| Upon my first visit, we had travelled through the woods from across the street (this was approx. 2:am). I had heard growling sounds and footsteps, which is natural when considering the inhabitants of rural areas and of course the surrounding homes. near the exit to the street there is a remainder of a building foundation. the foundation is stone which leads me to believe it was very (there is a story of a haunted church of chapel in the area, perhaps this is it). When crossing the street we entered through another woods area (the area that hosts the Spider Gates cemetery). we walked along the path across a stream where there was a sign posted "The River Styx" (the river styx is the river of the dead which ties into the Spider Gates legends). It seems rather obvious to me that this sign was posted by someone who was hip to the whole legend. Anyways, the path just beyond the stream leads to the Spider Gates cemetary (the official name is not "spider gates" it is "friends" and the ground is owned by local Quakers.) The gates have some interesting iron work (the orignal gates are said to actually be in a museum somewhere).We entered the gates ( i do not recall as to whether we left the gates open or shut) and began looking at the gravestones ( you will notice the recurrence of common surnames which indicates that it belongs to a somewhat small clan of individuals/family) and the surroundings. From hearing the "8 gates of Hell" legend, i naturally expected to see another "spider gate." which i did not. I began looking for the alleged "hanging tree" (rumor has it that two individuals have hung themselves there). Again i had heard a growling sound (no big deal, if you are from an urban area and go out to extremely rural area in the middle of the night you should expect to hear some unfamiliar sounds).Then, as i was standing on what was been claimed to be the "altar" (an extremely flat surface in the cemetery) i watched what appeared to be a young man ( i reckon about 15 or so pale with dark hair) walk around the perimeter of the graveyard in a matter of a few seconds towards where the cemetary steeps down a small hill or enbankment and there are tall stones. We walked over to that area and observed the stones. I reasoned that if this boy was a ghost or demon that it actually might be leading us to some ill fate, so i thought we should be careful. Now, you could reason these stones to be the famed "8 gates" (in which case i passed through all of them without experiencing any of the phenomena associated with the legend; at each gate you are supposed to experience heightening levels of paranormal activity and legend claims "nobody has made it through all 8 gates" ) After, my first experience, i have read from another source that the assemblance of these stones are the 8 gates.We lingered for a short while and i decided taht we should leave. we walked through the woods across the street to get to our vehicle, and on that route i heard one more growling sound. |