July 16, 2024 • 46 mins
Welcome to the latest episode of the Haunts and Legends Podcast. Hosts Rae and Sia dive into the intriguing urban legend of the Seven Gates of Hell located in York County, Pennsylvania. Despite some technical difficulties going live, the duo manages to uncover the spine-chilling stories and theories surrounding these infamous gates.
They discuss two main legends: one involving an old asylum that allegedly burned down in the late 1800s, trapping the souls of the insane within iron gates; and another about a doctor from the 1900s who constructed gates to keep people away from his property. Both legends share eerie commonalities, such as the claim that anyone passing through all seven gates will be transported to Hell.
With personal anecdotes, historical tidbits, and discussions about the credibility of these stories, Rae and Sia dissect what might be truth and what might be mere legend. They also touch upon the challenges of exploring this now-private property and the potential dangers of trespassing.
Join Rae and Sia as they navigate through shadowy figures, glowing eyes in the woods, and tales of satanic cults, all while pondering the question: Is there any truth to the legend of the Seven Gates of Hell?
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That's weird Alright, now.
Music.
What's going on everybody, welcome to Haunts and Legends Podcast And we are
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sorry for going live a little late But for some reason we were having a couple
errors going live Not really sure what was going on,
but we're live now So I'm your host, Rae And I'm Sia,
What's going on, everybody?
Hello, hello, hello, welcome to the show Hello, Stephanie, glad you could make it You made it! Hi!
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How was your day? It was alright, just
another day at work kind of slow but it was
hot it's very hot it was
like 100 degrees out there i know now imagine
being in a car with no air conditioning it's rough it's rough i bet it is see
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Plenty of things to purchase we have a interesting episode today yes we are
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going over an urban legend today somewhere up in york pennsylvania i've actually
never heard of it until we until,
you sent me about it so i've heard of it i heard stories about it kind of like
probably like a few years back i never really did much research into it but
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i knew like the the generic like,
there's there's seven gates that lead to hell in pennsylvania i'm like what
is there though hello jessica we miss you hello but i have heard of it but i
never really dug into it until today,
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Good morning, Damien. Good morning.
And when I was doing research on this topic, there really isn't a lot out there.
There's, you know, I've scoured through probably 30 different articles on the
internet and they all basically say the same things. Yeah.
And again, it's a legend. So it's all hearsay. It's all, there's no,
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it's not like I can open up a history book and get information.
Yeah it's like it's probably like
devil's road up in chatsford pennsylvania which
i've been on you know if you go there and you're looking for the skull tree
which i've seen and it honestly does look like a skull you know they say stuff
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about sacrificing a baby within the face of the skull.
M. Night Shyamalan recorded what movie was that?
Can't remember the name of the movie off the top of my head,
but he recorded one of his movies right in that area.
But they say there was an old cult house where it's kind of hard to find,
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but there's still people who travel around the area trying to find this house.
I went there back when i
don't know back when i was 18 with a couple friends and of course we got chased
off the road that's interesting yeah apparently there's i i guess people who
like to play pranks there like they say you get chased but it's probably just other you know people.
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Chasing you off just for the hell of it just because
they don't they're gonna try to scare area kind of thing yeah exactly yeah
it's kind of so today's
topic since i've get to help right in york pennsylvania and
one of the things that they deal with is they deal with people coming in because
now in present day these these gates the location of it is on private property
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so they have They deal a lot with people coming, trying to find these gates,
dealing with trespassers.
It's posted all the way through there.
But you still have people coming in, trying to find the seven gates.
There's been a couple of books written about it.
And another interesting thing is they have satanic cults meet up in town.
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So I read satanic cults that meet up in town to go and try to find the seven kids.
And this isn't, it's not a very big, big town.
Yeah. It's a very small little city in the County Lancaster County,
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York County, York County. Yeah.
It's in Hellam township, which is right outside of York.
And they, There's two different legends that tie to the Seven Gates of Hell.
The legends have similar attributes to them, but whether or not one is true
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versus the other, it's going to be up for everybody to decide. Yeah.
Stephanie said, stay away from Rick. Noted.
And, hi, Mom. Hey. So, the Seven Gates of Hell. Like I said,
it's in Helham Township in York County, Pennsylvania.
And this town has been around since 1739. So it's been around for a while.
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There's a story about how on a property in Helham Township, there are seven
gates that lead you to hell.
If you can go through the seventh gate, a portal will open for you to go to
hell and live the rest of your life.
Which is I don't know why people would want to do that but each their own I guess.
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Hi Donna hey Donna hi Corey miss you lots,
but the first the first legend so there's two main ones I'm sure there's other
little ones but the two main ones that are out there is some believe that back in the day in the 1800s
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there was a asylum that was situated on this property.
It was built to house like the worst of the worst.
It had murderers, rapists, you know, the people that, you know,
if they disappear, never have to worry about.
Right. So they were there, all the insane criminals, whatever else.
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And in the late 1800s, supposedly a fire was started within the building.
Now, it doesn't say exactly how the fire was started. Apparently,
nobody knows how the fire started, but it started burning the second and third floor.
So it had to have been a big building, right?
At least three stories, which I would assume a basement.
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It started burning. Now, because the building was so far out into the woods away from everybody,
it supposedly took 20 minutes or over 20 minutes for emergency services,
fire trucks, ambulance, whatever they had that horse and buggy, maybe, I don't know.
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But it took them over 20 minutes to To get there to the property. Right.
And when they got there, because of the patients that were at this asylum,
they created a perimeter around the burning building before they started put
put before they started putting the fire out on the building.
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They weren't worried about the building. They were worried about the patients,
the murderers and everybody escaping.
Yeah. So they put up this perimeter, which is said to be a fenced perimeter
around the building, and to try to stop patients from running too far.
They tried, apparently, to be peaceful about it, but because of the people that
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they were, a lot of it led to violence.
So a lot of the patients were killed.
And let's see when the fire was burning right they made the first perimeter
which was large around the building supposedly they built seven more perimeters
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getting closer and closer to the
building here's i'm gonna i'm gonna start tearing apart here in a minute,
It says that what they didn't realize was at the time that they were putting
up those iron gates is that they were preventing the souls of the people who
lost their lives in that from being able to pass on into the afterlife.
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Something with the iron fences, and it has a meaning, I'm sure,
but for whatever reason, it created basically a bubble that the souls weren't able to escape out.
So they were stuck there, stuck in the area where they were either burned alive,
beaten, killed, whatever.
Part of this legend says that the anger, hate and violence that's felt by these
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lost souls that were killed on this property is the cause of the rift to be open to hell.
They're saying that that's what created the Seven Gates Felt.
That's what created that rift where the lining between white and dark is thinner
where you can pass through and go to hell.
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Now, that's theory number one. Now, here's where I'm going to pick it apart
a little bit because that's what we do, right?
I understand it's a building out in the woods, right?
They claim it took 20 minutes for emergency services to get from in town to this building.
Now, if I am a mental patient at an insane asylum and fire breaks out and I escape,
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I'm not going to stand around for 20 minutes waiting for the fire truck to get there.
