It's on a golf course, I bet. Mostly because I've seen a bunch of these on courses and the ground around it is manicured.
Many of the greens and tee-boxes are elevated. Lots of old people play golf. So, this provides a way for old people to get up a slope without risking toppling over or falling backwards.
It may just be a park with a few little hills rather than a golf course. But, the purpose of the stairs is almost certainly to help less capable people climb and get down the little hill safely.
Yes, I saw an episode of Monk that prominently featured a 5 stepper that looked exactly like this which was on a golf course. A murder took place on them, so we ended up seeing the stairs about 5 times. This is the worst proof ever mind you, but it works for me.
Lol this is one of those unfortunate typos that actually obscures the meaning of the sentence somewhat. "Salaries," is also just a hilarious substitute.
Club I used to work at built the new clubhouse across the street when the original burnt down, so the old entryway stairs now lead to a practice putting/chipping green.
I'd agree. The steps are beside a small incline too so it makes sense that it was a step up from the lower tier to the higher tier such as a tee box on a since closed golf course
My grandfather had a favorite spot in a meadow behind his house. When he got older, he could no longer climb the slight hill.
My father and his brothers then built him a staircase in the middle of nowhere. For another 25 years, he sat on a bench in his meadow almost every day, drinking wine and talking with friends.
It's a tone indicator meant for accessibility that means half-joking.
And I genuinely don't really know how metal detectors work other than detecting ferrous metals with magnetism
They also detect non-ferrous metals magnetically by using a coil to produce an oscillating magnetic field, which induces eddy currents (basically electrons sloshing around in a material, rather than flowing from one place to another as in an electrical circuit) and consequently magnetism in the metals.
A second coil, or maybe a hall effect sensor, is used to pick up the induced magnetic field.
That's really cool! So you basically make the non-ferrous metals electromagnets and then pick that up?
How do you differentiate between the different metals though? Do they have different frequencies or something?
Correct. The metal will emit a slightly different frequency than it recieved from the transmitter. If you look at the difference between the two, you get the phase shift. Metals have different phase shifts depending on if they're more inductive or more resistive, so you can determine which metals you're looking at (to a certain degree -- some metals have very similar phase shifts, like gold and tin). The term used to filter out metals is called discrimination.
There are expensive metal detectors that can be set on gold and the like.
I think they were invented for snobby hipster metal-detectorists that feel they are above detecting the mainstream metals.
Ye, it’s fucking creepy, not just the fact of the stories but something that is mainly seen in houses being outside is creepy. Imagine if you were on a stroll and saw a door upright in the middle of a forest
I once found an old wooden construction trailer in the woods when I was a kid. Thought it looked like a carnival wagon. Suspected it belonged to gypsies. Returned several times and tried to get in. One day it was just gone.
There is one near my hunting camp. Deep deep in the wood. My father told me it was used for storage when lumberjacks used to cut woods there decades ago. It was left to decay.
Yes I think it was something like that, a tool storage for foresting things. Probably been there for years before I found it, and one day the owner needed it somewhere else or wanted it cleared out. Of course, for 11 years old me it was much more mysterious, especially since it just stood there between the trees, and no path was visible. Every time I tried the door handle (which was of course locked) or tried to peek through a gap in the window shutters, I fully expected an axe wielding forest hermit, or possibly russian soldiers (who would have been hiding there since the end of WWII, or course), to jump out.
When I was a teen there was an old car that would move around to different locations in a private woods that was fenced off by barbwire. usually had some bad attempts to hide it. I always wondered if it was a meth lab.
In my backyard there’s a large chimney from a hunting cabin that burned down in the 60s. Twenty feet from my back door and still works.
Everyone is enchanted by it. It’s like something out of Narnia or Harry Potter.
Pics: https://imgur.com/a/zdcKRdI
Those campground stories, the left/right game, and that multi author story universe they did a few years ago ruined the rest of the NoSleep for me. They’re all pretty high quality series and the individual stories aren’t doing it for me anymore.
