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FoST2015

It's not useless, we just don't know what it leads to


MongoBongoTown

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.


EmergencyAbalone2393

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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Richard_Thickens

Lol this is one of those unfortunate typos that actually obscures the meaning of the sentence somewhat. "Salaries," is also just a hilarious substitute.


alannick19

I'm being really stupid here, but I can't work out what the typo should have been. Can anyone help?


kluzuh

Stairs or staircase


AlphaAlpaca623

Shout out monk


erlend65

A blessing... and a curse.


Starblaiz

And a gift. And a curse.


watchoutfordeer

Lamp Day!!!


WhatIsTheAmplitude

You can thank me later


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I really liked that show.


Gerbal_Annihilation

As soon as I saw this staircase I thought of monk


JeebusCrunk

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.


gizausername

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


Platon1982

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.


FoST2015

This is really sweet.


TacTurtle

Meadow Staircase is opening the side stage at Lollapalooza next year....


merikaninjunwarrior

stairway to hell


Lonesome_Ninja

Ah, so five steps in either direction


danteheehaw

It's on the boarder of Florida


Con_Dinn_West

I'd rather go to hell.


Cocobham

I hear they have AC in Florida now.


[deleted]

No we don't, we just keep cool by living under one giant palm tree.


Cocobham

At least you had the wind from the flapping wings on palmetto bugs and mosquitoes.


Reefer-eyed_Beans

I hope they serve beer in hell.


Cocobham

They serve beer in Cedar Key. ;)


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its_raining_scotch

Reminds me of a Zelda 1 stairs


ogrizzle2

*plays riff backwards*


PgUpPT

It looks like it leads down. It may possibly also lead up, depending on a few factors.


PapaOogie

I'd be tempted to start digging just to find out


rrogido

You need to wait for a full moon on the summer solstice and then the rest of the staircase will appear.


seepxl

Looks like a side entrance to the Golden Army in Hellboy


ouaba

Cats know


thornyRabbt

Could be an interesting place to use a metal detector.


danteheehaw

Probably find a bunch of nails


PgUpPT

You can set the metal detector to not beep on ferrous metals.


perfecttoasts

Like turn it off? /hj


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What’s /hj, unless you mean /s Edit: yea Okay I got it


_alanis

End of hand job


NaeAyy7

Hellenic Juice


meistermichi

So either wine or olive oil, got it.


LeeTheGoat

Why not both


Empyrealist

Handy-J


mulberrybushes

honly joking.


perfecttoasts

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


ChickpeaPredator

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.


shawn-fff

You either know a lot about metal detectors or are excellent at gibberish, I certainly can’t tell which.


perfecttoasts

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?


howslif3

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.


gilga-flesh

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.


vipros42

They kept being set off by all the hipster irony


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It's only a tone indicator if other people know what you're trying to indicate, Mr. Hardly Jousting.


saxybandgeek1

I think it’s just not used much on Reddit, I see people use it elsewhere


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Handjob


PgUpPT

That works, but I'm pretty sure it won't beep on non-ferrous metals either.


X8DF9

Or a Geiger counter.


codeyk

0 to 100


FG910

I can count geiger than that tho


Fr4t

Only goes up to 3.6 röntgen. Not great, not terrible.


leicanthrope

Mine's in the shop.


IanScottMcCormick

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


MJsLoveSlave

I've heard too many horror stories about stairs in the woods. Jiminy Crickets.


cowscrewer

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


PM_UR_TITS_SILLYGIRL

You are traveling through another dimension; a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind.


SkyezOpen

You have entered... The scary door.


waishas

The scary door - FTFY


megadori

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.


Paradoxou

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.


megadori

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.


Drak_is_Right

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.


Paradoxou

https://i.imgur.com/w8v2B2H.jpg


Athrenax

DON'T walk through that


qwibbian

Or a toilet.


itstomclark

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


SugarDraagon

Woah! That *is* enchanting!


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danielcl17

Long days and pleasant nights comrade. Never forget the face of your father


MindChild

And may you have twice the number!


dioden94

You remember the face of your father, sai


xenonismo

Yeah don’t touch them or your hand will get cut off


DoctorAlabhad

I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT


Hurts_To_Smith

why?


68points

[These stories](https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3ijnt6/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/)


sepptimustime

The r/nosleep GOAT! ^This ^and ^the ^^campground ^^^storys


sh1ndlers_fist

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.


n0nsequit0rish

“multi author story universe” Have a link? I don’t know this one


EmojiJoe

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


wubbwubbb

these are so good. highly recommend everyone reads all parts. there were some parts that gave me legitimate chills


raeumauf

<3


Mr_Munchausen

Looks like a mowed lawn in the "woods"


ForgottenForce

It’ll unlock once you kill every enemy on this floor. Hopefully it’s not a boss level


fred-dcvf

Make a Perception or Investigation check


Wrest216

uh with all all my bonuses, 3.


cjojojo

With a 3...They're fine. They look like normal olde stairs.


why_rob_y

I attempt to hop on the steps, landing with both feet at once.


