Great video Post 10! About 30 years ago on a trip to Centralia to see the fires my father and I dug up a couple small birch trees on the edge of town where it was beginning to burn. We planted them back at the homestead and am happy to say they're still growing strong and tall all these years later. It's a wild place!
That Keystone culvert was awesome. They finished the front with nice stone. inside raw material. What craftsmanship. Thing is probably more than 100 years old.
Here in Pennsylvania, our educational curriculum requires us to learn about Centralia and what happened to it. We passed by the ghost town on our way to Bloomsburg and it’s always a sad sight. Thanks for making this video lad
I grew up in Pa. about 1hour and 45 minutes away, and I did not have to learn anything about the Centralia fire. I have been past this location about 15 years ago. It is very sad to see this town gone.
I live in New Zealand . I had a maths teacher that was from Pennsylvania. We would always hassle him that he was a vampire or asked if had meet or knew a vampire from his home land. Would wind him up something crazy .
I seem to remember seeing (or reading) that people here could live in their houses if it's safe, but no one can inherit them. This is what happens when a town tries to be cheap when fighting a disaster: complained about the costs of fighting the fires early. Fascinating Horror did a video about Centralia.
People lived with their means back then, as a matter of personal responsibility. Anyone managing the finances for a town would have been acting with integrity in the course of keeping their budget "balanced", and been respected for it.
@@HappyQuailsLC Unfortunately, this is one of those times when that kind of conservative thought is misplaced and led to an emergency becoming a disaster. It's like saying: "Oh, I'm having a stroke but the hospital bill will be too big so I'll just sit here and die."
It wasn't covered by the DOT, it was covered by the private company that owns the mine. They said it was to reduce liability of people getting injured exploring the abandoned highway. Had the opportunity to explore the area about 10 years ago and it was pretty surreal.
I watched a special online about this town. There were a lot of holdouts that absolutely weren't gonna move. As they passed away or got too old to live on their own their homes were leveled. It's very sad because those relatives have no way of keeping that land/house in their family (if it were built to be an ancestral home). Thanks for taking us along as you explored what's left of the town. 👍🏻😊🌻
@@OmaBike Pyrite is almost always found where gold is found, but gold is rarely found where pyrite is found. Pyrite is really common, an important non-ore mineral (just iron) in pretty well any sulfide ore deposits, never mind occurring in pretty well any and all rock types. Gold is a rare thing. Not something you find lying around on the ground in a pile of waste rock, even at a mine.
Five hundred years from now, an archeologist explores this area ... "ah these must be burial mounds of very important people, they made huge paintings on the ground before burying them"
Captain cock and balls must have been a warrior legend. There are references to cock and balls everywhere in these ancient hyroglyphs. We hope one day to find him in one of the burial mounds underneath the strip of hyroglyphs. Archaeologists are working hard to get past the beaver dams.
@@evilspacemonkeyman Also they have inscribed a string of numbers together, it must be directions to their oracle. The walls say "call Cherry for a Good Time". Must be a travel guide to the landlords of the past..
I'm from western PA...lots of streams around coal areas look like that and yes it's from iron. Iron & pyrite are usually found around coal seams (it was pyrite you found). We called the hills of coal waste slag heaps and some are the size of mountains! They do eventually grow grass and trees in them but it takes years or even decades. I know it's good for the economy in some places but coal mining really makes a community ugly and sometimes unlivable.
Our shale tailing bings in Scotland are treasured for their history, boost to the industrial era, growth of entire communities, material use for roads and paths, motor cross sports & now they are protected land due to the entire new niches they have created for orchids, grasses and other rare species only bings can support. It's like looking at Ayres rock from Edinburgh too, they're a real experience to climb too!
We call them slate dumps. They smoke in summer from sun making them hot. Winter, snow rarely rests on them. There are 9 big dumps in a 5 mile radius of my town. The slag dumps are in pgh. They built on the one. I worked at the top and our building was splitting apart. It had big iron bars all over screwed into place holding it. Our parking lot was like a dirt tract that was paved.
For anyone who doesn't know the story of Centralia, there's a really good documentary called Centralia, Pennsylvania "The Town that Was" It's told by the townspeople of Centralia. (If you're a crier, bring tissues!)
The internet destroyed this place. Before it got popular it was an interesting, somber area to visit. They tore out everything after the hordes descended on it, dug up the time capsule, demolished the veterans memorial, people stole everything that wasn’t nailed down.
Love that keystone culvert. From what I was understanding there's only 1 person legally living in the town. I thought mine was shut down but that was years ago that I read about it. Things change I guess. Thank you. It was very interesting.👍👍👍👍😊😃
This was another one that was on Abandoned Engineering. Got to love these documentaries. learning about various places that has been abandoned around the world.
Interesting. I didn't know about this one. Sad to see what's left. Graffiti highway, now I've seen everything. Thanks Postie for bringing us with you and you guys stay safe now.
The flame was a bit green two. I wonder why this coal had this behavior. In Germany we call it "Katzengold" literally translated cats gold. But I can't explain why 🤷🏻♀️
Thank you for bringing us this very interesting video presentation. The red roads could be as a result of the stone that they use, it might be that the local quarry that they used had this colour of stone which produces that lovely red colour. About 30 miles from here in a neighbouring county there roads were also red for the same reason. Interestingly there is a quarry in the county that has rock that is used for railway ballast which is pink rather than the usual grey. The 'rusty' water flowing is quite common in areas where there are abandoned mines which could be as a result of the mine machinery which is rusting away and maybe naturally occurring veins of ironstone. When the mine was in use the water would have been pumped away elsewhere but with this no longer happening it would lead to the water bubbling to the surface and joining an already established stream.
