Get Rid Of It

Back in the day, this A++ lister was paranoid.

He knew from experience that unless you completely destroyed things, people would discover them.

You couldn’t just hide evidence, you had to destroy it.

He felt the same way about bodies.

Don’t bury them or dump them in a swamp or body of water.

Burn them.

Makes sure there is no chance it can come back and bite you.

He wanted a government repository where everything could be collected and burned.

One of his team found the perfect place.

An underground area that once set on a fire, would be a permanent incinerator for anything that needed to disappear permanently.

Documents and bodies were the most popular.

The bodies were actually spies or presumed spies or in the wrong place at the wrong time people all from Europe at the height of the cold war.

They were flown from Europe and dumped in the incinerator.

At least two successor A++ listers continued to use it.

If you believe the rumors, the set of the Moon landing ended up in it too.

Oh, the place is still burning too and ready for use.

This Mine Fire Has Been Burning For Over 50 Years

A century ago, Centralia, Pennsylvania was a busy small town filled with shops, residents and a brisk mining business. Coal from local mines fueled its homes and its economy, and its 1,200 residents worked, played and lived as tight-knit neighbors.

Today couldn’t be more different. Centralia’s streets are abandoned. Most of its buildings are gone, and smoke wafts down graffiti-strewn highways where a prosperous town once stood. The formerly busy burg has turned into a ghost town. The cause was something that’s still happening beneath Centralia’s empty streets: a mine fire that’s been burning for over 50 years, resulting in the devastation of a community and the eviction and impoverishment of many of its residents.

Coal seam fires are nothing new, but Centralia’s is the United States’ worst and one of history’s most devastating. Before the 1962 fire, Centralia had been a mining center for over a century. Home to a rich deposit of anthracite coal, the town was incorporated after mining began in the 1850s.

Mining defined life in Centralia, from its rough-and-tumble residents to its seedier side. During the 1860s, the town was home to members of the Molly Maguires, a secret society that originated in Ireland and made its way to American coal mines along with Irish immigrants. In the late 1860s, the Molly Maguires are suspected to have committed a rash of violence within Centralia. As Pennsylvania historian Deryl B. Johnson notes, the Molly Maguires were implicated in everything from the murder of the town’s founder, Alexander Rae, to the death of the area’s first priest. “Some believe that the Mollies were guilty, while others claim that the Mollies were framed by owners of the mines who feared that the members of the Mollies and [other organizations] would organize the mine workers into unions,” writes Johnson. Eventually, after a brutal attempt to subdue the Mollies and the execution of some of the groups’ suspected leaders in 1877, the crime wave ended. – Source