Welcome back everyone, its been awhile since Ive done an SCP video.
Im sure a lot of you guys are familiar with this by now - the SCP foundation is a fictional
group who catalogue and protect the Earth from strange and supernatural anomalies that
might harm us.
We thought it would be fun to look at items, both real and fictional - that the SCP would
definitely want to investigate as being a supernatural threat to humanity.
Lets see if you agree.
My name is Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Scary Items That Should Be In The SCP Foundation
I also just wanna give a quick shout out to Hayley, our set manager who films all our
videos - its her last day today and in fact this is her last video.
Shes amazing and shes moving on to even more amazing things so I wanna see you all in the
comments section saying thank you Hayley!
Starting off at number 10 we have The Book of the Dead[a].
This is a cursed object from the Evil Dead franchise.
Its also known as Necronomicon Ex-Mortis.
It has the power to harness a demons ability to control the dead - as well as summon the
demon itself.
The spells on its pages are written in Sumerian - one of the oldest recorded human languages.
It was written long ago by a group called -The Dark Ones- who once ruled the Earth when
the seas ran red with blood.
It was this very blood that was used to fill the pages of the book.
Legend says that the cover of the book is made from the flesh of humans who refused
to obey The Dark Ones.
Because of this, the book itself is infused with evil - it bites, screams and attacks
anyone who finds it - all at the bidding of the demons inside who want to devour human
souls …
Next up at number 9 we have Annabelle.
Some of you may know Annabelle the doll from The Conjuring - others may know thats based
on the real Raggedy Ann doll owned by paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.
According to them, the doll had supernatural powers - and evil ones at that.
They said a psychic medium had informed them the doll was possessed by the spirit of a
dead girl called Annabelle.
The original owner was a student.
Her and her roommate apparently tried to nurture Annabelle and look after her - they felt bad
for the girls spirit inside the doll.
Pretty soon though, they realized that the dolls intentions were evil.
They felt that Annabelle was malicious - perhaps twisted by her fate as possessing the doll
- and that their lives were in danger as long as they were around her.
It was then that Ed and Lorraine Warren were contacted and moved Annabelle to their Warren
Occult Museum in New England.
Moving on to number 8 we have The Tape[b].
The cursed tape that appears in The Ring is the driving force behind the movies terrifying
tale - in both the Japanese version and the American remake.
The general theme of both tapes is that anyone who watches the tape is cursed and has a week
to copy the tape and show it to someone else, otherwise they will be killed by the ghost
of the original owner of the tape - in the American version, the ghost is Samara.
The tape consists of moments from her life - culminating in her death at the hands of
her adoptive mother, Anna Morgan.
Anna pushed Samara down a well where she spent 7 days trying to escape before finally dying
.She used her -nensha- powers to make the tape, out of vengeance and a desire to be
found.
Moving on to number 7 we have the Lament Configuration[c].
This is a fictional lock puzzle that appeared in a number of horror stories by Clive Barker
- you may know him best for writing the Hellraiser movie series.
Its a mechanical device that acts as a portal, a door - or a key to the door for another
dimension or plane of existence.
The solution to the puzzle is said to create a bridge that can cross this schism between
our world and demonic ones.
Some people may describe it as hell.
In The Hellbound Heart novella, Clive described the physical appearance of the Lament Configuration.
Its interior has brilliantly polished surfaces and was constructed the box so that opening
it tripped a musical mechanism.
It was supposedly built to bring enchantment and endless sensual pleasure to all who possess
it - when in reality, the item is cursed.
It is simply a tool for the demonic beings known as Cenobites to cross from their world
to ours.
Moving on to to number 6 now we have Pennywise[d].
Im sure a lot of you guys are familiar with this one - Pennywise is the evil being that
preys on children in Stephen Kings horror novel -It- and of course the two movies that
came after.
Pennywise is the clown version of the ancient, cosmic evil known as It.
After arriving on Earth, It would sleep for 27 - 30 years and then awaken to wreak chaos
and feed - preferably on the taste of fear.
In the 2017 adaptation, It awakens in the town of Derry every 27 years to feed on children
before returning to hibernation.
Because it feeds on fear, It needs to terrify the children to the greatest possible amount
to maximise the fear.
It also has the ability to influence memory and action, covering up and erasing the knowledge
of its acts that would have exposed it.
One notable way in which it does this is the cloak itself from the perception of adult
human beings.
This means that children are usually the only ones to see it - and when they grow up, they
figure that the evil creature was just a figment of their imagination - and the cycle continues
…
At the number 5 spot now we have The Dybbuk Box[e].
