Imagine sleeping peacefully for millions of years only to wake up with water in your lungs and hundreds of ants building a nest in your throat and also mining your insides.
@@victorpedrosoceolin3919 Given what machines we use for mining, a better analogy would be ants piloted by a bacteria. You're not wrong, given the scale.. and mining tech over the last couple decades. Near where I live we use machines the size of houses to mine everything.
@@leomahmet7555 lol thats not the banks fault its price gougers fault. The banks aren't selling water on the streets in tourist traps, they don't need to sell anything to get filthy rich. Banks use ancient black magic to basically spin money out of thin fucking air.
@@BlackSailPass_GuitarCoversthe issue is that making creepypastas and stuff into SCPs is a bit hit or miss. Siren Head was made into an SCP, but it was deleted. The backrooms is technically an SCP(SCP-6966).
I like to think that after the incident, the SCP foundation went on to buy ownership of the flesh pit and used a company as an alias to hide their research and salvagement projects
@@deviantsemicolon618Maybe we should make different tiers of the scp foundation. At the lowest tier is a foundation that only deals with earthly horrors like the flesh pit and other less cosmic scps. A world where only these earth bound scps exist and the foundation isn't as all-mighty as in other entries. And at the other end we have a foundation with multiversal influence, and unpredictable goals.
Also now I’m wondering how the Flesh pit would fare in The Day Breaks, or against 610, or if it came in to contact with Halo’s The Flood. So I take that back testing is necessary.
My favorite thing about Mystery Flesh Pit National Park is that it has such an element of body horror, but specifically for the organism. The idea that they've built all this infrastructure to hold open its mouth and let people go inside, mine its bones, explore, and how they actively have measures put in place to stop it from choking all makes me sympathize with the thing more. It's interesting to see where we have this cosmic horror that humans have the power over, yet its still horrifying.
To be honest this is what would happen if eldritch horrors existed irl, instead of we just crying on the background we would search for ways to exploit then for resources and profit, and chances are sometimes we would likely succede (and other times shit would hit the fan and people would die)
I think its the opposite actually, all these years while humans have mined, explored and exploited it they couldn't make it react in any way. The only thing that was able to affect it in any way was nature itself, which only caused it to cough, killing literally everyone in it and destroying any kind of infrastructure instantly. Imo the horror comes from the fact that humans think they have power over it even though they cant make it react in any way or know anything about it. I see a lot of people say "were like ants to it", but you notice ants. Were more like microbes, definitely not a good thing, but something that cant affect much.
@@bonicle7610 there are active efforts to keep the thing under control and unaware of our intervention, for example the reason why it coughed was because a bunch of pumps with the explicit purpose of draining the water so that it doesnt cough failed, and it got worse once they decided to drug the damn thing and accidentaly intoxicated it which caused it to suffer spams and nearly wake up And after that incident it's being keep in check by injecting sedatives straight into it's system in industrial quantities to keep it sleepy, so yeah humans can pretty much affect the damn thing it just takes a lot of effort and resources
@@carso1500 sedatives made that thing vomit and that caused 80k people to seek medical help for weeks after the event only reason it went back to sleep was contingency mesure once preformed damaged the device used for contingency. hell people who survived went back inside that thing we. humans are more like bacteria to it than ants
@@ambustio9807 yeah and you would like to know what happens when you left bacteria unatended on your body? Bacteria is fucking dangerous man more respect for it And yeah we intoxicated it and that caused it to vomit and nearly wake up because of it, what i'm trying to say it's that that thing is made out of flesh and bone it's not invincible
I’m impressed by the graphic designer who created the schematics, posters and designed the whole system. It really makes it feel real to see all the official documents.
@@MrAdryan1603 14:08 in the top left corner. also $22 for a hand towel?! This place is scam even when disregarding the getting consumed by a flesh put part.
The creature isn't what makes this horror stick with me. Its how often lives are eagerly given to it. The miners, shop employees, the human/pet amalgams, and the incident itself. It mixes the real world with horror in a *very* realistic way
The implication of the rangers being aware that there are people trapped on the other side of a flesh wall and being powerless to save them from "complete mastication"... No wonder they needed psychological help afterwards
Anyone else feels bad for the creature? It's like you go to sleep with your mouth open and when you wake up there's a huge metal cluster inside your body filled with maggots, you are drowning, your bones hurt, your head hurts, you start to choke and end up puking. Then those maggots put you on sedatives, break your bones, fill your stomach with sand and keep mining your mody while you are so high you can't do anything about it.
When you cut through all the medical lingo and documentation of every tiny detail, the laconic narrative of the entire incident is "Water got in its lungs, so it coughed. Then it rolled over in its sleep and started to wake up, so we tried sedating it. It had a bad reaction to the misdosed sedatives, so it threw up. Then it went back to sleep, possibly because we did this thing we won't specify, possibly on its own. Almost a thousand died. Almost two thousand were severely injured." It coughed, rolled over, and then it threw up. That's all it did. And nearly three thousand people's lives were either ended, permanently crippled, or marred by psychological trauma damage from seeing the other two things for life. It gets across that this thing is ungodly dangerous even if it's not actively malicious or even AWAKE. It gets across that we REALLY have no understanding of it whatsoever even if we can piece out bits of its anatomy, no idea how we can stop this thing from doing, well, ANYTHING, and most terrifying of all, it actively doing even something as minor as a hiccup or a cough COULD KILL PEOPLE BY THE THOUSANDS. Imagine what it would do if it became ACTIVE. or even worse... it was ACTIVELY MALICIOUS. This is properly done horror. Not fright, not cheap scares, this is looming, actual, visceral horror of a threat continuously looming over our heads we can do nothing whatsoever about and have to live in constant dread of. The animal threats from inside the superorganism are scary, sure, but the superorganism ITSELF is the true horror. We can fight back and even vanquish the animal threats. They're no more horrific than any other dangerous animal. More alien, but not more terrible. Against those, we can fight back, even triumph. But the Superorganism itself... we're one hundred percent at its mercy and all we can do is LITERALLY pray it never wakes up. The author is an absolute master. Pro level horror writer.
Nuke it once and it's dead, or we can just use conventional explosives at it's eyes if it has those or legs to cripple it, or just strap a bunch of nukes inside of it. The only reason it killed that many are because there were that many inside of it. If humans never entered it and just closed it off it would have probably resulted in zero deaths.
It seems what caused the loss of life was the use of the sedative, which by it's description sounds like it's very toxic to mammal life. That's what it puked up and spewed into the air, basically became a biological weapon with the material that was pumped into the thing. That combined with it's own gastric juice and the organisms that inhabit it being ejected to the surface. We aren't managing any cosmic horror pits of flesh in real life, but how much careful control of our own man made systems is required to stay safe on a day to day basis? How many of those systems are controlled completely by a private corporation with a board of directors who have a vested interest in spending the least amount of money to meet the most basic safety requirements placed on them? This story is less about how dangerous the organic mess in a pit is, and how dangerous human negligence can be.
Author did really well at including multiple factors that push it over the line and cause critical failure as you would find in a real government incident report
That's one of my favorite things about this story. Real life disasters like this are never caused by just one thing. It's always some combination of poor planning, improper maintenance, incompetence, bad luck, bad timing, etc. The way events transpire in this story is just so real and believable. He nailed it.
@@Audey it's called the "Swiss Cheese model " (no comment on the Swiss, I didn't name it.) But it's how any competent org writes a report. That's why it sounds real.
i love how it wasn't something out of nowhere that caused the incident, it was realistic in portraying multiple small failures, miscommunications, and missed inspections.
It's scary how believable this is. If you accept the premise, everything else makes way too much sense, from building a mining and tourist operation to letting standards slip due to negligence or greed until a disaster strikes.
only thing that doesn't make sense is people willingly going to a "park" inside a massive meat organism underground i get jurassic park, but this is too much
@@caralho5237It's a combination of lovecraftian fiction (people are in fact "compelled to enter the meat pit when in close enough proximity) and end stage capitalism where the safety of the consumer and the worker no longer matters. Just cut corners and do whatever you can to make money. And I hate to say this man...but people are in fact insane enough where if they're told something is safe no matter how horrific it is they'll happily wander all over it. See for example ghost hunters. They could be told a place is fucking infested with demons and you'll still have tour groups coming through to taking pictures. Or for a more poignant example Chernobyl. It's the nature of humanity to rubber neck atrocities.
I love the combination of Lovecraftian horror, corporate hubris, and dry technical talk that adds to the sense of realism. They take an utterly surreal concept and handle it with deadpan seriousness. It's like Made in Abyss meets the Deepwater Horizon incident.
The part I really enjoy about this is that it actually reads exactly like the stuff the NTSB puts out when a bridge collapses or something, right down to the disclaimers. Such a perfect style match, the author is extremely talented.
Its pretty close some nomenclature is slightly off such as use of the word disaster rather than event. The government doesn't like the word disaster they like to use event, incident, and accident instead.
That's the genius of the prose narrative; it's already an old discovery, and has become a part of the global consciousness. People venturing into the park to camp or hike are looking at it as little different than climbing a mountain or camping in bear territory. Dangerous, but interesting and exciting precisely because of the danger. Until it coughs and starts to wake up, and people are reminded of the real danger just as a bear attack victim would be.
@@EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany Two of them actually. One hiking tourists and the darn thing has a MINOR eruption people injured. The other a BOAT tour same. That one has some graphic video. STEAM hurt as many people as rocks falling on them.
This has so much depth and meaning. This is such a promising horror franchise that NEEDS attention. This has elements of Jurassic Park, Alien, DeadSpace, and other cosmic horror like The Mist and Annihilation all wrapped in a alt word 1980s. I hope this becomes something more than an internet story. This needs a game, a book, a show, a movie...something. one of those things if not all of them.
