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* The real crowning piece of terror inherent to nearly every single SCP object page: before you even get to the description, you get one or more paragraphs describing the special containment procedures needed for each object, forcing you to imagine just what requires this kind of containment process. These procedures often include battalions of elite commandos with assault weapons and body armor, 3-meter-thick titanium cubes, on-site nuclear self-destruct systems, deep underground or undersea locations, overwatch from AC-130s, unimaginably extensive monitoring equipment, people with unusual skills or attributes (such as fluency in Ancient Sumerian or a "marked sexual deviancy"), vats of hydrochloric acid, bulletproof glass, and ''other SCP objects''. In other words, stuff that no government in their right mind would ever authorize. It's around then that you know what you're dealing with.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-583 SCP-583.] Good luck watching ''[[Sesame Street]]'' again.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-280 SCP-280.] It attacks people and rips them to shreds... for ''no reason.''

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-106 SCP-106] "The Old Man". An entity resembling a rotting old man. It causes severe corrosion and decay of whatever it touches. It drags its victims into its pocket dimension (which it seems to have complete metaphysical control over) and slowly tortures them for hours or days, before ejecting their mutilated bodies back into this world. Take a look at the page [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-106 pictures]. As if that wasn't enough, it's completely indestructible and almost impossible to successfully contain.

** The procedure for its recapture is, if possible, more terrifying than it is. Namely, taking a human in it's preferred age bracket and injuring them by breaking a bone or cutting a tendon, placing them in a cell, and broadcasting their cries to lure in SCP-106. If SCP-106 isn't taking the bait, ''additional damage'' is inflicted. If it still isn't working, more "prey" objects are brought in.

* SCPs [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-076 076-2] and [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682 682]. Both are indestructible, very sharp killing machines. Sure, you can put them down for now, but they'll just come right back again in a few minutes.

** SCP-076 has a long description on its page about how in "the worst breach to date", its containment site was forced to set off a nuke, killing everyone and incinerating the location... '''[[Nigh Invulnerable|and failing to kill the SCP]]'''.

** SCP 682 is described as a reptilian monster able to mutate and regenerate body parts, with hyperintelligence, and [[Omnicidal Maniac|a hate of all forms of life]], and the ability to adapt to anything. It's still capable of talking (usually in the form of obscenities and threats) with as much as 80% of its body mass destroyed, and needs to be kept in an acid bath so as to constantly keep it weakened. What makes it worse is the fact that they have to experiment with other SCPs to try and find away to permanently destroy it. The most frightening thing? It usually fails, and then it becomes immune to whatever they tried.

** How about the interaction between 682 and 826? [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-826 826] is a pair of pewter dragon statues that transform the room it's in into the setting of any book placed between them. If the people fail to escape the room, they will lose all memories of their past lives, and the story will rewrite itself to incorporate them. Realizing this, the SCP wrote a 12 page short story called "The Generally Nice, Friendly Thing That Can And Will Kill SCP-682 Permanently if it So Much As Spots That Damn Lizard", that was just a description of a plain green field, and a large monster whose sole descriptive quality was the stated ability of permanently killing 682. So, they put 682 in there, and in a matter of minutes, the plain green field turned into a scorched crater-filled wasteland, and the 12 page short story had become a <s>1,000+</s> 209 page epic called "The Generally Nice, Friendly Thing That Tried To Kill SCP-682 Permanently But Failed" describing the epic battles between this monster and an innocent creature whose very existence was based around its ability to destroy 682. And 682 won. [[Tear Jerker|Poor thing]].

** Yes, that's right. They wrote a story about something that ''specifically could kill 682'', and 682 ''killed it''. That's how unkillable the bloody thing is.

*** That's actually nothing compared to the attempt using SCP 563. They reduced it 'to 1% of its body'' '''[[Beyond the Impossible|by changing the fundamental natural constants.]]''' AND IT RECOVERED AND EVEN SEEMED TO ENJOY IT!

** [[Word of God|Dr Gears]], 682 creator, says that, in his view, 682 wants to kill everything because, through his eyes, life on this reality is so utterly ''wrong, disgusting and frightening'' to him that his only response is to destroy everything. It makes you wonder just how his homeplace looks like...

** And SCP-053 ''likes'' the thing! It even seemed to like her back, actively trying ''not'' to scare her when they first made contact and even letting her draw on it with her crayons. Although SCP-053 looks and acts like a three year old girl, everyone over the age of three has an irresistible desire to kill her after ten minutes of exposure, and everyone who tries dies painfully. Perhaps SCP-682 feels the same way about humans as humans do about SCP-053. In which case, one wonders where 053 ''really'' came from...

** Not to mention, the implication that some Class D personnel are hired as [[Schmuck Bait]], with the full knowledge that they'll ignore their orders and do something stupid... just so that the scientists will see what happens.

** Or what about how, if the need arise, they can "recruit" them from the normal civilian population, giving special preference to political prisoners, refugees and people in risky situations overall.

