I’m really happy this is picking up steam and so glad you all are watching! I do want to say, when this was made I had under 700 subs and was just making videos for fun, not really caring for how it turned out as I never imagined I’d be where I am now. That being said, there are MANY editing errors in this video. I want to leave it as is to remember where I came from but be warned, it’s less than refined. Thank you for watching regardless lol.
Hey could be worse, people could be finding random forests at the top of the stairs in their house instead. Imagine climbing your stairs and at the very last step bam you're suddenly standing in the middle of the woods.
What if the SAR officers were like, “let’s build a random staircase in the middle of the woods and give the newbies vague answers, just to fuck with them.”
This _really_ makes me want to go build some random staircases in the woods. Like, imagine going camping thinking "man I've got one hell of a scary story for the campfire tonight” and you run across one of my stairs while going for a piss.
14:43 he gives a sigh of disappointment and I wondered ‘did he sigh bc the author wrote rifle instead of shotgun?’ Then I remember Wendigoon’s first videos were gun videos so he definitely did haha
I did. Thats how you know the author is full of sht and never once used a firearm. One of ballens vids that was the hidden secret, said rifle but image wss a shotty. Yes it annoys people that much when they try to act like they know something they obv dont.
I'm not even a casual when it comes to gun knowledge (Ireland doesn't believe in letting citizens have easy access to things we might use to defend ourselves against government overreach) but isn't buckshot a variety of shotgun ammo and thus not going to function with a rifle, assuming you could even fit the shell into the tight chamber of a rifle in the first place?
@@Japaneseanimeguythis is so elementary for a person growing in the souther US i have trouble believing people don’t get these things, good on you for knowing more than most people outside the US
@@Shawn-oz1owKids growing up in the city, especially in the north wouldn’t have a clue. Shotguns and rifles look similar if you no nothing about guns. As a kid I had no idea that shotguns used buckshot, or even really what it was!
This is the sort of nosleep stuff I LOVE. No cliche, overdone monster slashing, no overused witch coven or Bigfoot findings, just something truly bizarre and out of place, something familiar turned haunting by its abnormality. No exposition dump that takes all the interest out of it, just the horror of the unknown and the familiar combined into one sexy spooky and unique tale
In my old house my dad had a special part in the basement that no one but him and my mom could go in so i went in there when he wasnt home and i made sure no one came down, the moment i touched that door every cell in my body was screaming "dont go in there". To me this seems like seeing something unnatural in place in it shouldnt be, this kind of ability is something the human brain is really good at. As for what was behind the door it was were my parents put christmas gifts 😭😭
This actually does happen to a degree. Staircases are typically the most structurally secure part of building. When old logging/mining FOBs are abandoned and rot away, sometimes the staircases will remain standing looking a little out of place.
Or in the case of the thumbnail it was created by artists as part of a sculpture trail in the forest of dean, England to boost tourism. Theres also a floating stained glass window and giant chair on that same trail.
Ok why is no foundation found around them ?? No bricks or remnants of old homes ?? Just stairs and often they are in relatively good shape and some seem maintained. I get ur point and it could be part of what is being found
One of my biggest annoyances in these creepy -pasta-type stories is when a character who clearly knows that something is going on just arbitrarily refuses to tell other people when they ask. There's often no reason for it and it winds up being more dangerous to not tell the characters involved and feels very much like the author actively reaching into their story snd silencing a character because they either want to be mysterious or else don't have a planned answer for the mystery.
That’s generally a trope in both comedy and horror. It’s definitely a way to create tension and lead to either avoidable tragedy or exaggerated misunderstandings. And it reflects the very real situation of authority figures, institutions, governments or just arrogant individuals actually withholding crucial information and the trouble it causes.
@@joemahma3017 Making characters have logical decisions for their actions is also a pretty big part of storytelling. Staying silent about something dangerous "just because" isn't good storytelling. If the characters actually had a compelling reason to stay quiet, it would be fine.
This sounds like remarkably poor management of the situation. If I were in charge of devil stairs national park I would probably just restrict most areas so hikers don’t find the stairs. Also it’s probably best to be more upfront with your rangers about these things since it sounds like they run into them every other week, being vague and spooky about them helps no one. Imagine if we treated other dangers like this “if you see a forest fire just ignore it and don’t tell anyone that forest fires exist” that attitude will just get more people killed or missing.
I believe that's the thing though, like stated you never see the same staircase twice, they seem to appear and disappear randomly (or in a distinct pattern) thus making it impossible to just corner off a part of the woods to keep visitors away from them. Not to mention, curiosity killed the cat, people are going to be intrigued by out of bounds areas in an otherwise public place. As for informing new guys, yeah, probably a good idea to let them know these things are dangerous, but how much would you tell them and would you even then be sure they understand the consequences? Same argument clearly goes as for above, new guys might get overly curious if you're vague, but will they take you seriously if you tell them these random stairs have a potential to kill people. A forest fire is quantifiable, you see the flames and you understand the destructive potential, I doubt most people would see a flight of stairs and immediately think, yes, this is deadly. Ultimately I doubt there would be a good way to deal with something like this idea, beyond ignore it. It may not be normal to most, but normal is relative, and if you understand to stay away from it because everyone else does, then that's your normal. In any case, thank you for attending my TED talk.
@@ladyofolyas yeah I suppose I was assuming there were areas where the stairs tended to be and not be but if they could truly appear anywhere in the park then maybe just marking the whole place as some kind of military off limits zone like Area 51 would be best. Maybe my analogy to forest fires wasn’t the best one but I still think a policy of ignoring danger, even supernatural weirdness type danger, is probably going to do more harm than good. It would be pretty hard to convince people that the stairs are really dangerous though, I’m not sure how I would do that without just sounding crazy.
What’s scary is that you CAN find random stairs in the woods! Usually front steps or base stairs are all that’s left of a house that has otherwise burned to the ground or rotted away. This depends on the type of building and stairs, naturally, only a few steps are gonna still be around. If your front steps are connected directly to your concrete foundation, they might survive a fire. So in an area that used to be populated, or maybe in an area where cabins are you can find stairs. They won’t be common, in the middle of nowhere, totally alone/ separated from a house, or clean and perfect like these magic stairs, but they’re out there!
Driving through rural North Carolina and Iowa, it's extremely common to see just the chimney and stairs left where old houses have rotted or burned away. Just the bricks and maybe a little bit of decaying wood left on the edge of a field, off the side of the road, or along the tree line with nothing else nearby.
@@ultrabigfella exterior steps are made of brick or concrete, but interior stairs are usually wood. Not always though. I have seen wooden staircases left behind where a house used to be. It's pretty surreal.
I've found really old ladders attatched to huge trees in deep jungle.They're there for offering tribute to local deities and other spirits in the past but still creepy as hell.
As a fan of Junji Ito, the Stairs story is my favorite cup of tea when it comes to horror stories. Taking everyday normal things and making it bizarre and surreal, with just the right amount of creepiness and terrifying that leaves you awake at night.
This is my all-time favorite Reddit thread. The mention of never finding the same stairs twice gives me the impression that the stairs are specific to the people who go missing, tied to their souls or something. The dogs lost the scent for the first little boy when the SAR officer climbed them because they were the boy’s stairs. That always makes it lean much more supernatural than science-fiction for me
Thats weirdly calming, like the stairs are for you and only you, and other peoples stairs are for them and only them Just your own set of stairs in a calm forest where you don’t have to deal with other people
Yup. They always fuck up the little details. If it's not having no idea about guns, or the woods, it's regional dialects. If it's none of that it's repeating clichés. This story is better than most, even on the small details, but there's always a mistake that the narrator shouldn't make as written that undermines the verisimilitude of the story.
I fucking love that sigh of resignation when he reads "filled himself full of buckshot from his rifle" the first time I listened to this story it didn't even hit me how wrong the statement is.
I love how having a moderate understanding of something that we’ve all been seeing in movies, comics, and television for our entire lives makes you a “Gun Guy.” “Let’s go sailing in my new sailboat.” “That boat doesn’t have a sail tho…” “WhoOAa. You’re a real “boat guy.”
I know this is 2 years old but I'm catching up. As an archaeologist I see a lot of stairs to nowhere...they tend to be the most sturdy parts of a homestead (front door/porch stairs) so they frequently remain when the rest of the home is gone. Although these are usually 5 steps or less and not carpeted, unlike the ones in the reports. I feel like this is probably a creepypasta inspired by someone who saw one of these (admittedly creepy) archaeological set of stairs. But also I love this paranormal stuff....and tbh I'd be a victim of these because it would be my job to go document them, lol.
I've always found the storytelling technique of, "It's a bad thing, don't do it." "Why?" "Don't ask me, just obey me because lol." Tiresome, it's not a way adults with real world social experience interact with each other.
I agree with that but this creepypasta is more about coping about something completely out of one's control. The Search and rescue veterans do this job every day and want to continue doing so with relative normalcy so they want to keep pretending everything is okay. By telling the protagonist that there are demonic stairs in the woods, it makes it harder for them to forget about it.
I've met real people who treat other people like this. It's pretty rare, and very annoying. The weird thing is that I'm supposed to believe that everybody does it.
This story sounds like a metaphor for paranoia, let me explain: • The way every single person gives the same "it's normal, just ignore it" speech • The narrator is the only one who is genuinely concerned about the stairs • It seems like nobody can truly feel the confusion and fear that the narrator feels, but they know way more than the narrator does
To me it’s a bunch of rich/wealthy people who have nothing better to do and waaaaaay too much time to build it as a prank. Don’t be sheep think for yourself.
So I was watching this and I went to tell my gf how I remember seeing stairs in the woods and a sense of dread and paranoia just washed over me and I can't stop crying, I am so freaked out rn
Could you just imagine that you get lost in the middle of the forest. Discover a creepy stair case. You go up. And there is literally this person that is there for eternity, and is there to simply give you a "i went up the stairs case t shirt " and you then leave, find your way back home with a new t-shirt.
I know this is fictional, but when I first discovered this redit thread I was in college and a friend’s sister had actually worked in search and rescue. She happened to be visiting and I asked her if there was any validity to random staircases in the wood and with zero hesitation she answered “yeah, see them all the time.” When I tell you I lost it... she did say some of them had a purpose, the stairs lead to platforms used by hunters. But most of them lead to no where and confirmed there was all different types, some carpeted, some concrete, some wood and so on. She acted like it was no big deal, like it was an obvious fact, much like the writer here does. She didn’t say if there was strange happenings connected to the stairs, just said they existed. I really hope I meet someone else on search and rescue that tells me she was pulling my leg 😂
Sorry. I'm 70 and have been out in the woods all my life. I have never seen stairs out there. I have never seen dogmen either. I have seen lots of other things though. Mostly beautiful. If you want some accurate stories, read some Dave Paulides Missing 411 stories.
@@TheMichguff I have read the 411 stories and found them fascinating! I’m actually quite relieved at your account of their being no stairs in American forest reserves. The 411 stories are mysterious/disturbing enough without the “stairs phenomenon” being a thing.
I've seen staircases out in the woods! But uh. That's mostly because staircases tend to be more secure than a lot of bits, and survive demolishment/rot a bit longer. Guess it's a wee bit different when the staircases are part of a old cabin, eh? Never seen hunter stands with stairs going up to them, though we have a bunch laying around. Most of them are just platforms nailed onto trees with ladders nailed on sometimes, and sometimes ropes instead. There's a few places I've seen concrete stairs mostly by themself, though. But I assume those were also from old buildings. (I.E. There's a couple out near the old coastal defense bunkers in the totally overgrown areas.)