I'm going to hoof it through the woods. My chances are better out there. Goodbye. See you later.
I'm not going to wait around. When they talk about how they built this perimeter
around the building, when I read that, I was like, but why?
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Maybe if there's some still in the building, maybe.
Also, not just the 20 minutes it took them to get there.
They also if they put up this fenced perimeter they had
to go 20 minutes back to town get the supplies drive
20 minutes back and then the time it's going to take to put up this
fence whoever was in that building's long gone yeah they're not going to be
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they're not going to be sticking around they're gonna they're gonna help you
build the fence to keep them in and again they say that this fence was just
like your average like wire fence it's not Uh, they're not that tall.
Like you, I'm sure both of us have jumped fences in our day.
Like it's, it's not hard.
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Right. Well, unless they're building like seven foot fences to keep things in.
But again, that's going to take time. And by the time you get that fence built,
they're going to be gone.
So that's where they say, that's what this legend says. Says the seven gates
came in because they kept closing in the perimeter.
But it doesn't make sense. Yeah, I mean, I don't know of any fire department
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that's going to sit there and build seven fences around a perimeter.
Maybe, you know, law enforcement might take the time to do that if they're trying
to contain the mentally insane from escaping.
But definitely not the fire department. The fire department's going to worry
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about, you know, putting that fire out.
Right. But either way, I don't care if it's the police department doing it,
if it's the baker from town doing it, the fire department, like it's going to take time.
And by the time that they get that stuff done, like people are going to be gone.
Yeah. So that just to me, that doesn't make sense.
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That doesn't make sense. and if you
want to go into the actual history there is no
record anywhere that there was an asylum built in that area there's no record
of it now i will i will play with the thought that maybe there was okay so we're
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gonna we're gonna flip they say that there was never one there's There's no
record of it. There's no nothing.
However, if you had a secluded area, an asylum, right?
And you had murderers there, rapists, like the worst of the worst,
like the complete insane, right?
Something happens to them. Nobody's going to care, right? Right.
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Now, if they were maybe performing experimental surgeries or any kind of medical
experiments to these individuals,
that might be a reason why nobody's heard of it.
Because if you're doing all of this like crazy stuff, that's obviously like
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not FDA approved or whatever. Like you don't want people to know about it.
Right. it now do i think that over time that would have like stayed a secret and there'd be nothing,
i don't know because you would have to have everybody who worked there be able
to keep a secret you know one of them is probably going to go home and say something
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to their wife who's then going to tell her friends at book club who's then going
to sell their friends like,
secrets don't always stay secret and i feel like that's a big secret that that
wouldn't be able to stay hidden.
You know what I mean? But I mean, if you think about Pennhurst Asylum, for instance, nobody.
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Really know,
Like nobody really knew what the ins and outs of Pennhurst, what was going on,
the stuff that they were doing until Bill Baldini released his documentary.
You know, that documentary suffered a little children.
Like, you know, there's a lot of secrets that have been kept with these insane
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asylums that nobody knows about.
Right. But the word got out about Pennhurst, right? Right. Because somebody said something.
Because somebody said something. But we're also talking about a time before
the whole Bill Baldini interview.
Do you still think someone would be able to keep something like that a secret for a while?
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I mean, if the police burns down and every single person who ever worked there
or who was there, maybe was a patient there.
It's very possible if they all passed away before stuff started getting released.
Fair see here's here's one with another catch for you there is,
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if you had a structure we're talking about it's at least a three floor asylum
in the middle of the woods if it burnt there would be some kind of remains there
right there'd be foundation,
there'd be there'd be something there the only
burnt building remains that
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are on the property so i've read obviously i've
never been there would it be cool to get to find out who owns the land to get
permission yeah but i don't think that's gonna happen probably not the only
thing that is on that property or in that general vicinity of that property
is an old flint mill that burned down.
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But it's not nearly as big as what we would picture an asylum.
To be so i i don't know
where actually i have an idea so i'm
gonna rephrase refrain from saying that for
right now stephanie said
unless they remove all the debris to keep this secret to be
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on the flip side maybe maybe i
feel like that'd be a lot you know that'd be a lot to
pull out of there it's possible but
let me how many places that you
have burned down or even just
falling apart that they've tried to keep secret from
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everybody like what's what's
the point nowadays to keep it secret i
don't know i don't know it makes
it makes sense so that's just that's just
the theory like i don't know if
i believe that there was an asylum there yeah i'm
just saying that if there was an asylum there and again
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if they had rapists and murderers and
stuff like that that would be the perfect
people to experiment on because they're
already they're already stuck up where they're at like tell sophia.
I said hello mom says that seems like it would be a task and then some i don't
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think i'd want to be a part of that work crew end up riding home with a mentally
unstable ghosty friend no thanks so that's that's the main the main theory behind the legend.
That's the main one there's another one that has a that some people believe.
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It's a legend that speaks of a doctor that lived along toad road in the 1900s so this happened in,
apparently the asylum was built in the early 1800s but
burned down in the late 1800s so this is in the 1900s nobody can nobody knows
what kind of doctor he was but then one day completely out of the blue he was
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just insane completely psychotic dangerous completely out of his mind Again,
nobody knows what happened to this doctor to make him go from a super bubbly
eccentric doctor to a psychopath.
And it was like in a daze, a daze, you know, snap of a finger.
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They say the people that believe that
the doctor was behind the seven gates say that he is the one that constructed
a series of gates to prevent anyone from entering his property or in turn to
keep anything from his property leaving now the name toad road came supposedly came from this doctor.
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Was tired of people coming onto his property trespassing. He wanted people to
just stay away, stay off his property.
So he created these toad-related signs and toad statues.
Like a gargoyle, but with a toad face. Like statues and stuff.
And that's how it got the name Toad Road.
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Now, also worth mentioning, Toad Road isn't really a road. It's a path off of a road.
It's not like an actual road you can't go driving on toad road but it's like
a walkable path you probably can fit like a side by side down it but,
I don't know about the doctor like why would he go insane why would he go insane
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randomly was he possessed,
that's possible entirely possible
obsession with toads why toads why can't you choose something cute,
I mean, frogs aren't cute, but like of all animals in the world, you choose a toad.
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That doesn't make sense. Yeah, I don't know.
See, one of the theories I heard about Toad Road was the area is very susceptible to flooding.
Okay. And Toad Road used to exist.
Mm-hmm. But the problem they had was it was flooded out back in the early 1900s.
Mm-hmm. Do you want to know why it was going through?
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Why is that? Because the hurricane came through.
It was Hurricane Agnes in 1972, what Toad wrote off the map.
Yep. But I heard that because of the whole flooding issue that they used to
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have, they just decided to, hey, let's just close the road down.
Well, I suppose that's fair.
And then, you know, you think of something else like I also heard about the.
Essentially, this whole urban legend just being created to keep everybody off the property, right?
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But we hear stories all the time of, you know, this is haunted. This is scary.
Gates of hell. This is going on at this location.
