German Redditor TK622 is one of the few people to have snapped an image of the stairs they stumbled upon. While most of the stories come from the United States, others around the world claim to have encountered the weird stairs too. We were riding fairly close to the shore, rounded a corner, and came upon a set of stairs sticking 3-4 feet out of the water. My father, sister and I had been on a trip in the boat. One set of stairs was even found in the middle of a lake, with one comment claiming: "I distinctly remember finding a set of stairs coming out of the lake with my family. Grass didn't grow near the stairs either." He walked to the stairs to see how they were being held up, couldn't find anything which weirded him out. "They looked like stairs from a normal suburban home. Had a few staircases but not against trees, just standing in the open". They write: "An hour east of Iron Wood there is a clearing in the forest that has stairs. I was hiking and exploring with my cousins and we stumbled on a clearing about half a football field long. One user, taylorannshazam, saw some in Michigan. Worried it might break or fall over and I was alone". Just a set of stairs with a base that went up maybe one flight - 16 so steps if I remember right. I thought maybe a house had once stood there but there was no cellar or other debris that would indicate a home was there before. I don't think I was quite 40 miles deep but at least 10 or better. They explained: "I came across a set in rural West Virgina. I didn't realize the stairs were that common," Reddit user jeepdave wrote. Others quickly chimed in with similar experiences. Now take that, flip it upside down so the top step is stuck in the dirt, and put it out in the woods." I guess it would be like if you had a doll house, and the stairs were a separate piece. They went on to explain one SAR officer had seen staircases that were, "flipped upside down. I just sort of ignore them now when I run into them because it happens so frequently.” There are few photos of the stairs, but Redditor TK622 found this set in a forest clearing in Germany. I wanted to go check them out, but I was told, very emphatically, that I should never go near any of them. “I asked about it the first time I saw some, and the other officer just told me not to worry about it, that it was normal.
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It’s almost like if you took the stairs in your house, cut them out, and put them in the forest,” they write. On just about every case where we’re really far into the wilderness, I’m talking 30 or 40 miles, at some point we’ll find a staircase in the middle of the woods. “I don’t know if this is true in every SAR unit, but in mine, it’s sort of an unspoken, regular thing we run into. The first person to tell a story of the stairs was searchandrescuewoods, an American Reddit user who claims to be a member of a volunteer Search and Rescue (SAR) unit.
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Sometimes a well-kept graveyard would be found nearby, too. Then sightings of the staircases came from as disparate places as Portugal, Brazil, Germany, Norway and the Philippines. Some of the staircases are brick, some in ruins, some perfectly sturdy, some cast iron spirals like the kind you’d find in a lighthouse, reaching up to nowhere.Īt least, that is what one group of Reddit users would have us believe.Ī thread about creepy happenings in national parks led to an unusual bit of folk lore emerging – user after user said they’d heard of the staircases, or had seen them, too, sometimes as far as 60 kilometres deep in the forest.Īt first, the stories came from all over America – New England, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Montana, Detroit. Deep in the woods, where no man appears to have ever lived, you’ll find them – just a staircase, no other structure.
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In national parks around the world, so the story goes, there are abandoned staircases.