Papa Meat giving Wendigoon an existential crisis by recontextualising his childhood experience of almost finding a dead body in the woods was the best part, it was great
Going back and seeing how nice Isaiah was to Hunter from the first episode, to the most current episode where he's berating Hunter into believing he isn't fat by psuedo-bullying him with compliments is quite the character study xD
Not only that but look at how their clothes contrast. Papa got the simple black shirt with red graphic while wendigoon got that swanky colorful hawaiian. A perfect blend
Rewatching this 7 months later, right after their newest post of "Feed the Pig", this a petition to redo this story in the current format you guys use! Please, I'm begging.
Isaiah is like a walking Wikipedia and a great storyteller. And Hunter has the ability to paint pictures in your head while being hilarious! I love that this podcast started😊
@@wolfmerlot-hx3crhonestly? Probably not that much money or time. You can buy pre cut kits for stairs at Home Depot/ Lowe’s I’m pretty sure. I know wood prices were crazy during the pandemic but idk probably not much more than 200 bucks for the materials? Plus a skilled carpenter could bang out a staircase in a day for sure
Should just start paying our local carpenters to put em in the woods 😂😂 don’t think it would take much for it to start becoming a craze if some madman takes the first step
Echoing what some of the other comments have said, I would personally love it if you guys read excerpts of the pieces during the podcast, and then gave your thoughts about each section. Doesn't have to be the whole story or even as highly produced as the Ted the Caver video you both did. Just a bit of guidance for those who haven't read the story yet. Great first episode, really enjoying the show so far!
They are both already amazing but I think this would take it to another level! Wendigoon is one of the few people that keep my attention the whole time. Great job guys, really. So entertaining the whole way through.
@@k8schebel04 I discovered Wendigoon through their Ted the Caver video but I think he has a great mind for this kind of storytelling/story examination stuff they’re doing, but I agree for sure it would be nice to hear more of the text itself. Tbh if Hunter is involved I’ll probably listen regardless tho, love that fella :)
This is just insane to me, I don’t really know how to describe the feeling or how crazy it is, I’ve just loved both of these people separately for so long as content creators, I respect their content, and over the past few years seeing them go from separate types of content to repetitively collaborating together and now having a podcast. It’s just cool as hell
@@HippytheKid419the difference is that actually feels like a podcast This is more like a show or a “RUclips video” in the common sense where they’re just doing a collaboration but it’s 2 hours long I like this a lot more because it gives you an excuse to read these stories before watching the episode
as a writer, I love how you guys break down the narrative building going on in this particular story, like how it’s not completely nonsensical, there are patterns and rules being created and repeated. It really inspires me.
Same! At least for me, it further reinforces the importance of respecting the intelligence of your audience. The little, devilish details will matter and can often provide the greatest satisfaction to your readers to see all the puzzle pieces come together.
I love how so many of these creatures are just very calm and asking for directions. Like they got lost in the woods one day and now their wandering through time being very lost.
It never even occurred to me that The Stairs in the Woods were a horror thing. Growing up in rural New England I walked in the woods and found stairs in the woods all the time, they were from old collapsed buildings that only had foundations left, so I just ignored everything about these stories
honestly, the stairs were always the LEAST interesting part of the original r/nosleep series to me and now that you say it, that's almost definitely why (also from rural New England, spent a lot of my teen years exploring the remains of abandoned farms and such that were often deep in the woods and rarely found anything more dangerous than deer ticks or soft spots in rotted old wood)
Yeah I grew up in a small township that was a larger city in the late 1800s early 1900s and was a massive fire that burned the whole city down in the early 1900s and there are little concrete steps in the woods in places it is kind of eerie but that's as far as I would put it.
One of the seeds planted that I noticed sprout later on that I've never seen anyone mention is how a guy went up a set of stairs and had his hand sliced clean off, and they never found the hand. Later on in the story the NPS sells a plot of land to a logging company and they find a perfectly preserved severed hand in one of the trees. Such a fun detail!
Tangents like "Ted the Caver is a vaping frat bro" and "if Wendigoon found the dead body then he'd have a normal job" are why I only listen to podcasts where the hosts are allowed to go off-topic. Also: Potential sequel to "Five Nights At Markiplier's" with Markiplier in the woods meowing and Ethan Nestor backflipping towards a SAR officer?
this is the perfect podcast. a lot of podcasts are so unplanned and conversational that they’re hard to pay attention to or so informational and static that they’re boring. this has interesting general topics with funny banter intertwined. i love this so much and am so excited for more episodes
Dude, you nailed it. They covered a wide range of stuff while having fun and still managed to stay on topic. Too many podcasts branch off to someone's home life or something like that for 20 minutes before getting back on track.
Hey guys! I loved this first episode but I noticed around 1:46:06 Papa Meats mic completely cuts off and you can only hear Wendigoons breathing and small "mhm"s and stuff, I thought it was a bit! 😭
I was just listening to the video around that part and I thought it was a painfully awkward silence over the fact that he already knew what he was talking about💀
The idea of a staircase just sliding through the woods is pretty amusing, but consider instead the idea of the stairs moving in a way that looks like an escalator with the steps rolling down into the ground to propel the staircase along like a large tracked vehicle but is absolutely dead silent in the process. The idea of the phrase "The staircase crept up on me" is hilarious to think of conceptually but absolutely nightmarish to imagine in motion.
That is such a crazy visual dude, you are a genius. I can almost imagine a droning infrasound as it moves, driving the audience insane. I was thinking of it like the wood panels splitting up into jagged limbs, kinda like the house in the movie Monster House.
The way you described the stairs as feeling like a memory or a dream really resonates with my experiences exploring my grandfather's abandoned farm house. Walking through dilapidated rooms and seeing photos of your family members still hung on the walls or your mother's childhood toys spread across her old bedroom floor gave me such a sickening feeling that still to this day disturbs me just thinking about it. This was a fantastic first episode, and I look forward to watching your next episode!
Ever since I’ve heard about the stairs I wondered if it could ever be like a portal to an alternate reality where if you get to the top then in the original universe you would become the lost person and you wouldn’t be found anymore, but in the new universe the person you’re searching for disappears and everything in your reality becomes unfamiliar all of a sudden because of the emotions of loss that you feel and feeling as though it’s your fault because they knew you went up those stairs. Just the stories alone of the stairs, even though they’re outlandish, it always reminds me of after I lost my grandma the world was still spinning but you feel defeated that your world stops, and the series really gives off that world stopping vibe to me.
was at this abandoned rehabilitation/town sorta thing and it was like everyone just up and left one day. all their documents were still in the cabinets, there were still coats hung up, some houses were still fully furnished. it makes you wonder why they ever left in the first place
For some reason it's the first 30min for me, and it's NOT cause I find it boring or anything, it's just been rewinded so often none of what they talk about makes sense to me anymore 😭
This is my fourth time listening because I keep falling asleep, but I didn't want to miss it! It's just me being tired, I love the story and the gooncanyon reactions
@@artimus4198 it’s the best thing that can happen when two real friends are just chatting, because it can go that deep because they know each other, and then they realize they are in a podcast and are like “oh shit”
Congrats on starting the new podcast! It’s gonna be epic! I have one suggestion: I think it would be much better if you read the excerpt of the story and then talked about it. I’m familiar with the story, so I could follow along okay, but this will definitely be confusing for people who haven’t heard of the stairs in the woods before. This would make the podcast more immersive as well!
Agreed, the other video they did with the cave explorers was way more digestible as someone who never heard of it. This video I was lost all the way through.
i love Red Thread but this dynamic is iconic; i can’t put into words how excited i was after binging their collabs through the halloween season and hearing that we were finally getting consistent long-form content with the two
I picture the stairs "moving towards" the kid as a telescopic perspective shift that basically results in his view warping for a few seconds from where the stairs were into the distance and almost zooming in on them with tunnel vision and when he recovers his surrounding vision it's in front of him.
If yall want to cover "My property isn't normal", that would be so cool. It's the perfect example of a creepypasta that is very self aware and subverts a lot of tropes that many other creepypasta fall into. Allways been one of my favorites.
That’s my absolute favorite of all time. It’s just a ball of tropes all the way down to a literal slender man encounter. Lots of humor but also some legitimately scary stuff. Skinny is both horrifying and hilarious to me.
