It's a meme, the council never agrees on something unless its a real threat to insinuate they have agendas besides SCP. So yeah. make like a hobbit and fly, you fools!
yet what constatuts "normal" in a sense we are abnormal to abnormal like someone whos insane trying to understand the sane way its hard to see the veiw of someone on the other side of what is normal for you or them
According to the author, this work was apparently inspired by the Lobotomy Corporation series, which was inspired by the SCP Foundation. It has come full circle.
Something I think a lot of people are overlooking is a very minor detail with how were presented with the body count of the anomaly. At 3:51 were told of 70 D class and 29 MTF that have gone in, BUT at 14:08 were told about 70 D class and *30* MTF. Due to this iteration of Monroe having MTF experience you can see how Reed has already written the new guy into the system. Very subtle, very nice.
Jason Monroe is a ghost story. "His sins" are having killed Emily, then himself. Hung in string 300 years ago, Emily was killed by Jason, who then hung himself in sorrow. Emily is a ghost that drags him back, that forces Jason Monroe to die, over and over again, for whatever he did to emily, those hundreds of years ago, down those hallways, by that fireplace. In anger, he acted. In fear, she tried to escape. Now, he will have no escape. Not even death.
Get the Ghostbusters in there 😂 They’ll do a better job than the Foundation, who literally have the power to just erase her from existence and stop this needless cycle
Btw, if you're wondering why this SCP is call abnormality, it's because this take huge inspiration from the song String Theocracy, which is from the game Library of Ruina, which itself is a sequel to Lobotomy Corporation, and in that game, you contain "abnormality".
@@connorthornberg If you're asking about SCP-5545, you can check the discussion page, the author said the inspiration was from Library of Ruina, if you're asking about Lobotomy Corp, it's basically an SCP simulation game, it's on Steam, the sequel is there too.
I like this SCP. Really hits the core of what the Foundation is about. Anomalous phenomenon. No convoluted wish fulfillment from the author, no cringey edgelord that is inexplicably immune to all damage. Just clean mystery. What is it: we don't know What does it do: we don't know Why does it do it: we don't know How do we stop it: we don't know Can we contain it and isolate it: Yes, let me tell you how we have done that so far
Wrong. Emily is a cringey edgelord for spending 300 years with her vain hate cycle. She's petty and edgy, willing to kill the entire world if she doesn't get Monroe. To hell with her and her past. Nothing about her is tragic when she is a spoiled rotten child who will destroy the world if she doesn't get to eternally torture this dude. Petty, violent, world-destroying: seems pretty damn edgy.
Completely agree, some tales are cool, but most of them are not. I really dislike the expanded organizations like Marshal Carter and whatever. They add unnecessary convolution to a world that has no canon to start with. Cool mysteries are just better. Also, most of the times a weird object that does something really unexpected is better than an end of the world situation
if monroe is stuck in this cycle indefinitely, doesn't that mean that at some point, he is likely going to make the 'wrong' decision and not sacrifice himself?
Then we force him in. Maybe we have before. It's either hang himself or be tormented forever in that room. I imagine he makes the right decision if only to escape from it.
I read it, it says that it had happened before. The -3 instance (where the infinite hallways spread all over the world) was a mechanism to force him to enter. The writer did a fantastic job.
@@shr00m44 So essentially if he tries to leave the first time the world becomes nothing but the hallway at an exponential rate, right? Also, fun tidbit, this SCP was partially inspired by a song: ua-cam.com/video/nOj_A3aZxGs/v-deo.html
Assuming the circumstances of his arrival there are always kept the same he will never make the "wrong" decision. Time loops can be broken when you somehow remember and this learn from previous loops, but Monroe is always oblivious to it up until the very last moment, and everytime then he chooses to die.
What about-EX SCPs, like the SCP-001-J-EX or as it’s better known, fire, there’s lots of explained (that’s what -EX means) SCPs which was just the foundation messing up, and not all are -Js some are just dice laced with hallucinogens, to, well, fire, and a person with a really rare condition, and still more that I’m too lazy to put.
@Conrad Ferrus if it’s something that breaks some sort of known law (the physics kind) it’s considered an anomaly, if a new law or laws are discovered which make an exception it fits in, it’s no longer really an anomaly, as we have an explanation for what it is/how it does what it does, so SCP 1000 is probably an SCP close to explanation, SCP 1000 being Bigfoot, and ya know if you know the truth then it’s not much of an anomaly more of a historical remnant of a killing from fear, so it’s not that anomalous, however if it’s something that breaks any know law (still the physics kind) then it’s not explained.
@@rushb6470 as they say the most abnormal day is when there's no unusual thing that happen. Especially when you are dealing with alot of scps and nothing out of normal happened, could it be an anomaly by itself?
This one tripped me the fuck out. When I took LSD for the very first time I experienced ego death. I basically thought I'd died and I kept coming back and running through these blank "hallways" screaming and crying that I was scared and didn't want to see hallways anymore. There's a lot more to it, but it was definitely the creepiest shit ever. It changed me permanently, but for the better. I do realise how schizophrenic this sounds, but I urge you to look up ego death and LSD, I didn't know what it was called for a long time, and reading others' experiences gives me comfort in knowing that I didn't go through it alone.
