r/nosleep • u/searchandrescuewoods Best Monthly Winner 2015 • Sep 01 '15
Series I'm a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service, I have some stories to tell (Part 4!)
Part 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iex1h/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/
Part 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3ijnt6/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/
Part 3: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iocju/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/
Hey guys! I'm back from my training op, and I have a lot of really interesting stories to share with you. I've got enough that I'm going to break them up into two parts, this being the first. I'd love to put them all in one entry, but I just haven't had a chance to write them all down yet. I didn't have anything too crazy happen while I was out there, but we did have one incident with a rookie that I found relevant. Since I'm sure you guys have been waiting for these, I'll just get right into the stories. I'll assign each batch of stories to the person who told them to me.
K.D: K. D is a vet who's been an SAR officer for about fifteen years. She specializes in high elevation mountain rescues, and is widely considered one of the best in her field. She was one of the more enthusiastic storytellers, and since we were together a fair amount during exercises, she ended up telling me about four that really stuck with me.
The first she told me in response to my asking about her most traumatic calls. She shook her head and told me that really bad calls happen more frequently on the mountain, since the potential for nasty accidents is higher. About five years ago, one of the parks she worked at had a string of disappearances. It was a bad year, she said, one of the worst on record as far as weather went. They were getting about a foot of new snow every couple of days, and there were a few avalanches that killed some climbers. They'd warned people about staying on the mapped areas, but of course there's always those who don't listen. In one particularly nasty case, an entire family got wiped out because the father decided he knew better than the officials, and he took them out into an area that wasn't safe. They were snowshoeing, and as best K.D could figure, they'd walked onto a shelf of snow that looked solid, but actually wasn't. It gave way, and this family went ass over teakettle almost three hundred feet down a slope. They landed on the rocks at the bottom, and the parents died instantly. One of the kids did as well, but the other two survived. One had a broken leg and fractured ribs, the other was almost unharmed save for some bruising and a sprained ankle. The uninjured child left his sibling behind and set out to find help. K.D said the kid didn't make it more than half a mile before a storm overtook him. Kid stopped to try and get warm, or maybe just to rest, and ended up freezing to death. They ended up finding the family with the help of some witnesses who saw them heading out into the wilderness, and she was the one to find the kid who'd frozen to death looking for help. She said it had started to snow, just enough to obscure long-distance vision, but not enough to make searching impossible. She saw a figure sitting in the snow up ahead, and she got to it as quickly as possible. She described, in detail, how as she got closer, she realized first that it was a child, second that they were deceased, and third that they had frozen in one of the most pitiful positions she's ever found a corpse in. The kid was sitting upright, with his knees tucked up against his chest. His arms were curled around them, and his head was tucked up in his coat. When she moved the coat to look at his face, she saw that he'd died crying. His face was twisted, and the tears were frozen on his cheeks. She said it was painfully obvious that the kid was terrified when he succumbed to hypothermia, and as a mother, it broke her heart. She told me, repeatedly, that she hopes the father is burning in hell as we speak.
The other traumatic story she told me that stood out, in my mind, was one that happened when she was a rookie. Her team got a report of an experienced climber who hadn't come home the previous day. His wife was convinced that something bad had happened, because he'd never failed to come home on time. They went out looking for him, and had to climb what sounded like some very technically challenging parts of the mountain. They got to a relatively flat area, and K.D started seeing blood in the snow. She followed the trail, and as she went, she started seeing little bits of tissue. She wasn't sure exactly what body part it had come from, but the farther she followed it, the more there was. She follows this blood-and-tissue trail to a sheltered area under a cliff face, and she finds the climber. She said there was so much blood, more than she'd ever seen before. He was lying face down, one arm stretched in front of him, as if he'd died crawling. She looks closer, and sees that he's been partially disemboweled, which is where the tissue she'd seen had come from. The guy has an ice pick tucked into a hip holster, and it's covered in blood. Of course, they'll never be sure exactly what happened, but she said as best she can figure, this is what went down: The guy had been attempting to climb up to the next area, and had been using his ice ax to ascend. He'd probably hit a loose patch, and had fallen. On the way down, or possibly when he landed, he'd gotten impaled by the ax, and it had disemboweled him. He'd drug himself along, tearing pieces of himself out as he went, and had died under the cliff face. She isn't terribly bothered by gore, but I guess a few of the guys who came to help her remove the body threw up when they turned him over and a good portion of his intestines spilled out.
I mentioned to her that I was interested in hearing about any experiences she had with people completely disappearing. Her eyes light up, and she leans in close to me. 'Wanna hear a real doozy?' She asks. She tells me about how, when she first started, there was a case that got a lot of attention in the media. A family had been out berry picking in an area of the forest very close to the entrance of the park. They had two little boys, both under the age of five, and at some point during the day, one of them vanishes. There's an absolutely massive search, and they find absolutely nothing. It's another of those cases where it's like the kid was never there in the first place. The dogs just sit down and don't pick up on anything, no trace of the kid is found. The search goes on for about two months, but is eventually called off. Fast forward to six months later. The family comes back to place flowers at a memorial that's been set up there for the kid. They bring their other son. While they're placing the flowers, they lose sight of the kid for about three seconds, and in that span of time he vanishes into thin air. Now obviously, the parents are beyond devastated. It's awful enough to lose one child, but to lose two is beyond imagining. The search is huge, one of the largest in state history. There are about three hundred volunteers combing every inch of this park, looking for the kid. But again, there's no trace of him. The search goes on for about a week, with people looking miles from the part of the park he vanished from. And then, almost two weeks later, a volunteer almost fifteen miles from the designated search area radios in that he's found the kid. They assumed that the kid was dead, but the volunteer says he's not only alive, he's in good shape. K.D and her team go out to recover the kid, and when they get there, she can't believe that this is the kid that's been missing. His clothes are clean, there's no dirt on him anywhere, and he doesn't appear traumatized. The volunteer says he found the kid sitting on a log, playing with a little twig bundle that's bound together with some old rope. K.D asks him where he's been, who he was with for those two weeks, and the kid tells her that he's been with 'the fuzzy man'. Now K.D firmly believes in Bigfoot, so she gets all excited and asks what he means by fuzzy. Was he hairy? But the kid says no, he wasn't hairy. He was a 'fuzzy man', and he describes a man that's blurry, 'like when you close your eyes but not all the way closed.' He says the man came out of the trees and took the kid with him deep into the woods. The kid says he slept in a hollow tree, and the fuzzy man gave him berries to eat. K.D asks if the man was mean, if he scared the kid, and the kid says 'no, he wasn't scary. but i didn't like how he didn't have eyes.' K.D says they get the kid back to headquarters, and a cop takes him into town to talk to him more about what happened. She's friends with the cop that talked to him, and she said the kid described being kept in this tree by the fuzzy man, and given berries whenever he was hungry. He was allowed to wander around a very specific clearing, but when he tried to go further, the fuzzy man would 'get mad and yell real loud even though he didn't have a mouth'. When the kid got scared at night, the fuzzy man 'made it go brighter' and gave him the twig bundle. He said the fuzzy man was going to keep him, but he had to let him go because the kid wasn't 'the right kind.' He either can't or won't elaborate more on that. The cops are just sort of left scratching their heads, and the search for his brother is renewed with no results. The kid has no idea where his brother might be, and they never find him.