** According to [http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/seminario-niveles-clases this story from the Spanish-language branch], the "termination" of D-class personnel doesn't refer to killing, at least on the present time. It ''used'' to mean so, but the decrease on the application of death penalty and the subsequent reduction on human resources forced the Foundation to reduce the monthly culling to the aggressively violent and the ones who were compromised by the SCP they were assigned to. Instead, at the end of the month the surviving prisoners get the last month wiped of their minds with amnestics and are reassigned, so they eternally believe that they are working just a month in a science lab to shave off years from their sentences. This means that they get forcibly what the ex-staff of 231-7 gets ''voluntarily''. It then shows a couple of D-Class that the researcher giving the conference maintains around as his assistants; they were lobotomised to have retrograde amnesia deliberately inflicted on them. You almost want them to get mercifully killed.

*** Oh, and don't expect them to be released any time soon because the Foundation depends so much on the D-class that it could simply collapse without them, leading to innumerable security breaches and the release of every SCP in this page and then some.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-882 SCP-882] is a clockwork... thing that grows by absorbing all nearby metal objects and can brainwash anyone nearby into "feeding" it. [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-271 SCP-271] is an engraved coin, whose inscription spreads to nearby objects and turns them into an indestructible metal with unknown properties. Accidental tests on living organisms suggest that both being absorbed by the machine and being converted by the coin are excruciatingly painful. There is an obvious reason these things are not to be allowed in the same room. The Church of the Broken God wants to try it out.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-002 SCP-002] is a ball of flesh with a door in it. Through the door is a modest apartment, complete with furniture made out of the body parts of the people it's killed.

* The old [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-112-arc SCP-112] is an [[Artifact of Doom]] activated in the presence of any non-virgin or non-castrated person. And it has been stolen by radical Muslim terrorists. Get the idea?

** Oh, and they started using amnesia-inducing drugs on 231 herself; the sum total of 110-Montauk was starting to induce a form of shell shock in the victim. As a constant level of agony and terror needs to be inflicted to suppress the [[Eldritch Abomination]], they started wiping her mind of her knowledge of Montauk. Eventually it was determined that a weekly dosing cycle was most efficient, as the 3rd to 4th time is the most mentally devastating; the first time is horrible, the second time establishes a pattern, and the third confirms that [[Despair Event Horizon|this is what the rest of your life is going to be like.]]

** The specific age of SCP-231 is not specified, only a minimum and maximum, both of which are censored in the article. But the minimum is a single-digit number.

** In such fine print that you may have to View Source to find it: {{spoiler|"Don't believe it when they say they're trying to save her. Why would they bother? They've got exactly what they want exactly where they want it."}}

** Alternately, imagine being part of the support staff for the 231 containment site. Knowing what you're ordering done to the girl, watching it every day, obtaining supplies and materials to enable it, terminating anyone who tries to stop it. There's a reason why so many people associated with this thing commit suicide.

** According by [[Word Of God|the author]], "All the rape is in your head".

* One of the most disturbing things about the SCP series is that almost all of them were located and contained after coming into contact with a regular civilian human being going about their business, with no knowledge of what the thing is, how it works or where it came from. Consider that there's an indeterminate number of supernatural objects that could qualify as an SCP scattered around the world, and ''you'' could run into, say, an undocumented Keter-class at any minute during your daily routine.

** Take [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-000-j SCP-000-J]. It's a catalogue of every SCP item, which anybody can apparently order through a simple phone call as if they were everyday items. When one of the testers did call and order one of them (a safe-level item), it disappeared from its storage and mysteriously got delivered to his office, and the amount he would have paid for it vanished from his next paycheck. Now imagine somebody finding this catalogue and ordering one of the Keter-class items...

** [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-j The Procastination Stone], which made its investigator a [[Ridiculous Procrastinator]], was funny, until somebody decided to explore what the thing would do [http://www.scp-wiki.net/why-change if its effect expanded...]

** [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1344-j SCP-1344-J] otherwise known as {{spoiler|the kool aid man}}, doesn't seem frightening when you know what it is, but if you read its description before you know its name, you may never look at it the same way again.

** One of the other possible SCP-001s is [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-clef-s-proposal a huge humanoid figure standing in front of what is more or less the gate of Eden]. Getting within 1 kilometer of it will get you not only killed, but wiped from existence. If it ever goes active, [[The End of the World as We Know It]] will ensue. Making matters worse is that the page includes a transmission from [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] about SCP-001 waking up and bringing about said apocalypse. Mega-gulp.

** שמע ישראל יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד {{spoiler|In case you were wondering, that's the most important prayer in Judaism. It's supposed to be your last words.}} Translated: [[wikipedia:Shema Yisrael|"Hear, O Israel: YHWH is our God, YHWH alone."]]

