As someone from Texas, it would surprise me exactly zero percent to learn that an oil company turned a cosmic lovecraftian horror into a profitable national park here
I mean, this could make a great film, somewhat akin to Blomkamp's District 9. It would be shot in that rather documentary-like style and would be a satire of American highly capitalistic society where one can sensationalize, market and monetize almost anything.
You left out the best part: the Amorphous Shame, which is a parasitic organism resembling a bunch of disembodied organs, that apparently used to be a type of weasel
@@parmaxolotl There is a pretty well supported theory that mitochondria were originally a symbiotic or parasitic separate organism that became part of animal cells
I prefer to think the actions of the superorganism in the 2007 disaster were spawned more from panic than anger. It's just an animal. What probably happened was that it started chocking because of the water flowing into it's lungs, so it attempted to cough the water out, but the beams holding its throat open and the visitor center aloft held its throat open and still, affectively drowning the superorganism. Not only that, but Anodyne also administered the superorganism industrial drugs in an attempt to knock it out, but all that did was make the thing vomit. Most of us know what nausea and vomiting feels like, and it's not fun. The poor thing must have been terrified. It's just minding its own business, sleeping, but then all of a sudden it wakes up to find itself downing, with a sudden terrible nausea, and it can't move its throat muscles; of course it would start to rithe and seize in panic, it has no idea what's going on.
That kind of mindset is why my kids may never be able to enjoy this once in a lifetime experience. A couple hundred careless people die and suddenly they have to close the greatest park on earth?! It’s ridiculous!
@@jedcc.an abomination is just a creature that’s hard to understand, and a creature is just a human that’s hard to understand. Got empathy? It’ll translate to abominations, some way, somehow.
One thing that this video also slides past is the fact that the creature starts to chew as its waking up, so it's actively trying to break down and eventually swallow the obstructions in its mouth/throat which also crushes everyone inside for 18 hours following the vomiting. It also doesnt mention that the only reason people (excluding some workers and campers) were inside the pit and LVC was because the heavy rain cancelled a fireworks event so the park compensated ticket buyers with an exclusive visit in there well after hours closed for that place. The water pump wasn't faulty (admittedly rusted because its humid inside a giant living being), its that the park had too much going on between mining crews and usual activities that happen after park close along with the additional power use in the LVC that shouldnt happen under normal conditions.
Some of the best bits that didn’t make it into the video: the amorphous Shame (some weasels snuck into the pit millions of years ago and evolved into these… things) and how people who’ve spent any time lost in the pit sometimes feel compelled to return and give themselves over to the pit.
This is indeed a horror story...for the MFP. Imagine if you were immobile, and ants decided to burrow into your flesh and make structures in your flesh and body, all while you stay alive.
Also- The pit is so massive, all the activity is the equivalent of a zit, I’d imagine its still irritating though, especially when that zit led to your lungs and filled them with water.
@@destroyerofturtles5024 There was once a TV show in my country, where they showed their audiences a photo of a leech still hanging on a girl's throat. And it was not a late night show, so even children watched it too
I mean, I will say, something like Yellowstone is pretty full of unique hazards. Besides being eaten by a bison or trampled by wolves, there's also a possibility of things like: 1. A giant Earthquake makes it impassible. 2. A caustic, boiling pool of primordial soup explodes all over you. 3. Severe winds cause your tent or whatnot to rip out of the ground and tumble across the plains (happened to our kitchen tent). 4. You fall into one of those boiling prismatic toxic pools, take one drink, and die within minutes. 5. A deadly cloud of Hydrogen sulfide kills you in your sleep. 6. A small eruption occurs directly under you and you're launched into the stratosphere. 7. A huge eruption occurs under you and the entire caldera collapses. You're dead before you realize what's going on. Your relatives on the other side of the country live somewhat longer but may die to the resulting famine.
you guys keep saying horrifying but as a national park employee (Mojave National Preserve) everything about the Mystery Flesh Pit mirrors real world National Parks. Especially people being killed in accidents or eaten by animals.
I mean nukes would kill it, seeing how it can be cut a nuke would literally vaporize giant zones of it. People underestimate nukes, we have nukes with blast zones of 20 miles. And 20 miles isn't our max blast radios possible. Even if you didn't nuke the flesh pits entire system it would die from blood loss and radioactive decay.
@@magnuserror9305 True, but no guarantee we hit a vital spot or a blood artery And also it might have a slight chance of surviving radioactivity, but I'm not a native American who witnessed it's appearance so, I have no clue if it came from space
@@kaboomluong9373 It wouldn't need to hit a vital spot. Even if this thing was 3 times its size, 20 mile radios will kill it. 20 mile blast zones is absolutely insane. Such blasts cause damage across the entire planet. Even if the writing acts as if it can survive a nuke, based off of feats alone it cant. It gets cut up and woken up by weak shit. A nuke would erase giant swaths of it. 20x10 is 200 miles of destroyed land. Do u really think something that gets hurt by rain water and blades can survive 200 miles of damage.
My favorite part of the whole scenario is the fact that ultimately human negligence is the cause of the 2007 disaster. It's a great way to show off just how dangerous the organism is without having it outright awaken or attack.
Imagine being in a coma, you wake up after some time, and all of sudden you start chocking on metal beams, ships, metal fences, metal tunnels and suffer immense amounts of pain from drilled holes inside of you because a tiny species of organisms turned you into a national park for no reason whatsoever
Sadly, it probably won't be as good since the legendary writer who made Amnesia and SOMA as iconic as they were left the company. I don't know the specific details though.
If there was a game, I’d think it’d be more like Alien Isolation. You’d be a visitor or engineer at some facility in the pit when the coughing incident happens and then you navigate your way out, hiding or fighting mfp creatures and reading computers to understand what went wrong
If anything, it feels like you could take some inspiration from Dead Space with both the alien and mutated (better word than half-digested) creatures found in the part and in the superorganism.
It's so sad that they closed the park. I have fond memories hiking in there with my parents as child in the late 80's. Now I am a father myself and I am kinda sad not to be able to do the same with my young son.
