The Seven Gates of Hell – Collinsville, Illinois
The Seven Gates of Hell – Collinsville, Illinois
A place known as “The Seven Gates of Hell” have been the source of several urban legends and a destination for late night joy rides for generations.
The gates are a series of railroad overpasses built in the late 1800. The 1st gate is located about 2 miles east of downtown Collinsville, Illinois and the 7th near the neighboring town of Troy.
Access to all the gates is possible via automobile through the narrow twisted country back roads.
The urban legends associated with the gates include hangings, satanic rituals, deadly car crashes, acid bridge, and the gates of hell opening.
The most widely know legend about the Seven Gates of Hell states that if you go through every gate in order and pass through Gate 7 at midnight, a portal to Hell will open and you will be greeted by “Hell Hounds”.
Your not supposed to do it in the middle of the day your supposed to do it during night (preferably 3:00am)
This is clickbait these arent the gates of hell at all
I grew up in granite city il. You have to drive thro all of them, with all lights off in and out side the car and be open to experience.
I just left there & I got all the way to gate 7! The passing that bridge it was cut off with construction with two guys in construction uniforms blocking the street off.I had to turn around & reverse & do it again.Whew what an experience! CHAMPION!!! Btw, gate 4 is creepy af how it’s so hidden! 😱
I grew up there used to party all the time and then take a ride to the gates. Crazyshit would happen but it was the 70s.
Yeah we used to just go chill and get high at these places, just railroad bridges nothing more.
They aren’t creepy until you go through em late at night high asf😂
Just and FYI, but that was not gate 1
You don’t see anything until late at night
satan aint gonna mess with a guy in daisy dukes lol
So what’s with the thing where no one has ever made it thru gate 5? Or that you can only see the gates at night?
I live about 10 min away from acid bridge a hangout spot for many people just yesterday 3 teens got arrested for throwing paint out on the road and one teen was wearing a cow suit I’ve been out there many times
For some reason I thought about this tonight and found this video. Definitely a rite of passage. My friend and I did the gates with a couple of girls the year I got my license, but we went really late at night. Definitely a spooky opportunity to "protect" the ladies. XD My friend tagged one of the bridges, and from the looks of it, it’s probably still there. Doesn’t look like anyone has bothered to clean those bridges up in decades.
I’m from Belleville & it like a rite of passage growing up in & around St. Clair county in Illinois lol. Been there a few times, nothing really happens here but it is creepy at night ideal atmosphere for nightmare fuel.
Mark. You rocked the Ranger panties. 🤣
I have to tell you that 6 of us girls went out there one night in Oct 1990 we got through gate 6. A flock of bats seem to drop out of nowhere. A couple of the girls got scared so I turned the car around @ Blackjack. Going back through gate 6, I was driving abot 15 to 20mph…. something picked up the back of my car, a 1982 olds delta 88, and slammed it down. Everyone in the car lurched forward. Everyone in the front had on seatbelts. The 2 front passengers belts came unbuckled and the rearview mirror fell off in the middle passengers lap. OMGosh…. she screamed and cried the whole way back to Edwardsville. We all said that we would never talk about that night .
.. well girls…. this is your driver Mary speaking. If you remember that night, I believe it’s ok to talk
They are not even the gates
I’m pretty sure you have to go through the gates in order at midnight to see the hellhounds and you go through them backwards to have a “tear” between hell and earth.
These dumasses didn’t tell the story correctly…legend says you have to drive through all 7 Gates at midnight…and at the 7th gate as you go through the hell hounds will greet you and pull you into hell….
Y’all touching shit playing with boards… Smh
One time I was coming from a party over towards that area and on our way back home we seen these gates and said why not give it a try and to be honest there were no creepy things but at gate 3 or 4 I forgot which one but yeah there was 2 men’s just standing with black outfits
Beacause u not even in hell
is it legal to go here, thinking about going there
I went through all of the gates a shit load of times in the 80’s. The only thing I experienced was one hell of a buzz each time.
Omg. My Brother and Sister in law used to live in Collinsville. The video is not even scary. Geez. Nothing in none of the videos I’ve seen yet. 😒
You have to go there at night time please and you will find out the truth
That axe guy is a really shitty juggalo drawing lol.
Is it me or some of them look the same
We used to put deer heads on post out there back in the 80s lol
The gates wouldn’t kill me but the 8 mile run sure as hell would…
come on
I thought it was in PA. Anyway there is no such thing as an asylum. All debunked.
I used to work for the power co in the Collinsville area, and always went this way rather than take the main roads. I just called it the scenic route.
My dad used to have friends that lived around here and he was telling me this one time, he drove my uncle there as a kid to scare the jesus out of him lmao