I hear ya' and I know how you feel. I have NO idea how I found this, but it has its own website and I'm sort of enjoying the elite intellect required to follow how literate, medically and geologically accurate it is to just down right comedy for really smart people. It's like modern Lovecraft, who absolutely encourage his readers and correspondents to build on his world building. This is great. (and I need a t-shirt from this thing immediately, so I can lie about "HOW have you never been HERE?!" to perfect strangers -- and definitely wear it to other national parks)
Absolutely! This would make an amazing mini series. Something along the lines of Chernobyl. They can make a full season of it from the discovery of the pit, the development of the park, the Rumblings of something going wrong, and finally the series would climax with the disaster and the aftermath.
It’s like if Lovecraft, SCP foundation and Fascinating Horror got together and decided to create a grotesque love child of elder god, incident report and OSHA violations.
I remember learning about this one. A whole world created through one simple, yet bizarre, idea. I could see a Limetown style podcast based on it one day
The scariest part for me are the "the interpit lifeforms" emerging and stalking the staff and guests topside (presumably around the Marriot hotel complex)
Jesus, that last line about those in the Western Hemisphere needing to accept that their lives are going to be destroyed by this thing someday hit hard. Terrific narration.
Honestly wouldnt be surprised if after this incident the goverment decided to cram a bunch of high yield nukes on the insides of that thing just in case it ever becomes "ambulatory" so that if it ever wakes up there is a nasty surprise inside it
love the clinical-ness of the report. i'd be willing to bet the author has a background in government bureaucracy type stuff because it's really on point
I haven't seen anyone discussing the fact that the hospitalised people just got up and went to be eaten, is that an indication of how it would attract prey? Also I love the detail that there's a whale in there, the creature must have been around since the land was underwater.
Perhaps that's a reason they build a national park there in the first place? I mean we probably would have done it anyway But perhaps whatever it did to those people also was part of the reason people went inside of it in the first place
There's other material for this story that describes people having intense, unnatural urges to jump into the pit, even long after the incident. They have warning signs on the fences and everything.
The author confirmed that they went back to search for loved ones still trapped inside. The creature doesn't have any telepathic or pheromone spray that affect humans in any forms
I... find it really interesting how subtly creepy the first time it mentions "becomes ambulatory" is. The simple thought that this thing could... get up and walk around and then coming to terms with the thoughts of what this thing could possibly *truly* be are.... horrifying. The fact that at the time it was just a brief thought that was just passed over makes it worse. It wasn't until another organization stepped in to really strike home how awful it would be if this massive organism that we could only mildly irritate managed to actually become fully active.
I hate how people say we can only mildly irritate it. It is known to be about 30-40km deep and up to 300km accross. And they mine it already so we can harm it with conventional means. litteraly just use bomb logic. 5 50 megaton would create a fireball able to evaporate everything in about 75km. Meaning if we placed them in the exotic anatomy below the surface orifice we would instantly evaporate its stomach, lungs, entire known digestive system, endocrine system, vast amounts of vital bone and muscle tissue and leave it with a huge gaping hole. It would be like sticking a firecracker inside a crab. The outside might still be there but the insides are a molten fire soup.
To paraphrase Wendigoon: "this thing is waking up and a whole bunch of people will die because we had to make goddamn amusement park inside its mouth."
Something I will at least argue from the source material, though not directly mentioned in the audio thus far, is this -This thing's internal organs were literal health and pleasure spas. They bathed in this creature's wombs. Amniotic baths. They cured disease and were miraculous healing springs with potent aphrodisiacal properties, used for both medicinal and recreational purposes. Considering human nature... let alone all of the resources of it's body, and the spectacle of it, and the ability to monitor and research the thing... I haven't finished the video all the way yet, but that alone is already a massive and believable reason for humans to go diving down into cosmic horror level entity - Pretty sure I've seen frat boys do worse by the power of the horny and testosterone fueled. Imagine if alcohol and weed were ALSO the never-ending springs to eternal health and a publicly available cure to cancer?
This is like if an SCP, was just a normal everyday geological anomaly. Yet it is made so analytical and normalized with language and descriptions being somewhat whimsical, as well, being of mystical nature along with beaurocratic language and with the understanding of this creature, it is amazingly confusing.
Arguably, this is the template of what the SCP articles SHOULD sound/read like. It's a formal scientific/political research organisation, not a 14-year-old's blog.
@@IndustrialBonecraft no! Scp has to be “cool and exciting”, and that means every scp needs to be some epic cool god that the hero kills so I can get upvotes!!! Lol doctor bright is so funny and wholesome chungus, chainsaw cannon 🤣🤣🤣 Sarcasm if you can’t tell
@@disconnected7737 I don't have statistics on hand, but it is surprisingly common for people to fall into geysers, one guy was trying to rescue his dog and they both got cooked.
Whenever I think about the lower visitor center being practically swallowed by the super organism, and how it tilted almost completely at a 90 degree angle before getting stuck deep in the creature's gullet... Ugh. I get massive heebie jeebies. Obviously this is a work of fiction, but the image the incident report puts in my head is absolutely horrifying.
This sounds like a common post-incident report from the company where I used to work at. A type of report that happened at least twice a month. After each report everyone would just pat each other's backs on a job well done and continue not solving what caused the incident in the first place.
@@trainman5675 But many do. They just fire any troublemakers. Or, rather, fabricate or find excuses to do so Depending on line of work, this can be either dangerous or nobody will ever know
Such a unique kind of story, it's tone and setting sure bring me back to the early years of the SCP foundation, when the look at the creatures was more scientific and sterile, I kinda wish they could've kept that atmosphere, as it sure makes the stories all the more fascinating, which is the case here. Excellent work with the narration dude, this was really interesting
I feel like there are still many clinical SCPs nowadays. Also the clinical report part is just a tiny fraction of the content regarding the Mystery Flesh Pit. Most of it is tourism. :D
My cousin used to work as a game warden in the flesh pit from 1993 to 2001. In those days, game wardens who wanted to work in the superorganism had to go through a special selection and training process to qualify for warden positions in the park. Candidates were run through a gamut of physical fitness tests, psychological evaluations, 2-gun course evaluations, law competency exams, all that sort of thing. My cousin had been a Guadalupe County deputy for about 10 years before he decided he wanted to work as a warden. He took me in the summer of '96 I believe to go on a sort of camping trip with him, I must have been 13 at the time. I don't remember a TON about it, but I do remember being distinctly fascinated with the colonies of macrobacteria you would find in the North Bronchial forest. I think we found one resembling some kind of amoeba maybe (Im no microbiologist) in a herd that was maybe 25 feet long? It was massive. Smelled like a pack of active dry yeast lol. Creeps me out thinking about how close we were to the gag of '07 now really. I'll say Im glad my cousin left in 2001. He works in Utah now. Still a warden, ironically.
I'm really glad the creator of this didn't bundle it into being yet another SCP entry. An idea this fleshed out (lol) deserves to stand on its own and wouldn't benefit from the fandom saturation that well-written SCPs endure.
To be fair, the SCP contribution system is so arcane and obtuse, it was probably just easier to make it its own thing. With the added benefit of not having your work critiqued by a room of clowns. (TH-cam section notwithstanding).
Like other recent internet horror things (Backrooms) it works as a standalone but could also easily work as an SCP. Given that SCP content is kinda booming on TH-cam it certainly wouldn't hurt for it to be part of the canon. Ultimately there is nothing wrong with the whole SCP concept; your main concern seems to be that it would be overexposed due to the fandom, which is debatable.
@@drago939393 There is nothing wrong with the SCP concept, there are amazing stories in the universe. But as the popularity grows the signal:noise ratio shrinks, and evocative slow-burns like SCP-093 start occupying the same sphere as bombastic fan service like SCP-1730. It's less a concern of exposure and more of what can happen to a completed idea when handed to a fandom where restraint is losing appeal.
@@SarahC-by4cs Fair take. Indeed the SCP concept is being more and more popularized and watered down as a result, given that more and more people enter the space with different tastes, desires and goals. The net gets wider, the catch gets more diverse... And arguably less rich. Hearsay and loose interpretations become the norm, canon goes out of the window and even agendas can get pushed. For example, I personally dislike the apparent disdain towards redactions and huuuugely out there self-contained entries that are better served for tales... Funnily enough that implies that I wouldn't want Mystery Flesh Pit to be a part of it, tho I would. Backrooms definitely would and should fit in the SCP verse tho, it's kind of a shame that it's outside of it.
This is a really cool project. It deftly ties together horrorific themes with mundane/environmental ones. There's the cosmic horror of being inside an entity so huge and alien, and also the horror of imagining having creatures inside your own body, exploiting and torturing it for profit. So just in that one parallel, we get different types of horror that mesh perfectly.
No torture, there was never any mention of a central nervous system, which implies no sentience. It just a giant plant with more flesh and bone than plant material.
@@TheBaldr idk, it reacted to water filling its "mouth" and pouring down its throat. So nerve signals are being sent to and from somewhere. Also, they keep it sedated because their activity inside would probably wake it up, which implies that it would be able to feel them mining its bones and whatnot.
The detail and realism of this disaster report are incredible. I watch a lot of disaster mini documentaries. And a lot of the lingo used in this tale match those used in real life disaster reports. Dry or not, this is a well executed fic.
This could actually make for a brilliant high budget movie that would have a far wider appeal than just SCP fans. The same cannot be said for most SCP entries.
@@gamersbest4601 It's unlikely since the SCP wiki is Creative Commons (by necessity due to its collaborative nature), which fortunately/unfortunately means that you can't really make for-profit media based off of it. Still, there's always the possibility of media inspired by the setting.