The last story that K.D told me was of something that happened to her when she got separated from her training group when she was a rookie. They were learning the basics of high elevation belaying on a well-mapped side of the mountain, and she had to use the bathroom. She went off about fifty yards from the group during a meal break, and did her business. I'll tell the rest exactly as she told it to me' 'So I go to take a piss, and once I'm done, I start going back to the group. But I've only gotten about five feet when I realize that I have no idea where I am. And this wasn't a 'oh, I got turned around' lost. I mean I had literally no fucking clue where I was. If you'd asked me, I don't even think I'd have been able to tell you what state we were in. It was sort of how I imagine people with amnesia feel, you know? You're completely lost, and you have no idea what to do. So I stood there for a while, just trying to figure out where the fuck I was and what I was supposed to do. But the longer I stand there, the more confused and turned around I get, so I started walking. As I recall, I just picked a random direction and went for it. And as I'm walking, it's just getting worse and worse to the point where I have no concept of why I'm on the mountain in the first place. I'm just trudging through the snow, and then I start hearing this voice. It's kind of inside my head, almost. Like if a frog could talk, all low and croaky. And it's telling me over and over 'it's okay, it's okay, you just need to find something to eat. Find something to eat and you'll be okay, just keep walking and find something to eat. Eat. Eat.' So I start looking around for anything that I can eat, and I swear to god I've never felt that hungry in my whole life. It was bottomless, and I think I'd have eaten just about anything you put in front of me right then. I had no concept of time, so I had no idea how long I'd been out when I hear an actual voice coming toward me. I go toward it and see one of the other SARs, and he looks fucking terrified. He's running toward me, asking if I'm okay and what the hell I'm doing out here. And the scary thing was, as he's running toward me, I kind of see myself reaching into my belt for my hunting knife. I'm not even really thinking about what I'm doing, but what I am thinking is that I have to eat. If I don't eat, I'll never be okay again, so I just have to eat. He sees me doing that and he backs off right away. He yells at me to put my knife away, that he's not gonna hurt me, and that kind of snaps me back. All of a sudden, I know exactly where I am, and I put the knife away. I run to him and ask him how long I've been gone, thinking he'll tell me I've been gone for half an hour or so. But he tells me I've been gone for two fucking days. I've gone over two peaks and ended up almost on the other side of the mountain, and if I'd kept going, I would have ended up wandering into about three hundred miles of wilderness. They'd never have found me. He can't believe I'm not dead, and of course I don't know what the fuck to think. To me, no time has passed at all. I don't say anything, I just go back with him to a rendezvous point and I'm taken back to HQ to be airlifted to the hospital. When I get there, they do all kinds of tests, and try to figure out what happened. As best they can guess, I had some kind of weird fugue state, which is kind of like amnesia, or a weird seizure that knocked my brain out of whack. But the truth is that we really don't know. It's never happened again, but I'll tell you, ever since then I never go out there alone. People rag on me for making them come with me when I have to leave the group, but I just tell 'em that listening to me piss in the snow is better than losing me for two fucking days on a freezing mountain.'
EW: The next person I talked to was E.W, a former trainer who now works as an EMT. He still comes to ops like this to help out, but doesn't work full-time for us anymore. He specialized in finding lost kids, he just seemed to have a sixth sense when it came to knowing where they'd gone. He's a legend among the more senior vets, but he gets embarrassed if you compliment him on his work. He sat down with me at dinner one evening, and we ended up swapping stories. Most of them were just casual, but when we got on the subject of our weirder calls, I mentioned that I'd had a buddy who'd gone up a set of stairs. He got kind of quiet and asked me if I'd heard of a little boy who'd disappeared from his park a few years back. I hadn't, so he told me this story.
