Alright guys--it’s probably about that time again, when we swing back on over to that
horrifying place, known only as the SCP Foundation--poke our noses in a few of their more well-contained
filing cabinets--and recoil in existential collaborative terror at some of their more
gut-wrenching and mind-bending entries.
As is often the case, the SCP Foundation and The End Of The World go hand in hand--but
from a purely fictional perspective, the Foundation is home to some of the most creative, well-rounded
and ingenious speculative concepts of the genre--which is good news for us, really--as
well as the science fiction horror genre as a whole--because a grand old dose of existential
crisis is exactly what the doctor ordered.
Hello horror fans--what’s going on, and once again welcome back to the scariest channel
on YouTube--Top 5 Scary Videos.
As per usual, I’ll be your horror host Jack Finch, as today, we curiously take a look
at the Top 5 SCP’S That Can End The World -- Part 3.
Roll the clip.
For the curious amongst you, that clip was from the astounding 2018 science fiction biological
horror, Annihilation, written and directed by the awesome Alex Garland--and based upon
the novel of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer.
If you’ve seen this film in particular, then you’ll know that it’s villainous
anomalous entity could perhaps very much spell the end of the world if it ever broke it’s
containment--but thankfully, it’s just fictional.
So there’s nothing to worry about.
Right?
…. Right?
Kicking off at Number 5 - SCP-169.
And for this particular entry, we’re going to be gently dipping our toe into the very
specific and terrifying category that is *anomalous entities that could potentially spell the
end of the world*.
Let me introduce you to SCP-169, and you can happily rest assured that if it ever DID set
into play it’s apocalyptic chain of events and destroy the planet--there’d be literally
nothing you could do to save yourself, given the fact that, technically speaking, SCP-169
kind of *IS* the planet.
Yeah, let me explain.
SCP-169 is the serpentine leviathan of nautical legend--the literal living definition of the
serpent that wraps itself around the Earth.
Jormungandr of Norse legend, The Leviathan of The Hebrew Bible, Tiamat of Mesopotamia--in
the canon of the SCP-Foundation, SCP-169 is the living embodiment of all of them, and
then some.
As the record states, because of its size--169 cannot and almost certainly will never be
contained, given the fact that no structure on Earth is large enough or strong enough
to contain it.
The location of SCP-169 isn’t precisely known--but satellite imagery has vaguely designated
it as residing mainly in the southern Atlantic Ocean, possibly stretching to the tip of South
America.
The Foundation estimates that its body length is anywhere between 2000 and 8000 kilometres,
and the creature itself is thought to have existed since the pre-Cambrian era.
I mean, it kind of goes without saying--but on it’s size alone, SCP-169 could simply
cause a global tidal wave just by kicking out in it’s sleep.
I mean, that’s if snakes could kick--but you get the idea, right?
The Leviathan is based on a legend as old as civilization itself--so it goes without
saying that it’s prime directive is to bring an end to all life on Earth.
Thankfully, it seems that the creature is dormant.
For now.
Coming in at Number 4 - SCP-008
And whilst our previous entry is mythologically light-hearted enough, this particular entry
in the Foundation’s archives is based upon perhaps one of the most terrifying biological
entities known to humanity.
An infectious Prion Disease.
Imagine every pandemic or contagion horror movie you’ve ever seen--hell, roll in all
of the living dead apocalypse films too--and they rarely come close to the startling efficiency
of this particular zombie plague.
In many ways, SCP-008 is the stereotypical breakdown of the virus that would beckon forth
the zombie apocalypse--it’s even got the whole--*By removing the head, or destroying
the brain* trope too--but the scariest part of this entry, is the suggestion of how our
governments would react to having access to it.
And that’s a whole new level of fear, right?
Biological Zombie Warfare.
As the record states, SCP-008 is a complex prion disease with 100% infectiousness, 100%
lethality--transmission of which occurs through exposed mucous membranes and all bodily fluids.
It’s in the efficiency of 008 where the terror truly lies though, because I mean,
come on--even in the bleakest of pandemic horrors, there’s some kind of cure or immunity.
Nope.
Not in this one.
Because this is the SCP Foundation--and there is no hope.
As we also mentioned, this entry goes one further with the anxiety-ridden implication--and
states that although all known samples of SCP-008 have otherwise been securely contained
with the utmost urgency for security--at some point in 1959--the Russian government took
control of one of the discovered samples after working collaboratively with the SCP Foundation,
the location of which is now otherwise unknown.
Yeah.
A Zombie Apocalypse Arms Race.
That’s a terrifying thought, right?
Next up at Number 3 - SCP-3999
And just as a side note, this entry in particular is awesome--and also utterly terrifying, and
you’ll be pleased to know that it’s also vaguely reminiscent of one of my favourite
short stories of all time, I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, from the mind of the fantastic
science fiction writer, Harlan Ellison.
And maybe that will give you a vague idea of the existential terror that lurks deep
within SCP-3999--because unlike the omnipotent dictatorship of the Allied Mastercomputer,
this anomalous entity does things a little differently.
