I'm a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service, I Have Some Stories to Tell | Creepypasta 

I just came here to say, I got lost in the woods once when I was three and fell into a deep pit. I don't know how to find the first responder who saved me but I am forever grateful. He was so brave and strong and seeing him was the best moment of my life. Thank you so much guy ♥

Just the image of some dude back flipping through the forest at top speeds while bare naked really gets me good😂😂😂

This has got to be THE best story on your channel. It's just so NOT tropey, and almost feels like an actual report of events and not an embellished story. I actually found myself being scared or shocked more in this story than other stories (For example, when a dude loses a hand while on the stairs, later a hand is found inside a tree fused to the wood, my jaw actually dropped), and it didn't need to go into a huge amount of detail on those things to do so. Also, it's so mysterious and leaves so much to the reader's imagination as to what the nature of all this could be. 10/10

A reasonable, non-spooky reason to not climb those weird, free-standing stairs in the woods is that, considering they're free-standing with nothing bracing them at the top or below, is the risk that they'll collapse under your weight and you'll get hurt.

I love how the author says at the beginning that he doesn't want to be identified and then goes on to tell a huge number of details which will absolutely out him and many of the people who told him stories.

I say this on every video about the stairs. They do exist, whether or not they're actually supernatural is another thing entirely. A lot of towns, mansions etc are lost to time and history, and stairs tend to be well supported and made of sterner stuff than most things that would be built around them. That said the couple times I've seen them, has been where no current map marks a former settlement or estate. And the only "supernatural" occurrence I've seen is when an old metal set just happened to collapse when I was looking it over from a distance, as if it had just been waiting for anyone, anything to be there when it finally gave out. I'm a skeptic at heart, but there is weird shit out there. It just doesn't have to be supernatural in origin.

My family is German and Polish and I used to live in both countries, and the places would always be surrounded by vast ancient woods. I mean miles and miles and miles of very old forests and when going hiking with friends we would often come across two things, the forgotten stairs in the middle of nowhere, I mean 20km to 30km away from any village deep in the forest. And once when I was by myself came across a single old dead oak that was surrounded by a large circle of dead grass around it. It was very bizarre because the moment you stepped into the area sunny weather would turn cloudy and all birds would stop singing. Remembering it always gives me shivers.

Funnily enough, there is actually a phenomenon similar to one of the last stories where the guy sees a faceless man, then a split second later the guy looks normal.It's because your brain uses predictions to fill in the gaps of what you aren't looking at, and if you look suddenly at something before your brain can make the predictions, you just draw a blank. This can briefly do things ranging from "Not seeing colors" to "Where is that guy's face?"

Fell asleep with this playing with my earbuds in. A noise warning around the 46 or so minute mark. The "Mountain Lion" call made me just about flop out of bed. Was shaking and panicking when I heard it.

About the stairs. Ask any engineer/architect, triangles are the most structurally sound shape. So it might just be that it’s the last part standing of an abandoned cabin.

The stairs are probably the most familiar to me. I’ve found parts of old houses in the forest on hunting trips with my dad. Pieces of old stone walls mostly, but I did find one set of small stone stairs. Just three or four steps, like the kind that lead up to a porch or a doorway. Found a lot of old hunting blinds too. Little one or two person sheds made from wood and camouflaged with branches, paint, and leaves

Damn man. Story about the 9 yr old girl who fell off a cliff and got impaled and the mom ended her own life since she couldn't bare losing her child, especially, in that way really hurted my heart. I have two small children myself and can't ever imagine losing them or wouldn't know what to do.

The most spine chilling one thus far for me is the crying loop. Thinking how someone could commit the perfect crime of stealing a children wtiouth leaving any trace and THEN luring people towards GOD KNOWS WHAT on the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere, that's as scary as it gets for me

Why the frack did I click on this and listen to all of it? Some of these gonna give me nightterrors for weeks to come. Great job Roanoke. I love horror, but man either your voiceacting or the format is giving me the goosebumps from hell and I actually got paranoid about the dark in my room. Frack I feel like 11 and being afraid of the dark again.... Frack

Two hour Roanoke Tales?! Let's go babee!

