Cemetery

07.23.2005 | 10:44 pm | Maltby, United States, Washington

This cemetery is said to have been built by a Satanic family so that they might have an eternal resting place. In the middle of the cemetery, there are thirteen steps that lead to nowhere. Called the thirteen steps to hell, it is said that once a person walks downs these stairs, they perish instantly. Others, who have barely made it out alive, have reported seeing their spirit in hell at the bottom of the steps. It is reported that one man ran across the cemetery and was scared so badly, that he was never seen again.

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What is the address Please

Comment by JoAnne | 09.24.2005 | 3:14 am
What is address to the thirteen steps to hell?

Comment by JoAnne | 09.24.2005 | 3:15 am
Tried to find this cemetery several time got directions off the internet but haven’t found it i don’t know how to explain it but oh well i own P.R.S. Paranormal Research Services. Anybody know where it is please email me so i can start an investigation thank you…

Comment by T.j. Wright President P.R.S. | 09.30.2005 | 4:34 am
The cemetary is supposed to be there, only it’s gated off or something so you can’t go anywher near it.

Comment by mandalynn | 10.3.2005 | 9:34 pm
The Maltby Cemetery is nothing but the origional plots reserved for the homestead families who settled the paradise valley late in the 1800’s. Living in the valley, i have met and become friends of several decendants and family members of these families. This small, obscure site has been the place for high schoolers to party and hang out in for years … you can go back years, duval and woodinville high school grads all have stories from there. Over the years, land has been sold off and people like myself have developed the valley. the cemetery is now surrounded by private property and there is no public access. the stories of hauntings and such are mearly that …. stories

Comment by Randy Geiger | 10.14.2005 | 11:43 am
I went yesterday with my friends and the 13 steps is actually a grave of someone. There not exactly steps but theyre still scary. We found it becasue it doesnt have a sign or anything. There is a trail along the road leading to it.

Comment by Alyssa Tag | 10.23.2005 | 3:16 pm
Location of cemetary is as follows.
Lat: 47° 46′ 33″N, 122° 04′ 46″W
T26N R6E Sec 6
From Maltby head southeast on Paradise Lake Road for about 1.5 miles, turning south onto Paradise Valley Road for another mile. The cemetery will be just after you cross the county line from Snohomish County into King County.
This old cemetery is often called the Paradise Valley Cemetery.
The cemetery is now on private property, not open to the public, situated on a three terraced hillside which is very difficult to get to. One needs to have permission to visit it.

Comment by reverend rotten | 10.31.2005 | 5:36 am
I have been to the Maltby Cemetary several times, i grew up in Bothell, you have to take a trail at the side of the road, its spooky at night, and every time i’ve ever gone up there, there is an old Chevy truck with one headlight out and no tailgate that just drives up and down the road near the trailhead, (been there probobly 10 times over 2 years) its spooky and all, but no 13 steps, but there is a big broken up slab of concrete on the ground that seems to serve no purpose, but i’ve heard that the steps were bulldozed in the early 90’s to keep kids from coming and messing up the gravestones (which were getting vandalized) i believe the last person to be buried there was in 1999 that i saw, and it was a husband and wife, but the wife was yet to be burried, just had her birth year on it… and if i remember right, there were a lot of kids, like people under 20 burried there, definately creepy, but never found the steps. (maybe if you bring a shovel) but be careful, the guy who owns the place chased us out with a shovel once…

Comment by Marston | 12.13.2005 | 12:30 pm
Is it just me or is it that America has got around 10 times as munch ”horror” spots located than the rest of the
WHOLE F*CKING WORLD!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Gabriel | 12.15.2005 | 6:01 pm
I live in Woodinville, WA which is very close to this cemetery. I have never been there but I have definatly heard of it. I’ve heard of the 13 steps and some of my friends have been there and said there were steps. Though I can’t be sure because i have never been there. My friends have also said that there is no roads leading to it. Hope you find it.

Comment by Chelsea | 01.16.2006 | 12:02 am
I have been there many many times there is LOTS of weird stuff that goes on there

Comment by Robert | 01.23.2006 | 8:54 pm
Ben there many times first time houses were just being built, might have benn something there but not no more. A friends pastor lives, or used to live in the house 100 feet from the cemetery, he says kids party and trash the place, and he cleans it up. So big waste of time looking into it.

Comment by shawn mac fawn | 01.28.2006 | 8:07 pm
this sounds almost to scary to be true

Comment by sara mitchell | 02.21.2006 | 7:00 pm
It’s so fun to be scared! All cemeteries have stories and are spooky. I’ve lived in Washington all my life. I grew up on these stories and even planed vacations just to see local haunted hot spots. The truth is the Maltby Cemetary doesn’t have any stairs, its just a hill (or slope). It’s quiet and a little dark, still very pretty. Yes ghost hunting is lots -o- fun but it’s rude to invade on people just because of a story. I don’t think I’d want a bunch of drunk kids running around in my back yard every night. So be kind, tell the stories but don’t be a dumb *** and believe them. Just a question to those who live there, why would people want to surround the little cemetery with houses? it’s fun to visit and play around but why would you want a creepy thing like that in your backyard? Stories or not.

Comment by amber | 03.2.2006 | 5:54 am
Hey! Creepy story. I live in England and our ghost stories are definatly not a good as these. People over here dont have the guts to vist them either, like you brave people. How come though the places always get shut off to the public? None of the graveyards over here are shut. I’m guessing though ours are not as big as yours and they dont attract as much attention. If people dont damage what’s there, i cant see the problem. It’s natural for people to be curious about the place, especially after reading stories like these. When i’m burried i wont mind people walking across my grave, in search of a spooky story. In fact i might even give them a helping hand!

Comment by Donna | 03.2.2006 | 8:50 am
Me and three of my guy frieds (including my boyfriend) wanted to go ghost hunting one night….so after searching for this place for 3 hours…w.e finally realized we had to go through this trail off the side of the road. It was kinda creepy (maybe cuz it was so dark) …we then realized we were in someones backyeard…but the graveyard was just to the left of us…so we snuck over there and walked around. Never saw anything or heard anything. I believe the stories of the grave markers changing to larger headstones though because we walked up and down the row a couple times and I kept asking myself…”what the heck…is this what i just saw?” I think the idea of getting caught and all the adrenaline of the whole night scared us more than anything else. We never saw anything out of the ordinary (aside from the gravestones possibly changing)….I think we found the “13 steps” athough to me it just look like broken slaps of rock…but they led down the hill to what looked like could have been a crypt. It was barracaded off with wood and slaps of rock and i yelled at the boys for trying to break it open. The part that scared me the most though, was trying to get back. We got lost and walked around the seemingless never-ending woods, aimlessly for 3 1/2 hours before finally making it to the road…3 miles away from where we had parked!! Creepy, huh!

Comment by Brittany | 03.2.2006 | 1:24 pm
So where in the cemetery are the “Steps”? I’d like to go, but I dont want to spend 3 hours looking for them.

Comment by Ginny | 03.12.2006 | 3:53 pm
Went to the “13 steps to hell” and we lost a lot of great men out there. People keep talking about not being able to find the **** steps and if they can’t find them then the are damn retarted. They are right in the middle of the cemetary. You go past the second big tree on your left side then go 7 paces east and turn south. Go to the end of the cemetary and go 4 paces east turn 75 degrees northwest eastern then go 43.5 degrees southeast. if you go 44 you won’t see them. we are being very particular because we need to be. the grave keeper will then ask you for the password and you tell him “satan is my ***** lover.” you must say this 3 times then turn around and stick out your tongue and blink twice. then grab your ankles and drop your pants. the stairs will then appear. now stick your thumb up your butt and your good to go. you are now officially in hell! enjoy.

Comment by Brian Shane Kelsey | 03.19.2006 | 7:20 am
maltby is real believe me i’ve been and its no joke to get the full effects go to a plot with the name lloyd.good luck

Comment by cato | 04.1.2006 | 12:38 am
if u guys would think there is no cemetry and no 13 steps t hell i have directions and i went were exzacly that spot said its not REAL

Comment by autumn | 04.5.2006 | 8:24 pm
I live in WA, maltby is about ten minutes away from my house. the path off the side of the road is true, me and my buddys wanted to check it out to see if the ghost stories were true, so we drove halfway to Woodinville on paradise lake road parked across from the first gas station on the left and walked a little up the road to a path that is baracaded. we came to a little area that was open and full of dead scary looking trees and a little further up the path you could see a hill that leads up into pure darkness, we walked a little more and it started getting really cold and breezy and the surroundings started looking creepy and unearthly. . the 13 steps to hell are real and exist in the Everett cemetary along Ruker Ave. later the same night we tryed the Maltby cemetery we went to everett. The cemetery in Everett is huge, the biggest cemetary I have been in so far. The atmosphere there was very peacful..and haunted at the same time. We all saw and heard strange things there that night. Footprints trailing behind you in the grass where nobody is walking, a windchime in a tree that is moving while there is no wind and leaves are still, and whispers. There is a toom where the entire Ruker family is buried..me and my friends came up to it and noticed a lock on the wooden double door entrance, a padlock…both doors locked shut. We sat on the steps of the toom and talked for awhile, when we got up the lock was gone and the left door was open inward, which scared the living sh** out of us..so we walked away from the toom, then we decided to look for the 13 Steps to Hell so we walked around for a good while all over the cemetary, we finally saw some stairs on the right side of us right by the last line of plots right by the fence and highway..when I walked up to the steps, I counted 13..they are the creepiest set of stairs I have ever seen so I stood on the bottom step and looked up and the hill they are on seemed to never end. We circled around and walked to the top of the steps and looked down but none of us would get near them. The steps are there…not dozed down…not at the maltby cemetary…both cemetarys are haunted and there are many storys about them both, Ive been in one and the other scared me away before I even got to it.

