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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…..

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!

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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…

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

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.

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.