First and Foremost...Always, always get permission from the land owner before you set foot on someones property. When you have verbal or even written permission to be on the property, always have respect for the land. Do not leave trash or disturb the landscape.
Now, the Seven Gates Of Hell is a local legend. Towns people will tell you that is doesn't exist. Rumor has it there is seven iron gates leading in to a clearing. Once inside this gate if you were to scream no one on the outside would ever hear you. Legend has it that there was a cult many, many years ago that used this clearing for there ceremonies to worship Satan, during which they would commit animal sacrifices and rumor has it that human sacrifices were done. If you visit this location at night you can hear the animal's cries, and you will see figures hanging from the trees that surround it.
I did not visit this location at night fall for the simple fact that it was hard enough locating it during daylight hours.
October of 2011 my fiance and I traveled to Athol Massachusetts in search of the "elusive" gates to hell. What we did find, after an hour of searching back roads was a lone cast iron gate that had been there for some time, behind that gate was a path. We followed the path, sure enough into a clearing. Let me note this now, that the day of our visit the temperature was maybe 60 degrees with a light fall breeze, as we entered the clearing the temperature began to rise and it kept getting hotter. We both broke out in a sweat and started taking off layers of clothing, it felt as though it suddenly became 105 degrees within minutes...there was no breeze here, also, the dog that was barking from across the street we could no longer hear inside the clearing, there was no noise at all, the location was barren of any sound or physical life. There of course was that heavy energy, bad energy. We decided that I should take the photos and that we should leave, once we stepped out of the clearing all sounds came back to life and the air was very cool. I plan to investigate this area more. I will keep you informed of what really lurks within the seven gates of hell.
Hi. I am compiling a list of haunted places in MA and I know there has been some controversy over the exact location of this site. One site said that it may be located near Ellinwood Cemetery but they weren't sure. Could you tell me some details on where you found the site including the street name?
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Me and my friends found it yesturday. The first lone gate is located on dough vally road in athol and you have to follow the path a bit untill you see a clearing up a hill on the left of you, that's where the abandond house is located then you have to go from there.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds about right. It was tough to find, but worth it. The temperature change inside the clearing is really weird, not sure if you experienced that at all when you were there.
ReplyDeletewhat does the gate look like and is it on the left side? it looks like a very old metal gate.. i saw one gate and what looked like a path behind it but wasnt sure. please help i would like to see this place
ReplyDeleteHello, do you know the land owner?
ReplyDeletehis last name was Davenport. he owned the property. I live around the corner from dough valley rd.ive been there an never had an experience. the gate is wrough iron on the rite side of the Rd.
Deleteok so a couple of friends and i just went there last week. we found the gate and the path. we followed it until we came to a second "doorway" type thing. it was two wooden posts with a hinge on one with no door. we walked past that and on for a bit. we then came up upon what seemed to be an old dock that had two trees growing out of it and it was all rotted and decrepit. we did not find the house however and was wondering if u could tell us where exactly it is. my email is DeltaMark14777@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI've tried to go there but was unsure if I found it. Let me know if I did it right. If I were to go on route 32 north, take a left onto Briggs Rd. bear right on Doe Valley Rd. and the gate is on the right side of the road. Is that correct? If it is I did walk down that trail but a huge tree fell on the trail and there is no way to bypass it. If I am wrong can you please give us directions? Thanx
ReplyDeleteJust took a trip up there today with some friends - Found our way down "Doe Valley rd" and found the Iron gate on the right hand side near the lake just before Briggs and Doe split - My first impression was that the gate wasnt Old at all, Im a welder and mechanic by trade, and know quite a bit about Vintage Iron gates, this was nothing special, maybe welded together in the past 25 years - Even then so, i didnt let the gate discourage me, so we found our way down the path beyond the Gate to what appeared to be an abandoned summer home just adjacent the path and up a hill to the left, nothing creepy there, nor did the clearing next to it seem at any bit odd or temperature indifferent - So, continuing on down the path lower from the abandoned house, me and my friends found our way through tick infested brush, Yes - tick infested, i found quite a few on me on trips end, but not before we walked through a second stone entrance and down waterside to the pond - Still nothing odd other than normal New England stone boundary walls - Soo, continuing on we found out way past a pair of rotted wooden posts with hearts carved out of the inner post area, may have been a wooden gate at some point, and worked our way further into the woods surrounding the eastern side of Davenport pond past the "heartpost" gate we discovered for about another 3/4 of a mile heading in a southward fashion, winding the trail untill the trail runs out ran out on Leighton rd. - Now confused due to this being the purported Located entrance to the "seven gates of hell", i break out Google Maps and do an aerial view of the location and paths we were working down to see what else we might have missed - Result, we covered as much area as possible, and came to a sobering conclusion that we found nothing, and will not find anything in this area, no seven gates, no demonized relics, no hell portals in a field, just a property abandoned less than 25 years ago that only EVER so slightly lines up visually to the story's and rumors we've all heard - Now i would like to believe these seven gates exist, I think we all want to believe it, but heres the clincher, nobody living in the surrounding areas, Yes The Locals, have ever heard of it ! Weve all heard the story, but how do i know for sure ? i took the liberty of knocking on a locals door and asking respectfully if they knew anything about it, hes lived in Athol his entire life, as well as a few people in town where we asked whoever we could actually get time to listen to us, to possibly help us locate the said "7 gates", and one after another, we got crazed humored looks with no answers except a laugh, and the common reply of "ive lived here all my life, never heard of it" - My Opinion ?? The seven Gates of Hell in Athol DO NOT EXIST - There is no occultist conspiracy to hide the location of the gates as ive heard, Infact Nobody knows an exact location, like nobody ! Ive heard enough people post theyve been there on enough forums than i could put my eyes on, but nobody has pictures ! nobody knows an exact location that could even roughly match up to the legend ! The street its supposed to exist on doesnt exist ! and the locals seem to think its just about as outlandish a tale as the 3 City Boys who went in search of it today and and the people who went in search of it the years before us !