-Josey

Comment by Josey Klein | 04.24.2006 | 7:01 am
I’ve been to the cemetery. In 1982, before the developement, I walked down the steps. They are in front of a grave marker that says, “Order of Pendo” at the bottom of it. The headstone is huge, you can’t miss it. Anyways, when I walked down the thirteen steps, I saw fire, and when I turned around I saw the steps going up into blackness. I ran up the steps and everything was okay. I ran out of the cemetery, got into my Ford, and drove away as fast as I could. At first my car wouldn’t start.

Comment by John | 04.24.2006 | 8:27 pm
I’ve been to Malty Cemetary several times over the years. Before the development, it was scary. It was hard to find then. One night it was dark and we were trying to find it and our car decided to act up. The headlights flashed and our windshield wipers stopped working. That would happen every time we drove past the cemetary. There was a man who would scare us away and chase you with a shovel. I also saw the steps and the broken slab of concrete. After the development we had to sneak past the homes there to get to the cemetary and the people who live there don’t like visitors. It is still very scary.

Comment by Brenda Cantwell | 04.25.2006 | 8:28 pm
I’ve been to MALTBY Cemetary several times over the years. Before the development, it was scary. It was hard to find then. One night it was dark and we were trying to find it and our car decided to act up. The headlights flashed and our windshield wipers stopped working. That would happen every time we drove past the cemetary. There was a man who would scare us away and chase you with a shovel. I also saw the steps and the broken slab of concrete. After the development we had to sneak past the homes there to get to the cemetary and the people who live there don’t like visitors. It is still very scary.

Comment by Brenda Cantwell | 04.25.2006 | 8:31 pm
I used to live in Woodinville, which is the neighboring town. My 5th grade girlfriend’s family owned the cemetery and all the land surrounding Paradise lake. I lost contact with her for many years, and by the time I finally got in touch with her again I had been there a couple times. I got yelled at once for being there. The cemetery has been heavily vandalized over the years. I once wrote a story about it for a local newspaper halloween story contest. There was one man who wrote a letter to the newspaper saying that vandalism had increased after my story was published. Laughable, but when I went there afterwards I was ashamed of the state of things. Beer bottles were scattered around the graves, and a couple of the headstones had been broken. Not that I think my story lead to this, but I had no idea about the extent of the vandalism that occured there over the years, even when I wrote the story (I wrote it before I had been there). There is a slab on the groud that is cracked in half, and “hell” with an arrow pointing to the crack is etched into the slab. Now there are houses right within sight of the cemetery. The closest is owned by a man that has family buried there, and he will not give permission for anyone to enter. When I was a member of a local ghost hunting society a documentry crew tried filming there but were turned away by the owner. When I finally got in touch with my friend she told me that her family had sold the land back to the county, and they sold it to the current owner. She said that she still visits there often since most of her family is buried there. It is tempting to enter without permission, but now I think it is important to respect the owner’s wishes. I can say from being there that there is definitely something creepy about it. I went there with a group of friends late at night, and after being scared away by strange mists and sounds we left. That same night I was confronted by something I cannot explain accurately. It was a tall, cloud-like figure, and it just floated right in front of me as I was standing outside. I stared at it for what seemed like hours, too frightened to move, and then eventually ran back into the house. When my friends went outside to investigate it was gone. I have not been back since.

Comment by Jerry | 05.4.2006 | 4:44 pm
Wow, I have visited just about every cemetery here in Washinton and this is by far and away the most haunted one yet! I vaguely heard the rumor about a woman killing her daughter, but when I went to the cemetery I wasn’t expecting much. I walked through the two posts at the entrance of the cemetery where I found the first set of headstones that I observed closely. Nothing seemed that strange to me at first but I found a silver necklace laying next to one of the ever so talked about doolittle headstones. I left and did some research at home and found that the rumor is that Josephine Doolittle outlashed in a fit of rage at her Daughter Leonora and tried to strangle her to death with a necklace! This is unreal and unfathomable. I went back to find the necklace during the daylight and there was no evidence of it. Creepy.

Comment by Drew Thomas | 05.11.2006 | 4:20 am
Visited the cemetery and the rumor about the car dying is so true. It happened to me right before we parked and as we were leaving also! I swear I also heard wispering in the trees and footsteps as if someone was following us on our way back down the trail. Pretty hard to find but worth the visit for a scare…..

Comment by Jenny | 05.11.2006 | 4:28 am
Ummm… I have lived down the street from the cemetary all my life. THere is no 13 steps to hell and it is just some old graves. Believe me, I used to play hide and seek with my friends there. It is nothing, so don’t go looking for it, the neighbors get upset when people trespass!

Comment by Karen | 05.16.2006 | 8:21 pm
I grew up in the area between Maltby and neighboring Woodinville, and was able to visit the graveyard a couple times. The first time was a late night venture with some friends, and nothing out of the ordinary happened, but I did walk down the steps. I definatley felt a heavy air around the place, and I was shocked when I touched the car door before leaving. I will definatley say that we treated the place with respect, especially since my family lives in the area, and I have a fondness for history.
A few years later, I drove through the neighborhood with my sister, pointing the area out, and we were stared down by a man in a nearby home. This man however was not the owner of the property, but a co-worker or friend of a TV/Movie star who had purchased a house nearby. They probably thought we were there to spy on them (paparazzi more like it), but I mention this because the area is deemed extremley private (I know of this because I was friends with the previous owner’s son). This celebrity sold the house a few years ago, and has since moved on.
There are also surrounding areas that seem to have stories behind them, once being an area called “Black Lake”, where a human sacrifice supposedly took place (a story I heard from several people living in the area).
Regardless, the Maltby Cemetary should be considered a place of rest for those passed on rather than a tourist attraction, but there is definatley an odd energy around the area (I’d love to go back with a energy meter, or heat sensitive camera, but I don’t want to get arrested for tresspassing and disturbing the peace).

Comment by James | 05.19.2006 | 8:08 am
A few of my friends went to the Cemetary in 1995. We had to park down the the street and walk through the yards of some private homes. We found the place where the steps were supposed to be. It was a little off to the side in the woods. That was creepy as the forest has taken over some of the gravesites. It truly looked like someone had just dumped buckets of cement in the woods to create this mound. It was covered in grafitti. I remember a gravestone of an infant upturned next to this too. The “13″ steps I heard, and could see from this area aren’t really to hell. Apparently there was a house out there that was demolished leaving a foundation. However the stairs to the basement were still there..which I’m sure were creepy seeing “stairs” in a cemetary, and this is how the myth started. No Ghosts..nothing. However lots of drunk high-schoolers and not long after came the Police who chased us.

Comment by Sean | 05.26.2006 | 8:23 pm
There are ghosts, I’ve checked the records of asylums in the area, and there is a record of a man who went insane at a cemetery in Maltby, Washington.

Comment by John | 05.27.2006 | 9:37 pm
The cemetary is on private property which is why lots of people don’t actually go through with visiting the cemetary because they get spooked. You can either go into the housing development to park and sneak past the house since the cemetary is in it’s yard though probaby 50-75 yards away from it (rough estimate as I didn’t tape measure it). They have motion lights so be careful not to be too obvious you are going to the cemetary. You can also park out on the main road at the trailhead and then hike up to the cemetary which is what we did.

When we were there it was after midnight and quite dark as the moon wasn’t out. The first wierd thing was that one branch of the tree as you first come into the opening from the trail, and only one branch, starting blowing in the ‘wind’ despite the fact there was no wind. The other very strange thing was that one headstone appeared to be glowing in a somewhat greenish color and from the direction it faced there was absolutely no light anywhere. The moon wasn’t out and there were no lights hitting it from anywhere else as it was pitch black. It was quite strange and that along with the possibility of being caught kind of spooked us and we took off. There was a previous post that really said it best, saying there was an “odd energy” there. It is definitely weird stuff though we didn’t see any of the images of the mother or kids like some have reported.

We didn’t ever see any steps and weren’t expecting to. There were some slabs of concrete but nothing resembling former steps. We were never followed on the main road like some in the past have reported and we never saw a pickup truck like numerous people still report. It is definitly worth a look again sometime. I imagine each trip would be a fairly unique experience. Go after midnight for the least likely chance of being seen/caught.

Comment by Jarron | 06.8.2006 | 1:00 am
I first went to Maltby cemetary in 1976, long before the housing development. My first trip there was during the day, and at that time I noted (on paper) some of the grave stones and the locations of different objects in the cemetary. A few days later I went there at night fall, and as I drove up the dirt rode to the cemetary, it became very foggy. (It had been a beautiful summer day and not a cloud in site.) The first thing I noticed that seemed out of place was the set of boulders at the top of the entrance on the left side. They appeared further away from the driveway. Since there were no lights up there it was very dark, a flashlight helped a little, as I took out the map I had made on the first visit, I noticed that the gravestone of a little girl about 4 yrs old was no longer in the first row of stones nearest the parking area. I walked that entire row 3 times. As I walked around the area for a while I noticed that a lot of the stones seemed in different places. I became a little spooked and decided that I would come back during the day and look again. As I started to walk back to my car, I felt as though there were eyes on me from all around the woods. I had trouble starting the car, and when I did finally get it started I was glad to leave. My next trip was the following day, this time the little girls grave had been replaced with an older mans stone and I found the little girls stone down 3 rows and over about 10 sites!!!! On another occasion when a group of 4 of us went there at night, (again foggy as you approched the cemetary), it had a very creepy feeling, like we were being watched. As I parked this time I made sure the car was heading back down the rode. I shut the car off and we just sat and listened to the silence. I didn’t feel comfortable getting out, after about 10 minutes, we heard something about 5 feet from the back of the car, (as I drove in and turned around I was able to see the entire parking lot and it was empty)I quickly rolled up my window and lock the door. Just as I did a man in a black hooded cloak knocked on the window. I rolled down the window about 2 inches and the man asked for paper, not sure where he can from and thinking he meant rolling papers, I told him we didn’t have any, and as I started to roll up the window someone hit the back of the car, and we heard people starting to chant, and he said he needed paper to start a fire. As I looked in my mirror I could see a strange glow (I don’t know from what) and a bonfire about 5 feet high not yet lit. I tried to start the car and it wouldn’t start. The chanting started to get louder and we could hear people starting to what appeared to be shovels on the ground. Finally the car started and we were able to leave. This was the last time I was at the cemetary for a number of years. I will tell the rest of the story in a few days

Comment by Cathi | 06.19.2006 | 6:17 pm
some friends and i went to the 13 steps just the other night and had no luck finding the steps or even the cemetery. we are planning on going again but with someone who has been there before. we also had some troubles with a cars turning off the lights and getting it to turn off. also there was a random wondering man walking down the side of the road by the old toyota (i believe) that was parked on the side of the road. totally a scary place to visit..even the drive there was rahter freaky.

