I actually really liked the way this one was written. instead of the average style of test subject story where the D-Class is just some expendable material, it shows the researching having actual sympathy for somebody going through something horrifically traumatic.
It's easy to go by the memes of the Foundation throwing D-Class at any given anomaly like it's nobody's business, but there are "good" researchers, in the sense rhat they don't treat the D-Class as simple numbers. Like many things in life, the Foundation is not a monolith of bleak cosmic horror and cold scientific lack of empathy
@@sparking023 it's that exact reason as to why I haven't been a huge fan of a lot of the big multi-part canons exploring series covers. Don't get me wrong, they're letting cool and tes does a fantastic job at covering them, but stuff like the ouroboros cycle, scp-6500 and even to some extent the amoni-ram 001 all paint the foundation as a group of evil, moral-less sociopaths more concerned with preserving the status quo over protecting humanity.
Yeah, this is a horrifying experience. I was just thinking, though, it's not traumatic if the person is no longer alive after the experience to be traumatized by it, but this is a terrible way to go.
That extended sympathy I suspect from some of the researchers isn't merely show. Having to bear witness to the horrors when exploring freshly apprehended SCPs must be quite terrifying, as you have to watch someone whom you perhaps grew close to, even if they're a death-row criminal, suffer. The more jaded researchers have already experienced this sort of thing, have a mental fortitude unlike most people, or are lacking a little bit of what makes everyone else human (which in this profession, could be useful insulation from the depravity beyond the walls of the present reality.)
true, but people and most of these articles say that d class are serial killers and people on death row, not much is said that d class are actually just drug addicts (50% of the prison population, which is why it's so big in the first place) But even if we were sending pot smokers for scp maitenance, to transport them to facilities and administer amnestics and to house them, all require money, but most importantly time
I loved this. As you said, it is a return to the "old school" SCP. It is anomalous for no real reason that can be determined, like a glitch in reality or something. There is minimal backstory, not being tied in with any grand war for the universe against a monstrous god-like being, or a multiversal conflict between flesh and machines. It is just a thing that shouldn't exist and yet it does. Simple, straight to the point, and scary as hell.
I'm glad he covered it. I sometimes love cactusverse, but seven parter superhero-esque scp anime swordart online nonsense SCPs gets tiresome after you've listened to about 20 2 hour long videos on it. Miss the self contained short story horror
@@TheMajorpickle01 Exactly. I don't think those long form story-like entries belong as SCPs, they belong as short stories, which is ok. So far, it seems like there's a vast majority of them I don't like for those reasons you mentioned, but I'm sure many people will want to read them - just in the appropriate places/sections of the site.
I was having a hard time finding the words for why i lost interest in this channel and this is it. I want the short 20 min long episodes of some self contained anomalies, not 2 hours of someone trying to flex their bad high-fantasy writing.
@@danielm3404 I don't really complain about it because I think that the chap behind the exploring series does this for a passion project and if he was railroaded into specifically what we wanted it'd ruin the channel and his enjoyment, but I agree the overabundance of long fiction scps killed the interest for me a bit. Some of the longform stuff is very good though. I've never liked any of the 6+ parters, but a lot of "standalone" cactusverse entries are decent, even with awful names like "The Demon Lancelot and the flying city of Audopopolodingdong"
The part where he sees an opening but still decides to dig instead of going up and entering said opening is crazy, because that means he was so afraid and wanted to escape from the tree so bad that even after so many hopeless hours of digging and rotting corpses he still decided to dig more. That's what really got me in this story tbh
Considering the corpses are "all his" I assume its either a cognitive effect of the tree or his soul itself remembers the nightmare the tree has sent him into, such that the instant he sees it he gains instant aversion.
@@nom6758 I was thinking the place was a central universe contained to itself and all the same D classes guys that was “him” was from different parallel universes.
@@onewheeljoeswanson1780, thank you lol. I was having trouble figuring out how I needed to say it in the way I thought of it in my head that would make sense.
Just throwing this out there, I like these little one-off creepy pasta like SCP‘s. Old school as you put it. I don’t really find myself getting too entangled in the longer form sprawling canon of the bigger ones.
I get you. The one off ones are nice and classic, just a cool self contained story. I like both though, my favourite ones are the ones that seem like a one off on the surface but if you go reading more it gets more in-depth, like an ARG lol
Agree. Those SCPs that span several videos on this channel (ouroboros cycle, inevitable, etc.) are good for one listen and then I can't go back to it. The short and sweet videos I can rewatch many times as I know I have time to finish them.
Agreed. What I don't like much abou the last two series is that everyone and their mom is trying to make some kind of magnum opus narrative, which would be amazing as a canon hub/tale, but inside an SCP entry. I can appreciate the above average writing, but I'd prefer to have the main entries describing the anomalies and containment procedures, and then you attach as much tales as you want around it, like End Of Death.
@@sparking023 This exactly. Love it when you gotta go looking for the deep lore, makes it feel like you're actually trawling through a database of logs and reports rather than just reading a story.
I love SCP entries where we mostly follow a D-Class with a GPS tracker, a flashlight and a camera :3 - rendering the foundation helpless is a great tool to amplify the horror of the situation ^^
I'm happy to have one of these classic, shorter one-off SCP articles. The multi-part and longer stories can get intimidating and are usually hard to follow for me because of all the moving parts. It's nice to hear about a simpler, shorter one that is no less effective at being terrifying.
