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* And speaking of TheBible, the Book of Revelation reads like this more often than not.
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* Dream, vision, hallucination, revelation and/or brainwashing sequences in ''Literature/Illuminatus!'' ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' and its spinoffs tend to be either this or WordSaladHumor, although they are frequently both simultaneously, combining imagery from everything from Literature/TheBible and ClassicalMythology to Masonic lore, {{Occultism}} and the Main/{{Kabbalah}} to HPLovecraft, pornography and ComicStrip/KrazyKat with ArcWords chosen seemingly at random and very clever yet completely nonsensical wordplay.
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* [[DoctorWho Dalek Caan]] ''seems'' to speak like this, but it's ultimately subverted; all of his cryptic riddles are perfectly accurate, if obtuse, either describing [[spoiler:what he saw while traveling through the time lock around the Last Great Time War]], or what is about to happen.
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* Dream, vision, hallucination, revelation and/or brainwashing sequences in ''Literature/Illuminatus!'' and its spinoffs tend to be either this or WordSaladHumor, although they are frequently both simultaneously, combining imagery from everything from TheBible Literature/TheBible and ClassicalMythology to Masonic lore, {{Occultism}} and the Main/{{Kabbalah}} to HPLovecraft, pornography and ComicStrip/KrazyKat with ArcWords chosen seemingly at random and very clever yet completely nonsensical wordplay.
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* Dream, vision, hallucination, revelation and/or brainwashing sequences in ''Literature/Illuminatus!}}'' ''Literature/Illuminatus!'' and its spinoffs tend to be either this or WordSaladHumor, although they are frequently both simultaneously, combining imagery from everything from TheBible and ClassicalMythology to Masonic lore, {{Occultism}} and the Main/{{Kabbalah}} to HPLovecraft, pornography and ComicStrip/KrazyKat with ArcWords chosen seemingly at random and very clever yet completely nonsensical wordplay.
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* Dream, vision, hallucination, revelation and/or brainwashing sequences in ''[[Literature/{{Illuminatus!}} The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]'' ''Literature/Illuminatus!}}'' and its spinoffs tend to be either this or WordSaladHumor, although they are frequently both simultaneously, combining imagery from everything from TheBible and ClassicalMythology to [[{{Freemasons}} Masonic lore]], lore, {{Occultism}} and the Main/{{Kabbalah}} to HPLovecraft, pornography and ComicStrip/KrazyKat with ArcWords chosen seemingly at random and very clever yet completely nonsensical wordplay.
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* Dream, vision, hallucination, revelation and/or brainwashing sequences in ''[[Literature/Illuminatus! ''[[Literature/{{Illuminatus!}} The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]'' and its spinoffs tend to be either this or WordSaladHumor, although they are frequently both simultaneously, combining imagery from everything from TheBible and ClassicalMythology to [[{{Freemasons}} Masonic lore]], {{Occultism}} and the {{Kabbalah}} Main/{{Kabbalah}} to HPLovecraft, pornography and ComicStrip/KrazyKat with ArcWords chosen seemingly at random and very clever yet completely nonsensical wordplay.
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* Dream, vision, hallucination, revelation and/or brainwashing sequences in ''[[Literature/Illuminatus! The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]'' and its spinoffs tend to be either this or WordSaladHumor, although they are frequently both simultaneously, combining imagery from everything from TheBible and ClassicalMythology to [[{{Freemasons}} Masonic lore]], {{Occultism}} and the {{Kabbalah}} to HPLovecraft, pornography and ComicStrip/KrazyKat with ArcWords chosen seemingly at random and very clever yet completely nonsensical wordplay.
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* While not by any means a horror game, the JRPG [[Xenogears]] has quite a few uniquely unsettling moments, though that is likely par for the course for a game that is essentially an extended Creation allegory; a famous example from the game's opening scene involves a spaceship's command displays slowly being overwritten with the repeated message "You shall be as gods" shortly before the ship self-destructs.
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* While not by any means a horror game, the JRPG [[Xenogears]] ''{{Xenogears}}'' has quite a few uniquely unsettling moments, though that is likely par for the course for a game that is essentially an extended Creation allegory; a famous example from the game's opening scene involves a spaceship's command displays slowly being overwritten with the repeated message "You shall be as gods" shortly before the ship self-destructs.