Comment by Alexandria Williams | 06.29.2006 | 7:55 pm
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Comment by Alexandria Williams | 06.29.2006 | 7:57 pm
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Comment by Alexandria Williams | 06.29.2006 | 7:58 pm
Cold death to all of you that disturb the dead at night i hope the home owners come out with a 12 gauge and blow your heads off (now thats the real spook) hell if i owned property nearby i wouldnt mined posting “tresspassers will be shot and survivors will be shot again” signs.

It’s just an old cemetery
It’s NOT haunted

My basement is more scary at night…

Comment by Tom | 07.20.2006 | 1:23 pm
My dog took a piss on one of the tombstones and it had urinary problems the next day!!! omfg that was scary omg im sooo scared i will nevr come back there again

Comment by Bootycallplease | 07.20.2006 | 1:26 pm
I had a friend who went to the maltby cemetery because she used to live up there. The steps are actually just a hill, and she said she walked about 6 paces down and got scared. Her friend tried next, got further, ran back up the hill in tears. I think I’m going up there next weekend, but anyone who is interested in spooky cemeteries should try the black diamond cemetery, just outside of Auburn. I went up there with a group of friends one night and heard whistling, which I later found out was a sign of ghosts.

Comment by Caitie | 07.23.2006 | 11:23 pm
I have been to the Maltby cemetary a couple of times before and it is really creepy. The 13 steps to hell is now filled in with concrete. Around the area by the steps there are gravestones all with little children. I went with three friends and nothing happened until two of us decided to scare the other two girls. We were at the bottom of the trail in the bushes and we heard giggling and whispering. We actually heard footsteps coming down the trail. So, we jumped out to scare them and they weren’t even there. Then we heard screaming and they came running down the trail. We just jumped into the car and took off. The scary thing is…there is always fog in Maltby even in the summertime.

Comment by Brittany | 07.23.2006 | 11:32 pm
I have been to the Maltby cemetary a couple of times before and it is really creepy. The 13 steps to hell is now filled in with concrete. Around the area by the steps there are gravestones all with little children. I went with three friends and nothing happened until two of us decided to scare the other two girls. We were at the bottom of the trail in the bushes and we heard giggling and whispering. We actually heard footsteps coming down the trail. So, we jumped out to scare them and they weren’t even there. Then we heard screaming and they came running down the trail. We just jumped into the car and took off. The weird thing is whenever we drove there the song “Highway to Hell” would come on the radio.

Comment by Brittany | 07.23.2006 | 11:33 pm
i went there tonight with 9 friends 10 of us total we got lost so i think we went to the wrong trail we walked the whole way up and got to a house we went to the left and only saw 3 graves… we were pissed off and called it a night

if you have accurate directions to this cemetery please please e-mail to me at libertyhs05@yahoo.com

thank you

Comment by mustafa | 07.24.2006 | 3:03 am
We got to paradise road we drove down the street and found a small gravel parking on the side of the road and the trail was right in front of us. So all 10 of us got together took out our flashlights and walked up the trail it was like right beside the road we got about half way up then the trail forked so we took a left and kept going there is alot of fallen trees in the trail so at night its hard to see them.The trail ends in someones backyard there lights were on and so the directions said the cemetery was on the left side we were first a bit confused and too scared the owner of the house would come out so all of us just stayed low then at last we saw the 2 metal pillars we made a run for it (kinda hard with 10 ppl) we go straight left and saw 5 graves so were like is this it?.We took pictures and looked at the tombstones by now its about 11:20pm. So we just figured we went to the wrong cemetery and we headed back down the trail. We still don’t know if we ever went to Maltby cemetery i remeber a tombstone saying fredrick cooper thats all i remeber if that grave sounds familiar please tell me was it the right cemetery or not?

e-mail: libertyhs05@yahoo.com thanks

Comment by Sofa King Wee Todd did | 07.24.2006 | 4:28 pm
Sorry, I can’t believe this story, that sounds like SHlT! But you may email me at cluboca_51@yahoo.com so I can try this out next time if it is true

Comment by Nate | 07.25.2006 | 7:06 pm
Oh my God!! Last night my friends and I (4 total) all went to the Maltby Cemetery, and I’ll be honest… We were hammered!
We found this large slab of stone, and thankfully I was smart enough to bring my dad’s pick-axe. We lifted it and what did you know??? 13 dirty steps that lead to nowhere. I was getting this weird sensation in my stomache from being soo scared!
I dared my girlfriend to go walk down there, and promised that if she did I would buy her the new Jewel CD.
She walked down… claiming she wasn’t scared!!!
And guess what??? The stone fell back on top of the hole and I heard her scream (faintly)
I pryed up the stone again. This time it took all 3 of us, who worried spitless!
———–SHE WAS GONE————-
I crapped my pants in fear, and ran away along with my friends.
Now, I have no girlfriend….which sucks… cause she was pretty cool….and REALLY hot…Like SUPER hot!!

All I can say is: Don’t go there to make the spirits mad… because spirits are stronger than any human could possibly imagine!!

Comment by Jess the Mess | 07.26.2006 | 10:43 pm
ok guys, i live next door to the cemetery. It’s kinda creepy, but thats about it…the concrete slab covers a grave, all the others also have slabs, but this is the only one that has had all the dirt washed away, or somebody dug it up. by the way, the guy who owns the place isnt a nice guy. going in the day isnt any more dangerous than in the night, there’s so much foliage, its hard to be seen

Comment by dane | 07.28.2006 | 3:21 am
My sister and some of her friends went to the Maltby Cemetary back in the 70’s ( high school days ) and they came back with some pretty interesting stories. But thats all they are….stories. There are a few old time cemetaries in the state, we have one here in Puyallup where the Puyallup Valley settlers are buried. Your mind can play tricks on you and if your in a cemetary, well you can see where Im goin with this. Its a shame that folks have desicrated those graves…If that was my great grandfathers grave Id chase you out too. But, in reality, you cannot LEGALLY enter the Maltby Cemetary unless you can prove you know someone that is buried there, or you are with someone that knows someone thats buried there. One more thought before I let you go..Personally, Ive never been to the Maltby Cemetary. Its old, run down, and has been destroyed over and over again by people looking for a ” thrill.”
Its a REAL SHAME people would do that to a place of final rest, it really is. Tall tales lead to taller tales that lead to the obserd…That can lead to jail time. Maybe we should go knock on the owners door and offer to clean up the cemetary and help maintain it for those that rest there for all eternity.

Comment by Kathy | 07.30.2006 | 11:29 am
In 1978, the Journal American newspaper published a story about a haunted house in Duvall. I kept that artical for years. Then in the summer of 1983, my friend and I made up a story to call and make a visitation to the house. (We were suppose to be doing a high school ed piece in advance for Halloween). The owners at the time had told us that the sprit sends notes by dropping a small piece of paper directly on top of the dining room table. I don’t recall as the notes said anything specific like “Get Out” or “My name is so-n-so”. But it was an interesting interview to understand how they were not frightened of a spirit identity in their mist. I was up in the area last year for the first time in 21 years. Natually I’d thought I’d never forget where they lived. But I did and so ended my journey back in the day when I wanted to really be a ghost investigator long before “Ghostbusters” came out in the movie theater.

Comment by riverratt | 08.7.2006 | 9:50 pm
Maltby cemtery is a great palce to visit getting there is fun there are no 13 steps to hell. If you dont wana get caught the best time to go is 11pm+ anywhere around that time everyone in that area is asleep. The freakist things there thats happnd to me was when i put my cellphone on record and held it up to one of the tombstone. When i listend to the recording i hear a faint “help me” i was scared shitless to be honest.

Comment by Doolittle | 08.14.2006 | 11:11 pm
I have never been to this graveyard, but I recall stories from this graveyard when I was a teenager in the 70’s. I grew up around 10 miles from there and I remember one of my friends telling me about this place. Then a few years later my step-mom was telling me about this place her and my dad went to. It was around August in the mid 70’s. Her and my dad said they were driving down this old road and decided to park and go blackberry picking. They found this trail and started walking down it and found this graveyard. They were reading the grave sites which were very old. She said it was extrememely hot that day and the son was shining, but when they got to the graveyard, it got very dark, cold and breezy and a strange fog came in. They heard strange noises and decided to leave because they both were getting pretty creeped out. They said when they got to the road where the car was, they had a hard time starting it. This is so strange, because I’m reading that other people had the same thing. Years later, I asked her where this was and she said it was some graveyard in the woods by Woodinville. That had to be the graveyard that they found. Now these are my parents that didn’t believe in ghosts. They were born in the 40’s. This is really strange.

Comment by Patty | 08.15.2006 | 6:43 pm
That is stupid…the only way to get to hell is when you die and God chooses to send you there!!!

Comment by April | 08.25.2006 | 3:34 am
IS THAT SERIOUS? THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE 13 STEPS TO HELL. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO DIE BY WALKING DOWN SOME STEPS. THE ONLY WAY TO GET TO HELL IS IF GOD CHOOSES TO SEND YOU THERE…COME ONE ANYONE WHO BELIEVES THIS NEEDS TO GET A LIFE!!!