Exactly, I'm kind of tired of the expansive multi-part SCP's that the fandom evolved into over time - imo they're not scary when overexplained and narrative driven, they stay unsettling but the shorter SCP entries with unexplained motives are much scarier due to the mystery and I very much miss the simpler ideas.
That's why i miss oldschool SCPs. They are like lego blocks and the tales are how people put them together. Muilt-part can be interesting but tend to get lost in itself.
@@johnsaints969 the satisfaction of putting the 3-5 old scp's together and then finally re reading the tale that set you on the quest, now finally equipped with all the knowledge to properly understand it? REDACTED/10
This one hits stranger than I would have initially thought. The small detail that it's your childhood home, a place for me at least that I associate with the death of someone very near and dear to me, adds a complex feeling of fear and sadness to it. My childhood home is gone now, but I frequently see it in my dreams, along with said dead person. Such a lovely story.
I'll bite. Why, or what, exactly, makes you assume the OP's lying about the statement? There is no leap of logic, nor something inexplicable being described? Nor some specific tragedy too expounded upon, until ridiculousness. What makes you think their statement is a lie?
This one really made you feel for the d class. As another scp said, they’re all human, there’s always at least a glimmer of good person in ever single one. I’m not sure who this d class was but he seemed to be undeserving of what happened to him.
@Gatchu never clear in "canon," sometimes yes, sometimes, clones or other things. Depends on what the author wants for the Foundation to be painted as and the level of mathematics realism (death row prisoners are not nearly as common as D-Class personal die, but narrative conventions do as they do)
@@Gatchu137 Not all of them. Some are foreign political prisoners, or even people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time. If you think about it, the number of death row inmates even around the world couldn't hope to match up to the massive amount of D-class that get used.
@@Gatchu137 the "Lucky" SCP became a D-class because of a cheating charge at a casino, so despite what others may think many D-class are not only undeserving but also probably innocent as well. Thinking that they're all evil is just a cope for people that don't understand that the Foundation is the real antagonist by attempting to artificially restrain the natural forces of the cosmos.
@@Gatchu137 Up to 4% of death row inmates in the US alone are wrongly convicted. Usually people of colour thanks to systemic racism. So yeah, there's bound to be a good chunk of D class who _really_ shouldn't be in this position. And that's before you consider the ethical issues with dehumanizing people, even murderers, in the first place. Human rights are called that way for a reason; They are something _everyone_ is supposed to have no matter how much of a scumbag they may be.
Glad to be back to one of the shorter less complicated SCP stories. The long ones about the whole SPC world can get tedious. The plain older style SCPs are much more fun imo.
I think they both have their place but you're right. Constant big stories get repetitive. Sometimes a small, self contained and horrific story is good enough
Probably part of its anomalous properties, given that’s it’s a hateful tree that tortures people who sleep near it, a good way to do that would be to give the victim a sign of hope.
I was in a brightly lit room I've been in a thousand times but I heard small noises on the edge off hearing. They were probably mundane or not even real but they freaked me out and gave me crazy chills. This one really got me.
I’ve been in many tight spots, under buildings, inside pipes, excavations and in caves. If I ever start feeling claustrophobic I focus on how it’s not some increasingly tightening trap.. it’s a cozy embrace like a heavy layer of blankets. I’m being hugged by the space. I can relax, snuggle into it and slow my movements and breathing without any anxiety. It’s nice. 👍
i love staying up till 3am every sunday night just to listen to your videos. despite some of them being scary, i can still count on them to help me sleep
I think the best part is that he takes these horror stories about these different monsters or different tales about these different places and no matter if you're listening to something like Avalon (which is one of my personal favorite SCPs and SCP stories) to something like SCP 5000, the stories he's able to get across without souring the plots of said stories is incredible, especially given the fact that these stories are usually supposed to be interacted with on dedicated webpages that can have 20 different branching paths, taking other storylines into consideration.
This is a safe class SCP. Being an inanimate object, it is rather straightforward to contain. The most obvious part of the anomaly is some noise that can be heard after spending an hour close to the object. This does seem like something that would just be something for the log of mere anomalous objects, and yet it also has the effect of teleporting people sleeping close to it to some alternate buried world, leading to more investigation with most information of this other world presented in an exploration log. This is anomaly is something that would be discovered by very unfortunate chance. That's the thing with a lot of safe class SCPs. Sometimes someone may do something odd that ends up very badly for them. This isn't an entity that is able seek out its victims. It doesn't have any memetic effects either. It makes you wonder of the anomaly's past before it was contained by the Foundation. Thankfully, being a simple to contain object, it should be less likely than before to have any more unfortunate victims.
this reminds me of the potato sack one, I wish there was more ones like it where they are teleported or its a link to a weird version of earth or somethin
I love SCP's like this tbh, infinitely scarier than any universe spanning, multi character, end of the world, 100 article tales that seem to be everywhere nowadays, but that's just me🤷
@@Sheldezare You do realize that short weird/scary stories is the entire heart and soul of SCP as a concept? like you're really trying to shit on the core of this entire thing, what an insane take. This is like going to a pizza place and complaining about the pizza, sure they sell other things there but its still a fucking pizza place. Anyway, there's nothing cheap about stories like the one this video is about. It's short, brutal, creepy, and still leaves a lot to the imagination. It's better than the growing obsession people have for writing "epics" where they shoehorn as much fanservice connections and self inserts into the story as possible while spoonfeeding you every drop of info as if you were stupid. There are still "classic" ones being made, but it still feels like writer and raters are skewing towards this current... trend.
