History NightmareFuel / SCPFoundationSCPs2000To2999

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--> '''Dr. Owings:''' Imagine if it saw the horror and fear of war, or the concepts of paranoia or phobias common to each and every human being. Imagine if it found the true horror of a nuclear holocaust or an XK-Class scenario. Now couple that with an entity that possesses shape-shifting abilities with no known limits, and you'll understand why it's classified as Keter.

-->'''Note''': Video cuts off abruptly and [[NothingIsScarier a black screen is displayed for thirty seconds.]] Laughter and [[ParanoiaFuel soft, wet noises can be heard in the background before the program ends.]]

--> '''[=ExplodingPopTart=]''': What the hell is wrong with you sick, demented people? You're telling me you ENJOY seeing an innocent person get brutally murdered?
--> '''Aryanne''':
--> >Follower of John's Blog
--> >Offended by content
--> Get a load of this guy.

--> '''THERE IS A PLACE IN HELL FOR DEBTORS AND A HOLE JUST YOUR SIZE'''

--> To whoever you are, whatever you are, I am the last man, and on behalf of my species, and my planet, you should have stayed far, FAR away from us.

-->'''Operator Maddox''': The things in SCP-2419 aren't screaming with fear or pain, Bryan.
-->They're not screaming at all.
-->They're ''laughing.''

--> '''SCP Doctor:''' ''Mr. Blair, have you always been an only child?''

-->This is novel. If I could scream my appreciation, I would. I long for that.

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2770 SCP-2770]], The Lure, focuses on two designated entities: SCP-2770-1 & SCP-2770-2. SCP-2770-1 is human male who appears to be a sole survivor on a raft trying to signal anyone for rescue, and [[GhostShip SCP-2770-2 is a derelict old submarine]] where when after a passing ship or watercraft rescues SCP-2770-1, SCP-2770-2 will break the water surface where it will then proceed to open it's conning tower before [[DraggedOffToHell dragging itself, SCP-2770-1, and it's rescuing watercraft down below the surface of the water.]] In an incident report, SCP operatives attempted to avoid being dragged down the water surface by extracting SCP-2770-1 to a secure site in the middle of the desert via helicopter, to which it was successful. SCP-2770-1 was then interrogated about it's existence along with SCP-2770-2, but before he began to answer, he simply responded with this (before the submarine's tower crashed through the floor of the interrogation chamber and dragging down the site beneath the desert sands).
--> SCP-2770-1: [[FailedASpotcheck I think you forgot the water table]], [[PrecisionFStrike you fucking idiot]].

--> '''MTF Lead Note:''' I know plenty of you think that this is some kind of joke, but a town of constantly appearing bears is serious. Can you imagine what would happen to the local ecosystem if we let this thing go? It was like a goddamn bear arena when we first rolled in, and that was only after a few days.

--> "Maybe I was the reason. Maybe I... am Death. If it was in there and I brought it back, then I am Death."
--> "You know, it occurs to me... if you're listening to this... [[WhamLine you're Death, too.]]"

--> Upon being informed of the actions of MTF "Manifest Destiny" sealing themselves within the reality, it made the following statement: "They have my most sincere gratitude."
* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2996 SCP-2996]], ERROR / ERROR, seemingly tells a dark but ultimately heartwarming story. It's a ghost of an eight years old girl named Emily, who claims to have been murdered by a man named James Franklin and is now seeking revenge. However, through work with a therapist the girl is able to come to terms with the fact she wasn't murdered at all but committed suicide and let go of her anger. Moreover, the neutralizer Foundation has used to keep her contained made her corporeal again and she became a normal human girl. In the end she was released and adopted by a loving family. Yay, a rare happy ending...if it wasn't for the fact that there's a big warning on top of the file, suggesting the file has been subjected to unauthorized edits and likely corrupted, with pictures of the SCP being inaccessible. The addendum at the end of the article reveals multiple points in written text and even ''memories of the personnel'' do not match up with the rest of foundation database and there is no proof a girl under Emily's new name even exists. Even the older version of the file has been corrupted, being inaccessible to the Foundation...but not to the readers. Digging through the article history leads to finding the old version, which reveals three deleted entries in the file. The first one is a physical examination of now-corporeal Emily, performed by "Dr. Franklin", all in black text except for the lists of tests performed - visual examination, bloodwork, internal examination and vivisection. Next is another interview with the therapist, which starts by her telling Emily that was not the doctor scheduled to perform the examination. Emily responds by [[TearJerker accusing her of gaslighting her to believe her murderer wasn't real only to leave her alone with him again]]. The final missing entry is information of a manhunt for an individual who has [[SwissCheeseSecurity infiltrated the Foundation site, killed seven people, impersonated a doctor, and performed vivisection on an alive and conscious Emily]]. Emily's killer appears to have [[EveryoneKnewAlready found out she's alive again, infiltrated the containment site]], killed everyone in his way just to get to kill her all over again, then seemingly stole her containment cell with her inside and covered his tracks so well Foundation has no idea about it.