Comment by April | 08.25.2006 | 1:05 pm
I have actual first hand knowledge of the Doolittle family, and they are far from the satanic cult members so many believe. The doolittle family homesteded the paradise lake area, and the land surrounding it. they were some of the fist settlers of the area, and it was only natural for a small family plot to be built. I know this because, one my dads friend was Hank Doolittle, a man who had grown up on the land, however was not burried there. Secondly my aunt, not by blood, was Joan Doolittle and, to the best of my knowledge is burried there, or maybe in the new family plot. In any case, the “Maltby Cemetary” or really the old Doolittle plot is a place of final rest for many family members. I think it is not right to just waltz into the site because it is disrespecting everyone in there when the place is not treated right, esp. now that someone else owns it. The Doolittles still live almost right across the street and I am sure they feel the same way. Remember imagination can make the body feel crazy things. It is just burried bones. A crypt was once on the site, but no long exists. Its just too bad people had to ruin the site for everyone. The Doolittles are good people, treat them with some respect. there is nothing up there but tattered old sites. please respect their wishes. dont go.

Comment by sean, friend of the doolittles' | 08.26.2006 | 4:30 am
I went the the 13 steps of hell with a couple of my frineds last night…there are several ways to get to the cemetery. the first one is to drive right up to the house that it is behind and try and make it down the drive way without the motion lights coming on or the old man that lives in coming out or calling the police..the next way is to go around up the back way through a 1/4 mile woods walk. We started walking with flashlights took a left at the fork and came to a large bush pile..as we stepped over it we could see the house and the 35 stones. we were also with another group that we didn’t know. they showed up just as we were starting to walk up the path. While we were at the cemetery with them watching there sensors move from 0.00 to 1 than 2 than 4 and to 5, all of the people that had flashlights with sensors soon found themselves in the dark. flashlights just started going off…you could see your breath as well. My friends and i never made it to the thirteen steps because of the old man that called the police. However i feel that that cemetery is haunted and i will go find the thirteen steps.

Comment by warren | 09.14.2006 | 3:42 pm
I have been to the cemetery a few times. This time we went at about 10:30pm on a wed. night. I have yet to see the 13 steps, but I have heard the Hounds. They are known as the “hounds of hell” and they Howl like no dog I have heard before. They started as soon as we walked through the first metal gate walking into the woods and continued to get louder the closer we got to the cemetery. Once we were in they stopped. WE were in complete silence. I must say that I find the woods on the path up there to be more haunted than the acually cemetery. As we walked I began to hear walking next to me, on the side where the revine drop off is in your left. But it/what was walking at the same pace and level I was. Midway up I started to hear the voices. None of which I could make out into a comlpete sentance, it sounded like 10 people wispering to me at once. That was the most unbearable part, For the life of me I couldn’t make out what they were tring to say. The voices only came when I was in the woods, but as soon as I was in the clearing the stopped. But as we were leaving the second I stepped over the brush out of the clearing they started again. Once in the cemetery we walked around. I saw two things while i was in there. One: when I was on the top level I look down to the third and saw a green light, like somone was walking with a lantern. It swung like someone was holding it but it didn’t light up anything around it. I saw this green haze a few more times that night in different areas of the cemetery. Two: As we were checking the names on the headstones I looked up to see a figure, it was a shadow of what looked to be a person standing no more than four feet tall. I watched it for a minute just to make sure my eyes were not playing tricks on me. It took a step, I turned a away to grab my friend but when I looked back up it was gone. We decided it was time to leave, and the wooded path out seemed like our only option(I was not going to walk by the house). We began to walk, just as we passed the large fallen tree that you have to step over I was pushed, and really pushed hard. The right side of my body fell completely over like someone pulled back on my left side and shoved me on my right. When we hot home we checked out my shoulder. It was bright red and freezing to the touch. It stayed that way for about three hours after we got home. That is one of my experiences that I had. I was there with three more people who also had experiences of their own, but I will let them tell there story.

A word to the wise….
*The owner’s of the house will prosicute so be careful.

*I suggest waring dark clothes and sneekers. It makes you less visable and makes the walk through the wood easier.

*Try not to use a flashlight, in the cemetery or the walk up. You don’t want to draw attention to yourself.

*If you have it bring a camera(night vision), and hand held audio, It has been my experience that what you might not see when you are up there may come up on whatever footage you took.

*Try not to go with any more than four people. It just makes things easier.

Comment by Allison | 09.15.2006 | 2:47 pm
why is april so angry?

Comment by rick | 09.21.2006 | 10:22 am
I have been up to the cemetary many times in the last few years. Some very weird stuff has happened. The worst expirience that I had is that I was there with a group of people. We were walking around in the cemetary and I thought someone said my first name. I turned around and no one was there. (the weird thing is.. that I go by my middle name for many reasons. NO ONE in my group of friends know my real first name.. and thats what I heard.) About a minute later…. I heard one of the say my name and I looked over. They had a flashlight pointing to the grave and I walked over and there it was. It was a tomb with my name on it. I freaked out and people asked why… I told them what my real name was and they didnt beleive me.. I had to pull out my WA ID so they would believe me. Right after that we left. As soon as we were leaving I felt like someone yanked on my necklace.. I felt it coming off and grabbed it before It went down my shirt. I freaked again and we ran down the trail to the car and left right away. When we were about a mile away. I looked at my necklace and It was fine. The claspe was together. It wasnt broken. I DID NOT put it together and the chain is not long enough to pull of my head. So how did it fall off? I had never heard the story about the mother killing choking her daughter with the necklace until now. I really felt someone pull the necklace. And the thing about my name being said and it being on the grave.. my first name is not a typical name. No one there knew it… and we all saw the grave. I was actually gutsy enuf to go back a later day with the same people and the grave was gone. We have had MANY things happen to us there. BUT BY FAR.. this was the worst. I dont plan on ever going back.

Comment by V | 09.23.2006 | 1:46 pm
I just went to the cemetery last night did not see it though. I did however see the car and truck off to the right side of the hill coming down the tail the car has a tree growing though it. It seems impossible that those cars could get in that position!!! anyone knoe the story???

Comment by rachel | 09.23.2006 | 7:34 pm
Dear Dumbasses (comment number 64),

Dumbasses, you’re a real idiot. Why would anyone want to disturb the dead? I have family in that cemetery, and because of vandals like you, we had to get the family crypt bulldozed! My great-great grandfather, Lee Doolittle, was in that crypt and now his grave is unmarked! The man who lives in the house behind the cemetery is a distant relative of mine, and also a descendant of Lee Doolittle. I WILL find out who you are, and I WILL contact the law on this. As for peaceful visitors, thank you, and please stop anyone who tries to vandalize the cemetery. It’s been through enough pain.

Sincerely,

Frank Doolittle

xx

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 09.25.2006 | 3:06 pm
Dumbasses,

I’m sorry. After a trip to the cemetery on the twenty sixth, the owner of the cemetery and I carefully examined everything. We have discovered that nothing was damaged at all. He says that he plans to put a fence up, or have the graves moved to Comet Lodge Cemetery, so another house can be built on where the cemetery was. Trespassing is still a crime though, but that’s alright. I trespass all the time. I am now talking with the webmaster of this site, and other sites, to have any information of this cemetery removed from the internet. Maybe that will lower the amount of trespassers.

Sincerely,

Frank Doolittle

xx

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 09.28.2006 | 2:58 pm
I am writing a paper on the way kids(and i use that term lightly because people my age act immature) disrespect and destroy cemetaries. I have been to several cemetaries over the past few months and it is just upseting the damage done by people who think its fun to get drunk and kick over headstones. With Holloween coming upon us there is no doubt the damage will increase. I am hoping to have the paper published in the seattle times before Halloween comes to close. If someone could let me know how to get there so that I can take pictures of any damage and perhaps talk to the family members I would appreciate it.

Comment by Misty | 10.4.2006 | 1:08 pm
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Comment by Misty | 10.4.2006 | 1:10 pm
Dumbasses,

There was no vandalism or signs of recent vandalism in the cemetery. Does the cemetery interest you? I would try contacting the Maltby town coucil. They are pretty informative.

Sincerely,

Frank Doolittle

xx

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 10.6.2006 | 2:56 pm
For those of u how been their where the f*ck is it?

Comment by Angel | 10.7.2006 | 6:51 pm
wow i didnt knoe there was a story to it were going on halloween it oped somebody said its in issaquah and its open 2 day before halloween i wanted to go to something really scary this year besides kube93 haunted house if u have more info on where it is email please a Dest2343@yahoo.com

Comment by Destiny | 10.9.2006 | 12:21 pm
Dumbasses,

What do you mean?

Sincerely,

Frank Doolittle

xx

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 10.11.2006 | 8:42 pm
Frank,

When you asked me if the cemetery interested me and for me to contact the Maltby city council

Sincerely,

Dumbasses

xx

Comment by Dumbasses | 10.12.2006 | 11:36 am
No, it was no joke. Why do you think it was a joke?

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 10.12.2006 | 3:11 pm
We went out to Maltby cemetary tonight, but I have a few questions, and a story to share.

We took a right at the shell station, and continued on the road past Paradise Pet Lodge, etc

We saw a dirt road off to the left, so we took it.
About 50 feet up there was a sign that said “AREA UNDER 24 HOUR VIDEO SURVAILLACE”

we got out of the car, and began walking down this trail.
about 10 seconds down the trail, we hear these crazy *** hounds barking and howling.

we book it back to the car and leave…

first, were we in the right place
second, what the **** happened!!?!?

Comment by Nate | 10.13.2006 | 1:44 am
There is a dog kennel about a mile from there.

Comment by blah | 10.13.2006 | 12:59 pm
yea mabye we freaked out over nothing…..

Comment by Nate | 10.13.2006 | 4:27 pm
omg, how do people know about the cemetary?

Comment by cassy | 10.13.2006 | 5:38 pm
the glory of the internets

Comment by Nate | 10.14.2006 | 12:12 am
i dont mean by that i mean niether mind i guess i was like really blonde or was i how do people know about the story when like no one lives? see no i wasnt blonde! so yeah! and i was talking about how the person put it on the internet how they know so nate or who ever you are i am not dumb!

