20 Places On Earth Which Are Believed To Be Gateways To Hell

11 Stull Cemetery

The Kansas Stull cemetery is a popular haunted graveyard in America. The place is infamous for its earned title “Doorway to Hell” by local legends and people who have visited the place. Legends around the place include stories like demonic presence, witchcraft, satanic rituals, sacrifices and other notorious grave hours events. The place is believed to be a fantastical place of unimaginable evil. The place has gained a strong presence online since past one decade.

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12Lake Avernus, Italy

Lake Avernus in Italy was always considered by ancient Romans as an entrance to hell. The lake is located in the beautiful Campania area of Southern Italy near Naples. It consists of a volcanic crater lake and its name has found its way into many mythical works and poems like Dante’s Inferno, the Aeneid, The Odyssey and the Fabulae as references to hell. It is also believed that the brimstone smell emanating from the lake is poisonous which is why birds don’t fly over it. The name “Avernus” also literally translates to “without birds”. In fact, a cave exists under the lake that was regarded by the ancients as the entrance to the underworld known as the Devil’s lair. The hidden location was once raided in 2010 to find Italian Mafia in hiding. 

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13The Plutonian, Turkey

The Plutonian is an ancient Greco-Roman temple in Turkey’s tourist area of Pamukkale. The temple was built over a cave and underground thermal spring. The surface is popular for its waterfalls and hot springs. Strabo, the ancient Greek geographer described the inside as an entrance to a steep descent filled with dark vapor where animals entering died instantly. Sparrows thrown in immediately became lifeless and so it was regarded as a gateway to hell.

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14Lake Pergusa

Ancient Greek mythology narrates how Persephone daughter of the harvest goddess Ceres was playing by the Lake Pergusa when she was kidnapped by Hades the god of the underworld. Ceres was angry and never allowed anything to grow till an agreement was reached that Persephone would spend six months above the surface of Earth which began to be known as spring and summer. Persephone rises up to the earth from Lake Pergusa which is one of the entrances to Hades. 

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15Darwaza crater, door to hell

This is truly a gateway to hell as it burns with fire permanently all year through. The crate in Turkmenistan is a burning pit called the Darwaza (Doorway) crater believed to have been formed when Russian scientists accidentally set fire to a borehole that was releasing noxious gas. It has remained burning ever since. Weirdly though, spiders keep crawling into the pit. 

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