The guy narrating don’t do a good job of explaining why the fire couldn’t be put out 🤦🏾♀️. I think if he mentioned it most viewers might understand the difficulty. I thought 2 ppl lived there still, no?
Last I looked up recently, yes, some of the original families still live in Centralia but the USPS official decommissioned the town’s ZIP Code many years ago. The residents who still live in the town have to go to the next town over to get their mail.
Coming from a very small rural town in eastern Kentucky I can honestly say we don't want all the technology. This town closes down about 10PM and will reopen the next day between 7AM and 8AM. There is no door-dash or Uber. Just plenty of Good people that look out for each other. Love the reactions ;)
Fun Fact: In 1989 the filmmakers of Patrick Swayze's movie "Road House" claimed that their story was loosely based on a true story. They never stated what true story that was but many believe it was based on the murder of Ken Mcelroy. The movie has been remade and reimagined this year starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
Compacted coal burns very slowly and introducing oxygen to it would probably make it worse. It's also probably deep enough that they can't dig and isolate it.
If you ever go to Gettysburg Pennsylvania, where the largest Civil War Battle happened at night, they say you can hear shooting, you can hear men talking, you can hear cannon's going off in some say they've seen Civil War men walking through the woods. This happenes many, many times
One of my favorite memories was about five years ago, being on a ghost tour in the attic of one of the houses. You could still see bullet holes. We also walked through the fields and it had fog on the horizon So creepy and fun
I live about 25 miles from the battlegrounds and have visited several times, mostly with out of state relatives. There is definitely a strange feel to the battlegrounds and to the town as well. My brother-on-law is a Civil War buff so everyone time he visits we make the rounds of the three major battlegrounds near us. Gettysburg, Antietam and Monacacy battlegrounds are all within 25 miles of my house, with Monacacy being about 2.5 miles to the south. You get the strange feeling of being watched and once we heard footsteps walking/running past us. At Gettysburg, we have seen men marching on the other side of the battlegrounds next to the tree line. The 6 of us stood and watched them for over a minute then they just faded away. You can hear cannons and screams of pain as well.
The Alaskan building everyone lives in was used by the military, so when they moved out, it makes it cheaper for the small number of people and businesses to use the huge building, rather than go to the expense to build new homes, etc. There's a great video on UA-cam where a guy visits the people in the building and they seem like really nice people.
And the place is not creepy lol people go there all summer to go fishing and pick berries. It's a nice get away. But if you don't like tunnels or small spaces, the route through the mountain might not be for you.
The building in Whittier is called Begich Towers, its an old Army barracks, there is another barrack that is really in bad shape and is closed to the public. Horse tail falls is behind the Begich and is beautiful when flowing heavy. Wittier was actually a military base that was pretty isolated and access was limited by boat that would take you a very long time to get through the fjords to the base. The US military was certain that Japan would try to attack from the sea and Wittier was created due to this. The train tunnel came after WW2 and it was in 2000 or 2001 when Alaskans demanded easier access to Wittier by car so now cars and trains take turns in the tunnel about every 30 minutes. Prince William Sound is world class for fishing and is the reason i go there on my way to Seward.
The picture Of the Golden Triangle is Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Not Cairo Ill. The rivers are the Ohio , Allegheny , and the Monongahela ! Pittsburgh is a Beautiful City ! Many Times National Geography pick Pgh. as the Best City in America ! Not Haunted !