You see, within the canon of the SCP Foundation, certain classifications of beings stir more
fear than others--and perhaps the most terrifying are the ones that can manipulate the mind
itself, and thus the nature of our reality.
There are cognito hazards and memetic viruses alike--but SCP-3999 is what is known as a
Reality Bender, an otherwise corporeal entity of unknown origin that can manipulate and
potentially destroy reality itself.
Thankfully for us--kind of--SCP-3999 seems fit to only take out it’s anomalous tortuous
desire on one individual in particular.
A member of the Foundation staff by the name of Researcher Talloran--who much like the
five victims of the Allied Mastercomputer in Ellison’s story--is the perpetual mental
slave of the SCP-3999 entity, caught in the eternal torment of both psychological and
physical misery.
Now, take my word for it--the terrifying reality-bending entity within this entry could very much bring
about the End of the World with merely a snap of its fingers, but there’s a very poignant
ending to this Foundation piece that I’m relatively certain you Top 5 Scary Videos
viewers will enjoy.
Shout out to LordStonefish, the creator of this entry--because it’s one of my personal
favourite picks in the whole of the Foundation’s archives, and it’s masterfully written.
There’ll be links down below.
Swinging in at Number 2 - SCP-001 - The Gate Guardian.
Otherwise known as Dr. Clef’s Proposal, and as you may know if you’re familiar with
the SCP Foundation on a whole--the first entry in the organisations archives, 001, isn’t
exactly clear in it’s portrayal.
In fact, SCP-001 is made up of over thirty different possible proposals as to what the
entry in particular actually *is*--as it may be entirely possible to be none of them, one
of them--or even all of them.
The one that we’re concerned with though, is perhaps one of it’s most popular.
The Gate Guardian, which outlines knowledge of a colossal being made from pure energy,
that wields a sword with the ability to annihilate anything that passes too close, destroying
it at the atomic level.
And if that’s not already terrifying enough, the entity also guards the entrance to the
Abrahamic Garden of Eden, located by anomalous means somewhere between the Tigris and Euphrates
rivers, and has been doing so for as long as the Foundation has been around.
And that may give you a semblance of an idea as to where we’re going with this particular
entry, because when we apply the End of the World to The Gate Guardian, what we really
mean is The Rapture, the End of Days--the classic Biblical Depiction of Hellfire, damnation
and death.
And if that’s not already bad enough, The Gate Guardian has technically--*already* ended
the world, after leaving his post, opening the Gate, and letting an unknown entity pour
forth into our world--where the Foundation subsequently declared an XK-Class End Of The
World Scenario, and pretty much went into shit has well and truly hit the fan mode.
However, as the record states in SCP-001, knowledge of this event was actually sent
through anomalous means from the future, warning the Foundation of the dangers that the Gate
Guardian is currently containing.
Now, all of this could obviously be hodgepodge, as it’s very clear that it’ll never be
certain as to which 001 Proposal is true, but if it’s this one--yeah, there’s probably
no coming back from this one.
And finally, coming in at our Number 1 spot - SCP-4023
And--as a horror fan, this one is awesome.
If not utterly terrifying, and conceptually speaking--SCP-4023 is perhaps one of the most
horrifyingly original entries that I’ve seen in a long, long time.
However, as with many things in the SCP Foundation--it does take quite a while to wrap your head
around it’s technical intracices.
But--once you do, yeah, you’ll be like me and have the prior knowledge that this entry
in particular is going to end, really, really--badly.
Let me explain.
And really, all you need to do is keep the Number 23 firmly in your mind.
As the record states, SCP-4023 is an Apollyon class object, that is seemingly made up of
a collection of twenty-three anomalous objects, events and entities--which are currently being
investigated by the Foundation’s researchers as to their true nature--although they do
already have an equally terrifying hypothesis, and it revolves around a figure referred to
as SCP-4023-18.
Otherwise known as The Entity--an extradimensional malevolent force that is seeking to enter
our dimension on the 2nd of March, 2023.
It is believed by the Foundation this entity in question has been creating anomalies that
relate to the Number 23 in our world, as well as many other realities--in order to act as
a nexus for it’s arrival into our plane of existence.
Although only speculatively, it’s goal is to merge with the 13 Current 05 Council Members--where
it will enter a state of completion, it which the entity will consist of 23 connected parts,
the other 10 being comprised of itself, and the 9 missing members of a previously extinct
06 council that were absorbed by the entity.
Yeah… it’s uh--it’s complicated.
But that’s the terrifying beauty of this particular entity--it’s the fear of the
unknown that drives it’s nightmarish narrative.
We don’t know what SCP-4023 will do, can do--or is already doing--but it does mean
one thing.
Whatever it is, it will more than likely herald the end of the world.
But that’s just another day for the SCP Foundation, isn’t it?
Well, there we have it horror fans--our list for the Top 5 SCP’S That Can End The World
- Part 3.
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