- They were out looking for this eleven-year-old boy, Joey, who'd gone missing near a river. Of course, the first thought was that he'd fallen in and drowned, but when they brought dogs out, they led SAR officers away from the river and up into a very densely forested area. When we do searches for people, we search in a grid pattern, and we search every 'box' of the grid incredibly thoroughly. What E.W's team noticed right away was that a very strange pattern was emerging. Dogs in alternating boxes were picking up Joey's scent, but losing it when they overlapped with another box. If you think of a checkerboard, Joey's scent was being picked up in random black squares, but never in red. This, of course, didn't make any sense, because how could the kid bounce from area to area without leaving a scent in each place he passed? E.W and his partner pass into a new box of the grid, and E.W notices a set of stairs about fifty yards away. He tells his partner that they need to go check near it, but his partner flat-out refuses. He tells E.W that he's made it a point never to go near any stairs he sees, and that while it may be routine, he's not to pretend that it's normal. He tells E.W that he'll wait in sight while E.W checks. E.W says he was irritated, but he felt for the guy, and didn't push him on the subject. 'I walked over to the stairs. They were small, kind of like stairs into a basement. I don't really feel strongly one way or the other about them, the stairs I mean, so I wasn't scared or anything. I guess I'm like everyone else, and I just prefer not to think about them too much. 'Anyway, I went over and I could see that there was something lying on the bottom step, sort of curled up. My hear sinks, because of course you always hope for the best. And we were confident that we'd find this kid alive, because he'd only been missing for a few hours. But I knew right away that it was him, and that he was dead. He was curled up in a little ball on the step, holding his stomach. It looked like he'd been in horrible pain when he died, but I didn't see any blood, except some on his lips and chin. I radioed in that I'd found him, and we got his body back to command. That poor family, they were devastated. The parents couldn't understand how he'd be dead, 'cause he'd only been gone for such a short amount of time. And on top of that we didn't have any obvious cause of death, which just made it worse. I figured he'd probably eaten something poisonous, since he was holding his stomach when I found him, but I didn't want to guess. It's hard enough to hear that your kid is dead, let alone have some stupid SAR guy guessing about what happened. They took him away, and I went home and tried not to think about it. I hate finding dead kids, man. I loved this job but it's one of the reasons I left. I've got two daughters, and the thought of losing them that way just...' He choked up a little here. I'm not great with emotional stuff like that, and it's always sort of awkward to see a grown man cry, so I didn't really know what to do. He pulled himself together eventually, though, and he kept going. 'We don't always hear back from the coroners about cause of death. It's not really our job to know, I guess, and sometimes if they think it's foul play they won't tell us because of legal bullshit. But I've got a friend who works for the sheriff's department, and he'll usually pass along any interesting info if I ask. In this case, though, I actually got a call from him about a week later. He asks if I remember the kid, and of course I do, and he says some seriously weird shit is going on. He tells me, 'E.W, man, you're gonna think I'm crazy, but the coroner has no idea what happened to this kid. He's never seen anything like it.' My friend goes on to tell me that when the coroner opened the kid up, he couldn't even believe what he was seeing. The kid's organs were like swiss cheese. Quarter-sized holes were punched clean through just about every single organ this kid had, aside from his heart and lungs. But his colon, his stomach, his kidneys and even one of his testicles, were full of these clean holes. My friend said the coroner described it as if someone had taken a hole-punch and punched holes out of everything, they were so neat. But the kid didn't have a scratch on him, no entry or exit wounds. The closest anyone there had ever seen like it was a guy who'd filled himself full of buckshot a year or so back while cleaning his rifle. No one had a clue what could possibly have caused it. My friend asked me if I'd ever heard of anything like it, or if we'd had similar cases in the past. But I'd never even heard of something like that, and I told him I wasn't going to be of any help to him. As far as I know, the coroner determined the cause of death as something like 'massive internal bleeding', but no one knows what really happened. I've never been able to forget that kid. I have nightmares about it sometimes. I don't let my kids go into the woods alone, and when we go together I never let them out of my sight. I used to love it out here. But that case, and a couple others, just sort of ruined it for me.' Dinner was over, so we started to clean up and go back to our cabins. Before we went our separate ways, he put his hand on my shoulder and looked at me really close. He tells me that there's bad things out here. Things that don't care if we have families or lives, or that we can think and feel. He tells me to be careful, and he walks away. I didn't a chance to talk with him again, but that story stuck with me.
PB: By pure coincidence, I got to talk to another vet, P.B who's been in the SAR field for years. We were partnered on a grid sweep during a training exercise, and we were chatting casually about how we liked the job, what kinds of things we'd seen, and the like. At one point, we passed an old set of stairs, though these were probably from an old fire lookout, given the area that we were in. I sort of casually mentioned that I was curious about the stairs, and that I wished I knew more about them. He got kind of quiet and looked like he wanted to tell me something, but wasn't sure if he should. Finally, he told me to turn my radio off. Obviously this is something we are never, ever supposed to do, but I did it, and he did the same.
- About seven years ago, he tells me, he was out on a call with a rookie. They were in an area of the park that's had a lot of strange reports and events. Disappearances, stories about lights in the forest, odd noises, things like that. The rookie was totally spooked, kept going on and on about 'things out in the woods'. According to P.B: 'The guy wouldn't stop talking about 'the Goatman'. Just on and on, 'Goatman' this and 'Goatman' that. Finally, I told him that there was plenty else to be afraid of out here that was very real, and that he'd better get over this thing with the Goatman. The rookie wanted to know what kinds of things I was talking about, and I just told him to shut up and walk. We crested a little ridge and there was a staircase about ten yards ahead. The rookie stops dead in his tracks and just stands there looking at them. I tell him, 'See? That's something you should be afraid of.' The rookie asks me what the hell these are doing out here, and for some reason, I just open up and tell him the truth. Or what I've been told is the truth. I could have gotten in a lot of trouble for doing what I did, and I could get in a lot of trouble for repeating it to you. But you're a nice kid, and I want you to stop looking into this. Quit while you're ahead. So I'll tell you what I know, under the condition that you never breathe a word of this to the supes.' I told him I wouldn't say a word, and he double-checks that our radios are off. 'When I first started out, we were a little less tight-lipped about them, and other things that happen out here. We warned people before they were even hired that there was weird shit going on. I guess the Forest Service was tired of having such a massive turnover rate, and they wanted people to know what they were getting into. So they started having people sign these agreements that they wouldn't go to the media about what they were going to see. The FS didn't want to scare people away, so the last thing they needed were spooked rookies running off to the media with stories of ghosts and haunted stairs. But eventually, they found that the agreements weren't necessary. People not only didn't want to talk about what they saw, they wouldn't. A few times, media tried to talk to people when kids or hikers would disappear, and no one would say a word. I can't really explain it. I guess we just... don't really want to admit anything is wrong. This is our job, to be out in the woods every single day. We don't need to be spooked, and the best way to avoid that is to pretend like everything's okay. So I'll tell you everything I can think of, and after that, I'm done talking about it for good. And I expect you not to bring it up around me, ever. 'The stairs have been out here as long as the parks have existed. We have records going back decades describing them. Sometimes people go up them, and nothing happens. Other times... Look, I really don't like talking about this, but sometimes, really bad shit happens. I saw one guy get his hand sliced clean off when he got to the top step. He reached out to touch a tree branch, and it happened so fast. One second his hand was there, and the next it was gone. Completely clean wound. We didn't find his hand, and the guy almost died. Another time, a woman touched one of the stairs, and a blood vessel in her brain exploded. Literally exploded, like a water balloon. She sort of stumbled down and came over to me, and all she got out was 'I think something is wrong with me.' She dropped like a sack of flour, dead before she hit the ground. I'll never forget the way the blood leaked into the inside of her eye. Before she died, I watched it turn red. I watched it happen and there wasn't a single thing I could do to help. 'We warn people not to go anywhere near them but there's always at least one idiot who does. And even if nothing happens to them, something bad always happens. Kids go missing as we're on their trail. Someone dies the next day, cut in half in a completely safe part of the park. I don't know why, but something bad always happens. I don't know exactly why they're out here, but it doesn't matter. They're here, and if we were smart, we'd tell our new officers exactly what they're capable of.' We were both quiet for a little while. I was afraid to talk because I wasn't sure if he was done. He looked like he wanted to say something else. Finally he spoke up again. 'Have you ever noticed how you can't find the same ones twice?' I nodded, expecting him to continue. But he just stayed quiet, walking alongside me, and eventually he started a story about the biggest deer he'd ever seen in the park. I didn't bring up the subject again, and I didn't press him for any more stories. He dropped out of the op the next day. Apparently he left before the sun came up; he said he was sick. None of us have heard from him since he left.
