The Story of Centralia | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror 

There is never enough time or money to do it right the first time. Scariest words ever spoken, I am from the government and I am here to help you.

I think you just won comment of the day. It was both funny and accurate.

WELL PUT!!! Succinct. I said the same thing only with about 20x more words in my comment. If RU-vid leaves it up, look at it.

Get a dictionary. Doesn't make sense.

Very nice

Exactly what we've done on a global scale!

@@katiekane5247 yay. Goddamned humans.

the arsonist i was as an evil little baby is filled with glee at the concept alone

No thx lol.

"Hey future descendants, I won't be alive for your birthdays so please accept this ever-burning fire"

Agree - I'm pretty sure no one died as a result of the fire, so I don't think it would qualify as haunted.

I was afraid to pass through Centralia as a child living in Schuylkill County. I just remember the grown-ups talking about it and being afraid that our car would just disappear into the ground.

It sounds like you are talking about earth.

My family travels back to Centralia every time we visit family (my mom lived there when this occurred) and you actually can still see the smoke rising from the ground in certain areas. They try to keep them fenced but people still go over pretty often

@@xxbreadpine10 I'm guessing it makes your mom sad to see her town like this. My little town of Mahanoy City is really falling apart and that saddens me so I can't even imagine how this must feel 💔 .

Fascinating, thanks for saying, is your mom on social media? She's seen some stuff, no doubt

@@DebNKY I think she only has a Facebook account that she uses to follow victorian home groups. I keep telling her that she should start a blog recounting all of the old homes she's seen!

@@EmelieKerek please tell her, librarians are adored on social media

@@DebNKY That is the strangest comment I have ever seen on a video. And being a former librarian, now retired I know of no such adoration.

@@kristinebailey6554 you watch some tame stuff then

Exactly. Let's figure out who's going to pay for it. While the fire spreads under their feet.

Nothing like bureaucratic red tape and haggling to make a problem all the worse. 😑

Kocicika kitty. Typical politicians! They mess up everything they touch!

well, that is how things are done, you can't say in 10 minutes that you will use thousands of dollars on a plan no one knows if it will work or not time is important but also know if your efforts will work or will be just a waste of time and money tbh, i think it was not doable to put out the fire and save centralia

Not quite. The real delay was the local politicians asking, "how can I get rich off this." This is when you call in your cousin who does construction to put in a bid ten times the cost, and try to ram it through. So basically the entire Trump presidency, at a much smaller scale of course.

Yes, but where's the constant fog and murderous creatures? Lol

Nothing But Trouble staring Dan Ackroyd and Chevy Chase and Demi Moore also takes place in Centralia

Silent Hill is how I first learned about Centralia…I fell head first into a RU-vid rabbit hole about it

As long as you don't say it inspired the Silent Hill games. Sucks it's not really much else but a unwanted tire dumping town now. Last time I went that's all that was there. Trash and the highway, that is now covered up with dirt.

@@samwindmill8264 the constant fog is when you go into the Appalachian Mountains. we deported all the murderous creatures to New Jersey

Oh, and the reason they know it's not an extension of the bast fire is because some dude and his son were operating an illegal mine in between there and Centralia and the guy was like "oh yeah no we'd be dead" and went back about his business 🤣

Thousands of brain dead social media enthusiasts will make a pilgrimage there, now that you pointed out the dangers!

@@josephvanwie6706 um. Bad news my guy. It's been a local entertainment for decades

@@josephvanwie6706 Bro, locals have been flocking there by the droves LONG before social media.

When was titbit changed to tidbit? I'm going mad here, the world is mad, what are those things on the end of my legs? Bowoooooooo.

And it's driven the price of coal up. That coal could have kept the entire US supplied for years at a reasonably cheap price. Because it's all just completely f****** wasted we have to get coal from elsewhere and ship it in. It makes me angry to see it all just wasted because someone was too lazy to properly seal a mineshaft and someone else was too lazy to make sure it was sealed before dumping garbage there.

More here than anywhere else, I suspect.... hindsight is 20/20.

You should also look up Butte MT’s Speculator Disaster, 1917, if you want to learn about another bureaucratic mess.

Where’s that?

@e please stop

@@zacharyantle7940 Burning Mountain in... I'm gonna say New South Wales. Pretty sure it's NSW.

Never heard of it and I live in Australia

@@bruhm4571 ikr? What a troll

@@Stevie-J what are you a state employee?

