The SCP universe is vast and varied indeed, with plenty of tales of terror to keep you
up night after night.
It’s an absolute blast to scroll through the seemingly endless catalogue of creepy
creatures and unexplainable phenomena.
However, there is a whole world beyond the entries themselves.
In each report, you can find references to test subjects, doctors, researchers, and other
assorted supporting characters!
Often they are used to set up scary scenarios, or as a sort of scientific human crash dummy,
but some recurring Foundation members have more to offer than a fleshy body to be torn
asunder.
In fact, many of them have terrifying backstories and ever-developing canons to explore!
Anyone associated with the Foundation has to be a psycho in some regard, otherwise why
would they be there?
Can’t have a bunch of neurotypical normies classifying and containing these anomalies!
I doubt any sound-minded person would be willing to sacrifice all of those Class D test subjects.
Hello horror heads, and welcome back to the scariest channel on YouTube: Top5ScaryVideos.
I’m your horror host, Keegan Hughes, and today we’re taking a look at the Top 5 Scariest
SCP Foundation Members.
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We keep coming back to The Cabin in the Woods, because it seems like the perfect example
of an SCP movie.
Agents Sitterson and Hadley seem like just the kind of guys who could make it big at
the Foundation, and the Harbinger is exactly the type of maniac who could make a good field
agent (or test subject, if he can’t be reigned in).
Now that we’ve done the requisite Cabin in the Woods reference, let’s get going!
NUMBER FIVE: DR.
GLASSMAN This researcher is quite odd, I swear I know
her from somewhere.
Unfortunately, Glassman was killed in action following a redacted containment breach.
While following up on some post-mortem paperwork, agents tasked with consolidating her record
found something very strange.
And by found something, I mean couldn’t find anything!
There was no history of a Dr. Glassman anywhere on the records.
Nothing confirming or detailing her employment with the Foundation, no recruiters able to
confirm when and how she entered their employ.
It’s like she was a collective hallucination.
That would be cool, if the Foundation wasn’t always so close to catastrophe!
There’s a popular theory among Foundation research staff that fits in pretty well with
the SCP canon at large.
They say that she was an anomalous cognitoparadox!
So yeah, a collective hallucination where everyone remembers interacting with her, but
have no proof of it!
Something along the lines of a paranormal Mandela effect.
BarenSTEEN or BarenSTAIN?
Glassman or GLASS MAN?
Information about the cognitoparadox was declassified, and things returned to normal at the Foundation.
That is, until Glassman returned to work.
Now she’s under 24-hour surveillance, and Foundation members are urged not to speak
with or make physical contact with her.
At one point, all records of Glassman were expunged in an attempt to remove her existence,
but these attempts failed.
Do if you see a certain Dr. Glassman, make sure you don’t engage with her.
Don’t acknowledge her presence, and for goodness sake do not attempt to locate her.
NUMBER FOUR: GUEST RESEARCHER DR.
W This one makes me feel pretty icky inside.
More icky than normal SCP stories.
It has to do with SCP-682, and the experiments performed on it.
You know 682, right?
Weird reptile being who hates all life?
Constantly consuming matter, with crazy regenerative ability?
Yeah, that one!
So they did some tests on it to try and figure out if it could be killed.
Most of these trials involved the use of other SCPs, and were supervised by trusted Foundation
researchers.
At one point, someone tried to drop it from an airplane cruising at high altitudes.
That… didn’t work.
Dr. Clef even walked into the containment area himself, just to see what would happen.
However, at some point a guest researcher by the name of Dr. W. was allowed to perform
some experiments.
This was not a good call.
The first thing Dr. W. did was put an ordinary human child in the container.
Guess what happened next?
The child screamed, cried, and was messily devoured.
Now, after one test like that, a reasonable researcher would think “Hmm, maybe don’t
put the human child in with the terrifying hatred-lizard.”
But no, this researcher decided to push it further.
In their notes, they stated that the child’s crying made 682 perceive hostile intent.
So, their next trial involved placing a heavily drugged child in the container.
This child giggled and smiled and was messily devoured.
Great work, team.
In the notes for this trial, Dr. W. wrote that they believed that if they tried it again,
eventually a child would make friends with 682.
Thankfully, before this theory could be tested, Dr. Clef decided to use Dr. W. as a test subject.
Dr. W. screamed and panicked and was messily devoured.
Pretty conclusive results, don’t you think?
NUMBER THREE: DR.
CLEF As you might have noticed in the previous
number, this researcher is a madman maverick.
He plays by his own weird, really annoying rules.
But, the Foundation wouldn’t just keep him around for comic relief, would they?
This enigmatic doctor claims that his true name is that of an A major chord played on
a ukulele, and thus the musical name was born.
His face cannot be clearly photographed, but people say that he has three different-coloured
eyes and a cheshire cat grin.
An inveterate liar, Clef should not be trusted about anything except SCP-related issues.
Clef also has been described as having a slimy personality that causes all females within
reasonable distance to instinctively recoil in horror.
He’s written some very, uhhh, graphic research papers concerning the function of certain
human reproductive organs and fluids, which might have something to do with this reputation
of general disgust.
