Feb. 14, 2024

This is What Happens When You Step on the Stairs in the Woods scary story part 1

This is What Happens When You Step on the Stairs in the Woods scary story part 1

This is What Happens When You Step on the Stairs in the Woods scary story part 1 of 5. In this clip from episode #3 of Your Scary Stories, we share a story found online about the terrifying events that happened after a guy stepped onto a set of stairs...

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This is What Happens When You Step on the Stairs in the Woods scary story part 1 of 5. In this clip from episode #3 of Your Scary Stories, we share a story found online about the terrifying events that happened after a guy stepped onto a set of stairs he saw in the woods while on a hiking trip. Your Scary Stories is a show where we share your true scary stories LIVE every Monday at 10:30pm EST. To learn more about the Show, or to submit your true scary story go to YourScaryStories.com

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This story again, is about what
happens if you step on those creepy stairs

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in the woods and you guys,
I'm gonna go ahead and go ahead and

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get it going. We got people
waiting, we're a little behind, so

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we'll go ahead and take off here
and this is going to be told,

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and I'm gonna be reading front the
individual that shared this story. So okay,

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So me and my friend Sam went
to Michigan together on a hiking trip.

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When you pull up, you see
a lodge. When you hike to

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the campsite, it's a very woodsy
part of Michigan. The trail is like

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ten feet wide, and then around
you is pretty much all woods. There

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are park guides that take you to
the lodge to the campsite. You're allowed

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to spread out because everyone is on
the same trail, but everybody's within a

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couple miles of each other. That's
how the size of this is. There's

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always a park ranger falling along sometimes
in the distance. Because of the size

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of the park and the amount of
people. We're technically with a lot of

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people, but it's just me and
Sam. The lining of the trees on

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the side of the trail are like
really really dense. You couldn't see a

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deer if it was ten feet in
front of you. I look off to

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the right and there's a gap in
the trees. I see a staircase one

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hundred yards into the woods. It
sticks out completely. It's so out of

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place. It looks like it got
plucked up with a mansion. It looks

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like something you were building, like
a sim's house. You chose the staircase,

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but then you put the staircase there. Then you deleted the rest of

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the house. But at the top
it just stopped, doesn't really go anywhere.

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It's like ten feet high, then
nothing, which is so weird.

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Sam and I look at each other. We didn't see the park ranger around,

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but we decided, hey, let's
go check these stairs out. So

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we started walking towards it. And
the closer we get to it, the

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more eerie things start to feel.
I started to get the feeling that this

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isn't like your local forests preserve or
in the middle of deep woods, like

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we're on a long nature adventure or
something. Then you see something so clearly

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man made out here. It sticks
out. It's weird. Why is it

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here? The stairs were glowing as
if it's trying to attract me. I

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started getting intrusive thoughts. Everything in
my head is saying, go up these

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stairs. I run up and just
hop on the first step. I have

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my hand on the railing and it
puts up my feet on the first step.

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This is where things start to get
weird. The second I got onto

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it, it almost felt like it
had a light, little vibration to it.

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I felt it on my feet,
this vibrating, and on my hands

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they were tingling a bit. I'm
like laughing and giggling, like, oh,

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this is really weird. While I'm
expecting the staircase, it has carpet

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on the stairs. The railings are
white. The carpets are blue, like

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a royal blue. And there's no
debris. There's not a leaf, not

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a sprinkle of dirt, not any
bugs or leaves or anything on it.

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Strange. It's almost starts to feel
like a trap. Part of my head

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is saying keep going to the top. And then before I climbed to the

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top of the stairs, I look
back at my friend Sam. He's looking

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at me like he's horrified. He's
looking at me like something is wrong with

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me, Like I'm clearly in distress. Then I look back at the top

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and I'm thinking should I go to
the top? Sam then grabs me by

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the hood and he yanks me off
the stairs really really hard. Next thing

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I know, I'm on the ground
laying face up. He immediately comes up

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to me and says, are you
okay? Yeah, dude, why did

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you pull me so hard? He
asked me again, Are you sure you're

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okay? I replied, what are
you talking about? This is when the

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conversation turned weird. I thought I
was on there giggling and having a good

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time, and he told me it
seemed like I was actually standing there having

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a standing seizure. I don't remember
that, because my perspective is I was

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laughing and the staircase is vibrating,
and I'm having a decent time, just

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really trying to figure out what it
is because we have this immaculate staircase in

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the middle of the woods. And
he says, my eyes are actually rolling

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in the back of my head and
I'm having a seizure. So he yanked

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me off as soon as he started
to realize that I was having a seizure.

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He said, no more than a
few seconds past. Honestly, I

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felt completely fine, no type of
side effect or whatever. He helped me

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in my feet and asked if I'm
okay to walk and if he needed to

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go get help, and I told
him I'm fine and absolutely do not need

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help, and let's get out of
here. We hustled back to the trail

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and nobody's around. It's all good. We've talked about it for a little

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bit, but I have to convince
him that I'm actually fine, fine to

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continue on and head back to the
campsite. We finished up the hike,

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and when we got back to the
campsite, everybody's there. It's all good.

