This is Centralia. On the surface, it looks like a quiet little town in the middle of

Pennsylvania's coal country, but look a little closer and you'll notice something is off.

If you walk the abandoned roads here, sometimes they'll crack open without warning and spew steam and smoke,

somewhere even hot to the touch. In other areas, you can see where sinkholes have opened up

and in some cases

swallowed entire homes. Suffice it to say you have to be careful where you step in the town

that's been burning for 60 years. As always, viewer discretion is advised. If you walk down the old Route 61 near the heart of Pennsylvania's coal country, there's an area where you might think you'd take it a wrong turn into a post-apocalyptic movie set.

The road there is buckled and cracked open and at one time was completely covered in graffiti,

although it's since been covered by dirt.

As you take a closer look though, weirdly, it's also surrounded by holes in the earth where smoke literally seeps out of the ground.

This is an area known as Centrelia, or more accurately, what's left of it.

It was once home to more than 1,500 people, but Centralia now or more accurately, what's left of it. It was once home to more than

1,500 people, but Centralia now holds barely a handful of residents, in fact, just five of

them by the most recent count in 2020. There are also no stores, schools, post offices,

or much of anything else for that matter, but importantly, there were at one time. Most of

buildings have since been demolished decades ago, leaving only faint outlines on the

ground where homes, churches, offices, and businesses used to stand.

Nature has also since swept in to erase the edges as vines climb over fire hydrants and

wildflowers bloom through the ash fall.

As you might imagine with so little going on, it's a quiet

place, but it's not a regular kind of quiet. There's an unsettling kind of silence, like the

eerie quiet that comes after something has gone terribly wrong. And that's fitting, considering

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