As we all have curiously discovered, the SCP Foundation is brimming with some of the most
original, creative, innovative - and downright terrifying concepts making their way through
the terrifying world of horror literature and fiction.
Usually, these come in the form of terrifying anomalous monsters, writhing masses of flesh
- literal nightmares that herald the end of the world - creatures that cannot die, creatures
that cannot see - creatures that cannot scream.
It’s some pretty spooky stuff, to say the least.
But aside from the anomalous entities - there are also some pretty otherwise unassuming
objects - everyday household items like telephones and polaroid cameras - that you really wouldn’t
want to accidently pick up at a yard sale.
Yeah - let’s find out why.
Hello horror fans, and welcome back to the scariest channel on YouTube, Top 5 Scary Videos.
As always, I’ll be your horror host Jack Finch - as we peer back through the dusty
archives of the SCP Foundation - and curiously take a look at the Top 5 Cursed SCP Items
You Should Never Come In Contact With.
Roll the clip.
For the curious amongst you - that clip was from the 2002 version of The Ring - and allegedly,
we’d have seven days to live after watching it.
But don’t worry, because we only saw 10 seconds.
We’re fine.
Promise.
Before we kick off the show - if you haven’t already - make sure to take a look at the
SCP Foundation, because it’s terrifyingly awesome - and we’ll be leaving a list of
links in the comment section so you can check them out yourselves.
Kicking off at Number 5 - SCP-093
And I absolutely love this skip for it’s concept alone, because on the surface - SCP-093
seems like just your standard weird, anomalous object that does some pretty spooky stuff
- but the more and more you delve into it, the bigger it’s world becomes.
And I mean that in the literal sense - because there’s an entire alternate reality attached
to it.
As the record states, SCP-093 is a red disc carved from stone adorned with strange engravings
and unknown symbols that must be kept secure on a mirror-like surface at all times.
Why?
No one really knows, but if not - it will seek out the nearest mirror-like surface at
all costs - sometimes building up phenomenal speeds until reaching its destination.
But of course - this is the SCP Foundation - and SCP-093 actually serves as the key of
using mirrors as a portal to a specific alternate dimension, a post-apocalyptic world populated
with ravenous monsters known as the Unclean - whose population underwent a technological
revolution some time in the 1850s - and everything kind of went a little bit Warhammer.
There’s a lot to it - but SCP-093 is one of the most in-depth articles in the whole
Foundation, and you can easily fill up a few hours researching it and it’s bizarre, skin-crawling
addendums.
Coming in at Number 4 - SCP-072
And if you still sleep with a night-light, please - make sure not to accidentally pick
up SCP-072 at a second hand furniture auction, because seriously - I don’t say this lightly,
if you have trouble sleeping - 072 is really, really creepy.
As the record states, SCP-072 is essentially a bed - infected by an unknown anomalous entity
that emerges at the foot of said bed, by spreading it’s long, sharp fingers across your feet
while the subject is asleep.
You know that fear you have when your foot comes out from underneath the covers?
Yeah - SCP-072 is the thing that you’re afraid of grabbing you.
Although - this thing doesn’t just grab you.
It kind of removes your entire foot with it’s sharp, nightmarish fingers - and you can’t
really do anything about it - because it becomes the physical manifestation of sleep paralysis,
rendering it’s victims unable to scream or call for help.
Also, it gets worse - because SCP-072 can spread to any bed within a 10-meter vicinity
- so, yeah.
Hope to high heaven that hand-me-down bed you got given by your old neighbor doesn’t
come with a brand new infestation of SCP-072.
Swinging in at Number 3 - SCP-978
AKA - The Polaroid, and one of the most depressing objects in the entirety of the SCP Foundation.
Seriously.
On the surface - SCP-978 appears to be just an ordinary looking standard chrome-and-black
Polaroid One instant camera - but of course, it’s far from ordinary - because this is
the SCP Foundation - and it’s the things that it produces that makes it anomalous - the
Polaroid photographs.
Whoever or whatever it takes a photo of - animals included - won’t show the subject as appears
in the real world - but will depict them somewhere else, doing something else - revealing what
the subject most desires to do.
If you point it at an otherwise happy person, it will show them enjoying life - partying
with friends.
If you point it at a suicidal person, it will show them dead and buried.