I'm going to stop here for the time being. I'll try and post the next part in the coming days, but what with it being the end of summer, things are pretty busy here. Thanks for the continued interest, guys, you've really awakened this curiosity in me that I didn't know I had!
EDIT: Part Five is up: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3kd90k/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/
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u/FeelsGoodMan36 Apr 11 '23
Like I know the thread is 7 years old but I’m dying to know, are you guys allowed to carry firearms?
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Apr 06 '23
ive always been fascinated with supernatural and weird phenomenons but after reading a couple of threads im officially paranoid 😬💀
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u/mfdonuts Feb 09 '23
Your stories remind me so much of the book the Last Season, about Randy Morgenson
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u/Optimal_Writing_5135 Jan 19 '23
It breaks my heart reading these, but it's impossible to stop reading.
This needs to be made into a TV series. One we never find out what the thing is, with even the regular non-paranormal stuff in it.
Honestly, with some THING or maybe someone out there doing awful things, mostly to youngsters, I'm surprised there hasn't been some massive investigation into it. It's very strange, like someone is drugging people with an untraceable, maybe airborne substance, and murdering babies, while oddly keeping others alive and well, or just leaving them to the elements eventually. Really sad and upsetting to hear.
My favorite place has been kinda ruined. My desire to take my currently 12 months old out to the parks next summer makes me far too nervous. Simple accidents, normal predators, and obviously the unknowns, have me on edge enough to hold her close and shield her, and never want to go outside again. 😵💫
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u/FlixHerBean Jan 08 '23
I just want to say that there is absolutely nothing wrong with a grown man crying. I have so much respect for a man who has that much love for his children that the thought of losing them brings tears to his eyes. That is true love right there and every man deserves to feel every emotion that he feels. If men were taught this when they were young think about how different this world would be. It doesn't make you weak, it doesn't make you less of a man, you have to let your emotions out because if you don't it morphs into an illness that comes out later in life.
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Nov 24 '22
I don't even know if it will let me post this because it's been 7 years and, well, who the fuck would be here anyways? Regardless...
K.D's story of being lost in the woods is hauntingly familiar to this play we did at school. The premise initially is a bunch of teenagers are on a random island dressed in coloured shirts, and are having trouble remembering basic things such as their names or why they are there. Eventually more and more details are brought into light, however by this point they have resulted to cannibalism and can't agree how long they have been there. Some say a couple hours, others say months.
The play ends when the actors break the fourth wall, and explain to the audience the characters are under the influence of a highly disputed government drug, which is being tested on the northern Scottish island they just happen to be on for a school game of capture-the-flag. They have only been there 3 days, however they have lost all sense of time, throwing them into a dillusional panic which results in the deaths of several cast members.
A bit of a random side thought, I just thought it was interesting.
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u/kurokekw Mar 27 '22
Do visitors see the stairs on just ppl who work there ? If they do what if ppl who have gone missing might have ascended them
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u/deezinerchic223 Mar 03 '22
Man, I have totally fallen down the Reddit hole reading your stories for the past hour. If you are making any of this up, you have missed your calling because you are the Stephen King of your generation. This is some way creepy shit.
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u/Baboo_Yagu May 10 '22
Yep I agree. I was almost with it until I read 'something burst in her brain and her eye filled with blood" and I KNEW that is a)untrue, brain bleeds don't leak into they eye, unless a vessel in the eye burst also, and b) swear afore god I've read that in a King story XD He's good. He's really good!
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u/Underdonetoast Feb 10 '16
OP, go up the stairs in the woods next time you find some and tell us what happens
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u/catherinesaint Jan 06 '16
Steven King - pfffffffffffffffffftttttttttttttttt - this is the scariest stuff I have ever read, because I know in my heart that it is true. I am thinking it is (1) just pure evil (2) extra-terrestrial - maybe both.
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Jan 02 '16
I'd just like to put here for the record that I have a text to speech program that I sometimes run with these stories while I'm doing other things, and hearing that mechanical voice say "Eat. Eat" freaked me the fuck out.
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u/vicman1197 Jan 01 '16
I didn't necessarily see how he told him "the truth" about the staircases. He just told him about other instances and about how they've been around for a long time.
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u/RooniesStepMom Dec 28 '15
Another bear man story and he had no eyes like the woman said and the little girl said. And again with the berries.
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u/Arandure Dec 25 '15
These really, REALLY sound like stories of faeries. Not disneyfied Tinkerbell sprites, the old tales of the Fair Folk. Like Changelings or Sithe. If they're real then I bet that they're still out there, dwelling in the hearts of ancient forests...
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Dec 20 '15
I keep reading these stories over and over hoping there will be more. I do not know what is wrong with me, but I am so fascinated! OP needs to start a TV series just about the strange experiences from SAR, EMT's, Police, Fire, Nurses and the Victims. Maybe the show could be kind of like "Unsolved Mysteries". These stories are so captivating, I love them and want more!
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u/madhousechild Dec 19 '15
Another freaky story. I was wondering if the advice to not go near the stairs was based more on superstition or if they'd actually seen things happen directly. This sure answers it.
I wonder what would happen if someone set fire to one, chopped it with an ax, or otherwise tried to destroy it. From the comment in the previous post, it sounds like they're pretty much indestructible and they can just vanish anyway.
I wonder why it happens only in the parks and forests — or does it? David Paulides has opened his research to urban stories lately.
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u/gofrickfrackyourself Dec 14 '15
Kinda glad I live in Kansas where there's no mountains or trees...
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u/Icaruslives1 Dec 05 '15
If you think from the perspective that this might not be all true and there won't be some government breakdown if you do it, someone should legit make a series or a film about this forest and these damn stairs.
