Kevin Reid knew the bright green staircase in his childhood home was a bit bizarre: It was made of pipe fittings and looked more like a ladder.

The quirky staircase was just a part of his upbringing until it found a global audience in April after it was featured on the Facebook group Death Stairs, a page that has nearly 800,000 members and describes itself as a place “where ascension is perilous and descending is deadly.”

What qualifies for inclusion on the page takes many forms. Among the highlights: narrow, triangle-shaped steps, a glass spiral staircase with mirrored walls and steep wooden stairs carved into a New Zealand cliff face.

Mr. Reid had never thought of the steps at his childhood home as death stairs. His father had built the staircase as part of a two-story addition to the back of the house.

“I wouldn’t do it in sock soles, but you can fairly rush down them and they make a nice ringing sound when you go down them,” Mr. Reid said. “They’re solid.”

ImageThe stairs lead to a two-story addition Mr. Reid’s father built.ImageThe stairs are made of pipe fittings and make a “nice ringing sound,” Mr. Reid said.Credit...Kevin Reid

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