Really enjoyed your reading of 2053. Didnt expect it to become a "Saddest SCP's Ever" standard when I wrote it, but it's nice to know people still find it worth reading 10 years later.
I love the creativity of your article, turning such a silly concept (I turned myself into a Rubik’s Cube, Jake!), into something with a real heart and tragedy imbued into it. There’s something so gut-wrenching about how happy the dad is about getting to talk to his “son” knowing that it was all a trick by the “doctor” that he then refused to talk to. I’m also just a sucker for stories about the love of parents for their children too. Excellent work
I think you really nailed the father's replies and reactions. It felt so painfully real. That overwhelming enthusiasm at first, the panic-inducing fear for his child when he realized he's not speaking to Jake, his repeated questions and pleas... There were so many emotions and they all came across perfectly clearly, even though the words itself were very simple and the text was read in a flat robotic voice. That takes skill. Great job. You managed to make us tear up over a sentient Rubik's cube.
Me, starting this video: okay, but I've read a bunch of SCPs and I don't usually find them "sad" so much as occasionally "profound and heartwarming" Me, after the first SCP: *sobbing into my coffee*
@basspuppy133 I've done that stuff many times before but it's been years and that night really stopped time for a minute and got me to reflect. It also revived my interest in space, time and existence. Good stuff.
The description was one human remain and the cat, when the diary said 4 friends I was expecting way worst things to be honest. Still, it is a really good/sad short story.
The Harbinger one and the last one about the two boats hit me like a truck. Nothing like non-human sentience and emotion to really tug on the heartstrings
bro i was fuckin kerfuffled at that boat story your telling me some random british or scottish DD or sub just fired off two ASMs at some fishing boat? and these boats can go mach 4 without fucking destroying themselves? the harbinger i get but the fuckin boats? id like to see an explanation why
@@themightybismarck2356 "your telling me some random british or scottish DD or sub just fired off two ASMs at some fishing boat? " That might have been the GOC. The Global Occult Coalition's goals are to seek and kill any anomalies.
@@themightybismarck2356 since the SCPs behaved a lot like whales (sonars and fog horns as whale songs, holding the hurt one up so it can "breathe") and since the boat was hit by a harpoon, I wonder if they looked like whales to the vessel that shot them.
there is a database of soundwaves that known ships produce for example the moskva would have a certain sound wave on the database that way you can identify what ship your dealing with idk if surface ships have this but submarines do i alsodoubt a harpoon missile would lock onto a fucking wooden boat
Yeah the voice also adds a sense of functionality to it it’s only designed to relay a message thats it’s one and only purpose and now it can rest knowing it succeeded
@@jeffiot the voice reminds me of macintalk ralph, but there's definitely some glitchiness and pitch adjustment that adds a lot. REALLY nice voice design!
I'm horrible at words but what makes me cry about Scp-2420 is that the author obviously had a dog that they loved and cherished. So many of the behaviors that Mattie had reminds me of my passed dogs in the past and there's so much love for the silly little quirks that the dog had.
Mattie Irl was alive for 7 years after the entry was written and died last year. "Mattie was put to rest today. I’ll always remember her and hope you will, too. I’ll let you know if I see her again." (You can find it in the discussion section for the scp)
I think the worst part of SCP 1958 is that he can't even lie to himself anymore. They were a bunch of stupid kids trying to make it somewhere better and they thought they could do that in a car. The part where he sees he's close to the moon is so tragic since there's some kind of hope still there that he might make it and the body found in the van by the SCP foundation was Sam's. But then he pushes Sam out the airlock and its basically just a matter of time after that. Hell even the cat just dying without anyone noticing is really depressing. Almost signifying the moment they realised just how far out of their depth they were thinking a van could get them THAT far out.
I couldn’t get the cat being pregnant out of my head. At the beginning they mention the cats corpse being pregnant, and in the journals he talks about the cat gaining some weight since they left. Just a little cherry on top of all the tragedy.
@@DeathnoteBB It seems like Jerry was the one who knew anomalies and everything else, tragic he dies first but I have to question how he space-proofed a minivan without carrying like 6 zeros.
@@Blewlongmun my first instinct was that it wasn't really Jerry doing all of this stuff. There was some outside force feeding him, otherwise how is a college kid in the 1950s figuring out nuclear fission? Compounding that, he apparently also didn't radiation proof the car and didn't tether himself when leaving the vehicle. He had no clue what he was doing. Also, nothing else they had was advanced at all. Jerry didn't have a laptop or a cell phone or anything at all. You'd think if the dude is inventing nuclear fission in his dorm room he'd have some kind of gadget or something imo, someone or something set them up
SCP-3737 Hit way too hard. Ending up bawling my eyes out as soon as I realized its the rainbow bridge. I lost my dog a year ago and knowing that shes having fun with all these other dogs and animals, is comforting. Fiction or not. Still makes me cry.
Sorry for your loss. Have dealt with the same thing myself before, and like you say; fiction or not, it's a comforting thought. Thank you for watching, hope the cry was cathartic and not too sad!
that one broke me. We had to put down my favorite cat unexpectedly about a week ago 2 years ago. Its been at the back of my mind all christmas holiday. This story hit at the perfect moment to make me cry.
I wonder if the tech guy hadn't died, maybe he had a plan. Like maybe the engine had an ftl function or something, but nobody else knew how to operate it. Although, since it seems like they're succumbing to radiation poisoning at the end, he apparently didn't think to include radiation shielding so who knows how smart he actually was.
@@ErgoAndGrezyThey weren't suffering from anything quite so exotic as radiation poisoning, they just had scurvy. None of them even thought to pack anything with vitamin C in it.
@@2stral nah man, I rlly think that's just the end. I doubt the death of the first guy would even have an impact to the ending at all cuz it's just that simple. The group thought of a mean of transport from point A to point B, thinking it'll just be like any normal trip (spoiler:it's not). Basically, the story's about the innocence of mind (the way they thought they can reach alpha centauri on a airtight mini van attached with boosters on it), and the moment it(their innocence) broke. (realized they didn't even got past the Earth moon). Hope shattered. Can't turn back.Loss of innocence.
His dad turned himself into a Rubik's cube. He's Rubik's cube dad. Saddest shit I've ever seen. I've saved all of these SCP just as good examples of short stories for my own writing. Thanks for the inspiration.
I think what makes 1958 so scary is that it was done on such a whim, a group of friends making one small decision that would in the end kill them. Really scares me, knowing thtst one single thoughtless stupid decision may be all that stands between me and losing my life.
Made me smile at the end this one. I don't have the words for it to properly bring it over but think you can picture why. Especially given the last thing he wrote, made it feel like he came to terms with it all. Accepted his situation which allowed him to move past the shittiness and see the good. His life ended going on great journey with all his friends surrounded by beauty. The other deaths were a bit more depressing however, didn't really have the chance to see it that way them.
Seeing as how they fortified the vehicle, brought space suits and implemented an airlock seems to me they likely understood danger was real. They surely learned about great explorers treading unknown seas as well. I like to believe they knew the risks and still chose to proceed. idk
@@broes1962But they didn't know it would take, like, millions of years to reach another system going at 80 mph. Idk, the whole story is way too zany for me. There's no explanation of how it's supposed to make even the slightest bit of sense (yes, even within the context of an SCP) and it lost me from the start.
I was not expecting to hear about two boats in love, nor about how the female one of the two was pregnant with twin boats but was killed. Scp is wild, man.
i'm here to argue that the boats were lesbians because all boats are "she" by default. and before you say "then how did one of them get pregnant," to argue that boats make baby boats via sexual reproduction implies that one of the boats had a dongus and i think we'd all prefer if that wasn't true
@@natem1579I mean yeah, but why was it launched? by who? the missle appears out of nowhere in the SCP, and is not mentioned before or after destroying the ship. This missle is kind of the main plot device and yet there is no explaination for it at all
3737 is depressing as hell but I think it is pretty clear that the SCP is basically "all dogs go to heaven" but with all pets. This "heaven" whetever real or not provides everything the animals could ever need, companionship, play, probably food and water assuming they need it as it appears time may be frozen, etc. Jasper might have dissapeared when crossing since she was basically trying to take a dead soul back to the world of the living which the SCP does not permit. You can't bring back the pets, but you can visit them and say your goodbyes.
I think it's based upon this poem. Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind. They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart. Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
@demetriam2408 I think that because the name tags only have thier names they get them when the go there. If your pets don't wear collars usually they probably get one automatically. I like to think the reason the collars matched in the story was just becuse those two happend to put collars on them
Every time I think my ability to cry is gone something like a robot trying to send a message that we aren't alone in the universe comes along to make me SOB. Incredible reading, the author has my applause
Of all the heartbreaking parts, seeing the dad as the rubrics cube lay dormant and refusing to speak is also just one square away from being complete got me. Much like youd get a spark of hope seeing just one square on each side missing, theres a tonne more work to solve the cube in that state. Dad was so close to seeing jake, realise how much work it would be to speak with him again and solve the puzzle and instead just gave up.
That one kind of annoyed me, as they were extremely shady towards the Dad about Jake's well-being for no reason. Just seemed like really shitty interview work, as it kept them from learning anything.