Even though everything I’ve said before this seems to paint Clef as an idiot and a
pervert, he is actually a very effective Foundation member.
He is able to swiftly and elegantly terminate dangerous SCPs, and has been involved in a
number of high-profile SCP cases.
Thanks to these talents, he was promoted to the head of the Department of Training and
Development at the Foundation, and is in charge of training response teams and field agents.
If you know anything about these teams, you know how deadly and effective they can be.
There’s much to learn from this strange doctor, if you can handle being in the same
room as him for more than five minutes.
NUMBER TWO: RESEARCHERS AT SITE 779 I’m going to group these guys all into the
same category due to the circumstances surrounding their deployment.
Led by Dr. Kells, an expert in cognitohazards, these researchers were sent to investigate
SCP-3799.
This SCP is a 6m snow sphere floating above an island in Greenland.
No attempts to harm or destroy the airborne snowball were successful, so the Foundation
worked to understand it.
There are five iterations of the case file, but none of these have been found in the Foundation’s
database.
All documents were found in the research lab, or in the hands of an unidentified Foundation
member located inside of the frozen globe.
Dr. Kells and all of the researchers on the island fell under the influence of 3799, though
means of anomalous snowfall.
It produces snowflakes constantly, and the island is always totally covered in a beefy
layer of snow.
The flakes are molecularly identical to regular snow, but have anomalous qualities that make
them very dangerous.
Those who observe the snow over time always develop an obsessive interest in it, and associate
it with feelings of joy, contentment and enlightenment.
When the snow makes contact with human skin, the subject will feel compelled to totally
immerse themselves in it.
Once they succumb to hypothermia and die, the snow has a corrosive effect on their corpse,
and will eventually turn their flesh into snow.
Dr. Kells fell under the influence of the snow, and compelled people to walk out and
be subsumed.
In his report, he wrote that winter and snow are pure, unlike humans who are made of blood
and more.
Heading into the snow is likened to achieving Nirvana, and should be done as soon as possible.
All of the researchers on the island eventually subscribed to this idea, and gave themselves
to the pure, crystalline powder.
If Kells’ glowing report of the deadly snow-substance made it to the public, who knows how many
would be lost to the blizzard?
NUMBER ONE: ADAM BRIGHT This member’s story is both scary and tragic.
The Brights are a well-known family, well-connected to the Foundation at large.
Adam is the patriarch, and has what is assumed to be five children involved in the world
of SCPs.
Four have been mentioned in different reports as researchers, agents, or operatives, and
one more is the catalyst for Adam’s tragic story.
One of the bright babies was stillborn, causing great distress to Father Bright.
He wanted more than anything to bring his baby back to life.
Adam did everything he could to achieve this goal, including using SCPs with healing properties.
This led to him using SCP 590, a teenaged boy with the mental capacity of a three-year
old who can heal injuries on anyone he touches.
This worked, and brought the baby back to life.
It was immediately taken into Foundation custody for examination, and later given an SCP designation:
SCP-321.
This child ages at a decelerated rate, and has the ability to recuperate after injury
five times faster than a normal human.
Its physical growth has showed no signs of stopping, either.
This is theorized to be a result of being brought back to life while a large number
of stem cells still existed in the child’s body.
It actually reached a point in its growth that its heart could no longer circulate blood
effectively, causing the Foundation to outfit it with braces to prevent further growth and
support the already weak bones and muscles.
321 also has a low degree of intellect, and cannot learn complex skills or speech.
Over and over, Adam tried to regain custody of his reborn child, and every time the Foundation
denied his request.
Every time Adam rose in rank, he put in a new request, but to no avail.
Eventually the Foundation “retired” Adam for never giving up on his quest to bring
his daughter home.
After trying so hard to save his child, the method of resurrection kept it just outside
his grasp.
The Foundation is ruthless.
OUTRO Holy moly, that’s a lot of scary and sad
stuff on one list!
Humans are pretty good at causing a lot of both, eh?
Tragedy and terror, mankind’s constant companions.
What did you think?
Did you know about any of these Foundation Members already?
Are there some that you hope to learn more about?
Let me know down in the comments!
Speaking of comments, let’s see what you guys had to say last time:
Richard Clark says “Yeah I think the Blair Witch is completely fictional, I think the
name was a reference to the Bell Witch, but that was a completely different story”
You are absolutely right!
The creators of that movie had a whole Alternative Reality Game going on leading up to the release,
which is super awesome.
Joseph Whitaker says “Where is Lucy on this list of witches?”
This is a list of MOVIE witches, so until someone pens a feature script about Lucy’s
exploits, she’ll just have to remain unlisted.
Abducted by Horror Reviews says “The Witches from The Witch better be on this list or it
doesn’t matter.
Updated: you have my respect” I’m glad I could make this list matter!
Much respect to you too!
Lisa Rowe says “Snitches on witches get far worse than stitches”
LISA!
BARS!
What's your soundcloud, I wanna hear your wicken mixtape.
Cassandra Reygadas asks “Keegan, was the knot on your sweater strings on purpose?
Keep up the good work!”
Good eye!
Yeah, that’s just something I’ve done forever, I dunno why I just like it!
Thanks for
the kind words!