This is What Happens When You Step on the Stairs in the Woods scary story part 4

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All right, I'm gonna start storry
back up in the next morning. I

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abruptly woke up the next morning right
as the sun was coming up, and

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I saw Sam was already getting ready, so I jumped up to catch up,

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because every moment that we're still here, the woman is still out there

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in the wood suffering. I get
ready like I'm late for the first day

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of school. Rangers already at the
edge of the campsite with a appears to

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be groggy, tired Nick. All
of us climb into one of those off

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roading golf carts. Thank god we
had a vehicle, because I was not

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looking forward to a fifteen mile hike
there and back and then joining a search

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party. Me and see them jog
up, and we just hopped the back

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seat quietly because we're trying to execute
this mission and get this over with.

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When the ranger turns on the engine, we hear we hear a zip come

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from a tent, the zippers being
opened, and it come storming out of

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her tent towards our cart. We
start driving away and it's a little downhill

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the hole as we descend, so
once we are about thirty feet away,

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you can't see over the ridge there
anymore, but you could see her storming

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up to the edge of the trail
and just stand there. This woman looked

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very angry that we lied to her. She stands dead center of the trail

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for about five seconds. Then she
just turns and sprints into the tree line.

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Sam sees it and asks, where
do you think she went. The

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ranger cuts us off and says,
keep your head on a swivel. She's

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getting desperate. We're driving for about
ten minutes, and the trail continues to

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get more and more narrow as we
go. It's about a five miles stretch.

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For the trees are just about three
feet away from each side of the

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cart, and for the next five
miles we find out exactly where she went.

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She was periodically popping out of the
tree lion screaming things at Nick,

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Mommy loves you, Take mommy home. Where's your father? She just continued

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to scream and cry, Pa,
please don't leave me, Please don't leave

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me. She'd never made an attempt
on the vehicle. It just seemed like

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she was tracking us and following us
and continuing to try and manipulate Nick.

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But let me tell you, it
never got less creepy that she was always

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ahead of us. And finally we
get to the lodge and we see the

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father out front, standing outside of
his truck, looking pretty confused and frustrated.

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We tactically pull up neck to the
truck, planning to get Nick into

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his vehicle as soon as possible and
as quickly to get him out of there.

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But the second we stop, Nick
jumps out of the vehicle and runs

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his dad, crying, see and
I want to go home. His dad

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gives him a quick pat on the
back and says, don't worry, I'm

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taking you home. Wait in the
car. I have to talk to these

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guys real quick. We walk up
and he walks up to excuse us.

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We're walking up to him, and
he says to us, and he seems

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very frustrated when he asks, this, are you guys going to tell me

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why I had to rush here first
thing in the morning. I have no

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idea what we're gonna tell this guy, but we need to get him out

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here as quick as possible. The
ranger steps up and quickly replies that every

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child on this campsite needs to be
here with a responsible adult. As a

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father's asking where the mother is she
pops up out of the woods, completely

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out of nowhere. She is hauling
it towards us, announcing to everybody,

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the whole crowd, there, finally
my husband is here. Finally my husband

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is here. She's walking up to
him, starting to approach him, kind

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of like maybe like she's looking for
a hug or looking to be embraced.

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He puts his hand up and he
starts backing up towards his truck, and

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he says, I cannot believe you
right now. She just kind of says,

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in a sad voice, I just
want my husband to take me home.

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He cuts her off, immediately talks
over her, and he says,

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Kristen, don't play that shit.
We've been divorced for over a year.