I loved the portion of the video where you guys talking about the stairs being something oddly familiar to everyone. It instantly brought back a memory of when I was a child exploring the woods and I came across a white picket fence (old and disheveled looking but still standing) surrounding a small empty square of land. There was a house number on the front gate of the fence and a disheveled mail box. But no house. Just a fence surrounding a place where a house SHOULD be. Very weird and something I'll never forget.
I went hiking up in camp Comer, north Alabama area, and not only were there multiple chimneys and foundations, but also a place called moon rock, called that because It was cratered liked the surface of the moon. I was like 12 so I didn't take pictures, but I'm sure they exist somewhere.
There is a town in PA called Centralia. Because a fire started in the mines beneath the town, the town was ordered to be evacuated. You can visit the town where roads lead to nothing, and it looks like it's straight out of Silent Hill.
my favorite part was 1:46:08 where hunter's audio is broke and you can hear wendigoon scritching his beard lol really good stuff boyos, enjoyed the whole thing!
I love this channel and I'm glad you've changed it to where you are having the whole text on display and are actually reading the story, unlike this video! it makes it 100 times better.
Nice to see Meat and Wendigoon putting themselves out there on multiple different podcasts and looking so lively. Hearing Hunter on older Cream Crew episodes saying how dejected he feels constantly then over the last year or two really visibly becoming a more satisfied person does tug on the hear strings. Not to forget about Isaiah being/becoming a powerhouse and household figure in the online horror zeitgeist, It's looks like they both genuinely are enjoying their recent endeavors. Great work both of you and Cheers to many more fantastic works! 🍻 Also, Shoutout to Cream Crew, Stretch and Fade, and The Red Thread everyone should check them out if they haven't already, if you're ravenous for more of the boys.
My head cannon for why the main character is so worried about loosing the job is that once you know too much loosing your job probably means ending up as another missing person case.
oh, as in, if he stops being a ranger and stop’s regularly going into the woods he’s scared he’ll fall victim? yeah because they (as far as i know rn) none of the rangers die or get into too serious encounters
@cloud5544 Wait, like the ranger organization struck some sort of pact with the phenomena that prevents them from hurting their personnel? That's actually a really cool idea
Honestly not trying to be a grammar Nazi but just for future reference, loose is only a noun, meaning not tight. To loosen is a verb to make something less tight. Lose means not winning, or misplacing/something being removed. Losing his job is the phrase you're looking for! Also same with losing weight/lose weight, losing at chess/lose at chess, losing track of time/lose track of time; vs. Loosening a belt/loosen a belt, loosening up/loosen up, etc. Also just wanted to say your idea there is cool and a good point, and I love it
@@maleniabeardofmiquella i dont know about pact with the paranormal, but as the ranger station agreed on not talking about it or documenting it, it seems like the rangers are ok and the public are like “up got grabs” when it comes to the forrest/paranormal choosing people
Not gonna lie, I totally believed this story and when I was a teenager listening to narrated spooky Reddit stories to fall asleep, which I still do to this day, but this one will always hold a special place in my heart
Cannot wait for future episodes, my boyfriend and I have a couple of small critiques. We would love to have the excerpts read so we can have the context because we haven’t read The Stairs in the Woods, kind of like Ted the caver. It felt as though we had to do homework to understand it. If you guys read more of the excerpts it would make it more accessible to anyone at anytime. And the editing!! I loved what Nick (and papa meats team) did with the Ted the caver episode. It made it more engaging and immersive. I would love to see more of that in this! Other than that, love it and we are so excited for more!!!
That would make more sense if they put out info before the podcast so you can read it before. It is very weird that windi didn't read it I fully thought that's why it was 2 hrs
This was me and my wife’s favorite show back in 1832. Though she’s passed it makes me happy that the rebooted it with the original cast. They both look so young still despite being ancient creatures
Things I think would improve the podcast: -Link the story in the description -Read along as you describe like you did the Ted the Caver story This was a new story to me and you didn't give me much to go off as you described it. Still enjoyed hearing you discuss, but I'd like to see these more accessible in the future.
I see House of Leaves, I believe, on Wendigoon's desk. Very good choice. And Slappy in the background of Meat. Love it all so much. Also, love this story and this topic. Thanks for the video!
I don't think she's going to continue the story anymore. She replied to a reddit comment asking if she'll write more, saying: "Nope, probably not! I've transitioned into art and find it a lot more rewarding for now. Thank you, though!" I'm happy she found an avenue of expression she loves! I'm bummed there's probably not going to be more lore.
Coming back to this first episode after watching all the others week by week, this podcast has arguably become my favorite period, and compared to what’s to come, this story is very lighthearted lol
Its crazy to me the creativity of people to imagine this, I grew up in rural Georgia and learned to shoot a rifle from the top of some stairs in the middle of the woods that were from a civil war era grain mill. I spent entire hunting seasons on the top of those stairs never thinking anything of it. Now working with search and rescue groups its awesome hearing about these stories.
@@ibuprofentabs Tbh not really, I do have one spooky story but It doesn’t involve the stairs, long short of it I heard voices that couldn’t have been there due to the geography of the area and streams blocking off access but thats the only time ive ever heard anything abnormal. The only reason it stands out to me was its the only time I haven’t been able to explain everything away.
Crazy how this story hasn't made you paranoid about doing that kinda work! But maybe it's just me. 😂 Thank you for your service! Also, shout out fellow Georgian! Born in ATL 🤜🤛
As others have said, reading select excerpts from future stories would be nice, but I think a kind of read ahead post would be nice. Almost like a spooky book club. When you guys record post somewhere the story that’ll be discussed and followers can read/listen if they haven’t and be on the same page as you two minus the extra research. Perhaps recommend videos covering these stories from RUclipsrs you two appreciate if applicable.
Other than suggestion, I really enjoyed the episode. I have listened to all of the parts of this story before so I was able to follow along pretty well. I’m happily surprised with your guy’s dynamic for two people I didn’t think interacted prior to this.
Definitely possible, just seems like an odd viewing experience versus these minor changes or features they could Implement. Giving the ending of the second episode they seem to agree with the read ahead idea, which I believed to make the most sense.@@vorbo01
47:04 I was talking to a friend about creepy stories and when I mentioned the forest stairs she went, "OMG," went silent for awhile, then 20 minutes later sent me pictures of forest stairs. Apparently during her walks through the woods she encounters them frequently and decided to run out to get some pictures she could show me after I mentioned them.
I live in rural Alabama, and I've seen it here. Old houses were dismantled or burnt, and only the stairs were left. Granted, you find a lot more chimney and fireplaces but I've seen stairs
I’ve never seen them by themselves, there’s usually a few other remnants of a house, but I did see a full chimney and fireplace just sitting there once. Whatever happened to that house wasn’t enough to take all of it down apparently.
Honestly it feels nice to come back to the roots of the podcast, so much things i did't even remember, like they didn't even read the story at first, they were just discussing it. Nevertheless it just feels so satisfying to see things fall in their place, Hunter taking charge of voicing characters and wendigoon of the narration, the gags forming and the guys in general finding their footing and becoming more comfortable with the podcast. it's almost unbelievable that it has almost been a year. The best podcast there is!!!! keep up the good work!!!
these guys have great chemistry. Its been so much fun watching them branch out over the years and work with other people and im so glad they found eachother
Such a great first episode you two! Really awesome listen to. My only small critique is that I was hoping for passage reading excerpts like with Ted the Cave, those really helped to contextualize and set the mood for certain things (maybe the way TSitW is structured did not lend itself to that style. I have not read it myself). Other than that small, small, small thing, loved it, and cannot wait for the next episode from your two. The chemistry and levels of fun you two have is freaking great!
I was expecting them to open with reading an excerpt lol, the only reason I knew the actual story was bc I recently watched Wendigoons video on it recently😅. Still watched the whole thing tho :) I still might go read the the whole thing.
Honestly having full readings of the stories that came after this one makes me really wish this hadn't been first so maybe we'd actually get to hear these stories. Maybe one day they'll re-do this, hopefully.
