In a weekend full of long car trips, booze, games and walking on ATV trails, the Dtoid NY crew headed west last Saturday to visit the remains of the town of Centralia, PA. Centralia used to be a populated area, but underground coal mining activity soon led to out-of-control coal fires that made the town's evacuation necessary. Even today, the decades-old coal fires are still burning underground, as evidenced by the sections of abandoned highway littered with gaping fissures that belch out toxic fumes. It's even been said that Centralia was the inspiration for the coal mining town in the Silent Hill movie. We later found out that we were not alone in this assumption.

Dtoiders in attendance: Tino, MechaMonkey, Cataract, Superflossy, DevonRiley, EternalDarkWing, Nintendoll, Petiepal, Black Yoshi and myself.

Check out all the creepy, adventuresome fun we had below:


SPOILERS: Shit gets rusty, all doors are locked.


Strangely enough, the only marginally well-maintained part of the town is its graveyard.


By far one of the creepiest things we found: one of the trails led to a clearing covered in soggy garbage.


Waldo didn't make it! ;_;


Luckily, Gordon Freeman left behind a weapons cache to aid us in our fight against the Combine


Creepy tree is creepy...


...and conveniently points in the direction of 'FIRE'.


Black Yoshi's graffiti discovery confirms the past presence of nerds. It says 'DO NOT TRUST BREEN'.


The beginning of the abandoned highway


The amount of graffiti here was insane


Hands down, the best graffiti I saw all day.


Giant fissure spewing toxic fumes in the middle of the road. Tino gets a good 'ol whiff.


.tiff was informed immediately of this earth-shattering discovery.


YAY! We didn't die!

All in all, a worthwhile trip. Afterwards we went back to Tino's place for drinking an vidja games. I'm sure Nintendoll will soon have photos and video from that portion of the evening as well.