Bannerman, who made that castle on the island in the Hudson river at the end, was a Scotsman. They tried to put out the fire in Centralia for years, even tried to close it off to starve it of oxygen, but as the video showed, cracks have opened in the ground all over the area, and all those cracks are letting in fresh air, so you'd have to seal hundreds of openings, and those are just the ones we know of. The Saint Francis dam disaster happened because during construction, they decided to make the dam taller, but they never bothered to make it thicker to compensate, so it was tall and thin, not strong enough to hold the extra water.

The largest psychiatric hospital in America is like 15mins from me and was built in the early 1900's on Long Island, NY. It's almost all abandoned and it use to be a fun place to visit in high school to get up to no good. I only went once or twice but it's a massive group of buildings over many many acers. I think at it's peak the 15+ buildings held over 13,000 patients.

I live in Cornwall NY, you can see Bannermans Island from Cornwall Landing Park and take kayaks out to visit the island. It's very interesting to walk around the ruins.

Good memory, Mike. It was in Wendover's "Every State in America" video.

There is another mine fire in New Straitsville Ohio. Been burning since the 1880’s . But it gets no love,.

Mike is right. Centralia appeared in a previous video you aired. I remember commenting on Centralia because I live maybe three to four hours away. I rode through the town many years ago and there were a few homes still standing. There were people who held on as long as possible. There was steam coming up from the ground in different sections but no signs telling us how dangerous if we drove through on the main road. May be in worse shape now. I’ve not heard of any of those places other than Centralia and the Fountainblue. The narrator did pronounce a number of things different than I’ve ever heard pronounced.

Here in Oregon, when I was younger, I loved finding abandoned sites reclaimed by the woods. There's an old Forest Service storage building in Forest Park, a large urban forest in NW Portland with a full crosscountry marathon trail running down the spine of the ridgeline. The building is about a mile from the Audubon Society, or a mile and a quarter from the other direction. Called The Stone House now, we used to have illicit parties there, throw a keg in the stream and jam out to music all night where nobody could see or hear us. On Mt Hood, the big peak outside of town, on the way to some of my favorite camping haunts, there's a small hydroelectric plant on the other side of the Clackamas River from the highway. I understand it's out of commission, but lightly maintained in case of emergencies. It's so overgrown with moss and bracken that it looks haunted. Always makes me feel like I've left civilization for another time. But the strangest abandoned place I ever found is in an arboretum owned by one of the local universities I've attended, and where my father taught. It's on a small highway, relatively in the middle of nowhere, and entirely easy to miss, even if you know to look for it. It's unmanaged and unimproved forest, though there are picnic tables and fire rings, long disused, in a few places nearest the highway. And the area is ringed by old logging clear-cuts that have grown back secondary forests. The arboretum proper is pretty vast on its own, with one smallish stream running through the main valley. I never met another person there, ever. My two best friends and I would hike around in there, especially in our high school summers, and we'd mapped most of it in our heads. But one day we realized there was a fork in a trail we'd never explored and a half hour or so down the trail we found the remnants of a concrete and steel bridge, fording that little stream. That alone was strange, because you could cross it in most places without getting your socks wet. But also, there was no road connected to the bridge, nothing, on one side not even really room for a road before you came to a cliff face. And lastly, both ramps to the bridge were fully intact, perhaps twelve feet high, but there was no bridge platform, nothing fallen into the stream, no signs of pieces left attached to either end. It felt like evidence of a distant apocalypse. Our best guess was that a logging company had a dirt road running through there, sometime far long past, and built that unnecessary bridge with an untreated timber deck. And then the roads and deck were summarily swallowed up by the forest after disuse. But you'd think timbers large enough to hold logging trucks would show some evidence even half a dozen decades later. As well, the two footings and ramps seemed of excellent construction, virtually unweathered, only moss covered. That became our preferred hangout spot, as it stoked so many conflicting narratives and inspired our imaginations. Lastly, one of the best hot springs in the Cascades used to have some minimal Forest Service support, maintaining redwood and cedar dugout tubs and rustic bath houses and outhouses, just up the trail from a major backpacking campground. But it's low priority, several miles from any road, and that entire area of Mt Hood has been inaccessible for years due to forest fire damage and the landslides that followed the following fall and winter. It's all slowly opening up, and there's a longer, back way that I might be able to use to get up to the hot spring in the springtime. I'm really looking forward to rediscovering it, seeing if the trail and bridges are even still there, seeing if the remnants of the facility are worth soaking in.

Y'all have to check out "Darwin California American Town with no Laws" funny note is the town drunk would fall asleep smoking and after burning down two houses the town folks decided to make him move into an abandoned steel water tower..

I've been in Grossinger's, have pictures of the pool area, cops almost caught us. The hotel is part of the Borscht Belt, a series of many upper class resorts that were popular vacation sites for people in NYC from the 1920s-1960s. Some of them were really extravagant and it's fun to compare your photos to photos from their prime. Along the Hudson river in NY are all kinds of abandoned resorts, factories, psych centers, and mines. Bannermans Island isn't far from me and I kayak and explore abandoned buildings, somehow I haven't made it there yet...probably because it's been made a tourist site. I do know the currents around it can be treacherous, there are always kayakers being rescued in the area. Last year there was a tour group of 20+ kayakers that had to be rescued. There's and abandoned zoo near me that you can explore, it's pretty cool, kinda a DayZ feel.

I think you could add about half of the US's shopping malls lying dead and abandoned and littering cities and suburbs throughout the nation.