I’m going to say this and it’s going to come across way worse than I mean it. But having only seen Meat Canyon’s animated content, he’s a pleasantly charismatic normal person. Glad I found this!
i get what you mean lol. i always hated meatcanyon videos because they just really disturbed me, but i was very happy to find out that papa meat is a super chill dude who has a podcast with my favorite youtuber :D
Just read this and I'm half way through I'm now very sad reading this knowing in the next 1 hour left I'm still going to be clueless.... This was good but the cave guy how they read then talked read then talked and so on it was so immersive I def preferred that one over this. This just seemed like a giant spitball or just almost like 2 men met at a waffle house / IHOP and just started talking about stuff they just remember. Still fun but no where near immersive like the Cave Guy one.
I think of this as book club where you have to go read it beforehand. But there's great narrators on youtube! The Dark Somnium, Mr.Creeps, Lighthouse Horror... Pretty sure this story has been covered by every big narrator
Back when corpse husband was actually good, he did a video on it way back in the days. I suggest watching it, because with his voice is soooo damn good!
Corpse read the whole thing a couple of years back (I think about 6 years ago), and it's really good 10/10, I recommend it if you don't want to go looking up the written story
45:22 “If your golf club would’ve smacked into the side of a dead body, you would be at an H&R Block right now….but now you’re chasing the high.” Is a fucking WILD sentence out of context
ive realized this episode has become one of my comfort videos... when I'm having a bad day and don't feel like rumaging through youtube for something to watch I just come back to this lol
Bits that amuse me: 7:00 F the job! 10:56 'animal' + 'man' = a bad time, every time 20:11 the FACELESS man! side note: the faceless man's description reminded me of The Thing's iconic movie poster 24:18 cue insect coughing 25:43 complete chaos 40:11 Wendi's origin story begins 43:34 CAR SALESMAN or papa meat psychologically breaking down Wendigoon 48:43 More lives lost to THE FLESH 54:31 Children make for poor witnesses 57:09 The meowing man 59:30 MEOW 1:03:03 "My walk away situation" 1:10:16 Just run away! The job isn't worth it! 1:13:07 LA Noire 1:14:52 "sea shanty round table of horrible things" 1:16:44 Nothing but a normal disembowelment/"see his gutty works" 1:18:25 There's a fuzzy man now?! 1:21:20 Getting rejected by the fuzzy man 1:22:31 Did KD almost become a wendigo? 1:52:27 From wendigo to Ed Edd n Eddy 2:00:43 Moving staircase!
Thank you so much for this. I was trying to find the fuzzy man clip but forgot where it was. I was hoping someone in the comments would have timestamps.
Y’all did great with this, you’re a good duo. Keeping 2+ hours moving with flow is super hard for first time podcasters and you’re just naturally good storytellers and conversationalists. Can’t wait to see more as you evolve and tighten it up further.
I think I remember that one! The "not deer" where something is just wrong, but there are also the sub categories of "what used to be a deer" and "something that never was a deer" where the former shows you can still recognise some features of the deer that make it recognisable and the latter being when you're too close to it you realise that there is nothing deer like about it, it never was a deer, and now you see it properly you wonder how you ever mistook it for one
@scathachbeagbain6431 I remember a quick green text on this kinda. To summarize it was a kid out hunting with his grandpa. Kid sees a deer, deer suddenly starts slamming head into a rock until it breaks its own jaw/face real bad. The deer stands up on two feet and runs away. Grandpa and kid both saw that happen, they never ho hunt again.
It would be cool to sometimes include a third person on the podcast who has not studied up on the material so they can ask questions and request elaboration on certain topics. A lot of podcasts do that and it seems to work really well for the dynamic instead of just two experts passing information back and forth. Just a thought idk. Love this first episode can’t wait for more!
The Back Flipping Man just makes me think Spider Man busted a drug deal and got hit with a face full of coke, then just went nuts. Search & Rescue makes me think of what it must be like to be a normie in the SCP or X-Files universe. Just being unfortunate enough to land a job in a wacky place like the STALKER Zone or something but, fuck, those benefits, bro. I'm absolutely loving the chill, casual chat format for the show. Aren't tryharding and trying to make it scarier by ASMR whispering at me or putting on spooky music. I did like the cave ambience edits in the Ted the Caver readings but, for the most part, just letting the contents of the stories flow then sharing y'alls own interpretations and creative thoughts is surprisingly immersive on its own. Helps get the creativity flowing and explore new perspectives I hadn't considered before. Plus, y'all have incredible chemistry and it's great that more is done than simply reading off Reddit posts. My favorite moments are y'all tossing jokes back and forth and, again, sharing your unique thoughts on the content. Awesome start! Thank y'all for taking the time to create and share this, and I'm looking forward to what's next!
I'm about halfway through listening to this video and it's bringing back so many memories all at once. I listened to a read aloud of all six or seven hours worth of these stories back in middle school, and I still remember several of them now as I'm nearly twenty. I think the one that haunts me the most is the couple who were hiking, and across on another cliff in the park they see a man who's free climbing up a cliff with NO GEAR, not even a backpack, and he gets to the top of the cliff, looks over at them, smiles, then he jacknifes bending the wrong way, and jumps right off the cliff. They couldn't see the ground below him from where they were and they went to report it to a park ranger. The rangers go out and look, the couple were confident as to where they were and identified the location on a map, but the rangers never found a body. That one scared the hell out of me when I was 14 I couldn't get the image of that guy out of my head for like a week
@@JaredLetoSelfSuck the video I listened to is not as long as I incorrectly remembered, and it's on a channel called Let's Read. The title is the same as the title of the reddit post, the "I'm a park service worker" or however it goes. The thumbnail is an image of stairs, I believe.
I was reading this series as it came out, and it was fantastic! For the hand in the tree thing, I always thought it was implied that it was that guys' hand when he went up a set of stairs and lost it. I have no idea why it was in the tree years later, and not just, under the bark, but *inside* the tree!
I'm so happy for Hunter being able to make time to read these stories. I can already imagjne how this will give so much good material for his already amazing art.
work night shifts with a crew cleaning empty office buildings. years ago before thanksgiving break, the crew and i listened to an audio version of this story and it creeped us all the hell out, which spiraled into one coworker telling us her own creepy stories from growing up in rural az. now every year before the break its tradition to find and listen to creepy pastas. this story will always be a favorite of mine and i’m glad the dudes chose it to start with.
You probably have some weird/creepy/scary stories to tell too, working nightshift. All of my friends that ever worked nights have at least one crazy story. I've worked night shift at a couple of places and i've seen the crazies that go bump in the night 😂 Mainly drunks or meth-heads(or whatever they were on..), but it was a circus !
@@Eisenwulf666 got plenty of stories to tell! specially since we’re fairly certain one of the buildings is haunted and no one will go into one of the offices alone. we’ve all seen and heard strange things, and of course, dealing with weird people who like to hang around empty buildings at night.
You know, regarding the "insect coughing", I was hearing 'deeper' and 'rhythmic' and I thought of the noise the sand worm made in the new Dune movie. When it's looming over Paul and it makes that rhythmic thumping noise in its throat. Imagine hearing that coming from seemingly nowhere.
Guys I first came across this story through a corpse husband video 5 years ago and I genuinely have gone the past 5 years thinking all of the things he talks about in the story are real, so I guess thank you for taking that fear away from me and also just the amazing stories and videos
you are my 2 favorite creators please keep doing this podcast no matter what. This podcast is litterally my dreams manifested. Thank you so much papa meat & wendigoon!
Maybe once the podcast takes off, you could do an interview with the author(especially since they are finishing the story). Maybe even more about "creepy pasta writers" and why they choose that format, than the stairs story. I liked the moral at the end "The woods are scary, for good reasons, that we don't always understand. Be warned."
This was the first piece of internet horror I really got into, and it’s probably greatly changed the course of my life by its ripple effect. Love to see you guys covering it!
I live in BC, a province in Canada, in the Pacific Northwest. It’s beautiful here, the forrest’s and wild life are a huge part of my childhood as I grew up in Scouting. For those unfamiliar we have Beavers 5-7yrs, Cub Scouts 8-10yrs, Scouts 11-14yrs, Venturers 15-17, and Rovers 18-26. I started as a Beaver at 5, and ultimately ended my scouting journey as a Scout at 13/14 after a huge decline in my mental health. I am 17 now and these stories are extremely nostalgic, I can visualize all of the scenarios very vividly, a lot of the early stories I can really imagine happening and that terrifies me, but fascinates me! I loved my time in Scouts and I love where I live but the truth is, we CAN’T really know what’s out there in those woods, those forests, but we are taught how to get found if something happens. If you are ever lost or stranded by your group, HUG A TREE. STAY PUT! DO NOT MOVE DO NOT KEEP WALKING!! We are taught to go back to where we saw them last, if you stay put we have such a higher chance of finding you then if you wander deeper into the woods and farther off the path.