When my husband was just learning to drive, this section of PA 61 was still open and he said it was so much fun, because the road formed a big dip that made your stomach drop. The DOT had to fill it in every few months, and they finally deemed it so unsafe that they abandoned this section and just built around it.
Bill Bryson educated a whole lot of British people about Centralia in his book 'A walk in the woods' and sparked somewhat of a tourism boost, not entirely welcomed by the local government of the time.
I swear, I hate the corruption of the government, and YES THIS IS CORRUPTION. There’s no benefit to the people and the only people who get paid are those with connections.
Did anyone else watch this with the expectation that after finding the creek, Post 10 would somehow find a way using his drainage skills to divert it underground, put out all the subterranean coal fires, and make the area inhabitable again?
So cool to see you visit Centralia! I live not too far from there and I've always wanted to explore the town. If you want to learn more about the history of coal mining in the area, down the road in Ashland there is a coal mining museum. It's called the Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine. They even take you into the mine.
I heard that the Graffiti highway is now private property, it wasnt DOT that put all the dirt on the road it was the company that owns the property now they did it for liability reasons, people were getting hurt on ATVs and people were setting fires.
@@TheJttv Theres a UA-cam channel called @JPVideos that has done quite a few videos about Centralia. He has even arranged meetups with other UA-camrs there, a guy named Adam Tereska knows a TON about the town. From what I have seen, the last house to be torn down was the former mayors house. He lived there till he passed away then people started tearing the place up.
Not only did people get hurt, others were harassing the first responders trying to help. It was a huge legal liability - what is called an attractive nuisance - and Post was trespassing on private property. It was marked, but morons keep pulling the signs down.
Centralia's Graffiti Highway is closed and covered with dirt to drive away visitors during coronavirus pandemic. In the past month, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf issued a stay-at-home order and closed non-essential businesses due to the coronavirus, so many people are looking for ways to spend their time. April 2020. Too many people were visiting when Covid started. I hate it because I wanted to see it. 😕
thank you for finally stopping by "ANTHRACITE COAL COUNTRY" Hope ya come back again...my family lived in Centrailia up until the late 80's then moved when the Govt. was doing their buyout program. I remember it when it was a bustling little town and now every time i drive through it's just hard to believe what it once was.
Been on graffiti highway a few times. There's like 2 houses left and I think people actually still live in those two. Of all the times I have been there I never found any smouldering ground.
It would be fun to bash RCs your right! It sucks they covered the entire road but people got hurt on 4 wheelers there hitting the sink holes and open crators
My understanding is that a private company purchased this a few years back. The nonstop crazy stuff that went on there prompted them to cover the highway with dirt and then put up no trespassing signs. Sounds like they've loosened up a bit since people are on the old highway again. Also, anthracite coal isn't good for smithing, lol....we've experimented with it. It tends to heat unevenly and also explode. Bituminous is the best choice. Fun to see the update! 😊
I thought anthracite was the cleanest hottest burning? Queen Victoria would have nothing else in her places of residence. Maybe what’s good for fireplaces and cooking isn’t so good for smithing.
@@DocOck thanks for stating that truthful fact. Centralia was always popular but when the first silent Hill movie came out there was an influx of people that wanted to check out this town and then of course it was all over the Internet and that was before UA-cam and when UA-cam showed up, well you already know.
Awesome video! I could spend a few hours just walking round there. Glad those kids on bikes didn't bother you. Here in UK they'd probably start shouting and swearing and just being proper childish. In some shops here that sell minerals and rocks they would charge you an absolute fortune for one of those rocks with pyrite inside it. I paid a couple of £ just for a tiny pyrite when I was on holiday, I love collecting 'gems', quartz and unusual rocks. Great video Sir :)
24:48 That stream looked more Sulphur Yellow based residue than the usual Red Iron Ore. The golden look stuff is also known as "Fools Gold" usually fount near Quartz.
What a great video and the sad story of Centralia which I first heard a few years back on Abandoned Engineering…. Did I spot Ghost and her shadow a few times, must be time for a video where we get to meet the amazing lady and her camera work!
Try a trip over to Scranton PA. The hill over looking the city on the west side of the valley was known as the pig farm. Toxic waste had been dumped their from states outside PA. It become a super fund site back in the late 70’s. All the soil had to be removed an burned in special containers. In Texas. There is still areas leaking toxic fluids from the ground into the water table. The mine your at now belongs to no one An is also considered a super fund site. Cause they can not put the fire out. Toxic gasses keep leaking into the air we breath an water they drink all the way south. You can bet your cookies An milk people leave that area cause of the cancer they come down with. It’s also a reason you can not buy the land. Cause it could become a sink hole like in Florida. Where people an homes disappear all the time. Be very careful where you go an walk around. What they tell you is very often not the truth. Very dangerous areas . Been there done it myself. Abandoned mine shaft , an fracking sites all over.
No, the land is privately owned. The landowner is the one that put all the piles of dirt on the road. Too many people throwing huge parties and getting hurt on ATV's.
So fun!! I recall seeing a documentary on TV about that mine fire. It's great to see it "in person" through your video. That gold is "pyrite" or "fools gold".
Thanks Post 10 for another interesting adventure. I had read about Centralia when I was in school, possibly from an article in National Geographic Magazine, which was about 40+ years ago.
The stone from the gravel quarry that is used to make the asphalt is the reason the road is red looking. Once the tar and petroleum parts are worn off of the stone, the color of the stones start to show; those happen to be a red color. There are parts of the highway near my home that appear purple for the same reason.
This is one of my favorite videos by you. Centralia has been sitting comfortably in the top five of my bucket list of places to visit. I read that the underground coal fire was started because someone was burning trash and the embers blew into the mine shaft.