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Nobody noticed anything or saw anything.
Nothing dispersing going on. There's food

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being made. It's been a long
hike. Everybody's tired. While we're finishing

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up eating and everybody else is dispersing. I see the park ranger looking at

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me with concern. I was debating
with Sam if I should tell the ranger

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what happened. Sam thought I should
tell him, but honestly, I felt

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too embarrassed. Sam goes up to
the tent and I decided to go to

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the bathroom before heading to the tent. After using the bathroom and on my

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way to the tent. The park
ranger stops me. He kind of looks

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pissed off. He looks me in
the face, looks me right in the

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eyes, and he says, please
tell me you didn't touch the stairs.

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He repeats it again, Please tell
me you didn't touch those stairs. I

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told him I didn't break anything,
and I didn't mess with them, because

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I'm thinking maybe they are like a
national landmark or something important. He said,

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it's not about the stairs. I
don't care that you damage them.

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Did anything happen to you? I
started to think he was concerned about my

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health. I tried to downplay it, and I told him my body threw

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a little bit of a fit.
My friend said, but I'm fine.

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Now I'm fine, because I'm thinking
he's wondering, do I have this guy

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who's a liability on my campsite.
He seems upset that I'm okay. He

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then tells me if something didn't happen
to you, something's going to happen to

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someone else. I thought, that's
weird. That's not where I thought he

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was gonna take this. He starts
guiltying me, telling me there are women

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and children here, so if something
didn't happen to you, something might happen

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to them. I can tell by
the way this guy is talking that he

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is absolutely positive that something horrible is
going to happen because I touched the stairs.

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I started pressing him because I'm wondering, why are you acting like the

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stairs are so ominous? I started
asking, why would you take us on

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this by this dangerous staircase. He
explains a little bit, kind of like

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I should be in the know about
these stairs. He starts saying stuff like

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they pop up randomly. And suddenly
I'm thinking this guy is absolutely tripping.

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He's making things up. He's trying
to talk to me about touching this random

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staircase make it seem like something horrible
is gonna happen. I leave this weirdo

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by himself because I'm gonna go to
bed. I want to try to enjoy

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this trip for the rest of the
time we're here. The next day,

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we have a great time. You
know. It's Campsite's got a great lake.

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We're spending time in the water.
Nothing weird is happening. Everything's completely

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okay. In my head. That
guy was tripping, he's super weird.

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We're fine. By the end of
the day, I had completely forgotten about

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what happened. Sam's over it and
we go to sleep because obviously when you're

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camping, you're spending so much time
energy outside you are exhausted. So we

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hit the Hey it's early the next
morning when we hear something outside our tent,

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maybe around four am. The sun's
been an hour from coming up,

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and we hear this ruckous sound outside, someone crying. We take a look

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and it's this young boy. We're
like, what's going on here? We

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all got our tents and there's already
people around him. From what we could

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hear from people talking, his mom
is gone, his tent is gone,

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and all their belongings are gone.
They start questioning this kid and they're like,

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you know, where's your mom?
This little kid just points towards the

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trees. Apparently this kid's mom packed
up all their stuff went out on our

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own hike in the middle of the
night. I'm thinking, this is,

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you know, mom of their material
here. Why would someone do that?

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We formed search party. Everybody's coming
together, like, all right, we're

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gonna go to look for this lady. As we're walking towards the big group

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that's going on the search, the
arc ranger walks by me and Sam,

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and he says some slick comment to
me, saying, you better hope we

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find her, because if we don't, it's on you. At this point,

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I'm pretty pissed because this strange guy, this is really weird guys telling

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me about this mythical stairs and now
he's trying to blame me for this mom

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packing up her stuff and leaving in
the middle of the night. Sam asks

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why would he say something like that
to you? Which I get his confusion.

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Why would somebody blame somebody for eating
up and leaving in the middle of

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the night on me? So I
filled him in on the mythology of these

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staircases this arc ranger had told me. Sam's face is expressing to me that

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he believes the ranger and not me
being a little sarcastic about it, but

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Sam seemed pretty serious. He tells
me, I think we should probably check

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by the stairs. Luckily, the
search party is kind of directed towards the

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area anyways, because we don't think
this lady's gonna go very far off the

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trail, and so like, all
right, maybe she went back to the

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lodge. Maybe she was done with
the campsite there, you know, there's

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no sign of her. We didn't
see anything at first. We're walking down

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the trail that we came in,
but once we get to the clearing,

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this lady is sitting cross legged exactly
where the stairs were. At this point,

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I'm a little freaked out. Well, I'm also like, of course

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she's sitting there, like is she
in on this as well? Like what's

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going on here? Why is this
lady sitting cross legged exactly where the stairs

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were? And the stairs aren't there
anymore? Then my mind starts going like

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why am I in this weird situation? Where is this weird park ranger?

