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strange, love? Well, too bad. With all these SCPs roaming
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allow one to grow too large to control. Breathe deep now, you might not get a chance
later! Hello horror heads, and welcome back to the
scariest channel on YouTube, Top5ScaryVideos. I’m your horror host, Keegan Hughes, and
we’re taking a look at some K-class scenarios today, counting down the Top 5 Scary SCPS
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Wicked, let’s start the countdown! NUMBER FIVE: SCP-736
Someone or something is toying with the planets, and it’s not looking too good for Earth.
Imagine now, the craziest trick shot ever attempted.
What did you come up with? Basketballs thrown from skyscrapers? Boomerangs chipping golf
balls knocking over dominoes? How about this: the Saturnian moon Iapetus
knocking Titan off its orbit, thus careening through space for hundreds of years until
it collides with Earth? Sounds wicked, sure, but consider the implications
an impact like that would have on our dear, sweet, green planet.
I don’t think we’d be around to appreciate the precision of the shot.
736 is an anomaly that seems to affect one of the moons orbiting Saturn.
The orbit will often be altered by measures of eccentricity, orbital period, or both.
Once the shot is lined up, it seems to return to the regularly documented state.
It’s almost as if the thing in control is taking the moon, calculating the trajectory,
then reconsidering based on the endpoint. Whatever it is, it would probably be pretty
good at pool. Or billiards. Or snooker. Or whatever you want to call it.
How do we know that this is being directed by an intelligent entity?
Well, a while ago the Foundation picked up a transmission from the surface of Iapetus.
The analysis of this signal is inconclusive, but it does provide evidence of a sapient,
technologically advanced presence on the surface of this moon.
Unfortunately, communication attempts have been unreciprocated.
It’s focused! No distractions from it’s massive rube goldbergian ricochet.
Based on models created after anomalous movement from the moon, Foundation scientists have
concluded that we’ll be seeing the blunt end of Titan somewhere within the next 150
- 300 years. At first, the orbits of Saturnian moons were
changed very little by the propulsion of Iapetus through space, but ever the meticulous scientist,
the unknown being has really refined it’s shot.
Between 2007 and 2011, it fine-tuned the moon-launch from colliding with Saturn, and doing nothing,
to altering the orbit of Titan such that it would swing by Earth within 800 000km.
That’s close, and it’s only getting closer. Practice makes perfect, after all.
If that touches down, we’re going the way of the dinosaurs.
NUMBER FOUR: SCP-3199 These big chicken-chimp hybrid lookin things
are dangerous. Standing tall at around 3 meters, weighing
in at 780kg, they will hunt anything that comes close enough to be a food source.
With an average footspeed of 25kmph, there’s a good chance you’re close enough to be
a food source. 3199 might look funny, but they’re no joke,
Puckett. If you’ve been hunted down by one, you’ll
have your internal organs liquefied, and your bones broken down too.
Then your lovely, goopy cadaver will be transported to the younger instances and used for nourishment.
Hope you like being baby food. The young are a big deal, too. Not just because
they’re born weighing 360 kilos, and cause their progenitors to scream at the top of
their lungs while laying eggs, either. It’s because they are able to reproduce
so fast, and require so little in terms of resources to get going.
Makes us humans look absolutely FRAGILE by comparison.
Get this: 3199 instances all carry one egg in their stomach pretty much at all times.
It doesn’t need to be fertilized, it doesn’t need to grow to a certain size, it just needs
to exist for the species to propagate. If they had the wherewithal, which they probably
do, these pale poultry people could cause a population explosion.
They have a stupid-short incubation period, and are nigh-indestructable.
In fact, they can resist extreme blunt-force trauma, extensive pressure exceeding 180 000psi,
high precision blades, and long-term acid exposure.
Can you think of any other egg that might survive under those conditions?
Oh boy. If they’re not carefully taken care of,
with populations constantly controlled, 3199 could take over the world in a heartbeat,
turning all other living creatures into a slurry faster than you can say: LOOK AT ALL
THOSE CHICKENS. NUMBER THREE: SCP-1514
A fancy nuclear deterrent system with a very real possibility of going rogue.
Great. Why did we make this again? There are two main components to this SCP:
1514-1 and 1514-2. 1 is a life support system of sorts, utilizing
an unidentified dark red liquid to keep what appears to be a fetus alive.
NO TAMPERING WITH THIS UNDER THREAT OF IMMEDIATE AND PAINFUL DEATH.
Pleasant. 1514-2 is a series of satellites orbiting
around the Earth, seemingly powered by an alternative, anomalous source.
The solar panels are just for show folks. These satellites are supposed to be used for
disabling Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, but are in all likelihood going to be used
to rain death and destruction upon the surface of the Earth.
See, 1514-A generates an anomalous radio transmission once every hour, broadcasting to the nearest
1514-2 instance. There is no known way to deter or disrupt
this transmission. If, for some horrible, terrible reason, the
signal is not received for a period lasting longer than 36 hours, a failsafe known as
the Coronet contingency will be implemented. This involves the immediate and autonomous
firing upon of all preset targets by all 1514-2 instances.
In classic American Military fashion, this has turned out to be more extensive than intended,
and as such deemed a probable XK-class end-of-the-world scenario.
So why are these signals so uninterruptible? Why isn’t there a failsafe failsafe?
Well, some crackshot scientist decided that they needed to make the most direct, undeterrable
signal possible. And they thought that replicating the telepathic
link between a mother and her unborn baby was the way to do it.