I've run across these "stairs to nowhere" on several occasions. There is nothing supernatural about them. One of them is about 1/4 mile off a major trail in my local area. It's a collection of seemingly random concrete slabs in various stages of degradation along with three separate staircases. Two going up, and one going down. They were part of a re-forestation camp in the 1920s. On one of the staircases, the date they were laid is etched in, 1926. The stairs are in such good condition they don't look more than a handful of years old. There's a historical marker nearby explaining the surrounding area. The superstructures of the buildings were all pre-fabricated, so they were able to be disassembled once the project in the area was completed. That's what these stairs to nowhere are. They're stairs to structures that have fallen down or been disassembled nearly 100 years ago. People forget that in the 30s and 40s, the Civilian Conservation Corps built thousands of temporary buildings all across the country on national and state forestry lands and then reclaimed what they could when the project was over. If the stairs were too hard to take, they left them. The records exist somewhere. They are not magic portals, but because they appear mysterious, then superstitions spring up over time. They exist in all walks of life.
I'm surprised they even exist at all, but that seems to make sense, if the stories are to be taken as true it could be paranoia mixed with the fact that devoid of all context stairs in the middle of the woods are hella creepy. Confirmation bias collected any spooky story near these stairs and a legend was born. Also I'm not gonna force you to doxx yourself lol but where's the stairs located?, As far as I know, no one has any evidence of them actually existing aside from the stories. If they're out there with plaques explaining a potential origin it would be nice to at least document it
@@ashe7683 Sure! They're up off Barr Trail on Pikes Peak in the Colorado Springs area. Not to self-promote too much, but I have a ~14 minute video on my channel where I first explored the Fremont Experimental Forest, entitled "Ghost Town Exploration..." On re-watching my video, I recalled incorrectly. The date on it the stair was 1924. There is another much more frequented park in the center of Colorado Springs called Palmer Park in which I've found no fewer than five staircases without anything attached. I'm relatively inoculated against paranormal explanations as a result of being around so many.
@@kellofangs It's easy to miss them, they're on the uphill side the main road as you access it from Maizeland Rd. Look for them on the left as you go up the hill on the windy part.
Imagine being the most advanced race this planet has ever seen, and we get scared by some stairs we not only built but also invented. Our memes are surpassing us…
@@HillBilly_Urbex they're typing on mobile. I've done the "werevcute" all the time because "v" is right above the space bar and if you're texting on mobile it's very easy to make that mistake. I do it all the time. It reads "We had stairs in a park in my city and they were not scary they were cute and awesome. I don't know why they would inspire this!"
So my grandparents live in Michigan and have around 60 acres of land. back when i was like 14 my cousin and I were riding 4 wheelers through the forest and came to a clearing with a small stoneish staircase. Shit was weird as hell to just randomly come across, but after further inspection we realized it was the remains of an old stone house that had been destroyed by time. There were big stone blocks allll over the place and even a set of stone basement stairs that we could walk down what was once a basement. All that was down there were old beer bottles and pepsi cans, the ones that had the small triangle hole you drank out of instead of a pull tab. Anyways it was interesting and this video reminded of that.
I just cannot believe you went into the basement. That’s like the one thing you aren’t supposed to do in horror movies. That is what they make the most disposable characters do in the first 5 minutes of the movie
We had a shed in my backyard that burned down in the middle of the summer. Actually it caught fire twice in one night and we were very lucky the house didn’t as well. Regardless, it was one of those big, old-fashioned shed and had a brick staircase leading up the foundation. When it burned down it left a green clearing in the middle of the woods with a staircase leading to nowhere. Even knowing how those stairs came to be, growing up they felt supernatural, even magical.
I was super active on NoSleep when this series debuted and it was AGONIZING waiting for new parts to come out. the entries always ended with a sentence like, “that’s all I can talk about for now, I’ll write more when I get some time in the next week or so,” or “these posts have attracted too much attention from the higher-ups, I have to wait until things cool off before writing again.”’it always made me so sad, wishing that the author would just sit down and pound out a whole Harry Potter length series lol. such a great and immersive series, give them all a read, you won’t regret it. it was so much fun talking in the comments with a bunch of other redditors role-playing and pretending everything was real. people were bringing up wendigos, fae, skinwalkers, all manner of mythical creatures and shit, trying to explain what the SAR Officer had described in their stories. there was always one or two people in the comments on NoSleep that role-played as some sort of investigator or cryptozoologist (of course their characters were super experienced and the most knowledgeable in their respective fields, lol), and they would write a comment about how they’re 150% sure it’s X, Y or Z, based on this thing that happened on their last job outing or some shit (the posts were always well researched and the justifications / storytelling and fictional elements were really nicely written). some absolutely hilarious stuff, some downright idiotic stuff, but the comments were always a fun place to be, ESPECIALLY for this series.
@@CeeJayThe13th We almost definitely encountered each other back then. I told a few entirely true stories in the comment section about officially weird sh*t I'd encountered growing up in the middle of nowhere, particularly one incident while camping with my cousins... I think this was probably the greatest NoSleep series ever. Don't climb them. Don't look at them. Don't even go near them. ;)
Fairy circles are so last season. Fae are now using staircases, as they are much easier to distinguish among all the foliage and such on the forest floor. And they come in a huge variety of styles! What's not to love?
I was thinking the same thing but he says in the pinned comment he basically didnt care as much about editing at the time and honestly that makes it even more human to me
These are actually really common on the Gulf Coast. Tall heavy duty stairs are built to endure hurricane season and flooding but when Katrina hit many houses they were connected to didn’t make it just leaving stairs to nowhere. I remember going to cookout fundraisers held at the old foundations of these houses to help the owners who lost their houses and eating on the stairs or at the top. Hell, stairs to nowhere are even taught about in history classes on the coast.
This story has always been so fascinating to me because its such a genius use of The Uncanny - its so simple, stairs that don't belong, untouched, like a dream. People dying add to the body fear, almost anthropomorphizing the inanimate stairs yet never giving any information. Its like a Lynch film I love it.
Disclaimer that I'm only engaging with this, aware that it's a work of fiction. But these sound less like gateways and more like traps. Staircases are a human invention. The carpeted ones in particular sound very modern. Also taking into account the story of a SAR being clearly compelled to approach them until jostled out of the "trance" - the stairs seem clearly designed to attract human attention. Maybe they even feed on our subconscious for input as to what form they should take and either alter themselves, or just the way we perceive them, to appear a certain way to us. They work on our curiosity, and seemingly even have at least some ability to get into our heads, so we try to interact with them and then something bad happens - I don't remember any of these stories attributing a positive event to the staircases. So it sounds like a trap, or some kind of fucked up prank, by something that doesn't see human life as worthwhile or significant. Like they're magnifying glasses and we're ants. If that's the case, then who or what is using the magnifying glass? There's a lot of ways this pasta could('ve) go(ne).
Fuck, that's good. Remember how the kid said the staircase was communicating with him? What if they're not so much at trap, but some kind of intelligent entity that is hunting us? Like some kinds of predatory animal that lures its prey in, pretending to be something harmless. Feeding on us either literally or on our terror.
What if these staircases are just the shape that Mimics are taking the form of, since a treasure chest in the middle of the woods these day would attract more hostile attention compared to something as unassuming as stairs.
I mean there pretty good traps at the very least there a elevated position to see the area around it so if your investigating it you would be compelled to climb to the top after you finish looking at it from the bottom
This is the first wendigoon video I ever watched. Little did I know this Hawaiian shirt wearing man from Texas was going to be my favorite person since bob ross. Thank you for making such great content.
My Uncle used to go out the woods and built stairs. Apparently it was some kind of weird therapy thing he stating doing when he came back from Vietnam and he never stopped doing it.
Thats, odd. To say the least. Vietnam was a shitshow for a lot of vets mental health though, so I guess I shouldnt try to rationalize something therapeutic for them.
I remember reading these stories as they were coming out. In the end, the author came out and said that he made them all up. Which I think most readers understood because it was on a creepy subreddit that allowed fiction. It was a really great series, some of the other stories stick with me to this day!
The author is actually a woman. Her name is Kerry Hammond and she's gone on to publish some stuff as well as was credited when SyFy loosely adapted the concept for their Channel Zero anthology series in 2018.
I went to a ymca camp that had a set of stairs on the forest trail... alas, they weren't anything special, just a set of airplane boarding stairs that someone forgot to detach before liftoff and they just fell into the woods. It was literally the first thing I thought of when the staircases were mentioned in the search and rescue stories.
@@24DracoAmericanus I was just about to make a comment about this! Like, did you even live in Michigan if your school did not take you to YMCA Storer Camp? haha
"Ladies and gentleman, this is your captain speaking. We are experiencing extra drag that may cause turbulence. If you look to your right, you can see the boarding stairs still attached. Pretty cool huh?"
Not exactly the woods, but in the desert at an abandoned house, there was a random piece of a stairs that went up three steps. Sure, it isn't the woods, but since it was next to a creepy abandoned house in the desert, it probably would still have that bad voodoo. So, obviously I went up it, and nothing happened, and sadly, my life is still the same from this experience. So, my advice from this situation, go up every single stair case you see please, you should really do it, do it you should really do it do it right now go do it do it
You actually stepped into a really similar parallel universe and just think nothing happened. But you will never know if you're in the original timeline you were born in. You have no idea what is different or the same from the previous universe. Sorry bro
Note to everyone: If someone is trying to tell their "true story" and mention either video game references or refers to anything as "lovecraftian" it's entirely bullshit
Wow. This was the first Wendigoon video I ever watched, it came up in my recommended feed way back when I was a lifeguard and daycare attendant at the YMCA. Crazy to think how far he’s come, watching him balloon to an INSANE 4 MILLION sub channel. Well deserved, and I hope he continues to succeed as one of the most wholesome and real TH-camrs on the platform.
@@angelsnaiilz It's more-so that a rifle doesn't take shotshells (birdshot in this case); well technically you can get bolt action shotguns, but they're not common at all. Point is shells go in shotguns, not rifles.
It's really not, the tone is all over the place and it's one trick, the stairs, are used about once a blue moon with no lore or exploration . Plus it rips off missing 411 wholesale, so it's not even really imaginative.
@@cthulhluftagn3812 isn't that what makes it good though? The fact that you have absolutely no idea what the deal with the stairs is? The biggest element of horror is using what the audience doesn't know as a feature. Its not an unanswered question like the creator forgot to tie that end off, its a part of the narrative. If we knew everything about the stairs it just wouldn't be scary. We know what they CAN do but there's no telling what it could do. And the fact that the stairs are used scarcely is actually good in my opinion. They're not overdone or used to the point where the main character can just ignore them. They pop up just enough to be something worth mentioning but not to the point where the main character and the audience go "this is life now I guess." So maybe it's not the most creative or groundbreaking story, but it's not a cliche or lackluster one either. Of course, you're still entitled to your own opinions about it.
@@dryerlynnt6984 it's not that there used as a mystery, the stairs are used to try and keep people reading. The story is constantly saying "I know your here for the stairs so I'll get to them soon I promise!" And when it dose get to them it's the same thing over and over...
I’m either super dyslexic or I crossed a timeline somewhere. I remember reading this not long after it was written and I SWEAR up and down it was about Suitcases and not staircases. I even wrote a capstone film project based on the story being about suitcases. Some of the rookie stories had opened them and found strange items in them and their trainers wouldn’t let them talk about what they found and told them to put them back. The idea that they were about suitcases and that their content related to the cases while also possessing the similar qualities to the staircases was much more terrifying. Am I the only one to experience this, does anyone else have memories of this? Like I said I could just be dyslexic.