My grandmother (dad's side) was from the town just to the west of Centralia, Mt. Carmel. Still have aunts and cousins there. We would drive through Centralia on the way up to visit family 4-6 times a year - that is if the old highway was open. Sometimes the smoke would be so bad we'd have to go around the mountain and enter Mt. Carmel from a different direction. When the highway was open you could see smoke rising out of the ground from the side of the hill beneath the highway....was always wild. They've since rebuilt and rerouted that highway. The old part is now a major tourist attraction, but the local police try their best to discourage people from going there as what the video says is true - there's no telling when a fissure will open up and swallow up anything above it - people, cars, 18-wheeler trucks, etc. What they should have made more clear in the video is that it's an ongoing underground coal fire. The original fire in the town's landfill hit a seam of coal and started this almost 60 year old fire. There was no way for the fire to be put out, as there's no map of the coal seams underneath the town. Additionally, until a fissure opened or a house or building sunk or there was clear signs of a fire hitting the air - smoke or flames, or both, there was no way to tell where the fire was and even if they managed to put it out in spot A, it would still be burning in other parts of the town. That whole region of central Pennsylvania was a HUGE anthracite coal mining region for more than a century....so the fire will keep burning till the last branch runs out of fuel - aka burns through the last bit of coal. Fun fact - while the government offered to pay people to move out, can't remember if that was in the 70's or 80's, at some point in the 90's, maybe early early 2000's, the federal government said nope, it's over. They moved all but a dozen or fewer people out of town (paying them of course like the residents who left 10, 20, 30 years earlier), and stripped the town of its postal/zip code. I believe, talking with family, that about 5 people remain, all of whom had to reach a special deal with the government to remain and when the die, their homes and land will be taken by the government through eminent domain and the town will become a true ghost town. Since graduating from college in 2003 I've only been up to see family there about three or four times, and the last time was about two years ago and was the first time I had a chance to use the new highway that goes around town and to Mt. Carmel. The video is wrong - you can still drive through the town. They just monitor it for safety reasons and ask that you don't get out since many sinkholes large enough to swallow a semi-truck are hard to spot till you've fallen thirty feet to your death or severe injury. It is/was such an eerie feeling seeing how much of the town as been reclaimed by nature. Last point - it's been 62 years now for the fire (I googled to double check) - it started in 1962. Pure tragedy.
Within the past few years there have been gravel dumps, fences and other obstacles added to the painted section of highway. I believe their intent is to plant trees over the area to prevent visitors walking onto “graffiti highway” and semi- locals from riding quads through the region in order to prevent injury or death.
I believe the town of Centralia was a coal mining town. Underneath the town is nothing but coal. Miles and miles deep and wide of coal. Coal burns really slow. This fire will never stop burning.
I live in Skidmore Mo. and nothing " spooky bout it ! they exaggerate about the stories ... But it is strange when your driving through town . because EVERYBODY will just stop what the''re doing and just stare at you .... JUST KIDDING!.. LOL Skidmore is ok .
I live less than an hour away from the Centralia mine fire here in PA. This part of PA is known as the coall region and there are vast amounts of coal in this area. Coal was a booming industry here at one time still is to some extent. In 1962 sanitation workers burning garbage near a old mineshaft entrance ignited the coal. There were attempts made to extinguish it but it burned too fast too hot and too deep to realistically ever put it out. Estimates say it could burn for 250 years before it runs out of fuel. The government offered to buy residence homes in the hopes that everybody would leave but a handful of residence refused to go. Don't know if or how many people are still there haven't been up there in years. But don't let that discourage you Pennsylvania is a very beautiful state and has a lot to offer. The town has been isolated and abandoned for the most part. Mostly people go there and paint graffiti on the old highway "Route 61" that used to run through town "you could see in the video" that's become like a tradition. 🇺🇸
Whittier Alaska gets a LOT of snow, the average annual snowfall is 20 ft (6 meters) and you get 18 hours of darkness in Winter because they are in the Arctic Circle.
You guys should check out the movie The Mothman Prophecies. The film claims to be based on actual events that occurred between November 1966 and December 1967 in Point Pleasant.
Pt Pleasent is a cool place to visit. It is where the Ohio river and the Mississippi river meet. To me all of WV is creepy. Lived there 3 months and got the hell out.