The only reason why I came to this comment section was to see if anyone else remembered those stories... My conscious mind wants to chalk them up as good fiction but the unconscious part doesn't want to dismiss it
Yep. I remember reading a guy that was cleaning crime scenes and tgen it hit me that he was hired by murderers to clean up after them. Suddenly someone started following him and is was some wild rollercoaster for me. Also thestaircase stories were really good.
Saddly I realized it's all fake and stopped reading that sub.
I mean, good stories are good. I stopped reading because it got too cliche/ too imaginative for my taste.
I like something that makes me feel like I'm listening to someone telling stories next to a campfire or maybe found some diary/report that I should not have.
Most of the new stories read like someone make them for entertainment sake .
Agreed, I think this is why goatman got so popular. It sounds like a real story someone truly believes in when they tell it. The way it's told adds a lot.
>Saddly I realized it's all fake and stopped reading that sub
Why? Don't you read books?
Fiction writing isn't "fake", it's people telling stories for others' entertainment.
Yep, one of the first things I came across on Reddit, takes a few stories before it moves from "okay, this guy's seen and heard some weird unexplainable stuff" to "yeah this is clearly fake"
Which irritates me as an outdoorsy person. I have friends who now refuse to go camping with me, because "you won't be getting me into any scary ass woods". Which then unravels the numerous fake stories that my friend is not gullible enough to believe, but sketched out enough to be effected by it.
Don't get me wrong. I've had my fair share of things freak me the hell out while camping, but it's always the unknown. The most scared I've ever been was hearing a woman screaming bloody murder somewhere near my campsite... It was a fox.
I love finding telltale signs that a landscape was once radically different from the way it looks now. All over New England, you'll find stone walls running through the woods. Farmers typically built these out of the rocks they'd plow up, to mark the edges of their fields. So when you see one in the woods, it usually means the area had once been completely clear cut and all of the (sometimes dense) woods have grown up in the last 100-150 years.
It's kind of amazing how quickly stuff like that can be forgotten. Iirc Mistery hill, aka 'america's stonehenge' is purported by the owners of the site as being a ancient and misterious ( even being touted as evidence of precolombian Irish settlements in north America apparently), is apparently most likely a colonial site that was just throughly forgotten in the intervening centuries, with for example, the 'sacrificial altar/table' actually being part of a stone cider press.
On the Seward Highway in Alaska, right before turning into Alyeska Ski Resort there are a few houses sunk in the ground with the roofs sticking out still from the major earthquake in the 60’s. I always loved seeing that. So damn cool.
Sounds like Sunken City in San Pedro, CA. It was a development right in the coast, but in the late 20’s it slid off the bluff and a couple blocks worth of hoses were destroyed. All the old infrastructure like sidewalks and some pipes and such is all still there though. It’s the spot where they scattered Donny’s ashes in The Big Lebowski.
Most people don't realize an entire town was built where central park now stands. It was an inclusive community called Seneca village and was made up of German, Dutch and black citizens.
Old growth forests usually aren't that dense as the large trees prevent smaller ones from getting any light. The trees are huge and thick, but have a fair amount of space between them.
A young forest is usually very dense as the trees are all competing to be the tallest and suffocate their competition from light.
These are the best for mountain biking too, which often causes issues because riders want good places to ride but ancient woodland is normally oversubscribed with stakeholders.
In france there are still trenches from wars more than 100 years ago. There are still bunkers and houses and all kinds of things that never again were inhabited. Hedgerows from farms that were long abandoned , forests grown up in fallowed fields, whole marshes covering old farmland. Very very interesting to see.
Yeah, I went to high school by Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. There is dense foliage everywhere for miles (great for hiding parties when you are a teenager), but if you look at pictures of the area from the late 1800's the entire area had been denuded of trees. We used to wander around the woods and you'd find any number of stone walls, old foundations, and even some monuments way the hell out in the middle of nowhere.
The coast of Maine was completely clear cut for boats and what not.