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He starts scanning her. He's looking
her up and down and with a look

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of disgust on his face. And
I take a look at her. She's

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looking really drawn out, sleep deprived
and exhausted. In that moment, I

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can't help but wonder if she's in
mayor of the real Christin. But the

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father cuts off my train of thought
and says, you promised me you were

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done drinking, and I gave you
one week alone with him, and you

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can't keep yourself together. She gets
out a little bit a little whimper and

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says, can you please just take
me home? And he says absolutely not,

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pull yourself together and take yourself home. He then storms to his vehicle

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and drives off. I'm thinking,
Wow, I can't believe just did our

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job before us. For a brief
second, it felt like we won,

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like a victory. This is until
she takes off, sprinting back into the

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trees. The three of us look
at each other and we all have an

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understanding what is happening. She's trying
to beat us back to the camp so

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so you can switch into somebody else
before we get there. That moment of

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relief immediately turned into the most bumpy, chaotic off roading experience of my life

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because we have no idea how long
it's going to take her to get back,

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but we know at even our top
speed it's going to take us several

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minutes. The ride back was far
too loud for any of us to talk

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and have any sort of type of
conversation, so I'm just in my head

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thinking, what are we going to
do with her? Will we get when

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we have to go search for the
real Christen. What's the point in finding

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her if we come back and it's
a and it's found a new host already,

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and we're gonna have to go through
the same process all over again.

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When we pull up to the campsite, I was damn near expecting this thing

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to be dragging somebody else into the
woods, with how desperate it looked when

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it darted towards the tree line end
of the woods before we left the area.

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Come to our surprise, the campsite
is completely vacant. Sand just blurts

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out. Where is everybody? The
ranger Filt, tells us that he had

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the camp guides take everybody onto the
pontoons for a fishing day, so nobody

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was at the campsite for her to
pray on while we were gone. But

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they might get back before we find
the real Christen. So we have to

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make this thing come with us on
any by any means necessary. We hop

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off the call of cart. We
are walking with the with purpose now towards

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the campsite, assuming that she's hiding
somewhere, But she's just sitting in the

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middle of the campsite on a log
by the bonfire, rocking back and forwards.

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I see something on the lone next
to her. As we get closer,

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I realize that I'm seeing three crows
sitting on the log next to her.

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They're just standing there, perfectly perched
up on this log, with the

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exact same spacing between them, as
if they're in a form forming something.

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As we're walking up, I'm mentally
preparing to have to fight this thing and

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drag it into the forest with us
to search for the real Christin. I

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could tell by the way everybody was
walking up that nobody has any idea how

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this interaction's going to go. Assuming
she's going to be violent, that's all

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we could assume. But I know
that I'm prepared to do whatever I have

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to do to save the real Christin. I know they are too. The

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park ranger sternly says to it,
you're coming with us right now. She

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just keeps rocking and mumbling. She's
mumbling this, do you know what the

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crows are? Do you know about
the crows? He cuts her off immediately,

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he says, you're coming in the
forest with us right now to find

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that woman. It looks up at
us, almost excited, with real optimistic

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look on its face. It's really
delicately standing up and starts walking towards the

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tree line and says, I'd love
to go in the forest with you.

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Sam immediately takes charge and says,
let's do a triangle formation. Sam points

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to the ranger and says, you're
at the front and we'll be on either

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side of her. Scan the right, I'll scan the left, and she'll

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stay in the middle of all of
us so she can't get away from us.

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Me and the ranger are both not
sure about this, so the mimic

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seems okay with this idea and just
takes her place in the middle of the

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formation. It makes me very uncomfortable
with how willingly she wants to do this,

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but we don't have a choice at
this point, and we need to

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just go. We started to go
into the tree line. I'm trying to

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do my job and just keep scanning
the right for clues or you know,

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where we can find Christen. But
I can't help but keep checking on her

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to make sure it's not getting any
crazy ideas. But we're walking about three

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minutes when I peek back and there's
something different about it. I take a

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better look at her, and her
face looks full and vibrant, her bags

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under her eyes are gone, her
posture perfect. She's almost giving off an

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aura early similar to the glow of
the stairs. The forest is super dense

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and there's not a lot of sunlight
that gets through the trees. Sam and

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the ranger look completely shaded, but
she looks like the sunlight is hitting her.

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This makes me internally pantic, because
I already didn't like how happy she

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was to come in here. I
really don't like that once we're in here,

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she seems to be thriving. I
look away from her just to start

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looking for more clues. As we
keep hiking, everything in the forest starts

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looking the same. I start to
feel a little disoriented and dizzy, but

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I just focus on the trees.
Before I know it, I feel like

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a lot of time has passed.
I'm out of touch with the situation.