Yes.. A call back to the SCP's that got me into SCP. Creepy, unreal, and hits a little too close to home to completely dismiss it as fiction. And I am utterly disturbed ATM. A very good SCP. I like the big expansive ones when they are rare and internal to themselves (Red Sea Object is the a great example and personal favorite, or Site 13) but this is a breath of fresh air (pun not intended) from the "canon/universe" craze that has taken over the community and the rewrite craze that goes along with it.
I completely agree. This entry is an example of why I became an instant fan and avid reader over a decade ago. The new, internal world-building, epic-scale fantastical entries that more belong in the long-form story sections are taking over. I find way too may of them masturbatory and in love with themselves, or, losing sight of the spirit of SCPs. I hope enough authors like the old stuff to keep it up.
I really like these 20-minute-ish videos. Not too short but not so long that you lose focus after listening in for a while. Keep up with the good work :)
I agree! Although, i prefer the longer videos AS LONG as they are punctuated with cool pics so i can keep place visually. The change in pics keeps me engaged
Your both wrong the longer videos are best you can break them up as you like you just have to be responsible enough to remember where left off and have a normal memory. Perhaps you to should lay off the vices better memory is a side effect.
I was really hoping the d-class got out of this one. Maybe a sequel will reveal more about the tree. That was an amazing one. Thanks for the content mangg.
Not every scp needs to be a 100,000 word deep canon shifter with its own dictionary of terms. I like those kind of stories too but when every single one is like that it gets exhausting. Some can just be little one off stories that are terrifying in their own way. Not everything needs to be super interconnected. Some of the best and most terrifying/emotional stories are the shorter ones in my opinion.
This the first scp video of yours that didn't help me fall asleep. My anxiety kept me wide awake. Good thing I don't need to wake up early since it's the holidays
I think I definitely prefer the scp‘s like this,some unassuming item with strange affects,over the seemingly novel length cautionary tales from parallel dimensions are alternate timelines
Thank you for doing a "creepy pasta style" SCP this week! I know you like to do more of the longer narrative style SCPs that tend to be kind of Lovecraftian in nature. I personally love the creature/anomalous building style SCPs.
I love the creepy self-contained creepy pasta scps the most. In my opinion the wide narratives alot of modern scps go into feel more like fantasy horror or just fantasy where everything is explained, compared to what scp was and honestly is better at doing, telling short, spine-chilling stories which leave you with so many questions.
I love it when you make videos about older SCPs like this one. I read this years ago and there have been some changes made to the story that somehow make it even more terrifying. Great content
I miss these type of readings.. I love the multiparts ones for sure, it just really hard to follow and understanding without visual at times. so having these short ones are easier to follow and not get distracted. Still love all the videos and hope to see more. Also, love how your voice just suits the readings.
Boy this one gets my claustrophobia going. One of my greatest fears is being buried alive like that smh. Whoever authored this entry really hit it on the head
The narrator: *talking about claustrophobia and how scary being buried alive would be* Me, a caver: "yea but risking death while caving is the fun bit!"
So this one hit me harder than I thought it would. I've guessed that the bones he was finding were him from the very beginning but the reveal still sent a chill down my spine. I don't know if I would have been able to handle that situation as well as the d-class did. I'd like to think I would but in reality I probably would have just taken the shovel to my own neck and called it quits
there's a cool human composting facility in california that keeps you above ground and somewhat near staff while the composting happens, which they say is not only eco-friendly but good for anyone with a fear of being buried alive! if you woke up in one of their pods you could literally just knock on the side and someone would hear you, and you'd have plenty of air since it's necessary for composting! i'm not afraid of being buried alive but thought it was a cool option
Very likely they realized there was no point. At least with the other death traps there is the illusion they could get away. In this one it is pretty clear the tree would never let that happen. So no point sending more in to see if they can find a way out. The answer is they would never find one and so it is a waste of personel to try.
@@Melonist Ah, the black void? Was it really an exit? And even if it was...would he really be allowed to use it? Kinda implied what caused the cave in was the roots. And that void most definitely had plenty around it. Poor McDclass, even in his frenzied state, likely realized already there was no escape and any obvious exit was just a trap to torment him further with.
For some reason I expected him to find himself at the bottom of scp 087. I like these oldschool scp's. Simple, concise and to the point. You should do more of them, TES 😉
I'm glad we got one of the old school ones, it's been a long time since I have been this captivated and spooked. Really great job, i hope for more SCP short stories!
this was a pleasant change. a break from the deep and complex tales into a simply terrifying tale that you can immerse yourself into. these kinds of stories really play to the strengths of the SCP concept.
