Graves in a Ghost Town | Odd Fellows Cemetery, Centralia PA

About this episode

This episode explores the haunting history of Odd Fellows Cemetery in Centralia, Pennsylvania, where a fire has been burning since 1962.

Where the dead are remembered and the earth still burns. Beneath the quiet rows of Odd Fellows Cemetery in Centralia, Pennsylvania, a fire has been burning since 1962 — and it shows no sign of stopping. In this episode of The Grim, we open the gate on one of America's most unsettling burial grounds: an active cemetery inside a ghost town, maintained by a church miles away, visited by families who no longer have a home to return to. Centralia was once a thriving coal-mining community in Columb...

People in this episode

Host: Kristin Lopes

Topics covered

• ghost towns
• cemeteries
• history
• coal mining
• urban decay

Keywords

• Centralia
• Odd Fellows Cemetery
• ghost town
• coal mining
• burial grounds

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Centralia PA, Odd Fellows Cemetery, Centralia

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