As per observations of native people around the national parks, there are abandoned staircases deep in the woods. According to them, one will find them at a place where no one is assumed to have ever lived. Moreover, the staircase is solely visualized, without any supporting structures. That is a great wonder indeed.
These stairs in the woods appear and exist worldwide in a number of places. They lead to heaven means starting from the ground and reaching up to nowhere. Physically visiting the park and experiencing the one-of-a-kind amazing scene is no doubt a very unique and interesting charm.
Structure of stairs in the woods
Many questions arise about their existence that whether they exist at all or it is just a story narrated by a terrific storyteller.
Some of those tragic staircases are made of
- Brick material
- Some staircases are ruins
- A few are perfectly sturdy
- Casted iron spirals like DNA structure (commonly found in a lighthouse)
- Tilted ladder-shaped to climb up
What are staircases in the woods?
These are internet phenomenon that grew from the discovery of weird structures. A long history story from ‘search and rescue woods’ on Reddit and the entire season of Channel zero describes these stairs well.
Different people have different points of view and comments on these. Once a National Park rescuer narrated the story and spoke of a Wendigo-like creature near the stairs. Due to these stories, these staircases haunt the entire nearby town.
Incidents that took place in the stairs in the woods
It is always a frightening sight for the visitor going to such areas. One should be aware of any uncertain incident that had ever happened there with people in past and should pray for a safe and sound visit.
A few incidents that occurred to past people are
- Boy scouts’ troops go missing
- Wandering babies stalk the night
- Mysterious ghost sounds and echoes producing sound waves
- Bright and dull lights around the staircase
- Dead vegetation
- Pristine carpets to walk
- No reeling for supporting steps
A few of these may not be true, but it doesn’t mean that no ground reason is provided by the visiting person to the writer. If someone doesn’t want to sleep and has hours to kill, then it is a night fuel for sure.
Mysterious stairs in the forests of the World
Some of these staircases that are in the middle of nowhere may have been part of a town or building that has long since crumbled. A few mysterious stairs seem so new and fresh almost like someone had put them there just yesterday.
It all started from Reddit that opened the floodgates for more and more people to come forward with their own accounts of random stairs in the woods and parks.
These stories and most like facts are collected from the public, rescuers, and rangers of National Park in Eastern U.S. That is why staircases in the forest are not so scarce and many of them have been around for centuries or millennia.
Horrifying events related to staircases in the woods
A lot of shocking stories have been heard relating to these unusual stairs in the woods, but the question is that are they all true? Or in more detail, do all staircases in the forests depict the same image as of staircase in National Parks? Another point that arises and threatens people is that, why will there be stairs in the forests? Who has to climb up there and where is the final destination of those stairs?
Answering these questions, a lot of people shared their scary and mysterious experiences of coming before random staircases. They answered those queries like the following:
- First of all, these stories don’t belong to a particular forest. They have happened all over the world in different countries’ forests.
- These all staircases existing in different locations lead to nowhere; they just appear suddenly and vanish away
- Empty places are covered by these staircases which are generally made of wood
- A few stairways are ancient in their design and act as a part of town, village, castle
- Some also appear as an art of modern construction so it seems weird that who has built this modern art piece in the woods
- Stairs in the woods are found alone with no other surrounding bricks or walls
- No one is seen walking over them for a specified reason.
Popular Stairs in the Woods Incidents
- Incident of the 1940s
Once CDC team was working in the forests for some investigation for 6 months and they came across a weird staircase. Not only one team member witnessed it, but many other team members also viewed this incident at night.
The members of the CDC work as infectious disease specialists for several years. Another twisting and horrifying incident was that they found the place of the staircase to be moving and found out that they don’t occur at a fixed place. Sometimes, they also appeared as a dark black spot giving a view of burnt woods.
Even members of the team tried to cut the woods to take a sample, but it was way harder that they couldn’t cut it even with an ax or a sharp tool. In the 1940s, there was not enough technology and facility to record video of all such happenings and events in Park, so no one can proper evidence of all these Stairs in the Woods incidents.
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- Story of Sweden
It was pretty similar to the incident explained earlier but this one was more engaging and taking us close to something scary. Two students named Axel and Isak once went hiking in the forests. During their hiking, suddenly they came across the mysterious staircase.
Without any purpose, one will definitely fear seeing such mysterious staircases in the middle of the forest. Isak was willing to climb the stairs to see where it leads too but, Axel was clear after watching this that they shouldn’t do anything about the stairs and move away.
Finally, they decided to explore the secret and eventually climbed up. While moving upstairs everything was fine. When they reached the top, they screamed loudly and ran hurriedly just to leave the stairs far away
After few moments, when they stopped to take a breath, someone put a hand on Alex’s shoulder. Alex thought that Isak was frightening him but when he turned back, there was no clue. Isak was about 200m behind him.
It was a sort of blood-curdling experience for both. Furthermore, Alex mentioned that touch was cold. This horrifying incident was versatile in nature.
- Hand cutting incident
The place of this incident is not confirmed but it was mysterious and injurious for the people at the moment. In this event, a junior told an eye-witnessed incident to his senior who was a park ranger and training his junior under his supervision.
Junior once came across stairs in the woods. He initially found it weird. So, out of curiosity, he started climbing it. When he reached the top, the other person held out his hand to touch the branch of a nearby tree and his hand got cut off.
The cut-off hand was not founded after that, it got lost. It was an extremely horrifying and bad experience for the visitors. Although, it a very abnormal story but it’s true.
- Mount Phnom Kulen
This is a mountain named in Cambodia having a 2000-foot-long abandoned staircase in the woods. No concrete reason exists that why was that staircase built as it is expected to be very old.
It might lead to some destination in the olden days but then it got banned by national management due to uncertain and unnatural events taking place there which sometimes also given rise to crimes in the woods.