Imagine if some d class sent walking down 087 in one of the scp universes ended up coming down a set of stairs in the woods in the universe this /nosleep story came from. Some forest ranger probably came to a Staircase and there’s the body of some rando in an orange d class jumpsuit internally massacred like that one kid was and they found the leaflet they give d class I for song them all they need to know about the experiment they are being used in. And that’s how the stairs universe learns about the scp universe. As a result in the stairs universe unlike on ours where the first scp post was a post on /x/ in that world the first scp post would Likely be a forestry rookie pairing a story about a stairs encounter on /out/ Our universe first scp written 173 on /x/ Stairs universe first written. 087 on /out/
One fun thing about the stairs is they appear in multiple other horror stories as an homage, such as My Property Isn't Normal. Also one thing that's interesting regarding the guy whose hand was chopped off, there is a separate story by the user that the park service sold some land to loggers, and when a tree was chopped down there was a perfectly preserved human hand fused with the bark inside the tree. Some people believe the two are connected.
This is in the former Soviet Union not a mystery the stairs would lead into appartment complexes and, they are in either former radiation filled areas or in areas that still are unsafe to visit the red carpets were really popular in soviet times for if someone important would visit they would lay down the carpets kinda like a sign of respect this was everywhere in Russian culture or Soviet culture back in those days. To reduce confusion even more, all of the houses either deteriorated or were destroyed by the explosion / radiation from Chernobyl another area outside of the USSR where you would be able to find stairs albeit usually not the same style of stairs and, no carpets are in villages that either used to be abandoned or were abandoned for safety reasons if you want to figure out what town it used to be look for signs or on google maps it can sometimes still display the names.
@@leagueaddict8357 i usually joke, but you're crying so i won't take back anything... commas exist, and without them your comments look like you ain't catching breath until you finish. just use correct punctuation and stop being a little crying Karen. you're the one that got offended bruh
Okey this shit creeps me out so much, I know it's just a story but as a kid I used to always go to the woods with my friends and there were stairs on an incline next to a spring I remember it so clearly because we used to play war there and the first person to climb up would always win because of the high ground, they were made of concrete and had moss growing on them but you could only see maybe the remnants of a floor, no walls, no door, nothing, just stairs and a broken wooden floor.
When houses don't make it its sometimes easy to tell where the stairs were or even the stairs will remain having been protected by the rest of the home and built in a self stabilizing way
@@theweedishchef420 1. I have a location but right now I'm not comfortable with sharing it as I live here still. 2. It's in the middle of a forest so I don't think you could see anything by google maps. 3. It's not deep into the woods, just over a stream and it's relatively close to other houses which means it's probably a house that someone started building but gave up.
@@theweedishchef420 it's near a neighbourhood which is in the forest, the whole thing is surrounded by woods and yeah saying in the middle of the forest may be too much but what I ment by that is it's deep enough where you can't see other houses or anything and I don't know where the North side ends as I've never gone far enough that way.
@@theweedishchef420 I don't know why you are so set on the coordinates shit, how hard is to believe that someone started building a house and gave it up? Maybe because of money, maybe they died? It's not fucking paranormal we went up them every day.
I fucking hate those commercials The character designs are stupid and hard to look at And “Low” is already the most annoying song in all of existence so hearing it on repeat is literal torture They’re trying to brainwash us
I imagine that the Forrest service on the other side of the inter dimensional stairs are just a bunch of people that build random stair cases and their like huh isn’t it weird how we keep finding severed hands and whatnot around them
Just to be clear about this, the story is fiction and was written by the author SAR Woods. Disclaimer for anyone who thinks this is a real account of events that actually took place.
It's clearly fake because of all the cover-ups. People dying unexplicable deaths and losing limbs for no reason for no reason on a national park would call atention from the media and lawsuits. No parent would be satisfied with "oh, your kid died from massive internal bleeding during the few hours he was lost, but no one can tell why"
The only thing that gets me on these stories is 1."Oh hey, you see those ominous stairs? Dont think about it." 2."Why?" 1."Just dont think about it." *guy investigates* 1."WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!?!" Just say "Dont go up the stairs, weird shit might happen and we wont find the missing person, dont ask any more questions."
yeah thats what gets me with these kinds of stories. like if you dont want someone to go somewhere that's dangerous, just fucking tell them its dangerous. People are attracted to mystery, if you keep it mysterious they're going to want to go over there.
I would have more questions about the rifle that shoots buckshot!!! Forget about the stairs - I want to know how that works ! ! And as close as to be cleaning it makes Swiss cheese holes - now that is the mystery!!!
Stairs in the woods are usually commissioned as art installations for viewing purposes. Say there is a great patch of poplar trees, the stairs allow for a good view of the scenery. It attracts visitors and allows for safe viewing. It also helps to dissuade visitors from climbing and damaging trees/natural ecology. The stairs in the thumbnail are an installation in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England. It acts as an observatory, permitting visitors to see the shifting of the treetops as well as a nearby pond-reservoir. Personally, I’ve come across similar installations in the Netherlands. These stairs, while for viewing, acted as more of a statement piece. They served to contrast man-made industrial structures, and their place alongside the natural world. A deeper interpretation that can be drawn from this is an idea accurately represented in The Winchester Mystery House. Confusing structures, such as stairs leading to no-where, and second floor doors opening to nothing, were purposefully constructed by owner Sarah Winchester. She believed rouge spirits were haunting her, and the only way to protect herself was to continue building misleading structures to confuse these spirits. This is an old world idea, and could easily be applied to some of these staircases. Perhaps they serve a further purpose to confuse evil spirits within the woods. They also look weird asf. The connection drawn to other-world portals is a well-founded observation. Simply because, damn they fucking look like that.
Definitley love cool stories like these it’s cool to think they real too even though they definitley seem fake But always cool to explain them with my beliefs
yeah it’s fiction. author’s specified it’s fiction. but, if you think the idea that there are really stairs out in the woods is cool, that part’s real. i’ve come across a few. foundation and stairways are the sturdiest part of the building, so when the rest collapses or burns away, they sometimes stay standing. they’re pretty cool
So if these stairs lead to possibly endless alternate realities, does that mean that somewhere in an alternate dimension of earth, some families end up having random bodily organs and children appear from trees in their living rooms?
I legit thought you said when can't take a shit in Detroit. My mind thought.. so you just go to the top and pull ur trousers down then do your work? Damn son
Corpses two and a half hour video on the search and rescue stuff is definitely my most rewatched TH-cam video, the way he tells the story’s plus his voice just puts it in the bag.
Bro same. Throughout the video I was quoting some of the stories because I’ve listened to Corpses video so many times. It is definitely one of my favorite videos of his.
@arcticafrostbite617 yes, you don't put buckshot in a rifle. Not only is the measurement system for cartridges different, there isn't a point to putting buckshot, which is meant to spread out, into a rifle, which is meant to keep things going straight.
It's not actually so mysterious, stairs are generally the strongest part of a house, when the rest of the place breaks down, stairs tend to be the last thing standing. Add in a pinch of urban legend and folk lore and boom, a spoopy mystery
@@GradyHouger I guess it depends on what kind of building it is, sometimes a staircase is basically just a ladder with some planks nailed to it and other times the staircase is a solid part of the foundation.
I haven’t watched the full video yet so I’m not sure if you’re just talking about a regular staircase or the one in the thumbnail, but the one in the thumbnail is actually a sculpture art piece which is part of the Sculpture Trail in the Forest of Dean in the UK. It’s really cool but I’m pretty sure has since been taken down. But you can still look it up
I remember reading this on r/nosleep way back and it always gave me the heebie-jeebies. Most of the time I think the whole pretending it’s real instead of fiction on no sleep is kinda lame bc it’s done poorly but this one was so good and really stick with me! this is my first time hearing someone else talk abt it tho
Stairs in the woods do happen and they're odd, but for me, it's the brick and mortar fireplaces that are the creepiest. The structure's long gone, but fireplaces are forever, apparently. Old brick wells are unsettling, too. (I live in a densely wooded area littered with old settlements dating back to the American Civil War and older. There's a lot out here. From old encampments to Native American artifacts, defunct plantations and various detritus like military uniform buttons, it's a history buff's dream.)
I’ve seen so many of those old brick fire places in my area. Just the fire place and sometimes a very cracked foundation still standing. The one I find the most odd is on a route I drive fairly regularly: it’s burnt. Like, really burnt, falling apart at the top, and in a cow pasture Confusing as hell, I have no idea why the owner kept it there. It’s on the edge of where the field become a forest and none of the cows ever come close to it, even though they have no problem venturing into the parts of the woods still enclosed in the fence.
I live in the Forest of Dean (UK) and the photo used in the thumbnail is taken here in the woods towards beechenhurst as part of a sculpture trail. Have walked up them several times even as a child and sadly no magic or spooks were involved. There are other weird things in the woods along the sculpture trail including a cool swing on a tree and a giant (and I mean giant like too big to climb) wooden chair.
Regarding the veracity of the concept around the stories or lack thereof, it was a very nice video! When the child described what they saw as the "campfire" and due to the fact they were protected somehow, I immediately though of the abrahamic heavenly beings of the most eldritch aspect or the "biblically accurate angels" and that added a whole new level of interest to a already fascinating concept!
There is a Jacob's ladder clear theme going on. You do find staircases in the woods, just not that common and the story has some nonsensical parts to it, but it's just old houses if you dig around and the chupacabra doesn't kill you.
I remember finding a short (4-5ft) curved staircase up in my grandmas woods with my cousins. We would always do parkour on them and drew on them with chalk. It was nothing paranormal obviously. Just a rich hunter with a bunch of concrete lol.
My dad built some stairs in the woods for my mom to be able to climb up the hill. And someone ripped them down. Probably got scared and thought it was a portal
Hearing these stories, I cant help but think about Angler Fish. They use their bioluminescent lure to attract prey, since you dont usually see light at the bottom of the ocean. You dont often see a staircase in the middle of the woods. If the stairs are part of a larger... er, "organism", that would explain how they seem to change locations. And if stairs are an effective lure, that almost certainly means its evolved specifically to hunt humans, which is a... concerning thought
Sounds like fae fuckery. Happens exclusively in the woods, weird nonsensical geometry appearing out of nowhere, potentially leading to another plane of existence, people possessed to interact with them, an unusual child (likely outcast) called to go to them and returning unharmed and well fed, grown adults brush them off and avoid talking about them, doing something disrespectful (going up them without permission) leads to dire consequences. Has all the hallmarks of the fae.
@@darkstar.357 I know, right? But, it's even more terrifying when you consider how it was once used to justify things like the abandonment or abuse of unwanted/mentally ill children because they had been replaced by "faeries".
I'd like to point out, and this is something I only recently noticed, The one story where the guy goes up the stairs and his hand disappears SEEMS to connect to another story in this, collection, whatever you wanna call it. He doesn't talk about it here, but there's another story where the park sold some land to a logging company and they called the park all pissed and wanted someone to come take a look at what they found. There was a whole human hand inside a tree. It looked fused to the inside of the tree, both parties insisted they had nothing to do with it, I think the police carried it off and the guy telling the story never gets a follow up. I can't remember if there's a timeline thing that directly contradicts this hypothesis but, there's my thoughts.
I remember when those parts came out. So many people, like myself, were all connecting the dots. Same with the part about the author seeing the solider in the woods. I think it was a civil war soldier, can’t remember that part well. Which means I gotta reread the series. Lol.
i love it that you just read the story causually! too many youtubers overdo it with creepy stuff to the point where it just isnt creepy any more and it starts being too edgy and cringe they keep talking in a forced deep voice or they add cringe glitchy filters or sound effects to their voice. im glad you dont do that! i absolutely love your channel!