Comment by cassy ( sweetie) | 10.14.2006 | 1:53 pm
i guess because some people saw the guy go insane, and then went home and posted it on the internet.

I really have no clue, but I do believe this place is seriously haunted.

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Comment by Nate | 10.15.2006 | 3:22 pm
Yes, I have, and if you notice, there are members of the Davis Family in there. The Doolittles are closely related to the Davis’s, which is why there are both in the Maltby Cemetery. In my visit to Carnation Cemetery, I could not find the Davis graves, but am told that they are all in one family plot. The cemetery was started in 1906, yet two Davis graves are of 1904 and 1890. They apparently were moved from a Pleasant Hill Cemetery.

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 10.17.2006 | 3:08 pm
WOW U KNOW ANY OTHER COOL CEMETERIES?

Comment by Dumbasses | 10.18.2006 | 3:59 pm
i’ve been up to that cemetary briefly when i was in high school. i’d like to go again and check it out, but i was a little freaked out and my friends wanted to leave. someday, i’ll go back. you have to hike up a hill to get there

Comment by Kate | 10.19.2006 | 5:14 pm
Frank(if it is indeed you, and not someone posing)-

Why hasn’t something been done to make this cemetery accessible to the pubic? There is obviously a lot of interest in it and if there were a proper way to visit it people would be able to fufill their curiosity without destroying it or having to break laws to visit it. Limit the access that the reckless idiots have and allow respectful people to experience this wonderful place. Building over it would be a shame, surely there is something you can do.

Simply censoring all information about the area and hoping the problem will go away (or erasing this piece of history all together) is the wrong way to go about it. Education and understanding is the way. The reason these website exist is because there is a hunger for information about the subject. Why not give people a true understanding of it?

Comment by Will | 10.19.2006 | 10:10 pm
Will, I can guarantee that I am not posing. I am a descendant of Lee Doolittle. We are not going to build over the cemetery. I said that we were going to have the graves moved. I have attempted to have the cemetery fully restored and opened to the public, but the present owner also has family in the cemetery, and feels different. I agree with you, education is the way, but sometimes we cannot trust the people who disagree. It’s a historic place, it really is, but it is also sacred. Removing information from the internet is just a possibility. I do not plan to do so, but if vandalism goes to any further extreme, I will consider it be done.

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 10.20.2006 | 2:45 pm
I attended Leota Jr. High about 16 years ago, which is about 5-10 miles or so from Paradise Lake Rd. It was a “known” story among all students regarding the cemetery. Not many people had the courage to actually make it up there especially at night. However, everyone heard about the happenings after someone made the trip up. Now, I know that information does get stretched among kids. But, I have heard of horrible satanic rituals that did take place there at one time. At least many years ago. That kind of energy never leaves, no matter how much development occurs in the area. I would never go!

Comment by Anne | 10.30.2006 | 2:43 pm
Just wanted to wish everyone a happy halloween… and if you head up to Maltby for a few frights, be careful about it. Also don’t litter or vandalize. Maltby has a history, and continuing generations should be able to have the rights to go up there to get scared sh*tless!

Comment by Jason | 10.31.2006 | 10:48 am
I grew up in Monroe, which is only a couple miles from Maltby, and I will convey my experience with the 13 steps as they happened to me. Two friends of mine and I had heard about the 13 steps to hell and decided to try and play chicken by going to the Maltby cemetery on Halloween, 1989, and see who would be the first who wanted to leave. I don’t think any of us had any real expectations of finding the 13 steps and since we were 15, 15 and 16 years old, it was more of a teenage machismo thing I think. Anyways, there was Geoff, Jason, Russell, Mitch and myself, and we all met up at Geoff’s place, hung out until it was dark but Russell and Mitch decided that they didn’t want to be out so late on a school night, Tuesday I think, so they took off home around 9 pm. We left shortly after they did. It took us about 30 minutes to get to dirt road leading up to the cemetery. We started driving up the road and noticed that along the side of the road were abandoned cars. Many of the cars were all shot up, probably by kids like us with a shot gun wanting to just shoot stuff. We got to where the road ended. There was another car up there that wasn’t all shot up so we figured someone else had come up for the same thing and sure enough as soon as we parked 2 guys and a girl about our same age came walking out of the woods on the other side of their car. We ask ‘How’s it goin?’ and got to know each other. They were from Lynnwood. They were worried that we were the sheriff when we first pulled up, but they were up for the same reason we were so we decided to look for the steps together. We had been told that there was a groundskeeper or someone who looked after the grounds that lived near the cemetery who could be a little aggressive. Not sure if that’s true but it did make us wary, but I think we were mostly scared of what we were looking for. The sky was very dark and streaked with clouds and only a sliver of moon was visible and at the risk of sounding cliché’ there was a think fog that was forming. We had brought flashlights but didn’t want to use them unless we had to because we would be easily seen from a distance. So we just kind of hung out until our eyes adjusted to the dark and the little bit of moonlight was just enough to find our way around. It only took about 5 minutes to get to the cemetery from where we parked our cars. We didn’t know exactly what we were looking for so we decided to split up into our respective groups of friends and if either of us found something we’d whistle to let the other group know. I was getting a little nervous and kind of wanted to go but Geoff convinced me to stay. We started joking around when we didn’t find anything. Awhile later we saw a flashlight turn on in the direction that the other group went. Then one of the guys said, ‘HEY!’ fairly loudly. We all got quiet, and I got nervous again. We walked over there and there were the 2 guys and girl standing there, I think the girl’s name was Sarah, and next to where they stood was a rough, uneven slope going down into a deep hole, like an open grave. The slope did look like steps but were so worn and uneven I’d hardly call them steps. One of the guys was shining his light down in the hole. And it just kind of ended there, about 8 feet deep, at the bottom. Jason asked something to the effect of ‘who’s going down?’ I remember suggesting that maybe we should go home. Then one of the guys from Lynnwood said, “f*** it!” and started walking down into the hole. About half way down he started laughing and called us something similar to ‘wussies.’ It was at this time we heard a loud voice yell, “hey!’ behind us. We turned to find a flashlight in our face. We took off running towards the car, got in, and hauled tail. We never looked back. I never went back to the cemetery, and neither did Jason or Geoff as far as I know but I did see that Sarah girl at the Lynnwood mall around Christmas time. She told me that she ran back to the car too along with one of the other guys but said that her other friend stayed in the hole. They waited at the car until morning because the car belonged to the guy that went in the hole so they were stuck. He never came back to the car and they had to walk to a nearby house and use a phone to get some one to come pick them up. She said later she found out that he was taken out of school by his parents. He apparently was found lying in the cemetery after having had some kind of nervous breakdown. She said he never spoke again and ended up passing away a month later around Thanksgiving. Whether you choose to believe this or not is up to you,and as far as whether or not the cemetery is even still there I don’t know but do I know that there are four other people besides myself that live with the truth of what happened that night. Happy Halloween.

Comment by Seen It! | 10.31.2006 | 2:11 pm
We wet up there tonight around 8 o clock. it was pitch black. we found the cemetary, we were very respectful and made sure to leave everything as it had been when we got there. its basically a set of three terraces with graves on them. we found the broken up slab with the headstone on it. it looks like the slab was a piece of something bigger as there were several other pieces of large rock in the same area and on a lower terrace. I’m pretty sure this is not where the 13 steps are. If you are one of the few who know where the site of the 13 steps was, please tell me, growing up in this area it really intrigues me and I’d like to know the truth about this piece of history. e-mail me at downhillracer3@hotmail.com. thank you.

Comment by Tyler | 11.1.2006 | 2:45 am
Tyler,
The “13 Steps to Hell” are no longer visible from above ground. We bulldozed them, which was at that time the Doolittle Family Crypt, years ago. So many years in fact, that I cannot recall the exact location within the cemetery. The steps would not make anybody go crazy, teenagers would just get drunk and fall down the steps. As for the comment by Seen It!, the cemetery is still in use and that could have been an open grave in which that boy might have fallen down and gotten himself seriously hurt. The man who lives behind the cemetery is very protective of the place, and, like I, is a descendant of occupants of the Doolittle Family Crypt.
,Frank Doolittle

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 11.1.2006 | 4:22 pm
Just to back up what tyler said….
We found graves that were not on the official listing

Looking back at the video we taped, I found that perceptions were slightly altered…. a small (3 ft) jump over a grave seemed very big to us

Text messages that we sent to each other did not reach the person until AFTER we left the cemetary

There are some skips and static in the video, and it was filmed with a fairly decent video camera, and its never done this before

also, we heard some weird low moaning sounds, really hard to describe, sounded like a combination between a howl and the sound powerlines make

Comment by Nathan K | 11.1.2006 | 10:01 pm
Also, Mr. Doolittle, would you mind answering a couple of questions?

Why are certain graves not on the official document?
Can you confirm or deny any mention of satanism in your family (no disrespect, and i can understand if you want to refrain from answering this question)

also, can you provide links to newspaper articles from the past years about incidents at Maltby?

Thank you for your time
respectfully,
Nathan

Comment by Nathan K | 11.1.2006 | 10:04 pm
Dear Nathan,
No, there us no satanism in my family. I don’t know of any newspaper articles. The reason why some graves are not on the official listing was because at the time the official listing was done, the cemetery was in bad condition, therefore, some of the grave markers were not visible. Phosphorous from the decaying bodies will explain why the text messages and such are not coming through. I cannot explain the moaning, I must hear it for myself to understand what it may sound like.
,Frank Doolittle

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 11.2.2006 | 5:26 pm
Dear Nathan,
No, there is no satanism in my family, we are strict christians. I don’t know of any newspaper articles. The reason why some graves are not on the official listing was because at the time the official listing was done, the cemetery was in bad condition, therefore, some of the grave markers were not visible (the man behind the place did not live in a close enough range to keep it clean). Phosphorous from the decaying bodies will explain why the text messages and such are not coming through. I cannot explain the moaning, I must hear it for myself to understand what it may sound like.
,Frank Doolittle

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 11.2.2006 | 5:27 pm
phorphorus? thats far fetched. but you can’t see where the 13 steps were? i’d just like to see the site so i can put my curiosity to rest, i’ve heard from some people that they never existed.