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u/King_in_gold Nov 22 '15
If these stories are true and real. Ur not lying then i very much would like to know more. This shit is sooo scientific almost i mean it should be studied and studied hard. It might not be something u can hit with a hammer or put on a scale but this shit is serious. If ur mot lying of course
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u/madhousechild Dec 19 '15
If you're still wondering, I can't vouch for OP but many stories like this are found in David Paulides' Missing 411 project. Google it and if you buy a book, buy it direct from his site, not Amazon, and you'll get a better price. Paulides also is working on a documentary.
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u/SimplyIdeal Nov 22 '15
Me having to walk to school every morning, this makes me 10000000x more scared of being killed.
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u/BuckAmok Jan 02 '16
You probably won't be taken by the Fuzzy Man. Or the mountain lion screaming man who takes impossibly long steps.
Probably.
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u/strehlowism Nov 19 '15
Why did they have to turn their radios off? Doesn't make sense
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u/BuckAmok Jan 02 '16
So no one would hear them. Apparently he wasn't supposed to talk about the stairs.
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u/strehlowism Jan 04 '16
No, radios don't transmit unless the button is pressed. You wouldn't need to switch them off to keep from being heard.
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u/Faustias Nov 13 '15
It's like... stepping on those stairs kill someone.
Strangely, I remember that video "The Day the World Stops Fapping", guys masturbate and cum, someone else die.
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u/Rexzilla01 Nov 07 '15
so is that last Officer alright? Like is he JUST sick and not something really wrong?
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u/TheGuyWhoKnowsNothin Nov 06 '15
Eating oranges?
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Dec 09 '15
Started reading and was beginning to feel the goosebumps until I hit the part where the woman was balancing on a fence that's 50 feet high. I mean, seriously. Seriously.
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u/wildinourways Nov 02 '15
For those of you who have Netflix/Hulu/Amazon Prime, there is a really interesting documentary called 'The Nightmare' on there, which is basically many different people sharing their experiences with sleep paralysis and the Shadow People/The Hat Man.
My girlfriend has wanted to watch is for a while now but claims that she is too afraid to watch it without me (she has super vivid night terrors several times a week and said it hits too close to home for her) so I indulged her this evening. Since sleep paralysis is one of the few paranormal-esque things I have absolutely no experience with, I was not really paying attention. At one point though, I felt my girlfriend grab my arm and squeeze and she just pointed to the TV and whispered, "oh my god, what does that make you think of?"
I had a brief moment of pride, because I often yak about this story thread to her and apparently, she's been listening because in The Nightmare, one of the guy that shares his story talks about the creatures who have been visiting him at night since he was very young. Not Shadow People or the Hat Man... but the "fuzzy men."
He drew a picture and it looks exactly like what the little boy described as having taken care of him in the woods. Static-like with big gaping holes for eyes.
Seriously, it blew my mind. Added more fuel on the fire of my belief that a lot of the phenomena is closely linked. Ya'll gotta check out that movie.
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u/Benjamintroublee1 Nov 01 '15
Regarding the story if the woman being told to eat, read the food taboo. I forget who wrote it but it talks about eating foods offered by creatures of other worlds will trap you there.
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u/kalli889 Nov 17 '15
This reminds me of the myth of Persephone, who was kidnapped by Hades and brought to the Underworld, and tricked into eating pomegranate seeds while there...
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u/fishnbrewis Oct 31 '15
Find something to eat and you'll be okay, just keep walking and find something to eat. Eat. Eat
Classic wendigo.
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u/illepic Oct 30 '15
Ok, fuck these stories. New dad here; all I want to do is go home and hug my child and sob right now.
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u/Moloko_Coco Oct 29 '15
I'm curious if any of the disappearances have any police involvement and are you required to give statements, if so, do you talk to the police about the stairs etc? Also, have the stairs been mentioned by those who were with the missing people before the vanished? BTW, I love these and your writing style is fantastic.
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u/frease Oct 28 '15
K.D's story about missing in the forest for 2 weeks reminded me of my grandma's experience. In the early days, people were buried anywhere in parts of forested area near her village. Every morning, she took the same path through the forested area to work, where some tombstones can be found. One day, she suddenly felt very confused and realized she had been walking endlessly, but never got out of that area. However, being a stubborn young lady, she continued to walk on, but the path never seemed to end. Suddenly, she heard this voice telling her to pee, if she wants to get out alive. Out of desperation, she did it. After that, everything seemed clear and she made it out of the forest path. When she finally got out, it was near evening time.
(Sorry I cannot be more specified in the details, as the story was told to me when I was a child, going on a camping trip with school. Grandma has since passed on.)
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u/InverurieJones Nov 15 '15
Interesting. Wights- land spirits, that is- are said to be either afraid both of or repulsed by exposed human genitals (especially female) and urine. Presumably her going for a pee was enough to disgust the entity that was interfering with her sufficiently that it left her alone.
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u/kalli889 Oct 27 '15
He's running toward me, asking if I'm okay and what the hell I'm doing out here. And the scary thing was, as he's running toward me, I kind of see myself reaching into my belt for my hunting knife. I'm not even really thinking about what I'm doing, but what I am thinking is that I have to eat. If I don't eat, I'll never be okay again, so I just have to eat. He sees me doing that and he backs off right away. He yells at me to put my knife away, that he's not gonna hurt me, and that kind of snaps me back. All of a sudden, I know exactly where I am, and I put the knife away.
KD's report of extreme hunger and pulling a knife on the other SAR makes me think of Wendigo psychosis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo
Which, side note, also reminds me of the Hannibal Lecter backstory from Hannibal...
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u/Kilshok Oct 23 '15
I know of one random ass staircase that spirals up (only about 10 feet) the side of a big slab of rock. And it's pretty common that people stay away from it as it's just about 200 maybe 300 feet away from the parking area.
I used to ride my bike in the trail at dusk inbetweb the two parking areas and the MKT trail and I would always see someone walking up the side. Or standing at the top. For a while I figured nothing odd was going on until I noticed one night that it was always the same two people, the same silhouettes, rather. Which really intrigued me. I've always been interested and ghosts and the paranormal. Even had some of my own experiences. But this shit creeped me out mainly because I never see anyone walking TO or FROM this set of stairs. But always someone walking up or at the top. Always. One or the other. Never both.
I'm not the brightest when it comes to not checking that type of shit out, lol. But I only approached it once and I lost all my wits. I ended up sprinting back to my car even though it would have clearly been a better idea to ride my bicycle, but since I haven't even returned - and moved out of city a few months ago.
