Welcome back everyone - this is my second video taking a look at specific SCPs and today,
weve got for SCP 174.
If you don't know what the SCP Foundation is well, its creepy, its fascinating, and
its the most requested kind of video now on this channel - for more information, pause
the video and google it.
Something tells me though a lot of you already know about the SCP Foundation and you just
want me to get right into the video - so lets do that - right - now - my name is Danny Burke
and this is the Top 10 Scary SCP 174 Facts That Will Keep You Up At Night.
At number 10 we have the Recap.
Lets quickly talk about 174 before we go into any details.
174 is a wooden ventriloquist doll, 21cm in height.
It has ragged clothing and seems to date from the early 20th century.
When looked at in the peripherals of the vision, 174 will stare at you with a longing and sad
expression.
This disappears when staring at 174 directly.
People nearby report a general feeling of sadness or sympathy towards the figure but
cannot explain the reason for these feelings.
Prolonged exposure can lead to an individual personifying the figure - treating them as
if they are a real person - and we havent even got to what happens people people touch
it.
Next at number 9 we have Contact.
Didnt have to wait long to find that out did we.
Things get taken up a notch here.
When 174 is placed on peoples hand they express an urge to converse with it.
The person will begin speaking to 174 and moving its mouth - their voice raises in pitch
and becomes childlike.
The foundations own recordings with high sensitivity microphones have determined that at no point
does 174 speak - all of the sound seems to be coming from the person and despite their
lack of experience as a ventriloquist - the act is always perfect.
This conversation will quickly lead to 174 talking through the person about its past
- a history of being abandoned or mistreated.
Through all the experiments done so far, a story has never been repeated.
Moving on to number 8 we have The Psychic Link.
By this point in the story - most people natrually ask one question - how is 174 doing this?
It seems to obviously have a power over people.
Is it voodoo?
Is it a trick?
Some kind of technology?
Well, the research is still ongoing but so far the foundation believes it has something
to do with psychic energy.
In the report, the foundation noted that the people most likely to display the behavior
weve talked about had a -Low Psychic Resistance Score- … we have no way of knowing what
the test to come up with this score involves, but it seems like standard practice for the
foundation.
You might think that they want people with a low psychic resistance for these tests but
actually its the opposite - theres no telling what SCPs like 174 would do with a low resistance
mind.
At the very beginning of the entry they recommend that only people with high psychic resistance
score interact with 174 and that everyone in contact with undergo psychological evaluations
afterwards …
Moving on to number 7 we have Baby.
The foundation noticed that if certain people are left alone with 174 for long enough, they
not only start to talk for it and hold it like a baby, they begin to get protective
over it.
This is perhaps once of the creepiest quirks about the whole thing.
By this point, some people refer to 174 as their baby or use similarly strong terms of
endearment when referring to it.
Unlike the other symptoms, this refering to as 174 as their baby doesnt actually stop
when they are removed from the room.
Usually it takes hours for people to stop refering to 174 as their baby - The Foundation
even noted one case where an individual referred to 174 as their Baby for 2 weeks.
Next up at number 6 we have Addendum 1.
On the official record, the Foundation gives us not one but two Addendum - extra bits of
information that have been added on - on 174s record, these are logs of two real interactions
that were observed between a subject and 174.
In the first one, the subject is a 21 year old female with no history of violent crime.
She put her hands on 174 and after 2 minutes she asks -What happened to you?- … 174 then
begins to talk about how it was left behind and damage in a house fire by its last owner.
She consoles 174.
174 says its lonely and wants friends.
She began to pound the door to the room with her free hand.
When the guard enters the sell she recoiled to the corner of the room and began whispering
the 174.
The guards removed her from the room, at which point she tried to escape, screaming -they
have him, my wonderful baby …-
Next up at number 5 we have Addendum 2.
It seems only right that we transition strange from the first one to the second one.
The second one was a lot shorter and it wasnt actually a an experiment like the first one
was.