Comment by Tyler | 11.3.2006 | 1:13 pm
Yes, phosphorus is very far fetched, but it has been scientifically proved to temporarily scramble technology. I cannot remember where the steps were, for they were bulldozed in years ago. . .I wish that I could move the graves (and maybe even recover the crypt, for it is basically an underground room since the entrance was bulldozed) to a conventional cemetery, so anyone could enter and study them.

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 11.3.2006 | 7:01 pm
i pissed on fredrick coopers tombstone it felt so good

Comment by Morris Hillman | 11.8.2006 | 2:32 pm
Now why would you do that? I ought to contact law enforcement on you. It wouldn’t be hard since you left your full name!

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 11.8.2006 | 3:41 pm
Dont you have anything better to do than check this website every 30sec??

Comment by Morris Hillman | 11.10.2006 | 2:38 am
I check this web-site every two days. Don’t you have anything better to do at 2:38 am? I recommend sleeping.

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 11.10.2006 | 9:03 am
I’d love to see a team like GhostHunters go there and tape an episode!! That way I could have the “experience” on my nice, safe couch…:)

Comment by j.lynne | 11.10.2006 | 11:39 am
I think that we should all have a big meeting at Maltby with a ton of strippers and blow up big tubs of gasoline!!!!

Comment by Morris Hillman | 11.11.2006 | 4:31 pm
That sounds great! I’ll invite the police! Or perhaps the man who lives behind the place and his 12-gauge shotgun! Never, ever urinate on one of my family member’s graves! Do it, and I will find you, and make sure you get locked up in a some juvenile district court. You’re probably some twelve year old with nothing better to do.

Comment by Dustin Cooper | 11.11.2006 | 5:30 pm
First off, it is not called the Maltby Cemetery, it is called the Paradise Lake Valley Rural Community Cemetery. All of the early farmers in that area would bury their dead in there so they wouldn’t have to worry about the protection of their each individual family cemteries. There used to be a small house in the cemetery that was home to the caretaker. I believe he is buried there as well. Second, WE aren’t friends with the local police department, I don’t even know any Dustin Cooper or if he really IS a descendant of anyone buried in the cemetery, but I am a member of THE police department, it’s not local to the cemtery though. I do not OWN the cemetery, therefore I cannot do anything about it. All I can do is petition. It is all private property, and vandals/trespassers WILL be and HAVE been prosecuted.

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 11.13.2006 | 3:41 pm
I have a couple questions for you Frank
When we were out there, we filmed some footage of the cemetary, and audio. I would like to put this together into a short documentary (10 minutes ish) about the cemetary, along with some of the information from this forum. I figure if we can show people what this place is, some of the hype will die down.

However, I can understand if you don’t want the name of the cemetary in the video. I will NOT provide directions to the cemetary, just a video of the cemetary itself.

Comment by Nathan | 11.13.2006 | 9:27 pm
Nathan, feel free to put the video on the net, but do not title it with the name of the cemetery. I recomend you get an account on You Tube. It’s free and everything. Tell me what it’s titled ,oh, and also try not to have any of the family names mentioned in the video. Of course, it is your video.

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 11.13.2006 | 10:03 pm
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6031206465782570144&hl=en

sorry about the quality…. it was really dark and google video isnt the best quality

its worth watching though…. one weird shape formed that looks like two people…. you can clearly see the head on one of them

Comment by Nathan | 11.14.2006 | 6:30 pm
WOW! I can’t believe you got documented proof of a ghost, but there it is! it looks like two people to me too! its funny how you cant see it before, but when you turn on the green thing you can see them clearly.

Comment by j.lynne | 11.14.2006 | 11:49 pm
How old are you!? What kind of?!. . .What was!?. . .Was that all of the same cemetery?

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 11.15.2006 | 4:56 pm
I HOPE YOU DON’T MEAN WHAT IT SAID AT THE END OF THE VIDEO!!!

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 11.16.2006 | 4:02 pm
Hey Frank, How about you write up a article or essay or something with all the information you have about the graveyard along with info debunking all the claims like grave stones not being recorded on the official site and the truth about the steps? I bet if you wrote a “tell-all” it would help calm down a lot of the haunted hype. Also in some pictures I have seen a grave says “Order of Pendo” what is that? I tried to research it but came up with little, just saying it was some type of Fraternity. As for me, a few years ago me and a few friends tried to check out the graveyard and got to the gravel on the side of the street but the females with us begged us to just leave so we did. I do remember seeing a old pick up drive by that had one headlight out a few times like other stories said, most likely just someone who lives by there and wants trespassers to stay away

Rob

Comment by Rob | 11.24.2006 | 2:09 am
Rob, the “Order of Pendo” marker was erected in memory of Andrew Olson by the Maltby Town Council. Andrew Olson is presently one of the the earliest marked burial in the cemetery, for he died on August 9, 1904. I am planning to write a book on the cemetery, but there is still information to be gathered. As for the truck with the one headlight out, it is most likely an under-cover policeman.

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 11.24.2006 | 10:50 am
Right on, let me know when it’s done. Still confused on what exactly the Order of the Pendo is… Was Andres Olson a member? Why exactly was it placed on his gravestone? I did a bit of research and the most I can find out is it is a fraternity of some sort and some books that mention the Order are about Secret Societies (I did a Google search using their Book Search option)

Comment by Rob | 11.25.2006 | 8:53 am
It’s a secret organization.

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 11.25.2006 | 8:25 pm
I thought you all might like to know there is NO “Frank Doolittle” in my family, and Yes I am a member of the orginal Doolittle family, I am the daughter of Edward “Eddie” P. Doolittle and Barbara Jean Norelius. Presently I live on the family homestead just south of Malby by about three miles. My dad traded property with a nearby housing development and the homestead acres have grown to 100. My great, great, great grandfather Henry Davis was an episcolalian minister and he donated two acres of ground for a cemetery for his family and those pioneers that settle around him. Later he built a church, which burned down during a hot summer, two years later. Only the organ and a pew were saved. The organ sits in the entry of my father’s house. Maltby’s cemetery is really Bear Creek Cemetery. It is located southwest of Maltby on State Route 9 (Woodinville-Snohomish Hwy). It is much larger than Paradise Valley (and has more active “spirits” in it, I’ve been told).

So Who ever this Frank is, he is a fraud as far as I know and I know my family tree pretty darn well

Comment by Kay Ellen Doolittle | 11.26.2006 | 1:36 am
frank doolittle is a fake *** buthole that needs to be whiped clean that moron doesnt have anything better to do than sit on his lazy *** checking this website every fauken 30seconds!!.

so where exactly is this so called bear creek cemetery??? i wana see!!

Comment by Morris Hillman | 11.26.2006 | 5:11 am
Bear Creek - Rt 9 & 216th, Grace, Washington

Comment by Duboodoobydoo | 11.26.2006 | 6:44 am
Don’t you call me a fraud! Morris Hillman you hypocrite! Just stay away from cemeteries! Your gonna get cremated anyways just like the athiest you are!

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 11.26.2006 | 1:47 pm
My dad used to live next to the cemetary.. he said he’ll never go back cuz he used to watch people party up there even when he was a kid and watched people walk down and never come back up…. im only a few miles away from the bush house …. my sister lives damn close to spokane

Comment by Dj | 11.26.2006 | 9:01 pm
“Frank” give up i know your a fraud so just stop it.

Comment by Morris Hillman | 11.26.2006 | 9:48 pm
How would any of you know!? I am who I am!

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 11.26.2006 | 9:55 pm
hmm when you contact the owner of realhaunts.vom they says Frank Doolittle is the same IP as Morris Hillman…?

Comment by The Truth | 11.28.2006 | 8:48 am
* realhaunts.com

Comment by The Truth | 11.28.2006 | 8:50 am
I don’t know if we do have the same internet protocol, but I can assure you that Morris Hillman and I are not the same people! We are too different in character to be the same!

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 11.28.2006 | 3:39 pm
hahaha frank you fraud…. i cant belive you would actually get into character that well. what a loser, do you even have a life?

Comment by Nathan | 11.28.2006 | 8:17 pm
Well the owner of realhaunts has some f***ed up IP tracer because im not Frank

Comment by Morris Hillman | 11.29.2006 | 1:52 am
I am no fraud! It is defamation of character to call someone a fraud on/at a public facility, and is punishable by law! I am not Morris Hillman! My name is Franklin Henry Doolittle! I am no fraud! How do you even know if Kay Ellen Doolittle is lying!?

Comment by Frank Doolittle | 11.29.2006 | 4:14 pm
how do we know your not lieing “Mr.Doolittle” just go back to the *** bars you frequent

Comment by Morris Hillman | 12.4.2006 | 11:17 pm
You better back off of Frank, Morris.

Comment by Dustin Cooper | 12.5.2006 | 10:56 pm
I went to Edmonds High School in the early 1970’s. My friends and I used to drive out to the Maltby cemetary on a Friday or Saturday night just to hang out and to scare each other. Sometimes we would drive out there during the day on a Saturday or Sunday. It wasn’t quite so scary during the day, and you could get a better look around. This was before the current housing develoment that is there now. I actually drove out there again by myself about 2 years ago during the day. I parked at the bottom of the drive, walked up the drive, but stopped when I reached the top. I felt like I was trespassing on private property with all the houses around. I would love to be able to actually walk around in there if people wouldn’t mind. I’ve never forgotten about this place.

Comment by J. Lancaster | 12.6.2006 | 1:31 pm
I just wanted to comment how amazing this is. So many people from different places and generations have all come to this cemetary. It is a piece of history. I will continue to visit this cemetary each October until I move out of Washington.

Comment by Nathan | 12.7.2006 | 1:01 am
just like the moon does
we rise and shine and fall

- The 69 Eyes
“Brandon Lee”

Comment by eharhaerh | 12.14.2006 | 10:53 am
you are ******* retarted, how can i get there?