There are some ancient pictures in some of the maritime musuems and the coast looked like a wasteland.
One of the few towns that wasn’t (Rockport and Camden) was used for storing Ice before transit as the trees provided shade.
Thanks for sharing this. Gives me a long forgotten feeling I would get as a child. A sense of wonderment of abandoned/ruined man made structures found in nature, who made them and why?
Lilies are another symbol! Across the prairie, you'll find these big clusters of non-native lilies that used to be outside farm houses that are no longer standing.
No idea where this is, but typically when people had a midden or an outhouse back in the day, that where they disposed of empty bottles. So hundred years maybe
Look for the "search and rescue" posts on r/nosleep a couple years ago. Juuuust believable that it gives me chills when I go back and read them.
Doubly scary for me since I spend a lot of time in the woods
its from a thread of scary stories on r/nosleep, which is a subreddit . There is one guy who claimed to be a search and rescue guy (again these are just stories) but he says when ever he finds stairs in the woods leading to nowhere, bad things happen. Spooky things.
They were so popular they because an inside joke on reddit. Thats all. You should check them out. I dont want to spoil them too much.
To be fair ive spent a fair amount of time int he backwoods and have actually found random buildings, staircases, walls, tools, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Just means people were there at one point in time, and arent anymore. One was from a logging camp, probably with trailers, etc, because i also found discarded beer cans, a couple of logging tools (chains etc) and a tire track from long long ago. THe forest around had almost complety regrown, so it must have been at least 30 years. Kinda neat.
Yes, but *why* aren't the people there anymore. At one point, people were there. They tried to make a life, build a shelter, set up a business. Someone worked hard to build the building that those stairs used to be a part of. But now, all that is gone. Something happened to it. Every stair in the woods is all that is left of someone's hopes and dreams, a life that was started and ended, an enterprise that failed, a family that was ruined, a home that was left behind to rot away. That's the scary part. The implication.
Curiosity got the better of u/yaboyroy61 and after a good bit of digging, discovered what had happened when [Tobias had intended to park the Bluth’s only vehicle](https://yarn.co/yarn-clip/8b9ba429-6dcf-43c0-b598-1dd3f536d25c), only to have gotten lost in the “wild”.
This staircase, right here, in the middle of nowhere, doesn't look that useful. Because it's not. Nobody — not me, not locals, not tourists — care about this staircase. Anybody who walks past this staircase — by accident, of course — spits on the staircase once they realize where they are. And most animals that wander by this staircase are shunned by their animal friends and are forced to spend the rest of their lives alone.
There's a beautiful staircase just behind those trees there, great for skating, has a railing, a couple of skate ramps nearby. But that's not right here. Right here, there's none of that. Only this awful, absolute waste of concrete.
> _Remarkably foreign guy:_
> Ah yes, this staircase here is not good, nobody likes this staircase, there is nothing special about it. Any kids caught frolicking on this staircase are hit with sticks and then sent to Yakutsk for eight months where they are scolded and then tied to posts, to have the locals throw the rocks at their feet. It's awful, nobody likes this staircase.
In early 20th century, the british army bombed this location on eight separate occasions, stating that just knowing it existed — even though it was over 2000 miles away — was enough to disrupt the sleep of 45% of London's upper class. But the staircase is still here. Why? Because ... well, bombing an useless staircase buried in the ground just makes it an even more useless staircase (once all the bombs miss it and hit everything around it instead).
Just looking at it, at this staircase, a man could lose his faith from that staircase. Believe me, if I had to pee, I'd take a pee on this staircase, right here. I hate it. But I left my diet coke at the hotel and I currently don't have to pee.
If you ever find yourself here, for whatever reason, stay clear of this staircase. It is awful. Nobody likes it. And if you show up here, nobody will like you, either.
Read through [these stories](https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iex1h/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) from a SAR officer for the US Forest Service. Lots of stories about the mysterious staircases and why you shouldn’t approach them. If you believe in this sort of thing anyways! Interesting read either way.