Been refreshing waiting for the first one for weeks now, and this ep did not disappoint. Hunter meowing alone made this an S tier ep. Strong opener for the channel for sure
The visual of a huge Victorian staircase, not only in the woods, but PLOWING its way through the woods while playing classic British tunes, is simultaneously goofy as hell and horrifying. Like, if those stairs hit you, you're getting PULVERIZED.
This first episode was absolutely amazing from two extremely entertaining storytellers. You guys killed it and I can’t wait to see what you do in the future!
Papa Meat giving Wendigoon an existential crisis by recontextualising his childhood experience of almost finding a dead body in the woods was the best part, it was great
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And it's so on point for both of them. Typical Papa, typical Wendi.
The stairs in the woods was one of the first videos I ever watched from Wendigoon, and I'm so excited to see him and Papa Meat revisit it
Yay
same!!
Especially since Wendy was sick that day. 😂
SAME!! I’m so excited for this!!
fr that was the one that got me hooked to Wendigoon
Wendigoon: "have you heard about mothman?" Isaiah from accounting: "did you know when i was 11 i found a dead body?"
LMFAO. Why accounting specifically?
most of the religious people i talk to are accountants @@mrfox6662
@@mrfox6662Someone wasn't paying attention to the podcast lol
😂😂😂😂😂
No don’t lie. He ALMOST found A FAMILY FRIENDS dead body… 😂
Going back and seeing how nice Isaiah was to Hunter from the first episode, to the most current episode where he's berating Hunter into believing he isn't fat by psuedo-bullying him with compliments is quite the character study xD
Lol which vid was that?
Yes! It's fascinating rewatching this.
Papa Meat's room: neon lights, deco wallpaper, and a CRT tv.
Wendigoon's room: beige walls, black furniture, and THREE whiteboards.
LOVE it. 😂
And we can't forget the skeleton, chilling on a chair
Not only that but look at how their clothes contrast. Papa got the simple black shirt with red graphic while wendigoon got that swanky colorful hawaiian. A perfect blend
The duality of man
@@postscriptum6901Skeleton? That's just Kayla. She's been on Keto for a few months.
And the wallpaper in Papa Meats side is the same pattern of the carpet in Ths Shining 😊
Watching this again 8 months later and seconding the petition to redo Stairs in the Woods in the current format please!
i second this
i agree
Current format?
This should have been the special 😫
What's the current format
Wendigoon uncontrollably giggling at Hunter's jokes is so wholesome I love this
My farts are better than Iceberg Boy’s farts 💨
That was the worst part to me. He’s forcing himself to laugh at the brutally unfunny jokes. I had to turn it off less than half way through
@@Ooochocincoyah it wendigoons weakness but it comes from a good heart. but it is one of my pet peeves that a lot of people do.
hahahahahhaaaaa... hell yeah dude...
Yes I love it he’s so cute lol
Rewatching this 7 months later, right after their newest post of "Feed the Pig", this a petition to redo this story in the current format you guys use! Please, I'm begging.
Why did the story get updated or something?
@Ginfeldi No, they have just refined their flow, their formula. The way they do videos currently has improved greatly over their first couple videos.
@@Froggy_Bomb I was hoping they would read it. Not just talk about it.
@@auroraborealis6671 Yeah, exactly. Like the way they do now
That’s why I came here hoping they’d read it.
Meatgoon is something I never thought would be this epic. Love you guys!
Im a goon for the meat goon
Dontcall it that
@@sirllamaiii9708Alright, Wendimeat it is!
@@sirllamaiii9708Wendicanyon?
Who up goonin they meat
Isaiah is like a walking Wikipedia and a great storyteller. And Hunter has the ability to paint pictures in your head while being hilarious!
I love that this podcast started😊
Their skills come together to paint a great story
As a carpenter, I’ve always had an evil little thought to create a staircase in the woods
How much would that cost and how long would it take you think?
@@wolfmerlot-hx3crhonestly? Probably not that much money or time. You can buy pre cut kits for stairs at Home Depot/ Lowe’s I’m pretty sure. I know wood prices were crazy during the pandemic but idk probably not much more than 200 bucks for the materials? Plus a skilled carpenter could bang out a staircase in a day for sure
Should just start paying our local carpenters to put em in the woods 😂😂 don’t think it would take much for it to start becoming a craze if some madman takes the first step
Depends on where but around here it would 100% be turned into a deer stand within a week.
Do it!….and take pictures.
I'm coming back to older episodes to reminisce about the happy days before they did the Borasca episodes
That bad? Just started
coming back after watching pen pal..... i miss joy
@@hystericluci7345 Same. Yeah. Same. I also have watched all of Borasca not too long ago.
"Surely OP is exaggerating "
Few hours later
"I don't know if I can listen to this podcast anymore"
In fairness, those were very good stories but had such downer endings. I cried at the end of Penpal.
so great to see rhett and link back at it with the second channel. i always loved the darker content
LMFAO
🤣🤣🤣
Ok, but which ones Rhett and which ones Link in this situation?
@@awkwardukulele6077based visually I’d assume curly brown hair is Rhett and Meat, then black and straight hair is Wendi and link
This is a perfect comparison
1:46:00 this part though, such a good point Hunter
I thought my video was messed up LMAO
I was crying at this part
..............yeah............mhm
So insightful
papa meat always know what to say to get us hooked in the story
Echoing what some of the other comments have said, I would personally love it if you guys read excerpts of the pieces during the podcast, and then gave your thoughts about each section. Doesn't have to be the whole story or even as highly produced as the Ted the Caver video you both did. Just a bit of guidance for those who haven't read the story yet. Great first episode, really enjoying the show so far!
Agreed! Agreed!
yea ngl i thought their gonna do like a quick synopsis of the story but just ended up summarizing the whole thing lol
Yesssss I 100% agree!!!
They are both already amazing but I think this would take it to another level! Wendigoon is one of the few people that keep my attention the whole time. Great job guys, really. So entertaining the whole way through.
@@k8schebel04 I discovered Wendigoon through their Ted the Caver video but I think he has a great mind for this kind of storytelling/story examination stuff they’re doing, but I agree for sure it would be nice to hear more of the text itself. Tbh if Hunter is involved I’ll probably listen regardless tho, love that fella :)
45:15 "if your golf club smacked into the side of a dead body, you would be at H&R Block right now"
Hunter's audio cuts at 1:46:06 this is a great podcast and i look forward to more!
I thought that was a gag or something 😂
I think it's intentional;. RUclips probably didn't like what they were talking about.
Came to the comments to see
Glad this wasn't me having a stroke. A collective other force tampering with reality is possible, but I'm glad its not just me :3
RUclips sabotage 🙄
This is just insane to me, I don’t really know how to describe the feeling or how crazy it is, I’ve just loved both of these people separately for so long as content creators, I respect their content, and over the past few years seeing them go from separate types of content to repetitively collaborating together and now having a podcast. It’s just cool as hell
Same feeling with him Jackson and Charlie
Same, I’m excited to see where this channel goes
@@HippytheKid419the difference is that actually feels like a podcast
This is more like a show or a “RUclips video” in the common sense where they’re just doing a collaboration but it’s 2 hours long
I like this a lot more because it gives you an excuse to read these stories before watching the episode
You should try going outside
@@StakeFromJateFarm woah mate good one
as a writer, I love how you guys break down the narrative building going on in this particular story, like how it’s not completely nonsensical, there are patterns and rules being created and repeated. It really inspires me.
Same! At least for me, it further reinforces the importance of respecting the intelligence of your audience. The little, devilish details will matter and can often provide the greatest satisfaction to your readers to see all the puzzle pieces come together.
right! it makes me put extra notice into the smaller details that just add a uniquely masterful flavor to a story
I love how so many of these creatures are just very calm and asking for directions. Like they got lost in the woods one day and now their wandering through time being very lost.
