Spider Gates was a blast when I was a teenager back in the 70's. We went there often and scared each other more then the place. There are tons of eerie stories about the place but I'll just stick to mine. The last time we went around 79, we didn't even go in because when we arrived there were six haystacks (halloween type) three in front of boulders used to block the entrance in and three behind and considering there were six of us in the car, 3 in front and 3 in back that was enough to set off our imaginations of burning at the stake kind of thing to keep us from ever going back. It was a creepy place, in the middle of the woods with a long walk down an unlit dirt road with nothing but woods on either side. The gates are no longer there but people say they had a spider webbing on them which if I'm correct would be where the name comes from. The graves are from the 1700's and there are only maybe 40 of them, it's very small. I'm surprised to hear it's hard to get near it now. I heard stories of black magic people using the place for rituals back then and I wonder if thats why their so strict now. Here is a story we grew up with which saposedly happened at Spider Gates. Remember this is just story to scare each other with on the way to the graveyard I doubt it's true. A young couple decided go parking at the grave yard. When they were ready to leave; his car (of course) was out of gas and wouldn't start, so he told his girlfriend he'ld walk to get some gas and told her to hide on the floor of the back seat under a blanket and no matter what noises she hears not to answer it, and he locked the doors of the car. Hours later she hears a back and forth scraping on the roof of the car. Terrified she stays put heeding her boyfriends advise. Later there is knocking on the window of the car and after persistant knocking and yelling (the police) she reveals herself. They help her out of the car and tell her not to look up but naturally she does and see's her boyfriend dead and bleeding hanging from an big old tree branch over the car, his fingers had been scraping the roof of the car as he swayed back and forth from the rope. There's some Spider Gates lore bull*$#@ of course but we had fun with it.