@@Ditidos Maybe you're right and its safe for the HUMANS when we visit, but is it really safe for the flesh pit itself? I mean come on! It's like the video said, imagine you woke up and a bunch of ants were crawling around inside you, that wouldn't feel very nice would it? I think they made the right call closing it to the public, if not for our safety, than for the preservation of a delicate ecosystem
@@mallk238 It's not that big of a deal. The Mystery Flesh Pit is enormous, it's more like microorganisms moving inside, and we have those all the time. At the very least a guided visit should be possible. It's just a shame that nobody will ever be able to be amaze by the great scenery of the park anymore.
@@Ditidos I think it was the right decision, too risky. The park cut corners on safety when it was an enormous operation, I can only imagine how much over site it would have if it was reduced to just a small company of guided tours.
This would be such an amusing dnd campaign. "After hours of horrifying adventures, narrowly escaping with your lives, the party finds itself standing before a supposedly safe building - the gift shop But as you seek shelter, you realise this gift shop is deadlier than you first thought! The prices are way to high! How can the party escape from this tourists trap?!"
This reminds me of a horror move from the 80s called "The Stuff". It's more intentionally funny at times, but the beginning premise is quite similar- a whole crew is working on something outside, some type of construction, something where they're digging in to the ground. One guy finds this white gooey substance, just in the ground in large quantities. Naturally, he tastes it and discovers that it tastes pretty good. The substance ends up being collected and sold as a frozen yogurt type treat in grocery stores and in kiosks, in commercials. Turns out, when people ate the Stuff, it ate them right back, because it was a sentient, dangerous creature, and not mystery yogurt from the ground. Would highly recommend checking it out.
I love seeing more content covering the MFP. As a Texan I find it important that we remember our history and reveal the corruption of Anodyne to the rest of the world.
POV: You are taking a good nap in your house and suddenly some random people try to crawl into your mouth, set up a camp in your stomach and lungs, and turn your insides into a tourist attraction, and destroys them too. Must hurt a lot for the poor creature :( EDIT: The weird and aggressive fauna that is in and around the "Pit" is probably the poor guys immune system
I’d love a Mystery Flesh Pit National Park Tycoon game, imagine trying to manage guest happiness and staff wages alongside fending off and mapping out the organism. Would be pretty sick I think.
I used to think people wouldn't be THAT selfish and stupid, but recent years and events changed my mind. I can really see this happening in real life, corporations exploiting a Texas-sized apocalyptically-powerful organism for profit with no regard for disastrous consequences and tourists who think visiting its absurdly dangerous internals is somehow a good idea.
@@boiledegggaming8424 And the guys running it are corrupt and negligent as [CENSORED]. And the whole thing is a lovecraftian horror show inside and out.
This is giving me some Made In Abyss vibes. Feeling a little bad about people hurting the organism. Though, given its size, it would probably not feel much.
What you see in this video is only a fraction of the lore behind this. The same corporation that maintains the park also uses some areas to mine for resources. They have giant drilling rigs that cut tunnels through flesh and bone.
I see the made in abyss parallel too btw. Some say that the abyss is alive as well if I remember correctly. One thing is for sure: both are dangerous and terrifying and yet people just can't seem to stay away from them.
@@leyspun well, this isnt exactly right. the deepest visitors can go is overlooking the stomach, so its far more than just a pimple. and the entrance is the mouth, stinky.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS- I've had a rough week, but seeing one of my favorite creators cover one of my favorite cosmic horror projects is gonna make up for so much of it.
nice unique concept that hasn't been used up a billion times. Would love to see a movie based on this. And the stuff people in these comments are talking about that exists in this universe makes it even more intriguing.
I feel like the reasoning for why the Mystery Flesh Pit is hostile towards people is similar to why we don't like having parasites. The way the employee's are traversing the insides of the thing doesn't look painless nor non-destructive, and the organisms that are attacking the Employee's are likely the Pits natural defense system.
I think that the creatures that we know of so far are just parasites (like us). I think this things actual immune system is much different. Past that blue tissue layer there’s another photo of this giant, amorphous blob thing bigger than the Empire State Building. I think *that* is the pits’ immune system.
It isn't even hostile, it's just natural body reflexes like coughing. You aren't being hostile toward bacteria you kill when coughing or when your blood cells eat them. It's just an involuntary response.
This would make a great horror game. It could be about how something mysteriously awful has been happening in the Flesh Pit and a secret branch of the U.S. government sends in a spy because the Flesh Pit owners are refusing to tell the government anything.
I've got a different idea. What if things go wrong, and you're tasked with destroying it? Kinda like Prey but more lovecraftian. Or you're a cultist, and you have to wake the superorganism.
Within the lore a great storyline would be someone tasked with venturing in to recover the remains of the contingency measure that was broken in the 2007 incident. Coming across remains of the former park and explorations to slowly uncover what went wrong and how much was downplayed for sake of profit and discovering the real origins of the creature
What if you're a park ranger, after you follow a group of mysterious people in full black cloaks you are lost somewhere in the park, and then you have to fight you're way out of there, with all these small parasites following you.
@@ruskyalmond1977 Literally sent them diagrams of the thing that I found on google and asked them if they ever heard of the massive living flesh pit in the middle of texas
I would like to think that it was originally envisioned by H.P. Lovecraft, but he died before it was constructed, but his business partners, Hammond and Carpenter, covered up his involvement because Lovecraft’s racism could have ruined the park’s reputation
Came across this belatedly, and it's a good intro to the wonders of the Mystery Flesh Pit. Two things to add though: 1. The Flesh Pit is not only being monitored to this day, but *actively exploited* via mining, albeit figleafed as "research". 2. It is heavily implied that the Flesh Pit is able to lure organisms in, where they eventually mutate into forms that serve its biological functions. Which, again, is still happening as people find themselves compelled to enter the pit even though entry is forbidden. The Marrow Folk may have entered far in the past in like fashion.
I love the amount of moments in this where the pit is basically described as "We're almost sure it's mostly safe." It's like the "Kills 99% of bacteria" labels on cleaning products, but if the 1% of bacteria it misses was bigger than you are, and will brutally kill you if it gets the chance
@@afrinaut3094 When I read the "Godzilla Vs. The Thing" I forgot about Mystery Flesh Pit Super Organism, and thought about the Thing. My bad. Godzilla could render the fucker dormant for another few thousand years.
