people littering, getting into accidents and having bon fires during the pandemic.
www.foxnews.com/us/pennsylvania-graffiti-highway-buried-coronavirus-social-distancing-crowd-influx-centralia
I've been there the place is only about an hour from me there's not much evidence of a fire right now but it still continues to burn
3:46
“a real witches brew coming out of that pipe”
*cameraman proceeds to move out of the smoke*
Take a hit off that pipe
Oh yeah that would end great 😂
Yeah you'll be going for days
Be your last swat
BONG
@@josephdickerson5802yeah and youll be gone in a few too😂
This is really cool, I've been here numerous times, it's only like 45 mins away from my hometown
In the 1970’s the government was done fighting the fire, the estimated cost to finalize it getting put out was about $100,000. Instead of the town finding the money to finish the job, they bellyached instead for years. The fire grew and killed the town.
Silly humans.
That's the problem with this country the government just argues back and forth for ages while problem get worse and more often than not nothing get accomplish, that's why I like Trump gets things done NOW if not damn soon
@@matthewvanderhorst4862 Someday humanity might evolve to the point where people are intelligent enough to wake up to the FACT that governments, and yes even religions which behave like governments are by far the greatest danger to humans. In just the 20th century, big, central planning, all powerful, regulate everything type governments killed/starved to death over 100 million of THEIR OWN PEOPLE plus millions of their enemies. Time to stop the love affair of big governments EVERYWHERE. They behave like the mafia and their "Protection" rackets. They protect you from other governments. What a great scam they are running.
Governments are EXACTLY like fire. A useful tool when kept small and under control but ALWAYS dangerous and deadly when allowed to become large and no longer controlled by the very people it is supposed to serve. The founders of the USA understood this and it has taken decades of socialist government schools to remove that message from our collective minds.
Petere Poet oh fuck off stop acting like you are some special intellectual above everyone else. Saying “silly humans” makes you sound like you browse r/incels, it just makes you sound like a big sloppy turd waiting for someone to get trapped in your smelly undersides. Fuck off
@@beans1215 You sure act like a big man,hiding behind your computer screen.
Matthew Vanderhorst Trump Is something( good or bad) he is taking full advantage of the show of our fake system and the people who really pulling the strings are ........ stress that he does things his own way ( he isn’t really for the people but also not the government he is a business man who is using his cooperate skills to his advantage which any CEO or high business person would)
I haven't listened to the video yet, but I've heard the story of Centralia many times but discovery uk usually finds unique views on different subjects so it will be really interesting to hear your perspective to see if it's any different than the stories I've heard by US based groups.
"Some believe". Dude, it happened.
This place is dirtbike heaven if you have a dirtbike go there on the weekend crazy fun trails for days
Until you fall into a sinkhole.
@@AllenHanPR VERY popular spot for off-roading. Nobody has fallen into any holes yet.
Did anyone ever think to pump the tunnels full of water????
They missed their chance to cut it off, this is a different animal now. If you added just water the resulting disturbance in the Thermal Layering will cause a massive steam explosion, you're talking a 1,700 times expansion on volume of water. The resulting explosion could change this fire from Smoldering/Incipient stages to a Growth/fully Involved stages by giving it significantly more Ventiliation. It's fairly sealed at this time ( at least alot more than if it was ripped open by a Steam Explosion) but like they showed you won't seal it off forever, they buckled roads, cracked ground. The Sinkholes caused by the Coal being burnt away and the area collapsing, and the rises in the ground and roads are caused by expansion naturally that's the reason for the physical appearances. Wonder how big this seam is?? I'm trying to appreciate it other than Town sized, but either way that's a hell of a fire to have.
The seam is huge. All the hills and mountains around it are coal country and active mining is still big business. Another thing is the rock has a high sulfur content so dumping water would also create a lot of sulphuric acid.
Let's thank these people for providing the blueprint for Silent Hill.
