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Jan 24 2006

Pruned: Helltown USA

Posted by GreyDuck in Linkage, Quotes

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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One Response to “Pruned: Helltown USA”
  1. MadameSinister says:
    25 January, 2006 at 3:49 am

    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.

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