@@natem1579 agreed! Why couldn't they just give him to Jake? Seems like bad science to not even bother trying, especially considering the lengths the SCP foundation presumably goes to do like, anything
@@lordofthelandsquids in-universe foundation hates involving civilians that aren't workforce Much like the Matilda's owner the Ethics Committee takes into account how impactful is taking a civilian away, essentially locking them up and the impact of trying to reintroduce them to society afterwards. In his case they, presumably, are still discussing wiping his memories and letting him go over accepting his request to stay. I just wish the consciousness transfer was written as some experiment by Jake's dad himself, rather than someone else doing it. Then foundation can just purge any documentation he released to the world and lock the cube away, making the foundation overseers feel even more cold for not taking risks by introducing the anomaly to Jake. But, as it is, they know there's an anomaly out there capable of transferring conscience to objects and they lost their best lead because of recklessness.
not SCP writers making me emotional over a pair of living boats, god dammit as much as i love "Here there were dragons" thank you for spotlighting 6 other sad ones and not mentioning it at all
Oof, The Exploring Series' video on "Here There Were Dragons" did make me literally cry. I still get misty if I'm going through his back catalog and hit that video. It's just so...tragic.
I don't know how it is but that voice for Harbinger was somehow so full of emotion while being so mechanical. Like it hit so hard, and the final words of Harbinger, it's only response to it's inevitable death, after being told it did good... "Then I am well." I could physically see a mouth-less, faceless smile with those words. Powerful stuff
As soon as the dog showed up out of the bushes in 3737 I knew what was happening and I just started crying so hard. I would give anything to have the chance to see them again and I'd be so happy to know they were.
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind. They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart. Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
Yeah, but the Foundation won't relay the message, nor would it allow anyone else to do so. It deemed the Harbinger and its message to be anomalous, so they stay secret. :(
@@DerrylHopkins The message asked us to look for others and light the darkness. It only said to relay the message if our time was passing, but we still have time.
It gives me the same vibes of those comics about Death interacting with recently passed animals. When the dog's ghost asks Death if he was a good boy, and Death replies "I'm told you were the best".
I really like the fact that you used less well known scps, most people would’ve just shoved in 1762 and a couple others, but you pulled out interesting and actually sad scps.
Glad to hear that! tbh I'm no expert on SCP's and wouldn't know which ones are more popular or not, I literally just based it on whichever ones made me cry lmao thank you so much for watching and leaving a comment btw :)
I mean fair. Scp 1762 is of course a more known and often discussed sad SCP. But the reason is, well, cause it is in fact very sad. So just "disregarding" it due to its "fame" is a bit harsh in my eyes. But still. Its always great to find out about lesser known SCPs.
54:55 It's honestly one of my biggest gripes with SCP articles where doctors are portrayed as heartless scientists with no morals. Canonically most staff are sourced from non-anomalous schools and governments, they have normal lives to compare with currently so why is every interviewer a sociopath? "Your son is ok but still sick, we're doctors, we want to help you both" It's so immersion breaking when for no reason they stone wall an entity and it ruins all communication, they'll lie but only if it's roleplay. Worst case scenario he's a cube only they can talk to, best case scenario they have to amnesticise him and his whole family anyway.
Yeah that one pisses me off too. Considering how important it is for the SCPF to learn about these anomalies, Dr. Boone really fucking sucked at it. Dude was so shady, he made it out to sound like he was holding the damn kid hostage, deciding which finger to cut off and how he'll threaten the cube with it, lmao.
The "Good. Mission was important." Got me.. I can feel the relief in those words. Its like reading or listening to something that knows its dying, and worried it wont be able to serve its purpose.
SCP-1958 hits me the same way stuff like... Ep1 of the anime "To Your Eternity", the graphic novel/film "When The Wind Blows", or the short story "To Build A Fire" do. Not to mention any of the true stories of people going on grand voyages or taking on hardships they just were so clearly unprepared for in hindsight. There is indeed a helplessness there, like even before ppl start to die you know things are gonna go badly bc you know that despite managing to successfully send a retro minivan full of ppl into space they still didn't have the knowledge of just how vast space is. Even if they'd manage to avoid debris and severe slip ups, they seemingly weren't even aware of the radiation out there. If they'd truly understood the scope and dangers of that journey, they probably wouldn't have even tried. So then, as an outsider from the future who can tell from essentially the very first minor setback they face (if not from the very start) that they are doomed, to watch these bright eyed and naive people wither away while trying to cling to hope only for that to also eventually crumble in their trembling hands... it's heartbreaking and kinda terrifying in it's own right. But you keep watching/listening/reading bc you can't help but hope that something will come out of nowhere and rescue them. Or that they at the very least gain some sort of personal closure before the end, that their life won't feel more incomplete than it already is.
Maybe this says more about me than it does the story. But fuck them kids, druggie idealistic know it all kids didn’t stop to think taking a fucking bus to space might be a bad idea, squandering one of the most advanced pieces of technology on a self centered “We gunna get out from under the man, man!” Quest.
I had to read your comment to realize they died from radiation sickness, I was so confused what killed them Also, really makes you think of Chris 'supertramp?' McCandless
@@dementia8745 It wasn't actually. It's called out in the article that it was scurvy, they didn't pack any citrus in their food. I think that makes it worse, that they _didn't_ get killed by some unstoppable force that they didn't know about, they just forgot to pack the right food.
Hey my dude, I listen to A LOT of SCP content here on youtube, and I just wanted to say that this is VERY well done. Like, better than a lot of others I have heard, even though this is the only video I have seen of yours so far. You're very articulated, your voice is calm and easy to listen to, and your different voices come make it very easy to feel the flow of interview logs. If you ever do more content like this, I will absolutely be here for it! Well done, dude.
Seconded. This is definitely right under or even at the level of the big SCP-tubers like TheVolgun and SCP Illustrated that have been doing this shit for years.
43:43 I really like this one, it made me cry a couple times throughout. I lost my dog last year and one of my last memories with her I was crying in the drive way holding her close after taking her for a long walk. I had her since 7, I’m 18 now. She was with me through every hardship I’ve had in life up to now, and the details like him hugging his dog and saying goodbye broke me. I am a bit of a softie I guess
I said goodbye to my bestest girl, Molly almost ten years ago now and there isn’t a week goes by without me thinking about her. Their lives are so incredibly short compared to ours yet they somehow manage to love fully in the time they have. I’m sure your good girl knew how much she meant to you and felt loved until the very end.
@@EssK thank you so much ❤️. I’m sure she did, she had cancer for a year or so before we put her down (10 years old, the vet couldn’t help any further) she was always loved and spoiled. She developed a love for our car, she usually wouldn’t be allowed to sleep in it too often but by the end we wanted to let her, so she spent many hours on the seats she refused to move from when we had to use the car, haha. We’ll always miss her but we have a new dog, we had her for a month or so while we had the old one. They’re very different personality wise, but they have the same quirks of getting stuck in ours blinds, spending a lot of time starring at us, and drinking out of bird baths haha
The pet ones fucked me up bad, didn't think i'd be crying but I was balling my eyes out by the Island one. The suicidal guy one made me cry so hard i thought my mom was gonna hear
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind. They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart. Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
2420 is one of the most beautiful explorations of grief and love i have seen explored in the short story format. 3737 was about the love we have for our deceased pets but 2420 showed the obvious reciprocation of it. loved this entire video!
First story, already sobbing, somehow the robo voice added such a childlike quality to Harbringer’s lines in the interview logs and the “master? …… did I do good?” Just. Sobbing.
SCP-2420 fucking ended me, especially combined with the earlier rainbow bridge one and Harbinger. The idea of a dog somehow coming back after they die to prevent their owner from making that final decision got me, especially with your natural VA work to display the story.
Him not blaming the girl who hit Mattie struck a personal chord with me, and then Mattie stubbornly coming back to prevent him from making an awful decision opened the tap all the way. Right when I thought I was out of tears, I read a comment saying that the author's actual dog, the one in the picture, just passed away in 2022, and my body found some more tears to pour out
OKAY, I must be soft, too, because at "Did I do well?", I just SUDDENLY felt my breath fall out and my tears well up, and I REALLY don't have the physical dexterity to be CRYING right now, thank you very much!
Different people have different crying tolerances. Mine is very high so I can't say I cried, but these definitely hit me pretty hard, very good batch and I am only about halfway done with the video.
What gets me about SCP-1958 is that those guys must be genuinely brilliant with a kinda inspirational ambition to even get that far in a modified VW minibus, and a real loss to the world.
@@natem1579 Well we've all got blind spots in our knowledge. Must have taken some serious genius to break Earth's orbit at 80mph. Like, breaking the laws of physics-level genius.
I'm a long time fan of the wiki and find the SCP content on TH-cam to be extremely hit and miss. It's rare to see anyone tackle anything SCP related that isn't a generic creepy monster or a deep dive into the convoluted "canon" that I have very little interest in and it's even rarer to see it done anywhere near as good as this. I'm excited to see where this channel goes!
Have you tried The Exploring Series? They do great videos summarizing the articles, and there are a few multi part ones with the really huge SCPs. I use that channel to fall asleep because his voice is calming and he reads his scripts with enough emotion to not be boring. You'll never get a huge volume spike or screaming nonsense. As someone with memory problems Exploring tells the stories of the SCPs in a way I can follow along with and get all the information, stuff I'd easily miss if I was reading the webpage myself.
