SCPs have never been exactly easy to understand. I mean, they’re literally supernatural,
paranormal, anomalous entities. Sure, you can explain what they do, and how
they act, but getting into the why is tough. And if you want to examine the nitty-gritty,
well, good luck to you. Not every SCP has remained unexplainable,
though. Some are eventually solved and put to rest.
But most of them are just functioning on a level we may never totally understand.
And then there are the ones that just flat out bust your brain.
You can’t just sum it up as “a lizard that hates everything and can’t be destroyed”
or “a cursed TV show.” No, there are some that get metaphysical,
pataphysical, hypothetical, phantasmagorical. Hello horror heads, and welcome back to the
scariest channel on YouTube: Top5ScaryVideos. I’m your horror host, Keegan Hughes, and
today we’re going to attempt to understand the Top 5 Scary SCP Monsters No One Understands!
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mind-bending madness. Perfect, let’s begin!
NUMBER FIVE: SCP-3959 The less you know, the less you understand,
right? Well, sometimes. I feel like knowing too much
can make it hard to understand anything. Case in point: logging on to Twitter and feeling
your brain melt. But I’ll avoid talking about that for now.
We’ll focus on the information eating abilities of 3959 instead!
This SCP was originally meant to be an algorithm weaponizing information and anti-memes.
The Foundation thought it would be a good idea to put something like that together.
It was safe. At first. But soon a mild cognito hazardous effect was
noticed, and it only got worse from there. Now it’s Keter, and nobody can control it.
And if they could, it’s likely they would forget.
At this point, after the project to weaponize info was deemed a failure, nobody remembers
being involved with it at all. See, what was supposed to only affect certain
information soon became infovorous. Carnivorous, herbivorous, take a seat.
3959 gravitates towards any and all large volumes of data in order to consume it.
And anything being fed on will redact their own information.
There’s a whole store room at the Foundation full of redacted books, movies, music, and
more. The objects affected by this will also generate
a powerful anti-memetic effect, too, leaving all who contact them out of luck.
Information consumed can be considered permanently lost from both documentation and human memory.
Once it’s gone, it's GONE. Nobody can say whether it’s erasing knowledge,
or somehow retroactively changing causality. Either way, precious info is being deleted
from existence, and it won’t stop. For some reason, 3959 is doing its best to
make it to 3959-1, a tome containing a complete history of the human race.
The Foundation has done their best to hide and protect this, but it’s inevitable that
3959 will make its way back. Containment breach is imminent.
How much have you already forgotten? NUMBER FOUR: SCP-4205
Ah, yes. The glowing eyes in glass. Insta-killer extraordinaire.
I guess it’s kind of easy to boil this one down to basics, but that doesn’t come close
to answering all the questions about it. At its most simple, 4205 is a pair of eyes
that only appear in glass, and if you look at them you die.
Kaput. Life fast-forwarded, all electrical potential drained.
Apparently they can stretch their victim’s death out for a very long time.
To an observer, it’ll seem like instant death, but in the mind of the victim it can
be an eternity. They can be made to experience things they
aren’t actually experiencing, and suffer in very personal ways.
The only reason we know this, though, is thanks to Wade Dalitz, junior researcher.
He saw the eyes, and apparently didn’t immediately die.
And when he went to write the containment procedures, he saw them again.
And then they kept showing up as his life and career got worse and worse.
For whatever reason, being in contact with the eyes and his computer at the same time
made it so his experiences of dying were transferred into the Foundation Database.
Huh. This allowed people to learn more about 4205,
but how? Why? Looking into his report may give some answers,
but it also opens up a lot more questions. Lots of stuff packed in here.
We see correspondence with his (assumed) dead dad.
He gets chewed out by his supervisor. Other reports of people coming in contact
with the eyes. Some self-deprecating internal monologuing.
Constantly updated containment procedures that get weirder and more aggressive over
time. I can stand up and say that I partially understand
this one, but there are so many tangents and references to other things, I don’t know
if I’d believe myself. Take a look, and enjoy the lovely whirr of
an old-school computer monitor. NUMBER THREE: SCP-3999
This SCP is one researcher’s own personal hell.
Did I say researcher? I meant author. Written by LordStonefish, a longtime SCP-Wiki
contributor, it is a fascinating look at their interpretation of their relationship with
the online community. The author has come forward and said that
it is indeed about their addiction to the SCP community, their own psyche, and other
SCPs that they have written. Once completed, LordStonefish decided it would
be the last thing they wrote for the site. Sheesh.
3999 is a doozy of a read, with plenty of meta, self-referential stuff.
And it all boils down to a corpse and a cell phone at the bottom of a neglected containment
chamber. The actual entity known as 3999 is a reality-altering
SCP with the potential to end the world, but instead just tortures Researcher Talloran.
