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No, Silent Hill is not a real place. The movie version of Silent Hill is actually based on a town in Pennsylvania called Centralia. Apparently, a trash fire accidentally ignited the underground coal deposits in the 60's, and the fires have been burning underneath the town ever since.
One of the hostages is said to be the star of the Silent Hill series, Harry Mason. I'm kidding, but Harry did get kidnapped by intergalactic beings. The image below is a segment of the U.F.O ending, included in Silent Hill's multiple endings. Here's the real reason. Back in the 1800's, Centralia was a major coal mining town with over a thousand residents, until the 1960's, when most of the coal mining companies began to go out of business.