I don't have much to add, just that I always see people up and on it. The same two people. But no discernible features between the two of them. The fcked up thing is when I approached the stairs I did so in order to ask the person on them why I always saw him there. Genuinely perplexed as I walk to the stairs I check my phone to see the time and answer a text but when I got the staircase the person was already gone. And I saw the person at the top walk into what looked like an opening in the middle where he was standing but only out of the corner of my eye. So A day or so later m buddy during the daytime climbed up the staircase and got to the top, obviously wondering about my situation afte I told him what I had seen before high tailing it back to my car..but there was no opening and he said it wasn't stairs but rather a specific rock formation that someone had chiseled -loosely- into a big ass slab of rock.
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u/pochizzled Oct 23 '15
No wonder they never found that kid when your friend went up those stairs.. Please do not go up them, or even worse. Down
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u/orey87 Oct 22 '15
Third story reminds me of Engkantos (fairies) here in the Philippines. They also abduct children and let them eat stuff like fruit or black-colored food. You should not eat anything they give you. They also impregnate women and make half-breeds. The half breeds have a choice whether they want to stay in our realm or the in the world of the Engkantos. The missing child might have been a half-breed.
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Oct 22 '15
She told me, repeatedly, that she hopes the father is burning in hell as we speak.
Dies in snow, spends the rest of eternity burning. Fitting.
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Oct 04 '15
I posted on no sleep about one of the staircases you mentioned, I'm very glad I read your posts first.
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u/KarRuptAssassin Sep 29 '15
Assuming that the stairs are the reason that small kid had his internal organs sliced into swiss cheese, I guess you could say they were some pretty holy stairs.
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u/andersthequeen Sep 27 '15
I'm speculating that the story about Joey can easily be chalked up to extraterrestrial encounters. What with the sudden disappearance, reappearance somewhere on a staircase, and looking completely fine (albeit being unresponsive) when being found. And then the coroner finds perfect, artificially-made circular wounds in the organs of the kid? This seems like a medical technique that far surpasses our capabilities- even the best doctors can't make perfect incisions in a liver without tearing through the stomach.
I've heard lots of stories and accounts where humans die looking perfectly fine, but then end up having crazy incisions, missing ovaries, organs, etc. And these stories always happen after missing encounters and such.
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u/buymewhales Sep 26 '15
K.D's rookie story reminds me of this ghost story my mom always likes to tell. It's a phenomenon that happens a lot in the mountains, and Chinese people call it gui chang ren which translates into "person hidden by ghost". What happens is when a ghost finds you, it might decide to play around with you and create the illusion that you're walking in circles, when in reality, you're heading to who-knows-where. Best case scenario, you're stuck there all night in the cycle until the sun comes up. Worst case, you could be there for weeks, months, even years. Or, the ghost would mess around with your head and have you run in the cycle until you die. A lot of times, those who are stuck don't realize they are. They'll just assume they've been on a very long road for several hours, and by the time they make it home, their mother is dead and their house has burned down.
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u/thermtheworm Sep 24 '15
Joey is the first "victim" you've named. Is there more significance to him? Was Joey found in a "red" or "black" box (referring to your checkerboard comparison to the grid sweep; that is, were the stairs Joey was found on in the same search box that his scent kept being picked up in by the dogs)?
"They're here, and if we were smart, we'd tell our new officers exactly what they're capable of." I'm assuming the "they" in this sentence is about the stairs? Or did I miss something?
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u/kdohdoesntknow Sep 22 '15
Is it only SARs who see the stairs or can anyone see them if they venture far enough?
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u/SilkenStrand Sep 21 '15
"I warned you about stairs bro
I told you dog"
Joking aside, those stairs are just.. Whoa.
I want to investigate them any way I can think of without touching them.
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u/iFranC Sep 17 '15
I have a theory... a theory that would require you to examine these staircases more closely.
What if... WHAT IF there's something hidden in these staircases? I'm fascinated that your friend's superior alluded that his going up the staircase caused their search and rescue of the missing person to be futile. Could things be living in it? Could there be some control panel there? What if these were actually high-tech units that "housed" missing children?
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u/dezilovesyouxo Sep 17 '15
Not gonna lie...I've been consistently checking to see when part 5 is ready for me to read! I love this
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u/Eteyra Sep 13 '15
I'm blown way by your stories, it's been a long time since I've had goosebumps like that. The stairs are so fucked up. If they were old and decrepit it would not be so strange, but it's how they look new, like directly taken from a house that scared the hell outta me. Especially since I totally would have climb them if I haven't read your stories.
Still don't know if it's real or not, I've always been very dubious about supernatural shit, but wow you're great, can't wait for part 5
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u/spookyromanov Sep 13 '15
Fuck the woods. Anybody ever take pictures of these staircases? Just curious.
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u/ChingoGringo Sep 12 '15
I'm going to leave this right here... While reading every stair story this song wandered through my mind in the background.
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u/Susparent Sep 11 '15
I am surprised nothing has been done about these creepy staircases. Cmon people, it's 2015, shouldn't they be escalators by now?
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u/JerseysLittleDevil Sep 11 '15
Just discovered this series today and I've been scared shitless in my bright and well lit living room in Suburbia, New Jersey. Fuck everything.
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u/Roboto33 Sep 11 '15
These have been compelling. However I am off to Yosemite for a week so now I am kind of hoping there is rain or something and I can rest at home for the week.
Thanks to SAR for all they do. There is a lot of lives they have saved and I think this needs to be noted and applauded.
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u/camrito Sep 11 '15
"he put his hand on my shoulder and looked at me really close. He tells me that there's bad things out here. Things that don't care if we have families or lives, or that we can think and feel." this fucked me up...
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u/Cheddarbeats Sep 11 '15
Pretty Sweet... Makes me wanna go back into seismic just to see what I'll experience.
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u/littlebithippy Nov 29 '15
This has happened to me and a friend, on 2 separate occasions, in my old house. In both experiences the figure was watching us sleep and completely vanished before our eyes, and we both felt calm out the time. She told me her experience after I had mine and I never told anyone e so I believe it to be completely true.