Whittier is a HUGE crabbing town, in crab season there are a few thousand people in and out of the town at all times as boats head out or come into port to offload. The rest of the year it is just the locals. Winter the residents are basically locked in, and the tunnel in and out is a train tunnel that is still used by trains to transport goods and pick up packed crab to take to Anchorage for shipping. Skidmore is actually a very nice place to visit, they have a nice pumpkin festival and the guy is giving half the story about the murders to make it sound more creepy. LOL in Missouri it is not considered even remotely creepy there are other places that are FAR more creepy with much more gruesome and brutal histories. For example the movie When a stranger calls is based on real events in Columbia Missouri, The urban legend of the girl stuck in a car hearing scratches on the roof of her boyfriends car after he walked to get gas and in the morning she finds her boyfriend dead and hanging over the car, yeah that happened in Missouri. In the Capital city of Missouri is the Missouri State Prison, the bloodiest 40 acres in the US. It is the most haunted and scary place to be after dark. Anywhere you go in America there are strange and creepy things and don't even get started on the parks. To give you an idea check out Missing 411.
As far as the Pt Pleasant, WV goes all that is very true as far as all of the things that have happened there, there is a movie called the mothman prophecies if you are interested in that kind of stuff its actually pretty interesting I grew up about 20 miles from Pt. Pleasant.
Haha, it's crazy seeing Villisca Iowa on the list! A group of friends and I tried to stay in the Villisca Axe Murder once!! I was the last to retreat.. Almost 4 a.m. we were all crammed in the van... 😆
I live in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania is big. The Capital is 2 hours away. I didn't know about Centralia until I saw it on a UA-cam video. I am originally from NYC. However, I don't think that is why I didn't know about it. I don't think the state would advertise the fact that one of its towns is burning. There is nothing burning here (in Philly). Most of Pennsylvania are small towns. The big cities are Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and Harrisburg (the capital).
If you want to watch a good movie , watch the movie . WE ARE MARSHALL. That will also tell you about that airline crash killing the team of players. I also was born and raised in pennsylvania, that fire can not be put out, it is a large under ground coal vein , they tried several ways but failed ti extiguish it
It was 2011, I believe, before they even sold iPhones anywhere in the state of Wyoming, because there was no reliable service for them in that state. US infrastructure drags, because the country is so big. And fyi, the coal seam burning under Centralia, Pennsylvania is self-oxygenating because of the ores in the fire. You can't snuff it now that it's started. You'd have to dig out an entire county of coals to a half mile depth or so, maybe more, while it's burning. Feel free. Silent Hill: Hell Miners.
Idk if u guys have reacted to Mohamed hijab vs rabbi shmuley on piers Morgan's show, but hijab is definitely better than the first interview that u guys just watched, it's more heated I should say.
Every place has a ghost town so don't be discouraged from coming to America? In Arizona we have many but it depends if there's growth in the city, if there's no room yo grow the population everyone moves to a new location where there's opportunity for growth
I live in a town of less than 250 people and there's no amount of money you could pay me to live in the same building with these... people.. On top of that our postal code is 13666 🤣
Coal is hard to put out and it covers such a large area that it is impossible. No one lives there and they figure it will run out of energy in 100 yrs
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The guy narrating don’t do a good job of explaining why the fire couldn’t be put out 🤦🏾♀️. I think if he mentioned it most viewers might understand the difficulty.
I thought 2 ppl lived there still, no?
Last I looked up recently, yes, some of the original families still live in Centralia but the USPS official decommissioned the town’s ZIP Code many years ago. The residents who still live in the town have to go to the next town over to get their mail.
Coming from a very small rural town in eastern Kentucky I can honestly say we don't want all the technology. This town closes down about 10PM and will reopen the next day between 7AM and 8AM. There is no door-dash or Uber. Just plenty of Good people that look out for each other. Love the reactions ;)
Fun Fact: In 1989 the filmmakers of Patrick Swayze's movie "Road House" claimed that their story was loosely based on a true story. They never stated what true story that was but many believe it was based on the murder of Ken Mcelroy. The movie has been remade and reimagined this year starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
Compacted coal burns very slowly and introducing oxygen to it would probably make it worse. It's also probably deep enough that they can't dig and isolate it.
If you ever go to Gettysburg Pennsylvania, where the largest Civil War Battle happened at night, they say you can hear shooting, you can hear men talking, you can hear cannon's going off in some say they've seen Civil War men walking through the woods. This happenes many, many times
Yep, and like you said it's been reported for decades and decades by thousands of people.