Doctor Maxwell has a great video on this one where he voice acts the whole thing out if you guys are interested. Good job is always mang. Happy holidays
this scp made me legitimately anxious- the idea of being buried alive is just causes a primal sense of fear I think. I found myself just waiting for the d-class to die and be put out of his misery because the idea of frantically trying to dig yourself out of the earth is sooo terrifying
The movie "Buried" made me tense in the end This SCP reminds me of that movie especially the fact that the researcher apologized to the D class like how the investigator(?) apologized to the MC
I've always prefered these types of SCPs over the big sweeping canon videos these days. I get that anything that goes for long enough has to and will evolve, but, especially with things like Amoni-Ram and Inevitable, I feel like people are starting to forget SCP's roots at times.
I really did expect Unlondon when I saw the title but on like, a hollow Earth scale (someone get on this stat lol) This is way scarier, not exaggerating. This poor guy.
I thought this concept seemed familiar! It's a Doctor Who Episode! 12th puts himself into a billion year time loop of punching a wall once a day until he breaks though it (and the castle he's in is surrounded by skulls of his past lives)
Part of me wanted this to be a continuation/expansion of SCP-1678 (Unlondon), but I very much enjoyed a more focused, self-contained story for a change.
Y'know even if your memory is wiped every repeat I feel like your underlying self would just kind of get used to it and eventually you'd just stop caring that you're burried.
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I actually really liked the way this one was written. instead of the average style of test subject story where the D-Class is just some expendable material, it shows the researching having actual sympathy for somebody going through something horrifically traumatic.
It's easy to go by the memes of the Foundation throwing D-Class at any given anomaly like it's nobody's business, but there are "good" researchers, in the sense rhat they don't treat the D-Class as simple numbers. Like many things in life, the Foundation is not a monolith of bleak cosmic horror and cold scientific lack of empathy
@@sparking023 it's that exact reason as to why I haven't been a huge fan of a lot of the big multi-part canons exploring series covers. Don't get me wrong, they're letting cool and tes does a fantastic job at covering them, but stuff like the ouroboros cycle, scp-6500 and even to some extent the amoni-ram 001 all paint the foundation as a group of evil, moral-less sociopaths more concerned with preserving the status quo over protecting humanity.
Yeah, this is a horrifying experience. I was just thinking, though, it's not traumatic if the person is no longer alive after the experience to be traumatized by it, but this is a terrible way to go.
That extended sympathy I suspect from some of the researchers isn't merely show. Having to bear witness to the horrors when exploring freshly apprehended SCPs must be quite terrifying, as you have to watch someone whom you perhaps grew close to, even if they're a death-row criminal, suffer. The more jaded researchers have already experienced this sort of thing, have a mental fortitude unlike most people, or are lacking a little bit of what makes everyone else human (which in this profession, could be useful insulation from the depravity beyond the walls of the present reality.)
@@jackr2287 and even if you're a complete pyschopath... d class are expendable sure, but they're also limited
I really like that both the d-class and the researcher seem very human in this one
The dialogue felt realistic, and how they both acted/reacted to situations felt realistic too. I also like how the researcher apologised too
It made it hurt so good
ikr, almost as if there's ACTUALLY an limited amount of class D to go around
true, but people and most of these articles say that d class are serial killers and people on death row, not much is said that d class are actually just drug addicts (50% of the prison population, which is why it's so big in the first place)
But even if we were sending pot smokers for scp maitenance, to transport them to facilities and administer amnestics and to house them, all require money, but most importantly time
I loved this. As you said, it is a return to the "old school" SCP. It is anomalous for no real reason that can be determined, like a glitch in reality or something. There is minimal backstory, not being tied in with any grand war for the universe against a monstrous god-like being, or a multiversal conflict between flesh and machines. It is just a thing that shouldn't exist and yet it does. Simple, straight to the point, and scary as hell.
I'm glad he covered it. I sometimes love cactusverse, but seven parter superhero-esque scp anime swordart online nonsense SCPs gets tiresome after you've listened to about 20 2 hour long videos on it. Miss the self contained short story horror
@@TheMajorpickle01 yeah also they probably take forever to compile into a video
@@TheMajorpickle01 Exactly. I don't think those long form story-like entries belong as SCPs, they belong as short stories, which is ok. So far, it seems like there's a vast majority of them I don't like for those reasons you mentioned, but I'm sure many people will want to read them - just in the appropriate places/sections of the site.
I was having a hard time finding the words for why i lost interest in this channel and this is it. I want the short 20 min long episodes of some self contained anomalies, not 2 hours of someone trying to flex their bad high-fantasy writing.
@@danielm3404 I don't really complain about it because I think that the chap behind the exploring series does this for a passion project and if he was railroaded into specifically what we wanted it'd ruin the channel and his enjoyment, but I agree the overabundance of long fiction scps killed the interest for me a bit.
Some of the longform stuff is very good though. I've never liked any of the 6+ parters, but a lot of "standalone" cactusverse entries are decent, even with awful names like "The Demon Lancelot and the flying city of Audopopolodingdong"
The part where he sees an opening but still decides to dig instead of going up and entering said opening is crazy, because that means he was so afraid and wanted to escape from the tree so bad that even after so many hopeless hours of digging and rotting corpses he still decided to dig more. That's what really got me in this story tbh
Considering the corpses are "all his" I assume its either a cognitive effect of the tree or his soul itself remembers the nightmare the tree has sent him into, such that the instant he sees it he gains instant aversion.
@@nom6758 I was thinking the place was a central universe contained to itself and all the same D classes guys that was “him” was from different parallel universes.