I mean, according to lore not covered in the vid, the auditory sounds it makes while "breathing" sounds like deep moaning, and then there's the heavy aphrodisiac effect the ballast fluids have in the right doses.
i live in the dallas/fort worth area and this is one of my favorite bits of internet horror just for how damn authentic it is, down to font choice. it feels so believable, it’s like something from a parallel universe but a very nearby one, not far removed from my own at all. also i feel terrible for the creature, imagine taking a nap and having bugs pry some orifice open and building a theme park there. eek
Hats off to whoever made that VitaSalve ad. The graniness is so well done, and looks exactly like a page from a magazine or flier you'd find tucked away in your grandparents house.
There are a few in universe legends saying the thing is a "dragon that caused disaster and was struck into the earth by a god after the natives prayed .And the place where it was buried started leaking a healing water." Also it seems like Anodine had a Ritual and Religious site next to the pit (possibly related to the CONTINGENCY MEASURE)
My favorite thing on the website currently is in the most recent q&a section there's an artist rendering of what the super organism would look like if it was fully ambulatory. Thing looks fuckin badass.
To be honest, I like mystery flesh pit because it’s realistic to how people would actually react to cosmic horror. Less “this is indescribably terrible!” and more “how do we profit off of this?”. It’s actually kind of impressive when you think about it.
This technically isn’t an ARG, since there’s no “game” aspect to it. It would be more accurately described as “unfiction,” fictional pieces that take themselves as pertaining to real events
Building a national park on a dormant super organism is as stupid as building one on a 30km deep super volcano that's overdue to go off... Anyways, I'm excited to go on my trip to Yellowstone next month!
if I remember right, the "overdue to go off" thing is a misinterpretation of facts? Like yeah we have evidence of a time-frame that yellowstone would go off at in the past, but that doesn't necessarily mean it has a scheduled time when it will erupt everytime At least I THINK that's what I read? It was years ago. Hope your trip was fun tho!
@@mallk238 it was fun! I took a bath in Ol' Glory. They yelled at me for it and made me leave my skin behind. A little embarrassing, and I'll have to wear the shame of the story until my skin grows back, but you live and you learn.
@@maxfinazzo2443 of course they yelled at you for bathing in ol' glory! That could potentially introduce chemicals to the water that can corrode the rock of yellowstone! Have you gone mad?! But glad to hear you had fun otherwise! Hope the skin grows back soon!
I mean, this could make a great film, somewhat akin to Blomkamp's District 9. It would be shot in that rather documentary-like style and would be a satire of American highly capitalistic society where one can sensationalize, market and monetize almost anything.
Imagine if someone made a story about a survivor of the 2007 incident where they managed to survive in the pit and their encounters with the fauna and discovering new areas.
Wow I’m so glad that you cover MFP, but I was a little disappointed that you didn’t say anything about Yosemite causing 2007 incident. I understand sometimes you have to cut things out of videos in order for Them to be more succinct and do better. I mean if you started to cover all the evidence relating to Yosemite National Park causing the 2007 incident this video would be way too long to get picked up by the algorithm. Keep doing what you're doing it's awesome.
Honestly, this seems like a terrible and agonizing situation not only for the people but also for the giant creature. Imagine deciding to take a nap in a random place and when you wake up you realize that millions of little creatures have turned all your insides into a damn National Park.
Ever since I heard about the mystery flesh pit, I thought of the same "bug hotel" analogy. It's just a little detail that makes it so much more interesting
It’s great to see that you have grown so fast in such a small amount of time. Been subbed since seraphinianus and I’m sure you’ll keep growing exponentially this year
I have a theory about the giant bacteria. My theory is that instead of being true multicellular life forms these organisms are colonies of bacteria merged together. Those bacterial colonies might also fill a variety of roles. Ones that digest organic matter,Ones that clean out foreign materials to keep the creature they reside in healthy,Some could be parasites that feed on the creature itself,and others that are simply harmless hitchhikers that neither harm or help there host.
Edge will be joining me for this entry. He makes great content about prehistoric life, unique modern animals, and bizarre cryptids, so he’s just the person to help investigate this mysterious organism. _He’s also kind of cute, but that’s neither here nor there…_
it feels like the giant creature would be the one the most scared here. just chilling underground and then weird creatures start turning your brain into a camping site
If anyone wants a more in-depth video, the youtuber Wendigoon goes much more in detail and the video is about an hour long and still engaging. Very good video if youre intrested in the small details :)
I like the part where there were native ruins found there, and “mystic” relics found 13:15 said contingency was used a sonic crystal thing to lull it back to sleep
That section of the pit was its Sand Gullet. When engineers went to fix the water pumps, the ENTIRE Sand gullet was almost completely submerged, which would cause the July 4th Incident at 9:52 PM, as shown in a report I commented, specifically two times of the Relevant timeline 1. The Relay Fault At 9:30 PM on July 4th - Control room operators initiate a routine system self-test and discover a relay fault error resulting from increased electrical demand from mining equipment and tourist infrastructure. A control room operator logs the fault and notifies an on-duty engineer. 2. The pumps At 9:41 PM July 4th - Water drainage from surface rain into the Entry Orifice begins to collect in the sand gullet. Drainage pumps are automatically activated by a sensor system but fail to initialize due to the relay fault. An emergency back-up pump running on a separate emergency circuit is automatically activated.
Imo Henderson is overrated, the only memorable thing that he created was siren head which was rather terrifyingly unique. This park on the other is impressively well done and unique, the amount of creativity that went into the parasitic creatures and their living environment is great, not to mention the extensive lore of the business and how the creature itself affected us (and how we affected it).
As someone from Texas, it would surprise me exactly zero percent to learn that an oil company turned a cosmic lovecraftian horror into a profitable national park here
They creze. I want to find the idiot ceo who approved that shit and knock him over the head with a Biology textbook.
How it feels living in America?
I mean, this could make a great film, somewhat akin to Blomkamp's District 9.