Yeah that's pyrite. There's no gold mines anywhere in the northeast. Plenty of petroleum and natural gas though, and coal of course Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia had gold. That's about the extent of it east of the Mississippi
The "Gold" you're seeing is Pyrite. It's commonly referred to as "Fool's Gold" but it's chemically a Sulfide common in coal seams. So it makes sense to find some pyrite growth there. Chemically it is FeS(2).
Cool video. I've had in the back of my mind about taking a road trip to check this place out when I found out about its existence ~5 years ago. And that's pyrite...if it was 'real' gold, it wouldn't be there...
The fire originally started at the community garbage dump because the dump site was located on an exposed coal seam at the top of a mountain. The town decided to burn the garbage at this dump, which caused no issue until one year, the coal seam caught fire. No one realized that the smoldering at the dump was actually the coal seam burning until it was too late. The U-shaped seam of coal stretches down under the adjacent valley and up the the other side to another mountain. On this other mountain, there is a coal mining museum where you can go down inside an old decommissioned coal mine shaft and this is where I learned the whole complete story of the Centralia coal fire (go there and check it out). There is a chance that someday the coal will burn right through and out to the other side. Why can't the fire be put out? There are too many unknown air vents to the surface.
I went there with my family as a kid about 20 years ago. It was eerily quiet, hardly any birds, smoke coming from the road, ground, and even log stumps. The spot I went to had almost no grass or trees, don't remember what part we were at.
Maybe Pyrite? Oh, and many people refused to leave and they remained for decades. The last I heard, someone was still living there. Thanks for doing this video
the piles of dirt are not for graffiti. they were put there to deter vehicular traffic from driving down the old road. a lot of people were hurt and killed by speeding 4wheelers and dirt bikers on that stretch of road.
I go to an abandoned town that was a silver and gold mine that introduced arsonic into the ground water. I visit almost all the time i pass it. The mine was actually accessible until 2020 when they filled the portal (mine shaft elevator) with foam and rock. They also welded the elevator equipment. Welded the last access door this year to the ground. The town is still in place, and it was mind until 1964 even have an old news paper with $0.02 fruit and a $0.60 bag of something. It's a cool town. If you've been to colorado you'd know what I'm talking about. If not I can dm you the cords or just Google "mine that introduced arsenic into ground water in colorado".
Very interesting, Post 10. I grew up in a town that made American Motor's cars. Yes, that Kenosha, WI. As a kid I remember going past a huge pile of coal that seemed to always be steaming. My dad who was an electrical engineer there said the coal pile was burning and smoldering and had been for many years. As a child I wondered why it didn't burn up like a log and burst into flames. Of course, now as an adult I understand that there was not enough oxygen for proper combustion. When Chrystler closed the AMC plant and removed the coal pile, it left a huge, impressive scorch mark that melted into the earth by several feet.
hey, really nice find! I have a creek nearby where farmers used to dump the rocks they found in their fields, and I got some really cool looking rocks out of it when I made my way down there it's a bit sad that the mine fire drove away the community, but at the very least I bet the abandoned land makes a perfect habitat for all the local animals!
I’ve always wanted to visit this place ever since I saw Silent Hill. I drove through Pennsylvania last year to visit Berks County (colonial Pennsylvania) and Gettysburg, but Centralia is further north so was too far out of the way.
24:22 is that a well on your property, or is that some place else?? You are cleaning it often, so I was just wondering... Thank you for the videos that you do.. It is funny a couple of times your girlfriend has been with you, and all of sudden I will see her walking in the background and want to yell at the computer, some one is there watch out... When you have been in a couple of the abandon houses... She has even scared me a couple of times... It is all good.. Just did not ever think that I would get sooo involved in a video.... I wish people would get that involved in my channels videos....
You need to know where to look now to see the steam. You were close a couple times. You would also like the big mine run geyser right outside Ashland. I'll show you if you make another trip back to PA.
Those "red roads" are used here for bike paths. They alert crossing traffic that it is a bike path. In this case it is probably intended to indicate which are the main roads that you are supposed to drive on, and which are the dangerous unmaintained roads that you should keep away from.
The town was a mining town. They had a dump where they would place dangerous materials to burn. During one burn that was poorly supervised it burned into the coalseam near the surface.
I live near a coal mine, and one of the main indications that coal is burning is the smell, brown coal also burns with an invisible flame in most cases.
That is definitely pyrite (iron sulfide), which is very common in sediments and in many coal deposits. The brassy or greenish yellow of pyrite is not really like the color of actual gold, and gold won't ever form crystals or partial crystals whereas pyrite usually (not always) shows at least part of the basic cubic structure of the mineral. Pyrite is a very common mineral so, like quartz, is good to learn to ID. You definitely will see either/both if you look at rocks much.
Coming from someone who lives a few miles away from centralia, let’s correct some of you data. The DOT did not cover the road, it was the property owners who covered the road. You have no idea how dangerous it was when people would be walking out in front of traffic when being on graffiti highway. There is also no trespassing signs all over you just didn’t see them. Yes, the cemetery has been vandalized multiple of times. I have family buried up there and it’s disheartening when people from out of town bring their spray paint and ruin things.
