Mystery of the Miraculous Staircase

We don't know who built it,

we don't understand the physics behind it,

and we don't even have a good indication

as to what it's made of.

The mystery of the staircase

actually begins with this mysterious carpenter.

The sisters asked the local carpenters to build one,

but they failed.

They didn't know how to do it.

The sisters, they decided to turn to prayer

and said a nine-day novena,

asking Saint Joseph, the patron of carpenters,

to help them with their problem.

At the last day of their prayer,

it said that a knock came at these doors.

This elderly man was standing there

with a donkey by his side,

and he told the sister that

he had come to build their staircase.

Was it Saint Joseph, like the sisters believed?

Some pious people think it was an angel.

But he was very reclusive and insisted

upon working inside this chapel by himself,

never allowing anyone to see him work

on the staircase.

After three months, the sisters came into the chapel

and the man was gone.

And when they could not find him

to even pay him for his labor,

they went to the only lumberyard in town

and asked them how much they owed for the materials.

And the lumberyard told the sisters that

the man never got any materials from them at all.

So what material is this staircase made of?

I gave a core sample of the wood

from the inner stringer to a U.S. naval scientist,

and he determined right away that it was a form of Picea spruce.

Wood in this staircase did not match up with

any other Picea spruce known to science.

This wood does not match up with

any other quite like it on earth.