Date: 12/4/2008 8:37:00 PM
From Authorid: 45630
looks very wierd,  |
Date: 12/4/2008 9:10:00 PM
From Authorid: 43991
I'm not sure if this is true.. but I heard this was the setting (or where they got the idea maybe?) from the movie Silent Hill.  |
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Date: 12/4/2008 9:17:00 PM
From Authorid: 43991
Ohh.. I looked on Wikipedia.. it says "In the film Silent Hill, the town of Silent Hill has been abandoned due to a prolonged mine fire, which director Christophe Gans says was inspired by Centralia. Aspects of this are shown throughout the movie, such as characters wandering through the misty version of Silent Hill wearing mining gear." Such an interesting post! Thanks Dawn! |
Date: 12/4/2008 9:29:00 PM
From Authorid: 42945
I just googled it and what an amazing event happened there, must be a lot of coal under that town!! very interesting   |
Date: 12/5/2008 12:55:00 AM
From Authorid: 35720
I hadn't heard of Centralia, although it is very close to my former home in Allentown, PA. That's really weird and scary.  |
Date: 12/5/2008 3:38:00 AM
From Authorid: 51876
Thanks for posting.I had heard of this before but not in such detail.After reading the Wiki info, there is a documentry made in 2007 called "The Town That Never Was"....the website is thetownthatneverwas.com.....Gonna watch it.Wild stuff.It looks like the burning of Garbage started the whole thing.  |
Date: 12/5/2008 4:04:00 AM
From Authorid: 51393
Here is the link...http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm....Thank you for the post Dawn...  |
Date: 12/5/2008 9:17:00 AM
From Authorid: 5886
Centralia is a very neat place to visit, but it's really sad at the same time. I went there in early October, and was really amazed at exactly how extensive the fire is, how much of that land is steaming! Then the next day at Mt. Carmel in their library, I found a book about Centralia and learned much more than the Wikipedia article ever told me (wish I could remember the title), but about how people were having pet birds die in their houses, and that taking any kind of flame lantern into their basements would make them extinguish from the lack of oxygen from the fire, how they had to rush to pump the gasoline out of the underground storage tanks at the gas station because they temperature was measured to be veery close to the boiling point, ect. And then how there was a huge split in the town between those that wanted to stay and the ones that wanted to go, that at least in one instance turned violent with someone's shop/house getting set on fire by a Molotov cocktail. I guess that at least today, things in that town are more peaceful now, except that there's barely a town left besides less than 10 homes, the municipal building, and a auto parts garage type place.  |
Date: 12/5/2008 2:04:00 PM
From Authorid: 62679
Wow she went there? That town is very "Silent Hill" like  In fact I think they filmed the movie there.  |
Date: 12/5/2008 2:58:00 PM
From Authorid: 10773
Wow, that is some kind of craziness. o.o The Wikipedia page for it said that there's enough coal to keep it burning for 250 years!  |
Date: 12/5/2008 4:21:00 PM
From Authorid: 17081
I went there. The ground is still warm and smoking. I put a bunch of pics on webshots
http://news.webshots.com/album/558823801wzeMAl
http://community.webshots.com/user/jaws16101  |
Date: 12/5/2008 7:01:00 PM
From Authorid: 14314
I think I read about it somewhere, it sounds very familiar. Thanks for sharing! God Bless  |
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