CENTRALIA, PA - America's Burning Ghost Town (Documentary)

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• JU

  @justaforeignerhere · 3 years ago

  This is why nobody watches TV anymore.  High quality, engaging content presented excellently - for free on YT.  You earned my subscription today.  Thank you!

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• CU

  @cursed_widow · 3 years ago (edited)

  I absolutely love the way you put the old photos over the real time footage to show exactly where the pictures were taken. To see the difference in the old photos vs now is so interesting

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• TH

  @The_Modeling_Underdog · 4 years ago

  I think this is, for the time being, one of the best documentaries done on Centralia. No clickbait, no shock effect. Just the story of a town and its people. Well done, Tom and Emma.

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• XR

  @Xrousn · 1 year ago

  I grew up here. The first house I lived in was up by Coddington's gas station. I used to go there for sodas and candy. I moved across town to a place between the fire station and post office, right up from my gram's place. You were on the lot where she lived at the corner of Railroad and Apple Alley. I grew up in her house and still go back to that lot when I'm back in PA to remember it all. Thank you for such a wonderfully respectful, interesting and educational documentary. This is extremely well done. As a Centralian, I thank you.

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• KA

  @KaiyaCorrbin · 4 years ago

  "The slow-moving fires that still managed to move faster than bureaucracy" killed me. Thank you for this visual update on such an iconic town!

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• CI

  @Cinnamanesgurl · 3 years ago

  I grew up 15 minutes from here. My great grandfather was a coal miner. You did this story justice, thank you. It’s so eerie visiting now as an adult, but as a teenager it was an adventurous dystopia to explore.

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• SH

  @shootnamekevin · 3 years ago

  I am obsessed with people matching up views of today with pictures of the past. This is incredible work.

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• JO

  @johns4452 · 2 years ago

  This is THE best documentary of Centralia. My father grew up in Girardville and as a kid, I went thru Centralia many times in late 70’s and 80’s. Nothing really looked abandoned to me. Still many homes and some businesses left. I have pictures of St Ignatius church before it was demolished. I actually drove down Graffiti Highway (Rt 61) before it was abandoned.  My dad would take me down the old bypassed Rt 61 (two lane) and now go figure, that’s the only one left.

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• CA

  @captainjack8319 · 4 years ago

  This is not hyperbole: as a historian and professor of American history, I think this is better than most of what the History Channel and National Geographic produce. Each video is well-written and above commendable for what this channel is able to do.

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• EV

  @EvilRandomguy666 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Finally a video that tackles Centralia in a way that seems professional and somber, restoring its humanity, rather than emphasizing the nightmare below ground

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• WY

  @wythetrumpet6419 · 4 years ago (edited)

  There was a similar fire in the Bituminous Coal fields of southern West Virginia. They successfully put it out by pumping several thousand gallons of shampoo down several bore holes. This was followed by pumping in several thousand gallons of liquid nitrogen. As the shampoo foamed up, the liquid nitrogen froze the domes of shampoo foam and smothered the fire out. The mine acted quickly and the fire was out in a couple of weeks. Thank you for the outstanding historical video!

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• KU

  @kunklejennifer · 2 years ago

  This was done so tastefully. I remember seeing news stories about Centralia slowly being abandoned the entire time I was growing up in Pennsylvania, and feeling so sad for the residents. Thank you for considering their feelings while filming this.

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