We started strong out of the gate today. We decided to look around the Stonelick Bridge and the satanic church that is supposed to be in the area. We had read about the Devil's Church just past the covered bridge and we had gotten it confused with Hell's Church (guess we didn't realize how much satanism was in the area). We went there around three o' clock today. The covered bridge was kind of hard to find. All the roads leading up to it are extremely narrow. Every time we came across a car coming the other way, we had to almost go off the road to have room for us both. Thanks goodness we had a GPS. The Google directions I got were completely wrong. But even the GPS had a hard time finding the place. We kinda just stumbled upon the right road and a "Covered Bridge Ahead" sign. When we got up to the bridge there was three road closed signs blocking the bridge. We parked our car in a gravel driveway and got out to look around. There had been no warning that the road was closed and only the bridge was closed, with signs on both sides. Nothing looked wrong with it so we ducked under the signs. We saw the only window where you're supposed to see the dead man hanging at night. We continued along. Nothing seemed wrong with the bridge and we still don't know why it was closed.
Because we were confused, we were looking for the chimney of Hell's Church. We went down a couple trails, but these all led to the creek, no evil churches. We came across a really nice house that was just abandoned. It was pretty strange. All the houses around it were fine but this one was overgrown. All the doors and windows were open. We were about to go in when we realized that the floor was collapsed in. I was uncomfortable with where I left my car (in a driveway, with my purse and the windows down), so we got the address of one of the houses and went back across the bridge, planning on putting the address into the garmin and finding another way around.
The gps ended up taking us in a huge circle (15 minute trip) back to the closed bridge. Our GPS was really having a hard time out there. So we parked in a better spot and got out again. This time, I googled "satanic church batavia" on my phone. I was having a hard time getting service for I was able to pull open a page saying that the satanic church was just past the steel bridge, behind the big red church. We had seen the steel bridge on our first trip across. The bridge was shut down, but there was another road bridge right beside it. We didn't have to cross that bridge to get to it though. The church was called St. Philomena Catholic Church. We did some research later and St. Philomena was this Greek Princess whose father converted to Christianity. When she was 13, an Emperor fell in love with her. When she wouldn't marry him, he tried to kill her. He did a bunch of crazy stuff, like burning her, tying her to an anchor and drowning her, shooting her and finally decapitating her. Apparently, angels kept saving her and healing her, until finally she died when he cut off her head. That church was pretty freaky, even in day light. It was painted red and had a sign outside that said it was the first catholic church in the area or something like that. It was surrounded by graveyards. Nobody was around. Right in front of the church was a big NO TRESPASSING sign, like right in front of the front door, which seemed strange for a church.
We continued on foot, and still looking for the chimney, because we were confused. There's a gravel road that leads away from the church that we followed. On our way down, there was no one out. Pretty much everything looked like it could have been a satanic church. Every house and barn we passed was in some sort of decay. When we first walked past the first graveyard, both Holly and I felt the temperature significantly drop. A little while later it was getting really really hot. So maybe we'll check out that specific area when we go back. We went past a pretty creepy barn/stable building where we both agreed look like Satan probably lived and decided that if we ever needed to hide bodies, that that would be the place to do it. The trail went up a hill and into the woods. We were gonna keep walking, but we came to the gate that has about 12 no trespassing signs on it and a handwritten threat to shoot anyone on sight. We looked to see if we could see what was up there, and we saw an orange house and an old shed. We were pretty frustrated by now, so we turned around and went back. On our way back we saw like three guys on ATVs riding around. One had a big knife thing that he was using to cut away branches from trails. I don't think they were mad at us. We didn't look too suspicious I think. We were just two 20 year old girls on foot. Holly was convinced that one of the guys was gonna kill us though. We looked around the graveyard a bit. Nothing out of the ordinary. When we got into my car and thought we'd try to loop around from the other direction and drive the gravel path, but we couldn't find the street or the church in the garmin. We ended up getting distracted by a weird sounding church under "Places of Worship" in the garmin. We drove to it and it was creepier than anything else we had seen that day. It was right off of 28, near Buckwheat, up a long hidden driveway that we missed the first time. It was a really really nice, huge house that was completely empty. The windows were huge, we could see right inside. It looked really clean inside, but the outside was completely overgrown with vines covering most the windows and doors, except one. It was a red door and a path had been cut leading right to it. It was overgrown but accessible. That place definitely needs some more investigation.
When I got home, I did a little research. Devil's Church and Hell's Church are two different places.
Here's some info on Hell's Church, it's off of 32 and all that's left is the chimney: http://www.strangeusa.com/Viewlocation.aspx?id=7387
Devil's Church is in the area that we were in. It's supposed to be a huge barn. Like I said, there were a lot of barns around the place. The two places that it says it could be, either behind the church or at the end of the gravel road, neither places we investigated. Obviously we need to learn to do a little more research before diving into places like this. http://www.strangeusa.com/Viewlocation.aspx?id=7631&action=Comment+Added&TimeStamp=6/11/2012%206:31:43%20PM#cmt=
If you read the comments, you can start to hear about how damn creepy the people around the place are. I think that that might be the big secret of this area. They definitely sound like they're hiding something....
We did decide to consult the experts thought after our hunt today. We went to Enchanted Moments and told them about what we were doing and any advice that they had. There's actually a woman speaking about haunted places in Milford on Friday in Enchanted Moments. She is also starting the Milford Paranormal Society. The woman at Enchanted Moment also said that they have haunted tours every once in a while and that they go on ghost hunts from time to time that we can be a part of. They gave us a few good leads. We'll definitely go to see that woman speak on Friday.
All in all, it was a good first hunt. Can't wait to get back into it!
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