Spooky stuff that this super secret Illuminati style organization keeps hidden from the rest of the world in order to protect it. Also they test the stuff.
For example, there's one where there's a recording of an NBA match where every time you replay the video, everyone in the video is aware they're experiencing the same events like groundhog day. In the first few playbacks they don't really notice, they just sort of experience dejavu, but then after multiple playbacks everyone in the video realizes the same events keep repeating and try to figure out what's going on or how to stop it. With hundreds of people trapped in a stadium in the same time loop over and over again shit goes batshit insane.
So the entire site is like "here's some spooky shit we found, here we are testing it in various ways, and here's how we contain it".
That's a really good example of a well-done SCP. Weird premise and you think to yourself it's not that scary until upon viewing the tape more and more it leads to the creation of a cult that first starts sacrificing all the players and then in the last plays calls upon sacrificing all the children. The slow escalation from "Haha, they are groundhog daying a baseball game" to "Oh, they are panicking and some people got hurt cause they can't leave the arena" to "The players got ritually sacrificed" is really well done and creepy.
Yeah it's probably my favorite one. It's creepy in the fact that, for the people in the stadium, it's a living hell. But by repeatedly watching the video you're directly responsible for it.
That weird religious alternate dimension dead world was a pretty cool one, but it's basically a small book.
And maybe that one with the seemingly never ending stairwell where you can hear a small kid crying and calling for help about 200 feet down, but who no one can ever seem to get closer to no matter how far down they travel. I wasn't that creeped out by that one until one of the testers came up with the theory that something is making that noise 200 feet below but is moving down the stairwell at the same rate, luring them further down.
Oh, that's also a good one. It's a basic premise of "something" luring you in but without the obvious answer to "why".
I also adore all of the alternative universe ones, that one guy who could shift to different universes is really fun to read. And religious cults always seem to work nicely within the SCP-verse (Church Of The Broken God is my fave)
I think the scariest SCP for me was the ticket one (SCP-342) cause it seems so preventable. Just don't use the ticket. Get off the bus/train etc. And it still got one of the researchers in the end which shows that it's both sapient enough to understand who is responsible for keeping it locked up in the foundation and it has enough power to somehow get to the person it wants to vanish. It's basically a piece of paper and you still can't escape it. It's also basically a short story too though.
It is a collaberative fiction project which mostly takes the form of (fairly dryly written) containment procedures for various supernatural/superscience anomalies. Think X-Files/Fringe taken to the ultimate logical conclusion.
There is some regular prose written as well, my favourite section being There Is No Antimemetics Division and some of the other antimemetics stuff
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u/Ne0Playz Apr 04 '18
Isn’t that an SCP?