** Another possible SCP-001: [http://www.scp-wiki.net/qntm-s-proposal a large onyx gemstone with an infinitely fine fractal gold filigree], apparently serving as a lock for an unknown object. Doesn't really seem scary, right? {{spoiler|It turns out that the minute variations in the cosmic background radiation has ''the exact same pattern'' as this onyx lock. It's implied that our universe is contained in a similar object, and possibly the artifact in question. The Foundation is currently trying to [[Apocalypse How|open and/or destroy it.]]}}

** Bright's proposal for 001: [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-001-o5 The Factory.]

** [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-manns-proposal Dr. Mann's proposal]. The SCP itself is very simple, just a circular gravel path. Travel clockwise, and you move normally. Travel counter-clockwise, however, and the path appears to go continuously uphill. [[Mind Screw|Even if you go all the way around to the start.]] The real horror comes when one reads the attached document from one of the founding Overseers. {{spoiler|Analyzing the Gravel Path led to the initial founders of the Foundation to the initial understanding of bending reality that allowed them to start manufacturing SCP objects. And the Foundation never "found" ''any'' SCP. They ''made'' them. ''All of them.'' -231, -051, -616, -682, all of them ''were created by the Foundation.''}} And the scariest part? {{spoiler|SCP objects are no longer being manufactured. They're just ''appearing'' in containment, with no indication of where they came from, and the Foundation has reached the point of no return.}}

{{quote|{{spoiler|But we found out there is a God, and it is SCP-001.}}

{{spoiler|[[Noticing the Fourth Wall|And it's a bunch of horror writers.]]}} }}

* The last line in [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-352 Baba Yaga's entry]. Quote: "While SCP-352 prefers any type of human flesh over any other type of meat, it appears to have a special propensity for children between 0 and 2 years of age. After observation of highly elevated levels of co-operation and a reduced tendency to attack staff while consuming flesh of this type, a possible alteration in the current diet is being considered."

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-507 The guy who randomly teleports to alternate dimensions], including one that apparently had the Joker who was right in front of him when he turned the flashlight on. "Back so soon?" The poor lad's reaction was probably the same as yours would be. Not to mention "...the spiders...".

* The former [http://scpclassic.wikidot.com/scp-995 SCP-995], an object that is too mentally scarring for many to describe. At best, it's been described as an "Infinite Devil Machine." It's required to be kept in a blessed lead container full of also-blessed holy water, which turns black and darkens whatever room its in. Recorded images of it breaking out of its container show tendrils poking out of its container. Unfortunately it's been deleted due to negative ratings and changed to a device which drives people insane as it touches an electric conductor. Eventually it was deleted altogether, although the original article can still be found [http://scpclassic.wikidot.com/scp-995 here.]

** It's not gone anymore. Behold the [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1995 Infinite Devil Machine 2.0].

* The worst one was [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-055 SCP-055]. Which was also the coolest. Imagine seeing something, and not being able to describe it. It basically makes you forget anything related to it, being reduced to what it DOESN'T look like. [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/incident-report-i-028-f This doesn't help either]. An area that makes people gain immediate knowledge of a random subject. A man enters the area, goes into a fit, and afterwards forgets he was even in the area. Locked the memory out of sheer horror? Amnesia?

* Someone [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/a-man-at-the-top-of-his-profession successfully managed] to make the memory wipes terrifying. Doubles, of course, as Paranoia Fuel. At any moment, you could be abducted and traumatized until you can't remember your own name or who you are. Because of something you weren't even aware of. Co-worker behaving oddly? You're screwed, buddy! Good night!

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-093 SCP-093]. Read the whole thing, including the test reports, in order, and then read the last link on the page. The reports themselves are creepy and unsettling, but the final report is just chilling.

{{quote|{{spoiler|there was no war it was him him him him him IT. IT! it came from between the folds of time and space and worlds and light and dark something that is but should not be slipped in and called out to them as their god and they believed it and they tasted it and touched it and layed with it and became its property and did its will and IT IS STILL HERE}}}}

* There was an SCP on the original message board that was a small sphere which quite simply increased in temperature. Rising, and rising, and rising. They attempted to cool down the object by storing it with ice, in freezers, with liquid nitrogen, but that only temporarily slowed the process... The temperature just kept rising. If you have any knowledge of thermodynamics, you'll know why this is worrying.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-604 SCP-604]. What makes it particularly bad is that it has no apparent effect on the users, meaning they chose to use it ''as they did of their own accord''. There are extensive records of what the thing can do, because its former owners charted their progress. And when they succeed...

{{quote|(a waiter comes in pushing a cart with a wooden box on top. The box has several slots and holes opened in it, and tubes trail out, connecting to IV bags and tiny batteries. A mewling comes from within)

(the human head is that of a man around thirty five, with thick black hair and sideburns. He has extremely pale skin and dark circles under his eyes. He is severed at the neck, which reveals muscle and a bloody hole.)

'''Head''': Where am I? Who am I?! What the hell is going- (Begins looking around and turning up, down, and to the sides) Everything seems at a weird angl- hey, what are you doing! Get that knife away from me!

'''Head''': (begins screaming)}}

** To explain: this is a set of tableware that transform any piece of meat you place there into human flesh, made by people who [[I Am a Humanitarian|wanted to know what people tasted like]] but were probably too squeamish to actually murder for getting it.

** "And he never returned, no he never returned, and his fate is still unlearned. He shall ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston. He's the Man Who Never Returned."

** "...and by this time tomorrow we'll be so far away, if there's one thing that I know... yeah I know, it won't be back. Paradise Special's never coming back!"

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-826 SCP-826] is a very ordinary looking set of pewter dragon-head bookends, but if you close the door of the room, put a book or DVD between them, and open the door, the doorway will be a portal to the world of the book or film. It seems almost to be a joke entry, with a note about a researcher who was demoted for (apparently) planning to do very naughty things to a female Disney character on a DVD. But what if you tried it with the Necronomicon?

