Centralia
Thursday, March 30th, 2006 @ 6:35 pm
The ruins of Centralia Pennsylvania no longer exists on some maps. The story began sometime in 1962 along the outskirts of town when trash was burned in the pit of an abandoned strip mine, which connected to a coal vein running near the surface. The burning trash caught the exposed vein of coal on fire. The fire was reported and thought to be extinguished but it apparently wasn’t. The coal then began to burn underground. That was in 1962.
…and it’s still fuckin burning! and there are wackos still living there! A whole bunch of interesting photos and more details about this place here..
The first thing I thought of when I read this was the Springfield tire fire..
[Via Digg.com]