When you read about the dream, you think, “okay, weird, lol” But then when you read about actually walking into that room with the fireplace, you’re like, *hyperventilating*
Facts, this is the only channel I've seen most if not all of their videos for, they're just amazing. Probably gonna rewatch them all soon, infact, The Demon Lancelot and the Flying City of Audapaupadopolis is looking kinda cute right now.
Can I just point out the beautiful dry delivery ES gives for his jokes. “A hostile meme detector...which we could all use sometimes...(moves on)” made me smile the rest of the video
While you’re going through the 5000s I suggest you check out SCP-5050, The Dragon of Mittenwald. A slow burn piece dripping with atmosphere, despite what I think as kind of a cheesy ending. Would be right up your alley
I know this a year old but maybe he also grooming/manipulating her in ORDER for her to die at the stake? It’s shown in history a lot of people would lie and manipulate the “witches” in order for them to be accused. Especially young girls. So it’s possible he had an anomaly and was testing it ON HER and then she could’ve gotten freaked out. And tried to say she’ll expose what he’s done. Obviously my man did not take kindly, and probably tortured/burned her in the fireplace. That’s just my theory though
Reminds me a lot of “shutter island” with some scp mixed in. The list of names with 1 person missing, pulling out the gun and the doctor not reacting, dreams of the dead girl, multiple “containment sites 1 which is forbidden, it literally being on an island, the main character volunteering to go check it out. etc.
This high light one thing I love about the SCP Foundation most. How on the outside they seem like the heroes save mankind from monsters. However SCP-5545 makes it clear their really just a necessary evil attempt haul the darkness.
My theory is that SCP-5545-2 isnt actually another entity punishing Monroe. From the information we get, we know Jason Monroe killed his daughter Emily at some point in the 1800s. He feels immense guilt over this event. Then also the motif of threads and hanging. IMO i think Jason is the whole SCP. Remorseful over his actions unbeknownst to him, he trapped himself in a loop to be in constant torment. Unable to truly gain his daughters forgiveness he props her up with strings and begs the preserved cadaver for forgiveness as the physical representation of his guilt (It doesnt respond, he always speaks in its place). All of this would be neatly tied together if Jason was a powerful reality bender.
My guess is that he was a witch hunter. Hunting witches was still a thing 300 years ago, and a possibly anomalous human like Emily would have been targeted for witchcraft. Monroe, like any other witch hunter, was likely taught to fear and hate witches by the Christian church without ever considering how they may feel and hung her, then burned her in the fireplace of her own home to make sure she stayed down. In the end though, he realized that he was wrong the entire time. Realizing that he had been killing innocent people, including a little girl, for the sake of a fake religion for a false god that isn't even a drop in the bucket of horror that is the SCP multiverse, he hanged himself. But Emily is not the forgiving type, and so here we, or rather her and Monroe, are.
Honestly, one of my favorite readings ever from this channel. I've been here for a few years and I've seen every video you have released since I subscribed, numerous times for some. I wouldn't have ever read sleepy hollow, but I listened to it twice because you read it. This one just chills me in a great way. Love your content.
Damn, this SCP was really off-putting at first, The O5 unanimously voting, Dr. Reed, Monroe's dream... it was all very strange but great to listen to. It was really cool to see it all put together in the end, overall making a very interesting SCP. I'm so glad you made a vid on this one!
Research is done in the pursuit of containment. This SCP is contained. We don't need to know why it's the way it is. We don't _want_ to know why it's the way it is. It's secure. It's contained.
@@Solkard The problem is that it's controlled by an intelligence we can't trust not to decide to _spit those things back out in random places_ in retaliation for trying to use it as a box.
I need help finding one of my favorite stories the SCP community had to offer; I remember The Exploring Series has even covered it at one point. It's where the SCP Foundation ultimately becomes possessed by some means and starts unleashing hell on Earth. Killing sight researchers, releasing SCP's, and attempting to spawn the apocalypse. At the same time, one unaffected SCP researcher survives being eliminated at a site with the help of an anomalous invisibility suit. Whereas war is being raged between organisations out of bleak survival, the researchers only hope is to restart reality. In the end he's successful in metaphorically restarting the board but at the cost of his own life. Now, what is this story called?
Excellent dude. I like how, true to channel name, you actually explore the concepts and ideas inside the scp files/stories as opposed to simply read them out. It's helpful when shit goes slightly over my head
A few people already mentioned this but it hit me too; of the hundreds of scps I've seen this is one of the only ones that actually hit me on some level emotionally
Fun Fact: This SCP was inspired by Mili's song: String Theocracy, the opening for a game called Library of Ruina, which is the sequel to Lobotomy Coporation. Lobotomy Corporation is a game with SCP-esque elements to it, developed by Project Moon, a Korean game studio. In fact, the writer was originally going to name the SCP String Theocracy!
Good job voice acting in SCP Illustrated's last video. The first video I watched of yours months ago was SCP-5000. I've seen all of your SCP videos since then and I look forward to more.
