Centralia, Pennsylvania

Posted on March 5, 2013 in YouTube Collaborations // 0 Comments

Ed and Alan take a trip to Centralia, Pennsylvania and nearly die. In 1962 a fire was started in a garbage dump in Centralia. It accidently spread to a nearby anthracite coal seam and the fire has been burning underground ever since. Centralia has since become a ghost town and symbol of economic and environmental disaster.

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My name is Myles Power, and I run the educational YouTube channel, powerm1985. I spend what little free time I have sharing my love of SCIENCE! through home experiments, visiting sites of scientific interest, and angrily ranting at pseudoscience proponents. I am also one of the founding members of the podcast 'The League of Nerds' - which I co-host with James from 'The History of Infection'.