I used to be a camper and then a camp counsellor so I’m pretty familiar with camping out,
canoeing, and living on the land.
But there are some things out there that give you the heebie jeebies, and I’m not talking
about bears.
I’m talking about stairs.
Hello most amazing fam my name is Abbey and today I’m giving you stories of Top 10 mysterious
staircases in the woods.
A quick shoutout to Brianna sonkowsky who got some of our merch!
Glad to see you representing the mostamazing fam girl.
Most of these stories come from the comments section of a nosleep thread by a search and
rescue officer so I urge you to share your comments and stories of your experiences with
staircases yourself down below.
Without further ado since these stories can get a bit long let’s get into em!
10 Army base stairs From reddit user ironboi21 three months ago.
This one is not in the woods, but a chilling story with a staircase nonetheless.
This user was on a North Atlantic Treaty Organization deployment with the army and they were the
person that sticks their head out of the hatch to look around while someone else drives.
While driving through a huge open field they spot a staircase and stop because it looks
like it leads to a crawlspace.
Seems cool enough to check out, basically.
They stop and approach it and find strange marking on the stairrcase.
At this point we all know I’d be turning around, but this group decides nah nah nah,
they are going to check it out.
Well, they get inside this strange little space that’s big enough for maybe three
people and find more strange markings AND human bones.
The commenter thinks a family hiding from war may have hidden in the cellar, but finds
it odd since it was the only house for at least 100 miles around since it’s an army
training area.
Ends the passage with 3 little words.
I don’t know.
9 Island Forest Stairs From codedlemons on reddit 3 months ago.
Ohio camping trip up to lake Erie, small unowned island a friend told him about.
Sets up camp eats and hangs out a bit, and then decides to explore the island a bit.
Ten minutes in, he finds this structure that he investigates to find is a stone staircase.
There’s no indication that the stairs are remains from a house.
No rotting wooden structures, no bricks, nothing of the sort.
He felt nothing odd at this point so he was like, and I quote, "hell yea gonna go back
to the tent and read a book" when his mood shifted.
He got a horrible wave of anxiety that he should run back to safety, but then thought
about the stairs.
Then he felt compelled to go to them with his mind in a fog.
“It was like a wave of indifference and curiosity washed over me and I had this compulsion
to go to them.
I drifted over to the bottom, staring at the top.
I was staring like a zombie, slowly walking up two steps at a time.
I felt catatonic.
I felt so out of it, so mentally blank, like something in me completely took over and just
acted out primal steps.
I was 3/4 up when I snapped out of it and I FUCKING RAN.
I ran as fast as I could, I felt so scared like in my chest and I was tearing up, I was
running for my god damn life.”
After this he even got so mixed up with directions he ended up back at the stairs, freaked out
and somehow made it back to his tent.
Even more weird stuff happened that night, but to keep us on track with the stairs, I’ll
let you know that he went back to that same island with a friend, and they searched the
whole island, but could never find those stairs again.
8 Staircase creek Next story is from redditor Syiavri from 4
years ago.
When she was younger she would go hiking in the woods in California and one time she had
a really trippy experience.
She was a little lost and found a creek which she followed downstream because it’s recommended
that you follow the path of water if you are lost.
At some points she had to step into the creek to follow the water because the sides were
too high, and one of these times she found herself walking down moss covered stairs.
She couldn’t see the bottom of where they went, and was nearly slipping due to the water
running over the mossy steps.
Then, even though it was around noon, the sky turned dark, and everything went quiet.
This is wen she truly tripped and fell, saying she fell “into the dark”.
She woke up alone in a meadow with marks on her arms with no trace of the staircase or
the stream.
7 Phantom Stairs Story of stairs from user Pope_Fenderson_II
on reddit.
Four years ago this person left a story from an experience they had as a child.
They were out with older relatives in bright daylight when they spotted stairs about 60
yards away, and walked toward them until they were about 20 feet away.
They said the stairs were made of wood, clean and polished, with no dust, and no leaves.
And once they were that close the light around them got dimmer and they looked back at their
family.
Their family looked much farther away than they actually were and a feeling of sheer
terror hit them and they ran back.
Once they got back to their family and told them what happened, they looked back and the
stairs were gone.
When his uncle heard the story he became stern saying they are things that appear different
every time, as things that lead to the spirit world.
Avoid them.
After this occurrence the commenter lays down medicine and says a prayer of protection then
gets away from these images of stairs.
And, they recommend smudging yourself at the end of the day if you come across these things
yourself.
If you aren’t worried or anything, at least it smells good.