You love that? I absolutely hate it 😂 that’s gotta be the worst thing that could happen to someone.
@brittnay279 I mean yes it probably is, but it beats them killing me everyday of the week.
the amount of of hype for this podcast is completely justified. can't wait for more episodes
Y E S
I got no hype 🤣 I just saw it and thought “what? How did I not know of this?”
It never even occurred to me that The Stairs in the Woods were a horror thing. Growing up in rural New England I walked in the woods and found stairs in the woods all the time, they were from old collapsed buildings that only had foundations left, so I just ignored everything about these stories
possible inspiration for the author
honestly, the stairs were always the LEAST interesting part of the original r/nosleep series to me and now that you say it, that's almost definitely why (also from rural New England, spent a lot of my teen years exploring the remains of abandoned farms and such that were often deep in the woods and rarely found anything more dangerous than deer ticks or soft spots in rotted old wood)
When I saw the ‘see more’ I thought you were going to write your own short story lol
Yeah I grew up in a small township that was a larger city in the late 1800s early 1900s and was a massive fire that burned the whole city down in the early 1900s and there are little concrete steps in the woods in places it is kind of eerie but that's as far as I would put it.
@@KarlNefffYeah those particular stairs in England are probably the same exact stairs the author saw before thinking to write this story, I agree.
One of the seeds planted that I noticed sprout later on that I've never seen anyone mention is how a guy went up a set of stairs and had his hand sliced clean off, and they never found the hand. Later on in the story the NPS sells a plot of land to a logging company and they find a perfectly preserved severed hand in one of the trees. Such a fun detail!
yeah! i like how she insinuated the missing people being used to create these monsters, like the meat person with hair.
@@cloud5544 Ooh I didn't even consider that!
Tangents like "Ted the Caver is a vaping frat bro" and "if Wendigoon found the dead body then he'd have a normal job" are why I only listen to podcasts where the hosts are allowed to go off-topic.
Also: Potential sequel to "Five Nights At Markiplier's" with Markiplier in the woods meowing and Ethan Nestor backflipping towards a SAR officer?
This episode made me feel like I was part of a book club. Except I didn’t read any of the books before the meeting. Wonderful job, fellas 🤝
I got super lucky because I dove down this rabbit hole a few years ago. They put you where you need to be regardless of having read these or not.
My farts are better than Iceberg Boy’s farts 💨
this is the perfect podcast. a lot of podcasts are so unplanned and conversational that they’re hard to pay attention to or so informational and static that they’re boring. this has interesting general topics with funny banter intertwined. i love this so much and am so excited for more episodes
Dude, you nailed it. They covered a wide range of stuff while having fun and still managed to stay on topic.
Too many podcasts branch off to someone's home life or something like that for 20 minutes before getting back on track.
Hey guys! I loved this first episode but I noticed around 1:46:06 Papa Meats mic completely cuts off and you can only hear Wendigoons breathing and small "mhm"s and stuff, I thought it was a bit! 😭
Right I thought I was going crazy and no one had noticed
Same
yerp
I was just listening to the video around that part and I thought it was a painfully awkward silence over the fact that he already knew what he was talking about💀
I was just thinking this!
You know Dan is so underrated he really needs more credit he’s always chilling in the background with his hoodie & always giving the best takes
Every good podcast needs a Dan
1:46:03 when MeatCanyon said “ ,” I felt that
He speaks the elder tongue.
They translated it to 'yeah' for our feeble minds.
you look like ivan the space biker
@@shelby5809 thanks
haha
The most threatening past for sure!!
The idea of a staircase just sliding through the woods is pretty amusing, but consider instead the idea of the stairs moving in a way that looks like an escalator with the steps rolling down into the ground to propel the staircase along like a large tracked vehicle but is absolutely dead silent in the process.
The idea of the phrase "The staircase crept up on me" is hilarious to think of conceptually but absolutely nightmarish to imagine in motion.
Sneaky staircase
Your version does it for me, sliding stairs are so absurd visual image it breaks my immersion by putting my his image of gmod animations
Reminds me of arrested development and them driving the stairs as their car lol
Wake up babe new tank just dropped
That is such a crazy visual dude, you are a genius. I can almost imagine a droning infrasound as it moves, driving the audience insane.
I was thinking of it like the wood panels splitting up into jagged limbs, kinda like the house in the movie Monster House.
The way you described the stairs as feeling like a memory or a dream really resonates with my experiences exploring my grandfather's abandoned farm house. Walking through dilapidated rooms and seeing photos of your family members still hung on the walls or your mother's childhood toys spread across her old bedroom floor gave me such a sickening feeling that still to this day disturbs me just thinking about it. This was a fantastic first episode, and I look forward to watching your next episode!
Ever since I’ve heard about the stairs I wondered if it could ever be like a portal to an alternate reality where if you get to the top then in the original universe you would become the lost person and you wouldn’t be found anymore, but in the new universe the person you’re searching for disappears and everything in your reality becomes unfamiliar all of a sudden because of the emotions of loss that you feel and feeling as though it’s your fault because they knew you went up those stairs. Just the stories alone of the stairs, even though they’re outlandish, it always reminds me of after I lost my grandma the world was still spinning but you feel defeated that your world stops, and the series really gives off that world stopping vibe to me.
was at this abandoned rehabilitation/town sorta thing and it was like everyone just up and left one day. all their documents were still in the cabinets, there were still coats hung up, some houses were still fully furnished. it makes you wonder why they ever left in the first place
@@A.Rua333😊😊😊
@@Hkouggbmhathat's a trip for sure. It's so abnormal for a person to leave their belongings that it fills me with a sense of horror
Thats a direct line from True Detective s1.
"This place feels like someone's memory of a dream, but the memories fading."
This episode has become my white whale in the sense that every SINGLE time I try to listen to it I fall asleep.
Did you finish it? I woke up to it about halfway through and got so interested I stayed up to watch the rest lol
For some reason it's the first 30min for me, and it's NOT cause I find it boring or anything, it's just been rewinded so often none of what they talk about makes sense to me anymore 😭
This is my fourth time listening because I keep falling asleep, but I didn't want to miss it! It's just me being tired, I love the story and the gooncanyon reactions
WHITE WHALE
HOLY GRAIL
The blend of your personalities is so delightful. I love that you guys are friends and share your spooky stuff with us
I'd love to see you guys talk about The Sun Vanished. It's not often you see such an effective horror story told through Twitter, of all things.
YES, the sun vanishes, goes hard, and is criminal how little it's talked about
Zoomers are so damn cringe, holy shit
classic ARG ❤️
@@j.2512live your life and be free brother, don't live according to what internet freaks consider based or cringe
@@j.2512dude comments about cringe on creepypastas podcast lmao. Go listen to stock market or something.
Papa explaining the psyche of of Wendigoon, and Wendigoon having a “oh god he’s right” moment is perfect. Love it
That was uncomfortably real
@@artimus4198 it’s the best thing that can happen when two real friends are just chatting, because it can go that deep because they know each other, and then they realize they are in a podcast and are like “oh shit”
imagine you say the word "stairs" and some random guy has a panic attack
The way Papa talks so passionately about story elements and influences is awesome, can really feel the passion. Same applies to Wendigoon too!
My farts are better than Iceberg Boy’s farts 💨
Much rather have them just read the story
Congrats on starting the new podcast! It’s gonna be epic! I have one suggestion: I think it would be much better if you read the excerpt of the story and then talked about it. I’m familiar with the story, so I could follow along okay, but this will definitely be confusing for people who haven’t heard of the stairs in the woods before. This would make the podcast more immersive as well!
Agreed, the other video they did with the cave explorers was way more digestible as someone who never heard of it. This video I was lost all the way through.
I agree with this. Wasn't familiar with this story so I had a hard time following along.
Yeah either that or link it in the bio so we can seek it out real quick, and have a reference throughout
Ok so I should look into the story first and come back?
This!
I can’t even explain how perfect this duo is. This episode was great and I can’t wait for the future.
i love Red Thread but this dynamic is iconic; i can’t put into words how excited i was after binging their collabs through the halloween season and hearing that we were finally getting consistent long-form content with the two
I picture the stairs "moving towards" the kid as a telescopic perspective shift that basically results in his view warping for a few seconds from where the stairs were into the distance and almost zooming in on them with tunnel vision and when he recovers his surrounding vision it's in front of him.
