The world is a very scary place, wouldn’t you agree?
As individual humans, we are fragile, vulnerable, hairless monkeys.
BUT we have ingenuity and communication on our side.
By telling stories and sharing information, we can inform our fellow folks on how to avoid
danger, protect families, and keep on thriving as a species!
Why do you think most of our oldest stories are cautionary tales?
They teach people how to act, and sometimes more importantly, how not to act in order
to stay alive.
Horror stories are no exception to this rule, although most tend to stick to the tried-and-true
“stay away from the bad thing” narrative.
SCPs are some of the latest additions to the horror canon as a whole, and provide us with
a plethora of spooky scaries to keep us up at night and looking over our shoulders.
Because I value societal progress, and want to keep my lovely viewers alive, I’ll share
even more info on SCPs with you all.
Let’s hope the Foundation can keep these ones locked up!
Hello horror heads, and welcome back to the scariest channel on YouTube, Top5Scary.
I’m your horror host, Keegan Hughes, and today we have a brand new list detailing some
gnarly SCPs!
This is PART THREE of our Top 5 SCP Monsters That Can Never Escape.
Before we get started, make sure to give this video a big thumbs up, and subscribe for more
SCP seminars.
Let’s take a look!
NUMBER FIVE: SCP 659 If you saw Finding Nemo while still a child,
you know very well how terrifying waterfowl with a group mentality can be.
I get flashbacks every time someone says MINE…
But those gulls have NOTHING on the horrifying herons I’m about to introduce.
SCP 659 is a species of birds, resembling herons, that display modular intelligence.
I’ll get to what that means in a second.
There’s only a single flock known to the Foundation, and they seem to be native to
North America, although there have been unconfirmed sightings in Europe.
These birds subsist on any meat they can find, but will stick to fish if it’s available.
When an individual specimen is isolated from the flock, it acts just like any other heron
would.
It is more intelligent than your average feathered friend, however, as it can solve simple problems,
use tools, and learn very quickly.
Now, to bring us back to modular intelligence.
When more than one of these birds comes near each other, they gain combined intelligence.
The more birds there are, the smarter they become.
It seems that there is an approximately 25m limit to this particular talent though.
They do not have a hive-mind, nor do they display telepathic abilities, but flocks are
extremely well-coordinated in their actions.
If enough birds gather, they display human-like intelligence and sapience, and can actually
learn at a faster rate than most humans.
Some birds have even been documented learning English and French.
They have used these smarts to break out of Foundation containment on multiple occasions.
Upon being brought back in, Foundation researchers found that keeping each heron isolated at
a distance exceeding 25m prevents them from gaining enough intelligence to escape.
All this seems pretty cool, right?
Welllllllll.
SCP-659 and all of its instances are vigorously hostile towards humans.
And it’s probably our fault!
Before the first recorded containment, flocks in the wild did not display any sort of aggression
towards humans.
However, as detailed in INCIDENT 659-A, the birds are none too happy about being contained.
Following a containment breach that resulted in the death of all on-site personnel save
a few, the murderous birds were interviewed by a researcher.
The birds had pecked holes in the tires of all vehicles, cut phone lines, and sent a
flying sentry to keep watch over the facility.
When asked why they did this, one heron stepped up to the glass, and wrote messages in blood
from another heron in containment at the time.
The messages were: Don’t act like don’t know, you started this, and FREEDOM.
Nobody tell Tippi Hedren.
NUMBER FOUR: SCP 772 If the bugs from last time didn’t get your
skin crawling, this one sure will.
772 is a gigantic species of wasp, possibly dating back to prehistoric times.
DINO-WASPS if you will.
A mature adult is typically 60cm, and can reach up to 70cm when the antenna and ovipositor
are included.
They have extremely tough exoskeletons, that are actually resistant to gunfire.
Yup, this wasp has been shot and survived.
Something tells me RAID won’t work either.
These humongous insects will fly around and deposit their eggs in large mammals, leaving
the larvae to hatch and eat their way out.
Using their sharp and manoeuvrable egg-tube they lay between 5 and 20 eggs, all around
6cm in length, before leaving to let the incisions heal.
They can also use their pointy end as a weapon, stabbing their victims repeatedly, sometimes
even resulting in bone penetration.
I usually prefer my bones un-penetrated, thank you very much.
The eggs will incubate for 4-12 days, and as they grow nearer to hatching, stress levels
in the host will go up.
You know, the kind of stress that happens when baby wasps are about to hatch under your
skin and eat their way out.
If you go and see a doctor, it’s likely they will mistake the bugs as abscesses or
tumors.
What’s extra fun about this bit is that as they burrow deeper into you, it will seem
like the lumps are going away on their own!
Nothing to worry about here, just becoming a host body for half-meter yellow jackets!
The etymologist that discovered 772 actually cut himself open when he realized what had
happened.
They remain carnivorous, even after their pupal stage, and can sometimes become cannibalistic
in resource-deficient environments.
Thankfully, all reported instances of this SCP are under Foundation control now, hermetically
sealed in a chamber with a maximum capacity of 15 wasps, to keep them from getting unruly.
They’ve been known to break out of enclosures before.
Hopefully the incineration failsafe stays operational.
Kill it with fire!
Always a good option.
NUMBER THREE: SCP 247 If Banksy and an SCP had a baby, this would
be it.
A can of spray paint with many variable colours, this SCP has the consistency of normal paint.