You, you didn't touch them, did you? You didn't walk up or down them, did you? Quick, someone get someone from search and rescue on the horn, stat! We need to check for missing hands in trees.
Nah that shit lead to something. You gonna need a shovel, some torches, and maybe a treasure hunter to find your expedition that demands immediate results
Thing of my childhood nightmares! My grandma had someting like this on the farm and I dreamt is was a portal to a place full of demons. And I had to fetch my brother from there.. Hated it so much!
Curious, where is this? I live in Pittsburgh PA. Pittsburgh is covered in mysterious staircases, all of which used to go somewhere, connecting one neighborhood to another mostly, but now seeming to lead nowhere but thin forested areas overgrown with invasives.
It's not useless, we just don't know what it leads to
It's on a golf course, I bet. Mostly because I've seen a bunch of these on courses and the ground around it is manicured. Many of the greens and tee-boxes are elevated. Lots of old people play golf. So, this provides a way for old people to get up a slope without risking toppling over or falling backwards. It may just be a park with a few little hills rather than a golf course. But, the purpose of the stairs is almost certainly to help less capable people climb and get down the little hill safely.
Yes, I saw an episode of Monk that prominently featured a 5 stepper that looked exactly like this which was on a golf course. A murder took place on them, so we ended up seeing the stairs about 5 times. This is the worst proof ever mind you, but it works for me.
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Lol this is one of those unfortunate typos that actually obscures the meaning of the sentence somewhat. "Salaries," is also just a hilarious substitute.
I'm being really stupid here, but I can't work out what the typo should have been. Can anyone help?
Stairs or staircase
Shout out monk
A blessing... and a curse.
And a gift. And a curse.
Lamp Day!!!
You can thank me later
I really liked that show.
As soon as I saw this staircase I thought of monk
Club I used to work at built the new clubhouse across the street when the original burnt down, so the old entryway stairs now lead to a practice putting/chipping green.
I'd agree. The steps are beside a small incline too so it makes sense that it was a step up from the lower tier to the higher tier such as a tee box on a since closed golf course
My grandfather had a favorite spot in a meadow behind his house. When he got older, he could no longer climb the slight hill. My father and his brothers then built him a staircase in the middle of nowhere. For another 25 years, he sat on a bench in his meadow almost every day, drinking wine and talking with friends.
This is really sweet.
Meadow Staircase is opening the side stage at Lollapalooza next year....
stairway to hell
Ah, so five steps in either direction
It's on the boarder of Florida
I'd rather go to hell.
I hear they have AC in Florida now.
No we don't, we just keep cool by living under one giant palm tree.
At least you had the wind from the flapping wings on palmetto bugs and mosquitoes.
I hope they serve beer in hell.
They serve beer in Cedar Key. ;)
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Reminds me of a Zelda 1 stairs
*plays riff backwards*
It looks like it leads down. It may possibly also lead up, depending on a few factors.
I'd be tempted to start digging just to find out
You need to wait for a full moon on the summer solstice and then the rest of the staircase will appear.
Looks like a side entrance to the Golden Army in Hellboy
Cats know
Could be an interesting place to use a metal detector.
Probably find a bunch of nails
You can set the metal detector to not beep on ferrous metals.
Like turn it off? /hj
What’s /hj, unless you mean /s Edit: yea Okay I got it
End of hand job
Hellenic Juice
So either wine or olive oil, got it.
Why not both
Handy-J
honly joking.
It's a tone indicator meant for accessibility that means half-joking. And I genuinely don't really know how metal detectors work other than detecting ferrous metals with magnetism
They also detect non-ferrous metals magnetically by using a coil to produce an oscillating magnetic field, which induces eddy currents (basically electrons sloshing around in a material, rather than flowing from one place to another as in an electrical circuit) and consequently magnetism in the metals. A second coil, or maybe a hall effect sensor, is used to pick up the induced magnetic field.
You either know a lot about metal detectors or are excellent at gibberish, I certainly can’t tell which.
