Papa Meat giving Wendigoon an existential crisis by recontextualising his childhood experience of almost finding a dead body in the woods was the best part, it was great
Isaiah is like a walking Wikipedia and a great storyteller. And Hunter has the ability to paint pictures in your head while being hilarious! I love that this podcast started😊
Going back and seeing how nice Isaiah was to Hunter from the first episode, to the most current episode where he's berating Hunter into believing he isn't fat by psuedo-bullying him with compliments is quite the character study xD
Not only that but look at how their clothes contrast. Papa got the simple black shirt with red graphic while wendigoon got that swanky colorful hawaiian. A perfect blend
as a writer, I love how you guys break down the narrative building going on in this particular story, like how it’s not completely nonsensical, there are patterns and rules being created and repeated. It really inspires me.
Same! At least for me, it further reinforces the importance of respecting the intelligence of your audience. The little, devilish details will matter and can often provide the greatest satisfaction to your readers to see all the puzzle pieces come together.
Echoing what some of the other comments have said, I would personally love it if you guys read excerpts of the pieces during the podcast, and then gave your thoughts about each section. Doesn't have to be the whole story or even as highly produced as the Ted the Caver video you both did. Just a bit of guidance for those who haven't read the story yet. Great first episode, really enjoying the show so far!
They are both already amazing but I think this would take it to another level! Wendigoon is one of the few people that keep my attention the whole time. Great job guys, really. So entertaining the whole way through.
@@k8schebel04 I discovered Wendigoon through their Ted the Caver video but I think he has a great mind for this kind of storytelling/story examination stuff they’re doing, but I agree for sure it would be nice to hear more of the text itself. Tbh if Hunter is involved I’ll probably listen regardless tho, love that fella :)
This is just insane to me, I don’t really know how to describe the feeling or how crazy it is, I’ve just loved both of these people separately for so long as content creators, I respect their content, and over the past few years seeing them go from separate types of content to repetitively collaborating together and now having a podcast. It’s just cool as hell
@@HippytheKid419the difference is that actually feels like a podcast This is more like a show or a “RU-vid video” in the common sense where they’re just doing a collaboration but it’s 2 hours long I like this a lot more because it gives you an excuse to read these stories before watching the episode
@@wolfmerlot-hx3crhonestly? Probably not that much money or time. You can buy pre cut kits for stairs at Home Depot/ Lowe’s I’m pretty sure. I know wood prices were crazy during the pandemic but idk probably not much more than 200 bucks for the materials? Plus a skilled carpenter could bang out a staircase in a day for sure
Should just start paying our local carpenters to put em in the woods 😂😂 don’t think it would take much for it to start becoming a craze if some madman takes the first step
It never even occurred to me that The Stairs in the Woods were a horror thing. Growing up in rural New England I walked in the woods and found stairs in the woods all the time, they were from old collapsed buildings that only had foundations left, so I just ignored everything about these stories
honestly, the stairs were always the LEAST interesting part of the original r/nosleep series to me and now that you say it, that's almost definitely why (also from rural New England, spent a lot of my teen years exploring the remains of abandoned farms and such that were often deep in the woods and rarely found anything more dangerous than deer ticks or soft spots in rotted old wood)
Yeah I grew up in a small township that was a larger city in the late 1800s early 1900s and was a massive fire that burned the whole city down in the early 1900s and there are little concrete steps in the woods in places it is kind of eerie but that's as far as I would put it.
I love how so many of these creatures are just very calm and asking for directions. Like they got lost in the woods one day and now their wandering through time being very lost.
I loved the portion of the video where you guys talking about the stairs being something oddly familiar to everyone. It instantly brought back a memory of when I was a child exploring the woods and I came across a white picket fence (old and disheveled looking but still standing) surrounding a small empty square of land. There was a house number on the front gate of the fence and a disheveled mail box. But no house. Just a fence surrounding a place where a house SHOULD be. Very weird and something I'll never forget.
I went hiking up in camp Comer, north Alabama area, and not only were there multiple chimneys and foundations, but also a place called moon rock, called that because It was cratered liked the surface of the moon. I was like 12 so I didn't take pictures, but I'm sure they exist somewhere.
There is a town in PA called Centralia. Because a fire started in the mines beneath the town, the town was ordered to be evacuated. You can visit the town where roads lead to nothing, and it looks like it's straight out of Silent Hill.
