Description

Enjoy this mini episode where we'll wade through global locations that are known to be portals or gates to Hell. We'll review Kentucky's Mammoth Cave System, the Cave of the Cumaean Sibyl, Derweze's Door to Hell, Poveglia and more!

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Reading Recommendations:

“Beast in the Cave” - H.P. Lovecraft

The Identification of Vergil's Cave of the Cumaean Sibyl in "Aeneid" 6

The Cumaean Sibyl: Controlling Her Voice at Rome from Tarquin to Constantine

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Serial Novel - Christopher Golden

Aeneid - Virgil

Artwork:

‘Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus’ - Joseph Mallord William Turner, c.1798

'Sibilla Cumana' - Domenichino Zampieri, c.1622

Sources:

1. https://www.saltlakemagazine.com/high-strangeness-at-skinwalker-ranch/
2. https://today.umd.edu/photographing-unseen-dadf5bcb-47fa-41db-9cb1-f0454b0689da
3. https://www.deseret.com/1996/6/30/19251541/frequent-fliers
4. https://praguemonitor.com/life/16/03/2021/the-dark-legends-of-the-houska-castle
5. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/when-tuberculosis-patients-quarantined-inside-kentuckys-mammoth-cave-180978144/
6. https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/mammoth-cave-ghosts/
7. https://lifewithldub.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-beware-seven-gates-of-hell-story.html
8. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/85322/hellam
9. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/giant-hole-ground-has-been-fire-more-40-years-180951247/
10. https://geology.com/oil-and-gas/darvaza-gas-crater/
11. https://qcurtius.com/2018/05/16/the-ghosts-of-cumae/
12. https://www.guilinchina.net/travel-guide/yangtze/attractions/fengdu-ghost-city.htm
13. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/poveglia-island-like-hell_b_4188986
14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gates_of_Hell