Like these stories, urban legends are hyped up so much throughout the years.
And they have this idea like
if they just like hike
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these stories up that it's going to scare everybody
but to be honest it just makes everybody more curious and wanting to go to these
locations i think i think back in the day it would scare more people but i think
people today are just like Like it's an excitement thing. Right.
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Absolutely. But, but this, but this kind of stuff has been going on for decades
with the excitement of going to these places.
I mean, there's a reason they have satanic cults meeting up in town. Right.
I mean, going back to like devil's road, for instance, you know,
they say that the trees, like the branches grow like away from the cult house.
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And if you drive through chattisburg pa when you're around the cult house,
they are weirdly shaped like they
the branches are growing like if
you have the cult house on this side the branches are growing this way but i'll
have to show you some pictures of it it's but why are they growing that way
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you know are they actually growing that way or Or like year, maybe decades ago,
the branches were just cut down for power lines.
That'd be a logical explanation. Right.
Of people who like hearing about these legends they don't want
a logical explanation yeah i mean they
just they they hype up stories about it i think i think all legends have some
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kind of truth to them like they don't just come out of thin air i think the
the versions we hear now weren't the original versions.
Like I said, it's like a game of telephone.
I tell you something and then you tell someone who tells someone who tells someone.
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By the time it gets to the last person it's going to be all sorts of jumbled up.
And that's not what I said. It's going to be posted all over the internet and
it's going to get people's curiosity up to.
Want to see whether it's true or not.
Exactly. Now, there are, even though there's two different theories,
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you have the asylum theory and then you have the crazy doctor theory.
There are things that both of those theories have in common.
And those things are supposedly
you can only see the first gate
at in the daytime you can't see the
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other setting other six gates you can only see the first one the daytime the
other six you have to see at night you can only be seen during the night because
they supposedly exist between the the realm of light and dark so they're not
physical gates which is interesting but.
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Figure out what's going on here i'm the chip thomas said there could be other
explanations seven gates seven is using a lot of rituals and a lot of other
ceremonies i am not familiar with the seven in rituals i know six six six is
the devil that's about all i know about numbers.
Thomas also said if there's a large masonic population in
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that area those gates could have been used for ceremonies and
the rumors that they lead to hell could have
been spread to keep people away yeah yeah
think about that damien said that's why blind
is kind i let sites tell me before i research so you
go and send your locations blind not to right and
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then that's what damien meant yeah so yes
you can only see the first gate in the day the rest
you can see at nighttime and both of
them say that once you find and
pass through all seven gates you'll
find yourself transported to hell to live all eternity no i would go kick the
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big man off my chair and tell him to give me the wi-fi password but anyways
they also say now i have i was not able to find
a real person's account of trying to find these gates.
So this information that I am going to tell you guys is from the internet,
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so take it as you will. They are not personal encounters.
However, when people have gone and searched for the seven gates of hell,
they say and report port, seeing shadow figures, people being pushed by unseen forces,
the feeling of being watched, glowing eyes in the woods.
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A whole lot of things that is a whole lot you know if i hear a you know a woman scream in the woods,
i think i'm gonna have to call an uber and go home that's a little much but they say like,
you know it gets worse the closer you get to gate to gate seven right yeah so
you go through gate number one and you feel like oh like you feel like something's
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watching it but it's not enough to make you turn back so like they say it's
the further you go and the further through the gates that you go is the worst that it gets.
Now, again, I don't know why people would want to do that.
Thomas, it is not. It is currently on private property with a crap ton of no trespassing signs.
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And there are people that have been arrested for trespassing on that property.
So unfortunately, Unfortunately, we are unable to get out there unless I somehow
make friends with the owner who owns the property.
There's also reports that if you do drive around there, you will get chased out by vehicles.
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I don't know who's chasing you, whether it be the police or just people playing pranks on you.
But there are people that supposedly chase you.
Hmm. Kind of makes me want to test that theory.
But, like, not get arrested, either. The eyes and the scream coincide with a
lot of other people's experience in the woods.
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The woods are just wild all the time.
Oh, yeah. But the other thing is, apparently, people have only made it past Gate 5.
Everybody who was left to go in search of Gate 6 has never been seen again. Just disappeared.
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So they both of those legends say that you can people have only made it to gate number five.
So we're going to have to go test that theory, then. If we can get access to the property. Yeah.
If I could figure out who owns that property. I can figure that out.
You figure out who owns the property.
Get me written permission saying that I am allowed to go and I will go look
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for the seven gates of hell.
But i did i did also read in a couple of articles that they did tear down the first gate,
to try to avoid people from trying to find the gates of hell yeah well that's not good,
yeah so do they even still exist was like
was gate number one like the first gateway did you have to have that in order
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to get to the other seven i don't know i don't know what's tell me that i live
by the shades of death road in jersey and have seen glowing eyes and heard screams
as well what's the shades of death road in jersey.
To that no i haven't you have to make a mental note of that i'm gonna have to
look into that because i do not know shades of death remember that bob said
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so inside the seven gates is the hospital or a sanitarium no so bob if legend
says that if you pass through all seven gates,
that you are transported to hell like a portal opens up and you're like sucked
into hell for the rest of eternity.
They say, one of the legends is that there was a asylum,
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a mental asylum, that was on that property, but there's no historical evidence
stating that it actually existed.
And we get to do. He said it's the actual name of the road, and on that road
is a lake called Ghost Lake. Hmm.
Hmm. Interesting. The other thing, too, is they say like no one's ever made
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it past gate five but like how do i know that what if somebody went made it
past gate six and seven and then went to hell yeah we don't know you can't come back
what if the seventh gate is the one that takes you to hell like what's number six.
Right i want to know what happens at number six like i said the the doctor right
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now everything Everything always comes from something, right?
Mm-hmm. There was a doctor who lived along Toad Road, okay?
His name was Dr. Harold Belknap.
He worked at a sanitarium called Westside Sanitarium that was,
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like, 20 minutes away from Toad Road.
So, sanitarium, asylum.
Yeah. Okay. Maybe that's where it came from. It never burned down. Thank you.
That he was not like a happy-go-lucky like super eccentric
guy he said that he was kind-hearted but
he liked his his face he didn't like people
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like i picture him as your typical old guy being like get off my own like that's
how i picture this man yeah like really private right they he said that he would
often make threatening signs for any trespassers most likely the people who were
interested in the legend so according to
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this the legend was there when he lived
on the property so i don't know i
couldn't figure out what dates he lived there but i would assume it would be
after but he would make threatening signs with toad related humor written on
them which is how the road got its name so do you think he's possible for building the gates.
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Maybe the the whole legend
was based upon this asylum back in
the day right and everybody wanted
to explore this asylum and he was
tired of people coming onto his property and he maybe
created the story of yo i'm going
to create these seven gates and there's going to be seven gates of
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hell i mean it's possible
but like you said before like maybe he created
it to try to invoke fear but it just
did the opposite right i think
that's what it does i think that's people just have
curious minds especially nowadays
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even back when i was younger in high school
you know that kind of stuff never scared
anybody like everybody was just so curious to go right
to go experience this stuff absolutely
it's i mean why study for a test
when you can go and try to get sucked up by the
people just love the idea of fear
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i mean you got movies that release like the Blair Witch Project stuff like that
you know and people want to experience that stuff like people want it yeah well
maybe the people in search of the seven gates of hell Maybe some of them got
more than what they bargained for.