One of the seeds planted that I noticed sprout later on that I've never seen anyone mention is how a guy went up a set of stairs and had his hand sliced clean off, and they never found the hand. Later on in the story the NPS sells a plot of land to a logging company and they find a perfectly preserved severed hand in one of the trees. Such a fun detail!
Tangents like "Ted the Caver is a vaping frat bro" and "if Wendigoon found the dead body then he'd have a normal job" are why I only listen to podcasts where the hosts are allowed to go off-topic. Also: Potential sequel to "Five Nights At Markiplier's" with Markiplier in the woods meowing and Ethan Nestor backflipping towards a SAR officer?
Hey guys! I loved this first episode but I noticed around 1:46:06 Papa Meats mic completely cuts off and you can only hear Wendigoons breathing and small "mhm"s and stuff, I thought it was a bit! 😭
I was just listening to the video around that part and I thought it was a painfully awkward silence over the fact that he already knew what he was talking about💀
i love Red Thread but this dynamic is iconic; i can’t put into words how excited i was after binging their collabs through the halloween season and hearing that we were finally getting consistent long-form content with the two
The idea of a staircase just sliding through the woods is pretty amusing, but consider instead the idea of the stairs moving in a way that looks like an escalator with the steps rolling down into the ground to propel the staircase along like a large tracked vehicle but is absolutely dead silent in the process. The idea of the phrase "The staircase crept up on me" is hilarious to think of conceptually but absolutely nightmarish to imagine in motion.
That is such a crazy visual dude, you are a genius. I can almost imagine a droning infrasound as it moves, driving the audience insane. I was thinking of it like the wood panels splitting up into jagged limbs, kinda like the house in the movie Monster House.
this is the perfect podcast. a lot of podcasts are so unplanned and conversational that they’re hard to pay attention to or so informational and static that they’re boring. this has interesting general topics with funny banter intertwined. i love this so much and am so excited for more episodes
Dude, you nailed it. They covered a wide range of stuff while having fun and still managed to stay on topic. Too many podcasts branch off to someone's home life or something like that for 20 minutes before getting back on track.
Nice to see Meat and Wendigoon putting themselves out there on multiple different podcasts and looking so lively. Hearing Hunter on older Cream Crew episodes saying how dejected he feels constantly then over the last year or two really visibly becoming a more satisfied person does tug on the hear strings. Not to forget about Isaiah being/becoming a powerhouse and household figure in the online horror zeitgeist, It's looks like they both genuinely are enjoying their recent endeavors. Great work both of you and Cheers to many more fantastic works! 🍻 Also, Shoutout to Cream Crew, Stretch and Fade, and The Red Thread everyone should check them out if they haven't already, if you're ravenous for more of the boys.
Rewatching this 7 months later, right after their newest post of "Feed the Pig", this a petition to redo this story in the current format you guys use! Please, I'm begging.
Congrats on starting the new podcast! It’s gonna be epic! I have one suggestion: I think it would be much better if you read the excerpt of the story and then talked about it. I’m familiar with the story, so I could follow along okay, but this will definitely be confusing for people who haven’t heard of the stairs in the woods before. This would make the podcast more immersive as well!
Agreed, the other video they did with the cave explorers was way more digestible as someone who never heard of it. This video I was lost all the way through.
The way you described the stairs as feeling like a memory or a dream really resonates with my experiences exploring my grandfather's abandoned farm house. Walking through dilapidated rooms and seeing photos of your family members still hung on the walls or your mother's childhood toys spread across her old bedroom floor gave me such a sickening feeling that still to this day disturbs me just thinking about it. This was a fantastic first episode, and I look forward to watching your next episode!
Ever since I’ve heard about the stairs I wondered if it could ever be like a portal to an alternate reality where if you get to the top then in the original universe you would become the lost person and you wouldn’t be found anymore, but in the new universe the person you’re searching for disappears and everything in your reality becomes unfamiliar all of a sudden because of the emotions of loss that you feel and feeling as though it’s your fault because they knew you went up those stairs. Just the stories alone of the stairs, even though they’re outlandish, it always reminds me of after I lost my grandma the world was still spinning but you feel defeated that your world stops, and the series really gives off that world stopping vibe to me.
was at this abandoned rehabilitation/town sorta thing and it was like everyone just up and left one day. all their documents were still in the cabinets, there were still coats hung up, some houses were still fully furnished. it makes you wonder why they ever left in the first place
@@artimus4198 it’s the best thing that can happen when two real friends are just chatting, because it can go that deep because they know each other, and then they realize they are in a podcast and are like “oh shit”
As others have said, reading select excerpts from future stories would be nice, but I think a kind of read ahead post would be nice. Almost like a spooky book club. When you guys record post somewhere the story that’ll be discussed and followers can read/listen if they haven’t and be on the same page as you two minus the extra research. Perhaps recommend videos covering these stories from RU-vidrs you two appreciate if applicable.
