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Centralia is a nearly abandoned town in Pennsylvania, USA, known for a coal mine fire that has been burning underground since 1962. The fire caused the town to be evacuated and has inspired conspiracy theories, including beliefs that the fire was intentionally set as part of a government or corporate plot. Centralia’s eerie, smoke-filled landscape has even been linked to the inspiration for the horror video game series “Silent Hill.”
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Basically mapmakers would make up towns as a copyright trap. If they saw these fake towns on other maps they could sue for copyright infringement. Although some weird things have come from this practice such as real cities being made and the conspiracy of Bielefeld Gemany which many people don’t believe exists despite there being over 300,000 citizens.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_settlement