Before 1962, Centralia, Pennsylvania, was a prosperous borough in the Bloomsburg-Berwick area of Pennsylvania. Today, Centralia is almost completely abandoned. You might even justifiably call it the town from your nightmares. So, what happened there? A slow burning mine fire that was started in 1962, and is still burning today, forced nearly all residents from the area. In fact, the vast majority of town land has been claimed by the state under eminent domain and the buildings demolished. Centralia was once a coal mining town. Its first mines opened in 1856. However, when the stock market crashed in 1929, many...