Other than suggestion, I really enjoyed the episode. I have listened to all of the parts of this story before so I was able to follow along pretty well. I’m happily surprised with your guy’s dynamic for two people I didn’t think interacted prior to this.
Definitely possible, just seems like an odd viewing experience versus these minor changes or features they could Implement. Giving the ending of the second episode they seem to agree with the read ahead idea, which I believed to make the most sense.@@vorbo01
For some reason it's the first 30min for me, and it's NOT cause I find it boring or anything, it's just been rewinded so often none of what they talk about makes sense to me anymore 😭
My head cannon for why the main character is so worried about loosing the job is that once you know too much loosing your job probably means ending up as another missing person case.
oh, as in, if he stops being a ranger and stop’s regularly going into the woods he’s scared he’ll fall victim? yeah because they (as far as i know rn) none of the rangers die or get into too serious encounters
@cloud5544 Wait, like the ranger organization struck some sort of pact with the phenomena that prevents them from hurting their personnel? That's actually a really cool idea
Honestly not trying to be a grammar Nazi but just for future reference, loose is only a noun, meaning not tight. To loosen is a verb to make something less tight. Lose means not winning, or misplacing/something being removed. Losing his job is the phrase you're looking for! Also same with losing weight/lose weight, losing at chess/lose at chess, losing track of time/lose track of time; vs. Loosening a belt/loosen a belt, loosening up/loosen up, etc. Also just wanted to say your idea there is cool and a good point, and I love it
@@maleniabeardofmiquella i dont know about pact with the paranormal, but as the ranger station agreed on not talking about it or documenting it, it seems like the rangers are ok and the public are like “up got grabs” when it comes to the forrest/paranormal choosing people
I picture the stairs "moving towards" the kid as a telescopic perspective shift that basically results in his view warping for a few seconds from where the stairs were into the distance and almost zooming in on them with tunnel vision and when he recovers his surrounding vision it's in front of him.
This was me and my wife’s favorite show back in 1832. Though she’s passed it makes me happy that the rebooted it with the original cast. They both look so young still despite being ancient creatures
If yall want to cover "My property isn't normal", that would be so cool. It's the perfect example of a creepypasta that is very self aware and subverts a lot of tropes that many other creepypasta fall into. Allways been one of my favorites.
That’s my absolute favorite of all time. It’s just a ball of tropes all the way down to a literal slender man encounter. Lots of humor but also some legitimately scary stuff. Skinny is both horrifying and hilarious to me.
I don't think she's going to continue the story anymore. She replied to a reddit comment asking if she'll write more, saying: "Nope, probably not! I've transitioned into art and find it a lot more rewarding for now. Thank you, though!" I'm happy she found an avenue of expression she loves! I'm bummed there's probably not going to be more lore.
Things I think would improve the podcast: -Link the story in the description -Read along as you describe like you did the Ted the Caver story This was a new story to me and you didn't give me much to go off as you described it. Still enjoyed hearing you discuss, but I'd like to see these more accessible in the future.
Maybe once the podcast takes off, you could do an interview with the author(especially since they are finishing the story). Maybe even more about "creepy pasta writers" and why they choose that format, than the stairs story. I liked the moral at the end "The woods are scary, for good reasons, that we don't always understand. Be warned."
Its crazy to me the creativity of people to imagine this, I grew up in rural Georgia and learned to shoot a rifle from the top of some stairs in the middle of the woods that were from a civil war era grain mill. I spent entire hunting seasons on the top of those stairs never thinking anything of it. Now working with search and rescue groups its awesome hearing about these stories.
@@ibuprofentabs Tbh not really, I do have one spooky story but It doesn’t involve the stairs, long short of it I heard voices that couldn’t have been there due to the geography of the area and streams blocking off access but thats the only time ive ever heard anything abnormal. The only reason it stands out to me was its the only time I haven’t been able to explain everything away.