And it worked! But also, as mothers tend to do, it will freak out and wreck everything
if the baby is considered to be in danger. Essentially, they’ve created a dead man’s
switch to global destruction, and a non-corporeal mother has been placed into many weapon-carrying
satellites. And nobody stopped for a moment to think:
maybe this is a bad idea. Huh.
NUMBER TWO: SCP-2747 Stay with me on this one, it’s a little
odd. 2747 is a phenomenon where people start discussing
non-existent works of fiction. Like little facts and pieces of these stories
start showing up in articles, posts, comments, etc. as if they are real.
So you might stumble upon a TV Tropes entry that covers a fourth wall break from a movie
that no one has seen. Or maybe a reference to a plot point in a
review of another piece of media. Whatever it may be, this is strange because
the story never existed. Or did it?
Some theorize that these stories were indeed real at some point, but have been since destroyed,
erased from existence. However, it’s an imperfect erasure, one
that leaves behind little bits that make up the outline of the hole that the story left.
Even though you can’t see the story, you can see where there used to be a story.
This is even easier to detect in pieces of metafiction, or stories within stories.
However, thanks to the nature of 2747, these missing, nested stories will eventually erase
the parent story, and then that one’s parent story, and so on.
It seems that there’s an anti-narrative involved, or a set of tropes and symbols which,
when put together make a story erase itself. This is all well and good until you realize
the implications of something like this in the Foundation’s database.
Agents put together a procedure called LUCID CHALICE that was meant to lay bare the contents
of the anti-narrative, in order to combat its spread.
Well, the results aren’t there anymore. They’ve disappeared. Been erased.
If we follow the breadcrumbs, it becomes clear that the Foundation is a meta-narrative, stories
within stories connected to stories. And if a piece is missing, then the parent
narrative is next. And after that maybe the whole Foundation
universe disappears. Then the Wiki itself.
Then the world containing the Wiki. Our world. Oh.
Right now the foundation is constantly generating stories to fill gaps, and analyze the nature
of an anti-narrative. Fingers crossed they can keep enough in place
to prevent the narrative disintegration of everything.
NUMBER ONE: SCP-3007 This details a hallucinogenic phenomenon,
with no apparent pattern of spread. Death seems to be the only effective method
in preventing or discontinuing the effects. About four times a day, people affected by
the hallucinations will experience 50-80 minute episodes where they claim to be transported
to an unearthly location. However, their physical bodies continue to
exist in the real world, with hearing and touch still connected to our plane.
Sight, smell, and taste will be tied to the hallucination, which has led to some unfortunate
deaths. The place has been described as a city of
sorts, but with many obvious differences from our world.
Buildings seem to be largely pillar-shaped, and made of metal, planes with six wings are
crashed all over the place, long, high bridges span across the skyline.
Plus, there’s mutilated corpses everywhere. In fact, some people have likened the appearance
of the city to something that has been played with, destroyed by a giant child of sorts.
It wasn’t a natural disaster that ended this civilization.
In order to further understand the lost society, the Foundation enlisted an artist who was
experiencing hallucinations. He was to travel through the city while under
Foundation surveillance, and report on what he saw.
Then, upon return, he was to re-create a specific set of paintings detailing the history of
the people. These tapestries appear to detail the fall
of a society thanks to the influence of a red essence.
At one point, the society was prosperous; benefited greatly from advanced design and
artistic temperaments. A benevolent deity ruled over them, typified
with the colour blue, only to realize that the influence of the red essence was corrupting
their people. The deity found a way to composit their story
into art, as to avoid spreading the infohazardous effects of the red haze.
With the fall of their society, this should have been the end of it. No way for the red
to travel further. However, it seems that the red essence found
a way to plant hallucinations into the minds of people on Earth, allowing them to travel
into the destroyed world, and find out what happened for themselves.
Then, they bring the red back with them. The final painting, hidden away behind security
clearances, shows the red essence heading for a planet that looks suspiciously like
Earth. OUTRO
Well, if something’s gonna end the planet, I’m glad there’s a chance it’ll be anomalous.
How embarrassing would it be if we just destroyed ourselves?
Might as well put the blame on someone else, right?
What did you think of the list? Any K-class entries you think should have
made the cut? Make sure you let me know down in the comments!
Speaking of comments, let’s take a look at some of your more destructive ones from
TOP 5 DUMBEST HORROR MOVIE PLOTS THAT MADE NO SENSE - PART 3:
Zach Davis says: “Call me crazy but I think the gorilla heart came from a gorilla”
Oh you’re soooooo clever. Tell me where you find a healthy gorilla ready to undergo
surgery in Mexico. They’re not exactly growing on trees.
Morrigan Luna says “I actually have a side gig working in a dead and breakfast. It’s
a horror themed bed and breakfast in Wisconsin. Google it if you’re interested.”
That sounds like a blast and a half, but I’ve gotta warn you: if an RV full of nondescript
wedding goers shows up, take the day off. Michelle Weir says: “666th like! Sweet!”
That’s a good number. Hold it close! Goopin of Gloopus asks: “Where’s Sharknado?!?
I crave aquatic weather-based destruction!” Don’t worry Goopin, Sharknado has been with
us all along. In our hearts. DK Domo says: “Take a long walk off a short
pier - did I hear keegan right? Did he just tell us to jump?”
I actually said I was going to take that long walk, but hey! If you want to join me, go
right ahead. Peer pressure! And that’s all the time we have for today!
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