Well, well, well - as per usual, we’ve all been captivated by the horrifying intricacies
of the SCP Foundation, and whilst in many cases we’ve dived deep into the archives
of the terrifying entities and anomalous creations that inhabit it’s fictional universe - we’re
yet to fully explore the wider implications of the Foundation’s influence - and more
importantly, their allies and enemies.
In the SCP Foundation canon - these organisations are referred to as groups of interest - which
they often keep close check on in fear of betrayal and their devious machinations.
So, I guess in that case - we better take a look.
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 Scariest SCP Organisations.
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For the curious amongst you, that clip was the descent into Carcosa from Season 1 of
True Detective, because if I’m being honest - I’ll take any chance I can get to show
a True Detective clip.
Time is a flat circle.
Kicking off at Number 5 - The Serpent’s Hand
Now, there might be a lot to get your head around in the wider world of the SCP Foundation
- but perhaps the easiest ease into this concept, is with the counter-group of activists known
as The Serpent’s Hand - who’s primary intention is to bring down the Foundation’s
containment and let loose all of it’s horrifying anomalous entities to the world.
They believe that humanity and all other peoples of the known worlds - so, we’re talking
multiple dimensions - don’t deserve to be kept in darkness and ignorance in regard to
the nature of anomalous entities, and although it may not seem at it first - to be honest,
they make a pretty convincing argument.
The Serpent’s Hand claims that the Foundation - which they refer to as The Jailors - cannot
keep imprisoning these horrifying entities forever, save that the whole world ends up
in a containment cell.
They claim that the Foundation cannot hold the future back indefinitely, and that inevitably
the lock will break and an extinction level event will be left up to a coin toss.
Not only that though, but the Serpent’s Hand seems to have some kind of ancient, anomalous
technology that they inherited - known as the Wanderer’s Library - a kind of mystical
connection of portals that let’s the Hand slip through dimensions and corporeal planes
to sabotage the Foundation.
It kind of poses the question - are they the good guys?
Next up at Number 4 - The Chaos Insurgency
And if we’re asking who the good guys are - well, it’s definitely not this particular
group of murderous insurgents.
As the record states, in 1924, the SCP Foundation formed a covert special task force - known
only to the mysterious 05 council - codenamed Insurgency.
They were formed by the most capable members of the elite Mobile Task Force known as the
Red Right Hand - who were famed for their loyalty to the Council and notorious for their
inscrutable secrecy of their identities and operations.
In an act of self-subterfuge though, the Foundation claimed to the wider anomalous world that
this group turned rogue and went AWOL, along with some of their most valuable researchers
and anomalous objects.
In actual fact though - the 05 fabricated this story so that the Insurgency could complete
missions with ethically questionable methods and politically unsavory results - whilst
keeping the Foundation’s reputation as clean as it could be.
This Insurgency operated for over twenty years, answering only in secret to the 05 Council
- completing some of the most heinous operations all with the ultimate goal to further the
will of the Foundation.
Well, turns out you should be careful what you wish for - because in 1948 - the 05 council’s
biggest lie became a reality - and the Insurgency actually DID go rogue during a seemingly routine
operation.
The Foundation were stunned - and still to this day, the Chaos Insurgency operates in
a shrouded mystery - often appearing out of the shadows to sabotage the Foundation’s
inner goings on.
Who knows what the hell they want?
Well, either that - or it’s another double bluff.
Secret organisations, man.
You can’t ever trust them.
Next up at Number 3 - Herman Fuller’s Circus of the Disquieting
If you’ve ever seen American Horror Story - or read any of the wider works of Stephen
King - you’ll know that a common trope in turn of the century history was that of the
Curiosity Show - otherwise known as a Freak Show.
Well, turns out - the Foundation’s universe has its own version, and this one is comprised
of a whole host of anomalous entities.
Although the Circus has never actually been observed by the Foundation, they have in fact
successfully recovered many of its anomalous performers - who often tell the horrifying
tale of the horrors inflicted upon them by the iron-fisted ringmaster, Herman Fuller.
Some of the instances described at the hands of Herman Fuller are horrifying, to say the
least - but the majority of them were at the hands of the sociopathic Richard C. Normus
- a man hired by Fuller to be his taskmaster, who forced the anomalous entities to breed,
treated them like cattle and mercilessly killed any that displeased him.
This went on for years and years - all in the means of Fuller’s twisted entertainment
- but fear not, because there is a resolute ending to the tale of Herman Fuller’s Circus
of the Disquieting that is definitely worth the read.
Well, maybe - anyway.
As with many things in the SCP Foundation - all is not as it may seem.
Or is it?
I guess that’s the point.
Yeah.
Coming in at Number 2 - Marshall, Carter and Dark
Which - whilst being one of the most inherently evil organisations in the entire SCP Foundation
multiverse, they’re also - of course, one of the most polite.
As the record states, Marshall, Carter and Dark are an anomaly-dealing merchant corporation
based out of London, England - who are infamous for acquiring anomalous items and reselling
them to their willing club members at secret, ritualistic auctions.
Essentially, they are the aristocracy of the anomalous world - who have profited from the
exploitation of all-powerful entities for hundreds of years, and now - they just kind
of see the world as their plaything.
Despite that though, they’ve managed to keep a respectful relationship with just about
every other powerful organisation in the anomalous world - but the thing is, if you cross these
guys - then yeah, you’re pretty much done for.
They’re like the East India Trading Company - just with world-ending alien technology
and a fetish for cosmic horror.
Their structure of power is something to be reckoned with as well - both Marshall and
Carter are some of the most feared figures in both the corporation and the wider anomalous
world - but even they fear the mysterious character known only as Dark.
An individual that is only ever heard from through his immaculately penned letters - passing
his nefarious will down through the chain of command.
Spooky.
And finally, coming in at our Number 1 spot - Neo-Sarkicism
I’m not going to lie - this one is absolutely huge in it’s scale - as in, an entire Foundation’s
worth of archives could probably be amassed on Sarkicism alone.
To cut a long story short though, there are two opposing forces in the Foundation’s
multiverse - the Church of the Broken God, also known as the Mekhanites - an ancient
religion that worships technology and sees flesh as broken - and their counterpart, Sarkicism
- an equally ancient religion that thinks the exact opposite.
Sarkic Cults worship flesh - and believe in the apotheosis of humanity and the biological
form.
Now, in an even more contrived fashion - there are two factions of Sarkicism.
Proto-Sarkicism - which if I’m being honest, they’re pretty awesome - if not wholly interesting
- and the much more nefarious Neo-Sarkicism, who kind of make Marshall, Carter and Dark
look like Looney Toons - although, they’re probably related.
Ancient cults have a habit of sticking together.
Neo-Sarkites are essentially what the New World Order would be if they were fanatical
zealots of an Eldritch cosmic horror that consumed it’s followers into a mass of writhing
organic matter.
They exist in the upper echelons of society - ancient and incredibly wealthy families
that span generations upon generations, inbreeding to keep their ‘black blood’ line pure.
Their ultimate goal is to bring about the war of the flesh once again, ultimately destroying
their enemies - the Church of the Broken God - and mushing together the entire population
of existence into a big ball of bio-organic-matter.
Nasty.
But - the opposition wants to turn us all into cyborgs - so, I don’t know what to
believe any more.
Well - there we have it horror fans, our elaborated list on the Top 5 Scariest SCP Organisations
- why don’t you let us know your thoughts, as well as any choice picks in the comment
section down below.
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remarks from over the past few days.
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