@@ENCHANTMEN_ so far the closest we get would be the cabin in the wood movie, with the organisation keeping the elder gods in check with a ritual. Of course the perspective is different, but how the organisation works feels a lot like the scp organisation.
i had a nightmare as a kid about something like this. I was stuck at the bottom of a fleshy pit with a shallow puddle of acid that was burning me and I kept trying to climb out but the slimy walls contracted and flung me back down into the acid every time. I was getting dissolved and could see the bones in my hands and was absolutely freaked out as I frantically tried climbing up the walls over and over hoping that maybe something different would happen but kept getting thrown back into the acid. In retrospect, I probably should've just stood in the middle and at least only my feet would get dissolved. Every time I got thrown it would splash the acid all over me and dissolved everything.
jesus thats terrifying, I've always had lucid dreams so if that happened to me Id just fly out. Plus id find some asshole to throw back in so the creature doesn't go hungry.
I remember a dream similar to yours! I was going through a body, it was really tight and I reached the stomach. I was going through the gut and out of the anus and then I woke up. It was a scary dream.
9:16 Start of relevant timeline. 10:29 AM July 4th - Unseasonably high rains force park administrators to cancel a July 4th Concert and Fireworks display scheduled to take place on the surface park grounds. Many visitors who had already purchased tickets to the event become upset, and a decision is made to extend the park hours until midnight for those who had purchased event tickets. 8:00 PM July 4th - Normal closing time for the national park. A typical shift change of reduced night staff in the control room takes place. 9:16 PM July 4th - Harvesting crews working in the western extremities of the organism set a new extraction record to meet a quota for bonuses in time for the holiday weekend. 9:30 PM July 4th - Control room operators initiate a routine system self-test and discover a relay fault error resulting from increased electrical demand from mining equipment and tourist infrastructure. A control room operator logs the fault and notifies an on-duty engineer. 9:41 PM July 4th - Water drainage from surface rain into the Entry Orifice begins to collect in the sand gullet. Drainage pumps are automatically activated by a sensor system but fail to initialize due to the relay fault. An emergency back-up pump running on a separate emergency circuit is automatically activated. 9:42 PM July 4th - A critical alarm in the control room alerts operators that the emergency water pump has seized and is inoperative. Under-lubrication of the pump’s impeller bushings resulted in corrosion due to the moist interior of the flesh pit environment. 9:48 PM July 4th - Technicians arrive at the primary pump station to discover the sand gullet almost completely submerged. Water begins to pour over the dorsal respiratory ridge and into bronchial bulbules. Control room operators divert power to hydraulic stent rams to brace for expected choke response. 9:51 PM July 4th - Technicians a repair the relay fault as control staff reset the park’s electrical grid. The grid is offline for 45 seconds. The automatic PA system does not notify guests as the system is scheduled to automatically shut down at the normal 8:00PM closing time. The temporary lapse of lighting causes many guests to become panicked and return to the main gantry lift at the lower visitor center. 9:52 PM July 4th - A choking action from the organism begins 31 seconds into the electrical reset. The main dorsal trunk violently flexes. Lack of power to hydraulic arming rams causes irreparable damage to several sections of internal infrastructure. 9:53 PM July 4th - As the electrical system finishes the reboot cycle, the dynamic hydraulic actuators supporting the lower visitor center overcorrect for stability, not accounting for the shift in the wall lining of the nexial cavity in which the visitor center facility is anchored. Two of the six structural supports are torn from their foundations which causes the facility to list 20deg off vertical. The base joint of the vertical entry gantry is bent beyond its design limit angle. 9:54 PM July 4th - The Master Alarm is tripped automatically. Surface facilities are notified as response teams are given the order to mobilize. 9:56 PM July 4th - Park rangers are dispatched to rescue groups of visitors trapped in partially collapsed tunnels and trails. 10:03 PM July 4th - Continued movement of the organism, combined with rainwater, causes one of the upper entry gantry supports to slip. An outbound elevator conducts an emergency stop stranding over two dozen visitors. 10:05 PM July 4th - Tremors registered as far away as the DFW metroplex. 10:06 PM July 4th - Soil liquefaction destabilizes surface facilities in and around the organism. Dilation anchors begin retracting to keep the entry orifice open. 10:12 PM July 4th - A master fail-safe is activated by the automated park management system. Twenty thousand liters of aconitine compound are injected into the superorganism via a distributed network of relay stations located throughout it’s known internal anatomy. 10:12 PM July 4th - Tremors and convulsions intensify as the entry gantry connection to the lower visitor center detaches completely. The lower visitor center begins to collapse downward into the nexial cavity. 10:12 PM July 4th - Peristaltic muscle action of the nexial cavity begins to exert substantial pressure on the outer structure of the lower visitor center facility. 10:15 PM July 4th - The prime labiod junction just west of the Septum Falls geobiological feature flexes into an open position, releasing a torrent of lactogastric chyma into the dorsal trunk. It is likely that this was a reaction to the aconitine injection. 10:16 PM July 4th - Peristaltic spasms force the caustic chyma slurry through the nexial cavity and up through the lower and upper moisture crops towards the surface orifice. 10:16 PM July 4th - Many guests attempting to flee the stalled elevator near the entry orifice attempt climbing out the upper moisture crop but are ultimately unsuccessful due to torrential rains causing the surfaces to become very slippery. Many end up falling back into the maw. 10:17 PM July 4th - The chyma slurry erupts from the surface orifice in a geyser several hundred meters in height. Large pieces of undigested organic matter crush several vehicles and damage windows. 10:19 PM July 4th - Following the several minute long ejecta event, a deep and incredibly loud roar erupts from the entry orifice as ground tremors intensify further. Large extremities begin surfacing through bedrock and soil approx. 30km-120km from the entry orifice. 10:25 PM July 4th - The acrid smell of the gastric ejecta can be detected as far as Odessa, TX. 10:26 PM July 4th - Two park service vehicles and a tour vehicle containing park service employees and several guests attempt to ascend through the entry orifice tube. 10:27 PM July 4th - Peristaltic action crushes one of the tour vehicles and sucks the other two vehicles back into the nexial cavity and down into a digestive organ. These vehicles are presumed destroyed. 10:58 PM July 4th - The pentagon is given authorization from the whitehouse to use nuclear force if necessary to prevent the organism from entering an active and/or ambulatory state. 11:02 PM July 4th - The on-site operations director within the lower visitor center control room initiates a final fail-safe measure in the form of the [CONTINGENCY MEASURE]. 11:02 PM July 4th - Master Event Log records successful spin-up of the [CONTINGENCY MEASURE]. 11:05 PM July 4th - Lower visitor center structural integrity is critically compromised resulting in total collapse. 11:05 PM July 4th - Data connection with lower visitor center is severed. 11:13 PM July 4th - Spasms and motor action of the superorganism begins to noticeably subside. Response teams begin to descend into the surface orifice to attempt rescue operations. 11:19 PM July 4th - Response team encounters visitor group which had attempted escape from stalled elevator. Most are dead, the remainder are mortally wounded and partially digested due to caustic gastric ejecta. 11:42 PM July 4th - Radio contact established with ranger vehicle trapped within “Oyster’s Shame”. Due to ventricle closure, no feasible rescue strategy can be developed before complete mastication occurs. 11:56 PM July 4th - Response team confirms that [CONTINGENCY MEASURE] and associated facility are still intact and operating. 11:58 PM July 4th - Texas Gov. Rick Perry formally declares a state of emergency for Gumption county. 12:22 AM July 5th - Response teams route data/power umbilical to new basecamp in [CONTINGENCY MEASURE] facility. 12:35 AM July 5th - Three inter-pit lifeforms are identified as having been ejected onto the surface. Fifteen visitors are injured and seven are hunted by inter-pit lifeforms during panicked evacuation of surface resort. 12:41 AM July 5th - Park staff manage to kill the three large lifeforms. 1:02 AM July 5th - National Guard helicopters begin delivering supplies and personnel to aid in site containment. 1:58 AM July 5th - Field hospital is constructed to care for wounded visitors and staff. 2:37 AM July 5th - Initial damage surveys report catastrophic destruction of internal park infrastructure. Pit geobiology has dramatically changed in hazard level. 3:00 AM July 5th - Emergency teleconference of Anodyne executive leadership. National parks director and Secretary of the Interior are present. 3:12 AM July 5th - Executive decision is made to initiate FEMA response and assemble a task force for containing superorganism. 4:00 AM July 5th - Media helicopters and vehicles begin to report on the scope of disaster. 4:39 AM July 5th - Base camp technicians begin to spin-down [CONTINGENCY MEASURE]. Large fractures due to inertial stress have appeared on mineral components. Engineers advise against re-initializing [CONTINGENCY MEASURE] until mineral components can be replaced or repaired. 6:08 AM July 5th - Ground personnel begin assembling a pump system to inject industrial sedatives into the superorganism. Transport trucks containing industrial sedative arrive. 9:45 AM July 5th - Emergency teleconference of Anodyne shareholders. 11:20 AM July 5th - Several injured visitors inexplicably leave field hospital and begin walking towards open pit orifice. Approx. 38 individuals are able to crawl back into the orifice over the course of 8 hours. None are recovered. 3:51 PM July 5th - Radio transmission from trapped ranger vehicle ceases. Many speculate that other small groups of visitors and staff are still trapped. End of relevant timeline.
I cant disagree wholly but if the park was built to generate funds for testing and studying I can't say I blame them. Otherwise it would need to be solely done through government funding and we all would be paying through taxes anyways. May as well check it out if we have to pay.
@@novusnocturnm nah, necrons are mechanical and lived inside futuristic egyptian pyramids. That giant flesh hole belongs to either the Tyranids or chaos.
@@nikolai_O0 yes I know. But how many imperial and chaos world are old necron tomb worlds? At least 2 primarch worlds were necron tombs. This is exactly the thing that gets you necrons. Even the age of the organism makes sense. Necrons build vast underground systems long before most civilization in the galaxy had truly began. There no reason at all an organisms wouldn’t/couldn’t envelope their tomb.
I LOVE this unfiction piece, precisely because it's presented in this form. I don't know why, it just really grabs me. Plus as a biologist, I can really appreciate the sheer amount of research that went into making this sound as scientifically plausible as possible.
