AOI-LOI-086 (STAIRCASE FOREST)

== Standard Observation Procedures: ==
Monitor area as to prevent people from walking near the AOI. Monitor constantly to see if other anomalous behavior occurs. 
== In Case of Changes Observed: ==
If change occurs in anomalous behavior report on it then resume monitoring to study a possible reason for why this change occurred.
== Description: ==
AOI-086 appears to be a large 20 step staircase overtaken by leaves and dirt. It looks decently used as if it was part of a building but the building just disappeared. Staircase leads nowhere as far as we can tell.
== Anomalous Properties: ==
Standing near or on AOI-086 causes distress increasing in effect over time the longest someone's lasted standing at the top before breaking is 3 minutes. As for around the AOI the breaking point has been recorded as 10 minutes. Subjects report feelings of dread and fear while standing on it right away. 
== Discovery Details: ==
Found in the forests of Colorado as reported by a citizen they "Felt like they were waiting for something to happen" as if there was some sort of other force there ready to take them. Reported by the citizen again there appeared to be no other signs of life around the staircase, no birds, no squirrels, no ants, nothing like it was intentionally being avoided by them. Citizens have reported feelings of dread as if they're going to be abducted.
== Addendum ==
Addendum Log 1:"I'M FREAKIN OUT MAN"-Subject █████
== Diary Log ==
Written by a North Carolina Trooper. 
# In North Carolina is a forest unlike any other but, periodically, stairs would appear, going up or down. Pristine, dirty, long, small. All variables. Mostly found by Search and rescue staff. They have become so accustom to them that it becomes normal. The stairs could be there one day, and gone the next, or be there for months on end but one thing is clear. They are bad news. The superiors in the SAR staff would tell trainees the same thing every time they saw them. "Do not go near them, do not touch them. And for the love of god. Do not accend them"
# [12:23 AM] A young man, a trainee went up the stairs, he tells FFOS agents hidden within his branch that he "Expected something to happen. Like bleeding from his ears, or collapsing. But I got right up to it and didn't feel a thing. Something was strange though, there wasn't anything on them. Like, nothing, not a spec of dirt, or a leaf, or dust or anything. Even bugs were no where to be seen. As if they were running from it... No ants on the floor, no flies nearby, and in the forest, there's a lot of flies trust me in that". He goes on to say that when he did in fact scale the stairs, he says; 
# [12:27 AM] "I felt as though one part of me was waiting to enter some.. parallel universe and the other was waiting for a spaceship to swoop down. But I got to the top.. and nothing happened. No magic bullshit, no alien stuff, no universe thingy...I stood there looking around and saw nothing unusual.. but I had this feeling.. ahh.. The longer I stood on the top step. The longer it felt like I was doing something very... very wrong. Like... being in a government building where you're not supposed, to you know? As if someone was gonna arrest me.. or shoot me in the back of the head.. at any second. I tried brushing it off but it just got stronger... Then, like.. I stopped for a moment.. Stopping everything, I turned off my radio.. and realized I could hear nothing. I couldn't hear birds, or the trees swaying or anything... I couldn't even hear my own breathing.. like some weird tinnitus but more oppressive...BUT, the weirdest part came after. My trainer was waiting at the centre while I was walking back. He cornered me before I could leave. He had this intense angry look. I said what's wrong and he asked if I went up them?.. but it wasn't a question. it was more like a "You went up them didn't you". I said how did you know.. He said "because we didn't find her". He said that the dogs lost the scent of the girl they were tracking. He asked how long I was on the stairs and when I said no more then a minute he said that If I went up them again he would fire me instantly.." 
# [12:27 AM] Another incident required a more thorough investigation and social standing with a higher up SAR agent. A man climbed the stairs in 2001. Back then, they would even tell rookies the truth to prepare them. A man walked up the stairs, reached out to a branch on a nearby tree and had his hand sliced off perfectly detaching his hand from his wrist. It happened "so fast it felt like it wasn't real" says the man. He is ok. The hand never touched the ground. It wasn't seen to disappear either. Another incident was the death of a child. The child was found by SAR agents (REDACTED and REDACTED) on the bottom steps of the stairs. The agents knew immediately the 11 year old boy was dead. They noticed no blood apart from a small spatter on his lips. The leading theory was poisonous plants. The body was brought back to the family. The coroners report states his inner organs had "holes.. as if punched out by a holepunch machine" but only on specific organs. They were perfectly round, with a diameter of .5 inches across. The investigation was buried in fear of public or media attention. The boy, sadly passed from eating a berry while lost in the forest, from what the media and public know. 
# [12:27 AM] Another time. A woman, another SAR agent, touched the stairs and a blood vessel in her brain exploded. "Her head literally blow up, like a water balloon. She stumbled down the stairs to me and all she got out was "I think something is wrong with me"" states a senior SAR agent. The same senior agent asked an FFOS personnel "Have you ever notice you can't seem to find the same one twice?" That senior agent left early that day, due to a "Stomach ache". He was never seen from again 
# [12:28 AM] "You guys remember that kid with... I can't remember what it was, some kind of brain fuck-up, not Down's but something like it." Someone else brought up. "Well I got to read the report he gave when they found him a week after he went missing and it was fucked up beyond belief. I mean you have to take it with a grain of salt because who knows what that kid actually thinks is real, but some of this stuff, I don't think he could have made up." "Like what?" "Well first of all, he talked about the stairs. He said he'd been watching his dad build a fire and the stairs 'came up to him', and he had to go up them or something bad would happen. The cops couldn't really understand what he was talking about after that, because he just kept saying 'like the campfire' over and over. And he kept mentioning sounds, but he couldn't say what sounds, just that it was loud and he covered his ears so he couldn't hear them. But the thing I remember most is that they asked him where exactly he'd gone, and he just said he was right there. He kept pointing at himself, and they said they thought that meant that he thought he'd never left. He said he wasn't scared because the stairs were there and he said they talked to him, but not like people talk. Like I said, it was really convoluted and hard to understand, and I have a feeling the cops didn't take most of it down. They ended up just saying that the kid had some kind of amnesia or fugue, and that they didn't think foul play was involved. Doesn't really explain why he came back a week later perfectly fine without a speck of dirt on him and well fed, but hey, what the cops say goes."
Category:LOI
Category:DC-KEVAL
Category:DL-2
Category:Temperate Forest
Category:Woodland
Category:Cognitive Hazard
Category:High Hume Readings
Category:AOI
Category:FFOS Database
Category:Diary Log