This is one of several 'stairs in the forest' accounts I have heard or read over the past 2 decades. This particular account is creepier than others I've become aware of.
I received the following account:
"Hello. My friend has been a search and rescue officer in Northern California for about 11 years. He started when he was a junior in college, and he encountered stairs in the forest. His trainer told him to never go near, touch, or ascend them. For the first year, he did just that, but apparently, his curiosity got the better of him, and on one call he broke away from the line and went to check a set of them out.
He said they were about ten miles from the path where a teenage girl had vanished, and the dogs were following a scent. He was on his own, lagging behind the main group, when he saw a set of stairs off to his left. They looked like they were from a new house because the carpeting was pristine and white. He said that as he got closer, he didn’t feel any different, or hear any weird noises. He was expecting something to happen, but he got right up next to them and didn’t feel anything. The only thing, he said, that was odd was that there was absolutely no debris on the steps. No dirt, leaves, dust, anything. And there didn’t appear to be any signs of animal or insect activity in the immediate area, which he found strange. It was less like things were avoiding them, and more like they just happened to be in a relatively barren part of the forest.
He touched the stairs and didn’t feel anything except that sort of sticky feeling you get from the new carpet. Making sure his radio was on, he slowly climbed the stairs; he said it was terrifying, because the way they’d been stigmatized, he wasn’t really sure what was going to happen to him. He joked that half of him expected to be teleported to some other dimension and the other half was watching for a UFO to come swooping down. But he got to the top with little event, and he stood there looking around. But, he said, the longer he stood on the top step, the more he felt like he was doing something very wrong. He described it as the feeling you’d get if you were in a part of a government building you have no business being in. As if someone was going to come and arrest you, or shoot you in the back of the head, at any second. He tried to brush it off, but the feeling got stronger and stronger, and that’s when he realized that he couldn’t hear anything anymore. The sounds of the forest were gone, and he couldn’t hear his own breathing. It was like some kind of weird, awful tinnitus, but more oppressive. He climbed back down and rejoined the search, and didn’t mention what he’d done.
But, he said, the weirdest part came after. His trainer was waiting back at the welcome center after the search ended for the day, and he cornered my buddy before he could leave. He said his trainer had this look of intense anger, and he asked what was wrong. "You went up them, didn’t you!" My buddy said it wasn’t phrased as a question. He asked how his trainer knew. The trainer just shook his head. "Because we didn’t find her. The dogs lost her scent." My buddy asked what that had to do with anything. The trainer asked how long he’d been on the stairs, and my buddy said no more than a minute. The trainer gave him this really awful, almost dead-eyed look, and told him that if he ever went up another set of stairs again, he’d be fired. Immediately. The trainer walked away, and I guess he’s never answered any of the questions my buddy has asked him about it since." H
NOTE: This is one of several 'stairs in the forest' accounts I have heard or read over the past 2 decades. There have been several locations in North America where these encounters have occurred. This particular account is creepier than others I've become aware of. Anyway, I'm interested in any similar accounts and ask that you forward them to me. Thanks. Lon
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