One thing that interests me about this story is how sometimes the stairs seem malicious, sometimes benign, and like in the last boy's case, almost protective
I use to look for old bricks to clean to resell. The best place to look would always be in the woods with old run down houses. No one ever complained about them getting cleaned up. Even started having people call about old buildings on their property. One day a buddy of mine yelled and brought me to a set of stairs out there. We started digging around them and couldn't find the houses foundation. You find it and dig it out to look for where it collapses. We was there for what felt like maybe 30 mins and it was dark. Which was weird bc when we came in. It was only 2pm. We had been out there for over 6 hrs and never realized it. When we both noticed it was dark we left. We had a very bad feeling. Went back to look for them. Never seen them again
time passing quicker in the presence of the stairs - that's kind of what i thought at first about the last story, the kid with downs syndrome. the reason why he showed up a whole week later completely fine is bc he stepped across a boundary (around the stairs) and time moved differently there. he was trying to intimate that it only felt like a short amount of time ("right here"), but for everyone else, a week has passed. kind of thought that was going to be the go with the initial story when the senior SAR guy asked "how long were you on the stairs" and wold then reveal that hours had passed, or something.
fun fact, they do make shotguns that have rifled barrels, making them rifles, like the Remington 870 or the Winchester 1300 which are rifled for slugs, but are more than capable of firing shot.
Actually crazy to think that this was the very first video I found of you and got to see you blow tf up since man. The growth. Was unlike anything I’ve seen. Doubt you’ll see this but by the off chance you do keep up the great work man. You deserve everything you’ve received .
You have to follow the rules: 1) For preparation, you need: permission, a pass, a watcher (as witness and anchor), the right set of stairs (ascent, descent, parallel, and perpendicular), and then you have to enter at the right time. 2) Only one can be open at any time. When one door closes, another one opens. The reverse is also true, opening a new door will close another, indiscriminate of those on the other side. It can shut you out, or shut on you with disastrous consequences. 3) Don't touch anything while on the stairs (except the railings/banisters), or even at the top. One doesn't stick their leg out of the door of a moving car, nor should you toch anything on the journey. Observe and learn. Physically connecting with the gateway may cause it to collapse the functionality. 3) If you feel the fear, don't go near. Especially if you dont understand everything you've just been told. Not everyone is allowed, not everyone comes back, and no one knows what's going to happen until it happens.
Reminds me of when you used to spawn into a those...giant tree Taiga biomes in Minecraft. There are these broken mossy cobblestone structures littered everywhere... that scared me a lot as a kid
Finding relics of old buildings or plans for things that never came to be is fascinating. In the summer of 2020, I was walking around the river near my house. This is out in the suburbs, but this particular side of the river is still kinda undeveloped and heavily forested while the other side has occupied houses. I saw this beautiful tree that was in the middle of blooming way into the forest, so I started walking over there to get a better look. Just as I was walking up to the tree, I tripped. I looked down and saw a random concrete well thing jutting out of the ground with a manhole cover on top. In the middle of the forest. No other development nearby, not a road or even survey stakes stuck in to the ground. Just a random manhole.
@@animeloveer97depending on how rural they are sewage is less likely than storm water. You get rain water infrastructure in the middle of no where because it can help with flooding a very long way a way. If it's really old, or far away from civilisation it might be related to private irrigation rather than public works. In rural areas most homes have septic systems so you're not very likely to see a large sewer pipe running through the countryside unless it's near a major roadway or rail line and connects an urban area to a facility for treatment.
I’m really happy this is picking up steam and so glad you all are watching! I do want to say, when this was made I had under 700 subs and was just making videos for fun, not really caring for how it turned out as I never imagined I’d be where I am now. That being said, there are MANY editing errors in this video. I want to leave it as is to remember where I came from but be warned, it’s less than refined. Thank you for watching regardless lol.
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"Staircase?"
*lights cigarette
"Haven't heard that name in a long time."
Hehahah
I Lit A Joint
This has 1.4k likes but now only 3 comments. Wth
@@landoncube769 it's the stairs!
I cant sleep. My bed is upstairs but im scared to walk up the stairs.
Hey could be worse, people could be finding random forests at the top of the stairs in their house instead. Imagine climbing your stairs and at the very last step bam you're suddenly standing in the middle of the woods.
I thought that the random forest is in the back of the closet !!! 😎
Underrated comment
new phobia unlocked
There’s a story to write there!!!
narnia with less closets
What if the SAR officers were like, “let’s build a random staircase in the middle of the woods and give the newbies vague answers, just to fuck with them.”
Sounds about right
I bet their job is boring and uneventful enough that this could actually be the case 😂
@@Rahnonymous yeah, the staircase
That is a lot of work for a practical joke though
@@JaredConnell you have never had a shitty job 😂 where your not supervised ...
There is a man out there who is randomly building stairs in the woods and pulling the greatest prank ever conceived
I HOPE TO GOD that is case please lets catch him in the act PLEASE 😭😭😭😭😭
He cuts off hands, makes Swiss cheese and, blew a woman's blood cells up
Unlikely the stairs are old
@@Numba1Man
Everybody needs a hobby
100% the answer to this. It is a big joke to some random guy building stairs.
Trees in houses: nobody bats an eye
Stairs in forests: everyone loses their minds
society😒
LMAO
Holy shit
Lollll this is such a great observation
@@beezmanit2683 we do truly live in one.
This _really_ makes me want to go build some random staircases in the woods. Like, imagine going camping thinking "man I've got one hell of a scary story for the campfire tonight” and you run across one of my stairs while going for a piss.
I personally recommend doing this
Thanks. You were the one who build the stairs, and we have since deeply appreciated it. Please, as soon as you hear the resonance lock down the door.
sad being in a country where the woods are so dense that just getting in them is an accomplishment
@@cordulaakorda4625 I’d imagine getting _out_ of them would be even better if that’s the case
@@Mikeological *bold* of you to assume that i am not a creature of the woods
14:43 he gives a sigh of disappointment and I wondered ‘did he sigh bc the author wrote rifle instead of shotgun?’ Then I remember Wendigoon’s first videos were gun videos so he definitely did haha
Was looking for an answer to this lol
lmao definitely
I don't expect redditors to know about guns lmfao
I mean, he's *is* American..
I did. Thats how you know the author is full of sht and never once used a firearm. One of ballens vids that was the hidden secret, said rifle but image wss a shotty. Yes it annoys people that much when they try to act like they know something they obv dont.
Hearing wendigoon sigh and say ‘ok’ after reading the buckshot and rifle line was hilarious.
I'm not even a casual when it comes to gun knowledge (Ireland doesn't believe in letting citizens have easy access to things we might use to defend ourselves against government overreach) but isn't buckshot a variety of shotgun ammo and thus not going to function with a rifle, assuming you could even fit the shell into the tight chamber of a rifle in the first place?
@@Japaneseanimeguy exactly correct, which is why wendigoon sighed
@@Japaneseanimeguyso you are at least casual cause you know this
@@Japaneseanimeguythis is so elementary for a person growing in the souther US i have trouble believing people don’t get these things, good on you for knowing more than most people outside the US
@@Shawn-oz1owKids growing up in the city, especially in the north wouldn’t have a clue. Shotguns and rifles look similar if you no nothing about guns. As a kid I had no idea that shotguns used buckshot, or even really what it was!
C'mon, we all know that the stairs actually lead to the next floor of a mystery dungeon.
With current year calling a entire Earth a dungeon doesn't seem like much of a stretch
Mystery dungeon or legendary dungeon?
Maybe you'll find Big League MDB on them
Makes sense.
Its not a random dungeon, its a bdsm dick dungeon from an alternative bdsm world
This is the sort of nosleep stuff I LOVE. No cliche, overdone monster slashing, no overused witch coven or Bigfoot findings, just something truly bizarre and out of place, something familiar turned haunting by its abnormality. No exposition dump that takes all the interest out of it, just the horror of the unknown and the familiar combined into one sexy spooky and unique tale
@Bazel not heard of that one, care to drop a link?
@Bazel cheers! Exactly what I needed while I write this bitch ass essay :D
it's probably fake, but it's still well-made.
@@manboy4720 it is fake, not a single thing on NoSleep is real, it’s the creepypasta board of Reddit
Couldn’t agree with you more. This is top tier creepy pasta.
If you think the stairs in the woods are weird, wait until you see the elevators.
Or the inexplicably still functioning escalators
the what-
@@prostodanik1010 tf?
wait are you serious?
Just wait until you hear about the ladders…
In my old house my dad had a special part in the basement that no one but him and my mom could go in so i went in there when he wasnt home and i made sure no one came down, the moment i touched that door every cell in my body was screaming "dont go in there". To me this seems like seeing something unnatural in place in it shouldnt be, this kind of ability is something the human brain is really good at. As for what was behind the door it was were my parents put christmas gifts 😭😭
LMAOOO that's some cartoon shit
OMG, you gave me a good scare. After watching this im spooked but this makes me a little less spooked.
Bruh
😂😂😂😂
i thought you were gonna find something worse-
some guy: *goes up weird stairs
the universe: "your going to the shadow realm jimbo"
In a parallel universe jimbo gets absolutely screwed every time someone makes a meme about him.
Poor Jimbo
Jimbo got the stare case
Jimbo is too low level
you're*
This actually does happen to a degree. Staircases are typically the most structurally secure part of building. When old logging/mining FOBs are abandoned and rot away, sometimes the staircases will remain standing looking a little out of place.
Or in the case of the thumbnail it was created by artists as part of a sculpture trail in the forest of dean, England to boost tourism.
Theres also a floating stained glass window and giant chair on that same trail.
Exactly. Look at tornadoes, the most common structure left standing after one blows a whole house apart is the staircase.
Sooooo, new staircases stay behind while the cleanup crew leaves them as well?
Ok why is no foundation found around them ?? No bricks or remnants of old homes ?? Just stairs and often they are in relatively good shape and some seem maintained. I get ur point and it could be part of what is being found
@@itcantbetruebutis7778 because they're NOT REAL
One of my biggest annoyances in these creepy -pasta-type stories is when a character who clearly knows that something is going on just arbitrarily refuses to tell other people when they ask. There's often no reason for it and it winds up being more dangerous to not tell the characters involved and feels very much like the author actively reaching into their story snd silencing a character because they either want to be mysterious or else don't have a planned answer for the mystery.
That’s generally a trope in both comedy and horror. It’s definitely a way to create tension and lead to either avoidable tragedy or exaggerated misunderstandings. And it reflects the very real situation of authority figures, institutions, governments or just arrogant individuals actually withholding crucial information and the trouble it causes.
It's because direct answers could be tested or analyzed to easily be disproven. Can't debunk a non answer
That’s called storytelling.
@@joemahma3017 Making characters have logical decisions for their actions is also a pretty big part of storytelling. Staying silent about something dangerous "just because" isn't good storytelling. If the characters actually had a compelling reason to stay quiet, it would be fine.
@@thelemurofmadagascar9183 rekt
This sounds like remarkably poor management of the situation. If I were in charge of devil stairs national park I would probably just restrict most areas so hikers don’t find the stairs. Also it’s probably best to be more upfront with your rangers about these things since it sounds like they run into them every other week, being vague and spooky about them helps no one. Imagine if we treated other dangers like this “if you see a forest fire just ignore it and don’t tell anyone that forest fires exist” that attitude will just get more people killed or missing.
I believe that's the thing though, like stated you never see the same staircase twice, they seem to appear and disappear randomly (or in a distinct pattern) thus making it impossible to just corner off a part of the woods to keep visitors away from them. Not to mention, curiosity killed the cat, people are going to be intrigued by out of bounds areas in an otherwise public place.
As for informing new guys, yeah, probably a good idea to let them know these things are dangerous, but how much would you tell them and would you even then be sure they understand the consequences? Same argument clearly goes as for above, new guys might get overly curious if you're vague, but will they take you seriously if you tell them these random stairs have a potential to kill people.
A forest fire is quantifiable, you see the flames and you understand the destructive potential, I doubt most people would see a flight of stairs and immediately think, yes, this is deadly.
Ultimately I doubt there would be a good way to deal with something like this idea, beyond ignore it. It may not be normal to most, but normal is relative, and if you understand to stay away from it because everyone else does, then that's your normal.
In any case, thank you for attending my TED talk.
It's because this is fiction. It's a fake creepypasta.
@@renegadewolfhound8786 No really...