Unfiction? There is either fiction or nonfiction some people like to say science fiction. There is either fact or fiction that's it. It's either for God or for evil that's it.
@@Mondy667 ARG stands for alternate reality game, it's a type of story. Unfiction is a genre of stories. Think Young Adult book is the genre, love story is the type. Or science fiction is the genre and Alien is the type. A genre can encapsule many types of stories. Also as an afterthought the concept of an ARG is muddied nowadays as well, the G for game is most of the time completely ignored. They used to use audience participation in their storytelling, either by figuring out codes for the protagonist or sometimes even finding clues in the real world somewhere. Nowadays it's mostly just the audience watching it unfold without being involved. I think most ARGs nowadays are more like analog horror? 🤔
I once saw someone who said this could make an amazing survival horror game. The lore is there, and the plot could be military personal (or hired guns) going to salvage stuff lost in the mystery flesh pit
In wendingoon's video about that story many people (myself included ) pondered that it would make a good Bioshock-esque game... imagine ... it has all the makings of a good bioshock game in its world building.
it'd be really cool if there were different side story playthrough things of different people in the flesh pit, similar to Blue Shift or Opposing Force. one playthrough you could be a survivor escaping the flesh pit or a responder immediately following the aftermath of the incident.
@@CaribouGutSludge what about a dlc that takes place during the 70s, where you are one of the original miners who discovered the organism? That’s be sick
@@DreamskyDance I was one of those people, I thought of the idea where you have to go into the visitor center, melting, horror, and you could even do a air thing where you start seeing stuff from the, no doubt half melted people, some stuff like that, I went it into a lot in the video in the original comment
If you pause and read the text on screen, it says that pregnant women shouldn't visit the park because smoking is permitted in all of the tunnels of the organism.
>Wendigoon makes a video >TES makes a video I am SO happy to see this project gaining the traction it deserves! Edit: AGH! And AZFK, how could I forget!
Oh god, my friend sent me the "accident report" out of the blue last year and it gave me a vertiginous feeling of awe and mystery I had literally never felt outside of a dream before. So cool to hear you covering this! Haha, I started a painting of a station deep in the thing's interior (at the beginning of "Exotic Anatomy") but my CPU bricked in the middle of it and I still haven't gone back to finish it. Maybe now tho...
You got a lot of nerve calling the Mystery Flesh Pit "paranormal." I'm getting a solid impression that it was here before we were. Arguably, it has more of a claim to "normal" than the bipedal cyborg apes that started showing up out of nowhere.
I'm not saying the people that died had it coming. What I am saying is that a "mistery flesh pit" would be the absolute and indefinite last place I would ever go. No matter how long it was safe for. No, just No. Never. This thing would be way too scetchy for me. This thing is even worse then Yellow stone.
In this world going to the "mystery flesh pit" is not any diferent than going to the grand canyon or to the Niagara falls, it's just another landmark that has existed for decades and people are just used to it at this point
There's the obvious horror angle from a human perspective, but imagine it from the creature's perspective. Imagine waking up one day to find that tiny beings have built infrastructure inside you.
I can’t take this story or this universe seriously. The Permian basin superorganism ? It sounds like a really bad anime not the good ones the one that someone made in ms paint.
This remind me of a video game I played called Torment: Tides of Numenara. In that game you go to some giant flesh pod thing where people have set up a town and launch expeditions into the ‘Bloom’ they call it. People routinely get swallowed up and pathways regularly shift with giant mouths shutting in your way. Random acid baths and nasty fleshy beasts are constant hazards. People however have created an economy around the bits and pieces of stuff they find and manage to survive for years down there. It has a latent mental affect on people so prolonged stays drive people insane. A similar idea for a different world this fits our commercial tourist thrill seeking world perfectly.
It was suppose to be the spiritual successor to planescape torment but never really lived up to the legacy. I found the game kinda boring and jumbled and disorganised. Way too short too. So yeah i didnt like it, especially with the hope i had that it would be at least a little good as the original. Unfortunately it wasnt. What interesting stuff there was, like the start area you describe, was just not enough to negate everything else bad about it. Which was pretty much everything else apart from the setting. Im sure theres reviews that can sum up the problems better then i can if anyones interested.
God... The graphic design is perfect. Literally perfect! It matches so perfectly the zeitgeist, the corporate mindset, and aesthetics considerations of the time that I'm completely amazed to fact that this is a fan project- AMAZING!
Honestly, give it a few years. They'll reopen the park under "New Management", and pieces of the original lower visitors center will just be a small memorial.
This reads/sounds so on-point and so accurate to real-world incident reports. The writer has clearly either done their homework or has helped with one before, and it's amazing. The true horror here however is the idea of a living creature's body being used as basically entertainment, and as someone who's had surgeries before it gives me chills. In addition, the full seeming disregard for life all-around be it human, animal or otherwise, all as dryly-written and understated as real-world terminologies like "disassociated portions" being used in lieu of "exploded human body-chunks".
I was on the world-building subreddit when this started and I stopped seeing it all of a sudden. I'm glad it is becoming so popular now and until recently I was a member of the Patreon
Yeah I remember this. All TV news were talking about this all day long. I was just a child back then and I complained that I couldn't watch cartoon shows. Several years after, I learned this in a history class and realized how serious this accident was. My teacher had cousin's family died during the accident so he hated the company so much. They went a family vacation there and it happened. His cousin, the father in the family was a firefighter. So my teacher believed that he would've continued to save other people until all of them were succumbed by the flesh. Only his wife came out of the pit partially melt by gastric acid. But she went back to the pit several hours later. Nobody knows why and my teacher still blamed people at the scene that how they couldn't stop the victims from returning to the pit. 2007 was a weird year for sure.
This reminds me of 40Ks larger Tyranid Forms, where some weapons and their ammo, and in some cases literal parts of the creature are symbiotic, all controlled by the hivemind and not actually just one biological system. This could be a cool concept where parts of this react to the stress of other parts, similar to how tyranid ammo is pretty inert in the "magazine" but goes bananas when its pushed out of the weapon organism
3:36 The reveal that K Street lobbyists are involved is the most ominous thing about the meat pit. The dissonance between the cosmic horror and tourist spot makes sense once you realize that good old lobbying turned this into a beloved vacation destination
This is such a weird coincidence- early last night, I rewatched Wendigoon’s video on this for no particular reason. I was pleasantly surprised to see a new video about it from you. Thanks for the great content!
Imagine that this is literally Cronus, and we stumbled on Tartarus. In more scientific terms, we can consider this is some kind of planetary orfice, and the planet itself is alive. We would then be like dust mites or bacteria, living on it's surface.
That last sentence of the conclusion was a real kick in the guts. Interesting to see where the report takes its inspiration from the reviews of similar disasters such as Chernobyl, the Challenger explosion, the collapse of the WTC towers, and doubtless many others...
This is a horror story about an unfathomably large system with no regard for human safety causing thousands of deaths and injuries. There's also a superorganism turned into an attraction involved.
@@coloradohikertrash9958 …could you run that by me again chief? I’m pretty sure it’s a metaphor for corporate disregard of public or environmental safety
@@coloradohikertrash9958 I have no idea where you got that one from tbh, and I'm black too. This one's really just about the horrors of capitalism and the ramifications of corporate greed and negligence (along with the body horror that the creature experiences too)
I’m still thinking about the 38 people that climbed back into the pit. To have such a poignant detail just kinda passed by adds to the horror and mystery of the pit
I’ve got like 8 exams next week. Having trouble falling asleep. I saw that you put out a new video, and immediately decided that this is what I’m falling asleep to tonight. Thank you so much.
I hope they are making a "guidebook" or history book for this. They can put all the story and great photo collection that they have accumulated so far but make it look like it is a real place.
The creator has mentioned making a sort of “coffee table” book of the story of the mystery flesh pit national park, so one day soon you can freak out your friends with it !
This is one of my favorite little world build projects, super happy to see you talk about it! it's older, but I don't think it ever got the attention it deserved.
Oh, yeah! I was picturing something like the giant flesh-thing at the end of the movie"Evolution". But with more solid, extensive, musculoskeletal structures on the exterior.
@@samuelfawell9159 how so, nukes can quite easily obliterate any flesh, and seeing how big they are and their radius, it shouldn't even be that hard, at most 2. And that's not even considering conventional firepower and how we can strap nukes inside of it before it even wakes up. It's probably the best for it's own well-being that it stays asleep.
@@pja6476 because like many things in the SCP universe or tangent universe, the fear of dropping a nuke and it not working. Given the size of this thing, given it’s various natures, the idea of it withstanding a nuke is not out of the realm of possibility, and what then? You have a giant… thing, and we have already fired our shot and it didn’t work.
I was four when the 07 incident occurred, so my recollection isn’t the best, but I recall the tremors I felt in Dallas. My parents were crying around the tv and there were helicopters moving towards something in the distance.
We need more factual/informational articles like this. The content on this channel has always been interesting, but a lot of the articles on the wiki are _so, so in depth_ that they're difficult to even process, and thats what makes reading them interesting. These kind of articles really show how dedicated some of these writers are
I consider this a perfect companion piece to SCP because it's a textbook example of why the Foundation is necessary, or else all anomalies would end up like thjs
I just found out about this a little bit ago and got obsessed. It's the first thing I've read in many years that actually made me feel scared and disgusted. It was just how truly disturbing the idea of the organism is and how casual the park guest's/ staff feel about it. Very well done. I felt like I was a middle schooler reading creepy pastas again.
Thanks for the great videos man! Really love just how much effort and time you put into your content. Not everything has to be an SCP video and I’m happy you have fun making a variety of content.
For many years I work for a company that stored the extracted waste of this creature and stored it in tanks .it was highly acidic and the tanks had to be cleaned and patched. that was my job. I had several life threatening events while doing this work eventually was able to retire and moved away from the permanent basin.
This documentary/ incident report is way better than the one I saw on PBS, the tour guides should be required to watch this! Figures all the news reports were yanked, can't find a single one anymore.