** And there was that time when tried to use it to kill 682. You know already how ''that'' ended.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-701 SCP-701]. Especially Incident Report SCP-701-19██ and that photo.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-610 SCP-610]: It's like the [[Dead Space (series)|necromorphs]] and The Flood rolled into a single package. Squick warning, obviously; the page image is [[Body Horror|especially bad]] (or [[Nightmare Fetishist|awesome]]).

** Even worse is it`s official nickname: ''The Flesh that hates''.

* Dr. Clef. Even if we take everything he says about himself with a grain of salt there is a mountain of evidence in various entries, logs, and reports that suggests that he is something far, far worse than any of the actual SCPs. The fact that his head is always replaced with something else in photographs is actually one of his ''least'' disturbing quirks. ''And he is the guy in charge of SCP Training and Development.''

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-804 SCP-804]: A piece of "art" that, when activated, slowly but surely kills all humans and destroys all man-made works in an ever increasing radius around it. The only saving grace is that said artwork is not immune to its own effects. However, the most nightmarish element of this SCP isn't its potential to destroy the world. No, the scariest part is that, according to the former lead researcher, Dr. Sorts, [[Not Brainwashed|the SCP has no memetic influence on people]]. The people who created and activated a device that would wipe out humanity did it because, in Dr. Sorts' own words, ''they wanted to do it''. That the SCP Foundation transferred Dr. Sorts to another project and is continuing testing for a memetic component means either 1) the Foundation wants to be absolutely sure that no mind control is involved or 2) ''even the Foundation'' doesn't want to believe that there ''really'' are people in the world evil enough to murder humanity entirely of their own free will.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-354 SCP-354: The Blood Pond]. It's a pond in the Canadian wilderness that is full of a liquid similar to blood. Highly dangerous creatures emerge from it from time to time; most of whom have nothing in common. And according to one SCP agent, it's alive. And intelligent. And angry. '' {{spoiler|And growing}}''.

** The fact that a seemingly normal human emerged from the pond at one point for ostensibly diplomatic reasons and was shot on sight probably didn't help on the "angry" front.

** Also terrifying are the effing ''pictures'' on the thing's page. Especially the first one. It's like one of those "when you see it, you'll shit bricks" demotivators.

** And that's not all. If you try to upload the first image to a imagehoster (you know, to avoid hotlinking), the face in the uploaded picture is ''gone''.

** Knowing the Foundation, that "reason" can probably be summed up as [[For Science!]].

** SCP-948 is vaguely dangerous, but the fact that the Foundation terminates people who go feral after repeated exposure to it kinda underscores the "they're evil" idea. Being essentially uncivilized doesn't make one a danger; there's no need for it. It's also interesting that the 948's effects include the removal of mental disorders/negative emotions and the removal of traces of human civilization (or domestication, in animals). It implies that human systems of thought, language and behaviour are some sort of harmful mental aberration, at least in the view of whatever the SCP is.

** What's even worse is how the Foundation takes advantage of its abilities. The victims are used as ''reusable organ donors''. Since anesthetic isn't an option thanks to the SCP's powers, the Foundation used to resort to decapitating the victim in order to temporarily incapacitate them during the harvesting. Now they just empty their skulls to keep them from screaming.

* Not as horrifying or deadly as the other SCPs, but [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-613 SCP-613] ability to make contaminated organisms lose all color and become black and white over the course of a few days and leaving the carriers unable to perceive or remember what colors are, brought shivers to me. Luckily any healed former carriers can develop immunities to the disease.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-204 SCP-204.] 204 comes in two parts: 204-1 is a colony of nano-machines that follows around 204-2, protecting him/her from harm. 204-2 is a child aged from 4 to 14, with a history of being abused, who can control 204-1. When 204-2 turns fourteen, 204-1 finds a new child to protect, and, if the former 204-2 is mentally stable, the former 204-2 is given a Class-A amnesiac and put into a foster care program. That's not the [[Nightmare Fuel]]. The real NF comes from an addendum that explains that due to 204-1 freaking out if there isn't another suitable child to imprint on if needed, the Foundation have a group of suitable candidates. However, if they really need candidates quickly, they can enlist some more candidates who don't fit the protocol- i.e., they are of a suitable age (preferably under ten), but they don't have a history of abuse. The Foundation will then '''turn them over to 'caretakers' which will consist of D-class personnel convicted of violent crimes, child abuse, and pedophilia'''. It also says that the procedure for hiring the 'caretakers' is the same one for finding people to perform Procedure 110-Montauk on SCP-231. Jesus Christ.

** Oh, and as an aside? SCP-204 will psychically manipulate whatever it's guarding into taking dangerous actions so it is forced protect what it is guarding, and thus allowed to feed. The SCP literally forces the child into danger so it can feed.

** And as if to top the whole thing off, 204 is ''ludicrously'' powerful. The initial capture required an ''Abrams tank'' and an '''AC-130'''. Yes... to capture this thing, you need not only one of the most powerful armored vehicles in the world, but also [[Death From Above]] [[Up to Eleven]].