@@rebekkaholsten4622 The steps needed to transfer a body include: • Apply for an exhumation license. Every state is a little bit different in how they handle this process, and your best bet is to contact the cemetery directly. Depending on your situation, you may need to get an exhumation license and/or a disinterment order from the probate court. Unless you are authorized to act in the interests of the deceased (either as executor of the will or next of kin), you may not be able to move the body at all. • Get approval from religious officials. This can either be a formal or an informal process, and you may need a license or written agreement in order to proceed. The act of burying someone on consecrated ground is taken very seriously, and unless your reasons are sound and approved by the affiliated church, you could have problems getting your rights granted. • Follow local environmental and health regulations. No matter how long the deceased has been buried, human remains pose a potential public health hazard. You will need to have the exhumation done by proper authorities and under the direction of an environmental health officer who can oversee the safety of the proceedings. • Make body transfer plans. Depending on your situation, you will either have to purchase a new casket for transport and burial, or opt for cremation. The latter is recommended due to the natural decay of the body, and it is much easier to make plans for the cremated remains than it is for a body. You will also need to coordinate with the new funeral home and cemetery of your choice. The body will be transported into their care for future burial arrangements, and you will need to make payments and funeral plans up front. • You may or may not be allowed to watch the exhumation, but it isn’t recommended that you attend. Exhumations are often held very early in the morning to avoid disruptions, and the process is both lengthy and (in some cases) gruesome. Natural decay and rust will render the coffin and remains unidentifiable, and it can be an unpleasant sight for those not accustomed to it. While transferring a body is rare and expensive, it can be done. You can expect to encounter several obstacles (at the city and state level as well as with funeral home and cemetery officials), but by remaining calm and knowing where you can turn for help, you should be able to eventually lay your relative to rest at the appropriate
The red road is probably just whatever kind of aggregate they had available at the time they were mixing the asphalt. You can specify a particular colour if you really want to but it's usually more expensive to do so.
The DOT did not do that , The mining company purchased that road , To prevent people from using their ATV they put those mounds there , You will get a trespassing ticket if caught by the local police , Signs are in the area that says No Trespassing , Once the last owners pass away the mining company will eventually own the town .
Unless all the documentaries that i watched are wrong...coal mining wasnt happening when the incident occured, what started the fire is up for debated but the one most recognized is controlled garbage burn started it when some of the trash fell into a chute, the town wasnt evacuted just because a boy fell in to one of the earth scars/sinkholes, it took many years before people were even given a settlement so they could pack up and leave after the boy had fallen in.
Great video Post 10! About 30 years ago on a trip to Centralia to see the fires my father and I dug up a couple small birch trees on the edge of town where it was beginning to burn. We planted them back at the homestead and am happy to say they're still growing strong and tall all these years later. It's a wild place!
The heavy black rock is probably anthracite (a harder, denser coal) with pyrite. Definitely a beautiful find, display it proudly!
Yeah I was thinking the same. Iron pyrite is the gold you see. Aka "Fool's Gold".
@@DarthAckert I would be surprised if there were many rocks without pyrite given how much acid drainage was visible in the water at 17:13.
Yeah I think you are right, Pyrite would have been my guess to! Fun fact: in German it is also called Katzen-gold (cat-gold)
@@peterpannemann4565 I love "cat-gold" as a name for it! It does sort of resemble the gold color of cat eyes.
yea its not a gold vein, first clue is the crystal type structure
That Keystone culvert was awesome. They finished the front with nice stone. inside raw material. What craftsmanship. Thing is probably more than 100 years old.
Pennsylvania is the Keystone State so...
Here in Pennsylvania, our educational curriculum requires us to learn about Centralia and what happened to it. We passed by the ghost town on our way to Bloomsburg and it’s always a sad sight. Thanks for making this video lad
I grew up in Pa. about 1hour and 45 minutes away, and I did not have to learn anything about the Centralia fire. I have been past this location about 15 years ago. It is very sad to see this town gone.
Engineer in Mo, we learned about it in Engineering college.
I live in New Zealand . I had a maths teacher that was from Pennsylvania. We would always hassle him that he was a vampire or asked if had meet or knew a vampire from his home land. Would wind him up something crazy .
I never had to learn about it.
Yea I live an hour away from centralia and I’ve never had to learn about it my dad told me about ti
I seem to remember seeing (or reading) that people here could live in their houses if it's safe, but no one can inherit them. This is what happens when a town tries to be cheap when fighting a disaster: complained about the costs of fighting the fires early. Fascinating Horror did a video about Centralia.
I think there were later examples of State and Central Government incompetence too...but yes...
There's an underground fire in Western Colorado near Glenwood Springs. I'm not sure that there are very many interesting culverts, though!
People lived with their means back then, as a matter of personal responsibility. Anyone managing the finances for a town would have been acting with integrity in the course of keeping their budget "balanced", and been respected for it.
@@HappyQuailsLC Unfortunately, this is one of those times when that kind of conservative thought is misplaced and led to an emergency becoming a disaster. It's like saying: "Oh, I'm having a stroke but the hospital bill will be too big so I'll just sit here and die."
It wasn't covered by the DOT, it was covered by the private company that owns the mine. They said it was to reduce liability of people getting injured exploring the abandoned highway. Had the opportunity to explore the area about 10 years ago and it was pretty surreal.
those corporate types are clearly out of touch with the reality of rural america..... how did creating a motocross course reduce liability?
"So I think all these rocks are filled with gold.. Anyways, let's see what kind of culverts they have." My man has his priorities straight.
I watched a special online about this town. There were a lot of holdouts that absolutely weren't gonna move. As they passed away or got too old to live on their own their homes were leveled. It's very sad because those relatives have no way of keeping that land/house in their family (if it were built to be an ancestral home). Thanks for taking us along as you explored what's left of the town. 👍🏻😊🌻
Most likely what you're seeing in those rocks is Pyrite, commonly called "Fool's Gold"
I just googled it. Seems pretty common in gold tailings.
If it was gold, the place would have been stripped bare by now.
No gold in pa. Coal is our main. Iron ore also
@@66tlcat and Pyrite is FeS(2), so that makes sense geologically to have Pyrite in areas heavy with coal/iron deposits.
@@OmaBike Pyrite is almost always found where gold is found, but gold is rarely found where pyrite is found. Pyrite is really common, an important non-ore mineral (just iron) in pretty well any sulfide ore deposits, never mind occurring in pretty well any and all rock types. Gold is a rare thing. Not something you find lying around on the ground in a pile of waste rock, even at a mine.