I like the more serious scp channels more. Too many cartoony scp channels popping up that don't capture the *analytical mystery* of the files. The detailed explanations clash with the crazy information you're absorbing. Thanka for the content!
Why have I become addicted to you reading these like I love scp and now I love you and the fact you use Screen shots from control make me love you even more ngl
From the anguished female faces and angry male faces, I would assume that he either killed, r*ped, or abused her. I think it would be the abuse, because the continued suffering Monroe experienced may reflect the continued suffering of years-long abuse.
@@YellowPeej killed in some sudden burst of anger and then regretted it, in the canon in my head. I dont like the idea of abuse and/or rape, cuz i kinda wanna root for the guy and feel sorry for him.
@@carlob2409 I mean, while rapists certainly deserve to suffer, there is no finite action a person can make that would be deserving of an infinite punishment, so it’s possible for him to be a rapist and for me to have some limited sympathy for him, since nothing a human is capable of would be worthy of infinite punishment because at some point the pain caused by the punishment would be greater than the pain caused by the crime and at that point it’s no longer a punishment but a torture
@@emilybarclay8831 when you think about it, someone who rapes/abuses someone would many times not give two shits if what they do/their actions would (hypothetically speaking of course) cause the victim “infinite suffering”, so i mean whose to really say it’s wrong for the abuser to experience such? They are usually selfish to the point of not caring about permanently ruining someone’s entire life, causing pain for them to have to experience until they die. Which is arguably just as terrible of a thing to happen to someone because all of the time that the victim had the opportunity to live their own life in a way without anguish has just basically been ripped away from them simply because someone else chose to take that from them for their own gain
@@emilybarclay8831 it depends on the psychology of the rape. The most important factor in selecting a punishment is not the duration of the act, but the duration and intensity of it's effect on a victim. If the feeling of powerlessness and degradation that someone inflicts on another person lasts for years or a lifetime, so should the punishment.
Bruh while watching this my phone came up with an "unknown error" notification. This has never happened before and I've had the phone for 3 years. I might need a hostile meme detector
well this specific skip was based off string theocracy, the ost of ibrary of ruina, the direct sequel of lobotomy corporation also do you think that "the department of abnormalities" are also another reference to lobotomy corporation? i mean i feel like it's a more direct reference to it tbh
i actually ran a halloween oneshot with a surprisingly similar concept once: they were 4 of them, the hallways was a house with infinite rooms (behind the dm screen there were like 30 ;D) with the door vanished and the windows leading to death. In fact the house was full of deathtraps and some monsters and a bunch of skeletons and decayed corpses, mostly in groups of 4. Long story short the corpses were always the party, although now they retained their memories across death (because playing with friends in a social setting, amnestics for game purposes are overkill), the monsters were also the party, driven mad or mutated or fused or whatever, with permanent loss of consciousness apparently constituting death. They always respawned at the entrance the moment they died. Resolution was: The iteration before they started playing their predecessors managed to somehow make their memories stick and so they could piece together what happened: The 4 of them colluded to murder their fifth, who is now forcing them to die and die again. When they apologized the rooms start decaying, the infinite void outside slowly seeping in, calming them, as they move on to whatever comes next :D
So it started in the 1800s, for there to be 100 corpses, that means this guy dies every 2 years or more, but less than 5 years. So he, what, reappears somewhere with no memory of the scp, but enough memory to become a doctor at scp? Does he have different life experiences or does he not remember before age 33 without questioning that? There are several things wrong with this due to the amount of dead bodies there are.
For once, I, of the Serpent's Hand, agree with the foundation's security. It is not the place of the living to interfere in the judgement of the dead, and technically, Only one life has ever been lost in "containing" the ghost of Emily. That of Jason Monroe, who died about 300 years ago. The reincarnations are as the hallways; tools by which Emily reinacts her judgement over, and over, and over again. Forever. The Foundation, in this case, is more the MTF on staff than the facility, or the containment protocol.
“A Hostile meme detector, which I think we could all use sometimes”
Quote of the century
Hey jack. You're looking quite [Name]
Pogchamp
@@bungertheboring2037 I know right, they do be looking [redacted by order of O5 command]
Well memes can be pretty brutal when it comes to what it represents
How to cleanse literally any social media platform
"The 05 council unanimously approves his request"
Me: RUN, that's never good!
Yea that sent a bad news signal to me real damned quick as i heard it
It's a meme, the council never agrees on something unless its a real threat to insinuate they have agendas besides SCP.
So yeah. make like a hobbit and fly, you fools!
Ok BAI!
Last time the O5 council was unanimous in a agreement, they declared war on humanity
👍
"If everything is abnormal around you, are you really the normal one?"
No, We think everyone is abnormal in their own quirky way and no one is Normal.
yet what constatuts "normal" in a sense we are abnormal to abnormal like someone whos insane trying to understand the sane way its hard to see the veiw of someone on the other side of what is normal for you or them
Not by the account of statistics
......
SCP-001: O5-13
According to the author, this work was apparently inspired by the Lobotomy Corporation series, which was inspired by the SCP Foundation. It has come full circle.