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-787 SCP-787] is rather mundane (average scenes of grisly horror and cannibalism with some poltergeist activity), but the real chiller is '''"TO BE SORRY"''' endlessly repeating on the flight log.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-764 SCP-764]. Because puppets were not scary enough already. These will end up killing the user. How's that for a comedy routine?

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-800 SCP-800] is an antique scroll painting that regularly changes to reflect current political relations or tensions in East Asia. It currently depicts two soldiers in combat, mirroring the tenuous state of relations between the North and South Koreas. The Foundation once performed a test to see if adding objects into the painting had any kind of effect; an expert in East Asian art added a quiver of arrows to one of the soldiers. Three days later, North Korea did...something that ended up purged from the records and stopping all further testing on SCP-800. The arrow metaphor gave me a [[Empty Quiver|pretty good guess]] [[Nuke'Em|what happened]]...

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-823 SCP-823]. A theme park that killed over 200 people in horrific ways (such as somebody in a mascot costume being filled with stuffing). Anybody sent in after that dies. So they can't find out what's going on, and that can't contain it because it's ''growing''.

** [[Nothing Is Scarier|"Unable to determine context or content of above photograph."]]

** The last paragraph in the "civilian deaths" section. Someone was completely dismembered... and, at the very end, it's mentioned that he was still alive when they found him like this.

** The commander of the Mobile Task Force team was found dead from suicide. That's not the scary part. The cause of death was from [[Eye Scream|"forced sexual entry through left eye"]]! Think about that for a second.

*** '''NO, NO IT DOES NOT.'''

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/opportunity-knocks Opportunity Knocks]. Apparently based on a recurring nightmare of the author's...

* It was erased, but once during the experiments with SCP-914, they put in ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]''. Setting on Rough made up the games used for IWBTG, simple enough. 1:1 made Kaizo Mario World. Fine gave them ''Super'' I Wanna Be The Guy, which is undoubtedly near-impossible. Finally, Super Fine had all information denied by the O5's. This means that this... '''thing''' that resulted from putting IWBTG in SCP-914 has been formally denied existence of by the ''Foundation's directors''!

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-734 SCP-734]. Awww, it's a cute baby boy. And if you touch him your body starts to break down and flake away.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-058 SCP-058] resembles a ''bovine heart with tentacles and spikes''. It also talks, although whether that's a good or bad thing depends on how creepy you find poetic ranting.

* While their treatment of D-Class personnel may be abhorrent, the way the organization treats certain SCPs (such as harmless ones, or non-hostile intelligent SCPs) indicates that many of the staff are more or less ''psychologically normal''. Which means that normal people are engaged in the caretaking of these things, which may also include the horrible, horrible things they have to do to contain some of them.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-775 SCP-775] are ticks as big as nickels.

* [[God|SCP-343.]] He's God, how can he be scary? If he's God, that means he is (however indirectly) responsible for the SCPs. Possibly including [[Omnicidal Maniac|SCP-682]].

** Now, now, in 343's defense, he/He denied having anything to do with 682, and in fact cannot see it. This gives a new level of terror. 682 vs. 343, and 682 would win.

** It's pretty clear that 343 isn't "God", just an incredibly powerful being. Plus, God [http://www.scp-wiki.net/gdp2-second-language is not feeling like himself these days.]

** Either way, he can't touch 682 and is still more than capable of messing you up something fierce. 343's exact identity is left reasonably open-ended, so the reader can draw their own conclusion.

* Four words: [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-426 I am a toaster]. God, reading my page is still scaring me.

** To elaborate, I am a toaster that makes people refer to me in the first person. Nobody's ''ever'' been able to refer to me in the third person, no matter what they do or don't know about me. Eventually, they completely forget who they are, and usually die when trying to emulate the functions of a toaster (one person died because she ingested so much bread that her stomach ''bursted''). [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/that-goddamn-thing This short story] also demonstrates my potential for creepy.

* Dr. Bright. Aside what he did to his own brother, he is a god of [[Fridge Horror]]. Just look at [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-things-dr-bright-is-not-allowed-to-do-at-the-foundation this list]. Sure, it's damn funny, but then you realize, that he is one of most important people in charge of all this gallery of horrors and is an irresponsible sociopath. It's like a monkey being in control of nuclear arsenal.

** [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-115448/the-things-dr-bright-is-not-allowed-to-do-at-the-foundation#post-934222 Word Of God] says that the list is not in-universe. So, although Bright ''is'' an asshole, he's not an completely irresponsible asshole.

** Oh, and did we mention that when enraged, it's invincible? And that it's capable of bringing down an AWACS plane? And that it doesn't just kill its victims, it also [DATA EXPUNGED] them, leaving no trace of the body?

** There is one bit of good news: {{spoiler|-096 has been scheduled to be terminated.}} Though it took {{spoiler|letting the creature escape and wreak havoc on a highway, a small population center, and a military aircraft, ending with the execution of the scientist who arranged for the breach to happen}} to convince the 05 to act.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-182 SCP-182]: A nice, cheerful guy who wants to be friends. Oh, and did we mention that he's deaf, mute, and horribly scarred, and he compensates for the first three by involuntarily riding shotgun on your senses when you get within ten meters, and if you stay around him there's a 97% chance you'll go insane? And he knows this. And he can't do a thing about it.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-478 Well, how bout the Tooth Fairies?]

