From an article in the Economist:

THE legend blames a lantern forgotten by a miner at the end of his Friday shift. When he and his colleagues returned to the Red Ash colliery on Monday, they found the mine burning. That was way back in 1915. But the fire still burns.

Smoke rises from vents and gaping holes in a scrubby hillside above Wilkes-Barre. The ground remains warm to the touch and the hilltop view looks over a blighted landscape: scrawny trees, ash and the telltale broad scars of strip-mining (deep-coal mining, the type with miners and lanterns, is long gone).

Red Ash is the oldest of 36 fires currently blazing in Pennsylvania’s 180,000 acres (73,000 hectares) of abandoned mines. The most famous is beneath Centralia, which began in 1962 when residents burned some rubbish on top of an exposed coal seam. In 1981 a hole there swallowed an 12-year-old boy; Pennsylvania has since condemned the entire town, relocated almost all its residents and had its postal code revoked. Like Red Ash, Centralia’s fire is thought to have enough fuel to burn

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Silent Hill! It's all TRUE!
Must stop in Pennsylvania whenever I get around to do my USA-roadtrip-thing.


They burn the cop, the only part of the movie that actually was a bit scary. The games however... And the coppy-woman is hot. I mean, she's riding a motorbike, she got a gun and she's wearing leather and a cop uniform.