Weird Wide Web - Real life Silent Hill

While the environment of Silent Hill seems as though it could only exist in nightmares, it is actually a very real place with a devastating history. The town of Silent Hill, West Virginia is actually Centralia, Pennsylvania. In May 1962, the town ordered to have the local landfill burned in an attempt to clean-up the waste. The fire spread through unsealed tunnels and openings that led to an abandoned coal mine. Thus, igniting the fire that burns to this day.