Something I think a lot of people are overlooking is a very minor detail with how were presented with the body count of the anomaly. At 3:51 were told of 70 D class and 29 MTF that have gone in, BUT at 14:08 were told about 70 D class and *30* MTF. Due to this iteration of Monroe having MTF experience you can see how Reed has already written the new guy into the system. Very subtle, very nice.
Omg I didn't even notice
I thought that was just an error. Beautiful.
Jason Monroe is a ghost story. "His sins" are having killed Emily, then himself. Hung in string 300 years ago, Emily was killed by Jason, who then hung himself in sorrow. Emily is a ghost that drags him back, that forces Jason Monroe to die, over and over again, for whatever he did to emily, those hundreds of years ago, down those hallways, by that fireplace. In anger, he acted. In fear, she tried to escape. Now, he will have no escape.
Not even death.
It’s chill, I’m fine, don’t worry about it
@@emilybarclay8831 oml ahah
@@rdogg1 I make the same joke whenever I hear about ‘the exorcism of Emily Rose’ cause that’s my full first name and I’m also a skinny white girl
@@emilybarclay8831 lmao.
Get the Ghostbusters in there 😂 They’ll do a better job than the Foundation, who literally have the power to just erase her from existence and stop this needless cycle
"It's not our job to research"
Researches: am I a joke to you?
I think they mean the 05s themselves are not responsible for research anomalies but rather to determine how the Foundation functions
@@DarkLord3709 or the act of researching the anomalies is secondary to securing, containing and protecting.
Just accidentally clicked on a video, and I’m gonna be honest I’m not disappointed in the slightest. Keep up the good work man.
I highly recommend his other videos. He's got some great work out
*UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS REPORTED*
@@bullroarer-took and he really go deep covering some stuff, like the orabouros cycle
There are no accidents just happy coincidences.
Welcome to TES!
There are many rabbit holes to fall down, have a nice trip
Foundation: Monroe! It's 4pm, time for your [REDACTED]!
Monroe: Ah shit, here we go again
This is Dr.{Redacted} you are about to be located and detained by the SCP foundation for minor time manipulation powers.
@@unbearablysmug2437 No time manipulation powers here. It's a simple spell, but quite unbreakable
:)
Time anomaly detected and reported.
Yes dear
Btw, if you're wondering why this SCP is call abnormality, it's because this take huge inspiration from the song String Theocracy, which is from the game Library of Ruina, which itself is a sequel to Lobotomy Corporation, and in that game, you contain "abnormality".
Can you tell me more about this? It sounds really intriguing
@@connorthornberg If you're asking about SCP-5545, you can check the discussion page, the author said the inspiration was from Library of Ruina, if you're asking about Lobotomy Corp, it's basically an SCP simulation game, it's on Steam, the sequel is there too.
Ohh hey
That’s pretty good and nice to hear tbh
@@legiaanh4828 yeah I was asking about Lobotomy Corp, ty I'll check it out
@Shin Hello, i just going to commend because FUCKING HELL WHY DID YOU LET ME INTO THIS AMAZING AND HORRORIC RABBIT HOLE call THE LOBOTOMY CORPORATION
"That I've been a puppet on a string this entire time."
That is quite clever.
I like this SCP. Really hits the core of what the Foundation is about. Anomalous phenomenon. No convoluted wish fulfillment from the author, no cringey edgelord that is inexplicably immune to all damage. Just clean mystery.
What is it: we don't know
What does it do: we don't know
Why does it do it: we don't know
How do we stop it: we don't know
Can we contain it and isolate it: Yes, let me tell you how we have done that so far
We did in the dark, so others can live in the light.
cringe
Are you referring to Abel lol
Wrong. Emily is a cringey edgelord for spending 300 years with her vain hate cycle. She's petty and edgy, willing to kill the entire world if she doesn't get Monroe. To hell with her and her past. Nothing about her is tragic when she is a spoiled rotten child who will destroy the world if she doesn't get to eternally torture this dude.
Petty, violent, world-destroying: seems pretty damn edgy.
Completely agree, some tales are cool, but most of them are not. I really dislike the expanded organizations like Marshal Carter and whatever. They add unnecessary convolution to a world that has no canon to start with. Cool mysteries are just better. Also, most of the times a weird object that does something really unexpected is better than an end of the world situation
to achieve its goals of "secure, contain, protect", the foundation is willing to facilitate a man's Tartarus. Devious, yet professional.
Monroe: Wait, I'm the key towards containment?
Foundation: Always has been
Damn u were quick😅 as always, I was wondering if you could teach me in your temporal me methods
@@robertbailey4243 The dark side of [REDACTED] is a pathway to many abilities some may consider to be...unnatural.
@@robertbailey4243 it is called pay to win
@@Big_E_Soul_Fragment I see what you did there! 🤣 that meme doesn’t get old does it?
@8D / 15 / JODYAS RAHARDJA pay to win
"a hostile meme detector, which I think we could all use sometimes"
Same, dude.
This is Dr.{Redacted} you are about to be located and detained by the SCP foundation for minor time manipulation powers.