Comment by retard basher | 01.1.2007 | 7:26 am
Drive down paradise lake road until you see a gravel turnoff on the right side. either park there or park in the next neighborhood on the right. Follow the trail from the gravel turnoff up for about 1 miles-ish (time/distance is different around the cemetary so it might seem longer or shorter). you will come to a clearing with a house on the opposite side of the clearing- the cemetary is on a hill to the left of the trail you came up in the clearing

Comment by /// | 01.2.2007 | 10:42 am
and dont bring that attitude here you little ****

Comment by /// | 01.3.2007 | 12:51 am
Yall need to stop all this damn violence. Just go to a damn chat room.

Comment by Me | 01.11.2007 | 7:42 pm
Anyway this place sounds creepy!
Yall don’t go there.

ITS SCARYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Comment by Me | 01.11.2007 | 7:44 pm
WHATS WRONG WITH THIS PLACE. ITS ONLY 5:46 PM

Comment by Me | 01.11.2007 | 7:46 pm
haha its prob because the forum displays Central time rather than PST.

OR MABYE WE ARE IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE DUH DA DUH DUH

but really, has anyone been back here recently? I was back there in november for the 2nd time but we didnt even make it to the actual cemetary because we were so high and tweaking out.

Comment by Nathan | 01.14.2007 | 12:26 am
My husband and many relatives grew up in the neighborhood. Most of them have stories to tell about the place and they have had many wierd spooky stories to tell. But the one that stands clear is when my husband and some friends went there one night to party years before. A couple men in a pick up truck caught them and held them at gun point. After about 10 minutes or so the cops showed up and arrested the men that were holding the kids at gun point and they told my husband and his friends to leave the place immmediatly. They never knew what became of all that. To this day my husband doesn’t even like to talk about it because it was such a terrifing situation.

Comment by Connie | 01.17.2007 | 8:34 pm
**** u stupid mother fuckers

Comment by morris hillman | 01.23.2007 | 3:43 pm
Um all i have to say is that the arguments on here are pretty interesting. I have been there 3 times myself. Alot of years ago. I am really interested in the history of the gravesite and agree that if it were made public then people would be less interested in it. I do believe it would be interesting if a LEGIT ghost hunter group could investigate it though. thats all I have to say.

Comment by um wow | 01.29.2007 | 4:06 am
my friends and i went back there about a week ago, we had a few beers and deceided to check it out. We parked in one of the earlier neighborhoods and rode our bikes to the turnaround and then started hiking up the trail. First thing we noticed were all the blown down trees over the path that we had to hike our bikes over, it was a real pain.
We got up to the clearning but didnt see the cemetary at first, so we began riding around the other trails in the back. We began to realize that we had gone too far, so we doubled back. Once we got to the clearning, we poked around the other side and found the cemetary. We were at the first row first and checked out all the graves, while looking for the crypt. Then, we dropped our bikes and walked down the little dirt hill to the second section. We checked these, didnt find the crypt, and then we saw a third little hill down, and a concrete block at the bottom. We went down there, and tried to move the blocks, but we couldn’t, so I put my face to a crack in the rock.
When I did this, i had the weirdest sensation ever; i felt air against my face, which is impossible because air doesnt flow underground! also i heard strange whispering, similar to when you put your ear against a sea-shell and hear the sound of the ocean. Third, I felt as if i was really unhappy and angry, as if somoene had just insulted me or something (thats the best way i can describe it)

we hiked back up, and picked up our bikes, and started riding down the path- this is the weirdest part- when we got back to the road we didnt remember hiking over any of the downed trees- we all remembered riding straight back fast to the road….

what the hell is going on at this place? I truely think its either haunted or there’s just something about it that screws with your mind

Comment by Doug | 01.31.2007 | 8:22 pm
Is there a Frank Doolittle in the house?

It so happens that my only living Grandmother’s maiden name was Doris Doolittle. I believe she was born in Snohomish County and she will be 86 this Summer. I am unsure how common the name of Doolittle might be in this area, but have been led to believe we are from old stock. Additionally, family legend has it that “we have family buried in an abandoned graveyard somewhere up North”. Family lore also includes a quiet rumor about a half-brother of my Gramdma’s who lived in Western Washington but was semi-banished from the family for some mysterious reason.

I know this is a long shot, but if anyone reads this (maybe a Frank Doolittle?) who knows whether a connection may exist here or not, I would be curious to hear about it. Thanks, and everyone take care and BE RESPECTFUL out there!

Cheers!

Comment by Le Chat Noir | 02.3.2007 | 11:59 pm
Anyone know anything about the “Order of Pendo”? I have spent over an hour trying to unearth some info and can hardly find a thing. Not much on Google even. What little I’ve found is referenced in a few death records from the Pioneer days and seems to indicate that the organization is associated with the Freemasons. On amazon.com it was referenced in a book written in 1904 called “Psychic Light: The Continuity of Law and Life” by a Ms. Maud Lord-Drake, the keywords of which are “individualized force, cabinet seances, spirit phenomena, cerebral action, spirit friends, spirit side, seance room”. Why this peculiar connection? Anyone willing to open up this LOST-style mystery box?

Comment by Le Chat Noir | 02.4.2007 | 1:57 am
Sorry, no Morrises here. And what type of f***ed up monacre is “Ku Klux Klan”?! This isn’t Alabama, idiot, this is the NW and there are plenty of Capital Hill kids here who would gladly have your head on a plate if you actually showed it. Just a thought, Nazi.

Moving on to the matters at hand… anyone ELSE got any info on the Doolittles, Order of Pendo, or Maltby in general?

Thanks,
LCN

Comment by Le Chat Noir | 02.5.2007 | 1:07 pm
Wow; there are amazingly stupid, ugly-hearted people everywhere… even here* (*see last comment). Go back to MySpace, KKKiddy.

Anyone out there have any INTELLIGENT INFORMATION regarding the matter at hand?

Thanks,
LCN

Comment by Le Chat Noir | 02.5.2007 | 4:51 pm
does anyone know if there is a train near by the place? because the couple times that i went there we kept hearing a train and seeing a green light. Just curious as to why. I would really love it if someone could do a serious and legit investigation on this place.

Comment by um wow | 02.6.2007 | 12:21 am
Clearly, Um Whoa, had you ever actually been to Washington State you would know of Seattle’s various neighborhoods such as Ballard, Fremont, the U-District, the Central District, Columbia City… Captial Hill. Jeez, kids, anyone got anything IMPORTANT to say here?

Comment by Le Chat Noir | 02.6.2007 | 7:00 pm
Haha that sounds pretty awsome, well even if there isn’t really the “13 steps to hell” i’d still like to go see for myself.
So i guess me and some of my buddys will go & we’ll see!

Comment by Allison Simpson | 02.6.2007 | 9:53 pm
Jeez the HATE in here…
I’m known to throw around some pretty racist jokes sometimes, but this isnt the place for that kinda stuff.
@ Allison- the 13 steps arent there anymore but there is a big cement block covering it up. The whole place is still really creepy with a nasty vibe.

word to the wise, doesnt really matter when you go as long as you keep the flashlights to a minimum and be very quiet. I would NOT park in the gravel turnaround but rather in the neighborhoods surrounding it- we saw a car getting towed out of the turnaround last time.

anybody need anymore information my AIM is bmXXXboy1488

Comment by Nate | 02.7.2007 | 12:49 am
jesus christ shut the **** up you perverted ****.

Comment by Nate | 02.7.2007 | 9:19 pm
http://www.4chan.org is the place for those pictures, not this site

Comment by Nate | 02.8.2007 | 7:44 pm
ok le chat noir, there is no need to be rude. I live in washington state was born here, I was just asking a question because I am unfamilar with that area of washington. why the hell do people feel the need to be so mean on this site?

Comment by um wow | 02.9.2007 | 8:52 pm
another thing for people thinking about going. DO NOT PARK BY THE HOUSES ACROSS THE STREET!! they will come out and yell and if you don’t leave they will call the cops. that happened last time i was there and I have never been back

Comment by um wow | 02.9.2007 | 9:04 pm
Actually we found that if you drive PAST the gravel turnaround and drive into the first neighborhood on the right, take a left and there will be a trail at the end of the neighborhood. This isnt a direct access to the cemetary, you have to follow the trail to the left until you reach it, its about 1 mile.

Comment by Nate | 02.10.2007 | 1:10 pm
wait i said that wrong, you walk to the right

Comment by Nate | 02.10.2007 | 1:17 pm
Ya know folks, while the whole Maltby/Paradise Valley story is entertaining and stuff, it would sure be nice if y’all just left the poor neighbors alone. I grew up in the area, have been out there a number of times in the early/mid 80’s and once in the 90’s… it was scary in the 80’s because there were always a lot of partying drunk/drugged people and wannabe goths and general trouble makers hanging around.

It’s just an old PRIVATE family cemetary, nothing more. Nothing weird happens there except what your own mind invents. Any howling you might here is from a kennel that’s in the area (I used to board my own dog there on occasion)… the steps are long gone and weren’t all that interesting anyway.

I kind of wish the family would allow the city or county to restore the site and open it to the public, that would pretty much take care of any problems they have. It IS a historical site after all.

Just avoid it, the neighbors have enough problems, they don’t need y’all in there hassling them any more than other ding-dongs do.

Comment by Jennie-o | 02.21.2007 | 1:51 am
In fact, there is the PUBLIC Redmond cemetary just east of downtown Redmond, I think that place is WAY creepier than Maltby. Heck, even the old Kirkland cemetary across from Lake Washington HS is creepier than Maltby.

Comment by Jennie-o | 02.21.2007 | 1:55 am
yeah but the thing that is legit about maltby is the creepy *** walk through the woods to get to it. The redmond public cemetary is on a road correct?

Also, I heard that there was an abandonded asylum/building in Redmond or in the surrounding areas. Is this true? I cant find any information on it, but i’ve been talking to a couple kids at school and they say its pretty gnarly.