One of my favorite memories was about five years ago, being on a ghost tour in the attic of one of the houses. You could still see bullet holes. We also walked through the fields and it had fog on the horizon So creepy and fun
I live not to far from there I been there twice at night with the boys it's creepy ASF 🤣
I live about 25 miles from the battlegrounds and have visited several times, mostly with out of state relatives. There is definitely a strange feel to the battlegrounds and to the town as well. My brother-on-law is a Civil War buff so everyone time he visits we make the rounds of the three major battlegrounds near us. Gettysburg, Antietam and Monacacy battlegrounds are all within 25 miles of my house, with Monacacy being about 2.5 miles to the south. You get the strange feeling of being watched and once we heard footsteps walking/running past us. At Gettysburg, we have seen men marching on the other side of the battlegrounds next to the tree line. The 6 of us stood and watched them for over a minute then they just faded away. You can hear cannons and screams of pain as well.
People say it, because it attrackts tourists ;-). Don´t be so gulible.
The Alaskan building everyone lives in was used by the military, so when they moved out, it makes it cheaper for the small number of people and businesses to use the huge building, rather than go to the expense to build new homes, etc. There's a great video on UA-cam where a guy visits the people in the building and they seem like really nice people.
I've just been told by someone to be "quiet" because I saw the same video.
I´d rather live there, than in a big city.
And the place is not creepy lol people go there all summer to go fishing and pick berries. It's a nice get away. But if you don't like tunnels or small spaces, the route through the mountain might not be for you.
#5 Cairo IL, the pic they used in the beginning was Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Lololo
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The building in Whittier is called Begich Towers, its an old Army barracks, there is another barrack that is really in bad shape and is closed to the public. Horse tail falls is behind the Begich and is beautiful when flowing heavy. Wittier was actually a military base that was pretty isolated and access was limited by boat that would take you a very long time to get through the fjords to the base. The US military was certain that Japan would try to attack from the sea and Wittier was created due to this. The train tunnel came after WW2 and it was in 2000 or 2001 when Alaskans demanded easier access to Wittier by car so now cars and trains take turns in the tunnel about every 30 minutes. Prince William Sound is world class for fishing and is the reason i go there on my way to Seward.
The picture Of the Golden Triangle is Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Not Cairo Ill. The rivers are the Ohio , Allegheny , and the Monongahela ! Pittsburgh is a Beautiful City ! Many Times National Geography pick Pgh. as the Best City in America ! Not Haunted !
My grandmother (dad's side) was from the town just to the west of Centralia, Mt. Carmel. Still have aunts and cousins there. We would drive through Centralia on the way up to visit family 4-6 times a year - that is if the old highway was open. Sometimes the smoke would be so bad we'd have to go around the mountain and enter Mt. Carmel from a different direction. When the highway was open you could see smoke rising out of the ground from the side of the hill beneath the highway....was always wild. They've since rebuilt and rerouted that highway. The old part is now a major tourist attraction, but the local police try their best to discourage people from going there as what the video says is true - there's no telling when a fissure will open up and swallow up anything above it - people, cars, 18-wheeler trucks, etc.
What they should have made more clear in the video is that it's an ongoing underground coal fire. The original fire in the town's landfill hit a seam of coal and started this almost 60 year old fire. There was no way for the fire to be put out, as there's no map of the coal seams underneath the town. Additionally, until a fissure opened or a house or building sunk or there was clear signs of a fire hitting the air - smoke or flames, or both, there was no way to tell where the fire was and even if they managed to put it out in spot A, it would still be burning in other parts of the town. That whole region of central Pennsylvania was a HUGE anthracite coal mining region for more than a century....so the fire will keep burning till the last branch runs out of fuel - aka burns through the last bit of coal.