Seriously though, it's a real creepypasta but a fictional story.
@@ladyofolyas yeah I suppose I was assuming there were areas where the stairs tended to be and not be but if they could truly appear anywhere in the park then maybe just marking the whole place as some kind of military off limits zone like Area 51 would be best. Maybe my analogy to forest fires wasn’t the best one but I still think a policy of ignoring danger, even supernatural weirdness type danger, is probably going to do more harm than good. It would be pretty hard to convince people that the stairs are really dangerous though, I’m not sure how I would do that without just sounding crazy.
@@renegadewolfhound8786
Oh thank God I was scared af by it 🤣
everyone: look kid I’ll tell you about Them. but you can’t tell anyone.
narrator: ok
narrator opening reddit at night: ☕️🗿
Plz translate this
@@krusher181 people that write about stuff like this are typically told not to tell anyone about what happened, but then they post about it.
@@krusher181 compared to most youtube comments this is very legible lol
@@krusher181 no
@@DANtheMANofSIPA the easter island head is pretty much indecipherable tbh.
What’s scary is that you CAN find random stairs in the woods! Usually front steps or base stairs are all that’s left of a house that has otherwise burned to the ground or rotted away. This depends on the type of building and stairs, naturally, only a few steps are gonna still be around. If your front steps are connected directly to your concrete foundation, they might survive a fire. So in an area that used to be populated, or maybe in an area where cabins are you can find stairs. They won’t be common, in the middle of nowhere, totally alone/ separated from a house, or clean and perfect like these magic stairs, but they’re out there!
Yeah I've found like 6 sets and nothing has happened lol
Driving through rural North Carolina and Iowa, it's extremely common to see just the chimney and stairs left where old houses have rotted or burned away. Just the bricks and maybe a little bit of decaying wood left on the edge of a field, off the side of the road, or along the tree line with nothing else nearby.
Yeah, staircases are usually made of concrete where houses are made of wood. So they'll last a lot longer.
@@ultrabigfella exterior steps are made of brick or concrete, but interior stairs are usually wood. Not always though. I have seen wooden staircases left behind where a house used to be. It's pretty surreal.
I've found really old ladders attatched to huge trees in deep jungle.They're there for offering tribute to local deities and other spirits in the past but still creepy as hell.
As a fan of Junji Ito, the Stairs story is my favorite cup of tea when it comes to horror stories. Taking everyday normal things and making it bizarre and surreal, with just the right amount of creepiness and terrifying that leaves you awake at night.
couldn't agree more, yes!
"Every day things" stairs in the woods aint exactly every day.
Though funny enough, ive seen a few sets of stairs in the woods.
You might like the Backrooms but I mean the original one
you described it perfectly.
He’s very good at taking the mundane and flipping it on its head to make it scary
This is my all-time favorite Reddit thread. The mention of never finding the same stairs twice gives me the impression that the stairs are specific to the people who go missing, tied to their souls or something. The dogs lost the scent for the first little boy when the SAR officer climbed them because they were the boy’s stairs. That always makes it lean much more supernatural than science-fiction for me
It’s obviously BS
Uhh, you know this isn't real right?
@@lunada7127 rule number one of r/nosleep is “everything is true here, even if it’s not”
It's not that deep
Thats weirdly calming, like the stairs are for you and only you, and other peoples stairs are for them and only them
Just your own set of stairs in a calm forest where you don’t have to deal with other people
Wendigo on breaking character because of the "buckshot in a rifle" made my day lol
Same 😂
Yup. They always fuck up the little details. If it's not having no idea about guns, or the woods, it's regional dialects. If it's none of that it's repeating clichés. This story is better than most, even on the small details, but there's always a mistake that the narrator shouldn't make as written that undermines the verisimilitude of the story.
This made my day as well. It also made it very clear that these stories are made up.
i was wondering why that sounded so wrong until i thought about it
The Gun Guy in him broke free for just a second there lmao.
I fucking love that sigh of resignation when he reads "filled himself full of buckshot from his rifle" the first time I listened to this story it didn't even hit me how wrong the statement is.
The Gun Guy in him broke free for just a second there lmao.
I love how having a moderate understanding of something that we’ve all been seeing in movies, comics, and television for our entire lives makes you a “Gun Guy.”
“Let’s go sailing in my new sailboat.”
“That boat doesn’t have a sail tho…”
“WhoOAa. You’re a real “boat guy.”
@@kgpspyguy I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or are genuinely triggered, it was a joke.
@@kgpspyguy My guy its a joke. lmao
@@kgpspyguy no he actually is really into guns
I know this is 2 years old but I'm catching up. As an archaeologist I see a lot of stairs to nowhere...they tend to be the most sturdy parts of a homestead (front door/porch stairs) so they frequently remain when the rest of the home is gone. Although these are usually 5 steps or less and not carpeted, unlike the ones in the reports. I feel like this is probably a creepypasta inspired by someone who saw one of these (admittedly creepy) archaeological set of stairs. But also I love this paranormal stuff....and tbh I'd be a victim of these because it would be my job to go document them, lol.
Even though I'm not an archaeologist, I can definitely relate to the last part of your post.
The scp foundation would like to have a word with you
Watch out. You know I’m gonna be running up them shits.
On all fours
@@tsinestexicthdauwraum9082 like a fucking goblin!
@@tsinestexicthdauwraum9082 And backwards, like reverse footage of a dog running up the stairs after hearing a box of milk bones shake
@@troublewakingup fucken stair goblin
Yet if they were in a building, you’d take the elevator.
We truly do live in a society.
Man, Led Zepplin really made these Stairways to Heaven sound more appealing in their songs
Its called the forbidden riff for a reason.
Wow!!!!!!
Only one song
Imagine climbing up stairs and traversing to an alternate dimension and getting telefragged by fucking needles
nice
Instant spaghetti
Did you just say telefragged
Tf2?
@@heehoohehehe1267 no, tf2 didn't invent telefragging/fragging
I've always found the storytelling technique of, "It's a bad thing, don't do it."
"Why?"
"Don't ask me, just obey me because lol."
Tiresome, it's not a way adults with real world social experience interact with each other.
Yea I immediately became uninterested and the immersion failed completely after that
Idk, maybe they aren’t allowed to tell
I agree with that but this creepypasta is more about coping about something completely out of one's control. The Search and rescue veterans do this job every day and want to continue doing so with relative normalcy so they want to keep pretending everything is okay. By telling the protagonist that there are demonic stairs in the woods, it makes it harder for them to forget about it.
I've met real people who treat other people like this. It's pretty rare, and very annoying. The weird thing is that I'm supposed to believe that everybody does it.
@@reasontoreligion5796 I wouldnt be able to let it go, Im too curious, I'd end up asking to a superior's superior if that were the case
This story sounds like a metaphor for paranoia, let me explain:
• The way every single person gives the same "it's normal, just ignore it" speech
• The narrator is the only one who is genuinely concerned about the stairs
• It seems like nobody can truly feel the confusion and fear that the narrator feels, but they know way more than the narrator does
I prefer the gaslighting version where the narrator screams at me that I'm just too stupid and crazy to understand what's really going on.
@@M0Sesdef You just don't understand bc your science is lie! My Canon 900 something can prove it!
To me it’s a bunch of rich/wealthy people who have nothing better to do and waaaaaay too much time to build it as a prank. Don’t be sheep think for yourself.
So I was watching this and I went to tell my gf how I remember seeing stairs in the woods and a sense of dread and paranoia just washed over me and I can't stop crying, I am so freaked out rn
Odd there are so many, but only one picture...
I went up a staircase in the woods and all I got was this t-shirt 👕😔
Could you just imagine that you get lost in the middle of the forest. Discover a creepy stair case. You go up. And there is literally this person that is there for eternity, and is there to simply give you a "i went up the stairs case t shirt " and you then leave, find your way back home with a new t-shirt.
i found waldo
@@moomooojoos that would be fucking awesome
I went up a staircase in the woods and all I got was abducted by demons
Eyy hylics pfp
I know this is fictional, but when I first discovered this redit thread I was in college and a friend’s sister had actually worked in search and rescue. She happened to be visiting and I asked her if there was any validity to random staircases in the wood and with zero hesitation she answered “yeah, see them all the time.” When I tell you I lost it... she did say some of them had a purpose, the stairs lead to platforms used by hunters. But most of them lead to no where and confirmed there was all different types, some carpeted, some concrete, some wood and so on. She acted like it was no big deal, like it was an obvious fact, much like the writer here does. She didn’t say if there was strange happenings connected to the stairs, just said they existed. I really hope I meet someone else on search and rescue that tells me she was pulling my leg 😂
Sorry. I'm 70 and have been out in the woods all my life. I have never seen stairs out there. I have never seen dogmen either. I have seen lots of other things though. Mostly beautiful. If you want some accurate stories, read some Dave Paulides Missing 411 stories.
@@TheMichguff I have read the 411 stories and found them fascinating! I’m actually quite relieved at your account of their being no stairs in American forest reserves. The 411 stories are mysterious/disturbing enough without the “stairs phenomenon” being a thing.
@@ItsjustMorgan89 I have seen a concrete staircase is forest, but it is in Russia, and probably just ruins of soviet era.
@@Autarke yeah that sounds like some old Soviet shit for sure
I've seen staircases out in the woods! But uh.
That's mostly because staircases tend to be more secure than a lot of bits, and survive demolishment/rot a bit longer.
Guess it's a wee bit different when the staircases are part of a old cabin, eh? Never seen hunter stands with stairs going up to them, though we have a bunch laying around. Most of them are just platforms nailed onto trees with ladders nailed on sometimes, and sometimes ropes instead.
There's a few places I've seen concrete stairs mostly by themself, though. But I assume those were also from old buildings. (I.E. There's a couple out near the old coastal defense bunkers in the totally overgrown areas.)
I've run across these "stairs to nowhere" on several occasions. There is nothing supernatural about them. One of them is about 1/4 mile off a major trail in my local area. It's a collection of seemingly random concrete slabs in various stages of degradation along with three separate staircases. Two going up, and one going down. They were part of a re-forestation camp in the 1920s. On one of the staircases, the date they were laid is etched in, 1926. The stairs are in such good condition they don't look more than a handful of years old. There's a historical marker nearby explaining the surrounding area. The superstructures of the buildings were all pre-fabricated, so they were able to be disassembled once the project in the area was completed.
That's what these stairs to nowhere are. They're stairs to structures that have fallen down or been disassembled nearly 100 years ago. People forget that in the 30s and 40s, the Civilian Conservation Corps built thousands of temporary buildings all across the country on national and state forestry lands and then reclaimed what they could when the project was over. If the stairs were too hard to take, they left them. The records exist somewhere. They are not magic portals, but because they appear mysterious, then superstitions spring up over time. They exist in all walks of life.
I'm surprised they even exist at all, but that seems to make sense, if the stories are to be taken as true it could be paranoia mixed with the fact that devoid of all context stairs in the middle of the woods are hella creepy. Confirmation bias collected any spooky story near these stairs and a legend was born.
Also I'm not gonna force you to doxx yourself lol but where's the stairs located?, As far as I know, no one has any evidence of them actually existing aside from the stories. If they're out there with plaques explaining a potential origin it would be nice to at least document it
@@ashe7683 Sure! They're up off Barr Trail on Pikes Peak in the Colorado Springs area. Not to self-promote too much, but I have a ~14 minute video on my channel where I first explored the Fremont Experimental Forest, entitled "Ghost Town Exploration..."
On re-watching my video, I recalled incorrectly. The date on it the stair was 1924.
There is another much more frequented park in the center of Colorado Springs called Palmer Park in which I've found no fewer than five staircases without anything attached. I'm relatively inoculated against paranormal explanations as a result of being around so many.
That's just what they want us to think
@@EngineeringWizard11 i've been to palmer many times but never seen the staircases!! would you be able to direct me?