6 Waterproof Stairs From milandin on reddit, also 4 years ago.
On hike in the Cascades when he found six carpeted wood steps out in the woods and decided
to investigate.
It had begun to rain, but he wasn’t phased, and he found them odd.
It felt like the world tilted slightly and sounds sounded different.
Tinny, different.
As he went to step on the bottom step he found himself not wanting to, and then sat down
instead.
He kicked off his boots to step on the carpet which was clean, but even more strange, it
was dry.
It had been raining for a while at this point, so that was odd, but then he walked to the
top of the stairs.
In his socks.
And he described it as though the sound shifted more, as if was coming to a point.
Stood there, hmm, then went back down and left.
Nothing bad happened thankfully, but it was a strange experience for him no doubt.
5 Protected Stairs By Von_Meowstein from 3 years ago.
Loved wandering in the woods either alone or with friends and would come across stairs
every so often, not thinking much of it.
Then one time when they were out looking with friends they came upon a dog that looked like
a wolf, AKA a husky, that is by a set of stairs.
The writer of this story approaches the dog that turns out to be friendly, but then wants
to check out the stairs to see if there are any puppies.
The thing is, when they do this, the husky tries to nudge her back to her group.
At the time she thought this was possibly the dog trying to get some food from her,
but on second thought she thought that maybe it was warning her to stay away from the stairs.
4 Survival Stairs Redditor Naisagard 4 years ago.
On an island southeast of Alaska for an army survival test.
Had few supplies, in a forest, living off nature, when he comes across a random staircase
in the middle of this dense forest.
His army buddies write off his account of the experience because he was out alone in
the woods for three days, but he swears he saw this:
A staircase that was perfectly clean stanking stark in the middle of a forest, no fallen
leaves on it or anything.
Then, a strange feeling telling him not to investigate it when he puts his feet up on
the staircase.
Then, he feels nauseous as the sounds around him fade away and he snaps out of it, running
far away without looking back.
He says it freaks him out to this day and it was an experience that came out of nowhere.
3 Stairs lead to fall From a deleted account.
Found remanants of an old house that must’ve been from the 50’s or 60’s.
The house was gone but some furniture remained, plus an eerie metal staircase.
This guys friend matt found it weird too, with moss winding around it, and some green
mold, but decided to check it out.
The story goes downhill from here.
He made it to the top he became so nauseous that he threw up and fell from the top of
the stairs.
Although it was about an 8 foot drop, Matt let out a scream as it turns out he had gruesomely
broke his leg.
After some quick first aid the two noticed the woods became silent, except for a scream
similar to matts heard further away.
Then it was closer.
It had a lower tone and kind of sounded like it was wheezing.
They got up so start to leave and there it was again, the wheezing scream, maybe 30 feet
away, and then they tried to move as fast as they could.
The screams became more distant until they were finally out of the woods and able to
get Matt some medical attention.
The person who wrote this said they moved away since then and warn people to stay away
from things that feel off.
2 Stairs all the way down Redditor nebr_stairs from four years ago that
made their account just to talk about their stairs from southeast Nebraska.
On an outing with friends investigating the ruins of an abandoned farm, they discovered
a staircase going down.
They said it was separate from the house ruins, made of bricks, and well engineered.
The group walked down for at least THREE flights of stairs with a horrible sense of dread.
Described as time slipping, sounds going away, and their flashlights going in and out.
The stairs continued further, but water filled the rest of the descent down.
1 Amazon stairs From v838 on Reddit, from 4 years ago.
This is a story from a commenters grandma that lived in an indigenous community in the
Amazon.
People tended to get lost around the area, including a story her grandma told about an
old man.
He left to go check the fishing nets in the river, but was lost for two weeks, only found
after women doing their laundry in the river found him trying to empty water out of a canoe
with a bowl while it was raining.
The older man said that when he was out, he saw a set of stairs in the forest and climbed
them.
Then, he only remembers being in that canoe scooping out water for two hours, but he was
missing for two weeks!
And people had been looking for him and had been to that area.
Another thing, he said he was taking out the water from the canoe because there was a hole
in it, but that’s not the case.
There were no holes, yes there was water because it was raining, but he had begun to damage
the wood from dragging the bowl he was using across the same area.
Weird, man.
Well, on that note, those are all of the stairy stories I have!
What do you think?
Do you think these stairs have a mysterious force around them?
I want to know if you have seen some stairs?
What did you do?
If you haven’t, would you go up them?
Or down?
Let me know in the comments down below and while you are down there give a like and sub!
That’s all I have for now, until next time, have a good one!