Doan’s Hollow Cemetery Witches’ Gate

Doan's Hollow Cemetery is an historic, inactive pioneer and United Empire Loyalist burial ground. The "Witches' Gate" Legend The cemetery is most famous for its mid-to-late 19th-century heavy iron, rectangular turnstile entrance. The Folklore: Local legend and internet culture dub it the "Witches' Gate," based on old superstitions claiming that witches and malevolent spirits cannot cross cold iron or navigate sharp 90-degree iron corners. The Reality: Historical usage was purely practical —pioneer turnstile gates allowed individual visitors to walk through while preventing farm livestock and pasture animals from wandering onto the sacred grounds. #cemetery #pioneercemetery #cemeterygates #simcoeontario #portdoverontario #creepycanada