It would be shot in that rather documentary-like style and would be a satire of American highly capitalistic society where one can sensationalize, market and monetize almost anything.
Agreed
It was funnier to me when they said west Texas and I was confused when the area they showed on the map was actually in geographically west Texas
He-he, is funny because "anodyne" means "unremarkable" or "boring", so is like calling a company "Notthing Suspiscious Here Inc."
OR it is a play on "boring company"
@@Gandalf-The-Green maybe is both
@@Gandalf-The-Green I love obscure word puns.
@@Gandalf-The-Green Or Nothing. Which is also an actual company
Sounds like a Scooby Doo villain 😂
You left out the best part: the Amorphous Shame, which is a parasitic organism resembling a bunch of disembodied organs, that apparently used to be a type of weasel
...AND the libido bath. Unforgivable
Imagine one of those ending up in the surface and meeting a member of it’s land dwelling cousins. Talk about self-deprecating humour.
*Compound Surface Organisms*
This has happened to many real parasitic organism--ironically, some of the best examples of this are copepods.
@@parmaxolotl There is a pretty well supported theory that mitochondria were originally a symbiotic or parasitic separate organism that became part of animal cells
When I first found the mystery flesh pit, I instantly realized that the true horror was not the creature, but how we reacted to such a discovery.
Honestly I’m not too surprised minus the structure inside, but pumping out stuff to use as products I can...sort of get
At least that superorganism is still alive...right?
ya I would feel so bad if it died
@@explosivemodesonicmauricet1597 Alive and UPSET
maybe the monsters are the friends we made along the way
I prefer to think the actions of the superorganism in the 2007 disaster were spawned more from panic than anger. It's just an animal.
What probably happened was that it started chocking because of the water flowing into it's lungs, so it attempted to cough the water out, but the beams holding its throat open and the visitor center aloft held its throat open and still, affectively drowning the superorganism. Not only that, but Anodyne also administered the superorganism industrial drugs in an attempt to knock it out, but all that did was make the thing vomit. Most of us know what nausea and vomiting feels like, and it's not fun.
The poor thing must have been terrified. It's just minding its own business, sleeping, but then all of a sudden it wakes up to find itself downing, with a sudden terrible nausea, and it can't move its throat muscles; of course it would start to rithe and seize in panic, it has no idea what's going on.
That kind of mindset is why my kids may never be able to enjoy this once in a lifetime experience. A couple hundred careless people die and suddenly they have to close the greatest park on earth?! It’s ridiculous!
That's not the right attitude for exploring the *FUNDERGROUND*
how tf are you making me have simpathy for an abomination
@@jedcc.an abomination is just a creature that’s hard to understand, and a creature is just a human that’s hard to understand. Got empathy? It’ll translate to abominations, some way, somehow.
One thing that this video also slides past is the fact that the creature starts to chew as its waking up, so it's actively trying to break down and eventually swallow the obstructions in its mouth/throat which also crushes everyone inside for 18 hours following the vomiting. It also doesnt mention that the only reason people (excluding some workers and campers) were inside the pit and LVC was because the heavy rain cancelled a fireworks event so the park compensated ticket buyers with an exclusive visit in there well after hours closed for that place. The water pump wasn't faulty (admittedly rusted because its humid inside a giant living being), its that the park had too much going on between mining crews and usual activities that happen after park close along with the additional power use in the LVC that shouldnt happen under normal conditions.
Some of the best bits that didn’t make it into the video: the amorphous Shame (some weasels snuck into the pit millions of years ago and evolved into these… things) and how people who’ve spent any time lost in the pit sometimes feel compelled to return and give themselves over to the pit.
looked up the amorphous shame, ew, not the worst, far from the best.
Probally in the next part
they also didn't say anything about people climbing the fance to pray inside IT
Reminds me of the enigma of amagakari fault
Okay, Cognito Hazard confirmed... That explains why some moron would let the public into this abomination XD
All that damage caused by the creature basically doing the equivalent of coughing and shifting around a little before going back to sleep
"Shit man I'm thirsty I need a drink"
Later that day
BREAKING NEWS: MYSTERY FLESH PIT WAKES UP AND DRINKS THE OCEAN
@@dragonfell5078 not surprised if that actually happens
@@cerridianempire1653 When the flesh pit wants to grab a snack
_eats the moon_
@@dragonfell5078 "nom nom"
wait till it gets up and does a flip
This would make a good limited series TV show.
I agree with you right there buddy.
That’s a good idea
I think it would make a really good horror game aswell
Made in abyss 2
Absolutely!!! I just got spooked thinking about it!
This is indeed a horror story...for the MFP. Imagine if you were immobile, and ants decided to burrow into your flesh and make structures in your flesh and body, all while you stay alive.
Nah it wasn't immobile, it was just asleep
Also- The pit is so massive, all the activity is the equivalent of a zit, I’d imagine its still irritating though, especially when that zit led to your lungs and filled them with water.
True, make me remember that real horror story where a doctor found an uninvited guest inside a girl throat (F*ck the TV shows it's photo)
@@adityuken what?
@@destroyerofturtles5024 There was once a TV show in my country, where they showed their audiences a photo of a leech still hanging on a girl's throat. And it was not a late night show, so even children watched it too
I mean, I will say, something like Yellowstone is pretty full of unique hazards. Besides being eaten by a bison or trampled by wolves, there's also a possibility of things like:
1. A giant Earthquake makes it impassible.
2. A caustic, boiling pool of primordial soup explodes all over you.
3. Severe winds cause your tent or whatnot to rip out of the ground and tumble across the plains (happened to our kitchen tent).
4. You fall into one of those boiling prismatic toxic pools, take one drink, and die within minutes.
5. A deadly cloud of Hydrogen sulfide kills you in your sleep.
6. A small eruption occurs directly under you and you're launched into the stratosphere.
7. A huge eruption occurs under you and the entire caldera collapses. You're dead before you realize what's going on. Your relatives on the other side of the country live somewhat longer but may die to the resulting famine.
"eaten by bison or trampled by wolves"
sir are you sure about that?
@@yoboikamil525 Issa joke
Scientists predict that there will never be another eruption from Yellowstone.