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*While not by any means a horror game, the JRPG [[Xenogears]] has quite a few uniquely unsettling moments, though that is likely par for the course for a game that is essentially an extended Creation allegory; a famous example from the game's opening scene involves a spaceship's command displays slowly being overwritten with the repeated message "You shall be as gods" shortly before the ship self-destructs.
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* Played with at the end of ''TheCabinetOfDrCaligari''. We, the audience, know exactly what [[spoiler: Francis' deranged shouting]] means, but to everyone else, it comes across as this.
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* Early on in ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs'', Mandus answers a mysterious ringing phone, and gets the cryptic message "Precious eagle cactus fruit... help us..." before the other person hangs up.
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* Subverted in ''Literature/{{Blindsight}}'', when the alien artifact Rorschach speaks to the protagonists, it seems like it's using perfect English, following all of the grammatical rules. [[spoiler:However, after a series of testing, the ship's linguist discovers that Rorschach is actually speaking nonsense, and is just procedurally generating responses telling them to stay away, like an organic Cleverbot]]
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* In ''Literature/TheManWhoWasThursday,'' Sunday begins sending inexplicable messages that terrify the members of the council:
-->“Fly at once. The truth about your trouser-stretchers is known.—A FRIEND.”
-->“Fly at once. The truth about your trouser-stretchers is known.—A FRIEND.”
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* ''Film/FourteenOhEight'':
** In the original short story, Mike's [[ApocalypticLog recordings]] becomes this ("My brother was actually eaten by wolves one winter on the Connecticut Turnpike") though it sometimes makes sense in context.[[note]]He turns the recorder on to say "The door is crooked" but stops after "The door" because the door isn't crooked anymore, and then is crooked on the other side, and then [[AlienGeometry on both at the same time]][[/note]]
** The room's 'conversation' with Mike Enslin is made of random sentences and series of numbers [[ThirteenIsUnlucky that add up to 13]].
-->"Five. This is five. Ignore the sirens. Even if you leave this room, you can NEVER leave this room. Eight. This is eight. We have killed your friends. Every friend is now dead. Six. This is six."
** In the original short story, Mike's [[ApocalypticLog recordings]] becomes this ("My brother was actually eaten by wolves one winter on the Connecticut Turnpike") though it sometimes makes sense in context.[[note]]He turns the recorder on to say "The door is crooked" but stops after "The door" because the door isn't crooked anymore, and then is crooked on the other side, and then [[AlienGeometry on both at the same time]][[/note]]
** The room's 'conversation' with Mike Enslin is made of random sentences and series of numbers [[ThirteenIsUnlucky that add up to 13]].
-->"Five. This is five. Ignore the sirens. Even if you leave this room, you can NEVER leave this room. Eight. This is eight. We have killed your friends. Every friend is now dead. Six. This is six."
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* ''NakedLunch''. So, so much.
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* ''NakedLunch''.''Literature/NakedLunch''. So, so much.
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* In ArthurCClarke's short story "Playback", the protagonist is a disembodied intelligence [[BrainUploading recorded]] by SufficientlyAdvancedAliens when his ship blew up. The aliens offer to reconstruct a body for him, but the protagonist's attempt to describe what he looks like dissolves into incoherent babble as the imperfect recording breaks down.
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--> As their slogan famously says, "A thousand ways in, no way out. Subway. Eat fresh. Eat so terribly, terribly fresh. Terribly, awesomely, gruesomely, terrifyingly fresh."
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* The infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion]] of 1987 saw the interruption of a ''Series/DoctorWho'' broadcast with a video of a person in a Series/MaxHeadroom mask, whose identity is unknown to this day, rambling about completely nonsensical subjects interrupted by him(?) alternately [[LaughingMad laughing]] and screaming.
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* The infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion]] of 1987 saw the interruption of a ''Series/DoctorWho'' broadcast ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E1HorrorOfFangRock "Horror of Fang Rock"]] specifically) with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs a video video]] of a person in a Series/MaxHeadroom mask, whose identity is unknown to this day, rambling about completely nonsensical subjects interrupted by him(?) alternately [[LaughingMad laughing]] and screaming.
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* The infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion]] of 1987 saw the interruption of a ''Series/DoctorWho'' broadcast with a video of a person in a Series/MaxHeadroom mask, whose identity is unknown to this day, rambling about completely nonsensical subjects interrupted by him(?) alternately [[LaughingMad laughing]] and screaming.
