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Title	Hell's Gates, Clay County, Indiana
Genre	Local legend
Description	Peter Goda's transcribed interview of Teko's account of a legend at Hell's Gates in Clay County,I ndiana. One night a young couple who were in love went to Hell's Gates to do a painting on the arch. The two young teens bodies were found lying in the arch and the cause of death was never identified. It is said that they were in the arch at midnight and a train went over the track at the exact time they were by the arch and delivered their souls to hell. If you go down there at midnight on a full moon you can see the couple and hear their screams as their souls are being taken to hell.
Informant	Teko
Collector	Goda, Pete
Date of Original	2001-11-10
Contextual Information	At Hell's Gates there is an arch where teenagers would spray paint the name of a person they love on the arch.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Clay County -- 2001
Subject	Trains Arches Hell
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2010-11-03
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2010 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-Hell's Gates030

Hell's Gates, Clay County, Indiana

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