There are seven gateways to hell and if opened, the dead will walk the earth.

Okay, so this is something a it odd that I want to see if anybody else has any ideas. I'm not asking if you believe in the gateways, but more what you've heard about them.

The best thing about the location of the seven gates is as follows:

The Legend:
The 'Seven Gates of Hell' was said to be at one time a very heavily secured mental hosptial for war veterans who where said to be violent and unstable. It's said at one point there was a roit when patients escaped, the guards where said to have violently killed these patients/prisoners and that was when the rest rebelled and killed the guards and escaped.

The gates are rumored to be large iron creations allegedly half a mile apart and each is more horrible then the last. It's also said no one makes it past gate '5' due to seeing or feeling unspeakable things.

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Where did the "seven gateways to hell" come from?
Where are the gateways?
What makes a place a "Gateway"?

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Well I believe in one gateway to Hell, so I'm not quite sure.
Edit: But your not asking about that know are you. XD
I have always found it interesting though and I know there are things we can never know or understand, even after death.

I must say I wouldn't be surprised if there was seven gateways and if when opened the dead did walk the earth.

If I had to guess I'd call them more figurative, but if they were real physical things I would most likely say in a very remote region. In a chasm somewhere.

Anyways to be a gateway I just think it needs to be something separating two different things. Worlds or countries. Or even your neighbors yard from your own.

Sounds just like your average urban legend to me. The site said it wasn't actually a psychiatric hospital but rather a church and that they're still researching it, but maybe you could use that to do a little research of your own? If you're close to that area, maybe you could go there yourself? If not, maybe you could start on google or join a forum or chat group about these sorts of things and ask there?

That kinda reminds me of the eight circles of Hell from Dante's Inferno. There's some stories about the seven gates, apparently they're in New Jersey or Pennsylvania. It's just a forest or something. :] Also, I just read that it was all torn down because so many people kept going.

I'd like to go. With lots of people. xD

Ooh, where I live we have this. They're called the seven gates of hell, and they are seven bridges in the middle of nowhere. We're in Illinois, just across the river from St. Louis, MO.

It's said that if you can find all seven gates and drive through the seventh at midnight, you will see Satan at the gates of hell.

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Ooh, where I live we have this. They're called the seven gates of hell, and they are seven bridges in the middle of nowhere. We're in Illinois, just across the river from St. Louis, MO.

It's said that if you can find all seven gates and drive through the seventh at midnight, you will see Satan at the gates of hell.

I've seen those bridges whenever my dad, bro, and I were headed to Indiana to see my grandparents! *I live in MO* I had no idea about the story behind that. O.o Maybe I should come up and visit or somethin. XD

Anyways as to where the gates really are, dunno. Do I believe they exist? One for sure. And what they mean...hard to say really but I think it coincides with Japanese legend as well. Anyways if the dead started walking the Earth in zombie form I've already stated my plans for invasion. XD

As an atheist, I'm reluctant to believe that a set of gates lead someone straight to hell.

Concerning the gates around here though, I think I know only one person who has found them all, and it was in daylight. I prefer to think of these bridges as a gathering place for the underworld of society, gangs prostitutes, the homeless, drug dealers and cults. They found skinned cats at one of the gates once.

I would never recommend someone going to look for gates, especially if they're remote and you're going at night. Too dangerous.

Well, the locations I've heard about, personally, is Stull Cemetery in Kansas and another in the mountains of Wyoming.

I know the website say they don't know much and I'm kind of more interested in why it's seven gates of hell and where the legend first originated so that I might better see if I can find the original descriptions and such.

That's really weird...I think a gateway is a place to enter...haha I don't know what else to say about this topic.

I don't believe there's a hell so all that sounds like a bunch of garbage to me. It's interesting what urban legends are out there though.

Thats kind of creepy, and almost believeable...
I mean the mental hospital thing, not gates sending people to hell or anything.
The seven gateways probably has to do with teh different supposed layers of Hell, even though I think theres techically nine of them. D:

I've never heard about it. There probably gateways to hell, though the thing with the mental hospital just sounds like an urban legend.

I've heard three different descriptions of what the seven Gateways to Hell are that have not already been mentioned.

1. The seven sins. Much as how pot is considered a gateway drug to other drugs.

2. Seven real gates that actually lead to hell. Very unlikely, though a good story device.

3. Places where the dead are more common, or, where the spirit world is closer to the real world. (Not anywhere there is ghosts, but where there are many.)

I have a history teacher who LOVES going out to 'haunted areas' with his video camera, hoping to find something.

Seriously! He even showed us a video with him saying "Come out, come out! Nope, nothing yet. Look for a guy in old Confederate soldier uniform..."

Sadly, he never saw anything.

I've always found it funny when people I know are interested in actually going out looking for this stuff.

Personally, I'm atheist, and I don't believe in Satan and hell. But this sounds like a good story ^o^

It's like Dante's Inferno in the Divine Comedy, like someone in an earlier post mentioned. XD

That is a good question, but I'm atheist and this stuff does not concern me.