Centralia,PA Reminds Me Of Silent Hill

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[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Big_Boss wrote:
Professor X wrote:
FightinIrish26 wrote:
Hahhaa man I don’t know how I came across this but I read the story last week on wikipedia.

Never saw Silent Hill, but Centralia certainly is a fucked town.

Rent Silent Hill. They succeeded at making a very creepy looking movie even though I didn’t like the ending (it was a little Twilight Zonish only without the moral implication).

Apparently,the movie was loosely based,of course,from the story of this Centralia town. Oh,and a sequel is supposed to start filming after they are done with next Resident Evil movie(please stop!).

I liked the FIRST Resident Evil movie. Before Dawn of the Dead came out, it was my favorite zombie movie. However, they kind of lost me with the second one (which seemed like an attempt at non-zombie action movie). I thought the third was actually a decent attempt…but there was no creepy effect of night in it so it again came across as “sci-fi action”.

Unless they take this back to being dark, creepy and filled with zombies, I will just wait for the dvd.

Resident Evil: After Life…Plot Summary:

[i]In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend.

A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead leads them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.[/i]

The dude from Prison Break,Wentworth Miller,is supposedly playing Chris Redfield…but how significant can they make his character with a storyline that focuses on the director’s baby-mama? We shall see…either way…I hope this is the last movie. I’m tired of Milla Jovovich/Alice/UltraViolet character.[/quote]

Well she gave me a boner in Ultraviolet. Just saying

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dude if bigboss is taking a roadtrip ANYWHERE i’m down

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[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
tom63 wrote:
Big_Boss wrote:
The ruins of Centralia Pennsylvania no longer exists on some maps. The story began sometime in 1962 along the outskirts of town when trash was burned in the pit of an abandoned strip mine, which connected to a coal vein running near the surface. The burning trash caught the exposed vein of coal on fire.

The fire was thought to be extinguished but it apparently wasn’t when it erupted in the pit a few days later. Again the fire was doused with water for hours and thought to be out. But it wasn’t. The coal then began to burn underground.

That was in 1962. For the next two decades, workers battled the fire, flushing the mines with water and fly ash, excavated the burning material and dug trenches, backfilled, drilling again and again in an attempt to find the boundaries of the fire and plan to put the fire out or at least contain it.

All efforts failed to do either as government officials delayed to take any real action to save the village. By the early 1980s the fire had affected approximately 200 acres and homes had to be abandoned as carbon monoxide levels reached life threatening levels.

An engineering study concluded in 1983 that the fire could burn for another century or even more and “could conceivably spread over an area of approximately 3,700 acres.”

As time passed, each feeble attempt to do anything to stop the fire or help the residents of Centralia would cost more and more due to the fires progression. Over 47 years and 40 million dollars later the fire still burns through old coal mines and veins under the town and the surrounding hillsides on several fronts.

The fire, smoke, fumes and toxic gases that came up through the back yards, basements and streets of Centralia literally ripped the town apart. Most of the homes were condemned and residents were relocated over the years with grants from the federal government although some die-hards refused to be bought out and some still remain in the town.

About twelve miles from my house.

Damn,so were you around when all this went down? And do the local area people still talk about this town and it’s situation. [/quote]

We basically don’t give a crap. It’s old boring news. There were mines everywhere and one caught on fire. Are attitude is who cares?

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Old shitty building always look spooky and creep. they’re just old shitty buildings.

BTW, i think it was the book Strange Highways by Dean Koontz where Centralia was also featured. they didn’t exactly mention the town, but gave it’s general location.

It was also featured in a David Wellington vampire novel recently. Or was at least part of the plot.

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Here’s some Wiki stuff btw.

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This location was featured on the History Channel in an episode of Life After People.

After all I’m reading of Silent Hill and other scary/bizarre/freaky things associated with this town, it’s definitely not anywhere I plan on vacationing. Paranoia levels would be at an all-time high, and I’d probably flip my shit at the smallest thing.

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[quote]tom63 wrote:

We basically don’t give a crap. It’s old boring news. There were mines everywhere and one caught on fire. Are attitude is who cares?
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Yeah, I mean Pottsville is right down the road. How bad can it be when you have Yeungling Brewery in your back yard and WaWa on every corner?!?!

Pennsylvania is full of dying and dead coal towns (and WV for that matter). In college we spent a lot of time driving around PA studying rock structures, coal formations, and economy (Geology). Went through Centralia. On one hand, it’s not so much worse than any of the other coal towns (visibly) that are dead or abandoned for one reason or the other, but certainly one of the most famous. Pretty much all of them have some monument to catastrophe (mine collapse, fire, explosion, etc). On the other hand, it WAS creepy driving through, creepy like walking through an old abandoned house creepy…

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I went there about a year ago with a few friends. It is pretty cool, but a lot of those pics were from a few years ago. That place is pretty vandalized with spray paint everywhere and people throwing trash into the cracks in the road.

They bulldozed most everything around so it isn’t too much like a ghost town. Cool experience but it didn’t have the feel that we expected it to have.

Like tom said, every local person in the surrounding area looked at us like idiots for driving all of the way out there to see it…

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[quote]SteelyD wrote:
tom63 wrote:

We basically don’t give a crap. It’s old boring news. There were mines everywhere and one caught on fire. Are attitude is who cares?

Yeah, I mean Pottsville is right down the road. How bad can it be when you have Yeungling Brewery in your back yard and WaWa on every corner?!?!

Pennsylvania is full of dying and dead coal towns (and WV for that matter). In college we spent a lot of time driving around PA studying rock structures, coal formations, and economy (Geology). Went through Centralia. On one hand, it’s not so much worse than any of the other coal towns (visibly) that are dead or abandoned for one reason or the other, but certainly one of the most famous. Pretty much all of them have some monument to catastrophe (mine collapse, fire, explosion, etc). On the other hand, it WAS creepy driving through, creepy like walking through an old abandoned house creepy…[/quote]

I can see how people would think it’s creepy, but it’s old news here. It is never talked about really. It’s like the Sheppton mine disaster of 1963. big news then, no one cares now.

Yuengling is great beer, if you get the Porter. Black and Tan is very good, but the other stuff is what I call good for local, but basically average.

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Lost my internet for a month so I just saw this now.

I live near Centtraila. You really can still see smoke coming out of the ground.