Remember the nursery rhyme? If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise?

What if that surprise was an eerie, isolated staircase that seemed to lead absolutely nowhere?

It's time to grab your trench coat and magnifying glasses.

We take a closer look at some of the most puzzling, unexplained mysteries that need some serious explaining.

You're listening. You're listening.

You're listening.

You'd be amazed.

Recently, the internet has been a buzz with reports of some very strange sightings in national forests around

the world, and I don't mean the animal kind. It began with a five-year-old Reddit thread posted to the

community, No Sleep. In the post, a search and rescue officer for the U.S. Forest Service

decided to tell some of his creepiest stories from the job.

By far the weirdest tale concerns numerous occasions in which he claims to have come across

isolated staircases deep in the woods where no man has ever lived.

The staircases have no other structure attached to them and look like they have fallen out of

the sky or like the rest of a house has been ripped away.

The SAR officer goes on to explain that at first, he was told the staircases were nothing to worry about.

But the next time he asked to check them out, he was told by his superiors never to go near them.

People in the replies chimed in with their own creepy staircase experiences.

Although most were situated across America, soon reports of similar staircases found Brazil, Portugal, and the Philippines were posted.

There are several theories about why these staircases might exist. The first, and perhaps most

logical explanation, is that they are simply the foundations left behind by long-loss settlements

after the rest of the surrounding structure has rotted. However, it seems odd that there's

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