This is What Happens When You Step on the Stairs in the Woods scary story part 3

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Jack, you want to pick the
story back up here. Okay, the

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sun starts coming down and the kids
start coming home from battle boarding. We're

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coming up on dinner time and everybody
meets in the common area to eat.

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We can't just obviously keep a mom
separate from her kid without other campers getting

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really suspicious. So me and Sam
go meet with Nick before he re enters

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the campsite because we just want to
avoid this situation entirely. If we just

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get through this part, we get
him in his tent, and then we're

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home free. We got the kids
safe, and we're all good. So

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we're just assuming that if fall,
maybe it'll follow the herd. You know,

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go get food like everyone else is
getting food. We could just get

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Nick to his tent and we'll be
set. So I have Sam go make

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a couple plates of food for us
while we escort Nick to his tent.

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But within a couple of minutes,
while Sam was getting our food and I'm

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getting to the tent, it must
have slipped away, because when we get

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to Nick's tent, he and zips
it. This thing that listens or it's

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just not his mom immediately pops out
and grabs him by the arms and says,

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you're not gonna leave without mommy.
I wish I could say I did

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something heroic, but I just let
out a little bit of scream and a

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double hand gripped Nick's string backpack because
I don't want to risk touching this thing,

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and I swung him behind me really
hard because I was trying to get

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him. He wasn't trying to get
into like a tug of war with this

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thing. When I tell you,
in this moment, I was mortified because

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I was the only thing in between
her and Nick. I felt fight or

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flight gripping in. I had to
remind myself that this isn't a woman,

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and if it takes a step forward, I'm not flying. I'm standing here.

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The only words I could get out
were are you good? And then

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it just said kind of softly and
menacing. We need a long time.

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Don't make me scream. I bark
at Nick to go get the ranger because

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the only thing I want at this
moment is an authority figure here is like

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me, but I have no idea
what the thing is. So Nick books

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it and I'm just kind of frozen
there staring at this thing, waiting for

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it to scream and make me look
like maybe like a creep or something in

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front of the entire camp. But
it just stands there for a few moments

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with its eyes staring around like it's
searching for something in its head, almost

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as if it's trying to remember something, And just like that, its eyes

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lock onto me, and I brace
myself because I think it's gonna let out

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this horrific scream. I was expecting
the scene that this thing is about to

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make when it finally explodes into a
scream, But that's not what happens.

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You know. I get a little
confused and almost a little bit relieved because

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in that moment, I realized that
this thing only mimics sounds. This thing

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has no gauge of human inflection or
social cues. Because the scream that it

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did didn't match the situation. I
was expected to scream in horror, as

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if it was accusing me of attacking
here or something, but instead it screams

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as as like a little girl was
playing. I peak for a quick second

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just kind of see the camper's reactions, and I get a little bit relieved

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because I see a few of them
are actually rolling their eyes at this point.

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They think really fed up with this
person's behavior, and the slight relief

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that I had disappears immediately when I
look back at it, because it abruptly

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stopped screaming. I could tell it
didn't. It's almost like it couldn't.

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It understood that it wasn't working.
Whatever it was trying to do, it

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wasn't working. And its chin tucks
in a little bit and starts looking at

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me at the top of its eyes
as if it's honing in on me.

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And the adrenaline my chest starts pumping
because I don't know what this thing's gonna

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run away or attack. It almost
looked a bit happy about how scared I

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was. It gave a little bit
of a smirk and replied, are you

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good? In my voice with its
mouth closed, exactly how I had just

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said it to them. It did
it as if it was threatening me.

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If I get in the way of
her leaving with Nick, it could mimic

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me and leave with Sam. That
moment felt like it lasted forever. Finally

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I felt somebody grab my shoulder.
I looked back at it. It's the

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ranger. He has this confidence in
his face that he's about to just handle

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the situation, which makes me feel
a lot safer. He loudly says,

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don't let this thing intimidate you.
It could only take your form if it

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could put you in a train.
And the only way he could put you

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in a trance is if you're at
neebriate. He didn't drink anything tonight,

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right, I just nod ahead.
No, I mean no, I been,

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You're good, And he looks at
her and just says, go to

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sleep. Your husband's going to be
here in the morning, and brushes her

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off. Her eyes light up as
if she likes what he just said,

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and she almost scurries back into her
tent. And as we're walking away,

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I hear repeating to herself, almost
joyfully, my husband is going to be

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here in the morning. My husband's
going to be here in the morning.

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We start walking away and I see
Sam walking up with the plates of food.

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We look on his face was like, you know, hey, what

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happened? The ranger tells me and
Sam to come eat dinner with him.

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We deserve a little bit of an
explanation. While we're walking where we usually

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eat dinner, a little bit away
from the campers, I see nicking between

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two camp guys and he's safe.
So I'm a little bit more relaxed at

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this point, and the questions start
flowing in my head. Then I'm about

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to ask this guy because I've got
fasts. We sit down. The first

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question that comes to my head is, so you know what that thing is?

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Then Ranger says, kind of all
the other rangers call it a mimic.

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I've heard plenty of stories about them. I've only had one other personal

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experience with it. My working theory
is that interacting with the stairs almost calls

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to them. Whenever the stairs are
involved, it feels like it attracts everything.