Fun fact. This town did NOT inspire silent hill. The story was inspired by many western horror authors and stories such as lovecraft, Poe, and Steven king. The fog was brought about to hide the ps1 draw distance. In other words the title of this video is bogus. This is a common misconception that I constantly see get spread.
Fun fact.you are wrong..
I love all of you. No need to fight.
mike sixx mike sixx he didn’t. Wanna know who did say that though? Christophe Gans, the director or SH movie. That were the misconception comes from.
Thank you. I get so tired of the "Oooo Oooo Silent Hill!" idiots, especially those who show up looking for scenes from the movie. Fools.
Been here many many times.. awsome place
The 🔥 has been burning sense 1967,,my Lord what a mess caused by stupidity
Yea not to smart...
@@ashtxn5735 no, no its not....
There is one in Australia that has been burning for 6000 years. This one has barely even started.
All because some smoker didnt know only he could prevent underground burning coal mines from not throwing that butt out the window 😂😂
@@JeepTrailsandBarbells you're lame af.
We had three 10 tonne bins of coal catch fire a few years ago. We poured gallons of water through the coal and two weeks later ended up augering the coal out to extinguish the fire. meanwhile 3 tonnes of coal became ash in each bin.
I bet you can get some cheap land out there!!!
2 1/2 Acres I guess, but you would still have the whole underground coal fire problem to deal with
If you just want to cook meth you could work that into energy savings.
I was just there
That Coal mine she was in I was there
Actually "Team Silent" who created "Silent Hill" Were inspired by Stephen King's The Mist, H.P.lovecraft, Crime and Punishment. They never heard of Centralia. The movie adapt took inspiration for the location.
please do your research.
Mark W. Loughton you’re cute 🙃
Didn’t draw call issues also inspire them to make the fog as thick as they did?
J Ygb | So true.
Thank you! I get so tired of the "inspired" idiots.
Not only do you put the fire out and make the ground more solid than before the fire started. You also get more rare minerals than you'll know what to do with. You should do it. Than send each family that was involed a bucket of gems and a few bars of gold for the hardships they went through.
did you forget what miserable nasty planet we live on
I live an hour south of Centralia. It's boring af, don't go.
wardkdouglas 😂 you’re right i live 2 miles away! It was a nice town when i was a kid.
wardkdouglas PEOPLE CAN DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES!!!
People who live next to Disney feel the same yet people still go you live near it so your interest has gone
It does draw a Hell of a lot of people. Not much to see other than the graffiti highway. Very popular spot for off roading. Some enterprising lad had a hot dog truck set up near the cemetery but he got chased away for not having proper permit or some such nonsense.
@@loveunderlaw lmao damn chill dawg, that's just his opinion. No need to yell.
*That guy @ **0:49** looked like he has a "VOTE For PEDRO" wig on.*
MAGGOT VOMIT under rated comment
Thx......I was wondering "Is this thing on?" or if "vote for pedro" was one of the banned phrases by MuhFeelingsTube. xD
Been there a few times in the last few years. Don’t bother going, it’s just a bunch of empty, grown over city blocks and a section of old road that’s just a hub for off-roaders.
Armitage that makes me want to go even more
There’s nothing to see. It’s a tourist trap with little to offer. You can’t even see the steam unless you go in the dead of winter.
Armitage fuck the steam i want to go there for the lack of people and law enforcement
Hayden there tons of ppl and state police harassing ppl now i hear....i have vids when i went...now i hear police are there cracking down
Hayden
“Lack of People” Last i was there it was swamped. Dozens of folks walking the old road, 4-wheelers and buggy’s galore. Never been to an ‘abandoned’ town that busy. It sucks now.
As a witch, I am greatly offended. I use only organic toads, bats, and spiders.
Just a heads up: they never mentioned the game. It is still interesting enough tho.
Yep, just the films were influenced. Not the games despite a lot of people thinking so.
Been there. Visited, as a surprise, when 2 of my sons were right at the age where they played Silent Hill. I went out there after Lancaster, then Hershey, then did a coal mine tour, and stopped in Centralia. Then smallmouth in the Susquehanna. The fishing was amazing. The smallmouth took a bad hit from environmental problems and a (gasp) virus, and are just coming back now.