Five hundred years from now, an archeologist explores this area ... "ah these must be burial mounds of very important people, they made huge paintings on the ground before burying them"
😂 Yea. I had some thought about that. Those piles will always be like so. Would not have taken long to flatten it just slightly with a caterpillar
Captain cock and balls must have been a warrior legend. There are references to cock and balls everywhere in these ancient hyroglyphs. We hope one day to find him in one of the burial mounds underneath the strip of hyroglyphs. Archaeologists are working hard to get past the beaver dams.
@@evilspacemonkeyman Also they have inscribed a string of numbers together, it must be directions to their oracle. The walls say "call Cherry for a Good Time". Must be a travel guide to the landlords of the past..
😂
I'm from western PA...lots of streams around coal areas look like that and yes it's from iron. Iron & pyrite are usually found around coal seams (it was pyrite you found). We called the hills of coal waste slag heaps and some are the size of mountains! They do eventually grow grass and trees in them but it takes years or even decades. I know it's good for the economy in some places but coal mining really makes a community ugly and sometimes unlivable.
I'm also from Western Pa, what part?
Our shale tailing bings in Scotland are treasured for their history, boost to the industrial era, growth of entire communities, material use for roads and paths, motor cross sports & now they are protected land due to the entire new niches they have created for orchids, grasses and other rare species only bings can support.
It's like looking at Ayres rock from Edinburgh too, they're a real experience to climb too!
We call them slate dumps. They smoke in summer from sun making them hot. Winter, snow rarely rests on them. There are 9 big dumps in a 5 mile radius of my town. The slag dumps are in pgh. They built on the one. I worked at the top and our building was splitting apart. It had big iron bars all over screwed into place holding it. Our parking lot was like a dirt tract that was paved.
@@66tlcat in UK they are called slag heaps.
@@66tlcat did you work at parkway center mall in greentree by chance? I remember that parking lot being as you described.
I half expected Post to find a clogged culvert and put out the whole fire. lol
same 😂😆😆
"You can't put graffiti on sand." Jeff: Hold my beer 10:52
😂
Amazing catch and comment!
lol
Nice find there mate.. it's gold 😅
It's amazing to see that Post10 is more interested in culverts than gold. ❤️
Classic Post 10. He knows what's truly valuable. That keystone culvert really is beautiful!
For anyone who doesn't know the story of Centralia, there's a really good documentary called Centralia, Pennsylvania "The Town that Was" It's told by the townspeople of Centralia. (If you're a crier, bring tissues!)
The internet destroyed this place. Before it got popular it was an interesting, somber area to visit. They tore out everything after the hordes descended on it, dug up the time capsule, demolished the veterans memorial, people stole everything that wasn’t nailed down.
Wow, that was one the coolest culverts you've shown us thus far!!
Truly spectacular!!
Thanks for filming!!!
Love that keystone culvert. From what I was understanding there's only 1 person legally living in the town. I thought mine was shut down but that was years ago that I read about it. Things change I guess. Thank you. It was very interesting.👍👍👍👍😊😃
This was another one that was on Abandoned Engineering. Got to love these documentaries. learning about various places that has been abandoned around the world.
Family lives just 2 towns over. Been there many times. So heartbreaking what happened there.
Interesting. I didn't know about this one. Sad to see what's left. Graffiti highway, now I've seen everything. Thanks Postie for bringing us with you and you guys stay safe now.
Supposedly inspired the Silent Hill games. Silent Hill being an abandoned town with a fire burning underneath.
@@GeminiWoods the silent hill movie, not the games
Definitely Pyrite, not gold. Pyrite makes coal more spontaneously combustible. 😬
Also called 'Fools Gold'! Sorry Post 10... 😛
And the colour is a bit different too. Pyrite tends a bit towards green.
@@dutchman7623 Yeah, gold normally can't be found near coal.
@@barrymantz6026 i guess you never played Minecraft ; )
The flame was a bit green two. I wonder why this coal had this behavior. In Germany we call it "Katzengold" literally translated cats gold. But I can't explain why 🤷🏻♀️
If you see the fog coming in, get out of there as fast as you can!
Another great video - thanks man.
Thank you for bringing us this very interesting video presentation. The red roads could be as a result of the stone that they use, it might be that the local quarry that they used had this colour of stone which produces that lovely red colour. About 30 miles from here in a neighbouring county there roads were also red for the same reason. Interestingly there is a quarry in the county that has rock that is used for railway ballast which is pink rather than the usual grey.
The 'rusty' water flowing is quite common in areas where there are abandoned mines which could be as a result of the mine machinery which is rusting away and maybe naturally occurring veins of ironstone. When the mine was in use the water would have been pumped away elsewhere but with this no longer happening it would lead to the water bubbling to the surface and joining an already established stream.
In my area, red granite gives the road that color. Granite has good wear properties, especially in areas that require snow removal
When my husband was just learning to drive, this section of PA 61 was still open and he said it was so much fun, because the road formed a big dip that made your stomach drop. The DOT had to fill it in every few months, and they finally deemed it so unsafe that they abandoned this section and just built around it.
Bill Bryson educated a whole lot of British people about Centralia in his book 'A walk in the woods' and sparked somewhat of a tourism boost, not entirely welcomed by the local government of the time.
Is that book about hiking the Appalachian Trail? If so, it's a great book. I read it about 8 years ago.
@@pamike4873 yes , it is
DOT on Graffiti Highway: "If we can't have it then you can't either!"
Yeah, pathetic of DOT
I swear, I hate the corruption of the government, and YES THIS IS CORRUPTION. There’s no benefit to the people and the only people who get paid are those with connections.
They just wanted to make dirt bikes more fun.
Absolutely nothing to do with PENNDOT or the state. That land is private property and he was in fact trespassing.