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It feels like I'm an infinite loop
of paranoia, and I realize I haven't

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checked on her or anybody else in
the group before. It feels like ours.

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So when I finally pulled myself together
away from the haze, I panned

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back to the group and the park
ranger is standing where she was in between

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me and Sam. And she's at
the front of the group. Me,

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Sam, and the ranger are just
standing single file behind her. I have

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no idea when that switch happened.
I can tell that Sam and the ranger

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haven't realized that which happened yet.
I'm not even looking for clues at this

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point. I'm just disoriented and confused, barely remembering why we're even out here,

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until the park ranger shakes his head
really hard, like he's shaking the

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trance off, and blurts out stop. He slaps me and Sam on the

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chest stop us from walking. This
is the first time I've seen a real

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panic in the Ranger's eyes. He
starts questioning me and Sam if we have

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any idea how long we've been out
here or what direction we went. We

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all frantically check our watches and phones, but none of them seemed to be

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working. She had stopped walking about
ten feet ahead of us and just turned

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around and calmly looking at us.
The ranger storms up and yells, where'd

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you take us? Aggressive? Borderline
violent? She just gently replies, I

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took you where we were meant to
go. Silly. She just lightly lifts

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her hands and points to her right. We all turn our gaze and see

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this massive, hallowed out tree with
a big oval gap in the front of

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it, with glass stairs spiraling around
the outside of it. There were like

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the stairs that you would see in
the loft, but they were sticking out

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of the bark of the tree.
And I realized that the real Christen is

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sitting in a fetal position, completely
motionless, inside the oval gap, and

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we're just standing there. I just
believe for a moment, questions start flooding

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my brain. Why would this thing
take us directly to Kristin? Is it

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surrendering? Is it a trap?
Was it planning to lead us here the

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whole time? I take a better
look at the tree, and it's giving

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off some the same illumination that her
in the first staircase we're given off.

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I start to get those intrusive thoughts
again. I feel oddly drawn to it,

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but I know better than to act
on them, because of what happened

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the first time. I look back
at the other guys to see their reactions

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on their faces. But when I
look at Sam, the mimic is right

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next to them, with her hand
on his shoulder, whispering in his ear.

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I didn't see this thing walk up
to him. I take a step

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towards them. Before I get a
word out, it whips his head towards

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me and says porcupine. Sam's eyes
are completely glazed over. He's just daring

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at the tree, motionless. She
takes a slight pause, tilts her head,

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takes her hand off his shoulder,
and he immediately starts sprinting towards the

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tree. He gets a little bit
of a head start of me, but

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I started chasing him right away because
I could tell this something is off.

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As we're getting closer to the tree, I tell he's not spreading towards Kristen.

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He's sprinting towards stairs. The direction
he's spreading is like five degrees off

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from the oval gap. But I
close it on him and I get one

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hand on his back. I'm slowing
him down, but I can't stop him

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from getting to the second step of
the stairs. Once he touched it,

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it felt start. The stairs gave
off a vibrating pulse with each step.

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It's almost like somebody banging on a
drum. I gave my second hand on

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and rib him upstairs. I get
him to the ground. I have to

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restrain him with all my strength because
he's trying as hard as he can get

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back at these stairs. Sam is
not small or feeble by any means,

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and I have to use all my
strength to restrain him. But he's not

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fighting me. He's not hit me, he's not pushing me, he's not

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even looking at me. His eyes
are fixated on the stairs and he's just

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clawing to get back to them.
Gets to the point where I don't even

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think I could restrain him any longer, until he suddenly stops and goes limp.

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His eyes revert back to normal.
He just looks at me and goes

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what happened? He seems okay?
So I look to see what stopped him,

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and I see the ranger pulling Christen
out of the tree. It seems

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like the moment he pulled her out, he stopped. Me and the ranger

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look at each other as to say, what now. We all look back

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towards the mimic, and this thing
had a satisfied, devious look on his

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face. That wasn't until his face
started to fade away to nothing, And

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just like the ranger explaining with the
hippie, starts to evaporate, and once

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it completely disappears, I look back
to Sam to see if he's okay,

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and he gives me the nod that
it's all good. This is messed up.

