The Wooden Stairs

Horror Stories - The Wooden Stairs

Wooden Stairs is the urban legend of Japanese on an apartment where the occupants are always left it within a week. An old apartment building in Japanese has 7 floors. The apartment was very small and did not have a lift. There is only a large wooden staircase and each household that has seven foothold.

On the first floor of this building, there is a room apartment facing directly with this staircase. The apartment owners were manage is always having trouble finding residents who live in the apartment room. Whenever he hopes there are people living much longer, the occupants definitely went without any apparent reason. Every residents who live over there always leave the apartment not more than a week since renting.

One day, a young man searching for an empty apartment. He was a student and did not have much money. The apartment was very small and the owner gave a very cheap the cost of renting so that the young man decided to take this chance and moved into it in a few days later. The first day of this young man moved to the right on Monday. At night, he was awakened from his sleep by a strange sound. That sounds like the voice of a little boy, echoed near the front steps of his door.

"I've stepped on the first step wooden staircase," said the voice.

"What kind of boy who did this in the middle of the night and have not been sleeping?" The young man said to himself. But, he was so sleepy that night so do not ignore it and just continue his sleep.

On the next night, he was awakened again by the same voice. "The second step of this staircase I've already stepped on."

On Wednesday night, it was sound of Screech. "The third step of this staircase I've already stepped on."

The young man jumped out of his bed and ran into the front door. When he opened the door and looked out, the stairs was empty. All kinds of thoughts began to appear in his mind. "Could it be the stairs was haunted?"

And it goes the same continued in the fourth, fifth, and sixth.

Every night, this young man definitely heard the voice of the boy. Each time, getting closer and closer.

Sunday night finally arrived and the young man began to fear on his bed. He felt he had to move out, but he convinced himself that he must be brave. He rejected the fear that out of his mind because it was creepy sound. When in the middle of the night, he awakened by something pawing at the door.

A voice then Screech out. "I've got stepping the seventh of this staircase!"

Chilling this young man suddenly tensed when he heard the front door that had been locked now slid open. The next morning, the owner of the apartment came to collect the rents. When he was knocked on the apartment door, no answer though. Suspecting something had happened, he opened the door with a spare key and enter into it. Seen in the bed, he found the occupants already lying dead over there. His face showed the extreme fear. The police came and inspect his corpse, but could not find cause of his death. It just seems like this young man died because of fear.

The apartment was still empty until now, waiting for the occupants. A year passed, all the occupants who ever lived, went before to a week. They all said that they left because of fear something will happen when the voice was arrived at the seventh stepping. There were only two who know what really happened, The young man who died and the unknown who climbed the wooden staircase every night.