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We're very fortunate that we had a
lucky drawl with the mimic because it

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could have been something so much worse. I immediately think, if we're lucky

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with this thing, what else is
in this park? The ranger just keeps

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going on with the story. So
what we do now is these things think

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target people that are under the influence
of something. The last time I had

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to deal with it one it tricked
this hippie guy that came here by himself.

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He was an easy target and I
was the one. I saw him

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walk into the forest with it.
I thought about chasing them and intervening.

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But once they hit the tree line, it's almost like they dissolved into the

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woods. Think to myself, that's
exactly what Nick told me. So this

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ranger is definitely onto something. The
ranger goes on and says when the hippie

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wandered back into the camp, he
knew it definitely wasn't him because he was

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talking really formal, and this guy
was the opposite of formals. Everything he

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did was laid back, chill,
hippie vibe. We came back very eloquently,

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asking very specific questions in a monotone
way. I knew something was wrong.

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He started walking around the camp asking
everybody who he came here with,

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and he was trying to figure out
if he had any loved ones or family

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nearby before he got taken by this
thing. He was very open with me

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and everybody else that he was a
traveling no man and he had nobody really

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significant in his life in general.
And when all the other campers started their

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hike back to the lodge, he
wouldn't leave the campsite and I told him

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I couldn't leave the campsite without everyone, and he was my responsibility. He

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said he can't leave the campsite without
somebody that loves him. He got really

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frantic. It was pleaded with me
to call someone for him. I told

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him that he need to put anyway
on his emergency contact for him. There

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was nobody to call or were seeing
the feet on his face. And the

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last thing that sent to me is
I ran out of time, and that

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he backed towards the tree line.
It's almost if his face dissolved and he

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stow and became part of the forest. And two days later we randomly found

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that hit be at the bottom of
a pit about a mile off the campsite.

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The alaptops he said, died of
starvation two days earlier. So it's

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my assumption that these things can't survive
without a living hosts. They trick you,

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then they trap you, then they
mimic you, and they try to

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commendment somebody to take them home.
It seems like they can't leave the park

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unless somebody loves them escorts them out. The way she's been acting almost confirms

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that with me, because it seems
like she's been abiding by the same rules.

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But we let this thing out and
gets this city or town. We

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have no idea how much standwards this
thing could do. I cut him off

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and I asked him how were going
to get the husband to leave this lady.

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He confidantly says, let me handle
that. We just see a focus

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on getting Nicked to the lodge and
trapping that thing here, so to focus

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on finding the real her while she's
still alive. Sam stands up. He

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says, we're going to extract Nick
at six hundred, make the handoff the

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father, and we orchestrate a grid
style search party starting east to the campsite.

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When Nick leaves. That gives us
approximately ten hours a shurch sight before

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the sun goes down. Sam kind
of flipped the switch and started to taking

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control of the situation because as core, he's a tactical minded, a well

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trained army ranger. He was an
army ranger for about ten years. The

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park ranger says, we're coming up
on day three. We don't fight her

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tomorrow, we might not find her
alive. He dismisses us and tells us

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to get some rest. So me
and Sam just clear our plates really quick

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to get some calories. Then we
hustle back to our tents so we can

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get as much sleep as possible before
the morning search. But once we get

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back to the tent, I'm just
lying there with my eyes open. I've

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had a really tough time of sleeping. I just keep thinking about her repeating

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with my voice. I just can't
get that image out of my head.

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My own voice being spoken to me. Can't express to you how eerie it

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is to hear your own voice when
it's not coming from recording. And Sam

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knew exactly what I was saying,
and he just blurred out, porcupine.

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I said, what, that's our
code word, porcupine if any point we

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get split up or something crazy happens. You just asked you what the code

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word is, so you know it's
me. The plan is set to be.

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I recognize you. Sure gives me
just enough relief to fall asleep,

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but it sure did not stop me
from having nightmares all night. Wow,

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that's creepy as hell. It sounds
like, though, did they finally feel

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as if they have the situation under
control? They have a plan in place.

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Yes, this thing needs to be
taken home by someone that loves it.

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That's what the creature's plan is.
So they're trying to find what they

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believe is like the host body,
right, They're trying to find the actual

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mother. Yes, well, it's
still a lot. And in order to

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do that, they have to continue
to keep these two apart because in the

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morning, the next part I'm about
to get into, the father is coming.

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And when the father gets there,
they got to get back to the

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lodge. They got to get the
kid with the father and get him out

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of here so he's out of danger. And at that point in time,

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the thing is going to really struggle
to leave these woods without being able to

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attach itself to a loved one.
So they're playing in place. They are

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going to get up in the morning. First thing, get that kid across

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the camp the forest to the excuse
me, the campground, through the forest

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to the lodge, get it with
his dad, and then they have to

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go find the real mother in the
woods and then to go from there.

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They did establish a safety word.
They said, hey, if something happens

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to us tomorrow, if we get
split up, the safety word is porcupine.

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The reason they established the safety word
is, like I said, because

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this thing's right, you don't know
when it's that. It somehow became the

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host of your body, your mind. So they have a plan in place

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at least here. It doesn't even
need to look like you, just sound

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like you. It could look like
someone else and still sound like you,

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So it's like extra scary because it
could be anywhere. Yeah, it's so

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freaky. What it copied his voice, repeated his voice, I mean what

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he said in his exact voice.
That's that's absolutely insane. I don't know