"It's a stair case, in the fucking woods" Had me dying thank you so much!

Been a while since I read this story. Glad to see a classic being done so well, great work so far!

You make these creepypasta stories so much more interesting

This is, without doubt, the best recited, finest selection of heart-wrenching and spooky SaR stories online. By some measure. Bravo, sir!

YEEES! This one is my favourite! Ive heard this like 10 times, but It's 2:17am for me right now, so this is PERFECT! Thanks Roanoke!

Random home owner waking up to find their stairs gone

The one with the baby was so heartbreaking. Freak accidents like that really get me.

A classic but a good one. Creepy stuff happens in the middle of nowhere... .. .... It's up to courage to save his new home! But seriously, loved this collection, thanks Roanoke

Some of the scariest parts are honestly the non supernatural stuff, reality can be just as scary as fiction and as much as I love the forest and being outside it can be very dangerous if you don't respect that. Plus they also keep it grounded and believable (to a degree) when it gets to more direct encounters with stuff like the faceless people and stairs in the woods later on.

The mountain lion one was by far the scariest story for me. The thought of something you know that can’t make a sound like that, making a sound like that. Coming straight at you. Fuck that dude.

Alright I need you to chill. I listen to these at work, and the backflipping guy in the woods, just the way you read it so perfect, had me bust out laughing. It was too perfect.

My first exposure to these stories was Corpse's old Creepypasta channel like six years ago. Glad to see you doing them, you give these classic tales new life and a new audience.

These stories are so creepy and horrifying! The one about the baby was so gut wrenching! Well read, Roanoke, can't wait for the next one. Have already listened to this one twice. :)

The guy meowing in the woods was probably my coworker. We were working out of town, and I stepped out of the shower around 9 in the evening and I heard meowing. Not cat meowing, but obviously a person. Being Milpitas, CA I chalked it up to some tweaker just tweaking. I mentioned it to my coworkers the next morning, and one of them said it was him while he was out smoking. He was meowing in hopes one of us would see what was up lmao!

Ooh lovely Your practically the only creepypasta reader who doesn't have either a drowning voice or one with a weird looping cadence, Love yah man

Gotta say Roanoke, there is such a difference in style of content here compared to your other channels, but you do all of it extremely well! Thanks for keeping us entertained and being the fantastic entertainer you are!❤

The story about the man back flipping through the forest had me in tears 😂😂😂

This one's always a classic creepypasta because, if you really think about all the weird shit that happens and the bizarre creatures spotted in national parks... this might actually have been someone talking about their real experiences. The stories of things mimicking people is made all the worse by the question "Why do we fear the uncanny valley, unless something was trying to look like us?"

I love how after all those amazing stories, with the accompany visuals throughout being of staircases, but shot from the 3rd person, as though you're just looking at a picture. But then, the last visual is you/me, in the 1st person, at the bottom of a flight of stairs, about to ascend them... Man, subtly spooky! What a thoroughly engaging, brilliantly produced couple of hours of video. It's incredible that (YT Premium subscription notwithstanding) this shit is free! Awesome!