Like this thing has a HATE on for our poor man here.
It causes him endless agony, thrashing his body and soul relentlessly.
Reality keeps changing, but only in the area observed by Talloran.
Eventually, he becomes numb and manages to survive for what can only be assumed is hundreds
of years inside an altered world. Through means that I don’t totally understand,
he finds a way to take down the entity, but at the cost of his own life.
I think. There are so many loose parts, so many seemingly
random elements, I’m not sure what connects and what doesn’t.
There are weird, repeating punchlines, the threat of torture and death for all sorts
of people, a call for all researchers to convert to Buddhism, references to Nintendo, third-person
storytelling passages, and a T.S. Eliot shoutout. In the end, I think the only person who truly
understands this entry is the author. And even then, I’m not totally convinced.
NUMBER TWO: SCP-1383 Welcome to the Motel, California.
You can check out any time you like, but the idea of you can never leave.
Or something like that. I’m still trying to wrap my head around
this one. Ok. Here’s what I can confidently say I
understand: Room Number 14 at the Motel 6 in California has something weird going on
inside. Anyone who enters is physically and mentally
unchanged, but they become subject to an effect that causes anyone who thinks about them to
believe that they’re still physically inside the room.
From here it gets fuzzy. People affected by this can move around no
problem, and keep track of their own location. However, people who are frequently in contact
with these affected individuals often complain of frequent cognitive dissonance.
If you were to walk into the hotel room, you would notice hundreds of people milling about,
but not really think anything of it. In fact, when first discovered, it was reported
as an “employee blunder.” Like it was totally reasonable that someone
screwed up and accidentally booked hundreds of people into the same room, and then they
all coexisted. Right.
During the initial containment, a security agent found a piece of paper describing a
process that intends to “assemble” an “idea trap” using a room or other enclosure
and a “hypothetical component.” Still with me? Cos I’m not sure if I’m
still with me. A bunch of redacted text follows, with short
breaks involving second-person writing, priests, false pretenses, and more.
Somehow the moon is involved, and Spanish-language organizations, and violent crimes that didn’t
actually happen, and a bunch of people becoming very mad at the fact that they may or may
not have happened. Yeah.
I actually went through a post on SCP Declassified about 1383, and really came out the other
end understanding about the same. If you’ve got any theories or explanations,
fire ‘em down in the comments. Okay, now for one last brain-breaker before
we conclude. NUMBER ONE: SCP-2719
Ready for this? It’s a variable abstract-metaphysical construct
pointer. Yup. Totally get it.
Concepts acted upon by SCP-2719 will either go in or become inside.
And the Foundation wants to restrict info about it to people both sapient and biological.
Alright. Cool cool cool. Below the description is a test log, basically
a t-chart of objects, people, and even ideas introduced to 2719.
Yes, we can put ideas inside. I think.
Examples of test subjects include D-class personnel, a car, containment units, geographical
locations, SCP-682, intestinal distress, and the idea of transcendence.
Apparently, it can assign the value of “inside” to stuff.
But then you can use it to assign “inside” to ideas.
And then apply the newly defined “inside” to other things.
I sat here for quite a while trying to fully comprehend what’s going on.
It’s very hypothetical, very abstract. I’m not sure if I have the type of brain
for this kind of thing. But hey! That’s why it made the list.
There’s another SCP Declassified that explains it pretty thoroughly, which I’ll link below.
Let me know if you get it. I want to pick your brain.
OUTRO How’re you’re domes?
Is steam shooting out your ears yet? Cool.
What did you think of the list? Which do you think you have a handle on?
Any that you’ll never get? Make sure you let me know down in the comments.
Speaking of comments, let’s take a look at some of your more platonic ones from TOP
5 SCARY MONSTERS FROM JAPANESE FOLKLORE: The Horned King says “The Gashadokuro is
my favourite. It’s a giant skeleton ,15 times as big as a human, that can turn invisible
and is actually stealthy, indestructible, and bites people’s heads off to drink their
blood. Also, it spawns from mass graves of people that died of starvation.”
If you hear ringing in your ears, that means one is close by! Get ready to run!
Naruto Anime says “I didn’t see kuchisake onna on your list!”
Maybe I’m saving her for the next one! Zaqzilla says “Never understood why anyone
likes Napoleon Dynamite” Sounds like you never had anyone to play tetherball
with. Ya fricken idiot. Jeffrey Coover says “Now my girlfriend wants
to go to Japan… Help” Well, I don’t think you’ll be travelling
anytime soon. That gives you time to devise some monster-avoidance strategies. Maybe craft
some wards, too. Laura Anderson says “These are awesome”
Thank you! Keep an eye out for potentially more in the future!
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