@@slaymen587 & also that Yellowstone WILL NOT end the world. It's Discovery channel's fault for starting the fear of it.
@@slaymen587 At least, they don't think it'll erupt for a very long time, and possibly never again.
you guys keep saying horrifying but as a national park employee (Mojave National Preserve) everything about the Mystery Flesh Pit mirrors real world National Parks. Especially people being killed in accidents or eaten by animals.
Kinda makes it more terrifying, ngl.
@@MrSpookersMcGeeThe1st lol maybe. Maybe I'm just use to it.
Sounds like Yellowstone
@@lukekelly5075 I think making a national park in the monster hunter universe is slightly worse
It's one thing to try to pet a buffalo vs being attacked by a giant bacteria, that someone probably tried to pet... nevermind
How to kill the flesh pit:
Step one: Find every piece of plastic ever made.
Step two: Throw plastic in flesh pit.
I don’t think we have enough plastic
@@kaboomluong9373 If we can make enough plastic to kill the ocean with than we can make enough to kill Cthulhu's A@# hole.
I mean nukes would kill it, seeing how it can be cut a nuke would literally vaporize giant zones of it. People underestimate nukes, we have nukes with blast zones of 20 miles. And 20 miles isn't our max blast radios possible. Even if you didn't nuke the flesh pits entire system it would die from blood loss and radioactive decay.
@@magnuserror9305 True, but no guarantee we hit a vital spot or a blood artery
And also it might have a slight chance of surviving radioactivity, but I'm not a native American who witnessed it's appearance so, I have no clue if it came from space
@@kaboomluong9373 It wouldn't need to hit a vital spot. Even if this thing was 3 times its size, 20 mile radios will kill it. 20 mile blast zones is absolutely insane. Such blasts cause damage across the entire planet. Even if the writing acts as if it can survive a nuke, based off of feats alone it cant. It gets cut up and woken up by weak shit. A nuke would erase giant swaths of it. 20x10 is 200 miles of destroyed land. Do u really think something that gets hurt by rain water and blades can survive 200 miles of damage.
“I’m sure glad the park employees let us inside the pit super organism on July 4th, 2007”
"Wait, what's that rumbling?"
Yosemite did 2007??? Look it up!!!!
@@arbiter1er EREN JAEGER!!!
@@arbiter1er Prepare for unforseen consequences.
(in a deep, rumbly voice) Hi Squidward!
My favorite part of the whole scenario is the fact that ultimately human negligence is the cause of the 2007 disaster. It's a great way to show off just how dangerous the organism is without having it outright awaken or attack.
Imagine being in a coma, you wake up after some time, and all of sudden you start chocking on metal beams, ships, metal fences, metal tunnels and suffer immense amounts of pain from drilled holes inside of you because a tiny species of organisms turned you into a national park for no reason whatsoever
Oh yes, I love being in a “,”
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Well not exactly no reason ugh BUSINESS
Yeah, the Permian Basin Superorganism’s response would be probably considered “calm” compared to what I’d do in that situation.
Mommy mommy can we go to the giant flesh thing, instead of Chuck-E-Cheese
Oh life, you ironic and horrifying, but beautiful beast.
Charles Entertainment Cheese III
@@euaf-crimson1730 really spelling out the homies government name 👌😆💯💯🔥🔥
Kid's got a death wish
@@euaf-crimson1730 The First Charles Entertainment Cheese died in the war, put some respeck on his name
Imagine a game based on this made by the Amnesia/Soma creators
One can only dream
Sadly, it probably won't be as good since the legendary writer who made Amnesia and SOMA as iconic as they were left the company. I don't know the specific details though.
@@alexanderkorol677 welp that sucks 😕
@@alexanderkorol677 the writer still can join in to write this stuff
If there was a game, I’d think it’d be more like Alien Isolation. You’d be a visitor or engineer at some facility in the pit when the coughing incident happens and then you navigate your way out, hiding or fighting mfp creatures and reading computers to understand what went wrong
If anything, it feels like you could take some inspiration from Dead Space with both the alien and mutated (better word than half-digested) creatures found in the part and in the superorganism.
It's so sad that they closed the park. I have fond memories hiking in there with my parents as child in the late 80's. Now I am a father myself and I am kinda sad not to be able to do the same with my young son.
Agreed, people can be so paranoid sometimes. We learned our lesson, no more hotels inside it, but that doesn't mean it isn't safe to visit.
@@Ditidos Maybe you're right and its safe for the HUMANS when we visit, but is it really safe for the flesh pit itself? I mean come on! It's like the video said, imagine you woke up and a bunch of ants were crawling around inside you, that wouldn't feel very nice would it? I think they made the right call closing it to the public, if not for our safety, than for the preservation of a delicate ecosystem
@@mallk238 It's not that big of a deal. The Mystery Flesh Pit is enormous, it's more like microorganisms moving inside, and we have those all the time.
At the very least a guided visit should be possible. It's just a shame that nobody will ever be able to be amaze by the great scenery of the park anymore.
@@Ditidos I think it was the right decision, too risky. The park cut corners on safety when it was an enormous operation, I can only imagine how much over site it would have if it was reduced to just a small company of guided tours.
lmfao
This would be such an amusing dnd campaign.
"After hours of horrifying adventures, narrowly escaping with your lives, the party finds itself standing before a supposedly safe building - the gift shop
But as you seek shelter, you realise this gift shop is deadlier than you first thought!
The prices are way to high! How can the party escape from this tourists trap?!"
That's funded and in the works! The creator had a successful kickstarter last year :3
This reminds me of a horror move from the 80s called "The Stuff". It's more intentionally funny at times, but the beginning premise is quite similar- a whole crew is working on something outside, some type of construction, something where they're digging in to the ground. One guy finds this white gooey substance, just in the ground in large quantities. Naturally, he tastes it and discovers that it tastes pretty good. The substance ends up being collected and sold as a frozen yogurt type treat in grocery stores and in kiosks, in commercials. Turns out, when people ate the Stuff, it ate them right back, because it was a sentient, dangerous creature, and not mystery yogurt from the ground. Would highly recommend checking it out.
I’m still trying to imagine the shape and size of this thing… and how it would act if it was truly awakened.
