Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-783 - There Was A Crooked Man
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Ah yes, the article with my favourite term to quote of all time from SCP.
"A distinct lack of corpses"
Ikr
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There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house.
I loved that game
I keep thinking about The Conjuring 2...
@@ChipmunkLaughthe crooked man stepped forth and rang the crooked bell
And thus his crooked soul spiraled into a crooked hell
@@W1ckedT0astr Game?
I wrote a poem too!!!!
"My one regret... Is that I have...Boneitis" - Typical SCP 783 victim
Underrated yet typical 80's guy reference
Stop 😂
Unit 751 be like...
@BlackMoonHowls, who?
That's what happens when you're too busy being an 80s guy 🤷🏻♂️🤣
I love just the slow burn escalation with this SCP. It seems like just another monster that preys on solitary victims and subjects them to horrible fates but when the Foundation digs more into it they realize that it gets so much worse.
I'm not a big fan of super mysterious SCP for that reason. The best articles are ones where the Foundation has to work backwards to solve the mystery themselves, often with a horrific, point, or ironic message.
I can enjoy both, for different reasons. I just try to approach each as a different literary art form or device and appreciate the work that went into them as best I can. That said, I do tend to like more contained SCPs that go unexpected places, like this one.
@@BlewlongmunOH WOW REALLY? I REALLY ENJOY THE FURRY ANIME SELF INSERT POWER FANTASY GARBAGE THAT RUINED THIS ONCE ALRIGHT COMMUNITY :D
@@BlewlongmunI don’t mind them but I feel the author has to have a clear idea in their own head on what some of the more vague elements mean. In this particular instance I feel they didn’t
@@DigiZees The articles have been edited and removed for quality especially around earlier numbers. This one’s at least not nearly as disheveled as some older SCP nor as convoluted as some newer ones.
"I have absolutely zero clue why I told you this" thank you anyway, it was interesting to learn
Thank you for doing this one! It's one of my favorites.
Also "Taphos" is Hellenic for "grave" :)
Oh shit hey man :)))
That nursery rhyme …
@RedMeansRecording thank you! From this SCP story, any other Hellenic references that you can share?
You made this even more interesting to listen to
@@redlady120 Nix sounds like Nyx, the Goddess of Night .
Nix as in nix not nyx means nothing so it could be the night goddes or just nothing(ness).@@KnightOfHvn
28:08 "I already know what you might be thinking, so if you're sensitive to that sort of thing, you may want to skip this log..." :(
Just when I'm enjoying it, they have to bring dogs into this! lol
Yeah, trigger warning for dog might get hurt. We don't care about d-class. Not sure what to think about it.
@christianhohenstein1422 Dehumanization is surprisingly easy
@@kaboomluong9373that and anyone who knows anything about the SCP universe knows that 99% of the time the D-Class isn't getting out of there alive
Yeeeaaahhhh... I heard that and uttered a soft, "noooo...."
I like the use of the old words like "creel" in the kids rhyme, kind of gives a feeling that there's something more behind it. No modern kid would come up with the word "creel".
Not unless they're big fans of the Absorbing Man.
@@quicksilvertongue3248 You sir have upset me by mentioning Crusher Creel the Absorbing Man
@@spiritbomber9359 you must really like the Ang Lee 2003 Hulk movie....
@@quicksilvertongue3248 💀
Absolute classic, when a number this early has this king a video you know it’s a good one
Totally. Love my series 1 SCPs
Have y'all heard of "The Other Glass" on here? It's a channel where the narrator reads every SCP in order. He's up to 240-ish at time of writing.
@@DNGNDriver I read 1-350 during highschool and they're not all great unfortunately. Past the first 100 they start becoming hit or miss, some are just so much sci-fi/anomalous jargon with non of the standardizing later articles can fall on.
This one was written circa 2017 I believe so it’s not actually in the era of series 1
@@Blewlongmun035 is so popular in ‘outsider’ scp knowledge but is so terrible of an scp in terms of writing quality lol. Different times I guess.
6:02 "uh-oh, bad decision mark!"
*WAS THAT A MANDELA CATALOGUE REFERENCE?*
D Class get hurt: They're red shirts; whatcha gonna do
SCP staff get hurt: Meh, all part of the job
Animals get hurt: *YOU SOULLESS MONSTERS*
They're the only truly innocent beings in that trio.
dog gets hurt: "send in everyone!"