Supervisor: (stops tape) ...and THIS, ladies and gentlemen, is why we will actively listen to those "boring" and "cheesy" safety training videos! Thanks to a culture of greedmongering, scared silence, and corner-cutting, it was the end of an era...not that the era of a recreational park inside an eldritch superorganism was entirely a good thing to begin with, mind you, but it's the principle that counts. Any questions? Trainee: Sssssooooo if I wanted to chip off a peice of tooth for a souvenir...? Supervisor: ....You're fired.
I think my favorite part was the section explaining the park's experimental/untested failsafe using mystic relics that were supposedly meant to control the creature.
Just learned about this one like yesterday, funny that you came out with a video around the same time. Just last year I had created a dimension in my D&D setting that was basically the Flesh Pit. I called it the "Plane of Flesh" and it was an entire dimension between planes that was made up entirely of the innards of one organism. It could open its maw in any plane or dimension to feed on entire cities, and within it is a decaying mix of people and architecture from every culture across every plane of existence. I THOUGHT this was a very original idea. Turns out somebody else came up with almost exactly the same thing and took the concept much further than me, and did it years earlier. Kind of a bummer but also this is exactly the type of fictional biology type stuff I love.
shit. I know exactly what story you're talking about, the one (spoilers) where the main character timeloops back to lead themself to the entrance? why not just write it? We definitely need more stories like that, just because somethings similar doesn't mean it's a copy, just look at the legal stature with the lion king and the similar story that came before it but got little fame comparatively, even extremely similar stories can be considered not the same.
@@alabasterstone7160 noooooooo!… but actually yeah go for it. I should write about it and publish it as some kind of story or campaign setting so others can use it.
Just a friendly reminder that: Not original =/= not clever/good! Some of my players most beloved plot points are either things that I deliberately took and walmart-branded for my own use, or things I thought were unique and clever only to later find were totally done before, often several times
The thing that peaks my interest with mystery flesh pit is the thought that if this was real we might've actually done something like this turning it into a nightmare park or something, I just feel bad for the thing
Just wanted to suggest you have a look at "Roadside Picnic" - a book set in a town right next to a giant anomalous zone, where many go to scavenge paranormal objects to sell on the black market
Yeah. Stalker. The brothers that wrote the book then wrote the movie stalker and both were used for adaptation into the games. Its utterly fantastic, all of it. (Well, except maybe clear sky 🙄) but yes, it is very well known amongst this type of community and writers/readers.
This was told so well, I had to look up if it was fictional. It’s so creepy, and seeing how things are in the world. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was real.
Gotta love the last bit of that timeline: 3:51 PM July 5th - Radio transmission from trapped ranger vehicle ceases. Many speculate that other small groups of visitors and staff are still trapped. End of relevant timeline There are quiet possibly dozens if not hundreds of men, women, and children still trapped inside this thing struggling to survive, but this section of the disaster is not deemed 'relevant' and their fates are best left unaddressed. Pure Weyland-Yutani levels of dystopia. I also noticed that the three "inter-pit lifeforms" aren't actually specified. If you've read the lore, you'd remember the only lifeform detailed actually larger than your average human is the Abyssal Copepod. While large and disturbing looking, they are described as relatively slow and sluggish with an aversion to bright lights and loud noises. They don't seem like the kind of creature capable of killing a bunch of screaming people. That mean's the whatever got ejected was something else, some sort of unidentified eldritch chaos spawn that rampaged through the area ripping people apart before being brought down by gunfire.
I feel bad for the pit, it just wakes up and finds out there are bugs mining and creating recreational facilities only to then be drugged when it tries to cough out the threat.
This was my introduction to the story and I been obsessed with it. It’s really cool when a great artist gets into world building and creates something that feels real.
Imagine sleeping peacefully for millions of years only to wake up with water in your lungs and hundreds of ants building a nest in your throat and also mining your insides.
With the creature size, it's more like bacteria than ants
I would say the park would be more like a buildup of mucus than anything
Still enough to throw up, if it’s bad enough
I'd say that humans would be closer to the size of mites in comparison to this thing
i think it was literally it just clearing its sinuses
@@victorpedrosoceolin3919 Given what machines we use for mining, a better analogy would be ants piloted by a bacteria. You're not wrong, given the scale.. and mining tech over the last couple decades. Near where I live we use machines the size of houses to mine everything.
The scariest part of this story is the fact a 16oz water bottle costs $12.50
I mean thats just how stuff is at all theme parks. Lol $12 is only slightly more absurd than reality
I saw 0,5l water bottles being sold for easily 10 euros in touristy spots, erasure of all banks can't come soon enough.
@@leomahmet7555 lol thats not the banks fault its price gougers fault. The banks aren't selling water on the streets in tourist traps, they don't need to sell anything to get filthy rich. Banks use ancient black magic to basically spin money out of thin fucking air.
@@indiomoustafa2047 hahahaha you got me in the first half there
Really? That’s the scariest thing in the story?
Mystery flesh pit is pretty much exactly what happens when when the SCP foundation misses an scp and it ends up becoming known to the public.
@Huckjusta
th-cam.com/video/gtjE_kwDXQU/w-d-xo.html someone made a video of that
20:42 would absolutely be at home in an SCP document.
@@BlackSailPass_GuitarCoversthe issue is that making creepypastas and stuff into SCPs is a bit hit or miss. Siren Head was made into an SCP, but it was deleted. The backrooms is technically an SCP(SCP-6966).
I like to think that after the incident, the SCP foundation went on to buy ownership of the flesh pit and used a company as an alias to hide their research and salvagement projects
@@deviantsemicolon618Maybe we should make different tiers of the scp foundation. At the lowest tier is a foundation that only deals with earthly horrors like the flesh pit and other less cosmic scps. A world where only these earth bound scps exist and the foundation isn't as all-mighty as in other entries. And at the other end we have a foundation with multiversal influence, and unpredictable goals.
This is how detailed I wish some SCPs were. This kind of material is really enjoyable to listen to.
Speaking of SCP. I would’ve gone full GOC mode on this thing.
Also now I’m wondering how the Flesh pit would fare in The Day Breaks, or against 610, or if it came in to contact with Halo’s The Flood. So I take that back testing is necessary.
@@acememetics7947 you’re going to need more than nukes to kill this thing
@@disconnected7737 well, they used the destroyer onc to kill the fake broken god, maybe they can do that again
Being big doesn’t necessarily mean hard to destroy. Things still made of flesh and bone
My favorite thing about Mystery Flesh Pit National Park is that it has such an element of body horror, but specifically for the organism. The idea that they've built all this infrastructure to hold open its mouth and let people go inside, mine its bones, explore, and how they actively have measures put in place to stop it from choking all makes me sympathize with the thing more.
It's interesting to see where we have this cosmic horror that humans have the power over, yet its still horrifying.
To be honest this is what would happen if eldritch horrors existed irl, instead of we just crying on the background we would search for ways to exploit then for resources and profit, and chances are sometimes we would likely succede (and other times shit would hit the fan and people would die)
I think its the opposite actually, all these years while humans have mined, explored and exploited it they couldn't make it react in any way. The only thing that was able to affect it in any way was nature itself, which only caused it to cough, killing literally everyone in it and destroying any kind of infrastructure instantly. Imo the horror comes from the fact that humans think they have power over it even though they cant make it react in any way or know anything about it. I see a lot of people say "were like ants to it", but you notice ants. Were more like microbes, definitely not a good thing, but something that cant affect much.
@@bonicle7610 there are active efforts to keep the thing under control and unaware of our intervention, for example the reason why it coughed was because a bunch of pumps with the explicit purpose of draining the water so that it doesnt cough failed, and it got worse once they decided to drug the damn thing and accidentaly intoxicated it which caused it to suffer spams and nearly wake up
And after that incident it's being keep in check by injecting sedatives straight into it's system in industrial quantities to keep it sleepy, so yeah humans can pretty much affect the damn thing it just takes a lot of effort and resources
@@carso1500 sedatives made that thing vomit and that caused 80k people to seek medical help for weeks after the event
only reason it went back to sleep was contingency mesure once preformed damaged the device used for contingency. hell people who survived went back inside that thing we. humans are more like bacteria to it than ants
@@ambustio9807 yeah and you would like to know what happens when you left bacteria unatended on your body? Bacteria is fucking dangerous man more respect for it
And yeah we intoxicated it and that caused it to vomit and nearly wake up because of it, what i'm trying to say it's that that thing is made out of flesh and bone it's not invincible
I’m impressed by the graphic designer who created the schematics, posters and designed the whole system. It really makes it feel real to see all the official documents.
Same but 12.50 for a 16oz water bottle?
@@forestfire2670 Was that info in there? Lmao
@@MrAdryan1603 14:08 in the top left corner. also $22 for a hand towel?! This place is scam even when disregarding the getting consumed by a flesh put part.
@@forestfire2670 Omg I didn't see that, hahah... Yikes.. seems pretty accurate unfortunately lol
Yea you should check out the real actual documents and whatnot. Whole entire history of that National Park is fascinating.
The creature isn't what makes this horror stick with me. Its how often lives are eagerly given to it. The miners, shop employees, the human/pet amalgams, and the incident itself. It mixes the real world with horror in a *very* realistic way
The implication of the rangers being aware that there are people trapped on the other side of a flesh wall and being powerless to save them from "complete mastication"... No wonder they needed psychological help afterwards
It reminds me of that Netflix short but in that one it was dead and washed up in the beach
A little too NTSB when looking for fantasy...
@@flexican5399 so, you like Cuties
@@bigharrykochenbauls4567 no, love death a and robots, why would I like cuties?
Anyone else feels bad for the creature? It's like you go to sleep with your mouth open and when you wake up there's a huge metal cluster inside your body filled with maggots, you are drowning, your bones hurt, your head hurts, you start to choke and end up puking. Then those maggots put you on sedatives, break your bones, fill your stomach with sand and keep mining your mody while you are so high you can't do anything about it.