2420 was the one where I had to lay down and start petting my dog. RIP to the real life Mattie, who has been gone for over a year now according to the scp discussion page. You did a great job reading these.
Imagine a well written movie about 4 students working on their Starmobile project, half of the movie building their characters as well as the Starmobile itself. Then after launching, it all slowly deteriorates after Jerry dies. A gut-wrenching story about 4 friends gruesomely succumbing to the consequences of fantasy and mathematical errors, realizing all hope was already lost from the start. And all the 2 whose left can do is to wait and slowly die.
that would go hard as fuck actually. just start it out as a happy-go-lucky, goofy sci-fi comedy flick a la Back To The Future and then have it all turn to shit. i love stories that start out happy and then turn to shit bonus: don't allude to The Horrors at all in the marketing. just let it sucker punch everyone until it gets spoiled on the internet
@@hunterv9259 Considering that it's already published on the SCP Foundation website, if that got adapted it would so quickly be identified as an adaptation no matter how hard they tried to mask it.
I know this was released into the wild a year ago now and the chances of you seeing this comment are slim to none but I just wanted to say this was video was genuinely profound and beautiful for want of a better word. Your editing and narration were absolutely perfect throughout so from this random Scottish guy I’d like to say thank you, genuinely thank you so much for this.
3737 absolutely bodied me. I listened to these while driving and I seriously almoat had to pull over because I could barely see through my tears. Actual audible sobs.
I loved the voice work and the effects you used for the robotic voices, the music choices were fantastic as well. I really love how you build up an atmosphere with all these stories.
Great choices. I knew most of them, but not SCP-1281. It's now one of my favourites. Looking forward to more ❤️ I also lost one of my kitties in January, so 3737 hit harder than when I first read it.
A Hero Is Born is my favourite slightly sad SCP, especially how it eventually turns out. A solemn reminder that fantasies, no matter how vivid, are not meant to last.
I was honestly contemplating whether I wanted to watch this video at this time... and despite the heartache, I'm glad I did. I'm very impressed with your array of subjects, moods, genres, and styles used to reach such a broad realm of performance. As for how these stories affected me, I'm a writer myself (hobby, not profession), and in my work I try to work in as much as possible so that the reader/viewer can understand the motivations behind everyone in the story, because one thing I wanted as a kid was for folks to understand that if they asked more questions and built less walls, I firmly believe that most issues could be solved, including finding ways to appropriately integrate "dangerous" people into a functional society. That being said, it was all of the understanding poured onto me all at once in both the Harbinger and father/son stories. The sudden understanding that the subjects of these observations DON'T understand anything going on around them. I guess we don't know that so much about the dad, but considering he couldn't actually tell who he was talking to, I feel obliged to assume that his world has become little more than himself. Dad's drive to leap blind into whatever he could provide to keep connected with his son, and the fact that the Harbinger was effectively just an infant that was granted the ability to talk and sent out on a mission, which would also explain why it seemed that just thinking was difficult for it... It had no idea what it was truly doing or why, but it had a sense of purpose that kept it going for all that time, and then tu acknowledge just how peaceful death truly is, that one hit because I've literally been there. I'm homeless (since about 2011), and the police where I'm at like to stir up the homeless community and force folks to move about in winter. I've been one of those folks curled up in the snow, unable to take a step further with frost counting to my moustache. I've been in that place of knowing that you HAVE to keep going, but also knowing that you can't. The exhaustion becomes so intense that the little voice who whispers, "Please, let's rest. Close your eyes for just a few seconds- it won't hurt. In fact, you NEED the rest," and who fights so hard to keep us in that state once we give in begins to sound rational and reasonable. I've been completely at peace while knowing that I'm literally dying, and I've been happy to give up and fade into the rest and tranquillity I've been seeking as long as I can remember. And always, there's resentment towards those who acted as my rescuers. I sincerely believe that this world has nothing to gain from me, and the only reason I wake up (let alone get up) is so that I can tend to my two roosters that my world revolves around, and in turn they spend their days at my feet and by my side, always passively asking and sometimes actively demanding hugs or cuddles. And that's why the ones with pets also got to me, but not as much as those two for some reason. I think with the two I've mentioned here, I can relate to the feeling of not thinking, just doing, and praying that whatever you're "do"ing, you're at least doing it right. My whole life has been feeling lost, lonely, and without guidance, stuck with care takers who absolutely lost their shit when I suggested that I might benefit from counselling. I know the devastation of putting your everything into moving forward in life with NO clue where I'm actually going... just to find out that despite my best intentions, despite my best efforts... I still failed. I think the pet-focused stories didn't hit as bad because they almost entirely had to do with dogs and cats. I grew up with dogs, and I absolutely love them, but watching how other people treated their dogs, or when folks would take it upon themselves to come over and scream at me for "mistreating" my dog because I gave it an ounce of discipline (seriously, people around here will riot like you just beat an animal within an inch of its life if you so much as give it a quick tug on the leash to get its attention), I think that drove a wedge into my ability to connect with dogs, and PERSONALLY (not saying I'm right), I think that domestic cats have no place in our society and bed to be allowed to go extinct (nothing against individual cats, but I think that in general people treat cats so poorly that we ought to have lost our collective privilege of cat ownership). I was pet-less for years until some roommates decided to throw a bunch of chickens into my room while they built a coop for them. I'm terrified of birds, but having these creatures living with me far and night, I found that they're very much just feathery dogs with a dash of prey animal wariness, and they trained up much quicker than any dog I'd previously worked with, including potty training. And that's how roosters became my service animals (alert to anxiety/panic attacks, force me to pay attention to them until I'm safe, and can't emotionally connect with a dog enough to value it as a service animal). I will say, however, that it wasn't until I scrolled the comments that one of those two pet stories hit me pretty hard. Something about the quantum dog didn't quite speak to me as much as the tropical island... but that's only when I read a comment that boiled it down to the Rainbow Bridge. I just euthanised one of my two boys a few weeks ago, after I've six years together. Those six years were a constant battle for my little Zebulon, as when I adopted him, he was so badly abused that he was hyper-aggressive, but especially if I held a flat hand or fist towards him, or if I was holding anything that could be considered "a stick with a thing in the end of it", such as shovels, rakes, or brooms. He would run from back to front yard when he heard me grab the rake, and he'd run towards me to get me in view, then make a series of long, low, cautious whines as he made CERTAIN to know EXACTLY where I was with that demon wand that changed the yard whenever it was yielded. He'd also kick, scream, and bite if I so much as accidentally brushed over his wings or feet. He never fully healed from his traumas, but I was able to give my little man enough patience, trust, and love that he not only learned to tolerate me, but to seek out my companionship, demand to be picked up when I'd be in the yard, crawl into my lap at night instead of going to his crate, and he'd soak up HOURS of being cradled in my arms while I rocked him, and he'd give happy trembles and squinty eyes when I'd ask him, "Are you my Baby Boy?" Approaching the island story, my brain blocked out the sentimentalism by assuming that recognisable pets could be an easy way for a psychic predator to lure in prey... but looking at it from the perspective of animal heaven, if I saw one of my boys there, I'd kill someone before I left.
Found your channel from Nightmind's coverage of your ARG! Both the stories with pets broke my heart 😭 your narration style's great though. Excited to see what videos you'll release next!
Thank you for this! You handled it all perfectly, very immersive, I was having a panic attack day and this helped to not only distract but entertain. Most go for the scary SCP stuff so it's lovely to go down the rabbit hole of this softer side
I'm extremely glad to hear I could be of any help during that. I used to suffer from crippling anxiety attacks daily, and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. thank you for watching and commenting.
scp-1958 felt surreal and weirdly makes me sad. the fact that it starts happy with confidence and then drives slowly into sulking insality really makes me feel that internal dread of not being under control.
There’s something with your delivery of SCP-1958 especially with the music. I’m not the type of person the really fall for “horror literature” but that genuinely gave me chills. Amazingly put together video
Incredible, I generally like to consider myself a relatively stoic person but I can honestly say with my whole heart that SCP 1281 had caused me to break down into tears when they asked if they had done well and going back to relisten to the clip as I write this comment, I am actively fighting back tears to finish the comment Impeccable work, I cant thank you enough
3737 was the dog paradise island from the book the plague dogs. It's a fictional island where all dogs go to play and there are no bad masters, a story that one of the plague dogs tells the other to keep them living and hoping. The book originally ended with both dogs swimming out into the ocean to escape the people out to kill them, with one of the dogs reassuring the other that they can make it to the paradise island. I couldn't finish your reading of that story. The sad stories with pets in them hit me so much harder : ( it's so hard to say goodbye. brought back too many memories.
1:12:00 : it wasn’t until you mentioned the voice effects in the interview that I realized I’d completely forgotten it was you doing both characters. This whole video is really well done and so incredibly immersive
Omg what? Thats your least sad one, 3737-2? Thats the one that made me choke on my tears. My stepdad too brought my cat to the vet, although I did kinda say goodbye, it still resonated hard! Shoutout to all the furry babies that have touched someones heart!
Did that father who turned himself into a Rubik's cube really expect the son to be able to go through the 43 quintillion possible phrases/permutations to be able to communicate with him? Should've turned into a 2x2. lol. Only has ~3.6 million permutations. Much more manageable.
the first one broke me..... imagine dying and still focusing on your mission while being unable to complete it... it knew it would die...it didn't care...it simply wanted to do it's job... the loyalty of such a thing is heartbreaking.... it wanted to do well....
