Comparing Posey Chapel, Devil's Bridge, And Gravity Hill

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In the past week, I have went to haunted and scary places with a few of my friends. I went to Posey Chapel, Devil’s Bridge, and Gravity Hill. Each of these places have their own background story about what happened there and why it is now haunted. In this paper, I am going to be talking about what happened at Posey Chapel, Devil’s Bridge, and Gravity Hill and what I experienced when I went there. First I am going to write about Posey Chapel. The story of Posey Chapel is, there was a church that burned down. A little boy supposedly died in the church bathroom. His grave is now unmarked. The preacher hung himself by the tree in front of the church. A pavilion was put up in place of the church. There is a cemetery beside it, but that cemetery has always been there. People say that they have seen and felt things while they were there. Now I am going to tell you about what happened to me and my friends while we were there. When we went to Posey Chapel we heard laughing. It …show more content…
The story of Devil’s Bridge is many years ago it was a dumping ground for the mafia. They buried the bodies underneath the bridge. It is now a racing street and a lot of people go down there and spray paint everything. It is really cool to see though. When you go here, you are supposed to see headlights appear behind you and then they disappear. When we went, we got out of the car to look around and check things out. While we were there checking things out, we saw cars coming around the corner so we decided to get in the car and leave. As we were approaching the stop sign we saw headlights. We turned the car. The car that appeared out of nowhere turned also. As they were turning, my friend and I didn’t see anyone in the driver’s seat, but we saw someone in the passenger seat. We continued to drive down the road with the car behind us. We were driving on a road that didn’t have any turns, so you couldn’t turn onto a different road but somehow the car

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