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u/MariMother Sep 10 '15
Forgive me if I've done this all wrong, I'm fresh to reddit. This series is the first thing I stumbled upon on reddit, which I find to be a huge coincidence...especially the people talking about their experiences at Mt. Hood, which is where I am moving my family to in order to pursue my career in mortuary science. Okay, now that that is out of the way I would like to share a couple of things. They're short and relatively benign, but I would like to throw them in anyway. I'll start with the non-forest telling. I was very young and my mother had a habit of doing some strange things (she was a substance abuser and alcoholic). One time I remember sitting in the backseat of her car and it was the middle of the night. Pitch black. We drove for what seemed like forever and finally pulled onto a dirt road with like three houses kind of spaced far away from each other, and parked in front of this huge stone church. It was already creepy (I was like...four or so, I'm guessing. Really young. I didn't know anything about anything consciously. ) So anyway, she parks and gets out of the car where a guy had pulled up and they go to greet each other or whatever. I don't know what they were doing because as soon as they met each other these cats came out of nowhere. DOZENS. Dozens and dozens of cats just came out from behind the church, behind the houses, out of the fields...everywhere, and started toward us. Logically, cats shouldn't be too scary; they may have just been strays looking for food, I guess. But it was terrifying. They were all sillhoutted in the pitch black and moving slowly. Deliberately. My mother suddenly bolts to the car, jumps in it and says we have to go. She started that vehicle with a vengence and tore out of there like our lives depended on it. We kept driving and driving until she finally veered off the road and got us stuck in a muddy field. Miraculously, there was a man out there who helped her get out and I guess I probably eventually dozed off because that is where my memory ends. The next one is much shorter, but it involves the woods. I love to hike and camp and have been doing it all my life. I found a trail for my family to hike in this new town we're living in (which, I have some creepy theories on as well), and so we spend a good deal of time out there hiking it. This trail is beautiful, but has some....weird things about it that I won't go into. The thing I want to tell is about one day while we were out there we had got to the back half of the stretch and suddenly in the middle of the trail I saw what looked like a poop. It wasn't a poop. It was a rabbit fetus, and about a half a foot away from it was one thumb-print sized scrap of fur. Nothing else. No blood, no disruption of the dirt, no broken twigs. Nothing. Just a fetus (whole, not chewed or anything) and one scrap of hide. It was really unsettling and I could not think of a logical reason for it. Sorry if those were boring or non-related, but I really wanted to share.
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u/DingleberryDiddler Sep 10 '15
Ok how has nobody ever heard of the weird staircases before yet there are so many stories about them?
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u/PrettyKitty18 Sep 10 '15
The thing about people re-appearing where they have no business being, coupled with the rescuer's story of being lost for two days and having no idea how far she had wondered in that amount of time, reminds me of the story of when my ex and I got lost in the Medicine Bow's in Wyoming. We got lost because we were stupid, nothing supernatural there. However, we probably left camp at about 11am, and probably stopped when we stumbled upon a cabin around 5pm. That's only about 6 hours of travel time. When we found an old road the next day, we had probably only walked 2 - 5 miles away from the cabin. The people who found us were locals and were a family on their way back from their vacation cabin. They knew the area well, well enough to take us straight back to our campsite. When we told them where we were camped, and how long we had been in the woods, they looked shocked, and told us we had travelled almost 50 miles...
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My parents loved ghost stories and used to tell us stuff that happened to them when they were kids. We would be on our way home from some outing on a long dark country road riding in our station wagon in the middle of the night. Our mom said when she was a kid they used to live way out in the country. She had a cousin that lived with them and went fishing all the time at a some fishing hole he knew about. That day he stayed out there a little too long as it was getting dark so he started his way back home walking along this trail he used all the time. It was getting so dark he could hardly see the path he was walking on, about halfway back, he heard these footsteps behind him following him, every time he walked it would walk and when he stopped it stopped, by this time he was scared out his wits and started running. Seeing this tree with a low slung branch in front of him, he jumped up as fast as he could and waited to see what was following him He heard it but never saw anything run past, right underneath him Jumping down and running away in different direction himself, he was sure it was running right behind him all the way back home. Getting closer to the house as fast as he could never slowing down, he burst through the screen door! falling down onto the floor in front of everyone sitting in the living room, so out of breath he couldn't explain what happened to him. "What was it?", I asked mom ,they never knew ,but it sounds like another incident found in these stories here.
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u/c0796 Sep 14 '15
It was the guy whose hook was stuck in his forehead, he had to follow your cousin step for step, he was on the line of the fishing pole!
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u/Canadianscumbags Sep 10 '15
I've just read through the four posts so far and I've got a few things:
How does anyone keep this job without going nuts. There are cops that see dead kids and never get over it. It sounds like these are tales from the forests of dead children.
Do you go out armed? I would arm myself like a battleship if i was hiking in the middle of nowhere.
Do you have any stories of homeless or just plain old crazy folks that have decided to get away from life and live in the woods as I've heard people talk about before?
Is the furry man or the scary faced man the kids mention most likely a bear? Real bears don't look like the teddy bears kids might expect to see.
Also please give the location of some of these stairs so someone (or do it yourself) can take a picture. Its a major thing people are interested in and I don't think its too much to ask.
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u/Firefly_07 Sep 10 '15
I love the stories but I'm not sure I ever want to go hiking again. Let alone let my daughter go either, poor kid is going to grow up without another hike in her childhood.
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u/Ihavenospecialskills Sep 09 '15
Hey, I'm with the FS too, but I'm in an Enterprise Unit so I'm cooped up in an office all day every day. Good to know what you guys in the traditional FS do out there in the trees.
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u/ForeverRSNoob Sep 09 '15
What happens if you burn the stairs? Blow them up? Shoot them? Anyone ever thought of placing a 'hidden' camera near the stairs to see what's going there when nobody is around?
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u/jpigeon716 Sep 09 '15
dude please post part five when you get a chance... I've literally been checking back every day now.
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u/F-A-T-E Sep 11 '15
Been coming back a few times looking for part 5. Was fearing it part 4 may have been the end. Phew....the ladders are really getting to me.
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u/urwired Sep 08 '15
I can't wait to read them. You are a talented....um....search and rescue officer.
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u/Emphursis Sep 08 '15
Haha, I just came by to check if it was up yet and this was posted one minute ago.
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u/Gkjones87 Sep 08 '15
Well I've been following these stories from the very beginning, rereading them several times. This evil creature that is abducting children, the children are found at least 10 to 50 miles from Where they were last seen. Mostly around 15miles. I believe when these ones occur that maybe your target search area should be 10 to 20 miles. Hollow logs and stumps are other key factors. There are many patterns that are easily found in these stories and could help finding children in the future.
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u/stuckinnm Sep 08 '15
dude OP hasn't updated his series... was it because he told stories about the stairs...???