DUDE it’s a testament to how well this one is written that it was able to keep me so invested in whether this D class was going to be ok. Brilliant
Yeah, I was actually rooting for them.
Special Operative Nix is so "OC do not steal" and I love her for that. I imagine her looking like a Tumblr fanart OC youd see in the 2010s.
The Sonic T. Hedgehog fandom really hit different back then.
Series 1 was truly a different time
Tbf series 1 was basically old 4channers so that matches up.
@Thunderous333 I am deeply curious about what your alternate reality idea of 4chan is like.
@@cgman1940 back in the day they were just as cringey if not more so than tumblrites back then, even if they won't admit it.
24:45 Likely the only situation where one can truthfully say “thank god, it’s the massive pit full of corpses.”
“Command tells Nyx to investigate the foot.” Somehow this broke me🤣
My favorite part of this was the D classes trying to rally together to save each other. Some of them are just unlucky, it's nice to see them humanized.
The Crooked Mans awakenings makes him feel like a British version of Pennywise
Exactly! I never considered, as TES muses, Kruger (though the series scares tf out of me, so maybe it was subconscious)… instead I was inspired by the way IT works in bouts of activity
Lol as soon as I heard the 12-year cycle thing my mind immediately shot to IT. I know the interval is different but it was like a lizard brain reflex ☺
If he was British, it would have been the crooked teeth
This SCP is always interesting due to the strange details that are easy to miss.
This time what struck me was the odd story of Agent Collins, D-774 and Doctor Lafayette.
In the main article Agent Collins goes into the other dimension and is then given a leave of absence (with their name having gone crooked in the document)
They are back however for the first exploration log (seems odd as its unlikely they would have delayed long enough for a leave of absence to take place), and then placed in charge of the second.
When viewed as a whole her behaviour after returning from the other dimension is very suspicious:
First she escorts director Kim to their quarters after Kim gets a migrane. Not immediately suspicous, but later Kim is the person left "tending" to the remains of the dead D-774 (The last time D-774 is mentioned before they somehow enter the control room). Did Collins do something to Kim?
Next Collins carries researcher bond to the medical bay for "corrective treatment(???)" after they start vomiting.
It's then Collins who convinces Doctor Peterson that a harness should be left for D-2172, which almost leaves to them escaping from the pit after being heavily affected by the anomaly.
This is where D-774 and Doctor Lafayette come in, as they were two of the four people who try to help D-2172 out of the pit at the end of the first log.
The next mention of them is that D-774 has helped Lafayette escape from their quarters (why were they confined? Did they notice something while helping D-2174?)
They go to the police but are caught with D-774 killed.
Despite being in charge of the exploration at this point, Collins leaves the control room to "aid Doctor Lafayette and ensure he receives proper medical care"
Collins then returns to the control room WITH Lafayette as if nothing had happened! Why did Lafayette just calmly come back to the control room at this point? I can only assume he's been affected now too.
As I mentioned earlier, D-774's remains were left with doctor Kim "tending" to them (with Kim possibly affected by Collins earlier) and then D-774 is later described to simply "enter the control room" with their name crooked.
All very weird.
Loving the attention to detail! Not enough people pick up on these things somehow!
One thing that’s always been overlooked: in L2, on the day of entry, the day moves in reverse. It could probably be more obvious ig
I’ve never read the article myself but I noticed those oddities too and kinda just assumed it was either sloppy writing or I missed something somehow! Like why did Lafayette just walk back in with Collins? Did I fall asleep? Or am I just an idiot and I missed something? Or misunderstood that part of the story? Lol looking forward to checking out the inevitable updates & addendums to this one!
There's a short story titled "-- And He Built a Crooked House --" by Robert Heinlein, where the main character builds a house that, during an earthquake, "collapses" into a 4th dimensional structure.
Looking forward to this one. Crooked has always been a favourite word of mine. Its usage runs the gambit from, off angled, to corrupt, all the way over to "a bit eldritch yeah"
Wow I never thought of it but I think it's my favorite as well
Favourite*
Oh shit! Hell yeah!
Best exploration log on the site, or at least a strong contender to tie for first.
This is a perfect follow up to Volgun's full read.