Damn
Fuck no, kill that thing.
Basically what the Earth has been enduring for the last few hundred years under the yoke of commercial industrialism
@@ricksmith9256 You stated it perfectly. Industrialization was a mistake.
Feel bad for the creature?
Do you feel the love of Our CREATOR!?
Jesus is returning.
Next stop RAPTURE!
When you cut through all the medical lingo and documentation of every tiny detail, the laconic narrative of the entire incident is "Water got in its lungs, so it coughed. Then it rolled over in its sleep and started to wake up, so we tried sedating it. It had a bad reaction to the misdosed sedatives, so it threw up. Then it went back to sleep, possibly because we did this thing we won't specify, possibly on its own. Almost a thousand died. Almost two thousand were severely injured."
It coughed, rolled over, and then it threw up. That's all it did.
And nearly three thousand people's lives were either ended, permanently crippled, or marred by psychological trauma damage from seeing the other two things for life.
It gets across that this thing is ungodly dangerous even if it's not actively malicious or even AWAKE. It gets across that we REALLY have no understanding of it whatsoever even if we can piece out bits of its anatomy, no idea how we can stop this thing from doing, well, ANYTHING, and most terrifying of all, it actively doing even something as minor as a hiccup or a cough COULD KILL PEOPLE BY THE THOUSANDS. Imagine what it would do if it became ACTIVE. or even worse... it was ACTIVELY MALICIOUS.
This is properly done horror. Not fright, not cheap scares, this is looming, actual, visceral horror of a threat continuously looming over our heads we can do nothing whatsoever about and have to live in constant dread of. The animal threats from inside the superorganism are scary, sure, but the superorganism ITSELF is the true horror. We can fight back and even vanquish the animal threats. They're no more horrific than any other dangerous animal. More alien, but not more terrible. Against those, we can fight back, even triumph.
But the Superorganism itself... we're one hundred percent at its mercy and all we can do is LITERALLY pray it never wakes up.
The author is an absolute master. Pro level horror writer.
Nuke it once and it's dead, or we can just use conventional explosives at it's eyes if it has those or legs to cripple it, or just strap a bunch of nukes inside of it.
The only reason it killed that many are because there were that many inside of it.
If humans never entered it and just closed it off it would have probably resulted in zero deaths.
this is a very helpful comment thank you
@@lime_crisis o7
underrated comment
It seems what caused the loss of life was the use of the sedative, which by it's description sounds like it's very toxic to mammal life. That's what it puked up and spewed into the air, basically became a biological weapon with the material that was pumped into the thing. That combined with it's own gastric juice and the organisms that inhabit it being ejected to the surface.
We aren't managing any cosmic horror pits of flesh in real life, but how much careful control of our own man made systems is required to stay safe on a day to day basis? How many of those systems are controlled completely by a private corporation with a board of directors who have a vested interest in spending the least amount of money to meet the most basic safety requirements placed on them?
This story is less about how dangerous the organic mess in a pit is, and how dangerous human negligence can be.
Author did really well at including multiple factors that push it over the line and cause critical failure as you would find in a real government incident report
The author is amazing alot of their work feels so real.
It’s got a shocking verisimilitude. You can tell they’ve done their research.
That's one of my favorite things about this story. Real life disasters like this are never caused by just one thing. It's always some combination of poor planning, improper maintenance, incompetence, bad luck, bad timing, etc. The way events transpire in this story is just so real and believable. He nailed it.
@@Audey it's called the "Swiss Cheese model " (no comment on the Swiss, I didn't name it.) But it's how any competent org writes a report. That's why it sounds real.
i love how it wasn't something out of nowhere that caused the incident, it was realistic in portraying multiple small failures, miscommunications, and missed inspections.
It's scary how believable this is. If you accept the premise, everything else makes way too much sense, from building a mining and tourist operation to letting standards slip due to negligence or greed until a disaster strikes.
It's literally an oil rig made of meat.
@@SavagePassion666 but... oil is(was) made of meat
@@hasanmuttaqin464 ......this meat is still alive though.
only thing that doesn't make sense is people willingly going to a "park" inside a massive meat organism underground
i get jurassic park, but this is too much
@@caralho5237It's a combination of lovecraftian fiction (people are in fact "compelled to enter the meat pit when in close enough proximity) and end stage capitalism where the safety of the consumer and the worker no longer matters. Just cut corners and do whatever you can to make money. And I hate to say this man...but people are in fact insane enough where if they're told something is safe no matter how horrific it is they'll happily wander all over it. See for example ghost hunters. They could be told a place is fucking infested with demons and you'll still have tour groups coming through to taking pictures. Or for a more poignant example Chernobyl. It's the nature of humanity to rubber neck atrocities.
I love the combination of Lovecraftian horror, corporate hubris, and dry technical talk that adds to the sense of realism. They take an utterly surreal concept and handle it with deadpan seriousness. It's like Made in Abyss meets the Deepwater Horizon incident.
And 12.50 water bottles that is evil
The part I really enjoy about this is that it actually reads exactly like the stuff the NTSB puts out when a bridge collapses or something, right down to the disclaimers. Such a perfect style match, the author is extremely talented.
Also Chemical Safety Board (CSB)
NTSB?
@@iloveyourtiddies69balzac36 National Transportation Safety Board
@@lionskrike3753 Thankyou, I also had no idea what it meant lol
Its pretty close some nomenclature is slightly off such as use of the word disaster rather than event. The government doesn't like the word disaster they like to use event, incident, and accident instead.
''Sure, let's build a giant park inside a literal vore hole and then neglect maintaining said park, what could possibly go wrong ?"
Pretty much civilization since 1800 until now.
That’s how you feed 700 people to what may or may not be an Old One.
Maybe they woke up that thing, and then... The Cabin In The Woods?
My only regret is not being one of the many vored. UwU
@@RawkL0bster Outside. Now.
There is no universe where I would ever dare set foot inside a gigantic flesh monster for the sake of tourism. This is terrifying.
there are 50 universes where i would do that
@@terigonUSAS12 Yeah I'm torn on one hand that sounds terrifying but I would also love the chance to see it
That's the genius of the prose narrative; it's already an old discovery, and has become a part of the global consciousness. People venturing into the park to camp or hike are looking at it as little different than climbing a mountain or camping in bear territory. Dangerous, but interesting and exciting precisely because of the danger. Until it coughs and starts to wake up, and people are reminded of the real danger just as a bear attack victim would be.
@@terigonUSAS12 very small
This thing isn't a monster what made you think of that just because it's big and fleshy doesn't make it malicious
Jokes aside, it's scary how similar this is to that tourist volcano disaster. That situation and how preventable it was is still incredibly disturbing
Tourist volcano disaster? I haven’t heard of that at all
@@EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany Two of them actually. One hiking tourists and the darn thing has a MINOR eruption people injured. The other a BOAT tour same. That one has some graphic video. STEAM hurt as many people as rocks falling on them.
White Island eruption?
@@EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany white island eruption..
It sounds similar to Chernobyl or Fukushima. (Not the events, it just sounds simillar)
You would think naming an area of the Flesh Pit "God's Mistake" would drive away potential customers
Given how everyday people act with normal unbelievably stupid things and ideas, I'm honestly surprised it didn't draw in _more_ customers.
hell I'd be intrested to see it for the spectacle, especially with a cool name like "God's Mistake"
People go to places like "Devil's Tower" and "Death Valley" every year. O.o
I remember I once went on a hike on "Shades of Death Trail"
It really wouldn't
This has so much depth and meaning. This is such a promising horror franchise that NEEDS attention. This has elements of Jurassic Park, Alien, DeadSpace, and other cosmic horror like The Mist and Annihilation all wrapped in a alt word 1980s. I hope this becomes something more than an internet story. This needs a game, a book, a show, a movie...something. one of those things if not all of them.
I hear ya' and I know how you feel. I have NO idea how I found this, but it has its own website and I'm sort of enjoying the elite intellect required to follow how literate, medically and geologically accurate it is to just down right comedy for really smart people. It's like modern Lovecraft, who absolutely encourage his readers and correspondents to build on his world building. This is great. (and I need a t-shirt from this thing immediately, so I can lie about "HOW have you never been HERE?!" to perfect strangers -- and definitely wear it to other national parks)
This needs a series!
Absolutely! This would make an amazing mini series. Something along the lines of Chernobyl. They can make a full season of it from the discovery of the pit, the development of the park, the Rumblings of something going wrong, and finally the series would climax with the disaster and the aftermath.
YES… YES!!! LIKE OMG SOMEONE MAKE A MOVIE OUT OF THIS PLEASE
It’s like if Lovecraft, SCP foundation and Fascinating Horror got together and decided to create a grotesque love child of elder god, incident report and OSHA violations.
Come with me,
and you'll be,
in a world of OSHA violations...
@@yeetmcskeet6872 take a look and you see
All the horrifying locations
I remember learning about this one. A whole world created through one simple, yet bizarre, idea. I could see a Limetown style podcast based on it one day
I live in the Permian basin so I can confirm this story
that would be AWESOME
That would be so good
You don't remember anything about this incident
Tom Scott clued me in on this rabbit-hole through his newsletter.
The scariest part for me are the "the interpit lifeforms" emerging and stalking the staff and guests topside (presumably around the Marriot hotel complex)
Jesus, that last line about those in the Western Hemisphere needing to accept that their lives are going to be destroyed by this thing someday hit hard. Terrific narration.
Honestly wouldnt be surprised if after this incident the goverment decided to cram a bunch of high yield nukes on the insides of that thing just in case it ever becomes "ambulatory" so that if it ever wakes up there is a nasty surprise inside it
@@carso1500 ya and it will probably just energize it even more. Or worse they literally kill the earth.
@@coffeetime.3063 That's not how it works
That’s what like the 5th destructive thing the Western Hemisphere has to worry about?