For me forests were a place I liked to explore or camp with friends, but the latter changed when I encountered a weird "phenomenon". I met with my friend as always and we went to closest survival shop in town to buy some necessities we run out on last time. everything was great, we walked to the forest, explored it a bit and I could take a few beautiful shots of regrowing forest after being set afire. After it got dark we already had our camp set up (only sleeping bags with no tents), we opened a few bears, talked about nothing and went to sleep. that's when things started to feel weird. My friend was asleep all the time, or at least it looked like it, but I woken up somewhere in the middle of the night. The campfire already burned out and there was this full moon shining so much you could see as it was a day almost. I was laying, trying to fall asleep again while all of the nature was performing it's song. Bugs were very loud, buzzing and ticking, there was this pack of deer near our campsite, so it was kind of busy. And then after some time, maybe 10 to 20 minutes I can't really tell, everything went deadly silent, in one moment every single creature stopped making any sounds. I couldn't hear a single thing, suddenly it became cold (it was in mid summer so yeah) and so silent that I could hear my heart beating, I don't know why because I'm not so easily stressed person, but my heartbeat was starting to increase. I closed my eyes and began calming myself until I barely could hear my heartbeat, and I swear I couldn't fall asleep no matter what. My mind was on alert mode all the freakin time and then I heard branches crack over footsteps. It surely wasn't a deer, neither a boar and other large animals don't live in this part of my country, I heard it come to the border of our campsite and stopped, just standing there. I was too afraid to check it up and just hoped that it will go away, but after a while (which was eternity at that point for me) all the sounds came back, and I heard the deer pack still nearby. After checking out all the surroundings after sounds came back I found nothing to be standing any near our campsite, it was just gone. On a side note, I think my friend was awake just like me, because he didn't even moved a muscle while all this was happening, and right after it ended he seemed more relaxed and changing sides as he always does.

The concept and idea of living in a small town surrounded by woods is pretty and comfy, but experiencing it is different-atleast for me who has lived in a city the whole time. I remember going to Illinois to my grandmas house a few times, but it was only later on that there were moments where I would feel this uncomfy anxiety before brushing it off. I’m guessing it’s because of the thick woods and you don’t have a clear line of sight. But you wouldn’t catch me dead in there alone. You also realize just how dark it gets out there too. It’s so terrifying to be in a house (with no curtains what so ever. Just, why?) and all you have are portals of darkness around you with who knows what standing just a few feet away on the other side. I guess it ties into my fear of large bodies of water I can’t see through. The fear of the unknown predators lurking within.

Ah, so that’s where the guys cut hand went, decided to become one with the trees lol

A friend and I used to love this particular thread back when I was in high school. So happy to see it pop up in my feed after all these years!

Of all the stories told in this video, a guy moving around via doing perfect backflips in the woods is the scariest one of them all

Fantastic video Roanoke! Your readings really give the feeling of an everyman something that could happen to anyone of us

Hey just wanna let you know that I love your style of reading and your voice. Breath of fresh air for me as it's not gloomy and sad sounding like other horror narrators.

I love your readings, it feels natural as someone is telling you direcly, there's no fake emotions or anything, it's a story being told

I was a forestry worker in northern canada for a decade and the only bizarre out of place thing I ever saw was a light blue vibrator sitting in the woods several kilometers away from the nearest trail.

Your voice acting is so good man, you killed it

Damn you could make a whole video on the "fuzzy man" or the man without a face. Those things mess with people.

What the actual hell I think I had the same fever dreams as the author. The story of the meow sound and the guy back flipping are both things I vaguely remember from childhood.

“Its a staircase in the middle of the fucking woods” MY NEW CATCHPHRASE LMAO😂 “I SHIT YOU NOT, HES BACK FLIPPING THROUGH THE FUCKING WOODS” Im sorry but im just going quote these now lol

i think this is one of my favorite narrations of this series.

this is the first video I've ever watched from this channel, I assumed they just read and explain reddit and 4chan posts (related to things like park disappearances and mysterious stuff etc.) I listened to a quarter of the video under the assumption that it was completely real 💀

I love Roanoke Gaming, and I just watched Wendigoon and MeatCanyon talk about this story, so I decided to look it up so I can listen to it myself, and I'm glad you actually covered it. Definitely gonna listen to this one later.

"A man in a parka and ski pants" Every SCP fan: oh no you're in danger

This is probably my favorite creepy/horror internet story of all time, and out of all of the readings I've seen on RU-vid, this is the best performance of it

The story around 1:56:00, about the meat-man, who made those sounds... I'm still laughing just thinking about it. Yes it's bizarre, but what purpose could there possibly be for repeating THOSE sounds?

Got to say, iv got 16 month old twins...that story about the couple with their 15 mo baby hit hard. Can't even imagine...

