The real Silent Hill

Silent Hill, we all know that right? from video games, to its famous movies. When I was younger I have a PSP and I have that game called Silent Hill, I also play it even though it was so scary because it was so detailed. So when I saw this video about a real Silent hill I was really amazed that it exists so I want to write an article about it and share it with you guys!

Centralia, Pennsylvania is where Silent hill was based off, it was abandoned more than 50 years ago, it was abandoned because the town with thousand people was struck by a freak accident.

Let's head back to 1962, one of the mines that ran underneath Centralia was caught on fire and the city was still burning to this day. The crazy thing is when back in the 1800s the town was actually a prospering mining town, it has a lot of coal but basically, the town hit its downfall in 1962 when the firefighters set out to burn the town trash but obviously, they weren't careful enough putting out the flames and sadly the flame caught on that deep-running charcoal deposit, the entire town burned under the flames and it just keeps spreading until the fire eats up the some of the houses.

Surprisingly though, not all action was taken first. It's like the people were ignoring it and like it would just burn itself out, I don't know what they were thinking but yeah, that's what happened. eventually, the mine shaft was shut down due to the carbon monoxide spreading. The first warning sign, that things were much more sinister that the town had realized before, is when the mayor of the town stuck a tool under the ground and when he checked the levels, he also realizes that the temperature of the ground was 176 degrees Fahrenheit, that was pretty hot if you ask me. There's more, the town was growing hotter and hotter until it riches 900 degrees Fahrenheit, massive sinkholes also started to appear, just look at this photo.

The road is literally smoking and as you can see there are cracks and holes on the ground.

the mine shaft that was on fire, was just spreading everywhere, imagine how scary it is seeing fire spreading everywhere, it's like the earth was eating away itself from underneath the ground. The sinkholes are just so deep, it's not like "oh you fell, someones gonna get you" no, the underneath of those sinkholes is literally on fire. A death sentence is just waiting for you if you fall.

Even the basements of the remaining houses were beginning to fill with toxic gasses, due to that, people are getting sick all the time, even the houses are beginning to deform due to the structures literally being eaten away.

And the people in town started to realize that over time the graveyards were falling into the earth, due to the heat underground. The tombstone looks normal like there was nothing going on, but the body underneath or have been buried was just falling just straight into that mess. They never know when the earth is just gonna like give way underneath them. The real turning point was when a 12-year-old little boy fell, into one of those sinkholes, well his cousin was there and he was able to pull out the 12 years old boy. That was the turning point in the town people's mentality about the fact that their town was literally burning underneath. There was actually an interview of the two residents and one of them said that his mother was watching him, turned around, and when she looks back, he had gone into the 100 feet pit, and when they were able to pull him out a large plume of smoke came out and you can literally see a fire at the bottom of the hole. The wildlife in the town and the people's pets were just like succumbing to the sinkholes.

7million dollars was put into trying to put the fire out, well it didn't even slow it. What if they just pour some water into those sinkholes right? lol.

There was actually a final price to put the fire out and it's literally half a billion dollars. That is a huge sum of money so the people thought that probably it's time to head out, that's when the town population begins to drop, from over a thousand of people to 63 by the year 1990s. Only 6 homes still stood by the year 2010 so the government decided to buy their homes and just making sure that they have a safe place to stay, but there was a very small group of people that refuse to leave. There were 10 people remain to leave in Centralia and in 2013 the government just give up and like "okay, if that's what y'all want" lol. But only under the stipulation that once they passed away their homes will become a public domain and no one else can move in. it was like they were trying to erase that the town exists or the town was there. The seven people that were still alive and living in Centralia to this day, cannot have their mail delivered to the town, it's like it doesn't longer have an actual ZIP code, No one was also allowed to go in and out of the town aside from the tourist to just be kind of spooked by it.

The biggest question is "what does this have to do with silent hill?" because well the silent hill in the video games is not the same as the silent hill in the movie, well Centralia was a huge inspiration for silent hill, West Virginia. Silent Hill was actually evacuated due to the fires that were spreading throughout the mines. In the Silent Hill, there was a church that still stands and Centralia actually has a church as well, but not like the evil church in the Silent Hill, it was actually like a beacon to Centralia.

I hope you guys enjoy it! thank you for reading and have a nice day! and let me know what you think because for me Centralia is not that scary by it's pretty dangerous knowing that there was literally fire underneath the town and still burning to this day.

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