But the thing is - the most interesting aspect of SCP-978 is that it’s been tested on numerous
other SCP’s.
The bleakest being SCP-451 - a man who cannot see, hear or otherwise detect any other living
being - and whose existence has driven him to absolute madness, while he thinks he’s
the only human left on the planet.
When SCP-978 was used to take a photograph of him, it showed him smiling - surrounded
by friends and family, part of the world once again.
And now I’m sad.
Next up at Number 2 - SCP-035
And this one is a doozy to say the least.
And make sure you check out the SCP article page for this one, because if you stare long
enough - you’ll be absolutely terrified.
Don’t worry, you’ll understand.
Just take a look.
SCP-035 appears to be a white porcelain comedy mask - although at times it will change to
tragedy.
You know, those iconic dramatic images dating all the way back to Greek theater that are
pretty terrifying anyway, nevermind being part of the SCP Foundation.
When it changes, all existing visual records change with it - including photographs, video
footage, even illustrations - automatically changing to reflect its new appearance.
Doesn’t sound too bad, right?
Well, on top of that - a highly corrosive and degenerative liquid of unknown origin
constantly seeps from the eye and mouth holes of the mask - and anything that comes into
contact with the substance decays over a period of time.
Oh - and also, SCP-035 is sentient - and an absolute mastermind at corrupting and controlling
the human mind - often driving those in it’s nearby vicinity to madness and suicide at
a staggering rate, compelling any humanoid figure around it to place the porcelain mask
on their own face.
For the most part, the Foundation has no idea whatsoever to do with SCP-035 - and keeping
it contained is proving to only make it angrier, resulting in more secretion of highly corrosive
liquid - and more madness.
So, maybe just let it do it’s thing?
Wait a minute, I don’t remember scripting that line.
And finally - at our Number 1 spot - SCP-145
Which is - for all intents and purposes - one of the most awesome and terrifying horror
concepts going, and I’m not sure why no one has adapted it into a horror short film
- because it’s incredible.
So - aspiring horror writers, get in touch with the author of SCP-145 and let’s get
this ball rolling.
SCP-145 essentially is a standard 2002-model cordless telephone handset of Alcatel brand
on it’s standard issue charging base.
Although, this phone - when it rings, is a very, very different conversation.
When answered a female voice speaks, showing high levels of stress - varying from conversation
to conversation - and in all instances expresses extreme panic, pleading with the listener
for assistance as she describes instances of torture conducted on unknown victims.
So far, recorded audio documentation of torture has including branding, electrocution, laceration
- dismemberment, and some DATA EXPUNGED records too.
Which, is never a good thing.
Oh - one more important thing to note.
Unless the phone is answered under supervision - as in, more than two people witnessing the
call - the recipient will vanish into thin air, and the leading theory is that these
victims are the ones tortured on the other line.
The Foundation has gone to great lengths to try and save these victims - even going so
far as to strapping a D-class personnel with C4 before they answer the call alone and vanish
in the hope that they’d blow up the torture scene remotely.
Didn’t work - and the Foundation has just kind of given up - and they’ve stopped answering
SCP-145’s calls.
New phone who dis?
Well - there we have it horror fans - cheers for sticking around all the way to the end.
Before we depart, let’s take a look at some of your more creative comments from over the
past few days.
Candy Skull says - I’m subbed to you guys and I really love what y’all are doing!
You’re always giving me ideas on stuff to draw and write and I always get excited when
y’all post new SCP videos!
Keep up the good work and good luck!
-- Well, cheers Candy Skull - we’re glad we can be a source of inspiration.
If you feel up to it - send us some of your creations, Lucy and I would love to check
them out.
Wabbitstewed says - Why aren’t these writers working in horror cinema?!
This is the sort of creativity needed to rejuvenate a genre that has been suffering from too much
cliche-induced necrosis for too long.
-- And, my thoughts exactly Wabbitstewed - there is so much originality and creativity sparking
around in the SCP Foundation that it’s become a sub-genre in itself.
And with sub-genres, we get crossovers - so, fingers crossed!
Well - unfortunately folks that’s all we’ve got time for in today’s video - cheers for
sticking around all the way till the end.
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As always, I’ve been your horror host Jack Finch - you’ve been watching Top 5 Scary
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