Snooping Around

Surfing on the Internet in search of new mysteries to talk about I found out something very strange. I’ve already talked about the Ringing Rocks County Park . And again today’s weirdness is located in Pennsylvania. What if I tell you there exists a city which has been burning for almost 50 years. And is still burning now.  I was surprised when I first heard about Centralia , a borough (a self-governing municipal entity that is usually smaller than a city) and a near-ghost town in Columbia County. Its population has radically dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 8 in 2014 , and so is the least-populated municipality in Pennsylvania. But If you look at it, seems a very pleasurable city. So why everybody ran away ? Founded in 1862, Centralia came out because of the booming coal mining industry. Under the town lays a particular type of coal, called Anthracite coal (also known as Black Diamond, a much cooler name), once in high demand for heating homes. This underground m...

Pennsylvania musical rocks Looking at the boulders that dot the Ringing Rocks County Park (PA) , it seems to see a show already seen hundreds of times throughout the world . But those stones are every thing but common. In fact , a simple beat against them   produces a metallic sound . If you wouldn't know we're talking about rocks , you'll probably say the sound produced is due to some metallic objects. But this is not the case! The nature of this strange phenomenon has perplexed scientists for years, and even today there are various assumptions, but it is not known yet why these rocks produce this unusual sound. It seems , from studies , that these rocks are made of a substance called diabase which is basically volcanic basalt.They also have a high content of iron and aluminum, which explain the metallic behaviour. But the weird thing is the sound. In fact is  not the single rock to resonate , but all t...