Comment by Nate | 02.23.2007 | 9:15 pm
i know its off 202 on that brick road near redmond. Ive heard stuff about it too, supposedly its absolutely insane.

Comment by reveal | 02.27.2007 | 3:01 pm
Hi folks… just gonna post up some stuff up here that MAY be of interest. I tried to type it out as best I could and as far as I kind of understand things which might beef up this Maltby cemetery story or might turn people away. I’m just going to post what I wrote someone else in an email who has just general pictures and stuff from when they went…

Just so you know, the signs on the tombstones, atleast what I saw in your pictures, are actually religious type signs that go way back and actually used to represent very wise folks in the ways of spirituality. Alot of the secret orders that existed, including this ‘Pendo’ order, were actually based in a more classic and more true sense christianity. Supposedly these signs have been used to either signify wise men, as said, or used for supposed magickal type things. The sign later was was integrated into other later orders which actually delved more into more of what’s known today as pagan. SO, just thought I’d passs that on and that would explain why no one in the doolittle family according to this frank guy is not satanic. Now, about the one guy who was supposedly semi-banned from the doolittle family, as i’ve read, may have tried delving into the less .. uhm.. christian based secret order religion that was and may still be apparently part of the doolittle history. Now, if this was a secret organization and they were doing any ritualistic type things on the land or anything…. then that could be a possibility of why it is said to be haunted.. residual things from that if you have any belief in leftover magick stuffs at all ; p Just thought i’d shed some light on this portion of history ; p

Comment by Tyg Immo | 02.27.2007 | 9:25 pm
what is the adderess of the cemetery?

Comment by david | 03.1.2007 | 2:14 pm
whats with all the funky stuff people are posting?!

Comment by um wow | 03.5.2007 | 12:11 am
DOOLITTLE’S ARE A BIG PORTION OF CEMITERY BOBBY MAY BE SON OF FRANK,OR GRANDSON CHECK S.DAKOTA AREA FOR HIM.THE FAMILY USED TO OWN PARADISE LAKE AND CEMITERY AREA,HOPE THIS HELPS SOME. ALSO IT IS A FAMILY CEMITERY SHOW SOME RESPECT PEOPLE!!!!!!

Comment by randi | 03.8.2007 | 3:03 am
ONE MORE THING ,THE PEOPLE BURIED THERE ARE FAMILY TO SOME STILL LIVING,THE HEAD STONES HAVE BEEN DE-FACED BY PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS,IF YOU DO VISIT IT REMEMBER SOME DAY YOU ALSO MAY HAVE A HEAD STONE,WOULD YOU WANT SOMEONE DISTROYING IT.THEY ARE VERY OLD AND FRAGILE.

Comment by randi | 03.8.2007 | 3:11 am
The GPS coordinates for this location are 47° 46′ 39.65″N, 122° 04′ 33.70″W. To get there, get onto I–405 and take onramp onto US–2/WA–522 E (exit 23) to Woodinville/Wenatchee.

Stay on that highway, and after about 6 miles, turn right on Paradise Lake Rd, which will be the first traffic light you come to. Then follow Paradise Lake Rd for about 2.5 miles.

On the right hand side, across from a small housing development, there will be a dirt pullout. Park there and go up the path that heads parallel to the road up the hill…if you`re facing away from the road, it`s on the left hand side. Follow that path until you come to a clearing with a big house in it…the cemetery is on the left side of the yard, interspersed with trees and shrubs.

I had fun going there, there is a pentagram on one of the headstones, though we didn`t find any 13 Steps to Hell or anything like that. On the downhill side of the path to the cemetery, there is a car with a tree growing through it! I included a photo. That has to be the creepiest thing I saw there…I have no idea how the car got there, but it`s held up by only the tree.

Comment by Arashi-san | 03.11.2007 | 11:03 pm
That’s it I’m gonna gather up all the best ghost stories and turn them into a UT2004 map.

Comment by Sparkster the Rocket Knight | 03.12.2007 | 2:40 am
Well, nice comments guys. I think this couled be true. Maybe there are stairs. That just end suddenly. Most of these stories come from true experinces. Maybe some friends went here and one kid went down their and hid. Just a prank that some one turned into a good story. See ya later!

Comment by Scary Story Lover | 03.12.2007 | 6:01 pm
hey, i live in duvall and i had heard of the 13 steps stories. i drive along the Redmond Duvall road a lot and have tried to find the cemetary but haven’t tried very hard for i’m not a fan of freaking out. but i have been by this really scary house that was right by the road that’s been abandoned and almost overgrown by bushes. but you can see the windows because they’ve been broken out and inside isd all dark, even during the day so you can’t see anything there. but we took some pictures with our cellphone and in ONLY TWO of them was a small white shape in the lower left window, resmbling the head of a figure running along side us. Furthermore, in the upper left hand window was another face that was less obvious yet much more creepy. In another picture i took there was a swirly blue design that appeared, resembling a sort of vortex. duvall sure is a creepy place.

Comment by Enda | 03.18.2007 | 7:50 pm
I found out the aproximate address of the house: along the west side of Batten Road NE. YOu will know when you get there because it is a wooden, two story small shack-like house, with broken windows and overgrown by plants.

Comment by Enda | 03.18.2007 | 7:59 pm
can you be more specific with directions? where is it in relation to maltby or anotehr landmark?

Comment by adas | 03.21.2007 | 1:08 am
alright, i only went there once so im not so sure about where it is. but do u know the big hill where t the top is some nieghborhoods? well if u go there, then get to batten rd from that direction and drive along it until u see a couple of really old houses, and everything gets really woody and unkempt. Then, ull ssee one wooden house, very small but two stories high with broken windows and surrounded by bushes. its much more rundown then other houess around it, and it looks like years ago it might have been a cozy cabin. im sorry i could not be more specific.

Comment by enda | 03.25.2007 | 4:44 pm
so is it haunted or just a fun place to go smoke a few bowls?

Comment by asdas | 03.25.2007 | 7:31 pm
Frank Doolittle, if you still visit this site, I have a few questions I’ve been wanting to ask you.

1. How many people in your family are buried there?

2. Do you live near the area or have property there?

3. Where the 13 steps to Hell even real? And what did they lead down to?

Comment by ??? | 06.21.2007 | 8:14 pm
I found out about this cemetery about 4 years ago, since I had an interest in haunted places, a friend and I decided to check it out. I did some amature (for fun) modeling at the time and thought it a great place for a photo shoot so we went. The cemetary is on private property so we had to hike up the back way up to get to it. On the way up (we went about three times) but each time I was tripped by something, usually two or more times on the way up. the old iron gate with 2 posts is kinda scary, no gate anymore, just the posts. We got a few hundred photos all taken with high quality photography style digital cameras. In many pictures there were masses of fog all concentrated over my image (me). -there had been no fog that day? there are a few orbs of light here and there that we could find no reasonable causes or natural lighting to blame. One time it bagan snowing out of nowhere and stopped as we left the gates. I knew the property owners knew we were there and did not seem to mind as we were not loud or littering or anything. I would suggest anyone going should go during the day, clean up after yourself and be respectfull. I always brought flowers and tried not to step directly over the graves. As for the steps; I can see where they might have been but nothing really weird happened. The place is a bit eeri but also kind of peacefull. -oh, and I counted I think 43 graves (all in decending rows). one looked relativley new and you could tell many had been replaced. there is one I noticed however that appeared eroded or to have no name at all. many well over 130yrs old. facinating place but I would never go there at night! -J.

Comment by Jennifer Lynn | 06.28.2007 | 8:31 pm
let me tell you this cemetery will make you **** your self at night!!! whooo i cannot express the fear that comes to you before even starting the trail to the cemetery ive been there and walking up to the cemetery was more scary then being at the cemetery but its a very nice peaceful place the owners didnt care we were there at 11pm at night mainly because there was 10 of us.

Comment by Morris Hillman | 07.10.2007 | 2:48 am
Okay, I have seen and read a lot of **** in my time, trust me I work for the government. All of you who say “The Steps are Real” “They Really work” ” I saw fire” I think maybe you should lay off the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, put down the Magic cards, move out of your parents house, and get jobs. There may be paranormal activity there, it’s a cemetary for Christ sake, but the fabled stories that I have heard from friends and thier older brothers since childhood, are pretty much just that, stories. What you get are a bunch of stoners who get wasted, eat some mushrooms, and freak out. Of course the place is scary, it’s a cemetary not Chucky cheese you morons. But don’t go perpetuating a horde of B.S. stories that you can’t back up.
And leave those people who live around there aone, they didn’t buy their house so you could get trashed and mess up thier property value. Grow up, unless you have some solid proof, which you won’t find there, shut your mouth.
If you are going there to do actual research, please clear what you are doing of course with the people who own the property, I know they would appreciate it.

Comment by Rick Isotalo | 07.13.2007 | 11:56 pm
I think my freind found this, it is in Stanwood right?

Comment by Cassie | 07.14.2007 | 8:43 pm
I need some help from other visitors of the cemetery to play a sick joke on this one kid. It involves Maltby, chainsaws, hockey masks, and video cameras.

Comment by Sick | 08.4.2007 | 2:04 pm
Hello All Lovers of Maltby!

Frank Doolittle here! After a few months of intense family research, we have discovered that there were steps at the cemetery! They were the steps to the church basement (still unsure of the church name, but it was supposedly just a local christian meeting house). When the church had died out, the cemetery was still being used by locals. They left the steps there, but filled up the rest of the cellar (why they did it beats me). There was a crypt (or several, I am told), but there were no steps to them. They were simply graves that had not been filled in with dirt. The walls of dirt would be bricked, and then they would place a slab on top of it, which bore the inscription. Basically, if the slab was removed, you could see straight down into the grave. These crypts later were “un-bricked”, and were filled in. They then placed new markers to replace the slabs. The three Davis family graves were the only graves in the cemetery that had that description. Funny, but this type of grave has an interesting history. If someone were interred in one of these, normally they were moved soon after (a temporary and re-useable grave). Also, before President George Washington’s body was relocated to the Washington Masoleum on the Mount

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