It's possible. Maybe. But I can see if the dogs are the ones who built the gates, right?
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I could see one gate, maybe two, but seven?
Yeah. That's a little crazy.
We got people jumping up in the comments. I just want to say,
oh, good night, Damien. Thanks for tuning in.
Courtney. Hello, Jenny. Hello, Karen. Shadow seekers. Hello. Hey.
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And Thomas says you have to look at it at timeframe.
If you go back to early 1800s, 1900s saying that the gates led to hell would scare people away.
Now you come to our time in the last 50 years or more. People are curious.
Yeah. That's what I was saying. Like nowadays people are just like,
if, if, you know, at like a recent investigation someone said hey there's supposedly
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a male spirit over there that doesn't like women I was like alright well let's
test that theory and I got up and I went over to that area okay like,
like you said we are curious,
yeah you know we are the generation where someone's like hey you probably shouldn't
do that we're gonna go do it that's just maybe we're just made different I don't know I don't know,
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But anyways, back to Seven Gates.
There used to be Toad Road, right? Like I said earlier, it was wiped off the
map after Hurricane Agnes in 1972.
Toad Road rang along a creek that led to the Codorus Furnace,
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which I thought was interesting.
Scene it is a large iron
built it's a large iron forge that's been there since 1836 and it still stands
there today but it's massive like i read things about like the boy scout local
boy scout troop was like you know raising money to like get like steps added
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and just like a bunch of like historical stuff.
But it's a pretty cool looking furnace. I honestly, to be honest with you,
I don't know if I believe in the seven geek style.
I don't know if I believe it. Yeah.
It was really hard to find anything believable about it.
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It's just honestly probably just one of your typical urban legends. Yeah.
There's really not a lot of evidence that can back a lot of things up with the seven gates of hell.
You go to some of these other locations that people gain this curiosity of,
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you know, let's go back to devil's road with the whole skull tree.
For instance, there's a tree on this road that actually looks like a skull.
All that's weird yeah the same with the whole tree branches growing supposedly
growing away from the cult house itself it's stuff that's happening that you can't really.
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Explain you know maybe there's some theories to it but it's still hard to explain you you have
things happening that you can physically
see right and that's the difference between the that story and this story is
like you have the skull tree you have the trees growing away from the house
there is literally like with the seven gates of hell in in york there is nothing to,
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back it up right like pictures i've seen from the whole seven gates of hell
like Like, the gates are,
they're just like metal gates that you would see out in the country where people
don't want you on their land. Mm-hmm.
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So, somebody obviously erected them, not wanting you on their property. Mm-hmm.
Whether they were built and they're accidentally keeping souls in,
not letting the souls be able to leave.
It's something that we'll never know. Yeah.
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I mean, you can also think back
to like before the township of Hellen was there, before York was there.
You know you got to think about like
especially in like the areas that we live in
like could there have been native american activity back then you know no doubt
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you know they didn't necessarily keep record books about everything that happened
in their day-to-day life like right you know i think and that that also like
puts into account like sometimes when we go to like haunted locations,
like a lot of people like oh yeah this house is haunted this house is
haunted but like what about the land like right what's
what's with the land so maybe something
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really maybe something really bad happened back back
in the day on the land that it's on maybe the land's
cursed maybe i mean we're never gonna know i did find one personal account so
this news article or this i can't remember what channel news it was posted an
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article and they asked questions.
And this guy named Gary, who used to work as a newspaper man in the 1960s in
Yard County, said, and I quote,
There were at one time two weathered stone abstract gargoyle-type objects that
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resembled toads or frogs located at the head of the trail. And I'm talking about Toad Road.
These creatures inspired the locals to give the place the name Toad Road. road.
The gargoyles, or whatever they were, vanished in the early 1970s, I think.
No. Do you believe Gary? But it could have been, you know, like I said,
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that doctor that worked at the sanitarium that lived along the road.
Maybe he just really liked frogs. Maybe he just really liked toads.
Very possible. Now, do I think the probability of there being an asylum out there that burnt down?
I don't know if I believe that. Now, if someone went out there digging and,
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you know, found something, but you would think that people, people would remember that being there.
Yeah. Because it really, it really wasn't that long ago.
Yeah. I mean, it's only the 1800s. So unless they really wanted to keep that sort of thing hidden or,
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you know, maybe it was so early in the times of asylums that maybe,
you know, maybe throw this theory out.
Maybe it was a test for the future asylums. Maybe.
Thanks so much. have a great night have a good night yeah i don't i don't know
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just something we'll just never know unless the the land itself is excavated
and you know they see what was actually there,
but who who would spend a lot of money like that to excavate i don't know what
if if it's If it's privately owned, nobody's going to spend it. Right.
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Yeah, Bob. Medical records are usually 30 years.
But then here's the other thing. It's like, we don't know who was there.
If it did exist, we don't know.
Even if we had access to records, who are we looking for? Right.
I think, like, you know, take, not the same thing, but look at Bigfoot, right?
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Story of Bigfoot. You have footprints. You have hair samples.
You have all of these videos. You have all of these things.
No one can sit there and prove that it's real. Right.
But there's, like, there's something out there that makes you go, hmm, but is it real?
With this, with the seven gates of hell, like, there's nothing.
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There's nothing. and it's just something that started and
spread like wildfire and you know it's got
it's got no it's got no bones to it there's no backing of it
i think that's why that's why it's hard for
me to believe i don't know i guess
i'll just never know that's okay
yeah i'm just sometimes it's better just not knowing there's this there's this
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um kind of a topic but it kind of reminds me there's I think it's this church
in Kansas that's in a cemetery.
It was a cemetery that surrounds it.
And it said that when it rains, the rain won't fall on the church.
Really? Mm-hmm. I'll have to look that up. I've never heard of that one.
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But I think that was referenced to be in the gateway to hell, too.
Yeah, I was watching a video earlier. earlier there's this one
guy he was in illinois and there were supposedly some gates
to hell in illinois also so i think there's a lot of urban legends around around
the country maybe even around the whole world you know everybody's got their
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own gates of hell story yeah i don't know what people want to get to hell so
bad i mean we're already on earth we're halfway there i mean,
come on right we're already halfway there is this enough Thank you.
Be Legends of the Seven Gates to Hell is real or not real. We'll leave that
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up to everybody else to decide.
Do some research. If you guys find anything that we haven't mentioned in here,
let us know. Yeah, absolutely.
Donna said, has someone looked into the Township's Historical Society records?