Crazy how this story hasn't made you paranoid about doing that kinda work! But maybe it's just me. 😂 Thank you for your service! Also, shout out fellow Georgian! Born in ATL 🤜🤛
Just read this and I'm half way through I'm now very sad reading this knowing in the next 1 hour left I'm still going to be clueless.... This was good but the cave guy how they read then talked read then talked and so on it was so immersive I def preferred that one over this. This just seemed like a giant spitball or just almost like 2 men met at a waffle house / IHOP and just started talking about stuff they just remember. Still fun but no where near immersive like the Cave Guy one.
I think of this as book club where you have to go read it beforehand. But there's great narrators on youtube! The Dark Somnium, Mr.Creeps, Lighthouse Horror... Pretty sure this story has been covered by every big narrator
Back when corpse husband was actually good, he did a video on it way back in the days. I suggest watching it, because with his voice is soooo damn good!
Corpse read the whole thing a couple of years back (I think about 6 years ago), and it's really good 10/10, I recommend it if you don't want to go looking up the written story
Such a great first episode you two! Really awesome listen to. My only small critique is that I was hoping for passage reading excerpts like with Ted the Cave, those really helped to contextualize and set the mood for certain things (maybe the way TSitW is structured did not lend itself to that style. I have not read it myself). Other than that small, small, small thing, loved it, and cannot wait for the next episode from your two. The chemistry and levels of fun you two have is freaking great!
I was expecting them to open with reading an excerpt lol, the only reason I knew the actual story was bc I recently watched Wendigoons video on it recently😅. Still watched the whole thing tho :) I still might go read the the whole thing.
Coming back to this first episode after watching all the others week by week, this podcast has arguably become my favorite period, and compared to what’s to come, this story is very lighthearted lol
Cannot wait for future episodes, my boyfriend and I have a couple of small critiques. We would love to have the excerpts read so we can have the context because we haven’t read The Stairs in the Woods, kind of like Ted the caver. It felt as though we had to do homework to understand it. If you guys read more of the excerpts it would make it more accessible to anyone at anytime. And the editing!! I loved what Nick (and papa meats team) did with the Ted the caver episode. It made it more engaging and immersive. I would love to see more of that in this! Other than that, love it and we are so excited for more!!!
That would make more sense if they put out info before the podcast so you can read it before. It is very weird that windi didn't read it I fully thought that's why it was 2 hrs
these guys have great chemistry. Its been so much fun watching them branch out over the years and work with other people and im so glad they found eachother
I think I remember that one! The "not deer" where something is just wrong, but there are also the sub categories of "what used to be a deer" and "something that never was a deer" where the former shows you can still recognise some features of the deer that make it recognisable and the latter being when you're too close to it you realise that there is nothing deer like about it, it never was a deer, and now you see it properly you wonder how you ever mistook it for one
@scathachbeagbain6431 I remember a quick green text on this kinda. To summarize it was a kid out hunting with his grandpa. Kid sees a deer, deer suddenly starts slamming head into a rock until it breaks its own jaw/face real bad. The deer stands up on two feet and runs away. Grandpa and kid both saw that happen, they never ho hunt again.
my favorite part was 1:46:08 where hunter's audio is broke and you can hear wendigoon scritching his beard lol really good stuff boyos, enjoyed the whole thing!
Not gonna lie, I totally believed this story and when I was a teenager listening to narrated spooky Reddit stories to fall asleep, which I still do to this day, but this one will always hold a special place in my heart
I was reading this series as it came out, and it was fantastic! For the hand in the tree thing, I always thought it was implied that it was that guys' hand when he went up a set of stairs and lost it. I have no idea why it was in the tree years later, and not just, under the bark, but *inside* the tree!
47:04 I was talking to a friend about creepy stories and when I mentioned the forest stairs she went, "OMG," went silent for awhile, then 20 minutes later sent me pictures of forest stairs. Apparently during her walks through the woods she encounters them frequently and decided to run out to get some pictures she could show me after I mentioned them.
I live in rural Alabama, and I've seen it here. Old houses were dismantled or burnt, and only the stairs were left. Granted, you find a lot more chimney and fireplaces but I've seen stairs
I’ve never seen them by themselves, there’s usually a few other remnants of a house, but I did see a full chimney and fireplace just sitting there once. Whatever happened to that house wasn’t enough to take all of it down apparently.