--> ''THE PALADIN AND THE PAWN BELONG TO ME''

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2456 SCP-2456]], Dreams of a Broken World, details a memetic parasite that affects a small portion of the population. Those affected at a certain time enter a three to six-day period of advanced REM sleep where they dream terrible visions and even small reality-warping effects that tend to be violent. After this, assuming they haven't been treated, they will be dormant for 6 days to 6 years, where then they will start preaching and forming an ApocalypseCult version of an existing religion (most notably involving the [[ArcNumber number 5]]) that will infect others with the [=SCP=]. And it is something that the Serpent's Hand is trying to prevent the Foundation from finding at all. The last addendum shows why. A broken transcript from a Foundation member describes that the SCP has a third stage, an anti-meme that causes those affected to slowly fade from existence along with everything and everyone they knew (barring some slight exceptions), and implies that the Fifthtist Church is the most recent iteration of this religion, which sounds like something from Creator/HPLovecraft. The infamous Star Signals book (see SCP-1425)? Essentially the bible for this reality destroying religion that has been fought for millennia. This implies that the ''entire'' world might be affected by the SCP. And of course, the Foundation, with their modus operandi, is unknowingly keeping the SCP alive by containing those affected and not outright eliminating them.

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2996 SCP-2996]], ERROR / ERROR, seemingly tells a dark but ultimately heartwarming story. It's a ghost of an eight years old girl named Emily, who claims to have been murdered by a man named James Franklin and is now seeking revenge. However, through work with a therapist the girl is able to come to terms with the fact she wasn't murdered at all but committed suicide and let go of her anger. Moreover, the neutralizer Foundation has used to keep her contained made her corporeal again and she became a normal human girl. In the end she was released and adopted by a loving family. Yay, a rare happy ending...if it wasn't for the fact that there's a big warning on top of the file, suggesting the file has been subjected to unauthorized edits and likely corrupted, with pictures of the SCP being inaccessible. The addendum at the end of the article reveals multiple points in written text and even ''memories of the personnel'' do not match up with the rest of foundation database and there is no proof a girl under Emily's new name even exists. Even the older version of the file has been corrupted, being inaccessible to the Foundation...but not to the readers. Digging through the article history leads to finding the old version, which reveals three deleted entries in the file. The first one is a physical examination of now-corporeal Emily, performed by "Dr. Franklin", all in black text except for the lists of tests performed - visual examination, bloodwork, internal examination and vivisection. Next is another interview with the therapist, which starts by her telling Emily that was not the doctor scheduled to perform the examination. Emily responds by [[TearJerker accusing her of gaslighting her to believe her murderer wasn't real only to leave her alone with him again]]. The final missing entry is information of a manhunt for an individual who has [[SwissCheeseSecurity infiltrated the Foundation site, killed seven people, impersonated a doctor, and performed vivisection on alive and conscious Emily]]. Emily's killer appears to have [[EveryoneKnewAlready found out she's alive again, infiltrated the containment site]], killed everyone in his way just to get to kill her all over again, then seemingly stole her containment cell with her inside and covered his tracks so well Foundation has no idea about it.

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2003 SCP-2003]], Preferred Option, is a straight-up time machine used by the Foundation to find out about possible futures and guide humanity onto the correct path. The method used is pretty horrific in itself (only brain and nervous tissue can survive time travel intact, so travelers must be 'prepared' suitably) but that's not the scary part. There's a memo explaining that the Foundation is using all its resources to try to keep the timeline on course for a particular future designated XN. What happens in scenario XN? In 2349, an asteroid hits the Earth, wiping out most of humanity and rendering the planet uninhabitable. Of all the possible futures the Foundation has encountered, ''this is the best outcome''. It ''IS'' the best outcome, in the sense that it's the only one the Foundation has observed where humanity survives the first century of the 2000s. In ALL other timelines so far observed, everything from the collapse of society to total planetary extinction occurs anywhere between 10-50 years from present-day from a wide variety of causes, from our Sun spontaneously transforming into a black hole, freezing the Solar System but somehow [[AndIMustScream leaving humanity conscious and aware]], to a disease that makes people obsessed with spiders infecting 85% of the population and forcing them to breed more, which eventually leads to the death of 6 billion. An alternate scenario documented by the time machine describes humanity simply moving out to space colonies, though life remains much the same. O5-7 [[TakeAThirdOption tries to rush research to avert both scenario XN and several other unrelated end-of-the-world scenarios.]] [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/kalinins-proposal Turns out they were too short on time.]]
** There also exist Magnifier Individuals. These are people with a disproportionate effect on time, whose fates can somehow influence events they have no apparent part in. For example, the birth of an unnamed boy in Turkmenistan and the election of a New Zealand Prime Minister both happening on the same day in 2049 results in a society-destroying nuclear exchange in 2058. The scenario where the sun becomes a black hole? That occurred when three South Korean astronauts went up to the International Space Station. One of the futures [[HopeSpot looked pretty promising]]. After a flu pandemic killed over a billion people between 2023 and 2034, world governments worked together to resolve long-standing ethnic conflicts, reduce poverty and famine, and mitigate sea level rise. Then, on July 29, 2059, all human and animal life on Earth just vanishes without a trace. [[NothingIsScarier None of them return and there's no clear reason why it happened at all]].