This is the first video I’ve seen of yours and oh boy I can already see you blowing up. The way you add to the setting to make it feel as if we’re their like the journal logs of the van one the must’ve playing like it was hopefully till it went sour. Only thing I had a problem with is the scratchy noise it’s throws off your soft voice and my headphones probably don’t help. Keep up the good work and be safe.
thanks for the feedback! when I've listened to other SCP-readers here on youtube I have had the same problem with the "redacted"-sound, so I tried to make mine softer and easier on the ears but next time I'll look into replacing it with something else completely.
I fucking love the effects you attach to each SCP that make them really atmospheric. the cut from upbeat 50s music to pure silence when one of the passengers of 1986 died is masterful storytelling
I wasn't really thinking about much when I started this video. I "like" crying and by that I mean expressing feelings and similar things. I was not prepared to cry while watching/listening to this video, but the first story really got to me. I really enjoy these kinds of videos, especially when some underlying feelings come up to the surface or when you can just cry your heart out. Thanks for the video
Crying is catharsis like many other things, my therapist taught me that. I've felt so much more at peace after watching a movie that always flips that switch for me, and just letting my emotions flow.
Almost exactly a year ago, my family lost two cats literally two days in a row. One we had to put down because she was old, and the second passed the next night out of nowhere. His name was Jasper. Needless to say, 3737 made me sob. I wish I could see you again, babies. ❤️
I just lost my best friend (a 14-year-old german shepherd named Toby, got him as a pup and he became my sevice dog) about 2 weeks ago, and although they all got me feeling things SCP 3737 is still making me cry even at the end. Fortunately, i guess, i was in the room and held him as he went, but man, does that story hit me in the feels.
@@crystalline_stars It really is. One of the saddest things I have ever seen. It's so beautiful and also still someone manages to portray the american military as bumbling morons
After working at an Animal Shelter with my local government 3737 hits harder than it ever would. I've lost two dogs my last one from the 3 I originally adopted is about 15 now and he's watched his brothers grow old and die.
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind. They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart. Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
I'm into scp content from high-school (fuck I'm old) and this video is amazing for newcomers and oldheads like me. Non scp videos on your channel are amazing too! Keep up the good work!!!
My old cat died of cancer recently, she was so unique. Always so feisty but kind and caring. 2420 Hits too close to home. I didn't think this video would make me shed a single tear but I'm genuinely bawling right now. Amazing work man. Here's to the ones we lost.
Those first two details you revealed about yourself have little correlation to you weeping over a story that touched your heart. I understand that society pressures men into beating their emotions and vulnerability into submission, to the point where the only feelings reserved for them are anger and regret, but you are free to cry at what pains you. You are truly free when you can cry at what pains you.
3737 is so sweet. A little island outside of time as a eternal playground for the unconditional beings that help us for a short time along our journey of life.
The third one (dogs (not Mattie oops)) I was just thinking about characters in cartoons about teenage culture for pre-teenage children and also a bit about why they're so weird to people unfamiliar with American culture Edit: characters from the 4th curiously sound like AI Edit: the other dog scp was suprisingly captivating and also makes you think more about how the foundation would really be like towards the end. 10 years, 3 hours twice a week with a dog and constant surveillance. Worse then 1984 most of the time. The person also finally didn't feel like an easygoing edgy teenager molded with the moral narrative but like someone to whom things actually would happen and it would be just a significant but not defining part of their whole lives
I feel like the real tragedy of the first story is that SCP foundation was the one to receive this message. If it was a public agency like NASA, I’d call it a happy story, even if sorrow. This ancient machine and civilisation overcame the universe in all of its harshness and vastness, across billions of years. Their efforts were successful as they did broadcast the very important message. Harbinger as an artificial life-form could never have anticipated a happier end. It seems inconceivable it had any goals or wants besides this very thing. It didn’t just reach its lifelong goal but the ONLY goal in its life. Except, in reality it never did reach its goal. The SCP foundation isn’t going to disclose this information with the rest of humanity. The foundation has absolutely no interest spreading the message forward to other species either. The message is preserved in an inaccessible database as a closely guarded secret. So while the message was successfully transmitted, and it was important, it’s purpose and all hopes placed on it were dead as soon as they arrived. Harbinger might as well have broadcasted this message to a lifeless planet or a dead star.
You're missing the point. The message was incredibly shallow for something a supposedly advanced race of aliens came up with, and the alien artificial intelligence thing suffered to deliver what is essentially the equivalent of one of those messages inside a fortune cookie
The message asked us to look for others and help light the darkness, it only said to relay the message if our time is passing, but we still have plenty (in the grand scheme of things). I can see the Foundation firing off a satellite with the message if things go to shit. Besides, it's not like we have the technology right now to send off a probe to a planet we know is inhabited, with intelligent life, and that can learn the aliens' language. In the meantime, the message is indeed a guarded secret, but it also won't be forgotten, in which case Harbinger still succeeded.
The pet island one had me bawling. It was just so bitter sweet. Like not necessarily sad, but just really emotionally impactful imagining what it'd be like to be in that situation. It was the only one to make me cry (the Mattie one made me tear up a bit, though).
Me: haha I know too many scps you can't get me!
"Was it a good message?"
Me: OH GOD FUCK
"Then I am well."
*real human bean starts playing*
There is a similar one that references an alien species the Foundation doomed, somehow. I forget the designation, but it's worthy of note.
@@MemeLordCthulhu can you explain what this song is ???
@Max_JustMax it's what plays when ryan gosling dies. Look up blade runner 2049 real human bean
Am I the only one that thought that story wasn't sad at all? That line just came off as corny and lame to me
Me: surely these silly stories cant be *that* sad
Harbinger: d i d i d o w e l l ?
Me: (ಥ_ಥ)
TELUGU CHARACTER EMOTICON!!!
That's what got me too, you're not alone. I'm still crying right now, actually haha
Really enjoyed your reading of 2053. Didnt expect it to become a "Saddest SCP's Ever" standard when I wrote it, but it's nice to know people still find it worth reading 10 years later.
I love the creativity of your article, turning such a silly concept (I turned myself into a Rubik’s Cube, Jake!), into something with a real heart and tragedy imbued into it. There’s something so gut-wrenching about how happy the dad is about getting to talk to his “son” knowing that it was all a trick by the “doctor” that he then refused to talk to.
I’m also just a sucker for stories about the love of parents for their children too. Excellent work
I think you really nailed the father's replies and reactions. It felt so painfully real. That overwhelming enthusiasm at first, the panic-inducing fear for his child when he realized he's not speaking to Jake, his repeated questions and pleas... There were so many emotions and they all came across perfectly clearly, even though the words itself were very simple and the text was read in a flat robotic voice. That takes skill. Great job. You managed to make us tear up over a sentient Rubik's cube.
God damn!
OMG you wrote it?! Awsome work!
Did you have any part in writing SCP-7056?
Me, starting this video: okay, but I've read a bunch of SCPs and I don't usually find them "sad" so much as occasionally "profound and heartwarming"
Me, after the first SCP: *sobbing into my coffee*
literally i think the same as you and happen the same as you, i broke in tears with the first scp
I just finished my line of ketamine when the 2nd story began and SCP affects me now.
@@shuenshuen so real of you
I made it through the first two, but someone must have been cutting onions when I was listening to the third
@basspuppy133 I've done that stuff many times before but it's been years and that night really stopped time for a minute and got me to reflect. It also revived my interest in space, time and existence.
Good stuff.
SCP-1958 was like “damn this is so goofy how could this possibly get sa- …oh… oh no.”
Jerry's dead.
@@Pepnmayo *womp womp* :(
The description was one human remain and the cat, when the diary said 4 friends I was expecting way worst things to be honest. Still, it is a really good/sad short story.
"jerry says we'll reach alpha centauri in a few weeks"
@@TYsdrawkcaB Extremely loud incorrect buzzer
The Harbinger one and the last one about the two boats hit me like a truck. Nothing like non-human sentience and emotion to really tug on the heartstrings
The reveal where one of the boats had little baby boats on the way was gut-wrenching.
bro i was fuckin kerfuffled at that boat story
your telling me some random british or scottish DD or sub just fired off two ASMs at some fishing boat?
and these boats can go mach 4 without fucking destroying themselves?
the harbinger i get but the fuckin boats? id like to see an explanation why
@@themightybismarck2356 "your telling me some random british or scottish DD or sub just fired off two ASMs at some fishing boat? "
That might have been the GOC. The Global Occult Coalition's goals are to seek and kill any anomalies.
@@themightybismarck2356 since the SCPs behaved a lot like whales (sonars and fog horns as whale songs, holding the hurt one up so it can "breathe") and since the boat was hit by a harpoon, I wonder if they looked like whales to the vessel that shot them.
there is a database of soundwaves that known ships produce for example the moskva would have a certain sound wave on the database that way you can identify what ship your dealing with idk if surface ships have this but submarines do i alsodoubt a harpoon missile would lock onto a fucking wooden boat
the first one made me so sad... i love how despite being a dr the guy still violated the rules in order to grant some peace to the Harbinger.
The interview log robot voice and voice effect quality puts this up into the highest tier of SCP videos
damn, that's kind. thank you.