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This as creepy as hell. So
this this, this mimic of Kristen

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with the missing person that they're looking
for at this point in time. Now

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got the son out of the park
safely. This thing leads them to her.

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But before doing that, they're all
walking along and they somehow get in

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this trance where and the person telling
the sharing the story says he's just looking

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for clues. Then he looks back
in the in the strategic position they were

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all walking in with him to the
left, his friend of the right,

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and the park ranger leading the pack
with the with it, as we're calling

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it, the mimic in the middle. All of a sudden, when he

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looks back in this trance, everything's
changed. The lineup's changed, the way

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they're walking's changed. It was as
if she was leading them where to go

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now. Yeah, she was in
the front now and the ranger was in

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the center, and they were all
following her for an amount of time,

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unknown amount of time, and it
seems like the ranger finally who this time

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is just falling behind right, they're
all just following her. Now he snaps

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out of the trance and he says, like stop, taps the other guys

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on the back of chest, are
what it said, to kind of get

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them out of the trance, And
yeah, you get the feeling that he

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was just desperate to get them out
of that chance, they said, slaps

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them on the chest. You can
imagine the feeling of like his desperation at

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this point, like, you know, he doesn't know how long they've been

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walking like this, and he knows
something bad happened. This thing was suddenly

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leading them. I could feel like
when he described it, I can almost

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feel the force of like, yeah, that damn just slapping them across the

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chest to like knock them their senses
back in. Yeah, that was a

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very spooky part of the story.
It's this whole part there, but all

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along she actually led them to the
real person, who was sitting in a

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walled out area of a tree with
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So they all start heading to or
they don't know he actually he doesn't

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know. Him and his friend are
heading towards her the stairs. He knows

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he's feeling the urge you go to
the stairs, but he's not got to

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do that. This time, Spread
takes off running on to the stairs and

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he has to yank him off.
Really an identical situation to what happened with

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him earlier, except for I think
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And then he's basically holding his friend
down that his friend's going nuts,

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wants to get right back up,
has to get on them stairs in the

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woods, and all of a sudden
he just stops, stops fighting it,

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stops fighting the urge. And as
soon as he stops, he looks over

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and he happens to see that the
exact same time where the park ranger is

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pulling the real Christen out of the
tree. And then this thing, just

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like the park ranger said happened with
the hippie earlier. They went missing,

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and which is you know that the
next day they found the dead body of

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the hippie and they said it was
two days later, which is creepy enough

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as it is, but yeah,
it just evaporates into the woods. Yeah,

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and and Ky go back up the
hole and the tree. When've you

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know, you've heard stories of men
or changelings, they're always there's some kind

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of hole in the tree kind of
connection to their beginning, their origin,

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or their birth. Yeah, so
just to see that kind of pop up

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again, I was like, yeah, I'm settling even And I think the

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the troubling part is even though the
park Rangers basically predicted like how this could

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play out, he still is powerless, right, and became victim to the

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trance. And let's not forget about
the creepiest thing about the trance, that

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is, when Sam realized they're in
the trance, he started walking towards his

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friend because he saw this mimic talking
in his friend's shoulder. I said,

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Sam, right, I met it
wrong his friend Sam's shoulder. Yeah,

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I mean he was like at a
hand on the shoulder, right and talking

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like whispering into Sam's ear, And
before he could get close enough, the

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thing just whifts his head out out
of him and says this safe word that

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they established the night before, Porky. Right, they're laying in the Tan

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and I and they said porcupine is
are safe word. If any thing happens,

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if we're spread up, we're split
apart, anything weird happens at all,

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we will know if each other's okay. If the word for Kee kinda

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said, and that's what the mimic
just said to him, right, Yeah,

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So yeah, I wonder it was
this, you know, was it

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able to read it mined or was
the you know mimic listening to them the

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night before like nearby. Yeah,
it's either way. The creepiest part might

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be that the mimic seems happy,
like it just accomplished something. Yes,

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the devious smile they described her