Woah that’s what I didn’t get on my first listen ! He was free but instead of getting out her kept digging , what a mean ass tree .
@@austinwilburn1772 this is the best interpretation I’ve seen. Very consistent with the interactions between the D-Class and researcher
@@onewheeljoeswanson1780, thank you lol. I was having trouble figuring out how I needed to say it in the way I thought of it in my head that would make sense.
"Claustrophobia is a common enough fear."
Oh God, let's strap in for THIS one.
I’m not even claustrophobic but this one scared my to my core
This is the cheery Christmas content I was hoping for today.
Lol
why does it say your comment is a day old?
The scp that hopes it was a normal dude searching 4 normal videos
So happy to see Jeremy here :0
How did you comment 1 day ago?
Just throwing this out there, I like these little one-off creepy pasta like SCP‘s. Old school as you put it. I don’t really find myself getting too entangled in the longer form sprawling canon of the bigger ones.
I get you. The one off ones are nice and classic, just a cool self contained story. I like both though, my favourite ones are the ones that seem like a one off on the surface but if you go reading more it gets more in-depth, like an ARG lol
Agree. Those SCPs that span several videos on this channel (ouroboros cycle, inevitable, etc.) are good for one listen and then I can't go back to it. The short and sweet videos I can rewatch many times as I know I have time to finish them.
Agreed. What I don't like much abou the last two series is that everyone and their mom is trying to make some kind of magnum opus narrative, which would be amazing as a canon hub/tale, but inside an SCP entry.
I can appreciate the above average writing, but I'd prefer to have the main entries describing the anomalies and containment procedures, and then you attach as much tales as you want around it, like End Of Death.
If I have to hear the word "kaktusverse" one more time, I swear to god I am gonna pull my patron pledge.
@@sparking023 This exactly. Love it when you gotta go looking for the deep lore, makes it feel like you're actually trawling through a database of logs and reports rather than just reading a story.
It would be wonderful to film this, making a truly nightmarish found-footage movie.
Do it. Id back that.
There's so many scp stories that would make amazing movies
Ryan Reynolds made a movie about this, though without the paranormal aspect. it's called Buried and it's pretty good.
Watch the movie vivarium
There is a fantastic voice acted reading by Dr. Maxwell. It's his best video and really sold the emotion. I highly recommend it.
I love SCP entries where we mostly follow a D-Class with a GPS tracker, a flashlight and a camera :3 - rendering the foundation helpless is a great tool to amplify the horror of the situation ^^
ur too happy i dont trust u
I prefer these simpler SCPs can we get more like this? The simpler stuff makes the epic scps stand out more
Yes! If they're all huge than nothing stands out and it just gets cluttered
This definitely goes into the long list of fates worse than death that the scp verse seems to be so fond of...
I'm happy to have one of these classic, shorter one-off SCP articles. The multi-part and longer stories can get intimidating and are usually hard to follow for me because of all the moving parts. It's nice to hear about a simpler, shorter one that is no less effective at being terrifying.
That's the truth right there.
Exactly, I'm kind of tired of the expansive multi-part SCP's that the fandom evolved into over time - imo they're not scary when overexplained and narrative driven, they stay unsettling but the shorter SCP entries with unexplained motives are much scarier due to the mystery and I very much miss the simpler ideas.
That's why i miss oldschool SCPs. They are like lego blocks and the tales are how people put them together.
Muilt-part can be interesting but tend to get lost in itself.
@@johnsaints969 the satisfaction of putting the 3-5 old scp's together and then finally re reading the tale that set you on the quest, now finally equipped with all the knowledge to properly understand it? REDACTED/10
Do all of you just short attention spans and small brains?
This one hits stranger than I would have initially thought. The small detail that it's your childhood home, a place for me at least that I associate with the death of someone very near and dear to me, adds a complex feeling of fear and sadness to it. My childhood home is gone now, but I frequently see it in my dreams, along with said dead person. Such a lovely story.
Liar.
I'll bite. Why, or what, exactly, makes you assume the OP's lying about the statement? There is no leap of logic, nor something inexplicable being described? Nor some specific tragedy too expounded upon, until ridiculousness. What makes you think their statement is a lie?
Instinct?
@@rydz656 prove it
@@rydz656 bruh
This one really made you feel for the d class. As another scp said, they’re all human, there’s always at least a glimmer of good person in ever single one. I’m not sure who this d class was but he seemed to be undeserving of what happened to him.
They're all on death row, right? So I'd assume he's done some pretty heinous things.
@Gatchu never clear in "canon," sometimes yes, sometimes, clones or other things. Depends on what the author wants for the Foundation to be painted as and the level of mathematics realism (death row prisoners are not nearly as common as D-Class personal die, but narrative conventions do as they do)
@@Gatchu137 Not all of them. Some are foreign political prisoners, or even people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time. If you think about it, the number of death row inmates even around the world couldn't hope to match up to the massive amount of D-class that get used.
@@Gatchu137 the "Lucky" SCP became a D-class because of a cheating charge at a casino, so despite what others may think many D-class are not only undeserving but also probably innocent as well. Thinking that they're all evil is just a cope for people that don't understand that the Foundation is the real antagonist by attempting to artificially restrain the natural forces of the cosmos.