Essentially, a Doctor who works for the foundation entered Storage Unit 07 to find 174 sitting
on the floor next to its containment unit, looking directly at the main entrance door.
The door to 174s unit had been sealed shut, with no access having been logged in the previous
week.
After being replaced in containment, video surveillance was installed within storage
unit 07 as a precaution against future translocations, and a GPS tracking unit was attached to 174.
Essentially, they found 174 had moved outside of its cell even though the door was locked.
They were so concerned that they put a tracker on a doll, lets not forget that this is still
a doll …
Moving on to number 4 we have The Doctor.
I want to talk about the Doctor in this.
Their full name is actually redacted from the whole report.
We only known them as Dr A - so thats what Ill refer to them as.
We know that Dr A is in charge as at the beginning of the report, the Foundation instructs that
any abnormal activity must be reported to Dr A. We also know that Dr A was the Supervising
Researcher during Addendum 1 - the one where the woman had to be ripped away from the 174.
Dr A was also the one who ordered the experiment concluded.
Right after that, it says that the woman was -terminated- … Im hoping this just means
her job, but I fear the worst.
Next up at number 3 we have Childhood.
As with many SCPs, the Foundation is often interested in how they affect individuals
differently - its a good way of figuring out what makes an SCP tick - and also to uphold
the Foundations mantra of Secure, Contain, Protect.
Well, one theory that seems to be that 174 responds to peoples childhood event.
Researchers have noticed that each story seems to be based around a theme that will have
particular resonance with the current subject.
The 1st Addendum says that 174 began talking about how it was left behind in a house fire.
Researchers immediately noted that the woman who was with 174 was the victim of an Arson
attack when she was younger.
Is this a coincidence?
Possibly - but it seems like 174 may have known this, perhaps through the psychic link
we talked about earlier …
Moving on to number 2 now we have 174-J[a].
In my quest for more information on 174, I found a page on the SCPs Sandbox Wiki that
described something called 174 J. This is interesting because its not mentioned anywhere
else.
174 - J is a malevolent entity that takes on the form of a purple dinosaur - if youre
racking your brain thinking of how many purple dinosaurs you know, theres really only one
- its Barney.
Its said to be capable of producing an unidentified mental effect that induces happiness and an
urge to act like a small child to anyone who views.
If its around children of that age, it will begin a ritual where it begins singing a happy
themed song based on itself.
Perhaps most disturbingly was the fact that 174-J escaped from containment and caused
other SCPs to escape to.
What is the link between 174-J and 174?
Why did the foundation categorise these two so closely?
Perhaps 174 was the first malicious childrens toy they found and everything similar falls
under the 174 category …
And finally at number 1 we have The Timeline.
One thing that I started to think about when I read this was how long has 174 been with
the foundation?
Well, the fact that its only 174 says a lot, that means the foundation only discovered
173 other SCPs before this one - so it must have been fairly early on.
The dates are expunged but we know that experts said the doll must have come from the early
20th century at the earliest.
I also know that the report was published in 2010 - that doesnt mean thats when they
first got their hands on 174 though.
The report says they had to -terminate- the girl in that experiment because they hadnt
invented amncestics - the drug used to wipe peoples memories of an SCP.
However, in the same record, the Foundation reccomends using Class B or stronger amnestics
to treat people who mentally collapse after an encounter with 174.
This suggests that they have had 174 in their possession for a long time and may have done
many, many experiments on it.
Some speculate that they may still have 174.
Somewhere out there, this creepy puppet doll sits in a sealed room - and waits for the
next person whos mind it can manipulate and twist.
What a lovely thought.
Good stuff!
Weve now done videos on two specific SCPs - only about 6 thousand more to go.
Were making progress.
Which one would you like to see next?
Ill be going through the comments and if I see one with a few upvotes then Ill add it
to the list.
Thanks for watching as always guys, my name is Danny Burke and Ill see you all in the
next video!