Fun fact - while the government offered to pay people to move out, can't remember if that was in the 70's or 80's, at some point in the 90's, maybe early early 2000's, the federal government said nope, it's over. They moved all but a dozen or fewer people out of town (paying them of course like the residents who left 10, 20, 30 years earlier), and stripped the town of its postal/zip code. I believe, talking with family, that about 5 people remain, all of whom had to reach a special deal with the government to remain and when the die, their homes and land will be taken by the government through eminent domain and the town will become a true ghost town.
Since graduating from college in 2003 I've only been up to see family there about three or four times, and the last time was about two years ago and was the first time I had a chance to use the new highway that goes around town and to Mt. Carmel. The video is wrong - you can still drive through the town. They just monitor it for safety reasons and ask that you don't get out since many sinkholes large enough to swallow a semi-truck are hard to spot till you've fallen thirty feet to your death or severe injury. It is/was such an eerie feeling seeing how much of the town as been reclaimed by nature.
Last point - it's been 62 years now for the fire (I googled to double check) - it started in 1962. Pure tragedy.
Within the past few years there have been gravel dumps, fences and other obstacles added to the painted section of highway. I believe their intent is to plant trees over the area to prevent visitors walking onto “graffiti highway” and semi- locals from riding quads through the region in order to prevent injury or death.
I believe the town of Centralia was a coal mining town. Underneath the town is nothing but coal. Miles and miles deep and wide of coal. Coal burns really slow. This fire will never stop burning.
Whittier AK gets a lot of snow in winter, its convenient having most services in one facility.
I live in Skidmore Mo. and nothing " spooky bout it ! they exaggerate about the stories ... But it is strange when your driving through town . because EVERYBODY will just stop what the''re doing and just stare at you .... JUST KIDDING!.. LOL Skidmore is ok .
I live less than an hour away from the Centralia mine fire here in PA. This part of PA is known as the coall region and there are vast amounts of coal in this area. Coal was a booming industry here at one time still is to some extent. In 1962 sanitation workers burning garbage near a old mineshaft entrance ignited the coal. There were attempts made to extinguish it but it burned too fast too hot and too deep to realistically ever put it out. Estimates say it could burn for 250 years before it runs out of fuel. The government offered to buy residence homes in the hopes that everybody would leave but a handful of residence refused to go. Don't know if or how many people are still there haven't been up there in years. But don't let that discourage you Pennsylvania is a very beautiful state and has a lot to offer. The town has been isolated and abandoned for the most part. Mostly people go there and paint graffiti on the old highway "Route 61" that used to run through town "you could see in the video" that's become like a tradition. 🇺🇸
The one in PA was veins of coal that caught fire and simply can’t or are too expensive to put out.
Whittier Alaska gets a LOT of snow, the average annual snowfall is 20 ft (6 meters) and you get 18 hours of darkness in Winter because they are in the Arctic Circle.
Centralia is right over a coal mine hence why it keeps burning. There is literally an infinite amount of fuel down there.
literally infinite? Really? :D
You guys should check out the movie The Mothman Prophecies. The film claims to be based on actual events that occurred between November 1966 and December 1967 in Point Pleasant.
Pt Pleasent is a cool place to visit. It is where the Ohio river and the Mississippi river meet. To me all of WV is creepy. Lived there 3 months and got the hell out.
Whittier is a HUGE crabbing town, in crab season there are a few thousand people in and out of the town at all times as boats head out or come into port to offload. The rest of the year it is just the locals. Winter the residents are basically locked in, and the tunnel in and out is a train tunnel that is still used by trains to transport goods and pick up packed crab to take to Anchorage for shipping.
Skidmore is actually a very nice place to visit, they have a nice pumpkin festival and the guy is giving half the story about the murders to make it sound more creepy. LOL in Missouri it is not considered even remotely creepy there are other places that are FAR more creepy with much more gruesome and brutal histories.
For example the movie When a stranger calls is based on real events in Columbia Missouri, The urban legend of the girl stuck in a car hearing scratches on the roof of her boyfriends car after he walked to get gas and in the morning she finds her boyfriend dead and hanging over the car, yeah that happened in Missouri. In the Capital city of Missouri is the Missouri State Prison, the bloodiest 40 acres in the US. It is the most haunted and scary place to be after dark.