ReplyDeleteThe gate is over 48 yrs old..im 48 and it has been here my whole life. The gates are real. You just talked to wrong people.
DeleteI grew up on Athol and frequented the 7 gates to mess around with. I never made it passed the first gate as my friends and I would end up running out. Went in feeling confident and ready to explore, left feeling like we entered a territory that we were invited to. When people say it goes silent, that is definitely true. Besides hearing animal sounds or even the sounds of a woman’s scream. Being from Mass you never know it if is a fisher cat, but still freaky none the less. I’ve had friends that have had doors slam in their face, knock on a door and head a knock back, drive a car through and end up breaking down and getting stuck. Another time I went there was a light that appeared to be on so my friend and I went to investigate, heard something sprint past us in the woods and nothing was there, saw a pair of boots in the basement with fresh mud, heard footsteps upstairs, went to check up the stairs and no light was on, went back downstairs to leave and as we were walking noticed the light still appeared to be on. This was also the night we heard what sounded the a girl screaming and left the woods running.
DeleteSo heres where I stand - I live for this kind of stuff !! Id go through literally any and all bounds to locate and explore places like these - And Unless anybody can procure an exact location with Photographic evidence that proves beyond a reasonable doubt the seven gates actually exist, and is not just another wound up tale or decrepit highway overpass marked up with satanic graffiti, Then it can not, and Does Not exist in reality - I want to believe it exists, everyone wants to believe exists, but all it is is a good story - So don't waste your time traveling 4 hours round trip as I did from Providence RI, It does not exist, all it does is make for a good story I myself almost fell into believing - Im moving on to the NEXT haunted or demonized site that exists in Reality, unless someone can dis-prove me with visual or locational Evidence !!!!! - this is Matadorsst signing off . . . .
ReplyDeleteI'm looking for good haunted places to go in Mass, where are places that have been good that you have visited?
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Deletethat area used to b a commune,now owned by the town of petersham I believe
ReplyDeleteI have been to this place many times. Cult/whatever you want to call it. in the late 70s I would be at Keith Fontaine's mothers house and across the pond would be all these people dressed in white gowns going about life as they lived it there. It was heavily guarded by men with automatic weapons so we could not see much. Years later a friend and I took a walk into the place. It starts with an old iron gate and you go in 150-200 ft there was a large plate form round with totem poles surrounding it with demon heads.. The house sat back on a small hill with a green house attached.. We always thought it was a Hippy Commune but who knows.. If you take Petersam Rd out of Athol and turn onto Briggs Rd you would follow it till the pavement ends and when you are almost to the bottom of the hill and can see a gate on your left. Thats it.. It was posted property back then. You can also get there from Pleasant St. and turn onto Doe Valley Rd. Just past the old gun shop you turn right onto a dirt road. Or it was dirt back then..
ReplyDeletethere's some truth and a lot of nonsense in the above story. I'm not anonymous. Anyone who really wants to know can contact me at m a c m i d i @ g m a i l DOT c o m
ReplyDeletehere's where the hell gate comes in: the fellow who ran the cult was David Daniels. There were no machine guns or white gowns. This page has depicts Daniels standing at Rodin's "Gate to Hell". Hell was being around this guy, a student of Alex Horn and classmate of Robert Burton.
