# Scariest SCP Foundation entries **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2013, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191 "2013-04-20T05:30:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/41 "2013-04-22T07:03:05Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > 231 is without a doubt the most disturbing one. It’s also a magnificent example of peterition. Best use of redaction I’ve seen on the site, I think.I think this was my first SCP too, and I love it. The picture is so creepy! (Well, for some reason it lost a bit when I noticed the high heels, but still pretty good!) Anyone who likes it should read [The King in Yellow](http://www.amazon.com/The-King-Yellow-Robert-Chambers/dp/1408675838) - it’s pretty obviously rooted in that set of stories. High heels are actually typical for nobility of the time period of when the play was supposed to have been initially published. [Cite](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21151350) [QUOTE=Zsofia] Okay, I do wish I hadn’t expanded the last bit in the chess machine. [/quote] Yeah, I didn’t see that the first time around. Just scrolled down a bit, got bored and moved on. Thanks a lot. ☹ [QUOTE=Chronos] OK, I’m liking the coffee machine. A nice reminder that not all of these things are malicious, and some can be quite useful. Though I wonder what it’d deliver if asked for a cup of something almost, but not entirely, unlike tea. [/quote] ## I’d be more inclined to ask it for a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster. 😃 Oh and **Smapti**? I want Lord Blackwood’s little slug babies. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/42 "2013-04-22T10:03:31Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > [SCP 093](http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-093) is creepy, and very imaginative fiction. I think that’s the first one I read. Excellent stuff. > [@Koxinga](#): > > I think this was the first one I read: [SCP 701](http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-701), “The Hanged King’s Tragedy.” This one is also great. I’ll check out **Mississippienne** ’s links. SCP entries can be hit or miss but the best ones are really unsettling. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/43 "2013-04-22T10:44:22Z")
I’ve found many entertaining ones linked here: [The Things Dr Bright Is Not Allowed To Do At The Foundation](http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-things-dr-bright-is-not-allowed-to-do-at-the-foundation) ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/44 "2013-04-22T11:14:58Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Okay, I do wish I hadn’t expanded the last bit in the chess machine. I refuse to do it! I opened it and _slowly_ started scrolling down past all the UPLOADING text… and then I noticed it was going to start displaying a grainy black and white image (a distorted image of the girls possibly animated to move and be scary), and immediately scrolled back up! No thanks! Don’t need to see it. I’m sure it’s 100 times worse than whatever I could imagine and I’m imagining something REALLY creepy. So… was it really that bad?! Because I refuse to look at it. But… morbid curiosity and all. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/45 "2013-04-22T11:47:38Z")
The photo was mildly creepy. I’ve been reading through these things from the “most popular” listing, with brief sidequests to read linked entries. I haven’t found any of them to be legitimately scary (which is good, since I don’t like scary stories very much), though the one about the people trapped in the tape basketball game was excellent. The end of the entry about the guy who randomly teleports to alternate universes was also very good. What I like about these is the world-building that’s going on. I really enjoy the universe that’s been created as a result of all of these stories. I like the way the Foundation is totally cool with employees making use of the harmless and semi-harmless artifacts, and is also totally cool with murdering the Class D subjects every month. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/46 "2013-04-22T12:54:44Z")
A friend told me about that site a while back - I haven’t explored it much, but the next time I run a tabletop game with paranormal investigations, it’s going to be a resource. It’s not quite as fun as the old Warehouse 23 Basement site was, but since that got taken down, it’ll do. ---
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/47 "2013-04-22T13:42:02Z")
**Smapti** , your entries are great. Really impressive. > [@CandidGamera](#): > > …but the next time I run a tabletop game with paranormal investigations, it’s going to be a resource. That’s what I thought when I first discovered SCP. A treasure trove of ideas for “Call of Cthulhu” or “Lamentations of the Flame Princess”. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/48 "2013-04-22T14:54:41Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > …[SCP-1382](http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1382): A downed airliner now beneath the waves of Lake Michigan… with the passengers on board trapped in some kind of horrible temporal loop.//. > [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > [SCP-231 - SCP Foundation](http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231) > > Have fun. > [@Koxinga](#): > > I think this was the first one I read: [SCP 701](http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-701), “The Hanged King’s Tragedy.” These were the freakiest. Good, unsettling _X-Files_-esque fun. > [@YogSosoth](#): > > [SCP-173](http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-173) was the most well-known one, I think I stumbled upon that first… Me, too. Brrr. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/49 "2013-04-22T16:26:17Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > These were the freakiest. Good, unsettling _X-Files_-esque fun. > Me, too. Brrr. The funny thing is, when I found the SCP, it was written in such a way that it felt real to me, and I didn’t bother to look it up if it was or not. For a while, I thought some of these things were real! :eek: Or at least semi-real. I really thought there was some locked monster somewhere that they were doing experiments on ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/50 "2013-04-22T16:54:50Z")
I just found a link to the [audio renditions](http://www.scp-wiki.net/audio-adaptations)…Guess what I’m going to be listening to while working… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/51 "2013-04-22T17:00:07Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > I think this was the first one I read: [SCP 701](http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-701), “The Hanged King’s Tragedy.” This strongly reminds me, incidentally, of Robert T. Jeschonek’s short story “Whatever You Do, Don’t Read This Story” from the fan anthology _Star Trek: Strange New Worlds III._ Very clever and _very_ creepy. It’s about an alien, very dark fairy tale that insidiously _must_ be told, and eventually creates suicidal thoughts in anyone who hears it. Data prevents Picard and Riker from using the _Enterprise_’s autodestruct when they hear the story. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/52 "2013-04-22T22:26:27Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > Anyone who likes it should read [The King in Yellow](http://www.amazon.com/The-King-Yellow-Robert-Chambers/dp/1408675838) - it’s pretty obviously rooted in that set of stories. Thank you for linking that. The Hanged King is one of my favorite SCPs and I had no idea that the book even existed. I’ve already downloaded it onto my Kindle (for free!). Just from the description it sounds like it influenced Pynchon’s “Crying of Lot 49.” ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/53 "2013-04-22T23:20:41Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > Thank you for linking that. The Hanged King is one of my favorite SCPs and I had no idea that the book even existed. I’ve already downloaded it onto my Kindle (for free!). Just from the description it sounds like it influenced Pynchon’s “Crying of Lot 49.” Not all of the stories relate to the Yellow King theme, but it’s a neat book! And yes, I forgot to mention loving the “Hanged King” story as well in my previous post. ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/54 "2013-04-22T23:34:38Z")
Don’t miss the incident report and play summary for the Hanged King. Really ups the creep factor. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/55 "2013-04-23T11:39:54Z")
Okay, I’ve been spending way too much time reading these. We saw our resident Creepy Dude when we went down to the canal to run today (he never moves, always bundled way up so all that’s exposed is a little slit of eye, doesn’t speak, etc.) and I had him all written up in my mind. (Obviously, it probably didn’t end well for two female joggers, early 30’s.) ETA - clearly it doesn’t move while observed, but I am uncertain as to its feeding mechanism. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/56 "2013-04-23T15:22:56Z")
A few more good ones: [The Stairwell](http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-087) - A door that leads to a seemingly endless winding staircase, with something living inside [The Red Pool](http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-354) - A pool of blood in the Canadian wilderness [The Architect](http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-184) - A small artifact that, when left inside a closed building or container, creates additional rooms, with each additional room getting weirder and weirder. [The Collection](http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5308-j) - Hilarious parody that works best after you’ve read the site for a while ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/57 "2013-04-23T16:38:24Z")
> [@Yumblie](#): > > A few more good ones:… > > [The Red Pool](http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-354) - A pool of blood in the Canadian wilderness > > …[The Collection](http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5308-j) - Hilarious parody that works best after you’ve read the site for a while As to the Red Pool, be sure to read Document 354-3-a: Log of Exploratory Mission 354 Alpha. Very interesting - and with a helluva concluding note. As to the Collection, very funny. Thanks. I must admit that SCP-5308-J-3 is the first SCP item or entity that I wanted to rub on the tummy. ---
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/58 "2013-04-23T22:48:39Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Not all of the stories relate to the Yellow King theme, but it’s a neat book! I’ll second the notion that it’s a neat little book, but only the first few stories are “weird fiction” and the rest are more like romantic and wistful remembrances of people, places, and things. These non-weird stories are good too, but I wish someone had warned me about them before I’d started to read the book. I would keep waiting for a twist that would never occur. Kind of a let down when your expecting weirdness. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/59 "2013-04-23T23:33:44Z")
> [@Yumblie](#): > > …[The Red Pool](http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-354) - A pool of blood in the Canadian wilderness… The attached mission [log](http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/exploratory-mission-354-alpha) is really good. I did not see that coming. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191/60 "2013-04-23T23:46:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > As to the Collection, very funny. Thanks. I must admit that SCP-5308-J-3 is the first SCP item or entity that I wanted to rub on the tummy. As long as we’re plugging the joke articles, I’d like to mention one of the other ones I wrote - [a sapient, attention-craving meteor which is placated by technobabble.](http://scp-wiki.net/scp-1417-j) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-scp-foundation-entries/656191.md?page=4)