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-084 SCP-084]. The static tower. It causes distortions of reality within its area of effect, trapping a small town within. They can't die, age, and have no need to sleep or eat. They also can't escape. One man was picked up four hundred meters from the city limits. He'd been traveling for ''six years''.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-616 SCP-616] is a prototype airplane. The emergency door opens on its own every 30 days, revealing what is essentially implied to be Hell. However, the worst thing you can do is let the door ''close'' before the manifestation is over...

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-456 SCP-456] are bedbugs. When they bite you, they produce narcotics in your brain, causing you to feel increasingly sleepy until you sleep constantly, causing you to die of malnutrition. They can't be distinguished from ordinary bedbugs, and you probably won't know they're 456 bedbugs until it's too late.

** Even worse, they exposed four D-class to the bedbugs. After expending three of them, they put the fourth one on a regimen of IV nutrients, blood transfusions, and narcotics antagonists. He's been asleep for a long time. The number of days is blanked out, but it's a triple digit number...

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-860 SCP-860] seems fairly ordinary by SCP standards - a blue key that leads to a blue-misted forest with some unseen creature stalking you as you walk through it. The ''real'' chiller is the end of the last exploration log and that very last bit of audio.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-624 SCP-624] seems on the surface to be one of the more benign SCPs. It is an ordinary [[MP3]] player which, if used, plays the users favorite music, covered by a more musically talented version of the user. But if someone with no musical preferences uses it, it plays the users soul. Meaning that you hear everything you have ever felt and heard and thought, including the bits you are ashamed of, right up to and including your own death.

** Death nothing. The examples provided in the main SCP page for 624 state the last track continues ''into the afterlife.'' Specifically, continuing ''as the soul is tortured in hell.'' This happens '''Twice.'''

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-750 SCP-750] is a pair of contact lenses made by The Factory. When you put them on, it displays a variety of changes, like food becoming piles of limbs and gore, walls becoming coated in biofilm, and the skies becoming red and black. Victims who have the glasses on for too long usually get schizophrenia or PTSD. Real scary part? The lenses LET YOU SEE THINGS AS THEY REALLY ARE.

* According to [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/document-recovered-from-the-marianas-trench The document recovered from the Marianas Trench], they frequently have containment failures so massive that it kills nearly every person on earth, and the survivors use SCP technology to repair the devastated planet, clone the dead and make them think nothing happened, with geologic features covering up bigger damage (evidently the Marianas trench used to be a dry land ravine). You'll never know how many times you've died to make it to the end of the "week", or how many years have passed between Monday and Friday....

* How about [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-528 SCP-528]? They're little plastic containers containing silly putty that copies whatever image of a person is pressed onto it. Sounds harmless right? Wrong. Whatever happens to the picture happens to the person. The tests are horrific, the first one involving a D class having first his arm stretched unnaturally long, which is apparently painful and then torn off. The second subject is crushed into a ball and suffocates on his own flesh. The third one however is the worst of all. The putty is dipped in boiling water and the D class actually melts until he suffocates on his own nose.

** Elaboration: They're wasps, [[Made of Iron]] to an extent where bullets and even ''fire'' are useless, with a stinger longer than they are. When they sting you, they inject eggs under your skin, which is described as being 'excruciatingly painful'. Read the whole thing, if you can stomach it.

*** It's also implied that they're more likely to go after you the more afraid of them you are.

** The Foundation is using a complex system of computers to analyze the book, due to nearly anyone even looking inside the book going absolutely stark raving mad. They are effectively getting the computers to "learn" that history and tell us it in the most vague terms possible. One of the final entries on the page suggests something far, far more sinister is at work:

{{quote|''The image contains two (2) ADULT PERSONS standing, one (1) HUMAN CHILD sitting on a CHAIR or STOOL, and SCP-███. With 100% certainty the PERSONS in the image should have FACIAL FEATURES. [[The Blank|With 100% certainty the PERSONS in the image do NOT have FACIAL FEATURES.]]''}}

{{spoiler|let us back in}} }}

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-517 SCP-517] I became paranoid after having seen one of the pictures move (having been a .gif), so I have a tendency to quickly copy and paste the link to a picture to check if it'll spaz out in any way. The picture with the glass is a .gif, so I didn't stick around long enough to see if it would move.

** Although that could become [[Nightmare Retardant]] when you remember that that was the premise of one of [[Calvin and Hobbes|Calvin's father's]] [[Little-Known Facts]].

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-993 SCP-993.] It's like [[Candle Cove]] as done by a [[Monster Clown]] - except Candle Cove didn't [[Brown Note|brainwash children]]. In one episode the clown just stares at you. [[Nothing Is Scarier|For the entire episode.]] What makes it worse is at in that next episode you can tell who he's really staring at: {{spoiler|''The SCP Foundation''. '''''[[It Can Think|It can think.]]''''' It is a sentient, evil ''television program'' and it knows who's watching. Even it's ''archived copies'' are aware. It knows the Foundation is blocking it's broadcasts and ''[[Villainous Breakdown|it's pissed]]''. It's copies are kept on the Foundation, so he could easily learn about a memetic hazard and ''get creative...''.}}

* [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-136 SCP-136] is a doll. When you look at it for too long, you get [[Mind Rape|mind raped]] (in a way heavily reminiscent of ''physical'' rape) by a naked, insane, blood-covered ghost thing that inexorably floats towards you, laughing, before shoving its face right ups to yours and screaming before disappearing. It usually takes the form of a woman with an obscenely large mouth and oversized breasts. And now we're finding out that it can kill people...

