The Gate To Hell
By Laurah Norton
Strangers,
We’re used to seeing odd headlines—it’s kind of part of the job here at One Strange Thing headquarters. However, coming across “ARIANA GRANDE CONVINCED DEMONS CHASED HER OUT OF CREEPY CEMETERY” is a weird one, even for us. We have so many questions.
First, and foremost: Ariana, what are you doing here?
Second, where is this cemetery full of demons, and why haven’t we heard of it? Would demons be more friendly to podcasters who’d never released a hit pop single?
But upon a little digging, it turns out we had come across this story before. . . just without the Ariana Grande of it all. It turns out she’d ended up in Stull Cemetery, in Stull, Kansas.
It seems that back in November of 2013, Ariana was in Kansas City, Missouri, for a concert. And According to Complex Magazine, she decided to do a little dark tourism—and was willing to take a drive. She told the reporter,
“We wanted to go to Stull Cemetery, which is known as one of the seven gates to hell on Earth. The Pope won’t fly over it. I felt this sick, overwhelming feeling of negativity over the whole car and we smelled sulfur, which is the sign of a demon, and there was a fly in the car randomly, which is another sign of a demon [...] I rolled down the window before we left and said, "We apologize. We didn’t mean to disrupt your peace." Then I took a picture and there are three super distinct faces in the picture — they’re faces of textbook demons.”