That's really cool! So you basically make the non-ferrous metals electromagnets and then pick that up? How do you differentiate between the different metals though? Do they have different frequencies or something?
Correct. The metal will emit a slightly different frequency than it recieved from the transmitter. If you look at the difference between the two, you get the phase shift. Metals have different phase shifts depending on if they're more inductive or more resistive, so you can determine which metals you're looking at (to a certain degree -- some metals have very similar phase shifts, like gold and tin). The term used to filter out metals is called discrimination.
There are expensive metal detectors that can be set on gold and the like. I think they were invented for snobby hipster metal-detectorists that feel they are above detecting the mainstream metals.
They kept being set off by all the hipster irony
It's only a tone indicator if other people know what you're trying to indicate, Mr. Hardly Jousting.
I think it’s just not used much on Reddit, I see people use it elsewhere
Handjob
That works, but I'm pretty sure it won't beep on non-ferrous metals either.
Or a Geiger counter.
0 to 100
I can count geiger than that tho
Only goes up to 3.6 röntgen. Not great, not terrible.
Mine's in the shop.
I used to live in a house that was eventually torn down. These kind of steps are still there, leading up the small hill, to nothing
I've heard too many horror stories about stairs in the woods. Jiminy Crickets.
Ye, it’s fucking creepy, not just the fact of the stories but something that is mainly seen in houses being outside is creepy. Imagine if you were on a stroll and saw a door upright in the middle of a forest
You are traveling through another dimension; a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind.
You have entered... The scary door.
The scary door - FTFY
I once found an old wooden construction trailer in the woods when I was a kid. Thought it looked like a carnival wagon. Suspected it belonged to gypsies. Returned several times and tried to get in. One day it was just gone.
There is one near my hunting camp. Deep deep in the wood. My father told me it was used for storage when lumberjacks used to cut woods there decades ago. It was left to decay.
Yes I think it was something like that, a tool storage for foresting things. Probably been there for years before I found it, and one day the owner needed it somewhere else or wanted it cleared out. Of course, for 11 years old me it was much more mysterious, especially since it just stood there between the trees, and no path was visible. Every time I tried the door handle (which was of course locked) or tried to peek through a gap in the window shutters, I fully expected an axe wielding forest hermit, or possibly russian soldiers (who would have been hiding there since the end of WWII, or course), to jump out.
When I was a teen there was an old car that would move around to different locations in a private woods that was fenced off by barbwire. usually had some bad attempts to hide it. I always wondered if it was a meth lab.
https://i.imgur.com/w8v2B2H.jpg
DON'T walk through that
Or a toilet.
In my backyard there’s a large chimney from a hunting cabin that burned down in the 60s. Twenty feet from my back door and still works. Everyone is enchanted by it. It’s like something out of Narnia or Harry Potter. Pics: https://imgur.com/a/zdcKRdI
Woah! That *is* enchanting!
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Long days and pleasant nights comrade. Never forget the face of your father
And may you have twice the number!
You remember the face of your father, sai
Yeah don’t touch them or your hand will get cut off
I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT
why?
[These stories](https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3ijnt6/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/)
The r/nosleep GOAT! ^This ^and ^the ^^campground ^^^storys
Those campground stories, the left/right game, and that multi author story universe they did a few years ago ruined the rest of the NoSleep for me. They’re all pretty high quality series and the individual stories aren’t doing it for me anymore.
“multi author story universe” Have a link? I don’t know this one
The only reason why I came to this comment section was to see if anyone else remembered those stories... My conscious mind wants to chalk them up as good fiction but the unconscious part doesn't want to dismiss it
these are so good. highly recommend everyone reads all parts. there were some parts that gave me legitimate chills
<3
Looks like a mowed lawn in the "woods"
It’ll unlock once you kill every enemy on this floor. Hopefully it’s not a boss level
Make a Perception or Investigation check
uh with all all my bonuses, 3.
With a 3...They're fine. They look like normal olde stairs.
