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The original was posted on /r/highstrangeness by /u/Dismal-Yak8382 on 2025-06-04 20:32:19+00:00.

Maybe 20 year ago, prior to my wife and I getting married we went on a trip to O‘ahu Hawaii. While there we read about a place called The Haiku Stairs, which was an illegal hiking trip to an abandoned military satellite station. You had to trespass though a guarded area to get the the start of the stairs and if caught you were arrested, fined and had to appear in court. After careful review of what it was going to take to pull this off we decided to do it. This place has been demolished now, so you cant go yourself, but I always question what happened when we went.

We made it though the guarded area, and started the stairs. We read if they caught you going in you would be arrested, but if they caught you leaving you would just be warned, as you could technically legally access the stairs from areas, but that turns a day trip into a weekend trip. So once we got to the stairs we figured we had nothing to worry about. Its called the Haiku Stairs, because that’s LITTERLY what it is. It about 4000 steel stairs bolted to the side of a cliff, used to access a military communication station in the 1940s-1980s. It was made illegal to access in 1987 due to safety reasons.

We make it to the top and its getting dark, we were behind schedule and it took longer to get up there than we thought. We turn back down and by the time we are 1/2 way down its now pitch black dark. We can not see anything, there it little moon light with it behind the clouds.

Suddenly there is something next to us. Probably 20’-30’ just off the stairs we are on, its in the bushes right there. We cant see it but we can hear it moving in the brush. Its not moving towards us but is moving in the same downhill direction as us. Now remember we are on metal stairs bolted to the face of a cliff, there are no trails off to the side. Whatever is next to us is traversing the face of a brush covered cliff in pitch the pitch black of night. Its making ALOT of noise to, you can hear it breaking limbs and knocking down rocks.

Whatever this was stayed pretty much next to us the remaining way down the stairs. It we stopped it would come to a stop, it we went faster it would go faster. By the time we got to the bottom of the stairs we were waiting for something to run out of the brush and kill us in one way or another, but nothing ever happened. It vanished the moment we were off the stairs.