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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Free stairs!!

Most people don't know this, but there is no law prohibiting you from just taking any ominous stairs you happen upon in the woods. I have like 20 of them at home already.
(I'm stacking them to hopefully one day reach hell)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

...Keep me abreast of your exploits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

🎼A tower of stone, to take him straight to the sky.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago

In Belgium, we have the same thing. The explanation is that the highest point of the country is at 694 m, so they built 6 m of stairs to reach 700 m.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago

A S C E N D

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Walk up to the top, slide down on the rail, hurt myself and die in the forest.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Shia LaBeouf

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

Idk how id react to seeing stairs, but I did stumble across these pillars in the middle of the forest...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Me: "Yeah... No fucking way i'll go up that."

My hiking expert friend: "Good, you already know of the curse."

[Me at my first hiking experience; Sweating and cursing, with every single muscle of my body screaming in pain] "What curse?"

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was gonna say... All the comments here are people wanting to ascend the stairs. You NEVER ascend the stairs. You stay the hell away from them! Only bad things come from messing with random stairs in the woods. Has no one here read the Search and Rescue Officer stories on Reddit?!

Here's the beginning of his series. The last story on this page is about the stairs, but if you continue reading his other posts in the series, he eventually meets another SAR officer who goes into depth about horror stories involving the stairs.

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I always imagined the stairs from that story to be either wooden or stone, without railings, and more dilapidated than in OP's pic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In some of his stories, he described the stairs as being perfect and brand-new, as if a modern house just disappeared and left behind its stairs.

It somehow makes it more creepy that they look like they've just been misplaced in space/time, instead of being an ancient crumbling relic of the past.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I always imagined the stairs inaccurately!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

Stand at the top with carry-on luggage and wait.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

F5, chunks havent loaded correctly

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You mean F3 + A. F5 changes your view perspective.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

You're right, I'm too used to browser shortcuts (-_-' )

[–] Lisk91 15 points 3 weeks ago

The view should be nice up there. Let's go there to take some panoramic shots.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Someone tried to build a stairway to heaven but got bored when the song ended.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Or just thought things through, stopped building & started digging.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Piss from the top of it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Where's the SCP when you need them?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well, somebody get someone to dispatch a Mobile Task Force stat, or we're going to end up with some eldritch abomination popping through a portal, tap dancing down those stairs and eating everyone's eyeballs. I mean, we're probably going to end up with that anyway, but I'd feel a lot more comfortable knowing there's a MTF on standby.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Never go up those without a shotgun and a chain gun. Doom taught me that much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Look for a copy of photoshop nearby?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Someone's seed vault has begun to float over the mud.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

(in black-bordered white Impact) “INVISIBLE AIRLINER”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Go to the top and check for an invisible door/gate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

"ſtaires! We haue found ſtaires!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Why yes, I will dive into the river from up there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I guess its some overlap from the backrooms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

So that’s where they put the stairway to heaven after Led Zeppelin used it for their music video.