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The stupidness of humans never ceases to amaze me. The good people of Centralia, Pennsylvania decided to burn some garbage in May 1962 and hired some volunteer firefighters to do the job and they did in an abandoned coal mine.

Things definitely went bump in the night last Thursday at the Frank G. Pogue University Theater.

Centralia, Pa., is one of the stranger places in America. A once thriving coal town, it was abandoned after a fire started at a trash dump in 1962 and spread to an open coal seam.

Centralia, Pa., is one of the stranger places in America. A once thriving coal town, it was abandoned after a fire started at a trash dump in 1962 and spread to an open coal seam.

With the help of hometown lithium-ion battery manufacturer International Battery, Allentown PA is on the verge of becoming the latest rust belt refugee to dip its toes into the new green economy.

Just as the branding and imaging debate has heated up with several companies, Palladium have "re-launched" for the Autumn/Winter 2009 season.A The brand, which has debuted its new collection and image campaign featuring photography by Peter Sutherland , will also be releasing Exploration #1, a short form documentary series titled Uneven Terrain a ' ...

Georgie Roland went to L.A. to learn moviemaking, but he came home to small-town Pennsylvania to finish his film education.

A n amazed Dorothy looked at the big, gleaming, gold, onion-shaped cupolas atop the Holy Ascension Orthodox Church.

Documentaries are rarely short on impactive power. Love him or hate him, Michael Moore revved up the healthcare debate after unleashing Sicko, and crackdowns on fast food proliferated after Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me.

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and Esoterica , with Dylan Thuras.

The Real Silent Hill - The Centralia PA Mine Fire >> Posted By alakazam 4 hours, 29 minutes ago in Science & Technology > Real Events in Centralia, Pennsylvania inspired this movie.

One of the last people remaining in a Pennsylvania town largely abandoned due to an underground coal fire has reluctantly moved out.

It's an amazing story, one that may sound vaguely familiar to you. In Centralia, Pennsylvania, 1962, the local fire department begins a controlled burn of the local garbage dump in preparation for Memorial Day - you know, making the town look its best for the big holiday.

In Columbia County, Pa. there is a small town, Centralia, where an underground fire has been burning for more than 40 years.

There are parts of the US where abandoned coal mines, snaking their way miles beneath crumbling communities, burn and have burned for decades.

You'd think people in California, where tools used to clear brush can start a wildfire that scorches many acres and destroys hundreds of homes, could understand an event such as the one in Centralia, Pa., the aftermath of which is recorded in "The Town That Was." In 1962, as members of the Centralia Volunteer Fire Department prepared for the annual ...

Since 1962, the once booming coal mining town of Centralia in northeastern Pennsylvania has been on fire.

Rights available: All rights available Other information: the author is the winner of Washington College's prestigious Sophie Kerr Prize.

Sumana sez, "Keith Allison visited Centralia, Pennsylvania, a mostly-evacuated town whose coal mine caught on fire in 1962.