This is a wine cabinet which is saint to be haunted to by a dibbeck - a malicious spirit
that can posses both humans and inanimate objects alike.
It was first posted to ebay by Kevin Mannis who blamed the box for all the strange and
paranormal events that happened in his life.
According to the story, it had belonged to a survivor of the Holocaust who had purchased
it from Spain before moving to the US.
Kevin had bought it from an estate sale in 2001.
When he learned of its history, he contacted the original owners granddaughter and offered
to give it to her, but she said her family wanted nothing to do with that box.
She told him that the box had always been kept in her Grandmothers sewing room and was
never opened because Dibbeck lived inside.
He opened the box and found two pennies from the 1920s, a lock of blonde hair, a lock of
brown hair, a small statue engraved with the Hebrew word -Shalom-, a small golden wine
goblet, one dried rose bud, and a single candle holder with four octopus shaped legs.
Many owners have described horrors happening to them.
Kevin said he had nightmares shared with other previous owners.
His mother had a stroke on the day he gave her the box as a present - Halloween.
Owners describe the smell of cat urine and jasmine around the box.
One person said it caused the lights to burn out in his house and his hair to fall out.
Others have described health problems such as hives, coughing up blood or being head
to toe in welts.
The box is now owned by Zak Bagans who keeps it in his haunted museum in Las Vegas.
Moving on to number 4 now we have Jumanji[f].
How could I not include this on the list?
Jumanji is a cursed African game with supernatural powers that was the focul point of the 1995
classic movie.
Its elaborate decorations intentionally attract young players - they soon find though that
game has a mind of its own.
The board has the ability to create an African jungle like alternate reality in the players
reality.
It will not only summon the animals and plants - but also characters that can help or hinder
the player.
Its designed for two players who use simple playing pieces and dice.
They move their token along a squared path that starts in the deep jungle.
The final space is simply titled -Jumanji- - a city of golden buildings and towers.
Jumanji dislikes being left alone and unplayed - if it is - it will start emitting a primal
drumbeat to attract young players - adults seem to be oblivious to the drumming.
The only way to stop the terrors that befall the players of the game - is to finish the
game itself - otherwise, its been suggested that the players will be trapped inside the
game for all eternity …
Moving on to number 3 we have The One Ring[g].
Lord of the Rings fan will know what Im about to say.
The One Ring is the cause of most if not all of the calamity that befalls the heroes in
the Lord of the Rings.
In the story, its one of the most powerful artifacts ever created in Middle Earth.
It was made by the Dark Lord Sauron in the fires of Mount Doom in order to enhance his
power and to control the other rings of power which had been given to the leaders of the
Elves, the Dwarves and the Humans.
Sauron poured his own soul into the ring to give it power - it worked, but in doing so,
destroying the ring would mean the damaging or destruction of Sauron.
When most being put the ring on, they shift out of the physical realm and into the unseen
realm.
They immediately develop an obsessive attachment to it.
It extends thee lifespan of mortals to unnatural lengths.
It would be no life in our sense of the word though - and they would become nothing more
than shells of themselves, as demonstrated in the case of Gollum.
Moving on to number 2 we have Death Note.
This notebook is the namesake of the massively popular Japanese manga and anime series.
The black notebook is supernatural and comes with instructions written inside, known as
the Rules of the Death Note.
When used correctly, it allows anyone to commit a murder that is untraceable.
All they have to do is know the persons face and to write their name down in the book.
Soon enough, the intended target would meet a gruesome end.
The notebook is possessed by Shinigami demons though - who gain years of their lives that
are stolen from the victims of the death note.
There are multiple death notes in the demons realm and they occasionally drop them into
our world in the hopes that humans will use them to kill and thus extend their own lives.
And finally at number 1 we have Voldermorts Horcruxes[h].
Yes, I know this is technically more than one but I wanted to include it.
Harry Potter fans will know that horcruxes are objects in which a dark wizard or witch
has hidden a fragment of their soul for the purpose of attaining immortality.
The only way to do this is by committing the most horrific act to human dignity - murder.
Because they are a literal piece of a persons soul, protective measures are put in place
to either hide the horcrux from public knowledge, or to make it extremely difficult to get to
and destroy.
In the modern era, there has only ever been one person to successfully create more than
one Horcrux - Voldemort - nobody else would even dare to attempt it.
Creating a horcrux dehumanises the individual - the more of them they have, the less human
they become - both physically and emotionally.
They make the soul itself unstable and unable to move on into the afterlife when death finally
comes …