I would have to agree. 👍
For a tts robot voice it has a lot of emotion, mostly hopeless, weak ones which adds to it
Yeah the voice also adds a sense of functionality to it it’s only designed to relay a message thats it’s one and only purpose and now it can rest knowing it succeeded
@@jeffiot the voice reminds me of macintalk ralph, but there's definitely some glitchiness and pitch adjustment that adds a lot. REALLY nice voice design!
I'm horrible at words but what makes me cry about Scp-2420 is that the author obviously had a dog that they loved and cherished. So many of the behaviors that Mattie had reminds me of my passed dogs in the past and there's so much love for the silly little quirks that the dog had.
Mattie Irl was alive for 7 years after the entry was written and died last year.
"Mattie was put to rest today. I’ll always remember her and hope you will, too. I’ll let you know if I see her again."
(You can find it in the discussion section for the scp)
The impatient bark with her toy reminded me of my pup 🥲
Read the discussion tab on the article to find out more about the author and their real dog Mattie, who unfortunately passed away not too long ago
I think the worst part of SCP 1958 is that he can't even lie to himself anymore. They were a bunch of stupid kids trying to make it somewhere better and they thought they could do that in a car.
The part where he sees he's close to the moon is so tragic since there's some kind of hope still there that he might make it and the body found in the van by the SCP foundation was Sam's. But then he pushes Sam out the airlock and its basically just a matter of time after that.
Hell even the cat just dying without anyone noticing is really depressing. Almost signifying the moment they realised just how far out of their depth they were thinking a van could get them THAT far out.
I couldn’t get the cat being pregnant out of my head. At the beginning they mention the cats corpse being pregnant, and in the journals he talks about the cat gaining some weight since they left. Just a little cherry on top of all the tragedy.
I mean they got a van to leave Earth, they would have gotten somewhere closer if they hadn’t ignored light years
@@DeathnoteBB It seems like Jerry was the one who knew anomalies and everything else, tragic he dies first but I have to question how he space-proofed a minivan without carrying like 6 zeros.
They Gave it bear@@zerareota1560
@@Blewlongmun my first instinct was that it wasn't really Jerry doing all of this stuff. There was some outside force feeding him, otherwise how is a college kid in the 1950s figuring out nuclear fission? Compounding that, he apparently also didn't radiation proof the car and didn't tether himself when leaving the vehicle. He had no clue what he was doing. Also, nothing else they had was advanced at all. Jerry didn't have a laptop or a cell phone or anything at all. You'd think if the dude is inventing nuclear fission in his dorm room he'd have some kind of gadget or something
imo, someone or something set them up
"The stars are so beautiful out here, man"...
The editing after made this!
Thank you so much!
SCP-3737 Hit way too hard. Ending up bawling my eyes out as soon as I realized its the rainbow bridge. I lost my dog a year ago and knowing that shes having fun with all these other dogs and animals, is comforting. Fiction or not. Still makes me cry.
Sorry for your loss. Have dealt with the same thing myself before, and like you say; fiction or not, it's a comforting thought. Thank you for watching, hope the cry was cathartic and not too sad!
Oh I figured it out right then, it's doggy heaven. Oh my now my eyes are watering
that one broke me. We had to put down my favorite cat unexpectedly about a week ago 2 years ago. Its been at the back of my mind all christmas holiday. This story hit at the perfect moment to make me cry.
Fuck I didn’t even consider i could
Think of it like an afterlife in my real life. Thank you, that gives me some comfort
@@Midorikonokamidon’t worry, you aren’t the only one ❤️
The saddest part about SCP-1958 is that to get from Earth to Alpha Centauri it would take 37 million years. They never would've made it.
it's not sad imo, it's just proof that they were foolish, and shouldn't have undertaken such a venture to begin with.
I wonder if the tech guy hadn't died, maybe he had a plan. Like maybe the engine had an ftl function or something, but nobody else knew how to operate it. Although, since it seems like they're succumbing to radiation poisoning at the end, he apparently didn't think to include radiation shielding so who knows how smart he actually was.
i... they had to have some plan or someting. they buit a friggin VW rocketship
@@ErgoAndGrezyThey weren't suffering from anything quite so exotic as radiation poisoning, they just had scurvy. None of them even thought to pack anything with vitamin C in it.
@@2stral nah man, I rlly think that's just the end. I doubt the death of the first guy would even have an impact to the ending at all cuz it's just that simple. The group thought of a mean of transport from point A to point B, thinking it'll just be like any normal trip (spoiler:it's not).
Basically, the story's about the innocence of mind (the way they thought they can reach alpha centauri on a airtight mini van attached with boosters on it), and the moment it(their innocence) broke. (realized they didn't even got past the Earth moon).
Hope shattered. Can't turn back.Loss of innocence.
His dad turned himself into a Rubik's cube. He's Rubik's cube dad. Saddest shit I've ever seen. I've saved all of these SCP just as good examples of short stories for my own writing. Thanks for the inspiration.
pickle rick reference?
lol
Ironically, SCP-1958 was one of the ones featured here, and your username has 1958 in it!
-Paintspot Infez
Wasabi!
A small snicker to relief a bit of the sadness... good one m8
@@paintspot why do you have a signature
I think what makes 1958 so scary is that it was done on such a whim, a group of friends making one small decision that would in the end kill them. Really scares me, knowing thtst one single thoughtless stupid decision may be all that stands between me and losing my life.
making a space capable volkswagen and going on a road trip to alpha centauri counts as one small decision
Made me smile at the end this one. I don't have the words for it to properly bring it over but think you can picture why. Especially given the last thing he wrote, made it feel like he came to terms with it all. Accepted his situation which allowed him to move past the shittiness and see the good. His life ended going on great journey with all his friends surrounded by beauty. The other deaths were a bit more depressing however, didn't really have the chance to see it that way them.
Seeing as how they fortified the vehicle, brought space suits and implemented an airlock seems to me they likely understood danger was real. They surely learned about great explorers treading unknown seas as well. I like to believe they knew the risks and still chose to proceed. idk
@@broes1962 its kind of amazing how long emotion range on that scp is
for em, its sadness for me its anger for you its happiness
@@broes1962But they didn't know it would take, like, millions of years to reach another system going at 80 mph. Idk, the whole story is way too zany for me. There's no explanation of how it's supposed to make even the slightest bit of sense (yes, even within the context of an SCP) and it lost me from the start.
Video immediately starts off with SCP-1281
Me: "Oooh boy, this is gonna be brutal on my heart isn't it?"
yeah, harbinger wrecks me every time
it was tragic....
And yet no SCP-1762.
I was not expecting to hear about two boats in love, nor about how the female one of the two was pregnant with twin boats but was killed. Scp is wild, man.
omg i didnt realize it was- thats even sadder now. where the hell the harpoon came from ? (english is my 3rd lang so i get confused)
Pretty sure the Harpoons in this context are names for an anti-ship torpedo, launcher unknown.
i'm here to argue that the boats were lesbians because all boats are "she" by default. and before you say "then how did one of them get pregnant," to argue that boats make baby boats via sexual reproduction implies that one of the boats had a dongus and i think we'd all prefer if that wasn't true
@@natem1579 I swear the article stated the launcher was GOC
@@natem1579I mean yeah, but why was it launched? by who?
the missle appears out of nowhere in the SCP, and is not mentioned before or after destroying the ship.
This missle is kind of the main plot device and yet there is no explaination for it at all
3737 is depressing as hell but I think it is pretty clear that the SCP is basically "all dogs go to heaven" but with all pets. This "heaven" whetever real or not provides everything the animals could ever need, companionship, play, probably food and water assuming they need it as it appears time may be frozen, etc. Jasper might have dissapeared when crossing since she was basically trying to take a dead soul back to the world of the living which the SCP does not permit.
You can't bring back the pets, but you can visit them and say your goodbyes.
I think it's based upon this poem.
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
@@vastowen4562 it's only a little fucked up that my pets won't go to animal SCP heaven because they don't wear collars
@demetriam2408 I think that because the name tags only have thier names they get them when the go there. If your pets don't wear collars usually they probably get one automatically. I like to think the reason the collars matched in the story was just becuse those two happend to put collars on them
Every time I think my ability to cry is gone something like a robot trying to send a message that we aren't alone in the universe comes along to make me SOB. Incredible reading, the author has my applause
Of all the heartbreaking parts, seeing the dad as the rubrics cube lay dormant and refusing to speak is also just one square away from being complete got me. Much like youd get a spark of hope seeing just one square on each side missing, theres a tonne more work to solve the cube in that state. Dad was so close to seeing jake, realise how much work it would be to speak with him again and solve the puzzle and instead just gave up.
....💔
That one kind of annoyed me, as they were extremely shady towards the Dad about Jake's well-being for no reason. Just seemed like really shitty interview work, as it kept them from learning anything.
@@natem1579 agreed! Why couldn't they just give him to Jake? Seems like bad science to not even bother trying, especially considering the lengths the SCP foundation presumably goes to do like, anything
@@lordofthelandsquids in-universe foundation hates involving civilians that aren't workforce Much like the Matilda's owner the Ethics Committee takes into account how impactful is taking a civilian away, essentially locking them up and the impact of trying to reintroduce them to society afterwards. In his case they, presumably, are still discussing wiping his memories and letting him go over accepting his request to stay.