If yall want to cover "My property isn't normal", that would be so cool. It's the perfect example of a creepypasta that is very self aware and subverts a lot of tropes that many other creepypasta fall into. Allways been one of my favorites.
Yes that one's great too! I also really loved the one about the woman holding an orange, can't remember the exact name of it.
@@SassyShellyi cant remember the name of that one either hope someone who does can reply
That’s my absolute favorite of all time. It’s just a ball of tropes all the way down to a literal slender man encounter. Lots of humor but also some legitimately scary stuff. Skinny is both horrifying and hilarious to me.
@@SassyShellyI see what you did there
you seem well versed in this, what channel would you recommend i get my creepypasta videos if i had little to no prior knowledge
I loved the portion of the video where you guys talking about the stairs being something oddly familiar to everyone. It instantly brought back a memory of when I was a child exploring the woods and I came across a white picket fence (old and disheveled looking but still standing) surrounding a small empty square of land. There was a house number on the front gate of the fence and a disheveled mail box. But no house. Just a fence surrounding a place where a house SHOULD be. Very weird and something I'll never forget.
Western Europe's forests in autumn has everything from utility sheds amphitheatres to WW2 bunkers, all in concrete.
I went hiking up in camp Comer, north Alabama area, and not only were there multiple chimneys and foundations, but also a place called moon rock, called that because It was cratered liked the surface of the moon. I was like 12 so I didn't take pictures, but I'm sure they exist somewhere.
once i found a whole roof in the woods behind my parents house
@@perseypoppins lmao
There is a town in PA called Centralia. Because a fire started in the mines beneath the town, the town was ordered to be evacuated.
You can visit the town where roads lead to nothing, and it looks like it's straight out of Silent Hill.
my favorite part was 1:46:08 where hunter's audio is broke and you can hear wendigoon scritching his beard lol
really good stuff boyos, enjoyed the whole thing!
That was so bizarre, I thought Hunter was doing a bit or something where he moved his mouth and pretended to talk
couldn’t tell if that was real or not
I love this channel and I'm glad you've changed it to where you are having the whole text on display and are actually reading the story, unlike this video! it makes it 100 times better.
"the meowing man" "it's just a man out in the woods meowing"
He just like me fr fr
Nice to see Meat and Wendigoon putting themselves out there on multiple different podcasts and looking so lively. Hearing Hunter on older Cream Crew episodes saying how dejected he feels constantly then over the last year or two really visibly becoming a more satisfied person does tug on the hear strings. Not to forget about Isaiah being/becoming a powerhouse and household figure in the online horror zeitgeist, It's looks like they both genuinely are enjoying their recent endeavors. Great work both of you and Cheers to many more fantastic works! 🍻 Also, Shoutout to Cream Crew, Stretch and Fade, and The Red Thread everyone should check them out if they haven't already, if you're ravenous for more of the boys.
Nice to see meat lol
My head cannon for why the main character is so worried about loosing the job is that once you know too much loosing your job probably means ending up as another missing person case.
oh, as in, if he stops being a ranger and stop’s regularly going into the woods he’s scared he’ll fall victim? yeah because they (as far as i know rn) none of the rangers die or get into too serious encounters
@@cloud5544 good point 👀 I didn’t even realize that, but its true. No missing rangers yet
@cloud5544 Wait, like the ranger organization struck some sort of pact with the phenomena that prevents them from hurting their personnel? That's actually a really cool idea
Honestly not trying to be a grammar Nazi but just for future reference, loose is only a noun, meaning not tight. To loosen is a verb to make something less tight. Lose means not winning, or misplacing/something being removed. Losing his job is the phrase you're looking for! Also same with losing weight/lose weight, losing at chess/lose at chess, losing track of time/lose track of time; vs. Loosening a belt/loosen a belt, loosening up/loosen up, etc.
Also just wanted to say your idea there is cool and a good point, and I love it
@@maleniabeardofmiquella i dont know about pact with the paranormal, but as the ranger station agreed on not talking about it or documenting it, it seems like the rangers are ok and the public are like “up got grabs” when it comes to the forrest/paranormal choosing people
Not gonna lie, I totally believed this story and when I was a teenager listening to narrated spooky Reddit stories to fall asleep, which I still do to this day, but this one will always hold a special place in my heart
Cannot wait for future episodes, my boyfriend and I have a couple of small critiques. We would love to have the excerpts read so we can have the context because we haven’t read The Stairs in the Woods, kind of like Ted the caver. It felt as though we had to do homework to understand it. If you guys read more of the excerpts it would make it more accessible to anyone at anytime. And the editing!! I loved what Nick (and papa meats team) did with the Ted the caver episode. It made it more engaging and immersive. I would love to see more of that in this! Other than that, love it and we are so excited for more!!!
I have a feeling that's on purpose, encourages you to read it yourself. It's something wendigoon has been pushing on his own channel
Maybe. Oh I dunno, READ THE THING YOURSELF wth 😂
That would make more sense if they put out info before the podcast so you can read it before. It is very weird that windi didn't read it I fully thought that's why it was 2 hrs
Agreed was thinking the same thing
Just say you're too lazy to read an 8 part story
This was me and my wife’s favorite show back in 1832. Though she’s passed it makes me happy that the rebooted it with the original cast. They both look so young still despite being ancient creatures
Hold up
this is like what every comment in jermas videos looks like
I was like what???
@@soggos732 lma so tru
I can see Wendigoon and Papa Meat being ancient creatures.
Things I think would improve the podcast:
-Link the story in the description
-Read along as you describe like you did the Ted the Caver story
This was a new story to me and you didn't give me much to go off as you described it. Still enjoyed hearing you discuss, but I'd like to see these more accessible in the future.
I know most audiences never read the description and haven't for years, but this is one series I'd love if it had a few links to get me started.
Yes this 100% The Ted the Caver one set the standard I loved this but it just feels like such I don't even know what's going on.
The original story is actually linked in the description, go check it out
Your comment changed how they did things. Congratulations!
I see House of Leaves, I believe, on Wendigoon's desk. Very good choice. And Slappy in the background of Meat. Love it all so much. Also, love this story and this topic. Thanks for the video!
Hopefully this Podcast gets on Spotify. Red Thread and Creep Cast would be my two favorite podcasts. I would be listening to those two all the time :)
i agree! i listened to red thread on spotify and i hope this one makes it there too. :)
I love you both together talking about spooky shit. 🖤
Also, Papa's audio is missing at 1:46:08 till about 1:46:36
i thought i was tripping HAHAH came to the comments to see if anyone else had this issue
I too thought I was going crazy, poor timing for an anti-virus pop-up on my computer as well...
I thought they did it on purpose because they weren’t allowed to talk about the hand or something
For a second there, I thought Wendigoon was just trolling him for a bit. Like pretending he could hear him
I thought it was Wendi messing with Papa but they really just acted like they didn't know. It's okay guys, it's the first one. Still love it.
I'm so happy to hear the author is going to continue with the story! Can't wait to see where the lore goes, I hope she gets lots of support
Where do we view the original work?
@@Raumplestompr/nosleep I think
@baronofplaguesit's also the only link in the description lol
I don't think she's going to continue the story anymore. She replied to a reddit comment asking if she'll write more, saying: "Nope, probably not! I've transitioned into art and find it a lot more rewarding for now. Thank you, though!"
I'm happy she found an avenue of expression she loves! I'm bummed there's probably not going to be more lore.
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Coming back to this first episode after watching all the others week by week, this podcast has arguably become my favorite period, and compared to what’s to come, this story is very lighthearted lol
Same here
Its crazy to me the creativity of people to imagine this, I grew up in rural Georgia and learned to shoot a rifle from the top of some stairs in the middle of the woods that were from a civil war era grain mill. I spent entire hunting seasons on the top of those stairs never thinking anything of it. Now working with search and rescue groups its awesome hearing about these stories.
Any interesting stories you have to share?
@@ibuprofentabs Tbh not really, I do have one spooky story but It doesn’t involve the stairs, long short of it I heard voices that couldn’t have been there due to the geography of the area and streams blocking off access but thats the only time ive ever heard anything abnormal. The only reason it stands out to me was its the only time I haven’t been able to explain everything away.