I searched through their page, their website, and they,
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have very boldly written and like
there are no the gates of hell aren't real like it's
not a thing like it's on private property like don't come near it kind of thing
and again if there was any kind of historical record like through the historical
society there'd be something online to back it up something i even tried looking
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through like like police records like was there a report of someone like going,
like i don't know and if
any of you guys decide to go and explore we're
not condoning it but there is no trespassing signs all over the place just be
mindful of all that i we're not condoning it but if you do decide to go on your
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own accord please bring a camera and record it keep a steady Steady hands.
Don't shake your hand all around. I need a high quality 4K video. Please and thank you.
But if anybody asks, I'll deny it. I'll deny saying a word.
But I think that's about it for today's episode.
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Yeah. So thank you to everybody who tuned in to Haunts and Legends and chatted
with us for the last hour.
Everybody that's continued to give us your love and support we appreciate it
so much and stay tuned for next week seven o'clock on a tuesday same time same
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place for the next episode,
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going over an urban legend today somewhere up in york pennsylvania i've actually
never heard of it until we until,
you sent me about it so i've heard of it i heard stories about it kind of like
probably like a few years back i never really did much research into it but
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i knew like the the generic like,
there's there's seven gates that lead to hell in pennsylvania i'm like what
is there though hello jessica we miss you hello but i have heard of it but i
never really dug into it until today,
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Good morning, Damien. Good morning.
And when I was doing research on this topic, there really isn't a lot out there.
There's, you know, I've scoured through probably 30 different articles on the
internet and they all basically say the same things. Yeah.
And again, it's a legend. So it's all hearsay. It's all, there's no,
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it's not like I can open up a history book and get information.
Yeah it's like it's probably like
devil's road up in chatsford pennsylvania which
i've been on you know if you go there and you're looking for the skull tree
which i've seen and it honestly does look like a skull you know they say stuff
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about sacrificing a baby within the face of the skull.
M. Night Shyamalan recorded what movie was that?
Can't remember the name of the movie off the top of my head,
but he recorded one of his movies right in that area.
But they say there was an old cult house where it's kind of hard to find,
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but there's still people who travel around the area trying to find this house.
I went there back when i
don't know back when i was 18 with a couple friends and of course we got chased
off the road that's interesting yeah apparently there's i i guess people who
like to play pranks there like they say you get chased but it's probably just other you know people.
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Chasing you off just for the hell of it just because
they don't they're gonna try to scare area kind of thing yeah exactly yeah
it's kind of so today's
topic since i've get to help right in york pennsylvania and
one of the things that they deal with is they deal with people coming in because
now in present day these these gates the location of it is on private property
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so they have They deal a lot with people coming, trying to find these gates,
dealing with trespassers.
It's posted all the way through there.
But you still have people coming in, trying to find the seven gates.
There's been a couple of books written about it.
And another interesting thing is they have satanic cults meet up in town.
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So I read satanic cults that meet up in town to go and try to find the seven kids.
And this isn't, it's not a very big, big town.
Yeah. It's a very small little city in the County Lancaster County,
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York County, York County. Yeah.
It's in Hellam township, which is right outside of York.
And they, There's two different legends that tie to the Seven Gates of Hell.
The legends have similar attributes to them, but whether or not one is true
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versus the other, it's going to be up for everybody to decide. Yeah.
Stephanie said, stay away from Rick. Noted.
And, hi, Mom. Hey. So, the Seven Gates of Hell. Like I said,
it's in Helham Township in York County, Pennsylvania.
And this town has been around since 1739. So it's been around for a while.
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There's a story about how on a property in Helham Township, there are seven
gates that lead you to hell.
If you can go through the seventh gate, a portal will open for you to go to
hell and live the rest of your life.
Which is I don't know why people would want to do that but each their own I guess.
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Hi Donna hey Donna hi Corey miss you lots,
but the first the first legend so there's two main ones I'm sure there's other
little ones but the two main ones that are out there is some believe that back in the day in the 1800s
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there was a asylum that was situated on this property.
It was built to house like the worst of the worst.
It had murderers, rapists, you know, the people that, you know,
if they disappear, never have to worry about.
Right. So they were there, all the insane criminals, whatever else.
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And in the late 1800s, supposedly a fire was started within the building.
Now, it doesn't say exactly how the fire was started. Apparently,
nobody knows how the fire started, but it started burning the second and third floor.
So it had to have been a big building, right?
At least three stories, which I would assume a basement.
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It started burning. Now, because the building was so far out into the woods away from everybody,
it supposedly took 20 minutes or over 20 minutes for emergency services,
fire trucks, ambulance, whatever they had that horse and buggy, maybe, I don't know.
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But it took them over 20 minutes to To get there to the property. Right.
And when they got there, because of the patients that were at this asylum,
they created a perimeter around the burning building before they started put
put before they started putting the fire out on the building.
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They weren't worried about the building. They were worried about the patients,
the murderers and everybody escaping.
Yeah. So they put up this perimeter, which is said to be a fenced perimeter
around the building, and to try to stop patients from running too far.
They tried, apparently, to be peaceful about it, but because of the people that
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they were, a lot of it led to violence.
So a lot of the patients were killed.
And let's see when the fire was burning right they made the first perimeter
which was large around the building supposedly they built seven more perimeters
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getting closer and closer to the
building here's i'm gonna i'm gonna start tearing apart here in a minute,
It says that what they didn't realize was at the time that they were putting
up those iron gates is that they were preventing the souls of the people who
lost their lives in that from being able to pass on into the afterlife.
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Something with the iron fences, and it has a meaning, I'm sure,
but for whatever reason, it created basically a bubble that the souls weren't able to escape out.
So they were stuck there, stuck in the area where they were either burned alive,
beaten, killed, whatever.
Part of this legend says that the anger, hate and violence that's felt by these
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lost souls that were killed on this property is the cause of the rift to be open to hell.
They're saying that that's what created the Seven Gates Felt.
That's what created that rift where the lining between white and dark is thinner
where you can pass through and go to hell.
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Now, that's theory number one. Now, here's where I'm going to pick it apart
a little bit because that's what we do, right?
I understand it's a building out in the woods, right?
They claim it took 20 minutes for emergency services to get from in town to this building.
Now, if I am a mental patient at an insane asylum and fire breaks out and I escape,
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I'm not going to stand around for 20 minutes waiting for the fire truck to get there.
I'm going to hoof it through the woods. My chances are better out there. Goodbye. See you later.
I'm not going to wait around. When they talk about how they built this perimeter
around the building, when I read that, I was like, but why?
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Maybe if there's some still in the building, maybe.
Also, not just the 20 minutes it took them to get there.
They also if they put up this fenced perimeter they had
to go 20 minutes back to town get the supplies drive
20 minutes back and then the time it's going to take to put up this
fence whoever was in that building's long gone yeah they're not going to be
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they're not going to be sticking around they're gonna they're gonna help you
build the fence to keep them in and again they say that this fence was just
like your average like wire fence it's not Uh, they're not that tall.
Like you, I'm sure both of us have jumped fences in our day.
Like it's, it's not hard.
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Right. Well, unless they're building like seven foot fences to keep things in.