I just wish the consciousness transfer was written as some experiment by Jake's dad himself, rather than someone else doing it. Then foundation can just purge any documentation he released to the world and lock the cube away, making the foundation overseers feel even more cold for not taking risks by introducing the anomaly to Jake. But, as it is, they know there's an anomaly out there capable of transferring conscience to objects and they lost their best lead because of recklessness.
Harbinger was by far the saddest, imo. Getting tears out of me is hard, _and that got some._
The voice work in A Good Dog was great, it wasn't over the top or silly or anything like that. I really liked it
I'm glad to hear it! Thanks for watching!
not SCP writers making me emotional over a pair of living boats, god dammit
as much as i love "Here there were dragons" thank you for spotlighting 6 other sad ones and not mentioning it at all
One of the boats was pregnant................... 😢
@@nicestpancakeThe rowboats… awww
@@jayeautocorrectstohate5054 I'm not gonna lie I cried about it for 30 minutes
Oof, The Exploring Series' video on "Here There Were Dragons" did make me literally cry. I still get misty if I'm going through his back catalog and hit that video. It's just so...tragic.
@@nicestpancake how did you know that
I don't know how it is but that voice for Harbinger was somehow so full of emotion while being so mechanical. Like it hit so hard, and the final words of Harbinger, it's only response to it's inevitable death, after being told it did good... "Then I am well."
I could physically see a mouth-less, faceless smile with those words.
Powerful stuff
As soon as the dog showed up out of the bushes in 3737 I knew what was happening and I just started crying so hard. I would give anything to have the chance to see them again and I'd be so happy to know they were.
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
I found the first one very uplifting. It has sad elements but overall it highlights the connection with others and its importance
Yeah, but the Foundation won't relay the message, nor would it allow anyone else to do so. It deemed the Harbinger and its message to be anomalous, so they stay secret. :(
@@DerrylHopkins The message asked us to look for others and light the darkness. It only said to relay the message if our time was passing, but we still have time.
It gives me the same vibes of those comics about Death interacting with recently passed animals. When the dog's ghost asks Death if he was a good boy, and Death replies "I'm told you were the best".
I really like the fact that you used less well known scps, most people would’ve just shoved in 1762 and a couple others, but you pulled out interesting and actually sad scps.
Glad to hear that! tbh I'm no expert on SCP's and wouldn't know which ones are more popular or not, I literally just based it on whichever ones made me cry lmao
thank you so much for watching and leaving a comment btw :)
@@jeffiot No problem, you have good taste in scps
This! I like 1762, but it’s always brought up so often in conversations about sad scp articles that it’s really refreshing not to hear about it
I was honestly expecting 1128.
I mean fair. Scp 1762 is of course a more known and often discussed sad SCP. But the reason is, well, cause it is in fact very sad. So just "disregarding" it due to its "fame" is a bit harsh in my eyes.
But still. Its always great to find out about lesser known SCPs.
54:55 It's honestly one of my biggest gripes with SCP articles where doctors are portrayed as heartless scientists with no morals. Canonically most staff are sourced from non-anomalous schools and governments, they have normal lives to compare with currently so why is every interviewer a sociopath? "Your son is ok but still sick, we're doctors, we want to help you both" It's so immersion breaking when for no reason they stone wall an entity and it ruins all communication, they'll lie but only if it's roleplay. Worst case scenario he's a cube only they can talk to, best case scenario they have to amnesticise him and his whole family anyway.
Yeah that one pisses me off too. Considering how important it is for the SCPF to learn about these anomalies, Dr. Boone really fucking sucked at it. Dude was so shady, he made it out to sound like he was holding the damn kid hostage, deciding which finger to cut off and how he'll threaten the cube with it, lmao.
The "Good. Mission was important." Got me.. I can feel the relief in those words. Its like reading or listening to something that knows its dying, and worried it wont be able to serve its purpose.
3737 is kinda nice actually, just a animal sanctuary for all good boys and girls
Literally had to stop and sit for a second as soon as SCP-2053-1 said "I love you Jake"
SCP 1281- can't have pesky things like emotions interfering with investigations.
SCP-1958 hits me the same way stuff like... Ep1 of the anime "To Your Eternity", the graphic novel/film "When The Wind Blows", or the short story "To Build A Fire" do.
Not to mention any of the true stories of people going on grand voyages or taking on hardships they just were so clearly unprepared for in hindsight.
There is indeed a helplessness there, like even before ppl start to die you know things are gonna go badly bc you know that despite managing to successfully send a retro minivan full of ppl into space they still didn't have the knowledge of just how vast space is.
Even if they'd manage to avoid debris and severe slip ups, they seemingly weren't even aware of the radiation out there. If they'd truly understood the scope and dangers of that journey, they probably wouldn't have even tried.
So then, as an outsider from the future who can tell from essentially the very first minor setback they face (if not from the very start) that they are doomed, to watch these bright eyed and naive people wither away while trying to cling to hope only for that to also eventually crumble in their trembling hands... it's heartbreaking and kinda terrifying in it's own right.
But you keep watching/listening/reading bc you can't help but hope that something will come out of nowhere and rescue them. Or that they at the very least gain some sort of personal closure before the end, that their life won't feel more incomplete than it already is.
that "The stars are so fucking beautiful" hit me in the feels, man.
Maybe this says more about me than it does the story. But fuck them kids, druggie idealistic know it all kids didn’t stop to think taking a fucking bus to space might be a bad idea, squandering one of the most advanced pieces of technology on a self centered “We gunna get out from under the man, man!” Quest.
I had to read your comment to realize they died from radiation sickness, I was so confused what killed them
Also, really makes you think of Chris 'supertramp?' McCandless
@@dementia8745 It wasn't actually. It's called out in the article that it was scurvy, they didn't pack any citrus in their food. I think that makes it worse, that they _didn't_ get killed by some unstoppable force that they didn't know about, they just forgot to pack the right food.
@leafionlover5230 huuuuh, that's even worse
Hey my dude, I listen to A LOT of SCP content here on youtube, and I just wanted to say that this is VERY well done. Like, better than a lot of others I have heard, even though this is the only video I have seen of yours so far. You're very articulated, your voice is calm and easy to listen to, and your different voices come make it very easy to feel the flow of interview logs. If you ever do more content like this, I will absolutely be here for it! Well done, dude.
thank you so much for the kind words!
I'll make more SCP videos, but not exclusively. Feel free to stick around! :)
Seconded. This is definitely right under or even at the level of the big SCP-tubers like TheVolgun and SCP Illustrated that have been doing this shit for years.
43:43 I really like this one, it made me cry a couple times throughout. I lost my dog last year and one of my last memories with her I was crying in the drive way holding her close after taking her for a long walk. I had her since 7, I’m 18 now. She was with me through every hardship I’ve had in life up to now, and the details like him hugging his dog and saying goodbye broke me. I am a bit of a softie I guess
I said goodbye to my bestest girl, Molly almost ten years ago now and there isn’t a week goes by without me thinking about her. Their lives are so incredibly short compared to ours yet they somehow manage to love fully in the time they have. I’m sure your good girl knew how much she meant to you and felt loved until the very end.
@@EssK thank you so much ❤️. I’m sure she did, she had cancer for a year or so before we put her down (10 years old, the vet couldn’t help any further) she was always loved and spoiled. She developed a love for our car, she usually wouldn’t be allowed to sleep in it too often but by the end we wanted to let her, so she spent many hours on the seats she refused to move from when we had to use the car, haha. We’ll always miss her but we have a new dog, we had her for a month or so while we had the old one. They’re very different personality wise, but they have the same quirks of getting stuck in ours blinds, spending a lot of time starring at us, and drinking out of bird baths haha
The pet ones fucked me up bad, didn't think i'd be crying but I was balling my eyes out by the Island one. The suicidal guy one made me cry so hard i thought my mom was gonna hear
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
🫂
2420 is one of the most beautiful explorations of grief and love i have seen explored in the short story format. 3737 was about the love we have for our deceased pets but 2420 showed the obvious reciprocation of it. loved this entire video!
First story, already sobbing, somehow the robo voice added such a childlike quality to Harbringer’s lines in the interview logs and the “master? …… did I do good?”
Just. Sobbing.
SCP-2420 fucking ended me, especially combined with the earlier rainbow bridge one and Harbinger. The idea of a dog somehow coming back after they die to prevent their owner from making that final decision got me, especially with your natural VA work to display the story.
Him not blaming the girl who hit Mattie struck a personal chord with me, and then Mattie stubbornly coming back to prevent him from making an awful decision opened the tap all the way. Right when I thought I was out of tears, I read a comment saying that the author's actual dog, the one in the picture, just passed away in 2022, and my body found some more tears to pour out
OKAY, I must be soft, too, because at "Did I do well?", I just SUDDENLY felt my breath fall out and my tears well up, and I REALLY don't have the physical dexterity to be CRYING right now, thank you very much!
Different people have different crying tolerances. Mine is very high so I can't say I cried, but these definitely hit me pretty hard, very good batch and I am only about halfway done with the video.
Same here
1281 was the only one that brought me a tear, so I was excited to hear the rest, but none of the others hit me nearly as hard. :/
"Did I do well?" T_T
I know you said it was sad, but wow... I did not expect that to hit me so hard...
I know! Harbinger never fails to make me sad.