@@AndrewAMartin Kill them
Did anyone else watch this with the expectation that after finding the creek, Post 10 would somehow find a way using his drainage skills to divert it underground, put out all the subterranean coal fires, and make the area inhabitable again?
So cool to see you visit Centralia! I live not too far from there and I've always wanted to explore the town. If you want to learn more about the history of coal mining in the area, down the road in Ashland there is a coal mining museum. It's called the Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine. They even take you into the mine.
Hi, neighbor. I recently moved to McAdoo, PA❤
You never disappoint. I was fascinated to see just how that coal would light up. Thank you Post 10 and friend. Safe travels to you both.
I heard that the Graffiti highway is now private property, it wasnt DOT that put all the dirt on the road it was the company that owns the property now they did it for liability reasons, people were getting hurt on ATVs and people were setting fires.
That makes alot more sense
@@TheJttv Theres a UA-cam channel called @JPVideos that has done quite a few videos about Centralia. He has even arranged meetups with other UA-camrs there, a guy named Adam Tereska knows a TON about the town. From what I have seen, the last house to be torn down was the former mayors house. He lived there till he passed away then people started tearing the place up.
Not only did people get hurt, others were harassing the first responders trying to help. It was a huge legal liability - what is called an attractive nuisance - and Post was trespassing on private property. It was marked, but morons keep pulling the signs down.
@@AndrewAMartin Right
Centralia's Graffiti Highway is closed and covered with dirt to drive away visitors during coronavirus pandemic. In the past month, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf issued a stay-at-home order and closed non-essential businesses due to the coronavirus, so many people are looking for ways to spend their time. April 2020. Too many people were visiting when Covid started. I hate it because I wanted to see it. 😕
thank you for finally stopping by "ANTHRACITE COAL COUNTRY" Hope ya come back again...my family lived in Centrailia up until the late 80's then moved when the Govt. was doing their buyout program. I remember it when it was a bustling little town and now every time i drive through it's just hard to believe what it once was.
I live in Pa and visited Centralia once. Cried my heart out for such a loss.
Post, as a resident of PA, i love seeing you hitting some cool spots here. i hope you have had a good time, the content has been fantastic
Been on graffiti highway a few times. There's like 2 houses left and I think people actually still live in those two. Of all the times I have been there I never found any smouldering ground.
10:28 not sure how rural this is but looks like a great biking area/RC bashing place. Pretty awesome. Lots of mounds
It would be fun to bash RCs your right! It sucks they covered the entire road but people got hurt on 4 wheelers there hitting the sink holes and open crators
they claimed covid. too many people accumulating there
@@drivingmylifeaway7149 They started covering it before covid hit
My understanding is that a private company purchased this a few years back. The nonstop crazy stuff that went on there prompted them to cover the highway with dirt and then put up no trespassing signs. Sounds like they've loosened up a bit since people are on the old highway again. Also, anthracite coal isn't good for smithing, lol....we've experimented with it. It tends to heat unevenly and also explode. Bituminous is the best choice. Fun to see the update! 😊
I thought anthracite was the cleanest hottest burning? Queen Victoria would have nothing else in her places of residence. Maybe what’s good for fireplaces and cooking isn’t so good for smithing.
I think the piles of dirt on the road were put there to keep vehicles from traveling down them, not to cover up graffiti
Ah, Centralia. The real town that inspired Silent Hill. Beautiful place.
Also, that the town is in dead silence, since no one lives there anymore because of the sinkholes...
@@Tazerboy_10 I'd heard there were still a handful of holdouts who lived on the outskirts of the danger zones.
"The real town that inspired Silent Hill."
That's a common misconception. Centralia is the inspiration for the movie, not the video game.
It's where I would most prefer to die when it comes to dying in a spooky old abandoned town
@@DocOck thanks for stating that truthful fact. Centralia was always popular but when the first silent Hill movie came out there was an influx of people that wanted to check out this town and then of course it was all over the Internet and that was before UA-cam and when UA-cam showed up, well you already know.
I like it, when you talk about culverst just like our boy Steve Irwin used to talk about snakes, crocodiles and other animals.
There are still residents that live there. They chose to stay their until they pass. That will be a cool place to visit.
Man, you are just a living travelogue of interesting places around the northeast. Thanks for sharing all these cool locations.
Awesome video! I could spend a few hours just walking round there. Glad those kids on bikes didn't bother you. Here in UK they'd probably start shouting and swearing and just being proper childish. In some shops here that sell minerals and rocks they would charge you an absolute fortune for one of those rocks with pyrite inside it. I paid a couple of £ just for a tiny pyrite when I was on holiday, I love collecting 'gems', quartz and unusual rocks. Great video Sir :)
24:48
That stream looked more Sulphur Yellow based residue than the usual Red Iron Ore.
The golden look stuff is also known as "Fools Gold" usually fount near Quartz.
Cool place. There's lots of mining ghost towns here in AZ. I've been to a few in Utah as well. Cool places to explore if you're careful.
What a great video and the sad story of Centralia which I first heard a few years back on Abandoned Engineering…. Did I spot Ghost and her shadow a few times, must be time for a video where we get to meet the amazing lady and her camera work!
Try a trip over to Scranton PA. The hill over looking the city on the west side of the valley was known as the pig farm. Toxic waste had been dumped their from states outside PA. It become a super fund site back in the late 70’s. All the soil had to be removed an burned in special containers. In Texas. There is still areas leaking toxic fluids from the ground into the water table.
The mine your at now belongs to no one An is also considered a super fund site. Cause they can not put the fire out. Toxic gasses keep leaking into the air we breath an water they drink all the way south.
You can bet your cookies An milk people leave that area cause of the cancer they come down with. It’s also a reason you can not buy the land. Cause it could become a sink hole like in Florida. Where people an homes disappear all the time.