I suggest watching Bright Sun Films’s video on TH-cam on centralia if you’re interested in this topic. It goes in depth on the history and events that went down in the town m.
That yellow truck by the house at 4:26 shows up on Google Earth in the same spot! Go back on the time line. Its sad to see all the missing houses. And the blocked off highway has so much graffiti on it that it almost looks likes a gravel road.
No wonder the planet is falling apart
At 0:10 is the graffiti highway- it's pretty epic, and surprisingly long. They really could have given it some love...
It's buried under dirt now.
@@s.sestric9929 Unfortunately I'm aware. Glad I was able to see it beforehand...
That pipe right in the camera mans face:
-A real whitches brew comming out of that pipe.
-Yeah nasty stuff.
... Camera man quietly stepss to the right...
Something like that happened in Southern Ohio and it still burns years later!!
I wonder if there will be a massive cave system to explore where the coal once was one day
Considering it's a mine, I think any sort of structural support would be burned away thus causing an array of dozens of caveins and such obstructions.
Does anyone else ever piss on the side of the toilet so it makes less noise????
Nope i just go on the seat.
i love how at 3:50 they talk about how shitty the smoke coming outta the pipe is then the camera man slowly tries too get the fuck out of the smoke as fast as possible without ruining the shot😂😂😂😂
I found this pretty damn interesting since I fuckin loved playing silent hill..
It has nothing to do with Silent Hill, the idea that SH is based on Centrailia is based on an interview with the movie's director and the team that made the games did not use it as inspiration.
The human experience is defined by ignorance and stupidity.
So let me get this straight we are worried about running out of coal and theirs abandoned coal mines WITH COAL?
Iv never heard that before, i live in PA and the shits everywhere thousands of miles of abandoned mines all over the northeast of the state, theres even an old guy who dredges coal from the Susquehanna river and sells it for a nice penny
I live in Erie and let me tell ya, Centralia has been burning for ever.
@@easytarget1152 erie is the opposite side of the state, im surprised you know about centralia
@Karen Lee they based the video game/movie silent hill off of centralia
I'm assuming they abandon alot of these mines due to safety concerns or because it cost more to run the mines than the actual money they make from the coal they were getting out of them.
i’ve been here at least 10 times and don’t let clickbait win, it is inhabited. there’s at least 10 people living in centralia
I remember driving through this town with my dad when I was about 10 going to Bradford. I even remember driving on the road which is now known as “graffiti road”! The road was deemed dangerous so they made another road which took you down and around the road. I feel bad for the people that lost there houses, they had to move from where they possibly lived since they where a child. I know In the past you could see smoke/steam depending on what time of the year you went through this place. Winter time you used to be able to see steam/smoke more easier. Route of all evil....money! We all know well enough if the government put enough money into it, it could be stopped, somehow, someway! I know there used to be a cemetery there.....did they dig up all there dead and relocate them?? Just a shame.... Sounds to me like there few attempts of trying to put this fire out has piss poor planning, or half ass planning. They dug down and dug behind the fire.....idiots.....
The cemeteries are still there. My grandparents are buried in St. Ignatius.
Why it has to take money to fix problems like this
I've been there, it's creepy, and kind of cool too.
Also inspired "Nothing but trouble" Valkenvania..
Banker?
The hot dog train scene was creepy good.
@@crtmojo2705" Prize winning Herfords" "I suggest you have them like me" "a hey, hoe, hey hoe..."
Um so did they ever put the fire out or is it still burning? Video just ends on a cliffhanger
It is still burning, and is likely to continue burning for 200 years, as it follows the coal seams.
I went there yesterday! The best part of the town this the graffiti highway
"Nasty stuff comin' outta that pipe, nasty stuff" 😅 ya'll are stood a whole foot away from it 🤣
It is completely fathomable, actually 50 fathoms deep.