@@Gatchu137 Up to 4% of death row inmates in the US alone are wrongly convicted. Usually people of colour thanks to systemic racism. So yeah, there's bound to be a good chunk of D class who _really_ shouldn't be in this position. And that's before you consider the ethical issues with dehumanizing people, even murderers, in the first place. Human rights are called that way for a reason; They are something _everyone_ is supposed to have no matter how much of a scumbag they may be.
This SCP leaves me with a question, what exactly is so horrible about the surface that it made the d class turn back?
eveningstar? Dungeons and Dragons?
maybe he just wanted to escape the tree that hated him so much?
I could be witty and say "twerking amogus"?
It was nothing.
It could be that there really wasn’t a surface, but it just kept going on and on without end
Glad to be back to one of the shorter less complicated SCP stories. The long ones about the whole SPC world can get tedious. The plain older style SCPs are much more fun imo.
I think they both have their place but you're right. Constant big stories get repetitive. Sometimes a small, self contained and horrific story is good enough
You just sound like your trying to pass off your simple taste as fact
I agree entirely, the hours long mini series ones are my least favorite
and many long SCPs basically turn into mediocre animes. I like the classic, "scientific" SCPs over the sprawling stories.
@@krs1297 oh shut up
That D-Class' radio, camera, and gps are pretty impressive, given that they're successfully transmitting and receiving *while he's buried underground*
And they stayed powered for days at a time without shutting off once
Probably part of its anomalous properties, given that’s it’s a hateful tree that tortures people who sleep near it, a good way to do that would be to give the victim a sign of hope.
@@user-mz2wb3ll8j Oooo I like that! Out of all the creatures Pandora released into the world, Hope was by far the most insidious.
I was in a brightly lit room I've been in a thousand times but I heard small noises on the edge off hearing. They were probably mundane or not even real but they freaked me out and gave me crazy chills. This one really got me.
I’ve been in many tight spots, under buildings, inside pipes, excavations and in caves. If I ever start feeling claustrophobic I focus on how it’s not some increasingly tightening trap.. it’s a cozy embrace like a heavy layer of blankets. I’m being hugged by the space. I can relax, snuggle into it and slow my movements and breathing without any anxiety. It’s nice. 👍
i love staying up till 3am every sunday night just to listen to your videos. despite some of them being scary, i can still count on them to help me sleep
Tap the bell icon that way you don't have to stay up
@@gokugoma3258 i have it on brother so that i can watch it immediately when it comes out to go to sleep
I think the best part is that he takes these horror stories about these different monsters or different tales about these different places and no matter if you're listening to something like Avalon (which is one of my personal favorite SCPs and SCP stories) to something like SCP 5000, the stories he's able to get across without souring the plots of said stories is incredible, especially given the fact that these stories are usually supposed to be interacted with on dedicated webpages that can have 20 different branching paths, taking other storylines into consideration.
I have listened to over 200 hours of these videos this year in this exact way, they're the ultimate night tales.
Just don't sleep around the tree picture 😆
This is a safe class SCP. Being an inanimate object, it is rather straightforward to contain. The most obvious part of the anomaly is some noise that can be heard after spending an hour close to the object. This does seem like something that would just be something for the log of mere anomalous objects, and yet it also has the effect of teleporting people sleeping close to it to some alternate buried world, leading to more investigation with most information of this other world presented in an exploration log.
This is anomaly is something that would be discovered by very unfortunate chance. That's the thing with a lot of safe class SCPs. Sometimes someone may do something odd that ends up very badly for them. This isn't an entity that is able seek out its victims. It doesn't have any memetic effects either. It makes you wonder of the anomaly's past before it was contained by the Foundation. Thankfully, being a simple to contain object, it should be less likely than before to have any more unfortunate victims.
this reminds me of the potato sack one, I wish there was more ones like it where they are teleported or its a link to a weird version of earth or somethin
Thanks for repeating everything he said at the end.
I love SCP's like this tbh, infinitely scarier than any universe spanning, multi character, end of the world, 100 article tales that seem to be everywhere nowadays, but that's just me🤷
I don’t know why they don’t go back to only accepting stuff like this again.
@@gummyboots There is still a lot of them. Thousands of then even. Just not getting through the top rated pages most of the time but still there.
@@gummyboots Yea, I too don't get why they don't go back to cheap creepypasta articles.
Oh wait, there's thousands of them if you want them so bad.
@@Sheldezare You do realize that short weird/scary stories is the entire heart and soul of SCP as a concept? like you're really trying to shit on the core of this entire thing, what an insane take. This is like going to a pizza place and complaining about the pizza, sure they sell other things there but its still a fucking pizza place.
Anyway, there's nothing cheap about stories like the one this video is about. It's short, brutal, creepy, and still leaves a lot to the imagination. It's better than the growing obsession people have for writing "epics" where they shoehorn as much fanservice connections and self inserts into the story as possible while spoonfeeding you every drop of info as if you were stupid.
There are still "classic" ones being made, but it still feels like writer and raters are skewing towards this current... trend.
@@Sheldezare So you didn't like this one, then?
Yes.. A call back to the SCP's that got me into SCP. Creepy, unreal, and hits a little too close to home to completely dismiss it as fiction. And I am utterly disturbed ATM.
A very good SCP.