But again, that's going to take time. And by the time you get that fence built,
they're going to be gone.
So that's where they say, that's what this legend says. Says the seven gates
came in because they kept closing in the perimeter.
But it doesn't make sense. Yeah, I mean, I don't know of any fire department
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that's going to sit there and build seven fences around a perimeter.
Maybe, you know, law enforcement might take the time to do that if they're trying
to contain the mentally insane from escaping.
But definitely not the fire department. The fire department's going to worry
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about, you know, putting that fire out.
Right. But either way, I don't care if it's the police department doing it,
if it's the baker from town doing it, the fire department, like it's going to take time.
And by the time that they get that stuff done, like people are going to be gone.
Yeah. So that just to me, that doesn't make sense.
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That doesn't make sense. and if you
want to go into the actual history there is no
record anywhere that there was an asylum built in that area there's no record
of it now i will i will play with the thought that maybe there was okay so we're
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gonna we're gonna flip they say that there was never one there's There's no
record of it. There's no nothing.
However, if you had a secluded area, an asylum, right?
And you had murderers there, rapists, like the worst of the worst,
like the complete insane, right?
Something happens to them. Nobody's going to care, right? Right.
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Now, if they were maybe performing experimental surgeries or any kind of medical
experiments to these individuals,
that might be a reason why nobody's heard of it.
Because if you're doing all of this like crazy stuff, that's obviously like
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not FDA approved or whatever. Like you don't want people to know about it.
Right. it now do i think that over time that would have like stayed a secret and there'd be nothing,
i don't know because you would have to have everybody who worked there be able
to keep a secret you know one of them is probably going to go home and say something
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to their wife who's then going to tell her friends at book club who's then going
to sell their friends like,
secrets don't always stay secret and i feel like that's a big secret that that
wouldn't be able to stay hidden.
You know what I mean? But I mean, if you think about Pennhurst Asylum, for instance, nobody.
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Really know,
Like nobody really knew what the ins and outs of Pennhurst, what was going on,
the stuff that they were doing until Bill Baldini released his documentary.
You know, that documentary suffered a little children.
Like, you know, there's a lot of secrets that have been kept with these insane
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asylums that nobody knows about.
Right. But the word got out about Pennhurst, right? Right. Because somebody said something.
Because somebody said something. But we're also talking about a time before
the whole Bill Baldini interview.
Do you still think someone would be able to keep something like that a secret for a while?
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I mean, if the police burns down and every single person who ever worked there
or who was there, maybe was a patient there.
It's very possible if they all passed away before stuff started getting released.
Fair see here's here's one with another catch for you there is,
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if you had a structure we're talking about it's at least a three floor asylum
in the middle of the woods if it burnt there would be some kind of remains there
right there'd be foundation,
there'd be there'd be something there the only
burnt building remains that
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are on the property so i've read obviously i've
never been there would it be cool to get to find out who owns the land to get
permission yeah but i don't think that's gonna happen probably not the only
thing that is on that property or in that general vicinity of that property
is an old flint mill that burned down.
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But it's not nearly as big as what we would picture an asylum.
To be so i i don't know
where actually i have an idea so i'm
gonna rephrase refrain from saying that for
right now stephanie said
unless they remove all the debris to keep this secret to be
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on the flip side maybe maybe i
feel like that'd be a lot you know that'd be a lot to
pull out of there it's possible but
let me how many places that you
have burned down or even just
falling apart that they've tried to keep secret from
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everybody like what's what's
the point nowadays to keep it secret i
don't know i don't know it makes
it makes sense so that's just that's just
the theory like i don't know if
i believe that there was an asylum there yeah i'm
just saying that if there was an asylum there and again
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if they had rapists and murderers and
stuff like that that would be the perfect
people to experiment on because they're
already they're already stuck up where they're at like tell sophia.
I said hello mom says that seems like it would be a task and then some i don't
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think i'd want to be a part of that work crew end up riding home with a mentally
unstable ghosty friend no thanks so that's that's the main the main theory behind the legend.
That's the main one there's another one that has a that some people believe.
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It's a legend that speaks of a doctor that lived along toad road in the 1900s so this happened in,
apparently the asylum was built in the early 1800s but
burned down in the late 1800s so this is in the 1900s nobody can nobody knows
what kind of doctor he was but then one day completely out of the blue he was
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just insane completely psychotic dangerous completely out of his mind Again,
nobody knows what happened to this doctor to make him go from a super bubbly
eccentric doctor to a psychopath.
And it was like in a daze, a daze, you know, snap of a finger.
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They say the people that believe that
the doctor was behind the seven gates say that he is the one that constructed
a series of gates to prevent anyone from entering his property or in turn to
keep anything from his property leaving now the name toad road came supposedly came from this doctor.
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Was tired of people coming onto his property trespassing. He wanted people to
just stay away, stay off his property.
So he created these toad-related signs and toad statues.
Like a gargoyle, but with a toad face. Like statues and stuff.
And that's how it got the name Toad Road.
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Now, also worth mentioning, Toad Road isn't really a road. It's a path off of a road.
It's not like an actual road you can't go driving on toad road but it's like
a walkable path you probably can fit like a side by side down it but,
I don't know about the doctor like why would he go insane why would he go insane
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randomly was he possessed,
that's possible entirely possible
obsession with toads why toads why can't you choose something cute,
I mean, frogs aren't cute, but like of all animals in the world, you choose a toad.
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That doesn't make sense. Yeah, I don't know.
See, one of the theories I heard about Toad Road was the area is very susceptible to flooding.
Okay. And Toad Road used to exist.
Mm-hmm. But the problem they had was it was flooded out back in the early 1900s.
Mm-hmm. Do you want to know why it was going through?
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Why is that? Because the hurricane came through.
It was Hurricane Agnes in 1972, what Toad wrote off the map.
Yep. But I heard that because of the whole flooding issue that they used to
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have, they just decided to, hey, let's just close the road down.
Well, I suppose that's fair.
And then, you know, you think of something else like I also heard about the.
Essentially, this whole urban legend just being created to keep everybody off the property, right?
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But we hear stories all the time of, you know, this is haunted. This is scary.
Gates of hell. This is going on at this location.
Like these stories, urban legends are hyped up so much throughout the years.
And they have this idea like
if they just like hike
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these stories up that it's going to scare everybody
but to be honest it just makes everybody more curious and wanting to go to these
locations i think i think back in the day it would scare more people but i think
people today are just like Like it's an excitement thing. Right.
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Absolutely. But, but this, but this kind of stuff has been going on for decades
with the excitement of going to these places.
I mean, there's a reason they have satanic cults meeting up in town. Right.
I mean, going back to like devil's road, for instance, you know,
they say that the trees, like the branches grow like away from the cult house.
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And if you drive through chattisburg pa when you're around the cult house,
they are weirdly shaped like they
the branches are growing like if
you have the cult house on this side the branches are growing this way but i'll
have to show you some pictures of it it's but why are they growing that way
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you know are they actually growing that way or Or like year, maybe decades ago,
the branches were just cut down for power lines.
