Case file · Haunting
Stull Cemetery, a 'gate to Hell'
A November 1974 article in the University Daily Kansan claimed the Devil appears at the cemetery in Stull, Kansas, on Halloween and the spring equinox, and that it was one of the seven gates of Hell.
1974 CE · 38.97, -95.46 · status: legend
The account
Crowds of students followed. Tales grew that Pope John Paul II rerouted his plane to avoid flying over it. The ruined stone church was bulldozed in 2002.
The sceptical view
Historians and residents agree the legend has no factual basis and was spread by students; the papal story has no evidence.