One day while hiking a section of the trail, Bryson came across a town in Pennsylvania called Centralia. Apparantly this town used to be a thriving mining town until one day the coal that was under the town caught on fire. Smoke began to rise through the ground in random parts of the town and sink holes would also randomly form. Someone estimated that there was enough coal under the town for it to burn for hundreds of years more. In 1979-1981 the bizarre town, now wasteland, attracted national attention. The fires are still burning in the ground. All that is left now are destroyed homes on top of unstable ground.
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