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Haunted Maltby Cemetery: Maltby, Washington ~ Athena |
Renamed to Paradise Valley Cemetery
It is hidden off to the right hand side of the Redmond-Duval Road. (20 miles East of Seattle.) It has about 35 grave sights and strange, unexplained things happen there. People have seen women and children, dressed in old, raggedy looking clothes, wondering around the gravesites. Witnesses have also felt physical things like being hit. February 2005 additional information: There used to be a staircase that began at ground level and descended 13 steps below ground. I believe the legend/story was that it was a below-grade entrance to the opulent tomb of a locally wealthy family.
In any case, kids used to get drunk near or in the cemetery and would walk down these steps late at night. It is unsure whether there were doors or simply a dirt wall at the bottom of these steps. Regardless, once you reached the bottom of the stairs and turned around you supposedly no longer saw the cemetery but a vision of Hell. The similarity in this story to yours is that this vision drove the subject to insanity. Anyone watching the subject walk down the stairs witnessed them stop, turn, and fall dumbfounded to their knees. I've heard that several children emerged nearly comatose from the steps, many of them never uttered another word.
The story goes that these steps were bulldozed over (depending on the age of the storyteller, the bulldozing occurred anywhere from 1992 to the early 1960's) and that the severe NO TRESPASSING limitations were a result of that. Furthermore, There is rumor of illegal late night expeditions kids with shovels hoping to unearth Maltby's 13 Steps to Hell. |
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| Alias | Date | Reply |
| Da Klown |
10/31/2005 12:21:00 PM |
WOW!!!! hmmm I wonder. So this is mainly based on story tellers? Any actual news press or anything. Cause that a good ways of travel. :) INtresting none the less |
| Athena |
10/31/2005 12:24:00 PM |
I actually went there on Saturday. It's the oddest thing I've ever seen. There are so many graves that are no longer marked (too old), there were some gravestones that are so old the weather rubbed off all the writing. There were a lot of places on the ground that were sunken right in front of some grave stones. |
| Bad Co |
10/31/2005 12:36:00 PM |
Hi, Athena :) Awesome! Such old things and a suitablly horrible legend, too. Thanks so much for the telling, lady. Write on.... |
| Got Shai? |
10/31/2005 2:05:00 PM |
wow im pretty close to redmond, i should check it out. |
| Melissa-5 |
10/31/2005 2:27:00 PM |
That is just spooky.I would check it out if I lived nearby. |
| trust no one |
10/31/2005 3:47:00 PM |
OOOH cool! I visited the Sumner cemetery a few weekends ago, took a few pics. Nothing spooky though. I'd love to go to a "haunted" cemetery! |
| Jive Turkey¾ |
10/31/2005 5:01:00 PM |
wow. that's really interesting. |
| *Boogerlicious* |
10/31/2005 7:26:00 PM |
Ooh..I want to go. |
| Hagatha |
10/31/2005 7:53:00 PM |
Hey7 there Athena -- hope all is going good your way. Once, I was around that area back in 1974, and all I remeber was that the hair on the back of my neck was prickley. It was such a wierd feeling and I was glad when I left the area. Thanks for the post. |
| oompa loompa |
10/31/2005 8:57:00 PM |
Spooky stuff! |
| ~~Healing Vibes~~ |
10/31/2005 9:52:00 PM |
Whoa that is so freaky! Thanks for the info! |
| Mord-Sith/Preys |
11/1/2005 2:31:00 AM |
WHOA! That's some freaky stuff. |
| Da Klown |
11/1/2005 6:38:00 AM |
Well now that you say that Athena. I think I will have to go take a look :) |
| TippyPawz |
1/16/2006 11:12:00 AM |
So chilling!!!==O_O== |
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