That'd be a logical explanation. Right.
Of people who like hearing about these legends they don't want
a logical explanation yeah i mean they
just they they hype up stories about it i think i think all legends have some
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kind of truth to them like they don't just come out of thin air i think the
the versions we hear now weren't the original versions.
Like I said, it's like a game of telephone.
I tell you something and then you tell someone who tells someone who tells someone.
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By the time it gets to the last person it's going to be all sorts of jumbled up.
And that's not what I said. It's going to be posted all over the internet and
it's going to get people's curiosity up to.
Want to see whether it's true or not.
Exactly. Now, there are, even though there's two different theories,
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you have the asylum theory and then you have the crazy doctor theory.
There are things that both of those theories have in common.
And those things are supposedly
you can only see the first gate
at in the daytime you can't see the
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other setting other six gates you can only see the first one the daytime the
other six you have to see at night you can only be seen during the night because
they supposedly exist between the the realm of light and dark so they're not
physical gates which is interesting but.
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Figure out what's going on here i'm the chip thomas said there could be other
explanations seven gates seven is using a lot of rituals and a lot of other
ceremonies i am not familiar with the seven in rituals i know six six six is
the devil that's about all i know about numbers.
Thomas also said if there's a large masonic population in
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that area those gates could have been used for ceremonies and
the rumors that they lead to hell could have
been spread to keep people away yeah yeah
think about that damien said that's why blind
is kind i let sites tell me before i research so you
go and send your locations blind not to right and
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then that's what damien meant yeah so yes
you can only see the first gate in the day the rest
you can see at nighttime and both of
them say that once you find and
pass through all seven gates you'll
find yourself transported to hell to live all eternity no i would go kick the
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big man off my chair and tell him to give me the wi-fi password but anyways
they also say now i have i was not able to find
a real person's account of trying to find these gates.
So this information that I am going to tell you guys is from the internet,
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so take it as you will. They are not personal encounters.
However, when people have gone and searched for the seven gates of hell,
they say and report port, seeing shadow figures, people being pushed by unseen forces,
the feeling of being watched, glowing eyes in the woods.
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A whole lot of things that is a whole lot you know if i hear a you know a woman scream in the woods,
i think i'm gonna have to call an uber and go home that's a little much but they say like,
you know it gets worse the closer you get to gate to gate seven right yeah so
you go through gate number one and you feel like oh like you feel like something's
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watching it but it's not enough to make you turn back so like they say it's
the further you go and the further through the gates that you go is the worst that it gets.
Now, again, I don't know why people would want to do that.
Thomas, it is not. It is currently on private property with a crap ton of no trespassing signs.
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And there are people that have been arrested for trespassing on that property.
So unfortunately, Unfortunately, we are unable to get out there unless I somehow
make friends with the owner who owns the property.
There's also reports that if you do drive around there, you will get chased out by vehicles.
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I don't know who's chasing you, whether it be the police or just people playing pranks on you.
But there are people that supposedly chase you.
Hmm. Kind of makes me want to test that theory.
But, like, not get arrested, either. The eyes and the scream coincide with a
lot of other people's experience in the woods.
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The woods are just wild all the time.
Oh, yeah. But the other thing is, apparently, people have only made it past Gate 5.
Everybody who was left to go in search of Gate 6 has never been seen again. Just disappeared.
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So they both of those legends say that you can people have only made it to gate number five.
So we're going to have to go test that theory, then. If we can get access to the property. Yeah.
If I could figure out who owns that property. I can figure that out.
You figure out who owns the property.
Get me written permission saying that I am allowed to go and I will go look
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for the seven gates of hell.
But i did i did also read in a couple of articles that they did tear down the first gate,
to try to avoid people from trying to find the gates of hell yeah well that's not good,
yeah so do they even still exist was like
was gate number one like the first gateway did you have to have that in order
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to get to the other seven i don't know i don't know what's tell me that i live
by the shades of death road in jersey and have seen glowing eyes and heard screams
as well what's the shades of death road in jersey.
To that no i haven't you have to make a mental note of that i'm gonna have to
look into that because i do not know shades of death remember that bob said
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so inside the seven gates is the hospital or a sanitarium no so bob if legend
says that if you pass through all seven gates,
that you are transported to hell like a portal opens up and you're like sucked
into hell for the rest of eternity.
They say, one of the legends is that there was a asylum,
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a mental asylum, that was on that property, but there's no historical evidence
stating that it actually existed.
And we get to do. He said it's the actual name of the road, and on that road
is a lake called Ghost Lake. Hmm.
Hmm. Interesting. The other thing, too, is they say like no one's ever made
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it past gate five but like how do i know that what if somebody went made it
past gate six and seven and then went to hell yeah we don't know you can't come back
what if the seventh gate is the one that takes you to hell like what's number six.
Right i want to know what happens at number six like i said the the doctor right
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now everything Everything always comes from something, right?
Mm-hmm. There was a doctor who lived along Toad Road, okay?
His name was Dr. Harold Belknap.
He worked at a sanitarium called Westside Sanitarium that was,
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like, 20 minutes away from Toad Road.
So, sanitarium, asylum.
Yeah. Okay. Maybe that's where it came from. It never burned down. Thank you.
That he was not like a happy-go-lucky like super eccentric
guy he said that he was kind-hearted but
he liked his his face he didn't like people
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like i picture him as your typical old guy being like get off my own like that's
how i picture this man yeah like really private right they he said that he would
often make threatening signs for any trespassers most likely the people who were
interested in the legend so according to
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this the legend was there when he lived
on the property so i don't know i
couldn't figure out what dates he lived there but i would assume it would be
after but he would make threatening signs with toad related humor written on
them which is how the road got its name so do you think he's possible for building the gates.
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Maybe the the whole legend
was based upon this asylum back in
the day right and everybody wanted
to explore this asylum and he was
tired of people coming onto his property and he maybe
created the story of yo i'm going
to create these seven gates and there's going to be seven gates of
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hell i mean it's possible
but like you said before like maybe he created
it to try to invoke fear but it just
did the opposite right i think
that's what it does i think that's people just have
curious minds especially nowadays
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even back when i was younger in high school
you know that kind of stuff never scared
anybody like everybody was just so curious to go right
to go experience this stuff absolutely
it's i mean why study for a test
when you can go and try to get sucked up by the
people just love the idea of fear
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i mean you got movies that release like the Blair Witch Project stuff like that
you know and people want to experience that stuff like people want it yeah well
maybe the people in search of the seven gates of hell Maybe some of them got
more than what they bargained for.
It's possible. Maybe. But I can see if the dogs are the ones who built the gates, right?
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I could see one gate, maybe two, but seven?
Yeah. That's a little crazy.
We got people jumping up in the comments. I just want to say,
oh, good night, Damien. Thanks for tuning in.
Courtney. Hello, Jenny. Hello, Karen. Shadow seekers. Hello. Hey.
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And Thomas says you have to look at it at timeframe.
If you go back to early 1800s, 1900s saying that the gates led to hell would scare people away.
