Today Centralia exists only as an eerie grid ... a Jharia riverbank was undermined by fire and crumbled; water rushed into underground mines, killing 78. Perhaps the most terrifying spectacle ...

An uncontrollable fire Over time, the streets of Centralia began to crack, as oppressive heat seeped in. Originally, this underground fire started due to a fire in the coal mines located beneath ...

In the 1800s, miners in Centralia blasted tunnels underground to harvest the coal, but by the mid-1900s, many of the mines wsere abandoned. No one knows exactly how the Centralia fire started ...