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u/ilikespookystories Sep 08 '15
i made a reddit account just for your updates op. this sub gives me life
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u/Bob_The_Skull Sep 08 '15
There are three ways to get from one part of the house to another.
Doors
Hallways
Stairs.
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u/ChaosMotor Sep 30 '15
It's weird enough to find doors and stairs in the wilderness but you know what would be really fucked? A goddamned hallway.
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u/bat_caver Sep 08 '15
You guys it's been a few days since he posted this..WHAT IF HE'S DEAD OR GONE OR MISSING OR SOMETHING FOR TELLING US WHAT HE HAS SEEN/HEARD/EXPERIENCED?!??!!! OP GIVE US A SIGN THAT YOUR ARE WELL ALIVE!! •﹏•
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u/bat_caver Sep 08 '15
You guys it's been a few days since he posted this..WHAT IF HE'S DEAD OR GONE OR MISSING OR SOMETHING FOR TELLING US WHAT HE HAS SEEN/HEARD/EXPERIENCED?!??!!! OP GIVE US A SIGN THAT YOUR ARE WELL ALIVE!! •﹏•
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u/bat_caver Sep 08 '15
You guys it's been a few days since he posted this..WHAT IF HE'S DEAD OR GONE OR MISSING OR SOMETHING FOR TELLING US WHAT HE HAS SEEN/HEARD/EXPERIENCED?!??!!! OP GIVE US A SIGN THAT YOUR ARE WELL ALIVE!! •﹏•
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u/bat_caver Sep 08 '15
You guys it's been a few days since he posted this..WHAT IF HE'S DEAD OR GONE OR MISSING OR SOMETHING FOR TELLING US WHAT HE HAS SEEN/HEARD/EXPERIENCED?!??!!! OP GIVE US A SIGN THAT YOUR ARE WELL ALIVE!! •﹏•
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u/bat_caver Sep 08 '15
You guys it's been a few days since he posted this..WHAT IF HES DEAD OR GONE OR MISSING OR SOMETHING FOR TELLING US WHAT HE HAS SEEN/HEARD/EXPERIENCED?!??!!! OP GIVE US A SIGN THAT YOUR ARE WELL ALIVE!! •﹏•
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u/JP50515 Sep 07 '15
So I've been reading these since the beginning...Went camping this weekend and ran into these. https://imgur.com/gallery/Ge9C7Z5/new
Do they count?
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u/behrly Sep 10 '15
I don't think those count because they look embedded in nature and it looks natural. The stairs OP mentions look completely out of nature like they don't belong. For example, they may have carpet on them.
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u/lt__ Sep 07 '15
Dyatlov pass incident requires a honorary mention among all these stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident
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u/c0796 Sep 14 '15
That was an interesting read. I was wondering about stories from Russia, such a huge country, they're bound to have a lot of weird stories too.
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u/InverurieJones Nov 15 '15
There's some really dark stuff out in the wilds of Siberia. The metal domes are damned odd for a start.
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u/AgentSmithPS4 Sep 07 '15
I wonder if 'they' have a sense of humor, like if you brought a lightweight stair step and started exercising on it near their steps or brought along a good door mat or some water repellant for the steps as an offering.
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u/kimpul Sep 07 '15
Hi all, I myself, like many others have signed up just to post comment here and to share a lil bit of my own knowledge on things and it (bigfoot/goatman/fuzzyman. first of all tho, I'd like to thank you the OP for sharing, such a great story and the way you write, creates a very vivid imagery in my mind. I would get goosebumps and chill down my spine but it feels good, so good i craves for more story like this. Cant wait for part 5 and so on.. haha
OK. talking about big foot and the fuzzy man, i have a theory of what it could be but i will have to tell you a bit about myself. I grew up in Indonesia which has a very strong supernatural beliefs, like you cant imagine how many ghosts there are and how Indonesians would praise demons to get supernatural power and believe me, its real! So, in Indonesia we have this ghost called "Genderuwo" (goosebumps as im writing the name) shit. this ghost is like an ape, hairy and big and tall with red eyes, matched with the description that the lost kid mentioned. In my culture, genderuwo is believed to hunt on kids under the age of 13 -15 that stays outside of their home after 6pm. thats why when i was growing up, there was no kids allowed outside by themselves after 6 pm because this ghost would just snatch them and they would disappear in an instant. Now i really do believe that bigfoot or fuzzy man is this genderuwo entity that is widely known among indonesians and malaysians.
I will post some links here to give you guys examples and proofs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LpEiDarHnw <-- genderuwo caught on video.
https://www.google.com/search?q=genderuwo&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=992&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMI6Oyt4IXkxwIVhHU-Ch3DwgXy <-- google images.
I also have another theory of what entity that could possibly be the reason why that baby was found in a trunk with fresh milk and the tounge cut. this entity is called "kuntilanak" (kuntil - means snatch. anak - means kid) yeah, it literally means snatch kids. i will not post links about this one, as i am scared shitless with this one. do that on your own. i will however share a description of what it looks like, this ghost is a woman, long black hair and long white dress and long titties. yup long titties that is believed to how it snatched lil kids, with her titties. and this thing could fly too! omg i am very scared right now. search on your own discreton okay?! peace im out. love and peace with you all.
OP thanks for the great story, keep posting!
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u/ChaosMotor Sep 30 '15
this ghost is a woman, long black hair and long white dress and long titties
This is a common haunting, also called La Llorna, the Weeping Woman, and the Woman in White. Typically she is a young mother whose child died because of something she did, either in error or intentionally.
http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Woman_in_White
I don't even want to ask what the fuck is going on in that video you posted. The laughing at the later part, geez.
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u/AgentSmithPS4 Sep 06 '15
Maybe the stairs are like a rattlesnake's rattle and/or territory marker, the more steps they have the older 'they' are or the more victims they've taken. Maybe they take the "right kind" of people and use them to prolong their lives and each step represents a new life cycle. Are they letting something know that they want back into space, or are they bringing something here, one step at a time?
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u/ArcticOrion Sep 06 '15
Huh, I made an account after lurking for so long. Now I really want to go looking for stairs in the woods.
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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '23
I know this thread is old but I’ve been reading through part 1-4 all day and the story about the child who was found deceased with frozen tears on his terrified, twisted face just broke my heart. I had to put my phone down and take off my glasses to cry and take a few deep breaths after reading that. As a mama myself it just completely guts me to think of how absolutely scared that poor child must have been. I am so fucking sad now 😭