Me too
Hopefully it would be some kind of sponge
I think it's a big slug
@@user-rl4tg2mr9n with movable limbs?
@@dynamoterror7077 it hasn't been studied extensively, so it's a possibility
I love seeing more content covering the MFP. As a Texan I find it important that we remember our history and reveal the corruption of Anodyne to the rest of the world.
POV: You are taking a good nap in your house and suddenly some random people try to crawl into your mouth, set up a camp in your stomach and lungs, and turn your insides into a tourist attraction, and destroys them too.
Must hurt a lot for the poor creature :(
EDIT: The weird and aggressive fauna that is in and around the "Pit" is probably the poor guys immune system
I’d love a Mystery Flesh Pit National Park Tycoon game, imagine trying to manage guest happiness and staff wages alongside fending off and mapping out the organism. Would be pretty sick I think.
Yes
theres a game on roblox
@@fungee6285of course there is
@@fungee6285 ya its really good, its what brought me to this video
Ryo :3
I used to think people wouldn't be THAT selfish and stupid, but recent years and events changed my mind. I can really see this happening in real life, corporations exploiting a Texas-sized apocalyptically-powerful organism for profit with no regard for disastrous consequences and tourists who think visiting its absurdly dangerous internals is somehow a good idea.
Sort of sounds a bit like Jurassic park but underground in a massive organism
@@boiledegggaming8424 And the guys running it are corrupt and negligent as [CENSORED]. And the whole thing is a lovecraftian horror show inside and out.
I would go inside lol
Its just such an alien concept that it makes me wanna go there
This is giving me some Made In Abyss vibes.
Feeling a little bad about people hurting the organism. Though, given its size, it would probably not feel much.
What you see in this video is only a fraction of the lore behind this. The same corporation that maintains the park also uses some areas to mine for resources. They have giant drilling rigs that cut tunnels through flesh and bone.
I see the made in abyss parallel too btw. Some say that the abyss is alive as well if I remember correctly. One thing is for sure: both are dangerous and terrifying and yet people just can't seem to stay away from them.
Even the massive scale of the park is basically just a pimple to the superorganism
@@leyspun well, this isnt exactly right. the deepest visitors can go is overlooking the stomach, so its far more than just a pimple. and the entrance is the mouth, stinky.
let’s send children into the Mystery Flesh Pit to gather old Anodyne materials to auction off! this sounds like a great idea.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS- I've had a rough week, but seeing one of my favorite creators cover one of my favorite cosmic horror projects is gonna make up for so much of it.
nice unique concept that hasn't been used up a billion times. Would love to see a movie based on this. And the stuff people in these comments are talking about that exists in this universe makes it even more intriguing.
I just love how the primary expedition pod is literally named with a word meaning "to bury the dead"
I feel like the reasoning for why the Mystery Flesh Pit is hostile towards people is similar to why we don't like having parasites.
The way the employee's are traversing the insides of the thing doesn't look painless nor non-destructive, and the organisms that are attacking the Employee's are likely the Pits natural defense system.
I mean, they literally have giant mining rigs the size of houses just hacking and slashing through this things body, id be fucking pissed too
I think that the creatures that we know of so far are just parasites (like us). I think this things actual immune system is much different. Past that blue tissue layer there’s another photo of this giant, amorphous blob thing bigger than the Empire State Building. I think *that* is the pits’ immune system.
It isn't even hostile, it's just natural body reflexes like coughing. You aren't being hostile toward bacteria you kill when coughing or when your blood cells eat them. It's just an involuntary response.
Like imagine having a vehicle driving around in your veins, that seems like it might just be a little uncomfortable
This would make a great horror game. It could be about how something mysteriously awful has been happening in the Flesh Pit and a secret branch of the U.S. government sends in a spy because the Flesh Pit owners are refusing to tell the government anything.
I've got a different idea. What if things go wrong, and you're tasked with destroying it? Kinda like Prey but more lovecraftian.
Or you're a cultist, and you have to wake the superorganism.
Within the lore a great storyline would be someone tasked with venturing in to recover the remains of the contingency measure that was broken in the 2007 incident. Coming across remains of the former park and explorations to slowly uncover what went wrong and how much was downplayed for sake of profit and discovering the real origins of the creature
@Mac mcskullface I like this one
What if you're a park ranger, after you follow a group of mysterious people in full black cloaks you are lost somewhere in the park, and then you have to fight you're way out of there, with all these small parasites following you.
What if you're the monster tasked to murder everyone in the park
I convinced one of my friends that this thing was actually real once xd
HAH that's awesome!😂
Lmao any tips to sell it to someone? I want to prank my nephew.
@@ruskyalmond1977 Literally sent them diagrams of the thing that I found on google and asked them if they ever heard of the massive living flesh pit in the middle of texas
We're they terrified?
Howd they react
“Mysterious flesh pit national park” ran by John Hammond and John Carpenter
The Thing be like
I would like to think that it was originally envisioned by H.P. Lovecraft, but he died before it was constructed, but his business partners, Hammond and Carpenter, covered up his involvement because Lovecraft’s racism could have ruined the park’s reputation
Came across this belatedly, and it's a good intro to the wonders of the Mystery Flesh Pit. Two things to add though:
1. The Flesh Pit is not only being monitored to this day, but *actively exploited* via mining, albeit figleafed as "research".
2. It is heavily implied that the Flesh Pit is able to lure organisms in, where they eventually mutate into forms that serve its biological functions. Which, again, is still happening as people find themselves compelled to enter the pit even though entry is forbidden. The Marrow Folk may have entered far in the past in like fashion.
Number 2 is not implied at all. Rather the creatures own hormones act as addictive narcotics.
I love the amount of moments in this where the pit is basically described as "We're almost sure it's mostly safe."
It's like the "Kills 99% of bacteria" labels on cleaning products, but if the 1% of bacteria it misses was bigger than you are, and will brutally kill you if it gets the chance
“Mystery flesh pit”: awakens
Godzilla: has entered the chat
MONARCH: the entire time on vacation
Finally, "Godzilla Vs. The Thing"
@@TsarMadnessOG0nly
Don't. The Universe is not ready for an infect Gojira.
