The MYSTERY of the Stairs in the Woods

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.

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.”

There is a man out there who is randomly building stairs in the woods and pulling the greatest prank ever conceived

If you think the stairs in the woods are weird, wait until you see the elevators.

Hearing wendigoon sigh and say ‘ok’ after reading the buckshot and rifle line was hilarious.

"Staircase?" *lights cigarette "Haven't heard that name in a long time."

Trees in houses: nobody bats an eye Stairs in forests: everyone loses their minds

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.

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 😭😭

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.

C'mon, we all know that the stairs actually lead to the next floor of a mystery dungeon.

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.

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.

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.

everyone: look kid I’ll tell you about Them. but you can’t tell anyone. narrator: ok narrator opening reddit at night: ☕️🗿

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.

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

some guy: *goes up weird stairs the universe: "your going to the shadow realm jimbo"

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

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?