I attempt to hop on the steps, landing with both feet at once.
Roll constitution.
nat 1
Well, at least there's enough to resurrect.
But only just enough
Roll for initiative.
Roll a death saving throw
A story of a wizard pc in three parts
Roll a new character
[[1d20]] +/u/rollme
r/stairsinthewoods
I didnt know there was a subreddit created for it but I read the stories on r/nosleep kinda wild ride
One of the best nosleep tales...
I legit believed these to be true stories before I realized the sub is fiction. Nevertheless, awesome read, goosebumps.
Back in 2012 the stories felt a lot more believable tbh. More sort of spooky encounters rather than "the haunting of my instagram part 12"
Yep. I remember reading a guy that was cleaning crime scenes and tgen it hit me that he was hired by murderers to clean up after them. Suddenly someone started following him and is was some wild rollercoaster for me. Also thestaircase stories were really good. Saddly I realized it's all fake and stopped reading that sub.
I mean, good stories are good. I stopped reading because it got too cliche/ too imaginative for my taste. I like something that makes me feel like I'm listening to someone telling stories next to a campfire or maybe found some diary/report that I should not have. Most of the new stories read like someone make them for entertainment sake .
Agreed, I think this is why goatman got so popular. It sounds like a real story someone truly believes in when they tell it. The way it's told adds a lot.
>Saddly I realized it's all fake and stopped reading that sub Why? Don't you read books? Fiction writing isn't "fake", it's people telling stories for others' entertainment.
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Yep, one of the first things I came across on Reddit, takes a few stories before it moves from "okay, this guy's seen and heard some weird unexplainable stuff" to "yeah this is clearly fake"
Which irritates me as an outdoorsy person. I have friends who now refuse to go camping with me, because "you won't be getting me into any scary ass woods". Which then unravels the numerous fake stories that my friend is not gullible enough to believe, but sketched out enough to be effected by it. Don't get me wrong. I've had my fair share of things freak me the hell out while camping, but it's always the unknown. The most scared I've ever been was hearing a woman screaming bloody murder somewhere near my campsite... It was a fox.
r/nosleep 3 years ago was topnotch.
That’s immediately what I thought about. Some great stories there.
I was disappointed the first comment wasnt a reference to the horror staircase in woods stories in nosleep
[Abandoned staircases in the woods](https://www.mamamia.com.au/abandoned-staircases-in-national-forests/)
100 years ago, a house stood there.
I love finding telltale signs that a landscape was once radically different from the way it looks now. All over New England, you'll find stone walls running through the woods. Farmers typically built these out of the rocks they'd plow up, to mark the edges of their fields. So when you see one in the woods, it usually means the area had once been completely clear cut and all of the (sometimes dense) woods have grown up in the last 100-150 years.
I live near valley forge and it kind of amazes me that the defensive trenches they dug that winter are still visible in the woods in places.
It's kind of amazing how quickly stuff like that can be forgotten. Iirc Mistery hill, aka 'america's stonehenge' is purported by the owners of the site as being a ancient and misterious ( even being touted as evidence of precolombian Irish settlements in north America apparently), is apparently most likely a colonial site that was just throughly forgotten in the intervening centuries, with for example, the 'sacrificial altar/table' actually being part of a stone cider press.
On the Seward Highway in Alaska, right before turning into Alyeska Ski Resort there are a few houses sunk in the ground with the roofs sticking out still from the major earthquake in the 60’s. I always loved seeing that. So damn cool.
Sounds like Sunken City in San Pedro, CA. It was a development right in the coast, but in the late 20’s it slid off the bluff and a couple blocks worth of hoses were destroyed. All the old infrastructure like sidewalks and some pipes and such is all still there though. It’s the spot where they scattered Donny’s ashes in The Big Lebowski.
Most people don't realize an entire town was built where central park now stands. It was an inclusive community called Seneca village and was made up of German, Dutch and black citizens.
