When most people think of Kentucky nightlife, they picture bourbon bars and bluegrass music, not portals to the underworld, but Bobby Mackey’s Music World in Wilder didn’t get the memo about staying in its lane.
This country music nightclub has been called “Hell’s Gate,” and that’s not just some edgy marketing slogan cooked up by an intern with a flair for the dramatic.
The building sits just across the river from Cincinnati, looking perfectly ordinary from the outside, like any other venue where you’d expect to find line dancing and longneck bottles.
But ordinary is the last word anyone would use to describe what allegedly happens inside these walls once the sun goes down…