Centralia | 100 Wonders | Atlas Obscura
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024
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Where Dylan of Atlas Obscura tells you about his favorite places on the planet!
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I like the excitement you have when you tell us about these places...You're like one of those teachers who is so passionate in his field that the students - us - are drawn towards what he is teaching.
The video is awesome as always.
I have been there twice in the past few years and found it achingly beautiful. The wind turbines on the mountain ridge contrasted with the mine fire is a lovely, meditative, hopeful contrast. Perhaps the fire has mostly moved on, but evidence that it is still burning somewhere underground can still easily be found in Centralia. I must have missed the BBQ though, maybe next time. :)
From PA and never new more than the urban legend of Centralia! Thx
I love this channel. just found it today and now im watching all the things
I grew up not 40 miles from there (Orangeville). Drove thru the area many times before the road was closed for good. You could see the hot spots belching sulfur smoke alongside the road and the snow melted in the dead of winter. I haven't been there in years though. Last time I was thru there were only a couple buildings standing. A little eerie seeing sidewalks ending at concrete steps leading to nothing.
The best material about Centrelia. Good job!
+Niediegetyczne Thank you!
Met your channel through Weird Fruit Explorer. Love it! Subscribed.
Aw, we love Jared! Thanks :)
Ransom Riggs found a pretty interesting old news paper from 1975, it had a metal detector add filled out with an address to this city. It’s still on his saved Instagram stories, and it’s pretty cool.
You never cease to intrigue, sir!
Please keep making these clips! I love your channel!
Funny enough that I first heard about it in a kids audio book (the three investigators). Just found this RUclips channel because I researched something from my calendar (which is from you guys). Love that content! Please never stop doing that. Although it makes me a little sad since Germany seems to be so boring in that terms of content.
Thanks for including the info regarding the impact of coal mine fires on global warming; I was going to look that up, but you answered my question in the video. You rock!
I love all your content. your website, articles and your videos. could you guys make an app? I would like to download your articles on the go and use your website to find interesting things in my area without using wifi.
How crazy they just let it burn! ...more on that awesome highway sometime?
Seeker Stories Right? Coal seam fires are insanely expensive and difficult to put out so often its easier to just move whole towns. Not a ton to say about the road to say except that it's a surprising lively place. Taken over by ATV's, motorcycles, and BBQ's.
Atlas Obscura So basically it looks like a scene out of Mad Max is what you're saying.
TheMusketITuckedIt 100% although... the people were pretty nice. Medium Max?
TheMusketITuckedIt there were several attempts to put it out, all unsuccessfully.
the local government has a good idea on putting it out, but the federal government-as usual- had to step in and mess it up.
I grew up in Pennsylvania and it was always fun to take a trip out to Centralia. I always wanted to shoot a horror movie there. I also admire those people that refuse to leave, that should be their choice.
Wow, I wasn't even aware that coal mine fires were this long lasting and prevalent! Love the videos like always!
Derek Watson Thanks!
his town definitely doesn't look like it's on fire thou... : ( anyway I know about Centralia from a Silent Hill movie XD great vid
the3spoonsOFsugar The inspiration for the 2006 movie was from Centralia but the actual Silent Hill game is based on ghost towns in Japan.
It's like an episode of "The Day After"!🙂
A missed opportunity. I'm not a fan-nut or anything, but I do know that Centralia is one of the major influences for the game series, "Silent Hill" It would have been cool if he had mentioned that just for fun.
I love your videos!
zamrock19 thanks so much!
Had anyone tried to tap into that burning coal for energy?
That is darn cool!
lonestarrider thank you! Yeah it's a really interesting story, was surprised to find out there are 100+ such active coal mine fires in the US!
Atlas Obscura Why don't they put them out? It seems like they're wasting a crap load of coal. And how do the fires get any oxygen underground like that? It seems like you could just pump a crap ton of liquid nitrogen onto the fire and quench it by 1) crowding out the oxygen and 2) dropping the ambient temp below the kindling point. As I recall, a company specializing in fighting fires with liquid nitrogen lost the bid to put out the Gulf War Fires. Seems like it's worth a shot.
I live 40 minutes from here. I've wanted to go visit this spot for years, I love creepy shit and urban exploring. But this place makes me a little nervous, with the noxious fumes and whatnot.
+MrStrangeSensation It's pretty low key honestly. You have to go really searching to even find anything still smoking. You are a lot more likely to find people grilling.
Ha ok, thanks for the info! I am definitely going for a visit once the weather warms up.
Love your channel btw, keep the vids coming!
+MrStrangeSensation i live like 5 minutes from it and had my school bus pass through it for most of highschool but never actually went in depth exploring the place. which i probably should one of these days..
With the fire still smoldering and signs that give warning of what`s under the ground or what could happen hopefully no one will forget why Centralia is no more.I have been there also and do not think it wise for anyone to just go walking in the woods...what happened to the young man falling into a hole that just opens up may happen again.Perhaps even on a larger scale because the coal deposits are slowly burning a larger and larger cavern under the ground and it extends where we cannot see.
Silent Hill any1?
Centralia was actually the inspiration for Silent Hill....
I've been there! Tons of Silent Hill graffiti there! I even ran into some fellow fans. Very cool place.
Why does the year in the video say 1983. She said the same year as you. Just curious.
It would be a good place to film The Walking Dead!
Check out the drone video I made of centralia a few days ago!
Why did u stop posting
it's scary to think that the many coal fires in pennsylvania could merge into one huge one
Nothing but Trouble
I never could understand why they never tried to flood the mine fire to put it out. Pump enough water, or sea water into it and fill it up.
The problem is that it's burning the coal seam itself, the part that hasn't been mined yet, so the fire is surrounded by dirt. To put it out they have to dig it all up which is usually too expensive.
+Atlas Obscura
Start a new mining/firefighting operation. Dynamite around the perimeter of the affected site, then dig in and towards the fire, wait some years, see if the fire died out a little, then dig or dynamite some wider holes. Basically you're making a man made volcano, but the goal is to get it to die out letting nature take over the job of putting it out with rains and new growth. I dunno. I'm no engineer. lol
There has to be some creative way to do that. Maybe reclaim the site if for no other purpose than industry and overall safety. You don't want the fire to move to other towns. lol
The government relocated the residents because it was by far the least-expensive option. Some people have stated the cost to put the fire out in 1982 could've been as high as $600 million, whereas the relocation cost was $42 million.
So no cops? Sounds like paradise.
Silent hill is burning
That is so weird.
This is so insanely cool, why oh why, when I went to PA, all I saw was the stupid Liberty Bell???
What's with all the jump cuts mate? You can't string together 2 sentences in a row, or are you being constantly interrupted?
+gorman I am constantly being interrupted to go have new exciting adventures. I cut those out of the videos though. No, honestly, I am fairly new at this and choosing the bits of information and keeping it short ends up pretty choppy. But I am working on it! :)
You could try write a script beforehand?
Silent hill anyone?
Who wants to be a millionaire?
Good channel but look at his teeth xD
I think they're sexy.
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not cool
Do you know what's really not cool? Prejudging someone based upon their appearance and making personal remarks on an unrelated video. Maybe that's why he's so much more likely to get some action than you 🙄
talking about me... look at ur own profile picture. ur too scared to show ur hair.
PEACE CRAFT GAMING Are you kidding? You're too scared to show ANYTHING. No fucking wonder.