Spokane's Spooky, Scary 1,000 Steps!

SPOTLIGHT ON THE SPOKANE REGION

     By Kris Krell

Spokane's Spooky, Scary 1,000 Steps!

Have you heard of the Haunted Stairs or the Thousand Steps?  I first heard of the story way back in high school.  My girlfriend drove me by the Greenwood Cemetery—she didn’t know why it was called the thousand steps—just that it was spooky scary! 

When I saw this article in the Spokane Historical app, I just had to read it!

There are at least four tales about the stairs but the one I like the most is that many people believe that ghosts guard the staircase stopping people from reaching the top!  Some claim to feel/see ghostly entities while walking at night through the cemetery, up the stairs.  Another article in Google, Atlas Obscura, writes that the steps are called thousand steps because no one can ever make it to the top!  If you walk the steps in the dark and do get to the top, it is said that you will see men, women, and children and will hear their shrieks!

I don’t know how many steps there actually are, but I’m not about the try to go and count them— they are on private property and the steps are in disrepair! 

Source:  Spokane Historical app; Atlas Obscura article in Google