This is Dr{this meme detector thingy is going mad, there must be some strong memes out there
Actually how do you do that
@@unbearablysmug2437 how dare you try to arrest the Emperor
@@thoughtexperimentsotherstu4680 }
if monroe is stuck in this cycle indefinitely, doesn't that mean that at some point, he is likely going to make the 'wrong' decision and not sacrifice himself?
Then we force him in. Maybe we have before. It's either hang himself or be tormented forever in that room. I imagine he makes the right decision if only to escape from it.
I read it, it says that it had happened before. The -3 instance (where the infinite hallways spread all over the world) was a mechanism to force him to enter.
The writer did a fantastic job.
@@shr00m44 So essentially if he tries to leave the first time the world becomes nothing but the hallway at an exponential rate, right? Also, fun tidbit, this SCP was partially inspired by a song: ua-cam.com/video/nOj_A3aZxGs/v-deo.html
I hope one day he chooses life and decides to fight.
He's dying anyway so he might as well try to destroy the entity.
Assuming the circumstances of his arrival there are always kept the same he will never make the "wrong" decision.
Time loops can be broken when you somehow remember and this learn from previous loops, but Monroe is always oblivious to it up until the very last moment, and everytime then he chooses to die.
This SCP is depressing dying over and over again unable to change his fate because of how the foundation using it
It's his fault tho
He’s doing the diavolo challenge
@@Garvity69420 He was doing the challenge before it was cool
@@2spicy_memes342 yeah
@@asianspaghetti2844 yeah he shouldn’t have done that to emily
Ironically, themost normal thing about this scp is its name.
@Conrad Ferrus normal scp
@@hialsohi772 stop, you have violated the law
@@Abyssno1dad i am the law
What about-EX SCPs, like the SCP-001-J-EX or as it’s better known, fire, there’s lots of explained (that’s what -EX means) SCPs which was just the foundation messing up, and not all are -Js some are just dice laced with hallucinogens, to, well, fire, and a person with a really rare condition, and still more that I’m too lazy to put.
@Conrad Ferrus if it’s something that breaks some sort of known law (the physics kind) it’s considered an anomaly, if a new law or laws are discovered which make an exception it fits in, it’s no longer really an anomaly, as we have an explanation for what it is/how it does what it does, so SCP 1000 is probably an SCP close to explanation, SCP 1000 being Bigfoot, and ya know if you know the truth then it’s not much of an anomaly more of a historical remnant of a killing from fear, so it’s not that anomalous, however if it’s something that breaks any know law (still the physics kind) then it’s not explained.
"abnormality" so it's the most normal thing in the scp foundation
Makes sense
Really brings up the point, which is more abnormal, the anomalies or normalcy it self?
@@rushb6470 as they say the most abnormal day is when there's no unusual thing that happen. Especially when you are dealing with alot of scps and nothing out of normal happened, could it be an anomaly by itself?
This one tripped me the fuck out. When I took LSD for the very first time I experienced ego death. I basically thought I'd died and I kept coming back and running through these blank "hallways" screaming and crying that I was scared and didn't want to see hallways anymore. There's a lot more to it, but it was definitely the creepiest shit ever. It changed me permanently, but for the better. I do realise how schizophrenic this sounds, but I urge you to look up ego death and LSD, I didn't know what it was called for a long time, and reading others' experiences gives me comfort in knowing that I didn't go through it alone.
That's not what ego death is, you just had a bad dream
when he refers to himself as a "puppet ON A STRING"
:'(
lol. i better not be or i'm going to get REALLY angry.
When you read about the dream, you think, “okay, weird, lol”
But then when you read about actually walking into that room with the fireplace, you’re like,
*hyperventilating*
"5545-2 is an entity"
Me: :D
"But no additional information can be given at the moment"
Me: :/
It do be like that sometimes.
As an avid scp reader, just be patient if things come like that because eventually they will tell us what was ut.
The Exploring Series: posts video
Patreon supporters rushing to comment: *we are speed*
*s p e d*
*S p e e d*
Sped
*s p 3 d*
"the O5 counsel immediately approved"
*that cant be good*
Aka "go right ahead and try, little man"
This is one of the only channels where I actually get excited for new content.
Facts, this is the only channel I've seen most if not all of their videos for, they're just amazing. Probably gonna rewatch them all soon, infact, The Demon Lancelot and the Flying City of Audapaupadopolis
is looking kinda cute right now.
tfw only here for the SCP analysis
Can I just point out the beautiful dry delivery ES gives for his jokes. “A hostile meme detector...which we could all use sometimes...(moves on)” made me smile the rest of the video
One for the algorithm keep doing what you're doing Steve.
You're a man of culture as well.
😇
Sshhh don't say it's name. It may hear you.
Wait his name is Steve? Huuuuh
Steve? lol wtf...
While you’re going through the 5000s I suggest you check out SCP-5050, The Dragon of Mittenwald. A slow burn piece dripping with atmosphere, despite what I think as kind of a cheesy ending. Would be right up your alley
That sounds interesting, I’d definitely would like an episode on that SCP
:)
I can't help but think that Monroe having his skin torn off and then being burned in the fire is related to what happened to Emily.
Maybe he accused her of being a witch and she was burnt at the stake.
