Episode 2.14 // Stairway to Hell: The Legend of Stull Church

In 1974, an article in a local paper turned the sleepy town of Stull, Kansas upside down. It was about an abandoned church and its surrounding cemetery. Accounts of cold brushes with spirits and theories on a stairway to hell drew the likes of rowdy college students and celebrities alike, including Kurt Cobain and Ariana Grande. But what’s more haunted: the places that fascinate us or the stories we spin about them?

SOURCES:

• https://www.lecomptonkansas.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Bald.Eagle_.Vol16.

• Thomas, Paul. Haunted Lawrence. 2017.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20210227210027/https://ghoulstrip.blog/2020/09/18/stull-cemetery/

• https://the-line-up.com/stull-cemetery-gateway-to-hell

• http://www.paranormalscholar.com/gateway-hell-mysterious-legend-stull-cemetery-satans-staircase/

• https://www.theclio.com/entry/89054

• http://mikesirota.com/myths-and-legends-a-gateway-to-hell-in-kansas/

• https://www.complex.com/music/2013/11/ariana-grande-interview-shadow-of-a-doubt-2013-cover-story

• http://hometowntales.blogspot.com/2005/04/ks-pope-flew-around-stull.html

• http://www.lawrence.com/news/2004/oct/26/stull/

• https://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/article296157/Legendary-cemetery-in-Stull

• https://www.kansan.com/special_sections/stull-cemetery-rumored-to-be-a-gate-to-hell

• https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/keep-the-hell-out-of-stull/

• https://kansasreflector.com/2021/10/21/in-two-historic-kansas-graveyards-the-scariest-of-frights

TRANSCRIPT:

Stull Church Legend.pdf

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