-->That does it. He's a freakin' nerd. ''(giggles)'' Yeah, I think I'm better than Chuck Swirsky. Freakin' liberal.
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* Played with at the end of ''TheCabinetOfDrCaligari''. We, the audience, know exactly what [[spoiler: Francis' deranged shouting]] means, but to everyone else, it comes across as this.
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* ''NakedLunch''. So, so much.
-->I was standing outside myself trying to stop those hangings with ghost fingers... I am a ghost wanting what every ghost wants-a body-after the Long Time moving through odorless alleys of space where no life is, only the colorless no smell of death...Nobody can breathe and smell it through pink convolutions of gristle laced with crystal snot, time shit and black blood filters of flesh.
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* ''NakedLunch''. So, so much.
-->I was standing outside myself trying to stop those hangings with ghost fingers... I am a ghost wanting what every ghost wants-a body-after the Long Time moving through odorless alleys of space where no life is, only the colorless no smell of death...Nobody can breathe and smell it through pink convolutions of gristle laced with crystal snot, time shit and black blood filters of flesh.
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* More than a few TomWaits song lyrics combine this with HarshVocals to make nonsense and dream imagery seem deeply threatening. For instance, from "Everything You Can Think":
-->Everything you can think of is true\\
And fishes make wishes on you\\
We're fighting out way up Dreamland's spine\\
Red flamingos, expensive wine.
* More than a few TomWaits song lyrics combine this with HarshVocals to make nonsense and dream imagery seem deeply threatening. For instance, from "Everything You Can Think":
-->Everything you can think of is true\\
And fishes make wishes on you\\
We're fighting out way up Dreamland's spine\\
Red flamingos, expensive wine.
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The opposite of WordSaladHumor. Compare and contrast CrypticConversation, with which this trope frequently overlaps. Subtrope of SurrealHorror.
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* Also from Grant Morrison is Professor Pyg, a villain introduced during [[GrantMorrisonsBatman his run]] on ''Franchise/{{Batman}}''. He's a somewhat more realistic depiction of insanity than most of Batman's foes in that most of what he says is complete gibberish.
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* ''Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos'' features this frequently, particularly when dealing with totheark. For instance, his name comes from the phrase "lead me to the ark" from his videos in the ''WebOriginal/MarbleHornets'' series. No indication is given as to what "ark" is being referenced.
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* The ''TwinPeaks''-esque ShowWithinAShow "Address Unknown" in ''MaxPayne'' is all about this.
** When Max is tripping on Valkyr in the part 3 prologue, he receives a "prank call" (in his dream), wherein the caller just [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HpAW1vSXkY#t=5m45s spouts creepy nonsense]] at him, until Max puts the phone back down. For extra creepiness, just a bit later, Max receives another call, wherein the caller tries to explain to him that he has been drugged. Max proceeds to call it nonsense in exactly the same words as before and put the phone down.
** When Max is tripping on Valkyr in the part 3 prologue, he receives a "prank call" (in his dream), wherein the caller just [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HpAW1vSXkY#t=5m45s spouts creepy nonsense]] at him, until Max puts the phone back down. For extra creepiness, just a bit later, Max receives another call, wherein the caller tries to explain to him that he has been drugged. Max proceeds to call it nonsense in exactly the same words as before and put the phone down.
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** When Max is tripping on Valkyr in the first game (the prologue to part3 prologue, 3), he receives a "prank call" (in his dream), wherein the caller just [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HpAW1vSXkY#t=5m45s spouts creepy nonsense]] at him, until Max puts the phone back down. For extra creepiness, just a bit later, Max receives another call, wherein the caller tries to explain to him that he has been drugged. Max proceeds to call it nonsense in exactly the same words as before and put the phone down.
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->''"For the first time we have risen, and I see we are being consumed. I see circles that are not circles. Billions of dead souls inside containment. Unravellers have eaten country's moral fabric, turning hearts into filth. I'm from a kingdom level above human. What does that yield? A hokey smile that damns an entire nation. There is no hope."''