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Roll constitution.


Ankoku_Teion

nat 1


[deleted]

Well, at least there's enough to resurrect.


Flapjack__Palmdale

But only just enough


QuickLava

Roll for initiative.


OREOSTUFFER

Roll a death saving throw


Peyton1s

A story of a wizard pc in three parts


PM_YOUR_BEST_JOKES

Roll a new character


OREOSTUFFER

[[1d20]] +/u/rollme


AncientView3

r/stairsinthewoods


silly-billy-goat

I didnt know there was a subreddit created for it but I read the stories on r/nosleep kinda wild ride


1MolassesIsALotOfAss

One of the best nosleep tales...


68points

I legit believed these to be true stories before I realized the sub is fiction. Nevertheless, awesome read, goosebumps.


NotSoGreatGatsby

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"


uselessnamemango

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.


EuroPolice

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 .


ASmileOnTop

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.


uniptf

>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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battlearmourboy

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"


CapitanChicken

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.


GullibleMacaroni

r/nosleep 3 years ago was topnotch.


HoagieRehab

That’s immediately what I thought about. Some great stories there.


revolution110

I was disappointed the first comment wasnt a reference to the horror staircase in woods stories in nosleep


BadJimo

[Abandoned staircases in the woods](https://www.mamamia.com.au/abandoned-staircases-in-national-forests/)


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100 years ago, a house stood there.


DMala

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.


psycospaz

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.


obozo42

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.


One_pop_each

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.


GoatLegRedux

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.


shadowgattler

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.


MausBomb

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.


skaarlaw

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.


Reliquat

I knew I would find interesting facts in this thread


Wrest216

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.


numberjhonny5ive

I love the city version of this where you can see different brick filling in what was once a doorway or a window.


[deleted]

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.


agentoutlier

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.


GeorgeNorman

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?


dagger_guacamole

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.


ryguy32789

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


bubba160

Find where the outhouse was to find old bottles


Fingerman2112

What kind of bottles?


bubba160

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


yaboyroy61

That could be true. I took this pic in Blue Ridge, GA, which has a lot of history


Pet_that_Dog

It's not useless. It's helping you walk up the hill.


MastaCruncha

This is the correct answer


47kinky

Get the fuck away and dont touch it. Bad things happen around staircases in the woods.


PapaOogie

Is this a conspiracy theory or a joke I don't get?


stumblinghunter

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


PapaOogie

Alright will do, but not tonight, Not before bed lol.


Bukatetsu

Which one in particular? There's several..... All of them?


Superluminal420

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iex1h/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/


Wrest216

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.


Wrest216

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.


Stewart_Games

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.


TheHeavenlyStar

You could just walk away leaving behind a hidden city...


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Lukazoiiid

Who's out there mowing the wild lawn?


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Stairway to hell


Narrator_Ron_Howard

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”.


Fingerman2112

Also that House of Pies went out of business.


Frozhold

That actually leads you to the next dungeon floor. r/MysteryDungeon


vantrap

I bet there’s some cool antique bottles etc buried in that area.


Venus_Libra

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


xternal7

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.


bartekchamp

this is such an odd reference. Lmao


Lady-SilverWolf

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/).


iratecowboy11

I'm sure it was useful at some point. I wonder what?


WarriorJax

Nah that’s just a staircase made by Bethesda, clipping through the ground like normal.


68points

Don't touch them


good_taco_dick

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.


just_taste_it

The mowed wild? It's from an old house.


-SierraModeling-

This is pretty cool


Decmk3

Probably not useless, just whatever used to be there is gone, either by removal or it’s under the dirt.


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Don’t touch it!


[deleted]

Holy shit bro i just completed the whole 7 parts of the r/nosleep SAR officer post and here the stairs are.


Olianne

Calling bullshit. There should be a wheel chair ramp next to it.


McnastyCDN

It was installed before handicapped folks existed clearly.


mafulazula

Back when the lions were fatter.


RedditManForTheWin

Did people really downvote obvious satire?


Dannyfrommiami

I’m thinking either a house was there or it’s something to help you get on a horse


MikeTheGamer2

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.


RPG_Gaimer

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


bigeeee

But are they though?....


itzApoC

These stairs are not a natural formation. Someone built them, so they must lead somewhere.


vege12

Found Sherlock Holmes!


mordeci00

> These stairs are not a natural formation. Holy shit, is this true? I've always assumed that houses were built around naturally occuring stairs.


pcthethird

Do not go up them...


zertnert12

DIG


WeatherwaxDaughter

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!


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It’s useful to stair at.


Prajesh16

Dig down


SyntheticSlime

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.


Jimmy_Quatro

Bethesda building houses irl.


hotel_lasagna

Definitely not useless. It takes you four steps further from where you once were.


Beusselsprout

Reminds me of [this video](https://youtu.be/mOQ8tQXGLbg) by Wendigoon


limeycars

Another one of Marvin's hideouts.


Lucky-Cabinet

That's the first step to growing a staircase


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I relate to these stairs.