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2003 SCP-2003]], Preferred Option, is a straight-up time machine used by the Foundation to find out about possible futures and guide humanity onto the correct path. The method used is pretty horrific in itself (only brain and nervous tissue can survive time travel intact, so travelers must be 'prepared' suitably) but that's not the scary part. There's a memo explaining that the Foundation is using all its resources to try to keep the timeline on course for a particular future designated XN. What happens in scenario XN? In 2349, an asteroid hits the Earth, wiping out most of humanity and rendering the planet uninhabitable. Of all the possible futures the Foundation has encountered, ''this is the best outcome''.
** The real kicker? It ''IS'' the best outcome, in the sense that it's the only one the Foundation has observed where humanity survives the first century of the 2000s. In ALL other timelines so far observed, everything from the collapse of society to total planetary extinction occurs anywhere between 10-50 years from present-day from a wide variety of causes, from our Sun spontaneously transforming into a black hole, freezing the Solar System but somehow [[AndIMustScream leaving humanity conscious and aware]], to a disease that makes people obsessed with spiders infecting 85% of the population and forcing them to breed more, which eventually leads to the death of 6 billion. An alternate scenario documented by the time machine describes humanity simply moving out to space colonies, though life remains much the same. O5-7 [[TakeAThirdOption tries to rush research to avert both scenario XN and several other unrelated end-of-the-world scenarios.]] [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/kalinins-proposal Turns out they were too short on time.]]
** There also exist Magnifier Individuals. These are people with a disproportionate effect on time, whose fates can somehow influence events they have no apparent part in. For example, the birth of an unnamed boy in Turkmenistan and the election of a New Zealand Prime Minister both happening on the same day in 2049 results in a society-destroying nuclear exchange in 2058. The scenario where the sun becomes a black hole? That occurred when three South Korean astronauts went up to the International Space Station.
** One of the futures [[HopeSpot looked pretty promising]]. After a flu pandemic killed over a billion people between 2023 and 2034, world governments worked together to resolve long-standing ethnic conflicts, reduce poverty and famine, and mitigate sea level rise. Then, on July 29, 2059, all human and animal life on Earth just vanishes without a trace. [[NothingIsScarier None of them return and there's no clear reason why it happened at all]].

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2003 SCP-2003]], Preferred Option, is a straight-up time machine used by the Foundation to find out about possible futures and guide humanity onto the correct path. The method used is pretty horrific in itself (only brain and nervous tissue can survive time travel intact, so travelers must be 'prepared' suitably) but that's not the scary part. There's a memo explaining that the Foundation is using all its resources to try to keep the timeline on course for a particular future designated XN. What happens in scenario XN? In 2349, an asteroid hits the Earth, wiping out most of humanity and rendering the planet uninhabitable. Of all the possible futures the Foundation has encountered, ''this is the best outcome''. The real kicker? It IS the best outcome, in the sense that it's the only one the Foundation has observed where humanity survives the first century of the 2000s. In ALL other timelines so far observed, total extinction occurs anywhere between 10 to 50 years from present-day from a wide variety of causes, from our Sun spontaneously transforming into a black hole which not only freezes our solar system but somehow leaves all of humanity in a state of suspended animation, to all life on Earth mysteriously disappearing overnight after a period of extended world peace, to a breed of a mind-controlling spider taking over 85% of the population and forcing them to breed more of them, which eventually leads to the death of 6 billion. An alternate scenario documented by the time machine describes humanity simply moving out to space colonies, though life remains much the same. O5-7 [[TakeAThirdOption tries to rush research to avert both scenario XN and several other unrelated end-of-the-world scenarios.]] [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/kalinins-proposal Turns out they were too short on time.]]