-->-- '''RonaldReagan''', ''[[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP]]-[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1981 1981]]''
This is what happens when bizarre phrases, {{Non Sequitur}}s, and random successions of words are used and arranged either to be frightening on their own or to imply that something sinister is going on behind the scenes. The WordSalad might result from some supernatural alteration of local reality, a NightmareSequence, a drug-induced hallucination, an EldritchAbomination oblivious to the fact that this is ''not'' how those PunyEarthlings actually talk, and many other myriad causes.
Compare and contrast CrypticConversation, with which this trope frequently overlaps. Subtrope of SurrealHorror.
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* ''Film/TheFog'' (1980). While Stevie Wayne is playing station promos on a tape recorder, supernatural things start to happen and the tape recorder plays a bizarre message.
-->Something that one lives with like an albatross round the neck. No, more like a millstone. A plumbing stone, by God. Damn them all.
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* Any scene in ''Series/TwinPeaks'' that takes place in the [[EldritchLocation Black Lodge]] turns into this. While there's usually ''some'' meaning behind what's being said, it's done in a very obfuscating manner.
-->'''[[LittlePeopleAreSurreal The Man From Another Place:]]''' I've got good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
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* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' features this as part of its [[GainaxEnding memorable ending]], with the Colonel suddenly spouting off bizarre nonsense over the codec to Raiden. This is the first indication that [[spoiler:it's a fake AI Colonel]].
-->'''Colonel:''' I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hari Kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61!
* The ''TwinPeaks''-esque ShowWithinAShow "Address Unknown" in ''MaxPayne'' is all about this.
** When Max is tripping on Valkyr in the part 3 prologue, he receives a "prank call" (in his dream), wherein the caller just [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HpAW1vSXkY#t=5m45s spouts creepy nonsense]] at him, until Max puts the phone back down. For extra creepiness, just a bit later, Max receives another call, wherein the caller tries to explain to him that he has been drugged. Max proceeds to call it nonsense in exactly the same words as before and put the phone down.
--->"...bartender shiny stuff and dreams are made of stooped necromancers. He sings like a banana wrist having strayed too close to the constellations on their shaved skulls. The rain of frogs ended and the rain of blood comes down. Doing their lips and then I'll be gone! The city was an image, riding the bar. He yearns to get a taste of those tentacles..."
* The "Taken" enemies in ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' spout this constantly. The words usually seem to have something to do with the [[DemonicPossession possessed]] individual's former life, but they do not appear to comprehend the sense behind their words. Sometimes skirts the line between horror and {{Narm}}.
-->'''Fisherman:''' ''Omega-3 fatty acids are good for your heart!''
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* ''{{VisualNovel/Tsukihime}}'' has several pages of this while Shiki is bedridden in Hisui's route.
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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has several:
** SCP-1981 a.k.a. "RONALD REAGAN CUT UP WHILE TALKING", which provides the page quote, is a VHS tape showing Ronald Reagan's "Evil Empire" speech, only the speech and concurrent events are different with each viewing. Each iteration has in common Reagan talking about various events that happened after the real life speech, surreal references to gruesome subjects like ColdBloodedTorture along with nonsensical subjects, Reagan [[BodyHorror being mutilated by invisible forces]] while casually continuing the speech, and a black-robed figure who replaces a random member of Reagan's cabinet each time. The Foundation speculates the tape and its garbled nonsense has something to do with the then-living Reagan's Alzheimer's.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-058 SCP-058]] is some creature resembling a cow heart with limbs that constantly spouts off completely incomprehensible phrases even while going around killing humans.
--->'''SCP-058:''' I had dreams of the queen wonders that lived inside the hearts of love and silent treatments of all the elderly that I knew were once whole.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1782 SCP-1782]] is a [[EldritchLocation rather anomalous room]] whose randomly manifested entities and disembodied voices say some very bizarre phrases, [[ArcWords most prominent of which]] is "There's a hole in the wall in the bottom of the floor."
* Happens all the time on ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'', particularly when Cecil reads advertisements, notices, or whatever else he is handed by others in the studio. A RunningGag is for Cecil to announce "a word from our sponsors," and then read an "advertisement" consisting of an extremely surreal WordSaladHorror passage, followed by the name and slogan of a real-world company such as Audible.com or Home Depot. For bonus creepy points, sometimes the real slogan is followed by a nightmarish variation on the same phrase.