I’m going to say this and it’s going to come across way worse than I mean it. But having only seen Meat Canyon’s animated content, he’s a pleasantly charismatic normal person. Glad I found this!
i get what you mean lol. i always hated meatcanyon videos because they just really disturbed me, but i was very happy to find out that papa meat is a super chill dude who has a podcast with my favorite youtuber :D
I love this channel and I'm glad you've changed it to where you are having the whole text on display and are actually reading the story, unlike this video! it makes it 100 times better.
You know, regarding the "insect coughing", I was hearing 'deeper' and 'rhythmic' and I thought of the noise the sand worm made in the new Dune movie. When it's looming over Paul and it makes that rhythmic thumping noise in its throat. Imagine hearing that coming from seemingly nowhere.
Bits that amuse me: 7:00 F the job! 10:56 'animal' + 'man' = a bad time, every time 20:11 the FACELESS man! side note: the faceless man's description reminded me of The Thing's iconic movie poster 24:18 cue insect coughing 25:43 complete chaos 40:11 Wendi's origin story begins 43:34 CAR SALESMAN or papa meat psychologically breaking down Wendigoon 48:43 More lives lost to THE FLESH 54:31 Children make for poor witnesses 57:09 The meowing man 59:30 MEOW 1:03:03 "My walk away situation" 1:10:16 Just run away! The job isn't worth it! 1:13:07 LA Noire 1:14:52 "sea shanty round table of horrible things" 1:16:44 Nothing but a normal disembowelment/"see his gutty works" 1:18:25 There's a fuzzy man now?! 1:21:20 Getting rejected by the fuzzy man 1:22:31 Did KD almost become a wendigo? 1:52:27 From wendigo to Ed Edd n Eddy 2:00:43 Moving staircase!
Thank you so much for this. I was trying to find the fuzzy man clip but forgot where it was. I was hoping someone in the comments would have timestamps.
Honestly having full readings of the stories that came after this one makes me really wish this hadn't been first so maybe we'd actually get to hear these stories. Maybe one day they'll re-do this, hopefully.
I'm about halfway through listening to this video and it's bringing back so many memories all at once. I listened to a read aloud of all six or seven hours worth of these stories back in middle school, and I still remember several of them now as I'm nearly twenty. I think the one that haunts me the most is the couple who were hiking, and across on another cliff in the park they see a man who's free climbing up a cliff with NO GEAR, not even a backpack, and he gets to the top of the cliff, looks over at them, smiles, then he jacknifes bending the wrong way, and jumps right off the cliff. They couldn't see the ground below him from where they were and they went to report it to a park ranger. The rangers go out and look, the couple were confident as to where they were and identified the location on a map, but the rangers never found a body. That one scared the hell out of me when I was 14 I couldn't get the image of that guy out of my head for like a week
@@JaredLetoSelfSuck the video I listened to is not as long as I incorrectly remembered, and it's on a channel called Let's Read. The title is the same as the title of the reddit post, the "I'm a park service worker" or however it goes. The thumbnail is an image of stairs, I believe.
It would be cool to sometimes include a third person on the podcast who has not studied up on the material so they can ask questions and request elaboration on certain topics. A lot of podcasts do that and it seems to work really well for the dynamic instead of just two experts passing information back and forth. Just a thought idk. Love this first episode can’t wait for more!
work night shifts with a crew cleaning empty office buildings. years ago before thanksgiving break, the crew and i listened to an audio version of this story and it creeped us all the hell out, which spiraled into one coworker telling us her own creepy stories from growing up in rural az. now every year before the break its tradition to find and listen to creepy pastas. this story will always be a favorite of mine and i’m glad the dudes chose it to start with.
You probably have some weird/creepy/scary stories to tell too, working nightshift. All of my friends that ever worked nights have at least one crazy story. I've worked night shift at a couple of places and i've seen the crazies that go bump in the night 😂 Mainly drunks or meth-heads(or whatever they were on..), but it was a circus !
@@Eisenwulf666 got plenty of stories to tell! specially since we’re fairly certain one of the buildings is haunted and no one will go into one of the offices alone. we’ve all seen and heard strange things, and of course, dealing with weird people who like to hang around empty buildings at night.
ive realized this episode has become one of my comfort videos... when I'm having a bad day and don't feel like rumaging through youtube for something to watch I just come back to this lol
Y’all did great with this, you’re a good duo. Keeping 2+ hours moving with flow is super hard for first time podcasters and you’re just naturally good storytellers and conversationalists. Can’t wait to see more as you evolve and tighten it up further.