@@Stevie-J I guess if I had known better, I would’ve understood that putting out fires as soon as possible is not sound practice. We need to do it the way the town of centralia did, there’s a success story right there.

@@Stevie-J I'm not talking just about Centralia, it's every bureaucracy. Seems to me the only snarky comment here is yours.

@@Stevie-J Whoa, why so douchey? Do you feel personally attacked by this comment?

@@reversalmushroom he started the fire in Centralia

A coal seam has been burning near a place called Dudweiler in the German state of Saarland since 1668. In 1770, Goethe visited the "Burning Mountain" and reported about it in his work "From my Life: Poetry and Truth". During my childhood in the 1960s, there was still a lot of smoke coming out of cracks in the mountain. Today there is hardly anything left to see. After 356 years the seam has apparently burned out.

Weird question from a non American: if the fire is underground could it not spread across the entire state or states? May be stupid but was always curious about that …..

You should move now, you should move to Hawaii!

@@Whatisahandlehuh I am not an expert on mine fires but I think it can only go as far as the mines/coal deposits that are on fire. So it can cover a wide area but it can’t go past the where the mines are because it needs both the oxygen and coal to burn. Not all the local rock is coal and I don’t think a coal fire burns hot enough to set standard bed rock on fire.

@@Whatisahandlehuh it's the coal vein that's on fire so the fire will only spread as far as the coal vein spreads. My area is rich in coal though so the real problem comes in stopping one fire from spreading to another vein. My town sits next to what was for the longest time the world's largest man made mountain...it's entirely made out of coal and dirt removed from mines. Edit: Hitler once had plans on bombing my little town first if the nazis ever crossed the ocean. We were the largest producers of coal so shutting us down would've shut down the entire country's factories and infrastructure

@@OpinionatedChicken59 lol we've got awhile and I won't be alive in another 50 years so I'll stay while the property value and taxes drop 🤷

Yea, definitely the mining company or whomever was contracted to seal the mine who is at fault. I'm not a fan of burning garbage, but you really can't blame it on the dump cleaners.

there's a suburb near St. Louis where nuclear material was illegally dumped and a fire has been steadily creeping through the dump towards it. the people whose kids are ALL sick from the shit from the dump that's next door to a fucking school have had to fight the hemming and hawing government as well as the waste company who's, btw, owned by Bill fucking Gates to do SOMETHING about the fire about to nom nom up some nuclear waste

David DeKok, Pottsville Republican

Actually actually

​@@hillweggs641yes

Any landfill burns are careless burns. It just shouldnt happen.

@@StrazdasLT I don't really recall making my initial comment, but I see your point.

Why do something relatively obscure when you can do another upload on an event already covered a hundred times by other channels? I'm not even going to watch this. Done so many times I could near write a book on it from memory.

@@change_your_oil_regularly4287 Byeeeee.

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@e go away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@CHANGE_YOUR_OIL_REGULARLY why did you click on it then

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Lies

@@donvito5647 Excuse me? Who the Hell do you think you are? You’re reported and blocked.

@@donvito5647 This pen is... ReRe Reeee. ROYAL BLUEEE! 🖊 Jim Carrey? Liar liar? Ace Ventura dude? Anyways. I concur!

@@francispitts9440 Wow, is that "hate speech" to you? Pretty thin skin there so maybe you were lying.

Champlain Towers

Yes, we can accept information that is within a certain range of our current reality, and beyond that it implies a drastic change of reality that is unpalatable to bear, because it is - in this case, literally - like the ground on which we stand and the fabric of our reality being torn from under our feet. And so we tend to either dismiss it or look for justifications for disbelieving the evidence. And another fact involved is that many, many people are very poor at grasping the inevitable implications of a compounded sequence of events. Many humans are more like pigeons in that they react to threats based on immediate proximity, rather than like crows, who react to threats based on trajectory.

I feel like you're talking about climate change...

@@vivalaminion2936 Actually, a wide variety of things, including a CCTV video from a far eastern country where a man came up to two men talking on the street and tried to assassinate one of them. But the gun jammed, and while he was trying to unjam it, one man ran away but the guy who was the target of the assassination acted bewildered as if thinking, "What are you doing?". The assassin successfully unjammed the gun and shot him. Many people don't like hearing about problems with HIV and AIDS science either. They've got too much invested in it, emotionally. It's the same when you describe errors in translation of the Bible as well. People don't like change to the very fabric of their reality.

Group think

not sure if mathies is still on fire

Another reason to get the heck outta here goddamn.

Mordor irl

Ahh...and here I thought all of the people publicly urinating Philadelphia was because they were gross, uncivilized pigs, but as it turns out...they're just trying to put out all of the raging underground mine fires that apparently plague the state. It's like my dear old grandmother used to always say; "you should never judge a crusty, pissing book by it's greasy cheese steak befouled cover" and never have her words rung more true.

I can't watch many channels because of their mood-creating music. On this channel the narrator himself creates the mood 👍🏻

And FH never plays music over parts of stories where he's recounting last moments/death counts of victims. It's a nice subtle touch of respect

You have really cute eyes but yes this man posts some good content

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I agree I love the theme music! Never change it!

I wouldn’t consider the average resident in 1965 or even 1970 an idiot. As for people still living there in the 80s or even still living there now? Yeah, morons. How the fuck is moving within two generations, “moving on whim?” “Well this all started in my grandpas time. Of course it’s so hard to move on a whim. Maybe by the time my own grand kids are adults they’ll be ready to move...” Please. Gtfoh. People always act like it’s SO hard to move. It’s not. It’s hard. But it’s something people do every day. Single parents with like 1000 $ in their bank account and two kids move cross country every day. For much less pressing reasons than literal poison pouring into their homes, their work, their child’s room, their child classroom. Not just idiots. I’d say anyone who still was living there with their kids past say 1975 was committing active child abuse and should of had their children taken away by the state to a place they weren’t being poisoned every day simply because their parents were too stubborn or lazy or stuck in their ways or nostalgic to move... The excuses we make for people. Decades to get your shit together and move the fuck away from that death town. That’s insurmountable?

Anyone who places the importance over a place over their own personal welfare and their children’s. Anyone who chooses a place over people. Yeah I have words for you. Some people get way to hung up on places. “But this is my home...” I hate to be cliche but home is where the heart is. Centralia is just a place. A horribly shitty place. Clinging to a twin is just as silly and reprehensible as clinging to an intimate object. It’s like choosing a car over your children. But for some reason this particular neurosis, this damn near psychopathy gets a pass. “But those are those people’s homes!” Really. It’s not what’s important in life.

As for you saying the average person didn’t know what was going on beneath the ground. They certainly did. It wasn’t a secret. And even if it was, the poison smoke billowing from cracks in the street, the heat and melted snow, the headaches, the carbon monoxide alarms and checks and advice to keep your windows up, the fucking sink holes opening up to hell... These are clues no?

I swear. The excuses we make for people...

⁠@@benhaney9629 If you found out that you suddenly had to move and would never able to move back, do you really think that you’d, assuming that there weren’t any major cost issues, be able to do it? One’s personal attachment to their home is much bigger than you estimate.

The orange/yellow/reddish color you see is not a result of the fire. It’s caused by an iron sulfide mineral called pyrite. When it is exposed to air and water it creates a combination of sulfuric acid and iron. You’ll see this same effect in the waters all around the coal regions of Pa.

They covered it? Damn, that's a shame.

@@tonwhelan People were racing and using quads on it, it was only a matter of time before someone got hurt, and emergency crews would have difficulty getting to it.

@@MrChopsticktech This one here? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cO8DToYQS-I.html

My grandma lived there when she was young!

Because people do not race around on quads everywhere. Imagine shutting down everything because someone may get hurt. Literally race around on the highway here. I live near Centralia. This was a bullshit excuse.

The Henderson, NV rocket fuel plant explosion would be another good one... the videos on that are just amazing.

BLEVE. That would be interesting

My dad worked at an oil refinery and showed us this video a bunch of times. I knew the word “bleve” at a young age. I’ll look it up again now!

I wonder if it was in one of the USCSB videos? I've watched them all.

I belive 13 people died from this disaster in Kingman.

Lose ground or cracks in the ground should be avoided in an area wjere sinkholes can suddenly snag a person up. I'm sure, of course, you must already know this.

That's scary but thank corrupt politicians.

I grew up in SW PA and I remember going to a neighboring school for a dance in middle school. I thought it was so cool that they had a sunken/step down gym. But what I had assumed was an interesting architectural feature in the dark was in fact a 6" drop caused by the school incrementally collapsing into the underlying defunct mine. They closed and demolished the building within a year or two. Gave me nightmares for awhile!

Come live in Florida. Sinkholes open up all the time. It's kind of like "unlucky Roulette ".

@Squidman I live in Scranton PA myself.

Thank you. I was just wondering about this.

I spoke with members of DEP in 2017 about the fire. While it is still burning, it is no longer under the town. It has been out from under the town for a while at that time, so the town could be reinhabited safely, as per DEP.

Its moved north, quite a few miles away from Centralia. I live about 30 minutes from there, and can tell you if you were walking there, you'd never know there was a fire there once. The town has been demolished almost entirely save for the fire house. All youll see is empty plots of land with driveways, and normal roads.

@@cavdrkz24 any idea why demolishing was required as opposed to just leaving the houses there considering the fire was underground?

@@TinkSalsa the buildings were unstable on their foundations due to all of the sinkholes generated. As soil and rock settled into the space left by the burnt up coal, all of those buildings would have eventually fallen down.

Exactly, we need to learn from our history and our screw ups on what not to do again.

A geothermal plant would require reliable solid ground though, which is unfortunately not present in this scenario. But I agree, it's a huge waste.

@@herseem Its worse than waste. Its releasing poisonous gases the equivalent to people burning coil without any filters, so even worse than coal plants. Centralia alone releases more radiation trapped in coal through those gases than the entire US nuclear power plants combined.

@@StrazdasLT That's also interesting.

well, is not that sad, everybody left and a lesson was learned the hard way and the amount of coal left can burn for at least 50 more years

Well, Centralia is in the very coal rich belt of the region. And when mined, the technique was room and pillar, which leaves behind a significant portion of coal to support the earth above. Add to that, oxygen is slow to reach burn points, which results in a very slow moving, smoldering burning of coal. Over all that time, just going by the areas visibly affected on the surface, it probably hasn't even spread beyond a couple square miles. It has the ability to burn for thousands of years, only stopped if every direction it's spreading, the vein pinches out.

There are coal fires that have been burning so long that there's local mythos about them. Stuff burns slow and readily. Crazy stuff.

@@ElementofKindness my dad who has been a coal miner under and above ground for 30 years said more than likely it hit water level under ground. I only live a few miles from there outside of Ashland and it hasn’t been smoking or anything for a couple years. And something people don’t know it’s not the coal burning it’s the rock and methane gas burning.

Brennender Berg in Germany has a coal-seam fire that has been burning since 1668.

Not really.

Or Phoenix.... What's the difference?!

@@JohnDoeRando More like new Jersey XD

@@anastasiaklyuch2746 id rather live in hell than new jersey.

Funnily enough, I'm pretty sure they're actually is a town called hell in Pennsylvania

It only inspired the movie.

I think it inspired the games, but I do know it inspired the movie

There is a coal fire in the movie lol. Have you seen it?

@@recessional5560 Yes. I have

@@RightsForZombies Well there is indeed a coal fire in it…

Places like this fascinate me.

This is so very sad this fire continues to this day . It is fascinating but baffles me on why it's still burning .......an even in these modern times no way to stop it .

THAT one is the main theme of my worst night terrors! Absolutely!

YES PLEASE

Im sure urban explorers will always keep it going.

Oh yeah, that Mud Vulcano is surely the most important cautionary tale for any fracking operation. Too bad its happened on Third World Country, or is it Second World?

He has an email address in the description where you can send ideas. I don’t think he reads all the comments.

Very cool! I guess it's like walking through a scene out of "The Twilight Zone". You can imagine seeing children on the playground equipment or a movie playing at the Drive-In theater.💓

Graffiti "art" is pure trash "art". It shows you how pathetic, simplistic and stupid average human beings are. ALL THE UGLINESS of human species is shown in graffiti, made by average human beings. Why would you sincerely approve of such poisoning of our surroundings is beyond any reason. It is horrible sight to see that "art". It reminds of how worthless our species truly is. How blind average human being is to his own worthlessness.

@@vidura Okay, mate. Get better soon.

@@vidura damn , dude. Who hurt you? One person's"art" is indeed another person's trash. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.. You seem to not behold, and that's okay.. Hope your day gets better.❤️

Its really interesting you were able to see it and other people would have to live there

*172 degrees F

Would not want to be running a gas station when there’s a huge fire burning underground

Gasoline is so scary and causes cancer 🎗️

According to Google*: Gasoline's flashpoint is at about -49°F (or -45 °C). Depending upon the composition of the fuel and other conditions, this can vary slightly. But, this fuel is reliable as a combustible fuel and easier to ignite than other fuels, like kerosene. .... 700°F?! Though with gas at room temp as it often is for lawnmowers and such .... not sure what that flashpoint means, exactly. I would've assumed it's the temperature where it bursts into flame. Ok, further according to Google*: The flash point of a volatile material is the lowest temperature needed to evaporate enough fluid to form a combustible concentration of gas. Gasoline has a flash point of -45°F and an auto-ignition temperature of 536°F. * = site/information chosen as Google's preferred answer.

@@justinbowman9567 it was actually 172 F degrees, not sure where he got 700 F degrees from

Ive seen other people on RU-vid talk about this too, and I totally agree that this was still worth to watch !! A good storyteller who gets the facts right, that I can’t say no to 🤩

"Billy bob's happy Funtime playground. 555-1234. The owner died in a tragic cigarette lighter accident. ”

Ha, he could narrate putting an English muffin in a toaster oven and make it seem fascinating.

So true. I always look forward to Tuesdays because of this channel

There was once a US senator who read out the entire phone book of Washington DC aloud for a day and a night as a filibuster to prevent a bill from being passed. If FH had been that senator it would have made for an interesting 24 hours on CSPAN.

It's funny you should mention the West Gate Bridge. My neighbours house extention (from 1981) was drafted by an architect who was involved in the west gates construction. And when my neighbour heard this she obviously showed some expression of horror and the architect quickly exclaimed "the second one!" She told me this story about 20 minutes before the Melbourne cup this afternoon 😂 Long story short, I would also love to see a short doco on the bridge collapse!

It literally isn't 🤡

@@hillweggs641 I guess you’re right. Although I’ve not seen it with my own eyes…..

under 1 million subs in 2022 is such an insult to this channel, it deserves so many more

You’ll never please the general public no matter what. They tried to do it right and by the book and sure enough there’s someone that knows better

@@kingssuck06 “Right and by the book” The entire town was destroyed, they hardly did it “right”.

Equivalent analogy. A heart attack patient waits at the hospital. Surgeons," Let's get the manuals out. Let's discuss payment." It is an emergency. We don't need bureaucracy.

@@bruhbruh-us6gl You can’t just instantly start work on a project funded by the government. There are many checks and balances that are in place in order to cut down on corruption. The work and amount has to be approved by elected officials and that can take a long time. You don’t just jump into something funded by the state, there is a long process for that, and for good reason. Maybe someday when you grow up, you’ll learn that. But then general public morons couldn’t blame the government for anything and everything if they knew more about it

@@kingssuck06 Okay. So what do cities do when there's an emergency? For instance, I live on the edge of a big city. Last year (?) a major water main broke. We're talking a main that's easily over 8 feet tall? The main flooded a freeway at rush hour. The lack of clean water shut down huge parts of the city, IIRC a million people were out of service. The medical center was doing emergency services only as they were on bottled water...it's a giant collection of hospitals. ...This city, if you include outlying areas, is over 4 million people. That main was fixed in a couple of days. The city did not fcuk around. ...Yes, this IS a big city. They both have WAY more money and way more responsibility, because waaay more people. But the Centralia city council failed to read an emergency _as an emergency._ So they didn't respond correctly. This happens a lot. It's common human behavior in both individuals and governments. It's... highly unfortunate.

Right? I always thought it started naturally.

@@samanthadrennan Yeah! Turns out, it was humans' fault once again...! 🤔

The mining company who purchased the land that old highway is on have covered it up in 2020 with dirt .

Yep, it is buried now.

Any thiccy's still there?

They had to bury the original highway that had to be bypassed since people just can't visit anything without trashing it and spray painting Everything including the trees and rocks.

Thats too bad, it should be your words, because it is vandalism.

Me too. I grew up near Philadelphia but had relatives and friends that lived near there.

First thought that came to mind for me was Centralia, Missouri. I don’t live all that far from there. Maybe 70 miles is all.

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It's a double edged sword for the locals. Brought tourism but also liter and vandalism became a big problem. Eventually the land was bought and the owner for safety reasons shut it down. He originally wanted to keep it available to the public but people just got worse so ge covered the whole thing with dirt. Maybe 300 years from now someone will dig it up and wonder why so many penises and boobs were painted on a road designed for vehicles lol

Ikr. It's so interesting

@@2ndTooth The locals really hated the tourists honestly. My friend is a reporter and interviewed them a few years ago, she had a hard time finding anyone who would even talk to her.

@@jessicahelman4210 yea the more popular it became the less the pay off

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Don't go alone

@@LauraCNeko1 does not seem safe.

I really wouldn’t recommend doing that.

@@karenduvall1415 why not

Don't listen to all these people who are trying to scare you about going. Next time you take the trip, go to Centralia! There are two main roads right through town, there are still some living there who love to tell the story of their town and have scrapbooks and photo albums to show you of how things used to be and they know all the safer areas. Graffiti highway has been officially closed off sadly due to people not respecting the area, but there's still so much interesting stuff to see. Honestly, if the fires are still burning underground anymore it's hard to tell. When I was a kid (I'm 33 now) we used to go to Centralia to walk around once a year and there was always a ton of smoke coming from holes in the ground, and it was a lot more risky then. Nowadays I even go searching for vent holes and smoke, especially in the areas I visited as a kid and cannot see any, smell any, or feel the warmth anymore. You could put your hand up to a hole and feel the heat from the fires back then. I think it's finally burned through almost all of the coal deposits that were in that mine and the fires are finally starting to die out. Also, in one of the first photos he showed in this video, in the upper left side of the photo you can see a big white church, while there are way more trees and overgrowth to the land nowadays, you can find the road that leads to that church. The church is still there and still in use to this day! There's a small neighboring town that overlooks where Centralia was and they use that church. If you can find the road to it, leading just off the main road through town, it gives a spectacular view of the entirety of Centralia.

Capitalism for the win.

@@brucebaxter6923 you mean politicians.

@@brucebaxter6923 "Capitalism is when government bureaucracy prevents immediate action"

@@sandroantonio2834 Nope, capitalism, Money comes before people.

And lazy! Wanting other parties to do the work and trying to find how they are not to blame.

I live in Pennsylvania as well......the whole state isn't all coal mines....

What a lot of people don't realize is that bituminous coal can self-ignite under certain conditions when it's piled up. In the days of coal-powered ships, this was a serious danger.

You ought to learn to read better you won't have to have your information spoon-fed to you

@@TheBigMclargehuge where in that comment did she mention reading?

You're right, this story is more about neglect than abuse

I find it so frustrating when people so casually dismiss how hard this kind of situation was. Unless they were being regularly informed, how on Earth would the be able to know the severity of the situation. More than that, I often see people underestimating how difficult or it is to *leave.* Completely uprooting your life is difficult AND expensive, and as mining town I would presume the people most effected were not making a ton of money. In the end, it was the mandate and the government buying them out that gave people that ability. Some might have known what was happening and just couldn't leave.

They polluted the town with fire. That is one of the worst kinds of pollution. I would much rather have my yard full of paper cups and potato chip bags than a bunch of fire.

RIP

Is there anything worth checking out that make the drive from jersey worth it?

Are there any cave entrances where you can see the fire? It'd probably be like a classic depiction of hell down there. Caves and endless flame.

I think it's still worth visiting. I drove from NC to see it. There are some openings in the ground and in the side of hills in the woods where steam is still coming out. I enjoyed filming it and other aspects of the former town.

It was worth visiting when you could view the whole highway but the dicks covered it in dirt piles... Non the less its still cool to see a tiny almost abandoned town with smoke coming from ground in places.

That's actually a really interesting and potentially accurate conjecture! We know of occasional underground fires that at least seem to have started naturally and that have been around for centuries!

@@deprofundis3293 I started thinking about it after I learned that many of the great flood stories began by early man finding fish fossils in the mountains. Not knowing that it used to be the sea floor before the tectonic plates pushed it up, they surmised that a great flood had to have occurred

Indigenous Australians have their own mythology which includes Burning Mountain, the site if a coal-seam fire that was started by lightning or bush-fire literally millennia ago and is *still* burning. Yep, that's Australia: even the ROCKS are trying to kill you.

The modern myth of the Christian hell is actually a creation of Dante’s Devine Comedy. The original hell parallel was the real location of Gehenna which is a valley believed by ancient Hebrews to be cursed. I’m not as familiar with non abrahamic depictions of hell parallels though.

Agreed!

There’s another huge landslide tragedy that happened in Wales I’d like him to cover

That homeowner probably enjoys the carbon monoxide high.

Pennsylvania... I think they've had other environmental disasters too. Like... Ford paints or something like that dumped old paint and that really fkd those people up. Still having babies with 5 eyeballs and cancer.

Radium?

@@1houndgal Hmm.. There's also Radon? I think that's natural though. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

@@1houndgal Was it radium in the paint? Ahh... Didn't they use that on the watch dial stuff and all those women got mouth cancer from licking their brushes?

@@toejam6941 three mile island as well