各个学校都有的版本：夜里数楼梯，台阶总是多一级

When you were in school, did your school have an old building? Cement stairs, dim, with the paint worn off the handrail, and students haven't been allowed to use it for several years.

Almost every school has a similar story: for this building's stairs, the number of steps counted during the day and at night is different. During the day it's thirteen steps, but at night when you count, it's fourteen. You must not step on that extra one.

Each school's version varies slightly, but roughly it goes like this: someone made a bet that at twelve midnight, one person would go to the old building and count the steps from the bottom up. He counted to thirteen steps, reached the second floor, everything was normal. On the way back, he counted again, and this time it came out to fourteen. His heart tightened, and he counted once more—thirteen steps. He thought he had miscounted and didn't dare count again, quickly walking down the stairs.

The next day, when classmates asked him how many he counted, he wouldn't say, only that he would never go to that building again.

Other versions say: the fourteenth step is not a step, but a person's spine, crouching in the darkness. Step on it, and you'll fall into another place. Some versions say you absolutely must not make a sound while counting, because if the counter speaks, someone in the darkness will count along. Some say you must not count twice in a row; when you count the second time, the numbers will change. Others say if you count fourteen, it's best to retreat the way you came, counting backward down to zero, and do not look back.

The number varies at every school: some are teaching buildings, some are dormitories, some are libraries; the steps are twelve, thirteen, or twenty-one.

Stories like this usually have a tail: "said by a senior who graduated" or "someone in our class tried it." As for who, no one can say for sure.

As for why the count comes out differently, there's a rather simple explanation: at night the light is dim, people are nervous, and when counting, it's easy to miss a step or count an extra one, especially at stair corners and landings, which are easily counted as one step. Count again, and it doesn't match.

Still, at night, students would rather detour to the stairs on the other side.

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