ReplyDeleteoops... forgot the link to the pic http://www.thegatesofparadise.com/
ReplyDeleteI would like to know more please
ReplyDeleteI've gone to this location twice now. The first time I went, we drove past the metal gate on the right side of Doe Valley Road. Driving past this gate a short distance the road veers to the right. There is a gravel/dirt road on the right that leads to a big field. We parked our car and made our way to the left through the brush. There is a wooden gate/arc way without a door. Once you go through that gate, stay to the right and you'll come to a cement platform. Right after that platform is an abandoned log cabin. In the back of that cabin towards the right is a trail that declines into the woods. At the bottom of the decline, we took a left and followed the trail. After walking some ways, we came to another wooden gate/arc way without a door. You can still see where the hinges once were. On both sides of this gate on the very top are wooden hearts. That is as far as we travel into the woods as we were all feeling a little creeped out. As we all stood there, the wind picked up and had the trees swaying. It was only in the area that we were in that the wind was blowing. It also felt as if we were in a bubble and couldn't hear any sounds around us. The second time I went to this area, it was 3 months after my first visit and my niece and I parked in the same area as the first time I went. We followed the same trail to the first wooden gate and then to the cabin and on to the wooden gate with the hearts. This time we went beyond that gate and followed the trail for what felt like forever. Eventually, we came across what looked another gate, but this one was lying on the ground and we couldn't figure out what or where it was once attached to. Continuing on, we following the trail and came to what looked like a logging road. We followed the road until we noticed what looked like a trail on the right side of the road. We followed that trail for quite some time and came to what looked like a hunting shack. Or that was what we thought it was. After that shack, the trail ended as there was a brook. We walked along that brook trying to find a way across what couldn't location an area to cross. At this point, we were a bit lost and tried to find our way back to the logging road by following the big red dots on the trees. We eventually found our way back to the trail that lead to the gate with the carved hearts and from there followed the trail to where we started out from. We unknowing pasted the incline in the trail that lead to the cabin and continued to follow the trail where it lead us out to the metal gate out on Doe Valley Road. From there we had to walk back to the field to get our car. This time around, we didn't come across anything weird or paranormal. We did come to the conclusion that if there are more gates beyond the four that we found, they have probably been destroyed by the logging company. I have pictures posted of these gates/arc ways on my sight: tgparanormalsociety@weebly.com.
ReplyDeleteYou were walking down a path. Your body heats up as you exorcize. It is always cooler when there is trees and foliage, there is always a noticeable change in temperature when you walk into an open sunny area from foliage and trees you goon.
ReplyDeleteI am a local, living just at the South of the Davenport Pond. I hike there everyday from the Leighton rd to the Iron gate at the Doe Valley road and back. Almost 3 mile hike to stay fit. You guys freaked me out. Haha Except the abandoned house and the deck near the water which was built by the 1980's hippie commune, there is not anything much. Just quiet, peaceful and beautiful pond and trails with a lot of wildlife activities. Recently my hubbie and I cleared the trail and opened up additional loop trails near the water.
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So, I grew up on Woodlawn rd. Just off of route 2 and connecting to doe Valley rd. When I was in high school I was on the cross country team for Athol high-school. In the area in question, we used to do the Rambo run, basically running through brush and mud and swamp type terrain. We all had a bad feeling out there but none worse than when we got lost out there for 3 hours. Our coach was scared, we were scared. And there was like a void that we ended up in, nothing looked familiar once we passed the abandoned summer camp area. There were no sounds from the wildlife. And when we yelled for help we had no echo at all. This situation ended once we finally found the edge of the camp ground. It never happened again and I have even tried to replicate the scene to no success. My suggestion, bring a camera and an evp recorder.
ReplyDeleteCan someone send me any background on this site?
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I will be documenting the adventure, many years after my first time. I have found all 7 gates, and will be assessing the alter/home. Will provide video of the trip.
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DeletePlease do provide videos. We really want to see the alter.
DeleteI have pure evidence of a shadow figure at the second “cabin” that is now just a deck structure. I was in a foster home in Athol, I discovered this place online and couldn’t find it for a while, me and my friends walked uptown for an hour and a half to doe valley road, we walked past the first gate and came across the first cabin, keep going and there’s the second one that is now just a deck, keep walking you will come across more gates as you make your way around the pond, every time I’ve went we’ve only made it to the 4th gate and couldn’t find the next. I remember the last time I went in 2019-2020 they started knocking down a lot of the wooded area around there so I hope it’s still somewhat there. I have a crazy picture of a shadow figure. If you want me to send it to you my address Instagram is @Knockoffgsr
ReplyDeleteGates at approx (42.5488496, -72.1983967)
ReplyDeleteAt the end of Briggs road where there’s like a triangle between Briggs and doe valley you will find it only 100 feet away