I live in BC, a province in Canada, in the Pacific Northwest. It’s beautiful here, the forrest’s and wild life are a huge part of my childhood as I grew up in Scouting. For those unfamiliar we have Beavers 5-7yrs, Cub Scouts 8-10yrs, Scouts 11-14yrs, Venturers 15-17, and Rovers 18-26. I started as a Beaver at 5, and ultimately ended my scouting journey as a Scout at 13/14 after a huge decline in my mental health. I am 17 now and these stories are extremely nostalgic, I can visualize all of the scenarios very vividly, a lot of the early stories I can really imagine happening and that terrifies me, but fascinates me! I loved my time in Scouts and I love where I live but the truth is, we CAN’T really know what’s out there in those woods, those forests, but we are taught how to get found if something happens. If you are ever lost or stranded by your group, HUG A TREE. STAY PUT! DO NOT MOVE DO NOT KEEP WALKING!! We are taught to go back to where we saw them last, if you stay put we have such a higher chance of finding you then if you wander deeper into the woods and farther off the path.
I feel like I'm learning about world building and horror writing from these two so much, and hearing them together feels so entertaining yet productive
45:22 “If your golf club would’ve smacked into the side of a dead body, you would be at an H&R Block right now….but now you’re chasing the high.” Is a fucking WILD sentence out of context
Honestly it feels nice to come back to the roots of the podcast, so much things i did't even remember, like they didn't even read the story at first, they were just discussing it. Nevertheless it just feels so satisfying to see things fall in their place, Hunter taking charge of voicing characters and wendigoon of the narration, the gags forming and the guys in general finding their footing and becoming more comfortable with the podcast. it's almost unbelievable that it has almost been a year. The best podcast there is!!!! keep up the good work!!!
Another creepy thing about the stairs in the woods is that stairs evoke the feeling of passage. A chimney is just a chimney, but stairs GO places. Seeing an entrance, portal, or artificial ingress of some kind in the middle of otherwise wild nature is very unsettling. Clearly the stairs or the door don't go anywhere...or do they?
If you guys take any suggestions, it would be so cool if you cover Borrasca. I remember Wendigoon mentioning it as the scariest creepypasta for him. I agree and I also think that it's one of the best written on r/nosleep, but it kinda does not get that much attention. The writer also produced an amazing podcast (a radioplay, basically) based on that with Cole Sprouse, adding to the lore of the original story. When I first read the story and listened to the podcast, I was obsessed.
Listening to this and having someone from the East Tennessee area personally contextualize the stories really validates a lot of those early folklore stories you hear from your grandparents and nightmarish memories from exploring the woods
I once saw some stairs in the woods about a mile down the hill behind my aunt’s house in Missouri. There was also a crudely made covering made out of sticks and grass above a rusty, filthy mattress. The weirdest part was the small red tricycle in the center of a huge tree, completely stuck in the middle with its wheels hanging out of the bark. All of these things were within 25 feet of each other.
This first episode was absolutely amazing from two extremely entertaining storytellers. You guys killed it and I can’t wait to see what you do in the future!
This was the first piece of internet horror I really got into, and it’s probably greatly changed the course of my life by its ripple effect. Love to see you guys covering it!
I personally really like this whole story because it gives me the same vibe as an episode of the X-Files, specifically like seasons 1-4 where there’s still somewhat of a monster-of-the-week thing happening with most episodes taking place in heavily wooded areas and occasionally there’s plots about a government coverup/conspiracy. It’s honestly impressive how this creepypasta does something new and interesting that also feels so nostalgic and familiar at the same time.
I see House of Leaves, I believe, on Wendigoon's desk. Very good choice. And Slappy in the background of Meat. Love it all so much. Also, love this story and this topic. Thanks for the video!
I read the first part of these before knowing what r/nosleep was. So I had a wholehearted belief in these stairs and this account for a solid month. I was surreal and nostalgic, I could picture the various stairs through the hiking trails at the forestry I'd been to and promising myself never to touch them again. It's really well crafted and you both brought excellent observations to the conversation. Also, let your conversations drift, I love the dynamic of you two. Let it rip and go for the 3 hours! I really like Hunter's take on the forest trying to mimic and lure people away. ❤
I also didn't know when I read this story and was having a midlife crisis at 16 that this information was just casually being shared and no one irl was freaking out about this
