For those who do not know, Centralia was a town in Pennsylvania where they attempted to make a nearby pit into a landfill. When a state inspector gave the okay for the pit he had also said they that should fill up the holes leading to the mine with a non-combustible material so that a fire would not start in the mine. However, they had only filled some of the holes leading to a large underground fire leaking carbon dioxide and monoxide. There are many documentaries on this, some books and some videos, though the one I got this info from this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGePjOv3OXI. While the event of the town was tragic I feel that the tragedy has been covered enough and the series that was made based on it is what I want to cover: "Silent Hill." The basis of "Silent Hill" is mostly a psychological horror survival game. While that most likely isn't appealing to many people it has many fans, myself included. The setting of the town the games are based in should sound very familiar. An abandoned town where an underground coal mine fire happened and everyone had to be evacuated. The only difference is that the game uses it as a way to get the player nervous by the atmosphere because the "fog" from the fire gives low visibility. While the setting is based off of Centralia, evident by the building structures and obvious coal mine, there are other historical thoughts that the game uses. Mostly Freudian Psychology is evident in the game by the use of the unconscious and repressed memories. Therefore, while I don't suggest trying to watch/play the game if you are scared easily or not very tolerant of the horror culture, it is important to see where the basis of the ideas come from. Many pop culture items that people may dismiss as "brainless" actually have a lot of thought put into them. Of course, there is also ones that have zero thought put into them so I don't suggest going and trying to find historical reference behind every pop culture item there is because that would most likely end in loss of faith in humanity for you.