Who will win
A big dinosaur lizard who can fire a atomic bomb
Or
Flesh
@@hunterv9983 who’s to say “the thing”‘could infect or over-power Godzilla’s nuclear (borderline supernatural) immune system?
@@afrinaut3094
When I read the "Godzilla Vs. The Thing" I forgot about Mystery Flesh Pit Super Organism, and thought about the Thing. My bad. Godzilla could render the fucker dormant for another few thousand years.
if we found this today there would be memes like: "Lemme get that Pitussy" or something idk
That exists on the official discord
I mean, according to lore not covered in the vid, the auditory sounds it makes while "breathing" sounds like deep moaning, and then there's the heavy aphrodisiac effect the ballast fluids have in the right doses.
😳😳💀
Nonononononono stop it
@@marsaustralis6881 Moaning...?
Why do I feel like this is something Junji Ito would like?
It's diet hellstar remina lol
Because you are not even wrong
why is junji ito like the most wholesome anime artist lmao
This flesh pit…it fits me…
ITS MADE FOR ME!!!!
Because it's body horror combined with claustrophobia and a little bit of cosmic horror.
i live in the dallas/fort worth area and this is one of my favorite bits of internet horror just for how damn authentic it is, down to font choice. it feels so believable, it’s like something from a parallel universe but a very nearby one, not far removed from my own at all. also i feel terrible for the creature, imagine taking a nap and having bugs pry some orifice open and building a theme park there. eek
What's crazy is that a couple of years ago I was trying to convince my family to go here thinking it was real 😂
Hats off to whoever made that VitaSalve ad. The graniness is so well done, and looks exactly like a page from a magazine or flier you'd find tucked away in your grandparents house.
The only way to destroy this super organism is to breed and send Earth burrowing creatures from the same time period: Grabboids!
Who's to say grabboids aren't themselves one of the few macrofauna from this thing
That may help to take the grabboids out of the list of endangered species, so I see no downsides to this plan
Lower a nuke down the deepest it can go, then KABOOOOOOOOOM
@@cactusgamingyt9960 the video says the U.S. goverment considered that and the Departament of Defence advises against it... for now
release Nikado Avocado and tell him to eat everything
I would love to explore the insides of this thing. But I feel bad for the animal it was just sleeping and minding it's own business.
There are a few in universe legends saying the thing is a "dragon that caused disaster and was struck into the earth by a god after the natives prayed .And the place where it was buried started leaking a healing water."
Also it seems like Anodine had a Ritual and Religious site next to the pit (possibly related to the CONTINGENCY MEASURE)
@@humanbeingofficial_ umm that would make nuclear fallout and would have a half life around 6000years
@@skylordthe1st one underground detonated nuke wouldn’t cause a fallout
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU
@@averageeughenjoyer6429 what about its effects on the land?
the pit is positively Lovecraftian
My favorite thing on the website currently is in the most recent q&a section there's an artist rendering of what the super organism would look like if it was fully ambulatory. Thing looks fuckin badass.
To be honest, I like mystery flesh pit because it’s realistic to how people would actually react to cosmic horror. Less “this is indescribably terrible!” and more “how do we profit off of this?”. It’s actually kind of impressive when you think about it.
One of my favorite ARGs, so glad you covered it.
This technically isn’t an ARG, since there’s no “game” aspect to it. It would be more accurately described as “unfiction,” fictional pieces that take themselves as pertaining to real events
@@RealSquidShady A world building project, if you will.
I heard in the discord that the macro bacteria aren’t actually related to bacteria, and are simply mfp versions of sea urchins
This would make a great novel or tv show
Building a national park on a dormant super organism is as stupid as building one on a 30km deep super volcano that's overdue to go off...
Anyways, I'm excited to go on my trip to Yellowstone next month!
I've always wanted to go to Yellowstone but I'm just scared that it errupts
@@casper6405 Oh don't worry about that, if it errupts it won't matter where you're standing, you'll probably be dead!
if I remember right, the "overdue to go off" thing is a misinterpretation of facts? Like yeah we have evidence of a time-frame that yellowstone would go off at in the past, but that doesn't necessarily mean it has a scheduled time when it will erupt everytime
At least I THINK that's what I read? It was years ago. Hope your trip was fun tho!
@@mallk238 it was fun! I took a bath in Ol' Glory. They yelled at me for it and made me leave my skin behind. A little embarrassing, and I'll have to wear the shame of the story until my skin grows back, but you live and you learn.
@@maxfinazzo2443 of course they yelled at you for bathing in ol' glory! That could potentially introduce chemicals to the water that can corrode the rock of yellowstone! Have you gone mad?!
But glad to hear you had fun otherwise! Hope the skin grows back soon!
I mean, this could make a great film, somewhat akin to Blomkamp's District 9.
It would be shot in that rather documentary-like style and would be a satire of American highly capitalistic society where one can sensationalize, market and monetize almost anything.
I think you might be on to something with that
@@alienz8641 Well, thank you! 🙂
Really happy you posted this man, this was a great video!
I am obsessed with this, I'm so happy you have made a video on this
they sell tickets to the park u know
Jesus, this is terrifying.
You say terrifying vore loves say it’s their wet dream and I say a meal.
@@Rule-be6lw I say that I require a bleach.
@@depressedorca7995 many have tried but bleach can never remove my words.
if it makes you feel any better it's about as large as we are to dust mites, possibly anyway (:
Agree
I love how they keep repeating "fictional," like they need to make sure we know we don't have to be scared of this thing
Imagine if someone made a story about a survivor of the 2007 incident where they managed to survive in the pit and their encounters with the fauna and discovering new areas.
Not a survivor who stayed behind, but rangers who were there during the disaster and the repercussions of it.
A reporter who wants to investigate, and the remaining employees of Anodyne still active secretly.
I'm glad the mystery flesh pit is getting more coverage :)
The cross over I’ve been waiting for a while, holy shit I love both your Chanels
“Thankful fiction” YOU SAID IT BROTHER
Wow I’m so glad that you cover MFP, but I was a little disappointed that you didn’t say anything about Yosemite causing 2007 incident. I understand sometimes you have to cut things out of videos in order for Them to be more succinct and do better. I mean if you started to cover all the evidence relating to Yosemite National Park causing the 2007 incident this video would be way too long to get picked up by the algorithm. Keep doing what you're doing it's awesome.
