Interesting and eerie.

creepy

If Im not mistaken, this was the insparation for the silent hill movie plot base. The mines are burning underground. The fumes are noxious, and the town cant be inhabited. There can be 3 feet of snow in the surrounding area, but none sticks in this town, the ground is always warm.

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This is f*cked up.

Keep 'em comin'!

fuel: yep, all correct. I had a lot of that in the site description already. A lot more info is in the video link... at one point they put an unlit match against the ground and it lights on contact.

Wow, I wonder how far away this is from where I love...

Goku: it's neighboring Ashland.

Cool..

i'm gonna go start a city there, who's with me?

p.s. I call mayor!

Quite interesting.

I really, really, don't like where this fad is going...

there are still a few people living there

Lets go make it YTMND land.

The mayor still lives there, he's in his 80's. no one knows for sure exactly how many people live there, but it's estimated at 15. in the hayday of the mining operation there was over 1000

Interesting. So, I am not saying that this isn't, but some of the pics don't give off the impression that it is completely deserted...That town must have been abandoned very recently....

The fires started in 1962. Since it is a blue collar town, many families wanted to keep their roots there. The few people try to keep the cemetary and such clean, but it's hard when enough coal to keep a 1000 year old fire is making sink holes.

Sorry, 100. added an extra 0

F*ck the old geezer mayor, we'll have a coup and raise the flag of the internets! also, did anyone notice the song playing towards the middle in the YouTube vid? around 3:45? lol

I was under the impression I was going to see some creepy mines. Still, I demand more of these ytmnds.

Centralia is one of my favorite stories.

Abandoned? As in, no cops? Perfect for drag racing.

Oh SNap!

Test: yeah, except watch the site and realize that the heat of the fire has caused the roads to buckle and crack. The only road that isn't a back road is Route 61, and it's closed off due to the buckling and the random sink holes.

Good Luck drag racing with those huge bumps and potholes in the road!

Drag Racing? What with the random sinkholes in the road, the pavement hot enough to melt tires and the poisonous gases rising from the earth? F*CKING GREAT IDEA! I will watch!

Guys. It was a joke.

I was aware. Just didn't want noobs trying it and hurting themselves. Actually, I didn't want them trying it unless they got it on film. "Epic Silent Hill Drag Race Maneuver"

XD

That Centralia story always interested me. The fact that a fire has been burning under the town for so long is intriguing if nothing else. I'd love to go there someday and check it out for myself. With a respirator and a canary, just in case.

I know where that is, Fires started along time ago when a dump fire caught a coal vein on fire, eventually it spread throughout the whole area. Sudden sink holes, random fires, toxic gas spurts out at random, the place is a real hell.

Very cool and useful description too, eerie sh*t.

Sooo...Whose up for a road trip next summer, to this place? Hell, I might look into buying a house there for YTMND Vacation Partying.

flash :(

You better get the hell out of there before that damn siren starts up again.

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I'm just gonna auto-1 all abandoned sites from now on. They require no effort whatsoever, aren't funny, aren't interesting, and aren't even original anymore.

lol, RL Silent Hill. Where the zombies at?

very last picture = penis tree

I love this song.

It's places like this that make me eventually buy a car.

Can't they just block off the mines, starving the fires of oxygen? Allll that coal needlessly poluting. I know it wouldn't be easy to block it off due to the movement of the earth, but I think it's something they should probably try.

resize your photos and don’t center yourr GIF.

5 for very interesting knowledge. I live in PA also

I’m trying to be helpful, not critical. This site has potential. Just clean it up a bit.

desperately need buttracers on the centralia roads

"lol, RL Silent Hill. Where the zombies at?" They weren't zombies STOOOOOPIDDDD they were...uh...ghosts? er, i dont know. that movie had a lot of wtf's.. ;D good YTMND, very creepy. I like that you picked silent hill music. nice touch. :O

Khono: it would cost rediculous ammounts of money to stop the fires, and the federal goverment said it wasn't cost effective. Zen: the pictures are pixelated enough as is. If I make em bigger it will go from small looking decent pictures to huge pieces of crap. k3l: wouldn't be a SILENTMND without the music.

Zen: nvm, will give it a shot

Updated. Looks much better, good call Zen.

All those buildings aren't abandoned, there's the fresh undirtied US flag flying from one of them

The 15 people left in the town take good care of it. since it had maybe 100 times the ammount of people in it before, I would consider it abandoned.

Thinking of a place like this to exist on earth scares me a bit lol...

Hey, look harder next time. I live in Centralia.

OMGWTF, really?

The "real" Silent Hill...