That story felt really close to the Xenoblade ones, didn't it
"Mission Accomplished, Harbinger!" - *6'2'' fat bearded guy sobs uncontrollably saying that*
The rubiks cube got me. He just wanted to talk to his son. And I feel so sorry for the family.
What gets me about SCP-1958 is that those guys must be genuinely brilliant with a kinda inspirational ambition to even get that far in a modified VW minibus, and a real loss to the world.
To be fair they also thought they could get to Alpha Centauri in three months... going 80 mph.
@@natem1579 Well we've all got blind spots in our knowledge.
Must have taken some serious genius to break Earth's orbit at 80mph. Like, breaking the laws of physics-level genius.
@@bareakonthey were using fithist magic
I'm a long time fan of the wiki and find the SCP content on TH-cam to be extremely hit and miss. It's rare to see anyone tackle anything SCP related that isn't a generic creepy monster or a deep dive into the convoluted "canon" that I have very little interest in and it's even rarer to see it done anywhere near as good as this. I'm excited to see where this channel goes!
I'm glad to hear it! thanks for watching!
Have you tried The Exploring Series? They do great videos summarizing the articles, and there are a few multi part ones with the really huge SCPs. I use that channel to fall asleep because his voice is calming and he reads his scripts with enough emotion to not be boring. You'll never get a huge volume spike or screaming nonsense. As someone with memory problems Exploring tells the stories of the SCPs in a way I can follow along with and get all the information, stuff I'd easily miss if I was reading the webpage myself.
i havent been able to properly cry in so so so many years, 1281 made me bawl my eyes so hard, its genuinely such a masterpiece
2420 was the one where I had to lay down and start petting my dog. RIP to the real life Mattie, who has been gone for over a year now according to the scp discussion page. You did a great job reading these.
Imagine a well written movie about 4 students working on their Starmobile project, half of the movie building their characters as well as the Starmobile itself. Then after launching, it all slowly deteriorates after Jerry dies. A gut-wrenching story about 4 friends gruesomely succumbing to the consequences of fantasy and mathematical errors, realizing all hope was already lost from the start. And all the 2 whose left can do is to wait and slowly die.
that would go hard as fuck actually. just start it out as a happy-go-lucky, goofy sci-fi comedy flick a la Back To The Future and then have it all turn to shit. i love stories that start out happy and then turn to shit
bonus: don't allude to The Horrors at all in the marketing. just let it sucker punch everyone until it gets spoiled on the internet
@@hunterv9259 Considering that it's already published on the SCP Foundation website, if that got adapted it would so quickly be identified as an adaptation no matter how hard they tried to mask it.
“You did well”
If you look closely between the letters you can see me hanging from the ceiling
I know this was released into the wild a year ago now and the chances of you seeing this comment are slim to none but I just wanted to say this was video was genuinely profound and beautiful for want of a better word. Your editing and narration were absolutely perfect throughout so from this random Scottish guy I’d like to say thank you, genuinely thank you so much for this.
3737 absolutely bodied me. I listened to these while driving and I seriously almoat had to pull over because I could barely see through my tears. Actual audible sobs.
A Good Dog had me sobbing bc I have a little chihuahua terrier mix that is so similar to the dog in the story and idk what I would do without her.
I was convinced I wouldn't cry either and then I immediately cried on the first story so great job holy shit
I loved the voice work and the effects you used for the robotic voices, the music choices were fantastic as well. I really love how you build up an atmosphere with all these stories.
Great choices. I knew most of them, but not SCP-1281. It's now one of my favourites. Looking forward to more ❤️ I also lost one of my kitties in January, so 3737 hit harder than when I first read it.
Harbinger is a personal favorite, which is why I started off with it! Glad to hear you enjoyed it too!
A Hero Is Born is my favourite slightly sad SCP, especially how it eventually turns out.
A solemn reminder that fantasies, no matter how vivid, are not meant to last.
The third one got me instantly crying the moment the inhabitants were described
I knew where it was going
I was honestly contemplating whether I wanted to watch this video at this time... and despite the heartache, I'm glad I did. I'm very impressed with your array of subjects, moods, genres, and styles used to reach such a broad realm of performance. As for how these stories affected me, I'm a writer myself (hobby, not profession), and in my work I try to work in as much as possible so that the reader/viewer can understand the motivations behind everyone in the story, because one thing I wanted as a kid was for folks to understand that if they asked more questions and built less walls, I firmly believe that most issues could be solved, including finding ways to appropriately integrate "dangerous" people into a functional society.
That being said, it was all of the understanding poured onto me all at once in both the Harbinger and father/son stories. The sudden understanding that the subjects of these observations DON'T understand anything going on around them. I guess we don't know that so much about the dad, but considering he couldn't actually tell who he was talking to, I feel obliged to assume that his world has become little more than himself.
Dad's drive to leap blind into whatever he could provide to keep connected with his son, and the fact that the Harbinger was effectively just an infant that was granted the ability to talk and sent out on a mission, which would also explain why it seemed that just thinking was difficult for it... It had no idea what it was truly doing or why, but it had a sense of purpose that kept it going for all that time, and then tu acknowledge just how peaceful death truly is, that one hit because I've literally been there. I'm homeless (since about 2011), and the police where I'm at like to stir up the homeless community and force folks to move about in winter. I've been one of those folks curled up in the snow, unable to take a step further with frost counting to my moustache. I've been in that place of knowing that you HAVE to keep going, but also knowing that you can't. The exhaustion becomes so intense that the little voice who whispers, "Please, let's rest. Close your eyes for just a few seconds- it won't hurt. In fact, you NEED the rest," and who fights so hard to keep us in that state once we give in begins to sound rational and reasonable. I've been completely at peace while knowing that I'm literally dying, and I've been happy to give up and fade into the rest and tranquillity I've been seeking as long as I can remember. And always, there's resentment towards those who acted as my rescuers. I sincerely believe that this world has nothing to gain from me, and the only reason I wake up (let alone get up) is so that I can tend to my two roosters that my world revolves around, and in turn they spend their days at my feet and by my side, always passively asking and sometimes actively demanding hugs or cuddles.
And that's why the ones with pets also got to me, but not as much as those two for some reason. I think with the two I've mentioned here, I can relate to the feeling of not thinking, just doing, and praying that whatever you're "do"ing, you're at least doing it right. My whole life has been feeling lost, lonely, and without guidance, stuck with care takers who absolutely lost their shit when I suggested that I might benefit from counselling. I know the devastation of putting your everything into moving forward in life with NO clue where I'm actually going... just to find out that despite my best intentions, despite my best efforts... I still failed.
I think the pet-focused stories didn't hit as bad because they almost entirely had to do with dogs and cats. I grew up with dogs, and I absolutely love them, but watching how other people treated their dogs, or when folks would take it upon themselves to come over and scream at me for "mistreating" my dog because I gave it an ounce of discipline (seriously, people around here will riot like you just beat an animal within an inch of its life if you so much as give it a quick tug on the leash to get its attention), I think that drove a wedge into my ability to connect with dogs, and PERSONALLY (not saying I'm right), I think that domestic cats have no place in our society and bed to be allowed to go extinct (nothing against individual cats, but I think that in general people treat cats so poorly that we ought to have lost our collective privilege of cat ownership). I was pet-less for years until some roommates decided to throw a bunch of chickens into my room while they built a coop for them. I'm terrified of birds, but having these creatures living with me far and night, I found that they're very much just feathery dogs with a dash of prey animal wariness, and they trained up much quicker than any dog I'd previously worked with, including potty training. And that's how roosters became my service animals (alert to anxiety/panic attacks, force me to pay attention to them until I'm safe, and can't emotionally connect with a dog enough to value it as a service animal).
I will say, however, that it wasn't until I scrolled the comments that one of those two pet stories hit me pretty hard. Something about the quantum dog didn't quite speak to me as much as the tropical island... but that's only when I read a comment that boiled it down to the Rainbow Bridge.
I just euthanised one of my two boys a few weeks ago, after I've six years together. Those six years were a constant battle for my little Zebulon, as when I adopted him, he was so badly abused that he was hyper-aggressive, but especially if I held a flat hand or fist towards him, or if I was holding anything that could be considered "a stick with a thing in the end of it", such as shovels, rakes, or brooms. He would run from back to front yard when he heard me grab the rake, and he'd run towards me to get me in view, then make a series of long, low, cautious whines as he made CERTAIN to know EXACTLY where I was with that demon wand that changed the yard whenever it was yielded. He'd also kick, scream, and bite if I so much as accidentally brushed over his wings or feet.
He never fully healed from his traumas, but I was able to give my little man enough patience, trust, and love that he not only learned to tolerate me, but to seek out my companionship, demand to be picked up when I'd be in the yard, crawl into my lap at night instead of going to his crate, and he'd soak up HOURS of being cradled in my arms while I rocked him, and he'd give happy trembles and squinty eyes when I'd ask him, "Are you my Baby Boy?"
Approaching the island story, my brain blocked out the sentimentalism by assuming that recognisable pets could be an easy way for a psychic predator to lure in prey... but looking at it from the perspective of animal heaven, if I saw one of my boys there, I'd kill someone before I left.
In late to this party but SCP-6101 is a great SCP. It’s short and very good. Without spoiling it, he truly is the strongest SCP.
Found your channel from Nightmind's coverage of your ARG! Both the stories with pets broke my heart 😭 your narration style's great though. Excited to see what videos you'll release next!