Be very careful where you go an walk around. What they tell you is very often not the truth. Very dangerous areas . Been there done it myself. Abandoned mine shaft , an fracking sites all over.
I never heard about that in Scranton. 😱 Thank you for the info!
No, the land is privately owned. The landowner is the one that put all the piles of dirt on the road. Too many people throwing huge parties and getting hurt on ATV's.
There's a feeling of Chernoblyn here
Черноблин 😂
Not even close to compare to Tschernobyl. But without doubt way more than just sad. I'm lost for words... 🙄
I’ve been there, Post!! So excited that I’ve went somewhere you’re going.
Ghost 10 appears in a ghost town lol
So fun!! I recall seeing a documentary on TV about that mine fire. It's great to see it "in person" through your video. That gold is "pyrite" or "fools gold".
Thanks Post 10 for another interesting adventure. I had read about Centralia when I was in school, possibly from an article in National Geographic Magazine, which was about 40+ years ago.
When did this... accident ... happen??
@@rebekkaholsten4622 1962.
The stone from the gravel quarry that is used to make the asphalt is the reason the road is red looking. Once the tar and petroleum parts are worn off of the stone, the color of the stones start to show; those happen to be a red color. There are parts of the highway near my home that appear purple for the same reason.
i love how no matter where you are or what the main topic of the video is, you are culvert hunting
Thanks for taking us on your adventure again. Extremely interesting as always.
This is one of my favorite videos by you. Centralia has been sitting comfortably in the top five of my bucket list of places to visit. I read that the underground coal fire was started because someone was burning trash and the embers blew into the mine shaft.
Actually the coal seam was only a foot or so underground. The town dump was on top of it and when they decided to burn the trash, it lit the coal.
Yeah that's pyrite. There's no gold mines anywhere in the northeast. Plenty of petroleum and natural gas though, and coal of course
Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia had gold. That's about the extent of it east of the Mississippi
I wish i could find someone who looks at me the same way Posty looks at a keystone culvert
The "Gold" you're seeing is Pyrite.
It's commonly referred to as "Fool's Gold" but it's chemically a Sulfide common in coal seams.
So it makes sense to find some pyrite growth there.
Chemically it is FeS(2).
The red roads are red because they used red granite crush, as aggregate addmix, for the asphalt, Up north on Ontario Canada there are lots of them.
I learned about Centralia only a week or two ago from a video by Fascinating Horror and now you’re here! Awesome!
I really enjoy watching you just explore places and get excited for abandoned buildings and ghost towns.
Now if you could unclog some drains in Centralia and put out the mine fire you would become a demigod overnight!
Cool video. I've had in the back of my mind about taking a road trip to check this place out when I found out about its existence ~5 years ago.
And that's pyrite...if it was 'real' gold, it wouldn't be there...
Nice. Another perspective from the OG beaver slayer!!! Post and Ghost 10!
Amazing how one decision (or a series of them) could lead to the abandonment of an entire town
The fire originally started at the community garbage dump because the dump site was located on an exposed coal seam at the top of a mountain. The town decided to burn the garbage at this dump, which caused no issue until one year, the coal seam caught fire. No one realized that the smoldering at the dump was actually the coal seam burning until it was too late. The U-shaped seam of coal stretches down under the adjacent valley and up the the other side to another mountain. On this other mountain, there is a coal mining museum where you can go down inside an old decommissioned coal mine shaft and this is where I learned the whole complete story of the Centralia coal fire (go there and check it out). There is a chance that someday the coal will burn right through and out to the other side. Why can't the fire be put out? There are too many unknown air vents to the surface.
No chance of collecting the heat?
I went there with my family as a kid about 20 years ago. It was eerily quiet, hardly any birds, smoke coming from the road, ground, and even log stumps. The spot I went to had almost no grass or trees, don't remember what part we were at.
I was there July 2018. I’ve been in running cities that had less people. The place was packed!
Cool. saw a report on German television about Centralia. interesting story for sure.
great video, post! 👍
Maybe Pyrite? Oh, and many people refused to leave and they remained for decades. The last I heard, someone was still living there. Thanks for doing this video
This whole video was packed with history this Florida girl never knew. So interesting! Thanks again Post 10!!!!
the piles of dirt are not for graffiti. they were put there to deter vehicular traffic from driving down the old road. a lot of people were hurt and killed by speeding 4wheelers and dirt bikers on that stretch of road.
I go to an abandoned town that was a silver and gold mine that introduced arsonic into the ground water. I visit almost all the time i pass it. The mine was actually accessible until 2020 when they filled the portal (mine shaft elevator) with foam and rock. They also welded the elevator equipment. Welded the last access door this year to the ground. The town is still in place, and it was mind until 1964 even have an old news paper with $0.02 fruit and a $0.60 bag of something. It's a cool town. If you've been to colorado you'd know what I'm talking about. If not I can dm you the cords or just Google "mine that introduced arsenic into ground water in colorado".
Very interesting, Post 10. I grew up in a town that made American Motor's cars. Yes, that Kenosha, WI. As a kid I remember going past a huge pile of coal that seemed to always be steaming. My dad who was an electrical engineer there said the coal pile was burning and smoldering and had been for many years. As a child I wondered why it didn't burn up like a log and burst into flames. Of course, now as an adult I understand that there was not enough oxygen for proper combustion. When Chrystler closed the AMC plant and removed the coal pile, it left a huge, impressive scorch mark that melted into the earth by several feet.
hey, really nice find! I have a creek nearby where farmers used to dump the rocks they found in their fields, and I got some really cool looking rocks out of it when I made my way down there
it's a bit sad that the mine fire drove away the community, but at the very least I bet the abandoned land makes a perfect habitat for all the local animals!
looks like a lot of Detroit neighborhoods today! LoL
I’ve always wanted to visit this place ever since I saw Silent Hill. I drove through Pennsylvania last year to visit Berks County (colonial Pennsylvania) and Gettysburg, but Centralia is further north so was too far out of the way.