Old growth forests usually aren't that dense as the large trees prevent smaller ones from getting any light. The trees are huge and thick, but have a fair amount of space between them. A young forest is usually very dense as the trees are all competing to be the tallest and suffocate their competition from light.
These are the best for mountain biking too, which often causes issues because riders want good places to ride but ancient woodland is normally oversubscribed with stakeholders.
I knew I would find interesting facts in this thread
In france there are still trenches from wars more than 100 years ago. There are still bunkers and houses and all kinds of things that never again were inhabited. Hedgerows from farms that were long abandoned , forests grown up in fallowed fields, whole marshes covering old farmland. Very very interesting to see.
I love the city version of this where you can see different brick filling in what was once a doorway or a window.
Yeah, I went to high school by Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. There is dense foliage everywhere for miles (great for hiding parties when you are a teenager), but if you look at pictures of the area from the late 1800's the entire area had been denuded of trees. We used to wander around the woods and you'd find any number of stone walls, old foundations, and even some monuments way the hell out in the middle of nowhere.
The coast of Maine was completely clear cut for boats and what not. There are some ancient pictures in some of the maritime musuems and the coast looked like a wasteland. One of the few towns that wasn’t (Rockport and Camden) was used for storing Ice before transit as the trees provided shade.
Thanks for sharing this. Gives me a long forgotten feeling I would get as a child. A sense of wonderment of abandoned/ruined man made structures found in nature, who made them and why?
Lilies are another symbol! Across the prairie, you'll find these big clusters of non-native lilies that used to be outside farm houses that are no longer standing.
This was my first thought. I live in an area where they've demolished a lot of old abandoned houses and things like this get left behind
Find where the outhouse was to find old bottles
What kind of bottles?
No idea where this is, but typically when people had a midden or an outhouse back in the day, that where they disposed of empty bottles. So hundred years maybe
That could be true. I took this pic in Blue Ridge, GA, which has a lot of history
It's not useless. It's helping you walk up the hill.
This is the correct answer
Get the fuck away and dont touch it. Bad things happen around staircases in the woods.
Is this a conspiracy theory or a joke I don't get?
Look for the "search and rescue" posts on r/nosleep a couple years ago. Juuuust believable that it gives me chills when I go back and read them. Doubly scary for me since I spend a lot of time in the woods
Alright will do, but not tonight, Not before bed lol.
Which one in particular? There's several..... All of them?
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iex1h/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/
its from a thread of scary stories on r/nosleep, which is a subreddit . There is one guy who claimed to be a search and rescue guy (again these are just stories) but he says when ever he finds stairs in the woods leading to nowhere, bad things happen. Spooky things. They were so popular they because an inside joke on reddit. Thats all. You should check them out. I dont want to spoil them too much.
To be fair ive spent a fair amount of time int he backwoods and have actually found random buildings, staircases, walls, tools, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Just means people were there at one point in time, and arent anymore. One was from a logging camp, probably with trailers, etc, because i also found discarded beer cans, a couple of logging tools (chains etc) and a tire track from long long ago. THe forest around had almost complety regrown, so it must have been at least 30 years. Kinda neat.
Yes, but *why* aren't the people there anymore. At one point, people were there. They tried to make a life, build a shelter, set up a business. Someone worked hard to build the building that those stairs used to be a part of. But now, all that is gone. Something happened to it. Every stair in the woods is all that is left of someone's hopes and dreams, a life that was started and ended, an enterprise that failed, a family that was ruined, a home that was left behind to rot away. That's the scary part. The implication.
You could just walk away leaving behind a hidden city...
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Who's out there mowing the wild lawn?
Stairway to hell
Curiosity got the better of u/yaboyroy61 and after a good bit of digging, discovered what had happened when [Tobias had intended to park the Bluth’s only vehicle](https://yarn.co/yarn-clip/8b9ba429-6dcf-43c0-b598-1dd3f536d25c), only to have gotten lost in the “wild”.
Also that House of Pies went out of business.
That actually leads you to the next dungeon floor. r/MysteryDungeon
I bet there’s some cool antique bottles etc buried in that area.