Thank you for this! You handled it all perfectly, very immersive, I was having a panic attack day and this helped to not only distract but entertain. Most go for the scary SCP stuff so it's lovely to go down the rabbit hole of this softer side
I'm extremely glad to hear I could be of any help during that. I used to suffer from crippling anxiety attacks daily, and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
thank you for watching and commenting.
The harbinger was so wholesome actually.
1958 actually got a tear out of me, fuck.
scp-1958 felt surreal and weirdly makes me sad. the fact that it starts happy with confidence and then drives slowly into sulking insality really makes me feel that internal dread of not being under control.
There’s something with your delivery of SCP-1958 especially with the music. I’m not the type of person the really fall for “horror literature” but that genuinely gave me chills. Amazingly put together video
Incredible, I generally like to consider myself a relatively stoic person but I can honestly say with my whole heart that SCP 1281 had caused me to break down into tears when they asked if they had done well and going back to relisten to the clip as I write this comment, I am actively fighting back tears to finish the comment
Impeccable work, I cant thank you enough
3737 was the dog paradise island from the book the plague dogs. It's a fictional island where all dogs go to play and there are no bad masters, a story that one of the plague dogs tells the other to keep them living and hoping. The book originally ended with both dogs swimming out into the ocean to escape the people out to kill them, with one of the dogs reassuring the other that they can make it to the paradise island.
I couldn't finish your reading of that story. The sad stories with pets in them hit me so much harder : ( it's so hard to say goodbye. brought back too many memories.
1:12:00 : it wasn’t until you mentioned the voice effects in the interview that I realized I’d completely forgotten it was you doing both characters. This whole video is really well done and so incredibly immersive
Omg what? Thats your least sad one, 3737-2? Thats the one that made me choke on my tears. My stepdad too brought my cat to the vet, although I did kinda say goodbye, it still resonated hard!
Shoutout to all the furry babies that have touched someones heart!
Did that father who turned himself into a Rubik's cube really expect the son to be able to go through the 43 quintillion possible phrases/permutations to be able to communicate with him? Should've turned into a 2x2. lol. Only has ~3.6 million permutations. Much more manageable.
the first one broke me.....
imagine dying and still focusing on your mission while being unable to complete it...
it knew it would die...it didn't care...it simply wanted to do it's job...
the loyalty of such a thing is heartbreaking....
it wanted to do well....
And it did. It succeeded, and in a way, that's the bittersweet part
@@miserablepumpkin9453 mhm....it was unable to talk to the masters but it was successful...
"Here were dragons " a phrase that still makes me weep
This is the first video I’ve seen of yours and oh boy I can already see you blowing up. The way you add to the setting to make it feel as if we’re their like the journal logs of the van one the must’ve playing like it was hopefully till it went sour. Only thing I had a problem with is the scratchy noise it’s throws off your soft voice and my headphones probably don’t help. Keep up the good work and be safe.
thanks for the feedback! when I've listened to other SCP-readers here on youtube I have had the same problem with the "redacted"-sound, so I tried to make mine softer and easier on the ears but next time I'll look into replacing it with something else completely.
I fucking love the effects you attach to each SCP that make them really atmospheric. the cut from upbeat 50s music to pure silence when one of the passengers of 1986 died is masterful storytelling
Yknow I thought that I'll listen to a few, go to bed since it's late and finish this video tomorrow. Here I am at 3 am crying at the good ghost dog...
I think your voice performance was good. "Oh god she was so small." fucking gutted me
I wasn't really thinking about much when I started this video. I "like" crying and by that I mean expressing feelings and similar things. I was not prepared to cry while watching/listening to this video, but the first story really got to me. I really enjoy these kinds of videos, especially when some underlying feelings come up to the surface or when you can just cry your heart out. Thanks for the video
Crying is catharsis like many other things, my therapist taught me that. I've felt so much more at peace after watching a movie that always flips that switch for me, and just letting my emotions flow.
Almost exactly a year ago, my family lost two cats literally two days in a row. One we had to put down because she was old, and the second passed the next night out of nowhere.
His name was Jasper.
Needless to say, 3737 made me sob. I wish I could see you again, babies. ❤️
I just lost my best friend (a 14-year-old german shepherd named Toby, got him as a pup and he became my sevice dog) about 2 weeks ago, and although they all got me feeling things SCP 3737 is still making me cry even at the end. Fortunately, i guess, i was in the room and held him as he went, but man, does that story hit me in the feels.
oh it cant be tha--
"D i d I d o w e l l ?"
"Yes Harbinger. Well done."
"T h e n I a m w e l l ."
The first one was so sweet, the repremanding at the end brought me so down to earth
That first one gets me every time. I'd compare it to the episode The Last Of The Starmakers of Courage The Cowardly Dog. It's heartbreaking.
That episode is a masterpiece
@@crystalline_stars It really is. One of the saddest things I have ever seen. It's so beautiful and also still someone manages to portray the american military as bumbling morons
After working at an Animal Shelter with my local government 3737 hits harder than it ever would. I've lost two dogs my last one from the 3 I originally adopted is about 15 now and he's watched his brothers grow old and die.
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
I'm into scp content from high-school (fuck I'm old) and this video is amazing for newcomers and oldheads like me. Non scp videos on your channel are amazing too! Keep up the good work!!!
My old cat died of cancer recently, she was so unique. Always so feisty but kind and caring. 2420 Hits too close to home. I didn't think this video would make me shed a single tear but I'm genuinely bawling right now. Amazing work man. Here's to the ones we lost.
dude you GOTTA make another one about sad scps this was FIRE!
Criminally underrated channel, love your stuff
Me, a fairly fit and masculine dude:
Oh shit i love SCP!
Me after the first story, openly weeping in my car shouting
"Yes, yes harbinger you did good"
Those first two details you revealed about yourself have little correlation to you weeping over a story that touched your heart. I understand that society pressures men into beating their emotions and vulnerability into submission, to the point where the only feelings reserved for them are anger and regret, but you are free to cry at what pains you. You are truly free when you can cry at what pains you.
I'm not going to lie, those boats man... right in feels man...⛵
Why am I here crying over two boats in love 😭
the boats one is by far the one that gets me the most
@@jeffiot like it doesn't make any sense but in such a great way. Also great job on the video loved it a lot hope you get more subscribers!!
3737 is so sweet. A little island outside of time as a eternal playground for the unconditional beings that help us for a short time along our journey of life.
Placeholder comment to boost algorithm because this shit is quality right here
Deeply appreciate it. Thank you for watching
Man.. the first one hits all the right notes, incredible story
The third one (dogs (not Mattie oops)) I was just thinking about characters in cartoons about teenage culture for pre-teenage children and also a bit about why they're so weird to people unfamiliar with American culture
Edit: characters from the 4th curiously sound like AI
Edit: the other dog scp was suprisingly captivating and also makes you think more about how the foundation would really be like towards the end. 10 years, 3 hours twice a week with a dog and constant surveillance. Worse then 1984 most of the time. The person also finally didn't feel like an easygoing edgy teenager molded with the moral narrative but like someone to whom things actually would happen and it would be just a significant but not defining part of their whole lives
Oh my gosh why have I not been recommended this sooner?!?
This video is very underrated
Really appreciate it
I feel like the real tragedy of the first story is that SCP foundation was the one to receive this message. If it was a public agency like NASA, I’d call it a happy story, even if sorrow.
This ancient machine and civilisation overcame the universe in all of its harshness and vastness, across billions of years. Their efforts were successful as they did broadcast the very important message. Harbinger as an artificial life-form could never have anticipated a happier end. It seems inconceivable it had any goals or wants besides this very thing. It didn’t just reach its lifelong goal but the ONLY goal in its life.
Except, in reality it never did reach its goal. The SCP foundation isn’t going to disclose this information with the rest of humanity. The foundation has absolutely no interest spreading the message forward to other species either. The message is preserved in an inaccessible database as a closely guarded secret. So while the message was successfully transmitted, and it was important, it’s purpose and all hopes placed on it were dead as soon as they arrived. Harbinger might as well have broadcasted this message to a lifeless planet or a dead star.
You're missing the point. The message was incredibly shallow for something a supposedly advanced race of aliens came up with, and the alien artificial intelligence thing suffered to deliver what is essentially the equivalent of one of those messages inside a fortune cookie
its more about the sentiment@@displayer6023
@@displayer6023somehow I don’t think that takeaway was “the point” of that one, ngl
The message asked us to look for others and help light the darkness, it only said to relay the message if our time is passing, but we still have plenty (in the grand scheme of things). I can see the Foundation firing off a satellite with the message if things go to shit. Besides, it's not like we have the technology right now to send off a probe to a planet we know is inhabited, with intelligent life, and that can learn the aliens' language.
In the meantime, the message is indeed a guarded secret, but it also won't be forgotten, in which case Harbinger still succeeded.
The pet island one had me bawling. It was just so bitter sweet. Like not necessarily sad, but just really emotionally impactful imagining what it'd be like to be in that situation. It was the only one to make me cry (the Mattie one made me tear up a bit, though).
I loved this video very much, I do hope you'll make more content like this? Very underrated!
pona!
thank you! I won't be exclusively making SCP content, but there will probably be some more in the future!
1-crying
2-crying less
3-crying the most yet
4-did not cry
5-BAWLING
6-just confused