My mom is a nut about candida, so she picks anyone’s brain who might mention it. One day she met a guy who had been a brewer for a brewery and the guy told her that he had to leave the job after many years because the yeast from the beer had changed his gut bacteria - without even consuming a drink he would blow…

For Christ’s sake! My parents divorced when I was three. My mom had sole custody, and we saw our dad on the weekends and for an entire month during the summer. The amount of name calling from both of them, accusing the other of being a shitty parent, certainly didn’t help us (three kids) have a healthy environment to…

I don’t get this. There are many things in that area that could mean potential sepsis or other issues. If you go to the damn ER complaining of any kind of pain (especially shooting pain in the lower abdomen area), they should fucking get on it as soon as possible. I know the normal pains I get from my PCOS and the…

My husband and I moved back to my home state when we were still engaged because I knew I would need the help of my family when we decided to have kids. Now being pregnant, both my mom and my aunt have volunteered to be nanny for us as a means for saving money on childcare. It’s a godsend, considering we live in a…

Seriously, had she not done that, he would have likely died at home, in immense pain. I was a freshman in college at the time, and my mom, aunt, my sister and myself drove 4 hours south to where they lived so we could see him before he passed away. I had never seen someone in the process of dying - his body was…

This is similar to my mom’s uncle. He had been complaining about pain in his stomach area for many months (I think it was over 6), and the doctor kept telling him it was a symptom of his diabetes; from what I understand she didn’t do any further tests for him.

At the check in desk of a five star resort in Mexico. I had just spent 10 hours trying to get there, was almost left at the airport with no way of getting to the resort at 10 pm at night, was told that I could not have my parents’s room number and that I would need to rent my own room for the night, of which they…

I feel this is a legitimate question given the story about the people who don’t tip on kids meals. I live in a state with no sales tax. When I travel to states w/tax, am I supposed to tip on the total amount of the bill, including tax, or tip on the total before tax is added? I’ve heard conflicting things, so I am…

It’s all good! Thanks, I’ve started reading lets not meet - creepy.

Ah! There is one that is /r/letsnotsleep that is set to private. The lets not meet is public.

Damn, it’s set to private, and I don’t have any non-supernatural creepy stories to tell.

We live around the Portland area. My sister’s fiance’s family live closer to the coast, and she said that some of the areas around their house feel very odd, and every time we drive to the coast, I always get creepy feelings from the coast range.

I live in Oregon.

Totally this. Negative spirits live off fear and the energy it creates. If you are mad and pissed off, it can’t feed off that. You tell it to GTFO, and it will know it has lost some of its power.

My sisters and I discussed this. We know that if any of us ever saw stairs in the forest, we would get the hell out of there. My one sister’s fiance is a firefighter and has been on multiple forest fires in CA, AK and WA, and he’s all “I gotta find these stairs!” He would undoubtedly try to touch them/check them out.…

Same reason people don’t talk about all the weird disappearances that have no explanation! Seriously though, I totally want to see a picture of these staircases. I totally believe they could be a portal to another realm or a trick to get people to come near them...I’m open to possibilities.

Did they look like they were straight out of house, or did they look like they had belonged to an old homestead from long ago? It’s not out of the ordinary to find stairs that once belonged to a house that is no longer there, but to find a staircase just standing in the middle of the forest is not common.

The possibilities are endless... I think, what would be more scary to me personally, would be if I was in the woods and then all noise stopped. I think that would scare the shit out of me.

I’ve asked a number of people that I know spend a lot of time in the woods (back country firefighters, hunters, etc.) and none of them has ever seen a staircase. I want to believe it so much, and I would love to see one, but I know I’m likely not going to go hiking 10 or 15 miles into the woods to try to find one.

I’d much rather live in Washington with sales tax than Oregon without sales tax because my damn income wouldn’t be gouged out by taxes and my property tax would a lot less. But, liquor is more expensive in Washington, so there are benefits to going to Oregon.