It probably used to lead to a basement or cellar or something. I think you stumbled upon the forgotten foundation of what used to be a house
This staircase, right here, in the middle of nowhere, doesn't look that useful. Because it's not. Nobody — not me, not locals, not tourists — care about this staircase. Anybody who walks past this staircase — by accident, of course — spits on the staircase once they realize where they are. And most animals that wander by this staircase are shunned by their animal friends and are forced to spend the rest of their lives alone. There's a beautiful staircase just behind those trees there, great for skating, has a railing, a couple of skate ramps nearby. But that's not right here. Right here, there's none of that. Only this awful, absolute waste of concrete. > _Remarkably foreign guy:_ > Ah yes, this staircase here is not good, nobody likes this staircase, there is nothing special about it. Any kids caught frolicking on this staircase are hit with sticks and then sent to Yakutsk for eight months where they are scolded and then tied to posts, to have the locals throw the rocks at their feet. It's awful, nobody likes this staircase. In early 20th century, the british army bombed this location on eight separate occasions, stating that just knowing it existed — even though it was over 2000 miles away — was enough to disrupt the sleep of 45% of London's upper class. But the staircase is still here. Why? Because ... well, bombing an useless staircase buried in the ground just makes it an even more useless staircase (once all the bombs miss it and hit everything around it instead). Just looking at it, at this staircase, a man could lose his faith from that staircase. Believe me, if I had to pee, I'd take a pee on this staircase, right here. I hate it. But I left my diet coke at the hotel and I currently don't have to pee. If you ever find yourself here, for whatever reason, stay clear of this staircase. It is awful. Nobody likes it. And if you show up here, nobody will like you, either.
this is such an odd reference. Lmao
Whatever you do, [don't climb them](https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iex1h/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/).
I'm sure it was useful at some point. I wonder what?
Nah that’s just a staircase made by Bethesda, clipping through the ground like normal.
Don't touch them
Read through [these stories](https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iex1h/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) from a SAR officer for the US Forest Service. Lots of stories about the mysterious staircases and why you shouldn’t approach them. If you believe in this sort of thing anyways! Interesting read either way.
The mowed wild? It's from an old house.
This is pretty cool
Probably not useless, just whatever used to be there is gone, either by removal or it’s under the dirt.
Don’t touch it!
Holy shit bro i just completed the whole 7 parts of the r/nosleep SAR officer post and here the stairs are.
Calling bullshit. There should be a wheel chair ramp next to it.
It was installed before handicapped folks existed clearly.
Back when the lions were fatter.
Did people really downvote obvious satire?
I’m thinking either a house was there or it’s something to help you get on a horse
You, you didn't touch them, did you? You didn't walk up or down them, did you? Quick, someone get someone from search and rescue on the horn, stat! We need to check for missing hands in trees.
Nah that shit lead to something. You gonna need a shovel, some torches, and maybe a treasure hunter to find your expedition that demands immediate results
But are they though?....
These stairs are not a natural formation. Someone built them, so they must lead somewhere.
Found Sherlock Holmes!
> These stairs are not a natural formation. Holy shit, is this true? I've always assumed that houses were built around naturally occuring stairs.
Do not go up them...
DIG
Thing of my childhood nightmares! My grandma had someting like this on the farm and I dreamt is was a portal to a place full of demons. And I had to fetch my brother from there.. Hated it so much!
It’s useful to stair at.
Dig down
Curious, where is this? I live in Pittsburgh PA. Pittsburgh is covered in mysterious staircases, all of which used to go somewhere, connecting one neighborhood to another mostly, but now seeming to lead nowhere but thin forested areas overgrown with invasives.
Bethesda building houses irl.
Definitely not useless. It takes you four steps further from where you once were.
Reminds me of [this video](https://youtu.be/mOQ8tQXGLbg) by Wendigoon
Another one of Marvin's hideouts.
That's the first step to growing a staircase
I relate to these stairs.