Centralia, PA

A coal seam beneath this Pennsylvania town has been burning for over 60 years and could keep going for centuries. Smoke still curls up through cracks in…

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It's the real place that inspired Silent Hill, and the smoke is still coming up through the pavement right now.

Visit Centralia, PA — The Town on Fire Since 1962

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