Anywhere you go in America there are strange and creepy things and don't even get started on the parks. To give you an idea check out Missing 411.
I'm a West Virginian, and was unaware of Auburn. 😅
Alaska isn't that bad. I've watched a UA-camr who went there. It's quite wholesome. This video is inaccurate.
You're making a judgement on something by watching a UA-cam video but you've never been there. Just be quiet.
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@@NothingwrongwithmeitsaYOU I'm too busy telling people about Alaska because I watched a UA-cam video. What's your excuse 😂♥️😂
@@heywoodjablowme8120 yeah exactly. Mind your damn business.
@@NothingwrongwithmeitsaYOU Go back to your safe space and get your therapy pet. If you don't like criticism don't make a stupid comment snowflake
No one lives in that Penn town
As far as the Pt Pleasant, WV goes all that is very true as far as all of the things that have happened there, there is a movie called the mothman prophecies if you are interested in that kind of stuff its actually pretty interesting I grew up about 20 miles from Pt. Pleasant.
Haha, it's crazy seeing Villisca Iowa on the list! A group of friends and I tried to stay in the Villisca Axe Murder once!!
I was the last to retreat.. Almost 4 a.m. we were all crammed in the van... 😆
There is a good movie called The Mothman Prophecies about the bridge collaapse.
In Broad Daylight is the movie about the Skidmore, MO bully
I live in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania is big. The Capital is 2 hours away. I didn't know about Centralia until I saw it on a UA-cam video. I am originally from NYC. However, I don't think that is why I didn't know about it. I don't think the state would advertise the fact that one of its towns is burning. There is nothing burning here (in Philly). Most of Pennsylvania are small towns. The big cities are Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and Harrisburg (the capital).
If you want to watch a good movie , watch the movie . WE ARE MARSHALL. That will also tell you about that airline crash killing the team of players. I also was born and raised in pennsylvania, that fire can not be put out, it is a large under ground coal vein , they tried several ways but failed ti extiguish it
It was 2011, I believe, before they even sold iPhones anywhere in the state of Wyoming, because there was no reliable service for them in that state. US infrastructure drags, because the country is so big.
And fyi, the coal seam burning under Centralia, Pennsylvania is self-oxygenating because of the ores in the fire. You can't snuff it now that it's started. You'd have to dig out an entire county of coals to a half mile depth or so, maybe more, while it's burning. Feel free. Silent Hill: Hell Miners.
cates indiana should be on the list .
there is a documentary about the cult in antelope oregon…. it’s worth a watch
I was raised in Whittier. . . . . . . . . .
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New York City should be #1
It's a coal fire.
New mexico is the creepiest state ive ever been in! Almost all of their towns are creepy! New orleans is the most racist town ive ever experienced!
All the big cities are creepy and weird, not to mention dangerous. 🤣
I mean NYC, LA, San Fran, Portland, Seattle and Chicago exist so...
You nailed why there are so many movies about this. The country is massive, and they are all kinds of creepy towns and storylines. Pretty neat
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Silent Hill the movie was inspired by Centralia. the franchise was not.
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My dad was murdered, I visited the place he was killed and he is not there anymore. So not all violence leaves a spirit/haunting behind..
Thanks so much for the tip I will never go there. Another creepy thing here in the U.S. is route 666.
Idk if u guys have reacted to Mohamed hijab vs rabbi shmuley on piers Morgan's show, but hijab is definitely better than the first interview that u guys just watched, it's more heated I should say.
Every place has a ghost town so don't be discouraged from coming to America? In Arizona we have many but it depends if there's growth in the city, if there's no room yo grow the population everyone moves to a new location where there's opportunity for growth
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Do you think, maybe, that the stories are just not accurate?...
Hogwash
You know I'm sorry but most of this sounds like bull crap
That was really lame Lol
I don't know who this person is narrating this video but you know use your own judgment as far as what's what
Click bait.
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I live in a town of less than 250 people and there's no amount of money you could pay me to live in the same building with these... people..
On top of that our postal code is 13666 🤣
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