I like the big expansive ones when they are rare and internal to themselves (Red Sea Object is the a great example and personal favorite, or Site 13) but this is a breath of fresh air (pun not intended) from the "canon/universe" craze that has taken over the community and the rewrite craze that goes along with it.
I completely agree. This entry is an example of why I became an instant fan and avid reader over a decade ago. The new, internal world-building, epic-scale fantastical entries that more belong in the long-form story sections are taking over. I find way too may of them masturbatory and in love with themselves, or, losing sight of the spirit of SCPs. I hope enough authors like the old stuff to keep it up.
@@grayfiresoul I like those expansive lore.
@@blugaledoh2669 to be fair, I think both fit very well
I really like these 20-minute-ish videos. Not too short but not so long that you lose focus after listening in for a while. Keep up with the good work :)
I agree! Although, i prefer the longer videos AS LONG as they are punctuated with cool pics so i can keep place visually. The change in pics keeps me engaged
Your both wrong the longer videos are best you can break them up as you like you just have to be responsible enough to remember where left off and have a normal memory. Perhaps you to should lay off the vices better memory is a side effect.
@@detailedgaming6039 damn that's the most condescending comment I've read, and I've read about of comments
Damn, this one was cool! Sometimes I prefer these over the 4-hour long universe transforming scp sagas.
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I was really hoping the d-class got out of this one. Maybe a sequel will reveal more about the tree.
That was an amazing one. Thanks for the content mangg.
The part when he gets trapped really gets to me. Dr Maxwell does a great reading of this.
Not every scp needs to be a 100,000 word deep canon shifter with its own dictionary of terms. I like those kind of stories too but when every single one is like that it gets exhausting. Some can just be little one off stories that are terrifying in their own way. Not everything needs to be super interconnected. Some of the best and most terrifying/emotional stories are the shorter ones in my opinion.
This the first scp video of yours that didn't help me fall asleep. My anxiety kept me wide awake. Good thing I don't need to wake up early since it's the holidays
Ah yes, the tree that hates. The daevites must have walked up to the sarkics and said “Hold my book” on this one.
Can I be honest about something? I love these shorter videos a whole lot more than the expansive 5 part ones. This is what SCP is all about.
I think I definitely prefer the scp‘s like this,some unassuming item with strange affects,over the seemingly novel length cautionary tales from parallel dimensions are alternate timelines
Incase anyone gets the wrong idea this is not criticizing exploring series videos this is my favorite scp channel
Thank you for doing a "creepy pasta style" SCP this week! I know you like to do more of the longer narrative style SCPs that tend to be kind of Lovecraftian in nature. I personally love the creature/anomalous building style SCPs.
So 3515 is basically Groundhog Day, but underground and you die depressed?
UnderGroundhog Day
That is indeed a fate worst than death, and just plain pure evil
This feels like one of the few scps where it seems like the foundation genuinely wants to help the d-class
Man I've been rewatching all the SCP content and I have to say, I've grown really fond of hour long videos. Can't wait for more uploads
Cheers mate
Literally the best channel on YT, for me.
The dynamic between the researcher and the D class is surprisingly wholesome, I wish more scps incorporated stuff like that.
Okay,but imagine waking up again after being buried alive and remembering everything.
Atleast this SCP let's you forget
I've come to enjoy these self-contained stories a lot more than the entire novels that go by an scp number
Ahh, some good ol' psychological horror. A welcome change of pace from the novels of the previous few vids
I love the creepy self-contained creepy pasta scps the most. In my opinion the wide narratives alot of modern scps go into feel more like fantasy horror or just fantasy where everything is explained, compared to what scp was and honestly is better at doing, telling short, spine-chilling stories which leave you with so many questions.
I love it when you make videos about older SCPs like this one. I read this years ago and there have been some changes made to the story that somehow make it even more terrifying. Great content
I very much enjoy these 15-30 minute videos, they make it easier to watch/listen to the whole story in one sitting. Great stuff man, keep it coming!
Definitely enjoying these shorter SCP stories. The hour long and multi part ones can get tiring after a while
I miss these type of readings.. I love the multiparts ones for sure, it just really hard to follow and understanding without visual at times. so having these short ones are easier to follow and not get distracted. Still love all the videos and hope to see more. Also, love how your voice just suits the readings.
I am a D-Class and I'm digging a hole
diggy diggy hole
Nice pfp
So sad. He even got a researcher that felt bad for him....which is pretty rare
So there was mention of a copy of 3515 in this alternate dimension. I wonder what would happen if you slept near that.
One of my new favorites. Would love to see more videos on SCP’s like this!
Old school SCPs are the best. They are simple but can pack a punch
Boy this one gets my claustrophobia going. One of my greatest fears is being buried alive like that smh. Whoever authored this entry really hit it on the head
Thanks for the release on the end of Christmas weekend; happy holidays, merry new year and can't wait to hear your content for another year
The narrator: *talking about claustrophobia and how scary being buried alive would be*
Me, a caver: "yea but risking death while caving is the fun bit!"
So this one hit me harder than I thought it would. I've guessed that the bones he was finding were him from the very beginning but the reveal still sent a chill down my spine. I don't know if I would have been able to handle that situation as well as the d-class did. I'd like to think I would but in reality I probably would have just taken the shovel to my own neck and called it quits
SCP-3515: The never ending loop of underground death
So it's SCPs version of Gold Experience Requiem. That D-Class at the end got Diavolo'd
SCP-3515: Babe! It's 4pm , time for your 4206996th respawn & live burial!