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-->-- '''RonaldReagan''', ''[[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP]]-[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1981 1981]]''
This is what happens when bizarre phrases, {{Non Sequitur}}s, and random successions of words are used and arranged either to be frightening on their own or to imply that something sinister is going on behind the scenes. The WordSalad might result from some supernatural alteration of local reality, a NightmareSequence, a drug-induced hallucination, an EldritchAbomination oblivious to the fact that this is ''not'' how those PunyEarthlings actually talk, and many other myriad causes.
Compare and contrast CrypticConversation, with which this trope frequently overlaps. Subtrope of SurrealHorror.
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* ''Film/TheFog'' (1980). While Stevie Wayne is playing station promos on a tape recorder, supernatural things start to happen and the tape recorder plays a bizarre message.
-->Something that one lives with like an albatross round the neck. No, more like a millstone. A plumbing stone, by God. Damn them all.
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* Any scene in ''Series/TwinPeaks'' that takes place in the [[EldritchLocation Black Lodge]] turns into this. While there's usually ''some'' meaning behind what's being said, it's done in a very obfuscating manner.
-->'''[[LittlePeopleAreSurreal The Man From Another Place:]]''' I've got good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
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* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' features this as part of its [[GainaxEnding memorable ending]], with the Colonel suddenly spouting off bizarre nonsense over the codec to Raiden. This is the first indication that [[spoiler:it's a fake AI Colonel]].
-->'''Colonel:''' I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hari Kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61!
* The ''TwinPeaks''-esque ShowWithinAShow "Address Unknown" in ''MaxPayne'' is all about this.
** When Max is tripping on Valkyr in the part 3 prologue, he receives a "prank call" (in his dream), wherein the caller just [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HpAW1vSXkY#t=5m45s spouts creepy nonsense]] at him, until Max puts the phone back down. For extra creepiness, just a bit later, Max receives another call, wherein the caller tries to explain to him that he has been drugged. Max proceeds to call it nonsense in exactly the same words as before and put the phone down.
--->"...bartender shiny stuff and dreams are made of stooped necromancers. He sings like a banana wrist having strayed too close to the constellations on their shaved skulls. The rain of frogs ended and the rain of blood comes down. Doing their lips and then I'll be gone! The city was an image, riding the bar. He yearns to get a taste of those tentacles..."
* The "Taken" enemies in ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' spout this constantly. The words usually seem to have something to do with the [[DemonicPossession possessed]] individual's former life, but they do not appear to comprehend the sense behind their words. Sometimes skirts the line between horror and {{Narm}}.
-->'''Fisherman:''' ''Omega-3 fatty acids are good for your heart!''
[[AC:Visual Novels]]
* ''{{VisualNovel/Tsukihime}}'' has several pages of this while Shiki is bedridden in Hisui's route.
[[AC:Web Original]]
* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has several:
** SCP-1981 a.k.a. "RONALD REAGAN CUT UP WHILE TALKING", which provides the page quote, is a VHS tape showing Ronald Reagan's "Evil Empire" speech, only the speech and concurrent events are different with each viewing. Each iteration has in common Reagan talking about various events that happened after the real life speech, surreal references to gruesome subjects like ColdBloodedTorture along with nonsensical subjects, Reagan [[BodyHorror being mutilated by invisible forces]] while casually continuing the speech, and a black-robed figure who replaces a random member of Reagan's cabinet each time. The Foundation speculates the tape and its garbled nonsense has something to do with the then-living Reagan's Alzheimer's.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-058 SCP-058]] is some creature resembling a cow heart with limbs that constantly spouts off completely incomprehensible phrases even while going around killing humans.
--->'''SCP-058:''' I had dreams of the queen wonders that lived inside the hearts of love and silent treatments of all the elderly that I knew were once whole.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1782 SCP-1782]] is a [[EldritchLocation rather anomalous room]] whose randomly manifested entities and disembodied voices say some very bizarre phrases, [[ArcWords most prominent of which]] is "There's a hole in the wall in the bottom of the floor."
* Happens all the time on ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'', particularly when Cecil reads advertisements, notices, or whatever else he is handed by others in the studio. A RunningGag is for Cecil to announce "a word from our sponsors," and then read an "advertisement" consisting of an extremely surreal WordSaladHorror passage, followed by the name and slogan of a real-world company such as Audible.com or Home Depot. For bonus creepy points, sometimes the real slogan is followed by a nightmarish variation on the same phrase.
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