Thats the thing, some of them are just real stories and everyone thinks its fake
Underrated comment
Crazy how this story hasn't made you paranoid about doing that kinda work! But maybe it's just me. 😂 Thank you for your service!
Also, shout out fellow Georgian! Born in ATL 🤜🤛
As others have said, reading select excerpts from future stories would be nice, but I think a kind of read ahead post would be nice. Almost like a spooky book club. When you guys record post somewhere the story that’ll be discussed and followers can read/listen if they haven’t and be on the same page as you two minus the extra research. Perhaps recommend videos covering these stories from RUclipsrs you two appreciate if applicable.
Other than suggestion, I really enjoyed the episode. I have listened to all of the parts of this story before so I was able to follow along pretty well. I’m happily surprised with your guy’s dynamic for two people I didn’t think interacted prior to this.
Yep... They should definitely do the "Next time, on CreepCast" thing, so subscribers can ReadUp, prior to their discussion.
I thought the same shit man
Why not just pause the video, go read the story, then watch the video? Lol, why would they need to warn you first this isn't broadcast television
Definitely possible, just seems like an odd viewing experience versus these minor changes or features they could Implement. Giving the ending of the second episode they seem to agree with the read ahead idea, which I believed to make the most sense.@@vorbo01
47:04 I was talking to a friend about creepy stories and when I mentioned the forest stairs she went, "OMG," went silent for awhile, then 20 minutes later sent me pictures of forest stairs. Apparently during her walks through the woods she encounters them frequently and decided to run out to get some pictures she could show me after I mentioned them.
The best part about putting a whole set of stairs in the woods is that it's really hard to remove them. You get a lot of mileage out of them!
@@ctdaniels7049 and a little elevation!
I live in rural Alabama, and I've seen it here. Old houses were dismantled or burnt, and only the stairs were left. Granted, you find a lot more chimney and fireplaces but I've seen stairs
I’ve never seen them by themselves, there’s usually a few other remnants of a house, but I did see a full chimney and fireplace just sitting there once. Whatever happened to that house wasn’t enough to take all of it down apparently.
Honestly it feels nice to come back to the roots of the podcast, so much things i did't even remember, like they didn't even read the story at first, they were just discussing it. Nevertheless it just feels so satisfying to see things fall in their place, Hunter taking charge of voicing characters and wendigoon of the narration, the gags forming and the guys in general finding their footing and becoming more comfortable with the podcast.
it's almost unbelievable that it has almost been a year. The best podcast there is!!!! keep up the good work!!!
these guys have great chemistry. Its been so much fun watching them branch out over the years and work with other people and im so glad they found eachother
My two favorite horror RUclipsrs coming together to get me through the day. You two are legends
Such a great first episode you two! Really awesome listen to. My only small critique is that I was hoping for passage reading excerpts like with Ted the Cave, those really helped to contextualize and set the mood for certain things (maybe the way TSitW is structured did not lend itself to that style. I have not read it myself). Other than that small, small, small thing, loved it, and cannot wait for the next episode from your two. The chemistry and levels of fun you two have is freaking great!
agree with this i kept waiting for them to read it lol
big boost to this suggestion
BOOST!! this!
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I was expecting them to open with reading an excerpt lol, the only reason I knew the actual story was bc I recently watched Wendigoons video on it recently😅. Still watched the whole thing tho :) I still might go read the the whole thing.
Honestly having full readings of the stories that came after this one makes me really wish this hadn't been first so maybe we'd actually get to hear these stories. Maybe one day they'll re-do this, hopefully.
I’m going to say this and it’s going to come across way worse than I mean it. But having only seen Meat Canyon’s animated content, he’s a pleasantly charismatic normal person. Glad I found this!
Yeah! I loved his animations back in the day and he seems like a real chill guy!
i get what you mean lol. i always hated meatcanyon videos because they just really disturbed me, but i was very happy to find out that papa meat is a super chill dude who has a podcast with my favorite youtuber :D
Seconded. I guess he's more "animator of weird" than "weirdo animator". :P
I don't care for his animations because they are creepy but I do love his second Channel Papa Meat
Definitely check out his other podcast too Cream Crew with the flashgitz lads. Freaking hilarious 😁
"A tall, hairy man with a weird face, resembling a bear" - Honey, that's just a bear
I thought hunter would say “me. It was me”🤣
I am so thrilled to see that you guys will be working together on a regular basis, your humor together is unmatched.
"faceless man in the woods with a parka and ski pants" leave Slenderman alone, he's just trying to enjoy his vacation
Could you guys read excerpts from the story next time? Would really help to get immersed especially for some of us that haven't read it
Just read this and I'm half way through I'm now very sad reading this knowing in the next 1 hour left I'm still going to be clueless.... This was good but the cave guy how they read then talked read then talked and so on it was so immersive I def preferred that one over this. This just seemed like a giant spitball or just almost like 2 men met at a waffle house / IHOP and just started talking about stuff they just remember. Still fun but no where near immersive like the Cave Guy one.
I think of this as book club where you have to go read it beforehand. But there's great narrators on youtube! The Dark Somnium, Mr.Creeps, Lighthouse Horror... Pretty sure this story has been covered by every big narrator
The story is linked in the description if y'all want to read it :)
Back when corpse husband was actually good, he did a video on it way back in the days. I suggest watching it, because with his voice is soooo damn good!
Corpse read the whole thing a couple of years back (I think about 6 years ago), and it's really good
10/10, I recommend it if you don't want to go looking up the written story
45:22 “If your golf club would’ve smacked into the side of a dead body, you would be at an H&R Block right now….but now you’re chasing the high.” Is a fucking WILD sentence out of context
I was dying of laughter with Wendigoon as his childhood experience was analyzed by Papa Meat. You guys are amazing! I can’t wait for more!
ive realized this episode has become one of my comfort videos... when I'm having a bad day and don't feel like rumaging through youtube for something to watch I just come back to this lol
Love these guys. Watching them both individually is awesome, and watching them together is just as good. A great mix of personalities.
Bits that amuse me:
7:00 F the job!
10:56 'animal' + 'man' = a bad time, every time
20:11 the FACELESS man! side note: the faceless man's description reminded me of The Thing's iconic movie poster
24:18 cue insect coughing
25:43 complete chaos
40:11 Wendi's origin story begins
43:34 CAR SALESMAN or papa meat psychologically breaking down Wendigoon
48:43 More lives lost to THE FLESH
54:31 Children make for poor witnesses
57:09 The meowing man
59:30 MEOW
1:03:03 "My walk away situation"
1:10:16 Just run away! The job isn't worth it!
1:13:07 LA Noire
1:14:52 "sea shanty round table of horrible things"
1:16:44 Nothing but a normal disembowelment/"see his gutty works"
1:18:25 There's a fuzzy man now?!
1:21:20 Getting rejected by the fuzzy man
1:22:31 Did KD almost become a wendigo?
1:52:27 From wendigo to Ed Edd n Eddy
2:00:43 Moving staircase!
Thank you so much for this. I was trying to find the fuzzy man clip but forgot where it was. I was hoping someone in the comments would have timestamps.
Doing a true service.
The meowing man shit scared me lol
1:39:54
Wendigoon says he has to go pee.
1:42:07
Wendigoon confirms he was not grabbed by the crotch, and forced through a portal in his toilet
1:46:23 MHM
Y’all did great with this, you’re a good duo. Keeping 2+ hours moving with flow is super hard for first time podcasters and you’re just naturally good storytellers and conversationalists. Can’t wait to see more as you evolve and tighten it up further.
There's a cryptid known as the "not deer" it looks like a deer, but something's wrong
It sounds kinda dumb but I think that actually sounds so dope
>The deer from Adventure Time
I think I remember that one! The "not deer" where something is just wrong, but there are also the sub categories of "what used to be a deer" and "something that never was a deer" where the former shows you can still recognise some features of the deer that make it recognisable and the latter being when you're too close to it you realise that there is nothing deer like about it, it never was a deer, and now you see it properly you wonder how you ever mistook it for one
@scathachbeagbain6431 I remember a quick green text on this kinda. To summarize it was a kid out hunting with his grandpa. Kid sees a deer, deer suddenly starts slamming head into a rock until it breaks its own jaw/face real bad. The deer stands up on two feet and runs away. Grandpa and kid both saw that happen, they never ho hunt again.