Grossly enough, it has been discovered that the composition is 28% hemoglobin, 12% gastric
acid, and 60% regular paint.
Once sprayed on a wall, it will spread until covering the entire wall and any walls attached.
This usually takes the form of large, disturbing designs.
Any building taken over by it will be converted into organisms that function similarly to
species of the Anthozoa class.
Common examples are anemones, stony corals, and soft corals.
Buildings infected by SCP 247 are predatory, and will lure victims in by emitting alarming
noises.
Broken glass, loud coughing, painful whines and whimpers will all be heard by passersby.
Once a human enters, these noises will stop immediately.
Victims are then suctioned into the building’s newly formed gastrovascular cavity, and often
grabbed by entities known as SCP-274-2.
These are humanoid figures wearing gas masks that can flatten out and take the form of
graffiti.
Our gas mask-wearing assailants will spray victims in the eyes and mouth with SCP-274,
which has a blinding and numbing effect.
It is assumed that victims are then assimilated into instances of SCP-274-2.
If there are too many of these humanoids in any particular building, one will leave to
spray a new one.
If left unchecked, it is estimated that it could take over a large city in less than
a month.
Currently, Foundation Task Force Pi-1, aka City Slickers, is watching all known instances,
preventing folks from entering, and burning down infected buildings.
NUMBER TWO: SCP 2675 Ah, Russia.
This SCP is a Soviet-made, Arktika-class nuclear-powered icebreaker ship named Sibir.
Official records say it was retired, but later it was found that it disappeared while investigating
an anomalous artifact in the Arctic Ocean.
It can spontaneously change shape, and add new structures equipment, and weaponry.
Also, it generates neutron radiation.
The water around it is often seen glowing blue.
This shapeshifting ship can also vanish from one location and manifest elsewhere.
The limits and nature of this power are currently unknown, although the use of it often coincides
with a spike in radiation.
Unfortunately, this kickass ship is hostile and dangerous.
Come on!
Can’t we just have cool stuff?
On board is a discrete entity, known as SCP 2675-1.
It appears to be an adult human male, fluent in Russian, French, and English.
Intelligent and violent, he claims to be a herald of a previously undocumented God.
In a transmission from the ship, 2675-1 announces that he sails for the god child, born of the
atom.
He and his crew are no longer life, but time and energy.
Based on information from other transmissions and reports, we have a vague idea of how he
and the ship came to be.
At some point while investigating the anomaly in the Arctic Ocean, something happened to
the nuclear power source aboard the Sibir.
This vaporized everyone on board, but allowed them to re-materialize in this host-entity.
Think Dr. Manhattan at sea.
Those de-and-reconstructed now see nuclear power as a god child, who needs to be cradled
and cared for, whose love needs to be shared with all men.
So this sea-faring blue ghoul wants everyone to be broken down into atoms, so that they
can see the warmth and love of the atomic godchild.
Love it!
NUMBER ONE: SCP 2521 This one is absolutely fascinating, and if
you haven’t heard of it already I would recommend checking out the original report
on the SCP Wiki.
Unfortunately, I am dooming myself and all of you by speaking about it aloud.
Knowledge is power, but the way this works means we’re all screwed, sorry!
Stop listening now if you enjoy living and breathing with a grand total of zero tentacles
pulling you to an unknown zone.
Ok.
SCP 2521 is a humanoid entity, over 2m in height, with sticky tendrils at the end of
each arm.
It appears to be black, or dark grey, with an odd little pentagon-shaped head.
It can pass through solid objects, and as such is difficult to contain.
It absolutely LOVES collecting information about itself, and really likes when people
discuss it aloud.
Any instance of written or spoken information about SCP 2521 can be sensed by it, and will
promptly be collected.
Yes, this includes people who know and speak about it.
Where does it take this information?
Nobody knows.
Personally, I like the idea that it takes all of this information to some unnamed location
and protects it like a dragon hoarding gold.
Thankfully for the Foundation, SCP 2521 doesn’t seem to understand anything done up in symbols
or pictographs.
Pictures, videos, signs, and graphics are all fair game too.
So, considering now that I have been speaking very candidly about our tentacled friend,
I should probably get going.
Stick to symbols folks!
OUTRO But of course, I can’t leave without giving
you guys an outro!
That would be super unprofessional!
Plus, I want to know if I missed any good SCPs!
And if anyone knows how to escape this grey weirdo now that I’ve doomed myself!
So please, let me know what you think down in the comments!
Speaking of comments!
Let’s have a look at some of the more insightful things you’ve had to say since the last
video!
Metal Peasant asks “So what is the SCP above your lip?”
Good question!
There’s acutally a very well-written SCP-style entry in the comments of the our first Top
5 SCP Monsters That Can Never Escape video.
Shout out wattrocks.
Caleb D says “Dude that shirt is f**** dope” I can only assume you’re saying fricken,
and thanks!
Cori aquin says “I’d let keegan murder me”
Ok, sure, but if you’re dead who’s gonna help me hide the body?
Rita Miller says “So that’s what happened to the thermostat from room 1408”
I mean, the room exploded in a fiery cacophony…
Or did it?
I suppose we’ve only just begun.
R.J.
Ehlert says “One time a friend of mine saw a treasure chest and opened it.
A big tongue came out to grab him, and the chest ate him”
But who told you what he saw?
I think this might be a mimic imitating R.J.
I’ll keep my distance for now.