Sobbing D-Class: _Yes honey_
Is this memes?
there's a cool human composting facility in california that keeps you above ground and somewhat near staff while the composting happens, which they say is not only eco-friendly but good for anyone with a fear of being buried alive! if you woke up in one of their pods you could literally just knock on the side and someone would hear you, and you'd have plenty of air since it's necessary for composting! i'm not afraid of being buried alive but thought it was a cool option
This was so refreshing
I like the small scp as well as the grand ones. In some cases it's two sides to the same coin, the person living it and the machinations behind it.
That’s weird. I’ve never known the foundation to only send one d-class unto death’s doorstep. I guess that’s an improvement!
Very likely they realized there was no point. At least with the other death traps there is the illusion they could get away. In this one it is pretty clear the tree would never let that happen. So no point sending more in to see if they can find a way out. The answer is they would never find one and so it is a waste of personel to try.
@@jacobfreeman5444 I dunno; there was a visible exit towards the end, it was only the steadily decreasing sanity of the D-class that failed him
@@Melonist Ah, the black void? Was it really an exit? And even if it was...would he really be allowed to use it? Kinda implied what caused the cave in was the roots. And that void most definitely had plenty around it. Poor McDclass, even in his frenzied state, likely realized already there was no escape and any obvious exit was just a trap to torment him further with.
For some reason I expected him to find himself at the bottom of scp 087. I like these oldschool scp's. Simple, concise and to the point. You should do more of them, TES 😉
This one had that old school feel to it... I can dig it.
I'm glad we got one of the old school ones, it's been a long time since I have been this captivated and spooked. Really great job, i hope for more SCP short stories!
This was really psychologically draining...felt like I was there with him and his hopeless despair
Hey man, genuinely, thank you for all of your videos. You help more people than you know in ways you can't imagine
Saw a reading of this not too long ago, so I already know I'm in for a good one (not that this isn't a guarantee with your content)
this was a pleasant change. a break from the deep and complex tales into a simply terrifying tale that you can immerse yourself into.
these kinds of stories really play to the strengths of the SCP concept.
More of these please, I didn't know I had an itch for these shorter, one off SCPs till I got through this one. Very cool, very creepy
16:31 My blood ran cold after I heard that. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. That's an awful way to go out.
This one is so crazy. Dr.Maxwell did a really good job on presenting this file definitely worth a look!
I love these old style SCPs. Far more relatable than the current cosmic wacky silliness.
Doctor Maxwell has a great video on this one where he voice acts the whole thing out if you guys are interested. Good job is always mang. Happy holidays
This video is perfect, not too long and not too short and a classic and simple yet dark and interesting.
This is like "the last dive of Dave Shaw" but with dirt instead of water.
16:36
Oh sweet he's in the Age of Ancients
My man boutta find the Dark Soul
This is one of my favorite short story scps because of how simple but terrifying it is to imagine
I've always known about this one but I've only just realised the muffled digging was just another him
Love your scp videos and cool to see older ones. Great video
this scp made me legitimately anxious- the idea of being buried alive is just causes a primal sense of fear I think. I found myself just waiting for the d-class to die and be put out of his misery because the idea of frantically trying to dig yourself out of the earth is sooo terrifying
This one is very VERY existential to me.
Happy Holidays and thank you for another great video, just a few moments in and I can tell it's a good one,
Gotta love a classic simple SCP story among all these complex ones.
Best part of my day is seeing the pop up on these
The movie "Buried" made me tense in the end
This SCP reminds me of that movie especially the fact that the researcher apologized to the D class
like how the investigator(?) apologized to the MC
Hell yeah. Perfect timing.
Thank you, good fellow!
More like this! ur my fav channel and thank you for doing this... as always! love yr narration style
Merry Christmas everyone! Things suck right now but remember, it could always be worse! Like living in the SCP foundation universe
Man, you’re really cranking out videos lately. What a beast.
I've listened to this done by other people on spotify... They actually put the sounds of the digging in the background.
It was unnerving.
He never ceases to capture your raw attention and engulfs you in the story
Thank you, your videos, voice, background music. It's an art form all on its own.
I've always prefered these types of SCPs over the big sweeping canon videos these days. I get that anything that goes for long enough has to and will evolve, but, especially with things like Amoni-Ram and Inevitable, I feel like people are starting to forget SCP's roots at times.
I really did expect Unlondon when I saw the title but on like, a hollow Earth scale (someone get on this stat lol)
This is way scarier, not exaggerating. This poor guy.
This reminds me of The Buried from TMA. Amazing video as always!
this is a nice change of pace from the 7 hour videos
I thought this concept seemed familiar! It's a Doctor Who Episode! 12th puts himself into a billion year time loop of punching a wall once a day until he breaks though it (and the castle he's in is surrounded by skulls of his past lives)
Part of me wanted this to be a continuation/expansion of SCP-1678 (Unlondon), but I very much enjoyed a more focused, self-contained story for a change.
Y'know even if your memory is wiped every repeat I feel like your underlying self would just kind of get used to it and eventually you'd just stop caring that you're burried.
Final scp reading of the year!
hey daddy fulgrim