Spooky Centralia Pennsylvania: Ghosts and Silent Hill

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  1. Matt says:

    Actually the movie Silent Hill is based off the video game. The movie was going off the video game not anything to do with Centralia. Whether the actual game (made in 1999) used that as inspiration for it I do not know. I know you mention about the writer saying he used Centralia as some inspiration, which he may have, but the fact is all of that is in the games. Had there been no game there would have been no movie.

  2. beth says:

    I grew up in Centralia as a child on my grandfathers and uncles land known as Chapman hill the home was torn down I still have relatives who reside there I played as a kid in the cemateries with steam coming from pipes …my relatives are buried in those cemateties. I remember the town as it was yesterday . I’m 49 so Centralia was still a town throughout my younger years into my teens and early adulthood. Its still a town but only few reside including my relatives.

    • Centralia PA says:

      Hi Beth. Thanks for sharing your story with us! Those are great memories šŸ™‚

    • Emily says:

      Do u think to this day it is haunted or have hauntings in or around the areas like people say I would love to go visit one day but me being Indian and I can feel and see things idk about this šŸ˜± to be exact

  3. Patrick says:

    I think it’s more SAD than scary. Centralia was a nice little town. They had a beautiful Catholic church (St. Ignatius) which was Spanish mission style achitecture and a sweet little Russian Orthodox church with all these domes on top of it. When you think that people had to leave the homes they loved and worked in for years, even if they did get compensation, it’s still very tragic for them.

    • Liz says:

      I agree Patrick, I found it so very sad as well. I can’t help but think of the people who struggled to create new lives in a new country, who thought that what they were building would be there “forever.” In Northern MN the mining failed and the towns here are in serious decline, but nothing like what has happened to Centralia. The only scary thing is that one or two bad decisions can result in utter devastation of a community and a way of life.

  4. Les says:

    I was just there today. Very empty town. Steps which seemed to be part ofa sidewalk to a house that was not there. The only buildings being the Ukrainian Greek church, and Municipal Bldg. I thought about the lives that once existed there, and worked hard to raise families. I thought of businesses, like maybe a small diner, and maybe a car dealership or two. Hardware stores, and a humble little service station. All of it gone now, and it’s heartbreaking

    • NHD Centralia Team says:

      Is there anyway we could get in contact with you. My team and I are doing a project on Centralia and would love to interview you are simple learn about your experiences in the town.

  5. breanna says:

    well if the centralia-pennsylvania still has houses then y dont thay some still leaved there you could fix it up no more green mold it will be awsome and cool i wonder what it looked?????and what coused the fire?????its sad thay lived there thire hole life……

  6. breanna says:

    and thay just had to move i wonder whet made the fire

  7. Jeremy says:

    Breanna the fire was caused from burning garbage and got out of control that’s what i found on the internet

  8. Christian Giecewicz says:

    They actually did burn ppl they believed were witches and they did it over the coal mine and one time the pit knocked over and fell into the mines and it started a fire. Everyone had to evacuate but some didn’t make it they had to leave everything behind ?

    • Reda Green says:

      Hi, I know this sounds crazy but, I saw a lady on Facebook that is in the hospital in Boston named Olga Rivera, she knows her name but nothing else. Hospital needs to find relatives so I done research and found a nephew named Robert with son by your name, not sure if you are the right one but please let someone know she needs help you can go to my name on Facebook and I’ve shared the post it’s reda green in a red shirt. My mother went through similar situation that is why this is important to me. Hope you are her family

    • Jennifer Benton says:

      The fire started in the 1960’s no witches were being burned at the stake. It was a fire at the landfill that started it. Nice try though

  9. Courtney says:

    So could I go visit there I’ve never been and would like to go see the town or is it prohibited?

  10. ashland resident says:

    are you high or something, i live in this area my entire life and that story is not fact like at all. yeah im over a year late but i only just found it. it started because someone was burning trash and the coal vein was caught fire. dont go spreading rumors that are not true.

  11. Kip Fedetz says:

    I just found a picture of SS Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church on this website. I have had that picture hanging in my architecture office for 25 years. It was from a newspaper article from the 1960’s. My grandfather was V. Rev. Andrew Fedetz who served that church from 1940’s until the 1960’s from his home parish in Shenandoah.

  12. Kate says:

    Does anyone know If there is a catholic church still standing in Centralia. If so, was it at one time the Catholic Church that father Daniel Ignatius McDevitt presided over…I know a cemetery was called St. Ignatius

  13. Kate says:

    Does anyone know If the catholic church called St. Ignatius is sill standing in Centralia?

  14. Achim says:

    Hay i am Achim from Germany. I love this page. And i love the american Way of Life. As a chield i always dream about a marriage between Julia Roberts and me ?

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