All American Horror: Gateways to Hell

Male Speaker:
The Devil's

Stairs is a rock formation

beside a highway in Ashe

County, North Carolina.

The rocks are among the oldest

in North America.

But the Devil's Stairs are

man-made.

They were formed when a work

crew blasted the mountain to

make way for a new railway

line.

The man who lit the fuse

tripped as he was running away

from the blast and was

blown to bits. Ever since then

strange things have

happened around the Devil's

Stairs.

Darren Fowler:
I remember the

story from when I was growing

up, my grandmother told me.

We've lived here for five

generations.

The minister from our church

was on his way home one Sunday

night.

It was fall, it was a cold

night, and as he headed down

the road he came to the

area known as the Devil's

Stairs and he saw a hitchhiker

on the side of the road.

It was a man wearing a long

black trench coat and a hat of

sorts.

He stopped and offered the man

a ride.

So he got in the back seat but

was silent.

After a few miles the minister

tried to ease the situation by

making conversation.

He wanted to know where the

man was going, where he's

from, but the passenger

was silent.

Finally, the minister turned

around looked him right in the

eye and saw to his

shock fiery glowing eyes.

He pulled over the car

immediately because he wanted

to get whoever or

whatever it was out and to his

second shock the back seat was

empty, there was

no one there.

Male Speaker:
Does the devil

himself walk the hills of

North Carolina?

The spot known for almost a

century as the Devil's Stairs

has been the sight of

strange and frightening

encounters, death, and bad

luck.

David Young:
Brian, Mary, and

I decided to go camping at the

Devil's Staircase

and we did it every year just

to spook ourselves out.

I brought my guitar along this

time, I'd taken some lessons

so I decided to do

Kumbayah type action down

there.

And all of a sudden while I

was playing the guitar Brian

got really cold.

It was weird, you needed a

jacket that night but weren't

shivering and he was

shivering all over.

So I grabbed the blanket and

brought it over to him, put it

around him, and as

soon as the blanket touched

his body I heard this music

singing, just like old

gospel singing.

It was really weird.

Mary and I decided to go

looking around and see what it

was and we were walking

into the forest and the deeper

we got into the woods the

louder the music got.

The minute I shone my

flashlight onto the woods the

music completely stopped.

I walked over to Brian and he

was instantly warm again.

So I figured that gospel music

made them cold or something.

We never went back to the

Devil's Stairs though, it sure

freaked us out.

Male Speaker:
The road around

the Devil's Stairs is full of

sharp twists and turns

and you can't drive through it

quickly.

One night a stranger to the

area was going too fast and

missed the curve at

Buffalo Creek Bridge. His car

spun out and crashed, killing

the driver.

There have been numerous fatal

accidents on that stretch of

road.

Cheryl Ellis:
I was on my way

home from work and as I turned

on to Palmer Drive I

saw this man walk slowly out

of the woods.

He came up to my car and

slammed his hands down on my

hood and the next instant

he was gone.

And then I looked in my

rearview mirror and he was in

my back seat.

I turned around quickly but he

was gone.

David Gurney:
My name is David

Gurney. I'm with PAN in North

Carolina,

a non-profit scientific

research organization

dedicated to investigating

paranormal activities.

These are my fellow teammates

Noel McCreath and Michael

McCreath.

We're at Warrensville, North

Carolina at the sight of the

Devil's Staircase now

recording.

Tell us your name.

Where are you from?

Why are you still here?

Give us some sort of sign if

you're here.

Okay, we just had something

interesting happen.

The microphone that I'm using

suddenly stopped working for

some reason.

A lot of times whenever we go

into a paranormal location or

a location where

paranormal activity has been

reported we will get strange

equipment failures -

these entities need energy to

manifest in some way whether

either visually or

audibly and so what they do is

they --

supposedly the way the

hypothesis goes is that they

draw energy out of their

surroundings.

Noel McCreath:
The impression

I get here is just of an

African-American-Indian

male, probably in his 20's to

late 20's.

It's either warm weather or

he's been working very hard,

his shirt is open.

This is what I'm getting

intuitively but it wasn't like

it was the happiest or

easiest job or way to make

money.

I'm not sure if he's

interactive or residual

because I just get an

impression

of him.

David Gurney:
When the rocks

fissured, when they were

blasting it created sort of

an interesting geological

phenomenon. Unfortunately

during that blasting

a gentleman was killed. Since

then there have been reports

of

people would be driving down

the road, they'd see someone

walking along the road,

the driver would stop, let him

in. They'd continue down the

road and then

all of a sudden the guy would

vanish from the back seat of

their car.

Jennifer Quinn:
So it was a

perfect night, crisp clear,

the sky was clear,

you could see the moon, and I

decided that I was going to go

take a walk.

It was beautiful outside, it

was a little cold, but I could

bear it.

Part of the way across the

bridge I thought I heard a

baby start to cry.

It sounded like it was coming

off the bridge. And I just

kind of looked over the side

to see if there was anything

down there. I suddenly felt

like somebody was

watching me.

I kind of turned to where I

felt like somebody was looking

at me and there was

a woman there. So I started to

back away a little bit

and she started to follow me.

I turned around and she was

gone.

It's the scariest thing I've

ever been through.

Male Speaker:
This specter who

pursues people seen near the

bridge at the Devil's

Stairs is said to be the ghost

of a young woman who had a

baby out of wedlock.

The unknown woman apparently

in utter despair threw her

baby off the bridge into

the water below. She was never

seen alive again.

People said she committed

suicide.

Noel McCreath:
What I'm

getting is - and I don't know

the correct term for it - at

that time the crew chief of

this guy was a very determined

guy, a very hard guy.

I can feel just his

determination and going to

make a hole in this rock.

They encountered difficulties,

yes, but it seemed like a job

they weren't going to

get done easily.

David Gurney:
This recorder

was completely empty when I

started recording

and this particular model can

record for 27 hours worth of

audio.

We've only been out here for a

couple of hours and it

suddenly registered as full.

Some interesting things

happened - I had a couple of

instances of equipment

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