Now you come to our time in the last 50 years or more. People are curious.
Yeah. That's what I was saying. Like nowadays people are just like,
if, if, you know, at like a recent investigation someone said hey there's supposedly
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a male spirit over there that doesn't like women I was like alright well let's
test that theory and I got up and I went over to that area okay like,
like you said we are curious,
yeah you know we are the generation where someone's like hey you probably shouldn't
do that we're gonna go do it that's just maybe we're just made different I don't know I don't know,
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But anyways, back to Seven Gates.
There used to be Toad Road, right? Like I said earlier, it was wiped off the
map after Hurricane Agnes in 1972.
Toad Road rang along a creek that led to the Codorus Furnace,
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which I thought was interesting.
Scene it is a large iron
built it's a large iron forge that's been there since 1836 and it still stands
there today but it's massive like i read things about like the boy scout local
boy scout troop was like you know raising money to like get like steps added
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and just like a bunch of like historical stuff.
But it's a pretty cool looking furnace. I honestly, to be honest with you,
I don't know if I believe in the seven geek style.
I don't know if I believe it. Yeah.
It was really hard to find anything believable about it.
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It's just honestly probably just one of your typical urban legends. Yeah.
There's really not a lot of evidence that can back a lot of things up with the seven gates of hell.
You go to some of these other locations that people gain this curiosity of,
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you know, let's go back to devil's road with the whole skull tree.
For instance, there's a tree on this road that actually looks like a skull.
All that's weird yeah the same with the whole tree branches growing supposedly
growing away from the cult house itself it's stuff that's happening that you can't really.
(37:57):
Explain you know maybe there's some theories to it but it's still hard to explain you you have
things happening that you can physically
see right and that's the difference between the that story and this story is
like you have the skull tree you have the trees growing away from the house
there is literally like with the seven gates of hell in in york there is nothing to,
(38:25):
back it up right like pictures i've seen from the whole seven gates of hell
like Like, the gates are,
they're just like metal gates that you would see out in the country where people
don't want you on their land. Mm-hmm.
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So, somebody obviously erected them, not wanting you on their property. Mm-hmm.
Whether they were built and they're accidentally keeping souls in,
not letting the souls be able to leave.
It's something that we'll never know. Yeah.
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I mean, you can also think back
to like before the township of Hellen was there, before York was there.
You know you got to think about like
especially in like the areas that we live in
like could there have been native american activity back then you know no doubt
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you know they didn't necessarily keep record books about everything that happened
in their day-to-day life like right you know i think and that that also like
puts into account like sometimes when we go to like haunted locations,
like a lot of people like oh yeah this house is haunted this house is
haunted but like what about the land like right what's
what's with the land so maybe something
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really maybe something really bad happened back back
in the day on the land that it's on maybe the land's
cursed maybe i mean we're never gonna know i did find one personal account so
this news article or this i can't remember what channel news it was posted an
(40:15):
article and they asked questions.
And this guy named Gary, who used to work as a newspaper man in the 1960s in
Yard County, said, and I quote,
There were at one time two weathered stone abstract gargoyle-type objects that
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resembled toads or frogs located at the head of the trail. And I'm talking about Toad Road.
These creatures inspired the locals to give the place the name Toad Road. road.
The gargoyles, or whatever they were, vanished in the early 1970s, I think.
No. Do you believe Gary? But it could have been, you know, like I said,
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that doctor that worked at the sanitarium that lived along the road.
Maybe he just really liked frogs. Maybe he just really liked toads.
Very possible. Now, do I think the probability of there being an asylum out there that burnt down?
I don't know if I believe that. Now, if someone went out there digging and,
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you know, found something, but you would think that people, people would remember that being there.
Yeah. Because it really, it really wasn't that long ago.
Yeah. I mean, it's only the 1800s. So unless they really wanted to keep that sort of thing hidden or,
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you know, maybe it was so early in the times of asylums that maybe,
you know, maybe throw this theory out.
Maybe it was a test for the future asylums. Maybe.
Thanks so much. have a great night have a good night yeah i don't i don't know
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just something we'll just never know unless the the land itself is excavated
and you know they see what was actually there,
but who who would spend a lot of money like that to excavate i don't know what
if if it's If it's privately owned, nobody's going to spend it. Right.
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Yeah, Bob. Medical records are usually 30 years.
But then here's the other thing. It's like, we don't know who was there.
If it did exist, we don't know.
Even if we had access to records, who are we looking for? Right.
I think, like, you know, take, not the same thing, but look at Bigfoot, right?
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Story of Bigfoot. You have footprints. You have hair samples.
You have all of these videos. You have all of these things.
No one can sit there and prove that it's real. Right.
But there's, like, there's something out there that makes you go, hmm, but is it real?
With this, with the seven gates of hell, like, there's nothing.
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There's nothing. and it's just something that started and
spread like wildfire and you know it's got
it's got no it's got no bones to it there's no backing of it
i think that's why that's why it's hard for
me to believe i don't know i guess
i'll just never know that's okay
yeah i'm just sometimes it's better just not knowing there's this there's this
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um kind of a topic but it kind of reminds me there's I think it's this church
in Kansas that's in a cemetery.
It was a cemetery that surrounds it.
And it said that when it rains, the rain won't fall on the church.
Really? Mm-hmm. I'll have to look that up. I've never heard of that one.
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But I think that was referenced to be in the gateway to hell, too.
Yeah, I was watching a video earlier. earlier there's this one
guy he was in illinois and there were supposedly some gates
to hell in illinois also so i think there's a lot of urban legends around around
the country maybe even around the whole world you know everybody's got their
(44:32):
own gates of hell story yeah i don't know what people want to get to hell so
bad i mean we're already on earth we're halfway there i mean,
come on right we're already halfway there is this enough Thank you.
Be Legends of the Seven Gates to Hell is real or not real. We'll leave that
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up to everybody else to decide.
Do some research. If you guys find anything that we haven't mentioned in here,
let us know. Yeah, absolutely.
Donna said, has someone looked into the Township's Historical Society records?
I searched through their page, their website, and they,
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have very boldly written and like
there are no the gates of hell aren't real like it's
not a thing like it's on private property like don't come near it kind of thing
and again if there was any kind of historical record like through the historical
society there'd be something online to back it up something i even tried looking
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through like like police records like was there a report of someone like going,
like i don't know and if
any of you guys decide to go and explore we're
not condoning it but there is no trespassing signs all over the place just be
mindful of all that i we're not condoning it but if you do decide to go on your
(45:59):
own accord please bring a camera and record it keep a steady Steady hands.
Don't shake your hand all around. I need a high quality 4K video. Please and thank you.
But if anybody asks, I'll deny it. I'll deny saying a word.
But I think that's about it for today's episode.
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Yeah. So thank you to everybody who tuned in to Haunts and Legends and chatted
with us for the last hour.
Everybody that's continued to give us your love and support we appreciate it
so much and stay tuned for next week seven o'clock on a tuesday same time same
(46:43):
place for the next episode,
so have a great night guys have a good night guys.
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