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Are they in hoots with each other? Something deranged going on? As this

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person crazy, Me and Sam jog
up to her, there's already people next

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to her by this point, and
as we're approaching her, I see their

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clothes are tattered. Mind you,
she's only been going like an hour and

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a half stops and her clothes are
all tattered. She looks like she got

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dragged through the forest. She looks
like bear girls after a week in Siberia

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by himself eating earthworms. She looks
sleep deprived. She looks like she hasn't

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had food or water in a while. Her eyes are giving like a psychosis

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kind of look to it. We
get up to her and people are already

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asking her a question. One lady's
like, what happened? Are you okay?

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And she's just rocking back and forth. She says, what took you

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guys so long? And the guide
that's there he says, don't worry,

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it's only been like an hour.
You need something to drink, and you're

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safe now, and she just starts
mumbling, it's been days. It's been

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days. Right then, I thought, okay, she is she crazy.

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They're still question her, but she's
not even answering their questions at this point.

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She's just kind of talking and mumbling
to herself. I've got a few

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sentences as she mumbled out, it
told me you'd come. It told me

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i'd be safe by the stairs.
Are you kidding me? It told me

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you'd come. It told me I'd
be saved by the stairs. The stairs

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aren't even here. How does she
even know that there were stairs here?

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At this point, starting to believe
the park ranger, I started to feel

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guilty about this. Am I the
reason this woman is in this deranged fit

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sitting here and it's clearing, the
reality of the situation is starting to hit

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me, and we get this lady
up. We have to take her back

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to the campsite because we can't take
it to the lodges, we can't take

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it to the hospital. We have
to get back to the campsite where everyone

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else is and that's where her kid
is. All right, So it's the

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end of part one. Let's unpack
what we just went through here. So

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they went camping. Sam and his
friend with camping to Michigan an hiking trip

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and not their first hike out into
the woods, they see this staircase perfectly

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Pristine's staircase. Some reason, he
feels like he needs to go touch the

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stairs. He's getting this feeling.
It's attracting him. It seems to be

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glowing. Even he runs up steps
on the first step, his friend Sam

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pulls him off. He's like,
why the heck did you pull me off

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so hard? What's going on?
He said, you're having a seizure.

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But to him, he just felt
like he was almost having this outer body

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experience with his vibrations and just a
weird sense of feeling. As they're going

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back the park ranger somehow he tells
the park ranger about this, and the

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park ranger is very upset that he
stepped on the steps. And at first

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he's confused, like, why is
this guy so upset upset that I stepped

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on these steps? Like it's this
a national landmark? Of these steps important?

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Are they significant? He says,
I'm not worried about the steps.

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It's something didn't happen to you,
something happened to somebody else. As we

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get into part two of this store, I mean, excuse me. As

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we got on the second part of
part one, we discovered that the next

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morning and early morning, they found
out I think it was before the sun

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rise, that one of the campers
there was missing. It was a child's

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mom was missing. They went into
the woods, and this is where I'm

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gonna I don't want to mix it
up, Jack. They found her where

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the steps were, yes, right, but they weren't there. Now the

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steps are not there. What was
she saying? She was saying some weird

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things about this. Yes, she
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it took took forever to find her, took several days to find her,

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even though it was only about an
hour or so. She was saying that

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something told her she wake by the
steps and that they'd be safe there,

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and she looked like, yah,
she has just been dragged around and been

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in the woods for days, been
in the wood for days, ragged,

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tired in Hungary. In reality,
she's only been in the woods for a

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few hours at tops, and she
wasn't far into the woods right now,

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not from where they were, because
they had just gotten there from campsite.

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So that's where we left off here. We'll get into a party here in

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a minute. But what's your guys
feelings here? When you first read through

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part one of this, I think
that people are actually pretty rational, you

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know, like, yeah, if
you see some steps in the woods,

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he'd be very tempted to be like, well I want to get up on

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those steps. I kind of check
goes out unless you heard about this being

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a saying both different places like we
have before, and so like this does

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make sense for them to do this, as he said. And also I

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feel like even the ranger, even
though he's kind of like scared of this

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happening, he wasn't too aggressive with
how he handled the situation. He was

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like, did you do this?
Just tell me right now? The way

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we know what's going on next,
And so I thought, this is kind

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of a yeah, Jacson, pre
rational reactions by everybody so far, you

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put yourself in the person's shoes.
They had this happen to them, though,

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and it probably seems like the rangers
acting a little bit odd. And

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he's so worried about these stairs.
Yeah, but the size of the woods

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and the amount of people there,
the ranger couldn't be everywhere at once,

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so therefore he didn't able to stop
that. But I guess that's something.

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Do you bring that up beforehand or
is that actually gonna make somebody step on

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the stairs? You know? Yeah, I would definitely, you know,

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increase the temptation, But also I
do wonder, well, rather not wonder.

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But it does seem to line up
with what most park rangers or search

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and rescue teams say is it's like
just kind of leave the stairs alone.

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They don't really get it into it
too much, so