I know this a year old but maybe he also grooming/manipulating her in ORDER for her to die at the stake? It’s shown in history a lot of people would lie and manipulate the “witches” in order for them to be accused. Especially young girls.
So it’s possible he had an anomaly and was testing it ON HER and then she could’ve gotten freaked out. And tried to say she’ll expose what he’s done. Obviously my man did not take kindly, and probably tortured/burned her in the fireplace. That’s just my theory though
“The 05 Council unanimously approved his request”
*ruh roh raggy*
here i was sitting and wondering, shouldn't there be a new episode today? like an eldrich god, TES heard my prayer
Same
My dumb ass been sitting here confused for 5 minutes bc i have no clue why you're referencing The Elder Scrolls lol
@@tischkantenknall6369 you are not dumb
It made me genuinely uneasy when he was in the hallway, slowly realizing his situation, well done
Reminds me a lot of “shutter island” with some scp mixed in. The list of names with 1 person missing, pulling out the gun and the doctor not reacting, dreams of the dead girl, multiple “containment sites 1 which is forbidden, it literally being on an island, the main character volunteering to go check it out. etc.
Remember, Each day someone has to chug a liter of olive oil to contain a god deer so this is sort of tame if you think of other proceduer
Hell, every day someone had to eat a baby to contain that thing
This high light one thing I love about the SCP Foundation most. How on the outside they seem like the heroes save mankind from monsters. However SCP-5545 makes it clear their really just a necessary evil attempt haul the darkness.
A “hostile meme detector?” Can I get one of these?
This is
The only skip that actually made me feel actual dread in years.
Multiple mentions of "skip". Tf is that?
@@3000-z7p Skips is the in-universe nickname given to SCPs
@@3000-z7p SCP...SCiP...or Skip(scip)
Ahhh thanks
Right?! There’s something so very menacing about this. Moreso than any of the obvious body horror ones.
ahh yes, perfect timing i was hoping for something to watch so i don’t have to go to bed yet
My theory is that SCP-5545-2 isnt actually another entity punishing Monroe.
From the information we get, we know Jason Monroe killed his daughter Emily at some point in the 1800s. He feels immense guilt over this event. Then also the motif of threads and hanging.
IMO i think Jason is the whole SCP. Remorseful over his actions unbeknownst to him, he trapped himself in a loop to be in constant torment. Unable to truly gain his daughters forgiveness he props her up with strings and begs the preserved cadaver for forgiveness as the physical representation of his guilt (It doesnt respond, he always speaks in its place).
All of this would be neatly tied together if Jason was a powerful reality bender.
666k subs.
Bro, this one actually really got to me.
Living over and over again, headed for the worst thing you've ever done.
Over and over. And over.
I'll be your 666-K sub. ;)
If he's a good enough person to sacrifice himself every single time for humanity. Makes you wonder what he did to Emily all those years ago??
Something he regrets. An act in wrath. Seems he tried to burn the body in the fireplace, too, and then hanged himself afterwards.
Ended his tier 3 twitch sub
@@kaaskop01 fucking laughed out loud
My guess is that he was a witch hunter. Hunting witches was still a thing 300 years ago, and a possibly anomalous human like Emily would have been targeted for witchcraft. Monroe, like any other witch hunter, was likely taught to fear and hate witches by the Christian church without ever considering how they may feel and hung her, then burned her in the fireplace of her own home to make sure she stayed down.
In the end though, he realized that he was wrong the entire time. Realizing that he had been killing innocent people, including a little girl, for the sake of a fake religion for a false god that isn't even a drop in the bucket of horror that is the SCP multiverse, he hanged himself. But Emily is not the forgiving type, and so here we, or rather her and Monroe, are.
@@leilaclarridge5807 perhaps she was a fae
wild ride from start to finish. nice work as always!
*1 day ago* O.o
@@nekosel0695 patreon early access. :)
This is Dr.{Redacted} you are about to be located and detained by the SCP foundation for minor time manipulation powers.
Honestly, one of my favorite readings ever from this channel. I've been here for a few years and I've seen every video you have released since I subscribed, numerous times for some. I wouldn't have ever read sleepy hollow, but I listened to it twice because you read it. This one just chills me in a great way. Love your content.
Damn, this SCP was really off-putting at first, The O5 unanimously voting, Dr. Reed, Monroe's dream... it was all very strange but great to listen to. It was really cool to see it all put together in the end, overall making a very interesting SCP. I'm so glad you made a vid on this one!
What a plottwist, huh
Not their job to research? Well seems like just about every other SCP file has been doing things wrong then.
It's literally not though. They research to better contain things. Since this one has itself pretty much contained, they have no need to research it.
Research is done in the pursuit of containment. This SCP is contained.
We don't need to know why it's the way it is. We don't _want_ to know why it's the way it is. It's secure. It's contained.
A conceptual space of infinite size seems like a pretty good place to contain other things.
@@Solkard The problem is that it's controlled by an intelligence we can't trust not to decide to _spit those things back out in random places_ in retaliation for trying to use it as a box.
@@furiousfinch1587 Is it? Sounds like something that they might want to RESEARCH.