Honestly, this seems like a terrible and agonizing situation not only for the people but also for the giant creature. Imagine deciding to take a nap in a random place and when you wake up you realize that millions of little creatures have turned all your insides into a damn National Park.
i love it when people make unique stories like this
Is this story real or fake???
@@mumflurfumperdink2507 fake
@@lemonaids_s ohk
check out SCPs
@@AyCe everyone knows what an SCP is lol
If there were a “mystery flesh pit” I’d be on the side of the Evangelist Christians “this _thing_ is the DEVIL’S RECTUM”
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Funny you say that, because there is literally canonical art the creator made for a fake christian newsletter than says the exact same thing lmao.
@@pokemonfanmario7694 I mean, for the first time literally ever, they're right
As a Christian I agree
@@rileykim6068 well I don't FAULT the permian basin superorganism, I would be pissed to find a 8 story mall in my throat.
Ever since I heard about the mystery flesh pit, I thought of the same "bug hotel" analogy. It's just a little detail that makes it so much more interesting
The moral of the story: don't turn giant fleshy pit creature into a theme park.
It’s great to see that you have grown so fast in such a small amount of time. Been subbed since seraphinianus and I’m sure you’ll keep growing exponentially this year
I can't hear anything but captions always save the day, thx for the captions bro.
WAIT I CAN HEAR I MEAN SOUND STOPPED COMING OUT
That looks like a job for the scp foundation
honestly yeah
@@cozz124more like the SCP foundation and the entirety of NATO
No way! You and Edge collabed and that makes me really happy! I love both your videos :D
The government turns a mysterious giant creature into a amusement park. Why do I feel that's the most realistic idea from this story.
Corporate spots lovecraftian horror*
Corporate: *I can milk you*
i love your vids! Your commentary always adds more to the content while staying true to the canon/ source.
This is literally an SCP that isn't an SCP
It's not an scp??? Damn
@@artskewow1256 it isn't but it's extremely similar to scp 2678; the vorehole
SCP virgins VS the Chad super organism!
SCP's are for beta virgins. The more you know.
This is probably why the scp foundation classifies things like this.
Riko: (Stares at pit with excitment)👀
Reg: NOOOOOO!
I have a theory about the giant bacteria. My theory is that instead of being true multicellular life forms these organisms are colonies of bacteria merged together. Those bacterial colonies might also fill a variety of roles. Ones that digest organic matter,Ones that clean out foreign materials to keep the creature they reside in healthy,Some could be parasites that feed on the creature itself,and others that are simply harmless hitchhikers that neither harm or help there host.
They're actually sea life. I forget what type of animals exactly, might've been sponges and worms and stuff, but they're sea life. They are animals.
What an incredible cross-over between Curious Archive and E.D.G.E
9:43 As Caver Dave might say that's not the right attitude for *exploring the FUNderground*
Ooh curious archive upload, it's a good evening fellas!
Please tell me that I'm not the only one that thinks that bit at 13:57 was adorable
wish I was that spino
Edge will be joining me for this entry. He makes great content about prehistoric life, unique modern animals, and bizarre cryptids, so he’s just the person to help investigate this mysterious organism. _He’s also kind of cute, but that’s neither here nor there…_
Glad to see this is getting more attention. I remember there was only one video on yt about it.
RUclips failed to notify me of a new video which angers me
I swear these are about other current realities running side by side with our timeline.That's where frebreeze is spelled right I bet.
So the Aztecs were right? Earth is actually just a super monster that needs sacrifices to be kept asleep and "tamed"?
it feels like the giant creature would be the one the most scared here. just chilling underground and then weird creatures start turning your brain into a camping site
I always look forward to your vids! Maybe one day can we get a video on Snaiad? Keep up the good work man
It’s the colab we never knew we needed
If anyone wants a more in-depth video, the youtuber Wendigoon goes much more in detail and the video is about an hour long and still engaging. Very good video if youre intrested in the small details :)
I like the part where there were native ruins found there, and “mystic” relics found
13:15 said contingency was used a sonic crystal thing to lull it back to sleep
As Wendigoon said, perfect concept for a Survival Horror Game.
Weird, went down this rabbit hole last night. Good stuff
As soon as I found out about the Mystery Flesh Pit I hoped youd make a video about it.
Would love to see you tackle scarier or more horror-based stuff in the future! This was great!
Gotta say, the idea that the first thing we would do upon discovering some eldritch monstrosity is try to monetize it is depressingly believable.
This Co-operation between the USSR and the USA was actually unthinkable until Gorbachev came, R.I.P Gorbachev.
very epic stuff dude
I like to think this is actually the entire planet and maybe even have phycic links to other planets or maybe they are even on lifeform
I LOVE the MFP!! So excited to see you cover it!
That section of the pit was its Sand Gullet. When engineers went to fix the water pumps, the ENTIRE Sand gullet was almost completely submerged, which would cause the July 4th Incident at 9:52 PM, as shown in a report I commented, specifically two times of the Relevant timeline
1. The Relay Fault
At 9:30 PM on July 4th - Control room operators initiate a routine system self-test and discover a relay fault error resulting from increased electrical demand from mining equipment and tourist infrastructure. A control room operator logs the fault and notifies an on-duty engineer.
2. The pumps
At 9:41 PM July 4th - Water drainage from surface rain into the Entry Orifice begins to collect in the sand gullet. Drainage pumps are automatically activated by a sensor system but fail to initialize due to the relay fault. An emergency back-up pump running on a separate emergency circuit is automatically activated.
Can't wait for a video game based on this amazing concept
What is it with people named trevor and making absolute nightmare fuel?
Ikr? First we had Henderson and now this
Imo Henderson is overrated, the only memorable thing that he created was siren head which was rather terrifyingly unique. This park on the other is impressively well done and unique, the amount of creativity that went into the parasitic creatures and their living environment is great, not to mention the extensive lore of the business and how the creature itself affected us (and how we affected it).