AskAMortician channel has an EXCELLENT video on the dam failure aftermath! Please add that to your lists, guys? 🙏

That town with the Mine fire was in one of the other clips you guys did like 6 months ago.

Holland island was a barrier island, with these islands (as far north as New Jersey and as far south as Florida) people didn’t realize they disappear and new islands are built over hundreds of years or quicker. Many communities are now built on these island and are fighting to keep it (I live on one). Sime even speak almost completely different languages (such a Gullah Geechee), and even have British sounding residents because they’ve been so cut off from the main population. Can’t remember the name but they’re off of OBX in North Carolina. It’s honestly very fascinating!

Hey Blokes if you need some good laughs =Trunk Monkey Complete Compilation 2021 . It is a group of commercials from a west coast auto dealer in the early 2000's and they are funny as hell.

I’ve been to #1 I live in the area. I don’t think you can visit anymore. Years of hurricanes and blizzards completely destroyed it.

On the Bohia Honda Bridge in the Keys is where part of the Schwarzenegger movie "True Lies" was filmed.

The Fontainebleau Las Vegas on the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip is expected to open at the end of 2023

Fontainebleau Las Vegas is scheduled to open in late 2023.

Not sure how true it is but I remember reading or watching an interview where the makers of the Silent Hill games said they based the game off of Centralia, but being Japanese thought Centralia was located in WV which is why the game takes place in WV and not PA, I don't remember if in the movies they fixed it to PA from WV. From what I remember the fire started in the 60s when the city had the landfill burned, the fire burned underground where there were tunnels that led to a coal mine.

I live by the Orville dam. That was a scary day. Then came the fires in the summer.

Oxygen is in the coal. Same way a fuse can burn underwater.

I pass by the Glenwood power plant & Bannerman's Castle every day on my train commute to NYC and didn't know half of these details, crazy.

isn’t there an abandoned city on an island somewhere? It was in one of the Daniel Craig Bond movies

The irony of being named Byrnesville....

lol that 6:20 jump scare was awesome.. got me Blokes!!!

That narrator has a cool accent

Small underground coal mines are expensive to put out but have successfully been done by collapsing tunnels and closing off shafts, pulling all the oxygen out of the mine, But ! Huge underground fires no matter what is done are usually impossible to put out. Mainly because the shafts are so long and Coal actually retains oxygen within it's self. So even if the mine is collapsed and the shafts sealed, the existing coal will continue to burn and engulf non burning coal in fire just by the oxygen within that coal. The mine will continue to burn until there is No Coal left to ignite.

Centralia : attempts were actually made to put it out in the first few days ,weeks after it started but they all were ineffective They tried to dig down but the rush of oxygen in fueled the fire.

You guys watched another video about this , the town with the mine that is in fire and will keep burning for a long time. You are right Mike.

Number 6 should had been the abandoned underground mausoleum in Bessemer Alabama instead of the Cahaba Building,it was national news and had thousands of views on Utube.

Centralia yes you heard of that before they mentioned it in the US states video you reacted to.

Look up how they moved the original London Bridge to Arizona USA

I enjoyed this and went to check out the original channel. rip haha

Per Dave's "it might be nuclear bunkers.." My home town in Illinois has a park that used to be used for training military during WW11. People have found mines there. One idiot actually drove one in to town to the police station 😂 Since then they've put up signs to "Beware" and "don't be a dumbass and screw with it! Call the authorities and stay the #$@! away from it!" 😁

I would say the Ammityville house as number one

Can yall check out the Cheapest States in the US video from world according to Briggs !

I'm from Bama and didn't know about Cahaba flood

I’m surprised no abandon malls were mentioned, there are many. Also abandoned stadiums

Las Vegas has torn down all old hotels and skyscraper hotels happened by corporations took over.

My mom told me stories driving through Centralia

Y’all did do a video about the underground mine fire months ago

Centralia would make a good video for you guys to react. There's tons of videos on youtube about it.

I think places are much less creepy with no people there. People freak me out. 😱

It is sad when you see buildings/ houses that aren't finished for one reason or another. All that work and money left to exposure and vandals

HEY OFFICE BLOKES - You need to react to the video called "The Town That Was," which is a documentary about Centralia, Pennsylvania.

1. Everu downtown area without mixed-used (or any other area in general where it's only car-dependant hellhole) would be my top 1.

They are trying to extinguish the coal seam fire....it said that in the video

The British government should buy that casino and do a themed casino 🎰 I mean Detroit has a casino the UK should have a casino!!!!!

You guys do realize that this video was uploaded 5 years ago and I live in LA that s*** did not happen we didn't get no floods like that

Capping it off is difficult, but the waste of fuel...sad

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Interesting stuff!

You should react to Big Jay oakerson guilt You would die laughing

Please react to any of Liziqi's popular videos! Mike especially would love them!

You guys should react to the video that was in the play next portion, the 10 cent beer night fiasco

Mike, I recently sent a link that might be what you're thinking of, my video gives more detail as to what happened.

Carl will sell the torries the property and license s for 650 mil not bad.

Be scared Mike, be very a scared

React to Christian Craighead SAS

Please check out The Cat King by MrBallen… it’s wild.

I love that he said put the cyclists on it .lmao . I cannot stand them people. Shout out from NY

Bro somebody else take control of the pause button for fuck sake!

react to Pastor Gas.

The narrator is really hard to listen to I gotta say XD

I’m first 🤪🤪🤪