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I read a story on the Internet about a cave, and how these guys expand a small hole, go through the hole, and strange things happen. I don't remember where it is, but I thought it was at least a compelling read, and it was long (by Internet standards).
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I've read this as well. It was actually a pretty interesting story. Wish I could find it again but the original link is dead now. There is
this, which I think the story we've both read is based on. It's a good read.
There's a couple of other I have a hazy memory of that have this sort of internet provenance. The first is about some sort of supernatural ritual involving holding a mirror underwater and staring into it for a certain amount of time, the end result being that some sort of spirit from another dimension 'adopts' you and never leaves you alone ever again.
Secondly, there's one about a disused Mental Asylum known locally as the gates of hell - there are 7 gates and no one has ever got any further than the 4th without having to turn back. This one's been investigated and they found the location on which it was based (they think.) It got pulled down by the local authority to stop kids tooling around in the area.
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There is a gates of hell here in mo, Im sure a lot of different states that have them. There are a bunch of spots around st louis, that have "urban legends" surrounding them, a street with a kid that got hit by a bus (true), you can see him run across the street at certian times fo the night, a house in webster groves with a crazy ghost of an old man that appears at night, the screaming wall is down a long dirt road (you cant turn around and have to back out because of the forest) at the end of the road there is a wall where if you turn your lights off you will hear kids screaming from a house out in teh woods whre a bunch were killed, there is a house in illinois w/ a well where a family and a bunch of niehgboorhood kids were killed in the 1880s. Every year around halloween we hire some kid to drive us around all over the city, get drunk and have fun seeing these places, the road of screams is the only time I actually got pretty scared becuase it sounded like there were kids right ouside teh car.