In 1962, the town council of Centralia, Pennsylvania decided to burn trash in a landfill built inside an abandoned strip mine ...

Deep in Pennsylvania sits a ghost town swallowed by fire, silence, and rumor. Centralia was once a normal mining community ...

CENTRALIA, Pa. -- Crews have started filling in a large sinkhole that opened up in Centralia. The roughly 100-foot-deep hole was discovered last week off Route 61. The Pennsylvania Department of ...

You could call Centralia, Pa., the town of fires that never die. While this ghost town in Columbia County is infamous for the coal fire that forced its population to evacuate three decades ago, its ...

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CENTRALIA, Pa. — Standing before the wreckage of his bulldozed home, John Lokitis Jr. felt sick to his stomach, certain that a terrible mistake had been made. He'd fought for years to stay in the ...

CENTRALIA, Pa. >> Centralia is the spookiest and saddest place in Pennsylvania. An unquenchable 54-year-old underground coal fire compelled the relocation of virtually the entire population of the ...

The few remaining residents of a Pennsylvania coal town that was largely razed in the 1980s because of an underground mine fire that still burns today have gotten their wish — to be left alone, free ...

Centralia started burning half a century ago and hasn’t stopped. The small central Pennsylvania town once literally had a ground full of potential, but it was destroyed by the substance that made it ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...