@@carso1500 they (in universe) actually studied this option and came to conclusion that it basically won’t work.
love the clinical-ness of the report. i'd be willing to bet the author has a background in government bureaucracy type stuff because it's really on point
He’s an architect
Bet he was involved in 911 Report
I can imagine he has read reports similar to the ones he wrote. It either is something he has done previously or for this narrative proyect.
I work in a supermarket and this is what they expect if an old lady falls over or someone gets a papercut😁😂
I used to write site assessment reports from an environmental standpoint and this felt very familiar in many ways, especially the structure and tone.
I haven't seen anyone discussing the fact that the hospitalised people just got up and went to be eaten, is that an indication of how it would attract prey? Also I love the detail that there's a whale in there, the creature must have been around since the land was underwater.
Perhaps that's a reason they build a national park there in the first place?
I mean we probably would have done it anyway
But perhaps whatever it did to those people also was part of the reason people went inside of it in the first place
There's other material for this story that describes people having intense, unnatural urges to jump into the pit, even long after the incident. They have warning signs on the fences and everything.
The author confirmed that they went back to search for loved ones still trapped inside. The creature doesn't have any telepathic or pheromone spray that affect humans in any forms
I... find it really interesting how subtly creepy the first time it mentions "becomes ambulatory" is. The simple thought that this thing could... get up and walk around and then coming to terms with the thoughts of what this thing could possibly *truly* be are.... horrifying. The fact that at the time it was just a brief thought that was just passed over makes it worse. It wasn't until another organization stepped in to really strike home how awful it would be if this massive organism that we could only mildly irritate managed to actually become fully active.
I hate how people say we can only mildly irritate it. It is known to be about 30-40km deep and up to 300km accross. And they mine it already so we can harm it with conventional means. litteraly just use bomb logic. 5 50 megaton would create a fireball able to evaporate everything in about 75km. Meaning if we placed them in the exotic anatomy below the surface orifice we would instantly evaporate its stomach, lungs, entire known digestive system, endocrine system, vast amounts of vital bone and muscle tissue and leave it with a huge gaping hole. It would be like sticking a firecracker inside a crab. The outside might still be there but the insides are a molten fire soup.
@@Aztesticals I mean I don't know much about this creature except this video, nor do I know how bombs actually work scientifically. :(
@@JetBalrog it's all right and for all we know if it becomes mobile who knows maybe when fully awake it can regenerate
Lol u act like its a berserker down there lol
its a biological creature. it will burn
To paraphrase Wendigoon: "this thing is waking up and a whole bunch of people will die because we had to make goddamn amusement park inside its mouth."
Evil never understands itself or what it is doimg. This can not be good.
@@coffeetime.3063 not sure about that one chief.
I fully understand, elol 🤣
Sounds exactly what humans would do. It's why we haven't met any aliens :)
Something I will at least argue from the source material, though not directly mentioned in the audio thus far, is this -This thing's internal organs were literal health and pleasure spas. They bathed in this creature's wombs. Amniotic baths. They cured disease and were miraculous healing springs with potent aphrodisiacal properties, used for both medicinal and recreational purposes. Considering human nature... let alone all of the resources of it's body, and the spectacle of it, and the ability to monitor and research the thing... I haven't finished the video all the way yet, but that alone is already a massive and believable reason for humans to go diving down into cosmic horror level entity - Pretty sure I've seen frat boys do worse by the power of the horny and testosterone fueled. Imagine if alcohol and weed were ALSO the never-ending springs to eternal health and a publicly available cure to cancer?
the most realistic part is the fact that there are engineer's reports leading up to the incident that weren't executed on to save cost
This is like if an SCP, was just a normal everyday geological anomaly. Yet it is made so analytical and normalized with language and descriptions being somewhat whimsical, as well, being of mystical nature along with beaurocratic language and with the understanding of this creature, it is amazingly confusing.
Very well said!
*“SCP but make it mystery flavored”*
Arguably, this is the template of what the SCP articles SHOULD sound/read like. It's a formal scientific/political research organisation, not a 14-year-old's blog.
@@IndustrialBonecraft no! Scp has to be “cool and exciting”, and that means every scp needs to be some epic cool god that the hero kills so I can get upvotes!!! Lol doctor bright is so funny and wholesome chungus, chainsaw cannon 🤣🤣🤣
Sarcasm if you can’t tell
@@IndustrialBonecraft What do mean? There are a lot of SCPs that are already like this.
Reopen the mystery flesh pit! It's super lame they shut it down, people die at Yellowstone approximately every weekend, and it's still open.
Actually? What kills tourists the most?
HUH????????????
@@disconnected7737 I don't have statistics on hand, but it is surprisingly common for people to fall into geysers, one guy was trying to rescue his dog and they both got cooked.
@@thunderhammerx2966 They... let people walk next to the geysers?
@@disconnected7737 Nah, some people have no respect for the danger and just run into them.
Whenever I think about the lower visitor center being practically swallowed by the super organism, and how it tilted almost completely at a 90 degree angle before getting stuck deep in the creature's gullet... Ugh. I get massive heebie jeebies. Obviously this is a work of fiction, but the image the incident report puts in my head is absolutely horrifying.
Earth is a female living Organism shes done with all of you and you all will see how mother nature cleans all of you that disrespected her OFF🤎
An also choking on that thing
This sounds like a common post-incident report from the company where I used to work at. A type of report that happened at least twice a month.
After each report everyone would just pat each other's backs on a job well done and continue not solving what caused the incident in the first place.
That company wont last forever
@@trainman5675 But many do. They just fire any troublemakers. Or, rather, fabricate or find excuses to do so
Depending on line of work, this can be either dangerous or nobody will ever know
@@SebHaarfagre Can they last for a 100 years?
@@trainman5675 until a real bad shit happened
Fungi parasite
Such a unique kind of story, it's tone and setting sure bring me back to the early years of the SCP foundation, when the look at the creatures was more scientific and sterile, I kinda wish they could've kept that atmosphere, as it sure makes the stories all the more fascinating, which is the case here.
Excellent work with the narration dude, this was really interesting
I feel like there are still many clinical SCPs nowadays.
Also the clinical report part is just a tiny fraction of the content regarding the Mystery Flesh Pit. Most of it is tourism. :D
My cousin used to work as a game warden in the flesh pit from 1993 to 2001.
In those days, game wardens who wanted to work in the superorganism had to go through a special selection and training process to qualify for warden positions in the park. Candidates were run through a gamut of physical fitness tests, psychological evaluations, 2-gun course evaluations, law competency exams, all that sort of thing. My cousin had been a Guadalupe County deputy for about 10 years before he decided he wanted to work as a warden. He took me in the summer of '96 I believe to go on a sort of camping trip with him, I must have been 13 at the time. I don't remember a TON about it, but I do remember being distinctly fascinated with the colonies of macrobacteria you would find in the North Bronchial forest. I think we found one resembling some kind of amoeba maybe (Im no microbiologist) in a herd that was maybe 25 feet long? It was massive. Smelled like a pack of active dry yeast lol.
Creeps me out thinking about how close we were to the gag of '07 now really. I'll say Im glad my cousin left in 2001. He works in Utah now. Still a warden, ironically.
Amazing sorty
Story
Um yea why are you humans in my throat and what is this thing?
Somewhere out there, there´s a universe were your story is real.
*Markiplier voice* WAS THAT THE GAG OF '07?
I'm really glad the creator of this didn't bundle it into being yet another SCP entry. An idea this fleshed out (lol) deserves to stand on its own and wouldn't benefit from the fandom saturation that well-written SCPs endure.
To be fair, the SCP contribution system is so arcane and obtuse, it was probably just easier to make it its own thing. With the added benefit of not having your work critiqued by a room of clowns. (TH-cam section notwithstanding).
SCP is overrated at this point tbh
Like other recent internet horror things (Backrooms) it works as a standalone but could also easily work as an SCP. Given that SCP content is kinda booming on TH-cam it certainly wouldn't hurt for it to be part of the canon. Ultimately there is nothing wrong with the whole SCP concept; your main concern seems to be that it would be overexposed due to the fandom, which is debatable.
@@drago939393 There is nothing wrong with the SCP concept, there are amazing stories in the universe. But as the popularity grows the signal:noise ratio shrinks, and evocative slow-burns like SCP-093 start occupying the same sphere as bombastic fan service like SCP-1730.
It's less a concern of exposure and more of what can happen to a completed idea when handed to a fandom where restraint is losing appeal.
@@SarahC-by4cs Fair take. Indeed the SCP concept is being more and more popularized and watered down as a result, given that more and more people enter the space with different tastes, desires and goals. The net gets wider, the catch gets more diverse... And arguably less rich. Hearsay and loose interpretations become the norm, canon goes out of the window and even agendas can get pushed. For example, I personally dislike the apparent disdain towards redactions and huuuugely out there self-contained entries that are better served for tales... Funnily enough that implies that I wouldn't want Mystery Flesh Pit to be a part of it, tho I would. Backrooms definitely would and should fit in the SCP verse tho, it's kind of a shame that it's outside of it.
This is a really cool project. It deftly ties together horrorific themes with mundane/environmental ones. There's the cosmic horror of being inside an entity so huge and alien, and also the horror of imagining having creatures inside your own body, exploiting and torturing it for profit. So just in that one parallel, we get different types of horror that mesh perfectly.
Yeah it's in the roll up the sleeve
No torture, there was never any mention of a central nervous system, which implies no sentience. It just a giant plant with more flesh and bone than plant material.
@@TheBaldr idk, it reacted to water filling its "mouth" and pouring down its throat. So nerve signals are being sent to and from somewhere. Also, they keep it sedated because their activity inside would probably wake it up, which implies that it would be able to feel them mining its bones and whatnot.
@@TheBaldr
It had a drowning reaction and convulsed when pumped with a industrial grade sedative. It has a nervous system of some kind.
The detail and realism of this disaster report are incredible. I watch a lot of disaster mini documentaries. And a lot of the lingo used in this tale match those used in real life disaster reports.
