Hello internet - and welcome back to Life’s Biggest Questions - the channel where we suspend
our disbelief better than Houdini on a dining chair.
Today, we’re going to be covering a video that has been hotly requested in the comments
section - and I’m incredibly excited to have the honour of delivering such an interesting
request.
Well, my name’s Jack Finch - and today, I’ll be your host - as we ask, What If The
SCP Foundation Was Real?
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So, without further delay, let’s begin - shall we?
The SCP Foundation stands for either “Secure, Contain, Protect” - or, Special Containment
Procedures - depending on which level of SCP employee that you ask - and which of them
knows their Mission Statement from their Mount Golgotha.
In essence - the SCP Foundation is a secret organization whose sole responsibility is
to contain individuals, entities, locations and objects that violate natural law and life
- as we know it.
This responsibility is entrusted to them by multiple governments across the planet - and
they maintain their objective on a global scale, working within the shadows of modernity
to protect humanity's sense of reality and normalcy.
Let’s segue though - because in /real/ reality - the SCP Foundation is a fictional body of
web-based collaborative writers, who - over the course of 10 years - have established
one of the largest shared fictional universes in history - which contains thousands of separate,
creative pieces.
It’s staggering how much depth this fictional world has - and the SCP community and it’s
moderators are notoriously strict with their quality control standards - and anything that
appears to be subpar is quickly removed.
The SCP Foundation first sprouted into life on the /x/ forum of 4chan - an interesting
backwater of the internet - dedicated to all things paranormal.
The first canonised post - SCP-173 - was posted in 2007, and thus the crazy, creepy - and
oftentimes confusing fictional world was given life.
So, let’s step into that world then - and speculate the real-world implications of the
secret, shadowy SCP Foundation.
First - we have to address the possibility of a secret organization actually existing
- because, as history has taught us, they definitely can and do.
In 1945, the Manhattan Project was well underway - and it is estimated that no more than a
few dozen people in the entire world knew the full meaning of its objective.
It is believed that more than 100’000 people were employed to work on the Manhattan Project,
and were warned that if anything leaked - it was punishable by a 10 year prison sentence
and a 100 thousand dollar fine.
You might not think it, but that’s enough to make people keep their mouths shut - and
their employees worked away in secrecy like moles in the dark.
So - the SCP Foundation - which in actual fact, has quite an honourable objective - keep
the world safe from paranormal entities which would otherwise make life pretty damn rotten.
It wouldn’t be absurd to believe that it’s employees understood the importance of secrecy.
Imagine a grizzled old veteran - he’s been on the job nearly 30 years - and he’s seen
stuff that would make your rice krispies snap, crackle and rot.
He’s sat at the bar - knocking back a large Lagavulin - and all the locals have no idea
that this guy saves them from unspeakable horrors like most people do their laundry.
Yeah - at the start, fear of imprisonment and large fines would have been the SCP’s
way of keeping it’s staff schtum - but over time, they’d have created quiet superheroes
who just get the job done.
The SCP Foundation mission statement speaks of humanity’s ancient battle with the paranormal.
In it, it’s said that early humanity huddled around small fires - fearing the things that
they didn’t understand.
Evil creatures, gods and demons - begging them to spare us.
But as time went on, evil dwindled and humanity rose up - making sense of the unexplained,
the absurd, and the impossible.
They say that while the rest of mankind dwells in the light, the SCP Foundation stands in
the darkness - to fight it, contain it, and shield it from the eyes of the public.
So.
Imagine waking up, every morning - and that’s your reason to get up and go to work.
Yeah - no one’s gonna be whistleblowing at the SCP Foundation - those guys are stone-cold,
unappreciated, unrelenting badasses.
They’re not going to be running their mouths to anyone.
But - let’s continue the speculation, and let’s imagine a scenario where an SCP-Entity
got out.
Because, currently in the foundation containment, is an SCP that could potentially bring ruin
to the whole organization.
SCP-139 is a poorly preserved hominid skull - that is locked deeply away in an unopenable
room, under constant 24/7 armed guard.
Why?
Well the SCP Foundation doesn’t really know - they don’t really even know what it is
- but they’re absolutely terrified of it.
SCP-139 has been found throughout history at the site of multiple mass slaughters.
In England - roughly around the 1950’s, after explorer Douglas Winthrop had found
the skull on an expedition and he slaughtered seven of his friend’s after succumbing to
madness.
Then it popped back up many years later in the Yukon, in the community of Caribou Crossing
- where the whole town was brutally murdered and stacked in a large pile at the centre
of the chapel.
I don’t know about you, but that sounds like a Chekhov's gun that’s just waiting
to go off.
So, let’s imagine then - the SCP Foundation is in tatters, hundreds of it’s staff have
succumbed to the skull’s madness - slaughtering each other after a reckless employee accidentally
opened the wrong door.
That’d attract some attention, right?
Well, maybe - it’d be picked up by a keen eyed journalist, waiting to break the story
of a lifetime.
But the SCP Foundation would just sweep it under the rug, they’d mechanise their multiple
contingency plans that have been meticulously mapped out in case of a crisis.
They’d seal the whole building with cement, make out that a research lab had spilled some
radioactive material - and people would move on.
Because - it’s crazy to think, but cover ups are actually pretty simple.
Area 51, Watergate - the whole of the CIA.
Hell, we’ve already said the Manhattan Project.
It’s already played out in real-time throughout history, and they’re just the ones that
have inevitability surfaced.
What else is out there, lurking in a manilla dossier in a long forgotten filing cabinet?
So - who knows?
We know it’s just pure nonsense, right?
Or - just maybe there’s some version of the SCP Foundation, quitely operating in the
shadows as we speak.
Protecting us from ancient evils and paranormal anomalies.
Would we even want to know?
Shouldn’t we just let them get on with their job?
Ah - I’ve probably already said too much.
Well, on that note - that’s all we’ve got time for today - let us know your thoughts
in the comment box down below.
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