4:02 I turned 20 on that day... How many people died because of a decision on my birthday?
Edit: it seems like only one, over and over again.
That means infinite people died on your birthday
@@TheSunkenShipWreck yAY
I like your scp stuff the best. You give the extra explanations to understand the more complex ones
"a hostile meme detector" - I'd buy one
I need help finding one of my favorite stories the SCP community had to offer; I remember The Exploring Series has even covered it at one point.
It's where the SCP Foundation ultimately becomes possessed by some means and starts unleashing hell on Earth. Killing sight researchers, releasing SCP's, and attempting to spawn the apocalypse.
At the same time, one unaffected SCP researcher survives being eliminated at a site with the help of an anomalous invisibility suit.
Whereas war is being raged between organisations out of bleak survival, the researchers only hope is to restart reality.
In the end he's successful in metaphorically restarting the board but at the cost of his own life.
Now, what is this story called?
Scp-5000: Why?
Man, imagine being a Foundation site director and then finding out you were an SCP all long.
This is the only SCP channel that I listen to. It's actually the best in my opinion. And TES never disappoints me.
28 minutes of pure tension, mystery, and dread
Excellent dude. I like how, true to channel name, you actually explore the concepts and ideas inside the scp files/stories as opposed to simply read them out. It's helpful when shit goes slightly over my head
That ending quote was brillantly used, "Puppet on a string" gets a new meaning when you consider the conclusion.
This was really compelling. I always love the plot twist SCPs where you figure out what happened as it goes on. Really good!
I thought you were gonna say "as they say, if regret works then why do we need police?"
CONGRATULATIONS,
The exploring series has reached 666k subscribers!
A few people already mentioned this but it hit me too; of the hundreds of scps I've seen this is one of the only ones that actually hit me on some level emotionally
I'm going to hit you on some level physically
The fact that you used a screenshot from Control makes the game even better, honestly. I always got SCP vibes from it and it's one if my favorites.
Sometimes it pays to have crippling insomnia
Your posting schedule is one of them
This is terribly worded
Is one of what? What language is this?
Yes ik it's terribly worded being awake 26 hours plus copious amounts of some killer indica does that to you
@@thefishgolder Fair enough
I love it when you use MTG art and stills from Control. Makes me feel all fuzzy inside
“Abnormalities” kinda describes all of the skips tbh
I think the person in your pfp should stop eating long bnuuy arms
@@ArchChrono Say what?
Fun Fact: This SCP was inspired by Mili's song: String Theocracy, the opening for a game called Library of Ruina, which is the sequel to Lobotomy Coporation. Lobotomy Corporation is a game with SCP-esque elements to it, developed by Project Moon, a Korean game studio.
In fact, the writer was originally going to name the SCP String Theocracy!
You know it's a good day when The Exploring Series uploads a video
I love how you told the final confrontation, I got goosebumps
Monroe: *distressed crying*
05 council: “hey settle down ok?”
You really are my favorite scp and story based channel in general. Excellent work as usual.
Daedalus' Labyrinth, according to greek mythology, was alive. The conceptual entity is whatever Daedalus used to make it alive.
Good job voice acting in SCP Illustrated's last video. The first video I watched of yours months ago was SCP-5000. I've seen all of your SCP videos since then and I look forward to more.
The best time for a story about SCP is dead ass in the middle of the night
I love how Read asks for his memory to be wiped cause that just sounds like a mood.
I like the more serious scp channels more. Too many cartoony scp channels popping up that don't capture the *analytical mystery* of the files. The detailed explanations clash with the crazy information you're absorbing. Thanka for the content!
Why have I become addicted to you reading these like I love scp and now I love you and the fact you use Screen shots from control make me love you even more ngl
Me driving to my security job where I check hallways: oh, new scp video, sweet!
You my friend are my favorite asmr at work. Between your calm voice and descriptions I find myself relaxed as I learn more about my favorite lores.
anyone with the attention span to watch this will probably find it rewarding.
I think that many of the best scp stories have a slow paced start
I wonder what Monroe did to her all those years ago.
It seems that she has her infinite revenge.
From the anguished female faces and angry male faces, I would assume that he either killed, r*ped, or abused her.
I think it would be the abuse, because the continued suffering Monroe experienced may reflect the continued suffering of years-long abuse.
@@YellowPeej killed in some sudden burst of anger and then regretted it, in the canon in my head. I dont like the idea of abuse and/or rape, cuz i kinda wanna root for the guy and feel sorry for him.
@@carlob2409 I mean, while rapists certainly deserve to suffer, there is no finite action a person can make that would be deserving of an infinite punishment, so it’s possible for him to be a rapist and for me to have some limited sympathy for him, since nothing a human is capable of would be worthy of infinite punishment because at some point the pain caused by the punishment would be greater than the pain caused by the crime and at that point it’s no longer a punishment but a torture
@@emilybarclay8831 when you think about it, someone who rapes/abuses someone would many times not give two shits if what they do/their actions would (hypothetically speaking of course) cause the victim “infinite suffering”, so i mean whose to really say it’s wrong for the abuser to experience such? They are usually selfish to the point of not caring about permanently ruining someone’s entire life, causing pain for them to have to experience until they die. Which is arguably just as terrible of a thing to happen to someone because all of the time that the victim had the opportunity to live their own life in a way without anguish has just basically been ripped away from them simply because someone else chose to take that from them for their own gain
@@emilybarclay8831 it depends on the psychology of the rape. The most important factor in selecting a punishment is not the duration of the act, but the duration and intensity of it's effect on a victim.