@@kellofangs It's easy to miss them, they're on the uphill side the main road as you access it from Maizeland Rd. Look for them on the left as you go up the hill on the windy part.
imagine walking in the woods and coming across the endgame boss: a working escalator.
Imagine being the most advanced race this planet has ever seen, and we get scared by some stairs we not only built but also invented. Our memes are surpassing us…
we had stairs inna park in my city and they were not scary thdy werevcute nd awesome. idk why they would inspire this!
@Jackerson Roze Or even worse, a human *didn't* build that...
@@redacted4413 i dont know if its ur insane amount off typos or if i had a stroke lol
@@HillBilly_Urbex they're typing on mobile.
I've done the "werevcute" all the time because "v" is right above the space bar and if you're texting on mobile it's very easy to make that mistake. I do it all the time.
It reads
"We had stairs in a park in my city and they were not scary they were cute and awesome. I don't know why they would inspire this!"
@@Lrix thx i got confused for a bit lol
So my grandparents live in Michigan and have around 60 acres of land. back when i was like 14 my cousin and I were riding 4 wheelers through the forest and came to a clearing with a small stoneish staircase. Shit was weird as hell to just randomly come across, but after further inspection we realized it was the remains of an old stone house that had been destroyed by time. There were big stone blocks allll over the place and even a set of stone basement stairs that we could walk down what was once a basement. All that was down there were old beer bottles and pepsi cans, the ones that had the small triangle hole you drank out of instead of a pull tab. Anyways it was interesting and this video reminded of that.
That sounds really cool. I kinda wanna go there. Lol
@@gamwisesamgee7400 Really cool area to explore, I haven't been in years though unfortunately
I just cannot believe you went into the basement. That’s like the one thing you aren’t supposed to do in horror movies. That is what they make the most disposable characters do in the first 5 minutes of the movie
@@star-tc7xv from what OP was saying the basement was probably nothing more than just a hole in the ground at that point
@@s_hunt4218 still freaks me out. I don’t believe much into spirituality and monsters but still nonetheless not interested in what’s down there.
I love the uncut stuffiness ASMR breaks in the story lol
We had a shed in my backyard that burned down in the middle of the summer. Actually it caught fire twice in one night and we were very lucky the house didn’t as well. Regardless, it was one of those big, old-fashioned shed and had a brick staircase leading up the foundation. When it burned down it left a green clearing in the middle of the woods with a staircase leading to nowhere. Even knowing how those stairs came to be, growing up they felt supernatural, even magical.
I was super active on NoSleep when this series debuted and it was AGONIZING waiting for new parts to come out. the entries always ended with a sentence like, “that’s all I can talk about for now, I’ll write more when I get some time in the next week or so,” or “these posts have attracted too much attention from the higher-ups, I have to wait until things cool off before writing again.”’it always made me so sad, wishing that the author would just sit down and pound out a whole Harry Potter length series lol. such a great and immersive series, give them all a read, you won’t regret it.
it was so much fun talking in the comments with a bunch of other redditors role-playing and pretending everything was real. people were bringing up wendigos, fae, skinwalkers, all manner of mythical creatures and shit, trying to explain what the SAR Officer had described in their stories. there was always one or two people in the comments on NoSleep that role-played as some sort of investigator or cryptozoologist (of course their characters were super experienced and the most knowledgeable in their respective fields, lol), and they would write a comment about how they’re 150% sure it’s X, Y or Z, based on this thing that happened on their last job outing or some shit (the posts were always well researched and the justifications / storytelling and fictional elements were really nicely written). some absolutely hilarious stuff, some downright idiotic stuff, but the comments were always a fun place to be, ESPECIALLY for this series.
We may have seen each other there lol. I came by it a little later but not really too much later.
@@CeeJayThe13th We almost definitely encountered each other back then. I told a few entirely true stories in the comment section about officially weird sh*t I'd encountered growing up in the middle of nowhere, particularly one incident while camping with my cousins... I think this was probably the greatest NoSleep series ever.
Don't climb them. Don't look at them. Don't even go near them. ;)
Consulting
I know them from Corpse Husband's read.
My favorite part was "Some guy came backflipping towards me through the woods" Cocain's a hell of a drug, man.
@@KaeYoss 💀 this image nvr fails to make me laugh. Everythings dark n srs n suddenly theres a man gymnasticing towards u
Fairy circles are so last season. Fae are now using staircases, as they are much easier to distinguish among all the foliage and such on the forest floor. And they come in a huge variety of styles! What's not to love?
Fairy's aren't real, not anymore at least. I killed the last one back in 95
@@Jiub_SNwhat about the damn pixies though, those fuckers are still screwing with all my navigation equipment.
Legends say, only those pure of heart can see where those stairs go.
There was only one person on Earth with a pure heart-and look what happened to him!🤷🏻♂️
This sounds like some real Kingdom hearts mess 😂
these stairs really be forged from the heart of a dying star and choose a worthy wielder
It's the 4th D. Oupsyy. Pure of Heart xD.
Well, I guess I’m SOL
I like that he doesn’t cut out stutters or breaths or sniffles, it makes this feel more human it feels like I’m being read to
I was thinking the same thing but he says in the pinned comment he basically didnt care as much about editing at the time and honestly that makes it even more human to me
This comments stupid
You are being read to...
The lack of breathing/sniffling/stuttering makes it feel more human?? .. make it make sense
@@scrubscrubscrubs I think you read the comment wrong
These are actually really common on the Gulf Coast. Tall heavy duty stairs are built to endure hurricane season and flooding but when Katrina hit many houses they were connected to didn’t make it just leaving stairs to nowhere. I remember going to cookout fundraisers held at the old foundations of these houses to help the owners who lost their houses and eating on the stairs or at the top. Hell, stairs to nowhere are even taught about in history classes on the coast.
usually heavily wooded forests in state parks arent in hurricane range
@@soggybread5406 they are in tornado range tho
Wow, that's fascinating, thanks so much for sharing your insight 🙂
I'm from Okeechobee and I never heard of this before
@@soggybread5406dude this is fiction. There are literally hundreds of reason for a line staircase in the woods
there’s just some guy running around in the woods moving the stairs
Or someone playing minecraft and forgetting to dismantle the stairs of their old dirt house
Yeah that's it! Habath Fewh-Gehndor moves them around every once in a while after he feeds on a child's soul.
woodland creatures put on stage shows when we're not looking
making stairs can take maybe 4-6 hours most especially out of stone
GIANTS
This story has always been so fascinating to me because its such a genius use of The Uncanny - its so simple, stairs that don't belong, untouched, like a dream. People dying add to the body fear, almost anthropomorphizing the inanimate stairs yet never giving any information. Its like a Lynch film I love it.
Disclaimer that I'm only engaging with this, aware that it's a work of fiction. But these sound less like gateways and more like traps. Staircases are a human invention. The carpeted ones in particular sound very modern. Also taking into account the story of a SAR being clearly compelled to approach them until jostled out of the "trance" - the stairs seem clearly designed to attract human attention. Maybe they even feed on our subconscious for input as to what form they should take and either alter themselves, or just the way we perceive them, to appear a certain way to us. They work on our curiosity, and seemingly even have at least some ability to get into our heads, so we try to interact with them and then something bad happens - I don't remember any of these stories attributing a positive event to the staircases. So it sounds like a trap, or some kind of fucked up prank, by something that doesn't see human life as worthwhile or significant. Like they're magnifying glasses and we're ants. If that's the case, then who or what is using the magnifying glass? There's a lot of ways this pasta could('ve) go(ne).
Fuck, that's good. Remember how the kid said the staircase was communicating with him? What if they're not so much at trap, but some kind of intelligent entity that is hunting us? Like some kinds of predatory animal that lures its prey in, pretending to be something harmless. Feeding on us either literally or on our terror.
What if these staircases are just the shape that Mimics are taking the form of, since a treasure chest in the middle of the woods these day would attract more hostile attention compared to something as unassuming as stairs.
I mean there pretty good traps at the very least there a elevated position to see the area around it so if your investigating it you would be compelled to climb to the top after you finish looking at it from the bottom
why are all your comments so long? ah well time to read i guess
@@Kholanee hey, there was a lot to talk about.
This is the first wendigoon video I ever watched. Little did I know this Hawaiian shirt wearing man from Texas was going to be my favorite person since bob ross. Thank you for making such great content.
@@heartslove8449 He said he grew up in Appalachia though
@@CantusTropus tennessee, to be precise
@@bruhbbawallace i thought he was from huntsville al.
Definitely sounded like my accent, and I’m from Tennessee Appalachia too :)
I felt that since bob ross part
My Uncle used to go out the woods and built stairs. Apparently it was some kind of weird therapy thing he stating doing when he came back from Vietnam and he never stopped doing it.
Where did he do it
He saw em in Vietnam so he brought the great idea back home. Glad he got back.
Thats, odd. To say the least. Vietnam was a shitshow for a lot of vets mental health though, so I guess I shouldnt try to rationalize something therapeutic for them.
oh
I’m from Vietnam and haven’t seen any flight of stairs in the woods
I remember reading these stories as they were coming out. In the end, the author came out and said that he made them all up. Which I think most readers understood because it was on a creepy subreddit that allowed fiction. It was a really great series, some of the other stories stick with me to this day!
The author is actually a woman. Her name is Kerry Hammond and she's gone on to publish some stuff as well as was credited when SyFy loosely adapted the concept for their Channel Zero anthology series in 2018.
Wasn’t it posted on r
osleep?
I went to a ymca camp that had a set of stairs on the forest trail...
alas, they weren't anything special, just a set of airplane boarding stairs that someone forgot to detach before liftoff and they just fell into the woods. It was literally the first thing I thought of when the staircases were mentioned in the search and rescue stories.
Bruh
Dude u in Michigan? They took us to the same thing in 5th grade camp.
@@user-cz3yk5qf7m Ay, YMCA Camp Storer?
@@24DracoAmericanus I was just about to make a comment about this!
Like, did you even live in Michigan if your school did not take you to YMCA Storer Camp? haha
"Ladies and gentleman, this is your captain speaking. We are experiencing extra drag that may cause turbulence. If you look to your right, you can see the boarding stairs still attached. Pretty cool huh?"
Not exactly the woods, but in the desert at an abandoned house, there was a random piece of a stairs that went up three steps. Sure, it isn't the woods, but since it was next to a creepy abandoned house in the desert, it probably would still have that bad voodoo. So, obviously I went up it, and nothing happened, and sadly, my life is still the same from this experience. So, my advice from this situation, go up every single stair case you see please, you should really do it, do it you should really do it do it right now go do it do it
Nice try horror person, I have a little bit of common sense which tells me to never leave my house so nice try
This stair case I can't describe it but I know it's made just for me
I've seen those pictures from Namibia. Former colonial towns, completely empty for a century with only parts sticking out of the sand.
You actually stepped into a really similar parallel universe and just think nothing happened. But you will never know if you're in the original timeline you were born in. You have no idea what is different or the same from the previous universe. Sorry bro
Depending on how old the house is, it could be steps for a carriage or horseback rider to dismount. A lot of historic houses have them.
Note to everyone: If someone is trying to tell their "true story" and mention either video game references or refers to anything as "lovecraftian" it's entirely bullshit
what if its the true story of how they got rich playing lovecraft simulator 2018
Lovecraftian CBT retelling TRUE STORY (ending will shock you)
@@azrieldawson7377 Lovecraftian CBT is the most cursed thing I've ever read
@@breakfaith3031 Cuthulu enjoys his balls being whipped
Azriel Dawson Lovecraftian Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Wow. This was the first Wendigoon video I ever watched, it came up in my recommended feed way back when I was a lifeguard and daycare attendant at the YMCA. Crazy to think how far he’s come, watching him balloon to an INSANE 4 MILLION sub channel. Well deserved, and I hope he continues to succeed as one of the most wholesome and real TH-camrs on the platform.
the sigh on "rifle" got me lol. thats when ya know
I came looking for a comment like this, lol.
know what?
