This eerie town sits above a coal mine fire that has been continuously burning for well over half a century and has been ...

December 6, 1907 - Worst coal mine disaster in US history: 362 miners are killed in an explosion at the Monongah Nos. 6 and 8 coal mines in Monongah, West Virginia. December 19, 1907 - An explosion ...

6 and 8 coal mines in Monongah ... March 25, 1947 – 111 miners are killed in an explosion at the Centralia No. 5 mine in Centralia, Illinois. December 21, 1951 – An explosion at Orient ...

Located in Columbia County, Centralia is just a few miles outside ... In 2020, landowner Pagnotti Enterprises, of Wilkes-Barre, hired Fox Coal Co. Mining to truck between 8,000 to 10,000 tons ...

Will the real Fallout 3 please step forward?

We're currently advancing discussions with the customer on a redevelopment opportunity to extend the operating life of our legacy Centralia site through a contracted coal-to-gas conversion.

Practically ran back to the car and hightailed it out of there." 25."Centralia, Pennsylvania — It's a ghost town that is still on fire today (from a coal mine fire that started in the '60s). Though, ...

Centralia has become a ghost town. Since 1962, it has been the victim of a surprising phenomenon, trapped by an underground ...

An underground coal mine fire has been burning beneath the borough of Centralia since at least 1962. The fire has caused the abandonment of the town as some liken it to Silent Hill. Believed to ...