If the feeling of powerlessness and degradation that someone inflicts on another person lasts for years or a lifetime, so should the punishment.
one of my recent favorites, and the way you read/explore/explain them always adds to it.
Bruh while watching this my phone came up with an "unknown error" notification. This has never happened before and I've had the phone for 3 years. I might need a hostile meme detector
Best thing about Monday morning is Exploring SCP. Thank you for a great start of a week!
That fireplace girl part feels like a scene from an actual horror movie
that's not a good thing, horror movies suck
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 Not all horror movies come from the bottom of a drain. Some are actually thoroughly developed and excellently executed.
@@jblue2523 Not really
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 I mean they don't but alright.
You’re my favorite UA-cam channel right now! I love your scp videos
This reminds me so much of "i am at the center of everything that happens to me" scp 3999
probably one of my favourite channels on youtube.
Anyone else think this SCP would make for a really good short film?
That’s literally almost every SCP or tale he covers
This SCP is inspired off of games already :)
Lobotomy Corporation and Library of Ruina respectively
just gotta say I love this channel. Thanks for doing what you do. I usually put your playlist on shuffle and fall asleep to your readings haha.
"Abnormality" Wait, This isn't Lobotomy Corporation!
well this specific skip was based off string theocracy, the ost of ibrary of ruina, the direct sequel of lobotomy corporation
also do you think that "the department of abnormalities" are also another reference to lobotomy corporation? i mean i feel like it's a more direct reference to it tbh
True, I did eventually recognize it was based off of LOR's opening when I read the whole article.
i actually ran a halloween oneshot with a surprisingly similar concept once:
they were 4 of them, the hallways was a house with infinite rooms (behind the dm screen there were like 30 ;D) with the door vanished and the windows leading to death. In fact the house was full of deathtraps and some monsters and a bunch of skeletons and decayed corpses, mostly in groups of 4.
Long story short the corpses were always the party, although now they retained their memories across death (because playing with friends in a social setting, amnestics for game purposes are overkill), the monsters were also the party, driven mad or mutated or fused or whatever, with permanent loss of consciousness apparently constituting death.
They always respawned at the entrance the moment they died.
Resolution was: The iteration before they started playing their predecessors managed to somehow make their memories stick and so they could piece together what happened: The 4 of them colluded to murder their fifth, who is now forcing them to die and die again. When they apologized the rooms start decaying, the infinite void outside slowly seeping in, calming them, as they move on to whatever comes next :D
15:43 The O-5's have everything under control. Also, The O-5's can apparently read any information ever recorded.
So it started in the 1800s, for there to be 100 corpses, that means this guy dies every 2 years or more, but less than 5 years.
So he, what, reappears somewhere with no memory of the scp, but enough memory to become a doctor at scp?
Does he have different life experiences or does he not remember before age 33 without questioning that?
There are several things wrong with this due to the amount of dead bodies there are.
wholesome comment section, tens of thousands of people in love with TES, sounds about right.
"So whatever's going on here is either too powerful and subtle for the meme detector, or it's not a meme at all."
Gold level material right there.
Just a heads up, you should probably explain what the word “meme” means because it’s a little rare to see the word used in it’s intended context
He has in previous video especially those that were videos on memetic and antimemetic
what is a meme detector. Is it exactly what it sounds like?
@@ethantominey5940 it is exactly as it sounds like. It detects if an object or phase is a meme. Meme is short for memetic
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The best dialogue yet, for which I applaud you!
For once, I, of the Serpent's Hand, agree with the foundation's security. It is not the place of the living to interfere in the judgement of the dead, and technically, Only one life has ever been lost in "containing" the ghost of Emily. That of Jason Monroe, who died about 300 years ago. The reincarnations are as the hallways; tools by which Emily reinacts her judgement over, and over, and over again. Forever.
The Foundation, in this case, is more the MTF on staff than the facility, or the containment protocol.
Wait you’re in the serpents hand
@@Garvity69420 Yes. My easel is the world; My paintbrush thunderstorms, my pallet, the sky.
The only bad thing about this channel is that it doesnt upload more vids, great work!
Foundation: Dont know, dont care. Not my problem.
Researchers: Well alrighty then.
This is one of the best SCP articles Ive ever heard (even though you could tell Monroe was just a human sacrifice half way through)
Woot first! Read this article recently, very excited when I finished it after you announced you would do this one.
How the FUCK did you comment two days ago when this came out two minutes ago
@@dragonofdogecoin2057 patreon
This is Dr.{Redacted} you are about to be located and detained by the SCP foundation for minor time manipulation powers.
@@dragonofdogecoin2057 Take these amnestics.
@@videtowitelpavo take these amnestics