The cemetery at the end of St John Road

Kentucky · United States · Execution site

Elizabethtown calls it the Gates of Hell. One of the last buildings you pass on the way is the town's other haunted place.

At the end of St John Road in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, surrounded by trees and overgrowth, is a cemetery that local people call the Gates of Hell.

The drive out to it is part of the reputation. One of the last buildings you pass before the road runs out is Bethlehem Academy, which is the other site in Elizabethtown with a reputation of this kind. Two haunted places on the same dead end road is unusual, and it is why the whole stretch has the atmosphere it does.

The cemetery itself is a couple of miles further, at the end.

Burial grounds acquire names like this one when they are hard to reach, when the road stops there, and when nobody has any business going except to bury someone. The overgrowth does the rest.

It is a real cemetery with real families in it, reached by a road that does not lead anywhere else, and the nickname belongs to the visitors rather than to anyone buried there.

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Where is The cemetery at the end of St John Road located?

The cemetery at the end of St John Road is in Kentucky, United States.