it's haunted with poisonous vapors and you _can_ stay there illegally

I'll bite...but wouldn't the list of "most haunted" places in the US probably skew more towards that places that were "most populated"?

Went to Centralia once just to say I did. Not a single thing out there and there was no cool vapor mist and cemeteries anywhere. Just cracked roads and empty fields.

It's a fun place to go off roading

I remember Route 61 open pre-Graffiti Highway and the town still fully standing and populated

There is a cemetery on the left side of the 61 bypass but it's just an ordinary cemetery. The only odd thing about it sometimes is that there might be snow on the ground elsewhere but not in part of the cemetery because the ground is too warm. But yeah, five houses and a post office and then nothing and then Mt. Carmel.

My husband took me through just after that when most of the houses were still standing but the people had left and the houses had the buyout prices spray painted on them.

I went when I was little, some of the rubble from the buildings were still there. Smelled terrible though.

My family has relatives buried up there. My grandmother always liked to remind people that the fire was under the Protestant cemetery, and not the Catholic one.

Any time I've ever driven by that little shrine outside of town, the candle is always burning and I wonder who tends to that.

That's because it's not haunted. That's nothing more than bullshit mumbojumbo.

Byrnesville has some abandoned structures, iirc.