Dry or not, this is a well executed fic.
This could actually make for a brilliant high budget movie that would have a far wider appeal than just SCP fans. The same cannot be said for most SCP entries.
Nah. It would be better as a miniseries like Chernobyl.
agree there needs to be a epic scp movie by Hollywood
cabin in the woods is pretty close
@@gamersbest4601 It's unlikely since the SCP wiki is Creative Commons (by necessity due to its collaborative nature), which fortunately/unfortunately means that you can't really make for-profit media based off of it. Still, there's always the possibility of media inspired by the setting.
@@ENCHANTMEN_ so far the closest we get would be the cabin in the wood movie, with the organisation keeping the elder gods in check with a ritual. Of course the perspective is different, but how the organisation works feels a lot like the scp organisation.
i had a nightmare as a kid about something like this. I was stuck at the bottom of a fleshy pit with a shallow puddle of acid that was burning me and I kept trying to climb out but the slimy walls contracted and flung me back down into the acid every time. I was getting dissolved and could see the bones in my hands and was absolutely freaked out as I frantically tried climbing up the walls over and over hoping that maybe something different would happen but kept getting thrown back into the acid. In retrospect, I probably should've just stood in the middle and at least only my feet would get dissolved. Every time I got thrown it would splash the acid all over me and dissolved everything.
jesus thats terrifying, I've always had lucid dreams so if that happened to me Id just fly out. Plus id find some asshole to throw back in so the creature doesn't go hungry.
I remember a dream similar to yours! I was going through a body, it was really tight and I reached the stomach. I was going through the gut and out of the anus and then I woke up. It was a scary dream.
The pit calls
Vorarephilia ?
Maybe you were a bug caught in a pitcher plant in a past life
9:16 Start of relevant timeline.
10:29 AM July 4th - Unseasonably high rains force park administrators to cancel a July 4th Concert and Fireworks display scheduled to take place on the surface park grounds. Many visitors who had already purchased tickets to the event become upset, and a decision is made to extend the park hours until midnight for those who had purchased event tickets.
8:00 PM July 4th - Normal closing time for the national park. A typical shift change of reduced night staff in the control room takes place.
9:16 PM July 4th - Harvesting crews working in the western extremities of the organism set a new extraction record to meet a quota for bonuses in time for the holiday weekend.
9:30 PM July 4th - Control room operators initiate a routine system self-test and discover a relay fault error resulting from increased electrical demand from mining equipment and tourist infrastructure. A control room operator logs the fault and notifies an on-duty engineer.
9:41 PM July 4th - Water drainage from surface rain into the Entry Orifice begins to collect in the sand gullet. Drainage pumps are automatically activated by a sensor system but fail to initialize due to the relay fault. An emergency back-up pump running on a separate emergency circuit is automatically activated.
9:42 PM July 4th - A critical alarm in the control room alerts operators that the emergency water pump has seized and is inoperative. Under-lubrication of the pump’s impeller bushings resulted in corrosion due to the moist interior of the flesh pit environment.
9:48 PM July 4th - Technicians arrive at the primary pump station to discover the sand gullet almost completely submerged. Water begins to pour over the dorsal respiratory ridge and into bronchial bulbules. Control room operators divert power to hydraulic stent rams to brace for expected choke response.
9:51 PM July 4th - Technicians a repair the relay fault as control staff reset the park’s electrical grid. The grid is offline for 45 seconds. The automatic PA system does not notify guests as the system is scheduled to automatically shut down at the normal 8:00PM closing time. The temporary lapse of lighting causes many guests to become panicked and return to the main gantry lift at the lower visitor center.
9:52 PM July 4th - A choking action from the organism begins 31 seconds into the electrical reset. The main dorsal trunk violently flexes. Lack of power to hydraulic arming rams causes irreparable damage to several sections of internal infrastructure.
9:53 PM July 4th - As the electrical system finishes the reboot cycle, the dynamic hydraulic actuators supporting the lower visitor center overcorrect for stability, not accounting for the shift in the wall lining of the nexial cavity in which the visitor center facility is anchored. Two of the six structural supports are torn from their foundations which causes the facility to list 20deg off vertical. The base joint of the vertical entry gantry is bent beyond its design limit angle.
9:54 PM July 4th - The Master Alarm is tripped automatically. Surface facilities are notified as response teams are given the order to mobilize.
9:56 PM July 4th - Park rangers are dispatched to rescue groups of visitors trapped in partially collapsed tunnels and trails.
10:03 PM July 4th - Continued movement of the organism, combined with rainwater, causes one of the upper entry gantry supports to slip. An outbound elevator conducts an emergency stop stranding over two dozen visitors.
10:05 PM July 4th - Tremors registered as far away as the DFW metroplex.
10:06 PM July 4th - Soil liquefaction destabilizes surface facilities in and around the organism. Dilation anchors begin retracting to keep the entry orifice open.
10:12 PM July 4th - A master fail-safe is activated by the automated park management system. Twenty thousand liters of aconitine compound are injected into the superorganism via a distributed network of relay stations located throughout it’s known internal anatomy.
10:12 PM July 4th - Tremors and convulsions intensify as the entry gantry connection to the lower visitor center detaches completely. The lower visitor center begins to collapse downward into the nexial cavity.
10:12 PM July 4th - Peristaltic muscle action of the nexial cavity begins to exert substantial pressure on the outer structure of the lower visitor center facility.
10:15 PM July 4th - The prime labiod junction just west of the Septum Falls geobiological feature flexes into an open position, releasing a torrent of lactogastric chyma into the dorsal trunk. It is likely that this was a reaction to the aconitine injection.
10:16 PM July 4th - Peristaltic spasms force the caustic chyma slurry through the nexial cavity and up through the lower and upper moisture crops towards the surface orifice.
10:16 PM July 4th - Many guests attempting to flee the stalled elevator near the entry orifice attempt climbing out the upper moisture crop but are ultimately unsuccessful due to torrential rains causing the surfaces to become very slippery. Many end up falling back into the maw.
10:17 PM July 4th - The chyma slurry erupts from the surface orifice in a geyser several hundred meters in height. Large pieces of undigested organic matter crush several vehicles and damage windows.
10:19 PM July 4th - Following the several minute long ejecta event, a deep and incredibly loud roar erupts from the entry orifice as ground tremors intensify further. Large extremities begin surfacing through bedrock and soil approx. 30km-120km from the entry orifice.
10:25 PM July 4th - The acrid smell of the gastric ejecta can be detected as far as Odessa, TX.
10:26 PM July 4th - Two park service vehicles and a tour vehicle containing park service employees and several guests attempt to ascend through the entry orifice tube.
10:27 PM July 4th - Peristaltic action crushes one of the tour vehicles and sucks the other two vehicles back into the nexial cavity and down into a digestive organ. These vehicles are presumed destroyed.
10:58 PM July 4th - The pentagon is given authorization from the whitehouse to use nuclear force if necessary to prevent the organism from entering an active and/or ambulatory state.
11:02 PM July 4th - The on-site operations director within the lower visitor center control room initiates a final fail-safe measure in the form of the [CONTINGENCY MEASURE].
11:02 PM July 4th - Master Event Log records successful spin-up of the [CONTINGENCY MEASURE].
11:05 PM July 4th - Lower visitor center structural integrity is critically compromised resulting in total collapse.
11:05 PM July 4th - Data connection with lower visitor center is severed.
11:13 PM July 4th - Spasms and motor action of the superorganism begins to noticeably subside. Response teams begin to descend into the surface orifice to attempt rescue operations.
11:19 PM July 4th - Response team encounters visitor group which had attempted escape from stalled elevator. Most are dead, the remainder are mortally wounded and partially digested due to caustic gastric ejecta.
11:42 PM July 4th - Radio contact established with ranger vehicle trapped within “Oyster’s Shame”. Due to ventricle closure, no feasible rescue strategy can be developed before complete mastication occurs.
11:56 PM July 4th - Response team confirms that [CONTINGENCY MEASURE] and associated facility are still intact and operating.
11:58 PM July 4th - Texas Gov. Rick Perry formally declares a state of emergency for Gumption county.
12:22 AM July 5th - Response teams route data/power umbilical to new basecamp in [CONTINGENCY MEASURE] facility.
12:35 AM July 5th - Three inter-pit lifeforms are identified as having been ejected onto the surface. Fifteen visitors are injured and seven are hunted by inter-pit lifeforms during panicked evacuation of surface resort.
12:41 AM July 5th - Park staff manage to kill the three large lifeforms.
1:02 AM July 5th - National Guard helicopters begin delivering supplies and personnel to aid in site containment.
1:58 AM July 5th - Field hospital is constructed to care for wounded visitors and staff.
2:37 AM July 5th - Initial damage surveys report catastrophic destruction of internal park infrastructure. Pit geobiology has dramatically changed in hazard level.
3:00 AM July 5th - Emergency teleconference of Anodyne executive leadership. National parks director and Secretary of the Interior are present.
3:12 AM July 5th - Executive decision is made to initiate FEMA response and assemble a task force for containing superorganism.
4:00 AM July 5th - Media helicopters and vehicles begin to report on the scope of disaster.
4:39 AM July 5th - Base camp technicians begin to spin-down [CONTINGENCY MEASURE]. Large fractures due to inertial stress have appeared on mineral components. Engineers advise against re-initializing [CONTINGENCY MEASURE] until mineral components can be replaced or repaired.
6:08 AM July 5th - Ground personnel begin assembling a pump system to inject industrial sedatives into the superorganism. Transport trucks containing industrial sedative arrive.
9:45 AM July 5th - Emergency teleconference of Anodyne shareholders.
11:20 AM July 5th - Several injured visitors inexplicably leave field hospital and begin walking towards open pit orifice. Approx. 38 individuals are able to crawl back into the orifice over the course of 8 hours. None are recovered.
3:51 PM July 5th - