I quote from the entry titled Helltown USA at a blog named Pruned…
Since the summer of 1962, a fire, fueled by rich anthracite coal deposits, has been burning beneath the mining town of Centralia, Pennsylvania.
Nonstop.
File this under, “Why have I not heard about something this incredibly freaky before now?” Check out the pictures. They’re both freakish and fascinating.
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I’ve never been there (although I’m certainly closer to it than you are), but every once in a while there’s an article on it in our paper re: people crossing the “codemned” signs and roasting marshmallows at the open pits where heat from the mine fires comes out.
Pennsylvania’s full of collapsible mining towns. . .and the Amish.