This is a classic and a must have for every creepy pasta and story channel. I recommend you do "I've seen weird stuff as a marine"

These stories are great, but on a serious note. Until you have truly heard the blood curdling scream of a cougar/mountain lion you’ll never understand. I live in a small rural town of 3,357 people. We are in southeast Missouri. We don’t typically get cougars or mountain lions this way because it’s all farm and swamp land not any huge mountain ranges or hills for that matter. We had a mountain lion spring up about three years ago now. A farmer outside of town had his livestock sheep and goats mainly getting mailed throughout the night for a few weeks. The farmer told the other people in town and the story spread I was either 19 or 20 at the time that it had popped up and I will never forget riding around on the levees and dirt roads outside of town. The scream that echoed through out the dark desolate landscape I will never forget. It sounds like a young woman screaming bloody murder. The cougar would yowl for minutes at a time before it would cease. The game wardens and state rangers event caught and removed the cougar but for those short weeks that it was here in the heartland it sent chills and fear through the community. This is truly a real event and I pray that none of you ever come close enough to hear that scream.

I've been chased by a moose. I thought I was going to die.

hands down the best reading of a creepypasta I've ever heard, almost felt that I was a rookie listening to some vets talking about this!! 100% immersed seriously hats off!

The dude that got his hand cut off and the hand found in a tree sound connected, and the dude that did the backflips 😂 deam

The stairs in the middle of the wilderness reminds me of the elevator glitch that takes you to an alternate dimension if you do a specific ritual with the buttons and levels.

KD sounds like she was subject of a Wendigo possession for 2 days. Really makes sense now that I'm listening to the 2 boys at the river story and next story

Thanks for this, I had to pull an all-nighter & these creepy forest stories got me thru the last few hours until sunrise. Appreciate you gang

Out of every creepy pasta out there, THIS is the one. This is the one that never fails to get me. Once or so a year someone will cover it and every time it gets to me. I live in woods, not deep woods but still in the woods. I HAVE SEEN THINGS. Never anything hostile or malicious but my family has had weird crap happen for generations and some of the stuff in this one partially reminds me of stuff that actually happened.

I'm not finished wit this story but I'm lovin it so far! You're one of my favorite narrators- I honestly don't know what else to say but yeah, keep up the good work! :)

Man it's been years since I heard these tails looks like I'm sleeping good tonight. But first I have a question/request, will you be reading through all the SAR stories? (assuming you didn't in this video) And as a request (if u see this) would you consider checking out "Accounts from a lonely broadcast station" by Wendingus and "Tails from the gas station" by Jack Townsend? Both are really enjoyable for horror fans and both have enough stories to make multiple videos on them. All the best from one tired boi

This is one of my favorite videos of yours on this channel. This is great, and it's super long, so it's perfect for bedtime listening! 🩵💙🩵

Ah yes, "Snurr Immersion Suffocation". A truly turrible way to go.

This is a classic story.

Im suprised this 2 hour video isnt packed full of ads. Good job Roanoke, love ya bro

What I find more bewildering about these SAR stories is there are real ones that are insanely confusing

1:22:44 those stairs are only about 40 mins from where I live. They're remnants of a mansion that just withered away over time. Creepy but actually really pretty in person. Madame sheri mansion in west chesterfield nh. Check it out if anyone is local.

Man, KD was about to turn into a Wendigo

This dude apparently witnessed every park story ever.

I absolutely need to investigate those stairs by myself next time I go hiking.

Roanoke Tales I just found you and to be honest you have a great ability to convey stories to people thank you for sharing this and keep it up

Kane in the tree. Maybe climbed up there fleeing from animal. Used kane to hold on but lost strentgh after a while. Wolves? Bears?

Loved the part about the central Oregon story realizing I live less than hour from the location mentioned. As someone who's mind likes to be over imaginative, the dessert sure likes to play games on me in the later hours of the day.

Bones or bodies of small children on top of high peaks or inside tree trunks seems likely to be bird activity--eagles, buzzards, possibly found the dead body and took a piece.

Ahhh what a classic. Another classic you might be interested in is the multipart series of stories by u/1000Vultures, starting with “Footsteps.” These really got to me as a kid! Thanks for the reading Mr. Roanoke!