24:22 is that a well on your property, or is that some place else?? You are cleaning it often, so I was just wondering... Thank you for the videos that you do.. It is funny a couple of times your girlfriend has been with you, and all of sudden I will see her walking in the background and want to yell at the computer, some one is there watch out... When you have been in a couple of the abandon houses... She has even scared me a couple of times... It is all good.. Just did not ever think that I would get sooo involved in a video.... I wish people would get that involved in my channels videos....
13:22 They put Keep Out and No Trespassing sigs on the Cemetery, because people are dyeing to get in there.
Maaaaaaan I’ve been waiting for you to come to this place!
You need to know where to look now to see the steam. You were close a couple times. You would also like the big mine run geyser right outside Ashland. I'll show you if you make another trip back to PA.
Red roads and orange streams... you are living the dream my brother
Those "red roads" are used here for bike paths. They alert crossing traffic that it is a bike path.
In this case it is probably intended to indicate which are the main roads that you are supposed to drive on, and which are the dangerous unmaintained roads that you should keep away from.
The town was a mining town. They had a dump where they would place dangerous materials to burn. During one burn that was poorly supervised it burned into the coalseam near the surface.
I live near a coal mine, and one of the main indications that coal is burning is the smell, brown coal also burns with an invisible flame in most cases.
Always awesome and interesting hopefully someone seeing this can use your energy and enthusiasm for you have a great gift
Didn't expect a video about Centralia ever from you.
That was an awesome video. Thank you for the explore. That Keystone Culvert was very cool.
Aloha! Thank you for taking us to these forgotten places! Appreciate all you do! Aloha!
That is definitely pyrite (iron sulfide), which is very common in sediments and in many coal deposits. The brassy or greenish yellow of pyrite is not really like the color of actual gold, and gold won't ever form crystals or partial crystals whereas pyrite usually (not always) shows at least part of the basic cubic structure of the mineral. Pyrite is a very common mineral so, like quartz, is good to learn to ID. You definitely will see either/both if you look at rocks much.
Coming from someone who lives a few miles away from centralia, let’s correct some of you data. The DOT did not cover the road, it was the property owners who covered the road. You have no idea how dangerous it was when people would be walking out in front of traffic when being on graffiti highway. There is also no trespassing signs all over you just didn’t see them. Yes, the cemetery has been vandalized multiple of times. I have family buried up there and it’s disheartening when people from out of town bring their spray paint and ruin things.
Is it possible in the US to relocate a buried family member?
@@rebekkaholsten4622 The steps needed to transfer a body include:
• Apply for an exhumation license. Every state is a little bit different in how they handle this process, and your best bet is to contact the cemetery directly. Depending on your situation, you may need to get an exhumation license and/or a disinterment order from the probate court. Unless you are authorized to act in the interests of the deceased (either as executor of the will or next of kin), you may not be able to move the body at all.
• Get approval from religious officials. This can either be a formal or an informal process, and you may need a license or written agreement in order to proceed. The act of burying someone on consecrated ground is taken very seriously, and unless your reasons are sound and approved by the affiliated church, you could have problems getting your rights granted.
• Follow local environmental and health regulations. No matter how long the deceased has been buried, human remains pose a potential public health hazard. You will need to have the exhumation done by proper authorities and under the direction of an environmental health officer who can oversee the safety of the proceedings.
• Make body transfer plans. Depending on your situation, you will either have to purchase a new casket for transport and burial, or opt for cremation. The latter is recommended due to the natural decay of the body, and it is much easier to make plans for the cremated remains than it is for a body. You will also need to coordinate with the new funeral home and cemetery of your choice. The body will be transported into their care for future burial arrangements, and you will need to make payments and funeral plans up front.
• You may or may not be allowed to watch the exhumation, but it isn’t recommended that you attend. Exhumations are often held very early in the morning to avoid disruptions, and the process is both lengthy and (in some cases) gruesome. Natural decay and rust will render the coffin and remains unidentifiable, and it can be an unpleasant sight for those not accustomed to it.
While transferring a body is rare and expensive, it can be done. You can expect to encounter several obstacles (at the city and state level as well as with funeral home and cemetery officials), but by remaining calm and knowing where you can turn for help, you should be able to eventually lay your relative to rest at the appropriate
You sound bitter and mean. Go get a hug and come back and I accept your apology
Oh I’m sooooooo excited you went here! I watched the coolest documentary on this recently.
Your videos are always so entertaining to watch
This is crazy because I was just going to suggest you check out Centralia!! It’s an amazing town!! Thank you for showing us this! 💜💜
The red road is probably just whatever kind of aggregate they had available at the time they were mixing the asphalt. You can specify a particular colour if you really want to but it's usually more expensive to do so.
I always found this place interesting! Thanks for your take on it! Great video as always! Stay safe and stay healthy!
The piles on the side of the mountain from mining are either known as simply "waste rock" or "spoils"
The DOT did not do that , The mining company purchased that road , To prevent people from using their ATV they put those mounds there , You will get a trespassing ticket if caught by the local police , Signs are in the area that says No Trespassing ,
Once the last owners pass away the mining company will eventually own the town .
Unless all the documentaries that i watched are wrong...coal mining wasnt happening when the incident occured, what started the fire is up for debated but the one most recognized is controlled garbage burn started it when some of the trash fell into a chute, the town wasnt evacuted just because a boy fell in to one of the earth scars/sinkholes, it took many years before people were even given a settlement so they could pack up and leave after the boy had fallen in.