* Dr. Wondertainment, and the fact that his/their SCPs are ''made for children''.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-089 SCP-089] is a golden idol with a cavity in its chest that either causes or can prevent horrifying disasters; either way, they will only abate if Protocol M8 is fulfilled. What is Protocol M8? The statue names two people: SCP-089-A and 089-B. The foundation will send out a taskforce to convince 089-B to complete Protocol M8 out of her own free volition. Then comes the [[Wham! Line]]. {{spoiler|"For each locution event, SCP-089-A is a healthy, unblemished human infant or child between eight months and six years of age, and SCP-089-B is that child’s natural mother. In all documented cases, at the time of the locution event SCP-089-B is alive, healthy and experiences a strong bond of trust and affection with SCP-089-A. Following SCP-089-B’s placement of SCP-089-A in the cavity and the ignition of the inflammable materials, SCP-089-A will burn and be destroyed over a period of two to five hours."}}

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1042 SCP-1042] is a stone brick that has the strange property, when exposed to an electric current, to record and broadcast events happening near it, like a spectral videorecorder. But that's not what makes it creepy, nooooo... {{spoiler|It's the only artifact that seems to detect the presence of strange, dark hooded figures in the vicinity, who sometimes slightly interact with nearby objects for causing minor accidents. Wait, did I say minor ? Sometimes they cause LETHAL accidents for their own purposes that have far-reaching butterfly effects. AND THEY KNOW THEY'RE BEING WATCHED BY THE SCP AGENTS.}}

* And for Nightmare Fuel it is really hard to beat...[http://www.scp-wiki.net/ethics-committee-orientation the Ethics Committee.] There is no canon, and even if there were the Ethics Committee would never acknowledge this document, but the thought that someone is evaluating the moral cost of everything the SCP does, and they are still doing so much of what they do... ''that'' can keep you up at night.

* [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-515 SCP-515] is a young man who causes celestial objects to move towards earth whenever he moves any part of his body. The good part is that he is asleep and is easily constrained, the bad part is that he sleepwalks and his very breathing counts as movement. The sheer impact SCP-515 has on this troper is that not only is it causing a potentially world-ending scenario, it isn't even trying to do so. In addition the feeling of inevitability really nags away on you.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-895 SCP-895] is not really all that scary to read about. A little chilling, but the really scary thing {{spoiler|is that live video feed. Watch it. [[Schmuck Bait|See what happens.]]}}

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-017 SCP-017] is a shadowy figure roughly the size of a young child. Unlike some other dangerous SCP objects, it generally remains stationary and does nothing to actively harm anyone... until a shadow is cast upon it. When that happens, it will immediately leap at and engulf the object or person, then return to normal size as if they were never there to begin with. And all of the Foundation's attempts to discover what, if ''anything'' is within those shadows or where the victims go has been unsuccessful.

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1548 SCP-1548]. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|'The Hateful Star.']] It's sentient, intends to destroy us all, knows we know about it and is ''coming closer.'' And worst of all, ''there is nothing whatsoever the Foundation can do about it.''

{{quote|"I wake/I see all/And find it lacking"}}

** Fortunately, some Class D who found the procedures managed to neutralize the anomaly within and was posthumously awarded with the Foundation Star {{spoiler|Unfortunately, it's implied that there are more of these around the world.}}

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-833 SCP-833] will make you WISH you were only infected by ordinary intestinal parasites. Anyone infected by this SCP become kinder and more generous. Doesn't sound bad? WAIT there's more! Not only do the victims become more altruistic, they try to help others in the best way they can think of....by feeding them pieces of their own flesh which they think is the most delicious thing in the world. Due to most people's issues with cannibalism, the infected try their best to keep their actions a secret.

* At first glance [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-428 SCP-428] just looks like an ordinary huddled crowd of people. In reality, it is actually a [[Hive Mind]] whose internal organs have been removed and replaced with an unidentified amorphous mass attached by umbilical-like lengths of flesh. Any person who comes within two meters prompts the crowd to go into hostile mode by grabbing the unfortunate victim and pulling them into their mass, where they are assimilated into the crowd within ten seconds (those who try to escape are hunted down by the crowd who use the methods gained from each members' knowledge, skills, and memories to absorb anyone who gets in their way). Remember, the members could be your friends or family, which the SCP may use to their psychological advantage to lure you into their fold.