1:35:53 has to be one of the funniest thing ever it’s had me piss my self from laughing and from being scared

This is a classic, love these stories and I’ve seen the staircases before. I didn’t climb them because they have no support did step on a set that looked like they should in nature only like four steps high rotted but there are abandoned building out their so who knows. The ones I found weird are the really clean and new looking ones. They literally look like they are cut out of a house. Pretty creepy, thank you Roanoke!

Not really related but I’ve gotten lost in the woods once. I stood the heck in one spot and stayed there. About 2 hours later my family found me. I think I was 8.

1:43 Look in the bottom left corner, Roanoke is cracking jokes again xD

Ain't nothing like another Audiobook Movie in the mornin'

It really detracts from the story when people who don't know about guns or ammunition get very specific about it. The dude would be full of one big hole if it was Buck shot. If it was bird shot, it would look like Swiss cheese.

She did such a good job at this story my mother was actually believing it for a while haha.

I love creepypastas and ghost stories - if I ever win the lottery I'd like to go on some searches.

I'm sitting here, in the bright of day, scared out of my mind after finishing this video. 😆 I just finished watching your more recent video about the Michigan dogman and the part about how we as humans have the uncanny ability to perceive things and send warning signals to our brains without actually 'seeing' anything has left me on edge throughout this entire video, good work!

If someone has never been chased by a moose, they will never understand that fear lol. They r massive creatures. During the rut, male moose will hump anything, including people, to death.

1:36:20, how did you get this out without laughing I've been dying for 15 minutes

Roanoke keeping me out of the woods since 2020

Meow voice is a raven. They can mimic human speech and have a buzzy quality to their voice. Pretty freaking funny that one learned to say meow.

But that backflip though

Why tf would you take an infant hiking like that? Did I hear that correctly, that it was supposed to be 15 months? That’s over a year old, and too big to be carried with a sling that was described.

Wow these SAR stories a creepy , I couldn’t be out there with all those creepy encounters ! 💯

This exact video was narrated by few others but this narration was the best one yet

So I'm about 40 minutes in, and as someone who grew up in the Northwoods where this Ranger is obviously located, it is very clear that a number of these stories are related. The Dark Eyed Man following the woman through the forest, the man's walking stick stuck 30ft up in the tree, the missing boy's body found halfway up a sheer cliff, the strange man meowing in the woods, that fact that "most animals don't come around here," and most especially the sound of the crying girl that almost seemed like it was looping. I know what that is. Each one of those stories was caused by the same thing. Honestly, y'all ought to close those trails; the disappearances aren't going to stop so long as they're open. Bit of advice for anyone reading this; curiosity killed the cat and it'll kill you too if you take chances in the woods. Your "gut feeling" is thousands of years of survival instinct telling you the right thing to do, so trust it. Stay on the trails, get back to your vehicle before the sun sets, and whatever you do, don't EVER try to find the source of strange noise. If it sounds like a person but you're not quite sure, Get Away As Fast As Possible. Edit from 1h 40m in: There's a quote out there that I'll paraphrase as "Don't assume someone's acting out of evil intent when them being stupid is just as likely," but there's another quote that goes "At a certain point, stupidity and willful ignorance are just the same as evil intent." This park, wherever the fuck it is, NEEDS to be shut down because not only does it have the above creature (which they STUPIDLY name in the video), it's also full of fucking Fairy Circles. That's where all the kids keep going. I'm DUMBFOUNDED how they can know it's full of this crap and yet keep the trails open. Hey you reading this, do yourself a favor, assume all these stories are true because based on my experience more than half of them are, and use that knowledge to make good life choices if you ever go hiking or camping. Don't be like this Forest Service and "compartmentalize" the weird shit, because that's how innocent people walk blindly into this stuff.

Holy shit I got chills rn, ngl u got some balls going back by urself with the meow dude

Excellent storytelling. Very compelling. Thankyou

This story gives a whole creepy new meaning to the call of the wild