The Red Pool and Potato Dimension exploration logs are definitely up there
@@_WayneTheWizard_ Oh yeah I definitely agree
They're pretty perfect in their own right, cuz they're all a little unique. This one's exploration log is mostly eerie. Bag of carrying potatoes is also a good one for eerie mystery, but it was potatoes the whole time, forever and ever, all the way down.
I suppose all three of these that we are both talking about are all pretty mysterious, with their own little subgenre of fear of the Unknown and true mystery.
thanks, i tried
@@horribleaudible oh are you the author of one (or more) of these?
SCP-783, if my information is correct, originally was a small Keter Class cottage in Russia that caused violent mutations to ANY lifeform entering it. Most victims became stronger, lacked pain receptors, and can graft scavenged body parts onto themselves. Some became smarter with enhanced visual capabilities.
The addendums feature three short logs where the head researcher discovered the lab techs were making the mutated specimens fight each other for entertainment, and he plans to get new lab techs and expose the old ones to the anomaly in order to replenish the supply of specimens.
The entire scip would very early on get a much needed rewrite, where now these mutations were not always beneficial, and single celled organisms were unaffected.
The addendums would be replaced with a body horror-ridden experiment log evolving different animals and an interview concerning a containment breach where a mutated tick hijacks the body of a D-Class and runs away while the person is still conscious.
huh, those all sound like interesting concepts or perhaps Sarkic scps. They weren't salvaged into different scps by any chance?
@@alaskarii007 everything is a sarkic scp i guess
Very happy to see TES do this one. I liked Volgun’s video about it too but I’m confident TES will explain wtf is supposed to be going on here.
Unfortunately, he didn't explain...
@@tophatvideosinc.5858I doubt this SCP was written with a specific explanation in mind, but what I do like is how TES shares his own speculations and how he formed them. Makes it feel like he’s reading the article alongside us, sharing his theories at the end while we’re able to comment our own
@@mysteriousfigure2683 unfortunately he didn't speculate, either. What he did do, is read the thingy and summarize it afterwards.
@@tophatvideosinc.5858he did articulate his feelings and hopes for future reading on the article, which is more than just summarizing it. Stop being a hater for literally no reason and get a life.
@@Thunderous333 you specifically said speculate. Not hope for the future. And im not hating, im just saying that he didn't say anything like that. 😂
This SCP is a reminder that the actual monster isn't needed to invoke fear or terror, but the impact and capabilities of it can give you a very direct idea as to what it can do.
Considering that Freddy Krueger was dealt with through vigilante justice rather than judicial affairs (even though in Fred's case it was release on technicality via faulty arrest warrant), the parallels of their origins end right there. Well, aside from the detestable things done to kids. However, unlike the dream logic that Freddy Krueger uses in combination with instilling fear, the crooked man leaves far more physical, yet "fractured" remnants of it's legacy behind.
this could make a a great movie, that “horror beyond a horror beyond a horror” kind of situation where it just keeps opening up to something bigger and darker than what you initially see/think is great… idk if id go so far to call it cosmic horror but it does cause a similar type of slow burning feeling that i enjoy
19:20 I love that a "a distinct lack of corpses" is a cause for panic
NGL this is my favorite type of SCP aside from histories like the Kaktusverse. While large stories are nice… sometimes you just want a creepy monster.
Moment of silence for Taphos, the goodest boy
I never said he was dead...
@@horribleaudible I'm keeping hope that both escaped that one at least
@@EddiePGRPlayer420 we shall see…
@horribleaudible I’m just gonna guess they didn’t make it, this is the scp universe after all, almost no happy endings to be had there.
@@horribleaudible oh, is this your story? Awesome work, if so.
Oh hell yeah a classic! The older ones are the ones i actually think about long after reading the article or watching a TES/volgun video.
I like a lot of the newer ones but sometimes i cant even tell what the scp is after 1,5 hours.. and i usually forget it after 10 minutes
They are so convoluted they have to make up words to describe them sometimes.
This was written in 2018...so I guess still old. Lol
this is one of the rewrites because original is bad now.
This one scares me pretty badly. I'm so curious about the background events. The illnesses and the escaped staff are things I have been unable to reconcile with any theory.
Just a curse unleashed by the vengeful dead. It seems to center around bones and fracturing. A mad thing that seeks to grow ever larger
I find that not enough people question that myself. Glad someone's paying attention
No wonder TES took his time to make this video; the fate of that poor doggo must have been hard for him to read it through.
