ShortHand: Centralia – The Real Silent Hill

A fire has been raging under the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, for more than 60 years – and it’s nowhere near done.

After the vast underground coal deposits under the former mining town caught alight, sinkholes in the road opened up into flaming pits, billowing thick smoke through town. Toxic fumes seeped up through the floorboards and poisoned people in their homes. And in the town’s cemeteries, the flames even reached up from below and swallowed up the dead themselves…

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