@@PlatonicOx710 its a fake story XD; wendigoon knew right when he read that - a rifle is just too big
@@angelsnaiilz It's more-so that a rifle doesn't take shotshells (birdshot in this case); well technically you can get bolt action shotguns, but they're not common at all. Point is shells go in shotguns, not rifles.
@@scarlethorse5391 oh gotcha gotcha! thx, yeah i dont know much abt guns i just knew that was inaccurate XD;;
My conclusion...sounds like a pretty good Creepy Pasta which it was lol
It's really not, the tone is all over the place and it's one trick, the stairs, are used about once a blue moon with no lore or exploration .
Plus it rips off missing 411 wholesale, so it's not even really imaginative.
@@cthulhluftagn3812 isn't that what makes it good though? The fact that you have absolutely no idea what the deal with the stairs is? The biggest element of horror is using what the audience doesn't know as a feature. Its not an unanswered question like the creator forgot to tie that end off, its a part of the narrative. If we knew everything about the stairs it just wouldn't be scary. We know what they CAN do but there's no telling what it could do. And the fact that the stairs are used scarcely is actually good in my opinion. They're not overdone or used to the point where the main character can just ignore them. They pop up just enough to be something worth mentioning but not to the point where the main character and the audience go "this is life now I guess."
So maybe it's not the most creative or groundbreaking story, but it's not a cliche or lackluster one either. Of course, you're still entitled to your own opinions about it.
@@dryerlynnt6984 it's not that there used as a mystery, the stairs are used to try and keep people reading. The story is constantly saying "I know your here for the stairs so I'll get to them soon I promise!" And when it dose get to them it's the same thing over and over...
@@cthulhluftagn3812 ok, I see what you're saying. That's fair.
It is not a creepypasta tho
I love the sheer disappointed when you read "buckshot" and "rifle" in the same sentence.
Ikr. The Gun Guy in him broke free for just a second there lmao.
@@SonofIiberty He's a gun guy?
@@e.starling141 yup, this used to be his gun channel, and the last few vids he has shown off his AR15s, AKs, and a FAL if I remember right
@@SonofIiberty Oh wow. Thanks. I never would have guessed. Very cool.
I’m either super dyslexic or I crossed a timeline somewhere. I remember reading this not long after it was written and I SWEAR up and down it was about Suitcases and not staircases. I even wrote a capstone film project based on the story being about suitcases. Some of the rookie stories had opened them and found strange items in them and their trainers wouldn’t let them talk about what they found and told them to put them back. The idea that they were about suitcases and that their content related to the cases while also possessing the similar qualities to the staircases was much more terrifying. Am I the only one to experience this, does anyone else have memories of this? Like I said I could just be dyslexic.
Sounds like something the forest stairs would want you to believe
Have you been up a lone staircase in the forest recently? Have you been in a forest?
This is a fricking SCP
Imagine if some d class sent walking down 087 in one of the scp universes ended up coming down a set of stairs in the woods in the universe this /nosleep story came from. Some forest ranger probably came to a Staircase and there’s the body of some rando in an orange d class jumpsuit internally massacred like that one kid was and they found the leaflet they give d class I for song them all they need to know about the experiment they are being used in. And that’s how the stairs universe learns about the scp universe.
As a result in the stairs universe unlike on ours where the first scp post was a post on /x/ in that world the first scp post would Likely be a forestry rookie pairing a story about a stairs encounter on /out/
Our universe first scp written 173 on /x/
Stairs universe first written. 087 on /out/
Keter class
@@malevolentsponge but they also seem to have an ability to call people to them
Is it not cause this is some good shit
@@malevolentsponge but they can't be contained really cuz they seemingly just spawn
One fun thing about the stairs is they appear in multiple other horror stories as an homage, such as My Property Isn't Normal.
Also one thing that's interesting regarding the guy whose hand was chopped off, there is a separate story by the user that the park service sold some land to loggers, and when a tree was chopped down there was a perfectly preserved human hand fused with the bark inside the tree. Some people believe the two are connected.
now That's real good
This is in the former Soviet Union not a mystery the stairs would lead into appartment complexes and, they are in either former radiation filled areas or in areas that still are unsafe to visit the red carpets were really popular in soviet times for if someone important would visit they would lay down the carpets kinda like a sign of respect this was everywhere in Russian culture or Soviet culture back in those days.
To reduce confusion even more, all of the houses either deteriorated or were destroyed by the explosion / radiation from Chernobyl another area outside of the USSR where you would be able to find stairs albeit usually not the same style of stairs and, no carpets are in villages that either used to be abandoned or were abandoned for safety reasons if you want to figure out what town it used to be look for signs or on google maps it can sometimes still display the names.
@@leagueaddict8357 take a breath
@@ewo_owe1353 Do you usually go harass people at youtube? I thought you had your own platform called Reddit where all the Karens come together.
@@leagueaddict8357 i usually joke, but you're crying so i won't take back anything... commas exist, and without them your comments look like you ain't catching breath until you finish. just use correct punctuation and stop being a little crying Karen. you're the one that got offended bruh
Okey this shit creeps me out so much, I know it's just a story but as a kid I used to always go to the woods with my friends and there were stairs on an incline next to a spring I remember it so clearly because we used to play war there and the first person to climb up would always win because of the high ground, they were made of concrete and had moss growing on them but you could only see maybe the remnants of a floor, no walls, no door, nothing, just stairs and a broken wooden floor.
that sounds cool as shit dude
When houses don't make it its sometimes easy to tell where the stairs were or even the stairs will remain having been protected by the rest of the home and built in a self stabilizing way
@@theweedishchef420 1. I have a location but right now I'm not comfortable with sharing it as I live here still.
2. It's in the middle of a forest so I don't think you could see anything by google maps.
3. It's not deep into the woods, just over a stream and it's relatively close to other houses which means it's probably a house that someone started building but gave up.
@@theweedishchef420 it's near a neighbourhood which is in the forest, the whole thing is surrounded by woods and yeah saying in the middle of the forest may be too much but what I ment by that is it's deep enough where you can't see other houses or anything and I don't know where the North side ends as I've never gone far enough that way.
@@theweedishchef420 I don't know why you are so set on the coordinates shit, how hard is to believe that someone started building a house and gave it up? Maybe because of money, maybe they died? It's not fucking paranormal we went up them every day.
I've watched this one many times, and its great every time. Love your channel, man.
Dude I love it when I shoot *Buckshot* out of my *Rifle*
Lol
It's even better when it puts quarter sized holes in all your organs, from point blank, somehow.
Buckshot in a rifle doesn't bug me as much as Shotgun Bullets. Cringe-tastic.
yeah man best rifle round ever
@@cxdxr .410 is pretty shitty.
‘Filled himself full of buckshot, while cleaning his rifle’ *Deep sigh* I feel ya on that man lmfao
Rifle buckshot - now there's the mystery ! !
Poor kid got ahold of some Draino or other caustic cleaning fluid.
*A child’s organs literally getting murked*
Fred Meyer commercial: 🤠
I fucking hate those commercials
The character designs are stupid and hard to look at
And “Low” is already the most annoying song in all of existence so hearing it on repeat is literal torture
They’re trying to brainwash us
@SNEEDman [Formerly Chuck’s] why does your name say [formerly chuck’s] who is chuck?
@@abicusmarinara they're just,, so tasteless, I hate them
@@Yesmanpersondude Sneed's Feed and Seed.
@@martinj.oppenheimer66 ?
I imagine that the Forrest service on the other side of the inter dimensional stairs are just a bunch of people that build random stair cases and their like huh isn’t it weird how we keep finding severed hands and whatnot around them
Just to be clear about this, the story is fiction and was written by the author SAR Woods. Disclaimer for anyone who thinks this is a real account of events that actually took place.
It's clearly fake because of all the cover-ups. People dying unexplicable deaths and losing limbs for no reason for no reason on a national park would call atention from the media and lawsuits. No parent would be satisfied with "oh, your kid died from massive internal bleeding during the few hours he was lost, but no one can tell why"
Is sad that you can't even write a spooky story without a loony thinking is based on true events
Y then ate their reK stUrs all over? Is everyone lying like ufis isn't real? C'mon man y gotta get real sometime it's just us what it is
You just answered my question that I already wrote out.
@@jongalloway918 What? Did you have a stroke?
The only thing that gets me on these stories is
1."Oh hey, you see those ominous stairs? Dont think about it."
2."Why?"
1."Just dont think about it."
*guy investigates*
1."WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!?!"
Just say "Dont go up the stairs, weird shit might happen and we wont find the missing person, dont ask any more questions."
"What kind of weird shit will happen? I'm ready for anything chief, I can handle it."
**Investigates, anyway**
yeah thats what gets me with these kinds of stories. like if you dont want someone to go somewhere that's dangerous, just fucking tell them its dangerous. People are attracted to mystery, if you keep it mysterious they're going to want to go over there.
If you were told this, the first thing you would do is ask more questions
I would have more questions about the rifle that shoots buckshot!!! Forget about the stairs - I want to know how that works ! ! And as close as to be cleaning it makes Swiss cheese holes - now that is the mystery!!!
@@BIG-DIPPER-56 lmfao tru
Stairs in the woods are usually commissioned as art installations for viewing purposes. Say there is a great patch of poplar trees, the stairs allow for a good view of the scenery. It attracts visitors and allows for safe viewing. It also helps to dissuade visitors from climbing and damaging trees/natural ecology.
The stairs in the thumbnail are an installation in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England. It acts as an observatory, permitting visitors to see the shifting of the treetops as well as a nearby pond-reservoir.
Personally, I’ve come across similar installations in the Netherlands. These stairs, while for viewing, acted as more of a statement piece. They served to contrast man-made industrial structures, and their place alongside the natural world.
A deeper interpretation that can be drawn from this is an idea accurately represented in The Winchester Mystery House. Confusing structures, such as stairs leading to no-where, and second floor doors opening to nothing, were purposefully constructed by owner Sarah Winchester. She believed rouge spirits were haunting her, and the only way to protect herself was to continue building misleading structures to confuse these spirits.
This is an old world idea, and could easily be applied to some of these staircases. Perhaps they serve a further purpose to confuse evil spirits within the woods.
They also look weird asf. The connection drawn to other-world portals is a well-founded observation. Simply because, damn they fucking look like that.
Definitley love cool stories like these it’s cool to think they real too even though they definitley seem fake
But always cool to explain them with my beliefs
It was posted on a sub for fictional stories, the author has indicated it’s fiction, sorry haha
yeah it’s fiction. author’s specified it’s fiction. but, if you think the idea that there are really stairs out in the woods is cool, that part’s real. i’ve come across a few. foundation and stairways are the sturdiest part of the building, so when the rest collapses or burns away, they sometimes stay standing. they’re pretty cool
So if these stairs lead to possibly endless alternate realities, does that mean that somewhere in an alternate dimension of earth, some families end up having random bodily organs and children appear from trees in their living rooms?
Raining meat
Its raining meat, HALLELUJAH
Its raining meat, HALLELUJAH
@@demonicthan742 this is exactly what I was thinking
some of the Meat™ ends up in trees apparently! judging by the hand embedded in wood that a logging company found!
@@OwlyFisher *Why is “meat” trademarked*
"Wow, this tartarus floor was kinda strange, atleast i found the stairs"
*chain sounds in the distance*
“I have a feeling that death is near!”
The stairs are what happens when you can't have shit in detroit
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Detroit stairs migrate back into the woods to spawn
All the Detroit mfs stealing my stairs and putting them in the woods, can't have shit in Detroit.