Gotta love the original series up to 1000. Classic SCP.
To me, this entire SCP reads like someone read SCP-106 and said "Hold mah beer."
8.5k views in four hours. Not enough. Give this man more views, and 1 Million subscribers. We're nearly there.
If youre attacking that SCP in a volent way, you need an anomaly that eats calcium at the very least the same pace as the bone regenerations.
Best bet is to figure out what caused the crooked anomaly, hopefully its from a ritual and not spontaneous.
Had a shit day and no signs of the week getting much better, but having this new scp video to listen to later is really nice. Thanks
Really hope your week improves friend ❤
@@Chaos3000and3 Thanks man, appreciate it.
One of my absolute favorites. I’m glad to hear your voice finally covering it.
How was this posted 2 days ago?????
@@devlinmcguire7543 I think that's from the UA-cam channel membership (it's kinda the same as some of patreon's features, pay to support, and get perks, like ability to view videos early)
@@devlinmcguire7543 As a Patreon member I get early access to these videos.
@@powarless ooooh, ok. So you're a time traveler.
Hell yes!!! My wife and I have been waiting for you to do this one for a hot minute! It's one of my personal favorites and I absolutely adore it so hearing you finally explore this makes me so very very happy.
Your scp readings are some of my favorite things. Thank you.
Moment of laughter for nix. I can understand wanting to save your dog but at what point does it become a lost cause? He gave his life to save you originally and she just throws that away to save a dog that is 100% dead at this point.
I'm glad you told us the history of the real world rhyme. I didn't have to pause the video to stop my curiosity
Chad D-Class after feeling a hand caress him in a pit of bodies and freaking out: Nah I can keep going.
Ah, yes my 3am bedtime story.
Edit: I think this is the most brutal SCP I’ve come across…Jesus.
Dude! I thought the same thing 😂 Laid down to relax and listen to this before bed…ended up finding myself staying up late because I was creeped out lol
you know its crazy when it involves an ancient torture method " the wheel" and when guy who runs away and gets killed subsequently, has entered the control room.
Weirdly temby is such an out of place name for Oxfordshire. Villages with the suffix -by are almost always found in north-eastern England, since they’re almost always former Norse Viking towns
i really appreciate the warning about the dog, i can’t handle that stuff
Yes, another epic tale by the mang himself
This is my favorite intro ever
I would have tested what happens if you build a house in baseline reality, does it manifest in the crooked reality? What if you do the reverse ? Maybe if it doesn't manifest, it could allow them to create safe spaces the anomaly can't "see". I would also equip any recon team with inflammatory weaponry, since pure physical trauma does not deter the crooked zombies.
Though it might have been pointless, thank you for that explanation on the possible origins of the poem! :)
Crazy how I never knew about this SCP for a long time, only until The Volgun made a video on it.
Easy new favorite for me, despite the fact I should have known about this for a decade now.
It actually released years after the site moved on from series 1, in like 2017. Went in a deleted SCP’s spot
@@horribleaudible Really? That makes more sense. A little disappointing, but at the same time, we could deffffffinitely use a little bit of trimming to the SCP archives. No need to open another 1000 slots when there's a lot of articles that barely have a dozen up votes.
For a series 1 skip, it's pretty surprising to see the Foundation treat the D-class so well. Even though he met a gruesome fate, that is.
Thank you for these readings. I’m going through a bout of major depression, and listening to these readings in the background as I muddle through my day has been helpful. Just wanted to say thank you.
I'm so happy you did this one! One of the first SCP files I ever heard, and one of my favorites
An old Creepypasta.
Now that I think about it, eyeless Jack, Jeff the Killer, Smile Dog fit the SCP universe well.
I didn't know about an expedition log with a dog 🐕, this is interesting.
I've heard readings of this story and it never really creeped me out, but your narration of it lent so much more weight to the story that this hit different.
"I have no idea why i told you this.", because you were saving people like me from a long rabbit hole. THAT sir is why you did it. And i commend you for it.
