[UA] The Gateway to hell lies in Kansas

[Graham Donald]

I don't know that if this has been mentioned before, but I found it on the 
Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance under the "Christian Urban 
Legends" section (http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul1.htm).

The section, which I present below deals with the stories surrounding the 
Stull Church, which is supposedly the gate to Hell itself.

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Stairway to Hell: It would seem only logical to many conservative Christians 
that if Hell exists somewhere underground, that there must be some access 
port that connects it to the earth's surface. One urban legend states that 
just such a stairway exists in Stull, KS. This is a very small town about 15 
to 20 miles outside of Lawrence, KS. The gateway to Hell is rumored to be in 
or near a collapsing church in an ancient cemetery. The tale apparently 
originated in an article in a University of Kansas student newspaper. 11 The 
theme was picked up on a recording by an alternative music group Urge 
Overkill; the album cover had a picture of the cemetery and church. There 
are a number of tall tales related to this area:  Satanists burned the 
church down.

Satanists have held rituals there and may still be doing this currently.

Time magazine reported that the pope asked that a plane he was flying in, 
during his 1993 visit to the U.S., bypass eastern Kansas because the area 
was so unholy that he didn't even want to fly above it.

If you take two glass bottles, use them to make the sign of an inverted 
cross, and throw them against the church building, they will not break. 
Others suggest that any bottle thrown against the building will not break.

Even though the roof has collapsed, rain will not enter the building; it 
rolls off to the side as if the roof were still in place.

You can go down the stairway and return quickly; only a few minutes will 
seem to pass. But you will emerge into the world two weeks later. So, be 
sure to feed your cat well before visiting Stull.

There are conflicting stories about when the gateway to Hell is accessible: 
some people say that it is always open; others claim that it only can be 
entered on Halloween night or an equinox.

Witches were once executed near the church by hanging. 12,13

We suspect that it is doubtful that any of the above are in any way 
accurate.
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The page also has links to two other sites about the Stull Church:

1. http://www.geocities.com/Baja/Outback/2960/

2. http://eagle.cc.ukans.edu/~chads/stull/index.html(Broken Link)

Some of the ideas contained could prove useful, and this is exactly the sort 
of real estate Alex Abel would be interested in.

Graham

This is the Universe ... Big isn't it?


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