* [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-511 SCP-511] exemplifies [[Cats Are Mean]] [[Up to Eleven]]. It's an SCP made up of hundreds of feral neglected diseased cats and some kind of cat-like.....THING that takes the form of a mass of extra limbs, eyes, mouths and other organs made up from the bodies of said cats as well as other material (small rodents, plant material, insects and insect larva, black mold, human [DATA EXPUNGED]). It's also in a constant state of degradation and decay, which means the cats find new material to add to the mass. And that's not all. An interview with a survivor of a mobile task force sent for containment of the SCP revealed that when they tried to roll the captured cat thing SCP out the door, it exploded and splattered its contents onto the force, who were immediately torn about by the horde of rampaging cats. May I remind you that the surviving member had half his face ripped off when he accidentally locked himself in his van with just one of the cats trying to escape the onslaught of feline fury. And it's revealed it's not the cat thing that influencing the cats' actions, the cats MADE it because they hate humans.

* [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1055 SCP-1055]. It appears to be a harmless little teddy bear, but it can change in size and shape into an enormous [[Eldritch Abomination]] based on how many people know about it. Worse, its behavior is also influenced by how people aware of it generally think of it; hostile and fearful awareness make it act in a more hostile and fearful manner. It has no upper limit to the size it can achieve, so even what starts as benign awareness can quickly grow fearful. The SCP is believed to be capable of causing an XK-class end-of-the-world scenario, and the only way they have to contain it is to have a mentally retarded man constantly hug it. The only way anyone thinks they can destroy it would be to kill at least 80% of all people who are vaguely aware of the existence of the SCP...which now includes ''[[You Bastard|you]]'' for having read the page for it. And this entry.

* Speaking of scary teddy bears, [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1048 SCP-1048] is a vicious subversion/deconstruction of "[[Team Pet]]"-style SCPs that aren't kept under close watch because they're considered harmless. It provides some excellent perspective on [[Properly Paranoid|why]] the Foundation continues to use the [[Kick the Dog|methods that they use]] when handling SCPs classified as "Safe."

* The background "[[Hell Is That Noise|music]]" from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usomxn6xABk SCP-087-B game]. This has to be the most spine-chilling, [[Paranoia Fuel|paranoia-inducing]] track in video game history.

* [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1875 SCP-1875] is a chess computer that comes with an engine with a timer that has it's maximum setting worn out, a 32-piece chess set made out of human bone (sorta creepy), and a suit of samurai armor presumed to be used for performances involving the computer. {{spoiler|The computer also affects other computers, in one case sending a memetic image, of two girls in black and white playing chess, that causes insanity. By the way, SCP-1875 also altered it's own file, corrupting two incident reports and putting a possibly memetic file in the last one.}}

** Special mention goes out to {{spoiler|''that picture'' at the end, because of how downright cruel it is in its implementation. It's not animated, but the thing is, it comes after several pages of nothing but "UPLOADING... UPLOADING... UPLOADING..." repeated over and over - so naturally you'll scroll down faster to get through the textwall quicker, and end up with a faceful of oh God little demon girls before you're ready for it.}}

* It's a pity that the SCP from the foreign branches aren't translated, because they can bring the creepy. Some from the Spanish branch:

** [http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-es-045 SCP-ES-045], a doll made of porcelain and... some kind... of human tissue. It makes people stay still, lose their communication skill, and then [DATA EXPUNGED]. The subjects do survive and get better, but get a reasonable fear of dolls after the experience. The doll was found in an abandoned house in a neighborhood after the disappearance of a number of children, which gives you a hint on how this thing was made. When in contention, a note from its creator appeared, promising the doll to rescue her. After a containment breach, which ended with the assigned personnel found with their tongue and several internal organs removed and dressed in baby clothes, another note from the creator was found, saying, more or less "I don't want you anymore. you're as evil as always. Also, I have new toys. Don't come back, or I'll tell Daddy". The thing is so vile, ''not even its creator wants it back.''

** [http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-es-071 SCP-ES-071] is a memetic agent that manifests as a writing in one of many indigenous language in the skin of any person that read its text from any written surface it was transcribed. The text is basically the address of some magical golden city with many riches, but the location differs in each language transcription. The person infected has also vivid mental images of the geographical accidents near the site, acquire the compulsion to go to said city, and the infection can be get even if the person doesn't know the language of the text, and every time they want to write it is in said aboriginal language. Fortunately, the memetic effect doesn't spread when said person repeats the content of said text in their mother, occidental language, but since by then the infected has lost their ability of write in anything that isn't the aboriginal language of the text they carry, that's isn't much of a consolation. As if the former wasn't already bad, all the addresses registered direct to places specially engineered to kill anyone non native from America, and, specifically, Europeans. One of the places the text directs is the original location of [http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-es-082 SCP-ES-082], a Mayan sarcophagus who contains something who gleefully kills anyone of non-indigenous ascendant. Another address directs to the location of an Amazonian tribe incredibly hostile to foreigners, and another one directs to a place in Peru where a family of an unknown SCP annihilated all intruders. The last of the described places had its data expunged, save for the fact that the Foundation had to raze the pace with napalm and then irradiated until it was rendered unhabitable.

** [http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-es-027 SCP-ES-027], the constantly mutating air ducts of a Venezuelan building, and the man-eating predator that lives in them. Another generic labyrinthine manifestation with attached homicidal being who can be contained by just sealing it, right? {{spoiler|Except that isn't limited to that specific building: it can manifest in other buildings on the globe as their wish, ''and isn't just one creature''. The containment procedures had to include feed them D-class personnel in the original building as a way to impede them to move away from their original location.}}

 

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