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2284 SCP-2284]], "Mr. Lie", the final of the Little Misters Wondertainment [=SCPs=] to get an article, and it is the longest by far. SCP-2284 is a male humanoid of Indian descent who physically cannot tell the truth and whoever hears its lies will instantly believe them, even through audio recordings. However, questions posed by SCP-2284 and transcriptions of its speech can act as loopholes, so they decided to conduct a text-to-speech interview with a D-class personnel. Throughout the interview, SCP-2284 slowly starts to learn the extent of its own abilities to the point of being able to confuse the D-class by saying contradictory statements and was able to write on their notes a message to be passed onto a researcher that can edit its article and do an unsupervised interview with SCP-2284. Due to this, SCP-2284's procedure was rewritten by a Researcher so that it would be contained adjacent to its brother, SCP-2148, and that its description would be changed to tell its abilities to have the opposite effect. It gets worse as [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2284-a SCP-2284 put in a couple of recordings of itself]], the first of which is a trick to convince anyone that the changes are completely normal. The second recording, which only can be viewed by Dr. Mann, is the beginning of an interview with Dr. Mann, where it can convince him that it is an O5. The rest of the interview is cut out, but a link below it links to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/virr Dr. Mann's Project Thaumiel]] entry. So effectively, an SCP has been masquerading as an O5 member and secretly manipulating the Foundation without any of them possibly being able to know.

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2151 SCP-2151]], The Ties That Bind Us, is a pair of rings that fuse the two people wearing them together, in a process that's described with [[BodyHorror marvelous detail]].

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2863 SCP-2863]], がしゃどくろ, is a population of Japanese monsters called the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gashadokuro Gashadokuro]]''. They resemble 100 ft tall skeletons who only come out during the night to hunt humans, specifically by biting their heads off and draining their blood. They are invulnerable to all forms of physical harm, but will lose corporeal form when exposed to the slightest bright light, either natural or manmade light, and can be warded off by Shinto rituals. Fortunately, the increase of modern urbanization in Japan has prevented any deaths by SCP-2863 instances since 2008, though there have been sightings over the years. However, one part is particularly unnerving if you know modern Japanese history. The Foundation's records come from a similar organization, set up during the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar by UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan. The IJA used the organization to try and recruit youkai into their forces, but all attempts to recruit the ''Gashadokuro'' were unsuccessful. The first appearance of 2863-204 was in Nanjing China, January 1938, when a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre certain war crime]] was drawing to a close. It was continually witnessed by Chinese living in Japanese-occupied territory until 1945. Eventually, giant skeletons began appearing all across the Pacific Theater. Postwar, the next two major sightings were in 1946, near Fukuoka City, and in March 2011, on the coast of Tohoku. The 1946 sighting was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raids_on_Japan severely burned]] and emitting [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki low levels of gamma radiation]]. The 2011 sighting was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster missing all its teeth]] [[note]]Radiation sickness causes your teeth to fall out [[/note]] and the back of the skull was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tōhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami severely damaged]]. Now read this:

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2003 SCP-2003]], Preferred Option, is a straight-up time machine used by the Foundation to find out about possible futures and guide humanity onto the correct path. The method used is pretty horrific in itself (only brain and nervous tissue can survive time travel intact, so travelers must be 'prepared' suitably) but that's not the scary part. There's a memo explaining that the Foundation is using all its resources to try to keep the timeline on course for a particular future designated XN. What happens in scenario XN? In 2349, an asteroid hits the Earth, wiping out most of humanity and rendering the planet uninhabitable. Of all the possible futures the Foundation has encountered, ''this is the best outcome''.
** The real kicker? It IS the best outcome, in the sense that it's the only one the Foundation has observed where humanity survives the first century of the 2000s. In ALL other timelines so far observed, total extinction occurs anywhere between 10 to 50 years from present-day from a wide variety of causes, from our Sun spontaneously transforming into a black hole which not only freezes our solar system but somehow leaves all of humanity in a state of suspended animation, to all life on Earth mysteriously disappearing overnight after a period of extended world peace, to a breed of a mind-controlling spider taking over 85% of the population and forcing them to breed more of them, which eventually leads to the death of 6 billion. An alternate scenario documented by the time machine describes humanity simply moving out to space colonies, though life remains much the same. O5-7 [[TakeAThirdOption tries to rush research to avert both scenario XN and several other unrelated end-of-the-world scenarios.]] [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/kalinins-proposal Turns out they were too short on time.]]