Old york
I legit thought you said when can't take a shit in Detroit. My mind thought.. so you just go to the top and pull ur trousers down then do your work? Damn son
this story scared the shit out of me when i was a kid im so happy to have found this. the nostalgia is real
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"....buckshot, from his rifle." "LONG NOTED SIGH (rifle...)" ROFL
Corpses two and a half hour video on the search and rescue stuff is definitely my most rewatched TH-cam video, the way he tells the story’s plus his voice just puts it in the bag.
Bro same. Throughout the video I was quoting some of the stories because I’ve listened to Corpses video so many times. It is definitely one of my favorite videos of his.
14:40 “Filled himself with buckshot a year or so back while cleaning his rifle……. Rifle…… okay” I FEEL YOU WENDIGOON 😂😂😂
a rifle is just a gun with a rifled barrel
@arcticafrostbite617 yes, you don't put buckshot in a rifle. Not only is the measurement system for cartridges different, there isn't a point to putting buckshot, which is meant to spread out, into a rifle, which is meant to keep things going straight.
@@arcticafrostbite617 shotguns are smooth bore..
Hahaha that country boy disappointed sigh at the “buckshot from a rifle” bit cracked me up
It's not actually so mysterious, stairs are generally the strongest part of a house, when the rest of the place breaks down, stairs tend to be the last thing standing.
Add in a pinch of urban legend and folk lore and boom, a spoopy mystery
That doesn't fit with my experiences in construction, house teardown, and exploring abandoned buildings.
@@GradyHouger I guess it depends on what kind of building it is, sometimes a staircase is basically just a ladder with some planks nailed to it and other times the staircase is a solid part of the foundation.
@@no.7893 the only question that would follow that is where the rest of the foundation went
@@sadbananacat507 probably under an inch of soil and leaves
I haven’t watched the full video yet so I’m not sure if you’re just talking about a regular staircase or the one in the thumbnail, but the one in the thumbnail is actually a sculpture art piece which is part of the Sculpture Trail in the Forest of Dean in the UK. It’s really cool but I’m pretty sure has since been taken down. But you can still look it up
I remember reading this on r/nosleep way back and it always gave me the heebie-jeebies. Most of the time I think the whole pretending it’s real instead of fiction on no sleep is kinda lame bc it’s done poorly but this one was so good and really stick with me! this is my first time hearing someone else talk abt it tho
Being fired for walking up non existant stairs in the woods? That would make for the most disastrous and expensive wrongful dismissal court case!!!
Ah yes but you see, some states are at will states they can fire you for whatever they want and you can't control it
it also would be something major companies would TOTALLY do
it's your word against them. they would just make up a report saying you didn't do your job.
@@_BELMONT_ or that you disobeyed a direct order from a superior.
I would DEFINITELY put them down on my application as a "reference"!!! My potential employer would truly understand if he called to verify!!! 😎
About an hour ago, back at the camp : "Guess what, the rookie will be going out, who's on stair duty today ?"
Stairs in the woods do happen and they're odd, but for me, it's the brick and mortar fireplaces that are the creepiest. The structure's long gone, but fireplaces are forever, apparently. Old brick wells are unsettling, too. (I live in a densely wooded area littered with old settlements dating back to the American Civil War and older. There's a lot out here. From old encampments to Native American artifacts, defunct plantations and various detritus like military uniform buttons, it's a history buff's dream.)
I’ve seen so many of those old brick fire places in my area. Just the fire place and sometimes a very cracked foundation still standing. The one I find the most odd is on a route I drive fairly regularly: it’s burnt. Like, really burnt, falling apart at the top, and in a cow pasture
Confusing as hell, I have no idea why the owner kept it there. It’s on the edge of where the field become a forest and none of the cows ever come close to it, even though they have no problem venturing into the parts of the woods still enclosed in the fence.
"If you ever go up a set of stairs again, you're fired."
*is in the basement*
I live in the Forest of Dean (UK) and the photo used in the thumbnail is taken here in the woods towards beechenhurst as part of a sculpture trail. Have walked up them several times even as a child and sadly no magic or spooks were involved. There are other weird things in the woods along the sculpture trail including a cool swing on a tree and a giant (and I mean giant like too big to climb) wooden chair.
Coming back to this after the podcast to enjoy the banger
Regarding the veracity of the concept around the stories or lack thereof, it was a very nice video! When the child described what they saw as the "campfire" and due to the fact they were protected somehow, I immediately though of the abrahamic heavenly beings of the most eldritch aspect or the "biblically accurate angels" and that added a whole new level of interest to a already fascinating concept!
There is a Jacob's ladder clear theme going on. You do find staircases in the woods, just not that common and the story has some nonsensical parts to it, but it's just old houses if you dig around and the chupacabra doesn't kill you.
I remember finding a short (4-5ft) curved staircase up in my grandmas woods with my cousins. We would always do parkour on them and drew on them with chalk. It was nothing paranormal obviously. Just a rich hunter with a bunch of concrete lol.
My dad built some stairs in the woods for my mom to be able to climb up the hill. And someone ripped them down. Probably got scared and thought it was a portal
They probably were worried about their testicles being hole punched (weirdest part of this story…, aside from, y’know, the stairs.)
Hearing these stories, I cant help but think about Angler Fish. They use their bioluminescent lure to attract prey, since you dont usually see light at the bottom of the ocean. You dont often see a staircase in the middle of the woods. If the stairs are part of a larger... er, "organism", that would explain how they seem to change locations. And if stairs are an effective lure, that almost certainly means its evolved specifically to hunt humans, which is a... concerning thought
Sounds like fae fuckery. Happens exclusively in the woods, weird nonsensical geometry appearing out of nowhere, potentially leading to another plane of existence, people possessed to interact with them, an unusual child (likely outcast) called to go to them and returning unharmed and well fed, grown adults brush them off and avoid talking about them, doing something disrespectful (going up them without permission) leads to dire consequences. Has all the hallmarks of the fae.
The what?
The fae are basically the original faries in old folklore
@@twilight3272 they sound terrifying. Really makes you think about the whole tooth fairy thing in a new way.
@@darkstar.357 I know, right? But, it's even more terrifying when you consider how it was once used to justify things like the abandonment or abuse of unwanted/mentally ill children because they had been replaced by "faeries".
I honestly wish the fae had been mentioned in the stories. It would have made the plot so much more interesting
I'd like to point out, and this is something I only recently noticed,
The one story where the guy goes up the stairs and his hand disappears SEEMS to connect to another story in this, collection, whatever you wanna call it.
He doesn't talk about it here, but there's another story where the park sold some land to a logging company and they called the park all pissed and wanted someone to come take a look at what they found. There was a whole human hand inside a tree. It looked fused to the inside of the tree, both parties insisted they had nothing to do with it, I think the police carried it off and the guy telling the story never gets a follow up.
I can't remember if there's a timeline thing that directly contradicts this hypothesis but, there's my thoughts.
I remember when those parts came out. So many people, like myself, were all connecting the dots.
Same with the part about the author seeing the solider in the woods. I think it was a civil war soldier, can’t remember that part well. Which means I gotta reread the series. Lol.
i love it that you just read the story causually!
too many youtubers overdo it with creepy stuff to the point where it just isnt creepy any more and it starts being too edgy and cringe
they keep talking in a forced deep voice or they add cringe glitchy filters or sound effects to their voice. im glad you dont do that! i absolutely love your channel!
One thing that interests me about this story is how sometimes the stairs seem malicious, sometimes benign, and like in the last boy's case, almost protective
Ah yes, when you're out in dark woods. And you feel like something is stairing at you...
Lul
Nice.👌
this is so funny, i hate you
I use to look for old bricks to clean to resell. The best place to look would always be in the woods with old run down houses. No one ever complained about them getting cleaned up. Even started having people call about old buildings on their property. One day a buddy of mine yelled and brought me to a set of stairs out there. We started digging around them and couldn't find the houses foundation. You find it and dig it out to look for where it collapses. We was there for what felt like maybe 30 mins and it was dark. Which was weird bc when we came in. It was only 2pm. We had been out there for over 6 hrs and never realized it. When we both noticed it was dark we left. We had a very bad feeling. Went back to look for them. Never seen them again
time passing quicker in the presence of the stairs - that's kind of what i thought at first about the last story, the kid with downs syndrome. the reason why he showed up a whole week later completely fine is bc he stepped across a boundary (around the stairs) and time moved differently there. he was trying to intimate that it only felt like a short amount of time ("right here"), but for everyone else, a week has passed. kind of thought that was going to be the go with the initial story when the senior SAR guy asked "how long were you on the stairs" and wold then reveal that hours had passed, or something.
You can resell bricks?
Buckshot in a rifle
Reddit moment.
You forget that r/guns exists
@@muffinman3111 r/bestestgunnitweekend
reddit people dont seem too bright
@@soand3681 Am redditor. Can confirm.
fun fact, they do make shotguns that have rifled barrels, making them rifles, like the Remington 870 or the Winchester 1300 which are rifled for slugs, but are more than capable of firing shot.
Actually crazy to think that this was the very first video I found of you and got to see you blow tf up since man. The growth. Was unlike anything I’ve seen. Doubt you’ll see this but by the off chance you do keep up the great work man. You deserve everything you’ve received .
for some reason i love the mistakes in your readings bc they make me feel like i’m at a campfire with friends
You have to follow the rules:
1) For preparation, you need: permission, a pass, a watcher (as witness and anchor), the right set of stairs (ascent, descent, parallel, and perpendicular), and then you have to enter at the right time.
2) Only one can be open at any time. When one door closes, another one opens. The reverse is also true, opening a new door will close another, indiscriminate of those on the other side. It can shut you out, or shut on you with disastrous consequences.
3) Don't touch anything while on the stairs (except the railings/banisters), or even at the top. One doesn't stick their leg out of the door of a moving car, nor should you toch anything on the journey. Observe and learn. Physically connecting with the gateway may cause it to collapse the functionality.
3) If you feel the fear, don't go near. Especially if you dont understand everything you've just been told. Not everyone is allowed, not everyone comes back, and no one knows what's going to happen until it happens.
Fuck no imma stay home
This is awesome, thank you.
Yeah gonna stay away
Reminds me of when you used to spawn into a those...giant tree Taiga biomes in Minecraft. There are these broken mossy cobblestone structures littered everywhere... that scared me a lot as a kid
Oh yeah idk why they got removed
Taigas had mossy cobble? I don't remember those, and I started playing in 2011.
@@userequaltoNull Not taigas but the biome with the brown grass, no idea what its called
@@swissar They weren't removed, just in a specific biome. They tend to be around some of the giant tree taigas.
@@CausticSpace Pretty sure it's just called "mega taiga"
Finding relics of old buildings or plans for things that never came to be is fascinating. In the summer of 2020, I was walking around the river near my house. This is out in the suburbs, but this particular side of the river is still kinda undeveloped and heavily forested while the other side has occupied houses. I saw this beautiful tree that was in the middle of blooming way into the forest, so I started walking over there to get a better look. Just as I was walking up to the tree, I tripped. I looked down and saw a random concrete well thing jutting out of the ground with a manhole cover on top. In the middle of the forest. No other development nearby, not a road or even survey stakes stuck in to the ground. Just a random manhole.
Did you open it?
@@mayhemK59 I couldn't, it's too heavy. Maybe I could get a few friends and check it out sometime... :)
@@eliseosterbrink8000 just take a firearm and 20 batteries, make sure you guys all are recording wish you luck my guy
probably sewer access i wouldnt go in there unless you want to get into actual trouble lol
@@animeloveer97depending on how rural they are sewage is less likely than storm water. You get rain water infrastructure in the middle of no where because it can help with flooding a very long way a way.
If it's really old, or far away from civilisation it might be related to private irrigation rather than public works.
In rural areas most homes have septic systems so you're not very likely to see a large sewer pipe running through the countryside unless it's near a major roadway or rail line and connects an urban area to a facility for treatment.