Silent Hill... Silent Hill is the title of a horror game series by Konami and of a horror movie released by Sony Pictures. The titular town of Silent Hill is a gloomy one-time resort town that lies abandoned and derelict, consumed in an ever-present fog. Demonic and disfigured creatures roam the streets and buildings, their appearances usually taking the form of private fears and/or insecurities of whomever witnesses them. The town randomly shifts between everyday reality and a decaying and blood-soaked "Otherworld", where the monsters are more numerous. (Source: Wikipedia) ...and Ghost Town Gallery If you visited this ghost towns website to look for information about Silent Hill, you're in the wrong place. Silent Hill is pure fiction, while Ghost Town Gallery is about real abandoned towns and historic places in the American west. Click here to see our list of 180 ghost towns. They sometimes might have a creepy atmosphere but there's nothing horrifying about them. The Silent Hill movie's screenwriter Roger Avary used the real town of Centralia, Pennsylvania as an inspiration for the town of Silent Hill. In 1962, a fire in a landfill spread to the coal mines underneath Centralia and has burned since then, which forced most inhabitants to leave forever. You won't find Centralia on Ghost Town Gallery, because we only have pictures of ghost towns from the western states of California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana and Oregon. But our links page features web sites on Centralia, Pennsylvania.