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Centralia: The Town That Wouldn’t Die


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Today on The Haunting Truth  we are traveling to a town that most maps no longer acknowledge, a place erased not by time or war, but by a fire that refuses to go out.

This is the story of Centralia, and the unsettling legacy left behind when an entire community was slowly forced to disappear. 


Sources and Reference Notes:


  • Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection – Centralia Mine Fire 
    https://www.dep.pa.gov 

  • United States Environmental Protection Agency – Centralia Case Study 
    https://www.epa.gov 

  • Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen & Couch, Stephen R. The Real Disaster Is Above Ground (University Press of Kentucky) 

  • Smithsonian Magazine – “The Town That Was” 
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com 

  • Library of Congress – Coal Region History 
    https://www.loc.gov 

  • Centralia, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia 

  • Bing Videos 

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