So like a dog
It would be cool to sometimes include a third person on the podcast who has not studied up on the material so they can ask questions and request elaboration on certain topics.
A lot of podcasts do that and it seems to work really well for the dynamic instead of just two experts passing information back and forth.
Just a thought idk. Love this first episode can’t wait for more!
This 100%
YES!!!
@@donatoclemente4421Yes like an audience surrogate
It should be me.
Pre-scripting gimmicks is how Last podcast on the left went to shit
The Back Flipping Man just makes me think Spider Man busted a drug deal and got hit with a face full of coke, then just went nuts.
Search & Rescue makes me think of what it must be like to be a normie in the SCP or X-Files universe. Just being unfortunate enough to land a job in a wacky place like the STALKER Zone or something but, fuck, those benefits, bro.
I'm absolutely loving the chill, casual chat format for the show. Aren't tryharding and trying to make it scarier by ASMR whispering at me or putting on spooky music. I did like the cave ambience edits in the Ted the Caver readings but, for the most part, just letting the contents of the stories flow then sharing y'alls own interpretations and creative thoughts is surprisingly immersive on its own. Helps get the creativity flowing and explore new perspectives I hadn't considered before.
Plus, y'all have incredible chemistry and it's great that more is done than simply reading off Reddit posts. My favorite moments are y'all tossing jokes back and forth and, again, sharing your unique thoughts on the content.
Awesome start! Thank y'all for taking the time to create and share this, and I'm looking forward to what's next!
This is the best chemistry that I've seen Hunter have in his podcasts.
1:46:06 to 1:46:36
I was laughing so hard the silence with just Wendigoon saying "yeah" "mhm" 😭😭
I'm about halfway through listening to this video and it's bringing back so many memories all at once. I listened to a read aloud of all six or seven hours worth of these stories back in middle school, and I still remember several of them now as I'm nearly twenty. I think the one that haunts me the most is the couple who were hiking, and across on another cliff in the park they see a man who's free climbing up a cliff with NO GEAR, not even a backpack, and he gets to the top of the cliff, looks over at them, smiles, then he jacknifes bending the wrong way, and jumps right off the cliff. They couldn't see the ground below him from where they were and they went to report it to a park ranger. The rangers go out and look, the couple were confident as to where they were and identified the location on a map, but the rangers never found a body. That one scared the hell out of me when I was 14 I couldn't get the image of that guy out of my head for like a week
Any idea the name of it or where i could read this at???
@@JaredLetoSelfSuck the video I listened to is not as long as I incorrectly remembered, and it's on a channel called Let's Read. The title is the same as the title of the reddit post, the "I'm a park service worker" or however it goes. The thumbnail is an image of stairs, I believe.
I was reading this series as it came out, and it was fantastic!
For the hand in the tree thing, I always thought it was implied that it was that guys' hand when he went up a set of stairs and lost it. I have no idea why it was in the tree years later, and not just, under the bark, but *inside* the tree!
WHEN AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE "MEATS" AN IMMOVABLE OBJECT. Good to see the boys together talking about stuff they love, keep it up guys!
When an unstoppable meat meets an immovable goon
@@goddessofmusic101when an unstoppable goon meats an immobile meat
@@Glenn_Quagmire She Papameat on my Wendigoon till I Creepcast
I'm so happy for Hunter being able to make time to read these stories. I can already imagjne how this will give so much good material for his already amazing art.
work night shifts with a crew cleaning empty office buildings. years ago before thanksgiving break, the crew and i listened to an audio version of this story and it creeped us all the hell out, which spiraled into one coworker telling us her own creepy stories from growing up in rural az. now every year before the break its tradition to find and listen to creepy pastas. this story will always be a favorite of mine and i’m glad the dudes chose it to start with.
You probably have some weird/creepy/scary stories to tell too, working nightshift. All of my friends that ever worked nights have at least one crazy story. I've worked night shift at a couple of places and i've seen the crazies that go bump in the night 😂 Mainly drunks or meth-heads(or whatever they were on..), but it was a circus !
@@Eisenwulf666 got plenty of stories to tell! specially since we’re fairly certain one of the buildings is haunted and no one will go into one of the offices alone. we’ve all seen and heard strange things, and of course, dealing with weird people who like to hang around empty buildings at night.
You know, regarding the "insect coughing", I was hearing 'deeper' and 'rhythmic' and I thought of the noise the sand worm made in the new Dune movie. When it's looming over Paul and it makes that rhythmic thumping noise in its throat.
Imagine hearing that coming from seemingly nowhere.
Incredible example. I need to go back and listen
Warframe's new bad guy does that. Mixed with Sardaukar-esque chanting.
New Dune is a trendsetter!
i personally imagined coughing in the rhythm of crickets/grasshoppers, in a weird way.
very difficult to describe how i hear it in my mind
1:46:08
“…”
“Totally”
“…”
“For sure for sure”
“👁️👁️”
“Absolutely”
Guys I first came across this story through a corpse husband video 5 years ago and I genuinely have gone the past 5 years thinking all of the things he talks about in the story are real, so I guess thank you for taking that fear away from me and also just the amazing stories and videos
you are my 2 favorite creators please keep doing this podcast no matter what. This podcast is litterally my dreams manifested. Thank you so much papa meat & wendigoon!
i just finished the episode and it was amazing but there was a point where hunter's mic went mute. but it was good
Having not 1 but 2 🔥 podcasts starting up around the same time with wendigoon is such a blessing. Charlie and Meatcanyon being the cherry on top!
Maybe once the podcast takes off, you could do an interview with the author(especially since they are finishing the story). Maybe even more about "creepy pasta writers" and why they choose that format, than the stairs story.
I liked the moral at the end "The woods are scary, for good reasons, that we don't always understand. Be warned."
This was the first piece of internet horror I really got into, and it’s probably greatly changed the course of my life by its ripple effect. Love to see you guys covering it!
for a person who isn't familiar with creepy pastas, im exited for this podcast
Don't exit, come back!
please don't go, they just started.
@@Rfono97 It's too late... We lost him 😞
creepypastas them things where a tall naked dude chases you but thems ones are them goodens
@@lucasolson66 I love being chased by tall naked men.
I live in BC, a province in Canada, in the Pacific Northwest. It’s beautiful here, the forrest’s and wild life are a huge part of my childhood as I grew up in Scouting. For those unfamiliar we have Beavers 5-7yrs, Cub Scouts 8-10yrs, Scouts 11-14yrs, Venturers 15-17, and Rovers 18-26. I started as a Beaver at 5, and ultimately ended my scouting journey as a Scout at 13/14 after a huge decline in my mental health. I am 17 now and these stories are extremely nostalgic, I can visualize all of the scenarios very vividly, a lot of the early stories I can really imagine happening and that terrifies me, but fascinates me! I loved my time in Scouts and I love where I live but the truth is, we CAN’T really know what’s out there in those woods, those forests, but we are taught how to get found if something happens. If you are ever lost or stranded by your group, HUG A TREE. STAY PUT! DO NOT MOVE DO NOT KEEP WALKING!! We are taught to go back to where we saw them last, if you stay put we have such a higher chance of finding you then if you wander deeper into the woods and farther off the path.
Been refreshing waiting for the first one for weeks now, and this ep did not disappoint. Hunter meowing alone made this an S tier ep. Strong opener for the channel for sure
The visual of a huge Victorian staircase, not only in the woods, but PLOWING its way through the woods while playing classic British tunes, is simultaneously goofy as hell and horrifying. Like, if those stairs hit you, you're getting PULVERIZED.
This first episode was absolutely amazing from two extremely entertaining storytellers. You guys killed it and I can’t wait to see what you do in the future!
I love 1:46:00 literally the most horrifying part of the episode
okay glad someone said something i thought i was going crazy
LOL i was so confused why nobody else said anything
everyone else clicked off or zoned out before that part I guess
Wendigoon and Meatcanyon doing their own podcast together is actually unreal
Why?
@@krodmandoon3479because no one expected it to happen
Why?
Rewatching this after the legendary mobility scooter incident.
Good old happy times without traumas