Most people don't know this, but there is no law prohibiting you from just taking any ominous stairs you happen upon in the woods. I have like 20 of them at home already.
(I'm stacking them to hopefully one day reach hell)
Well, somebody get someone to dispatch a Mobile Task Force stat, or we're going to end up with some eldritch abomination popping through a portal, tap dancing down those stairs and eating everyone's eyeballs. I mean, we're probably going to end up with that anyway, but I'd feel a lot more comfortable knowing there's a MTF on standby.
I was gonna say... All the comments here are people wanting to ascend the stairs. You NEVER ascend the stairs. You stay the hell away from them! Only bad things come from messing with random stairs in the woods. Has no one here read the Search and Rescue Officer stories on Reddit?!
Here's the beginning of his series. The last story on this page is about the stairs, but if you continue reading his other posts in the series, he eventually meets another SAR officer who goes into depth about horror stories involving the stairs.