Thank you for All the scp videos you’ve made. Truly, from the bottom of my heart
you know its a banger scp when s d locke writes it
I enjoy the monster of the week genre. Worldbuilding is all well and good, but there is something special with the bite sized ones.
genuinely thank you for the dog warning. much easier to stomach when you know it's coming
I feel like the Crooked Mans demension could neighbour Lewis Carroll's Wonderland
That playground rhyme gave me chills. In the last line when it mentions the crooked wheel my mind immediately went to the medieval torture device (thanks, Berserk, for forcing me to know about that) and boy oh boy was the payoff massive when it actually got brought up in the story, thats some damn good writing
One of my favorite SCP's after all the exploration logs were added to the article!
Every dog owner listened to this gives Nicks the highest respects. She did what was only natural.
LOst asset indeed!
Seems like much the same as the hole, the deeper you go, the darker and more twisted it gets.
Ty for the doggo warning you're a good guy
Basically somebody saw the cave scene in Old and decided this is their type of horror.
As the owner of a German shepherd I thank you for the warning.
I know SCPs are supposed to invoke a sense of dread, despair and other negative emotions. But any mention of pain or violence to dogs just makes me sad.
SCP is still great, excellently written, awesome sense of dread. Just….sad about the pupper😢
Oh surely it’ll end well for the dog. This dude literally makes more bones.
Right?
I just wanted to say thanks, you've been helping me fall asleep for years now, I won't listen to anything else. I have some of your videos downloaded I listen to them again and again. So thanks ❤
I love these weird and unknowable scps, instead of the long book sized ones that have some deep philosophical meaning behind them
The audible gasp I did when I was about to listen to the latest audiobook and saw this pop up in my feed. Love you mate, you're my comfort content (oddly enough)
Absolutely loved the intro. I could listen to history facts like that forever
This one's great! Glad to see you cover it
I love the history lesson at the start, even if it had nothing to do with the article. It's always fun to learn something new or weird.
The idea of something that doesn't actually move but rather extends indefinitely, and by breaking and growing sections of itself no less, is super bizarre. Feel like this might've been something the author had a dream/nightmare about once, it's got that surreal, arbitrary quality to it.
As for the thing itself... vengeful spirit of someone broken on the wheel in times past I'd guess. Why it indulges in grievous bodily elongation, ass-up portal-pits and glitchy hamlet repetitions is beyond me though. Intriguing!
Taphos will be back, and he'll get to gnaw on all those stupidly long bones as a reward.
One of those stories where the obvious solution is “Maybe everybody move away…?”
Haven’t been around as much lately, but it’s nice to see every time I click I’m never disappointed. You the man
Sometimes I think of Zapp Branigan when you describe what’s happening in the story
“So we have a dark pit, that goes to a hellish dimension!? Kif get in there!”
YES thank you for covering another monster/location SCP. The other kinds you cover are great too but I just love listening to these horrifying exploration logs
This is the best crooked man scp I've watched and I hope one day we get to see that MTF log
Any "dog person" would have done the same thing. Our dogs are like short term family. We talk to them instead so we don't look crazy because talking to an animal looks totally normal...😂. They've seen the worst of you and still love to see you.
Except maybe a chihuahua. Someone once said let's create a dog that is 100% asshole and now we have them.
Ah, I look forward to episodes every week but classic SCPs are always my favorite.
This kicks ass. Ya did a great job with it.
If things go the way I hope, we may very well see the next log this year. It’s been long enough.
old comment at this point but this article has been one of my favorites for years now and the mysteries it carries have stuck with me this entire time. this comment has just made me extremely happy and i hope that things do indeed go the way you hope for this year!
Dope. Absolutely love it. Perfect length for an SCP file.
Excellent SCP story! 😊
I know happy endings aren't the norm, but I hope Nix and Tafos 🐕 made it too!
The correct way to start the week, an hour long video from TES ❤
I love that you still do scp stuff
I completly love your SCP description and your channel. Great work
I love it when I see a new video from you on my feed. Awesome narration as always.
A fundamental scp for sure. Can't wait to hear more of this crooked world
Watching this after finishing up on reading Don Quixote. Hope you'll do SCP-4028 someday.
Thank you for taking the times to do these videos I'll always appreciate it
It's rendering victims Crooked, whether morally or physically, and even forces your identity to become Crooked.
I love this story, thank you
Wow, it been a while since you did a video on the first series of SCPs that isn’t a 001 proposal.
"Logic has no place in these situations"... the SCP universe in one sentence.
As soon as I heard "K9 unit" my anxiety spiked.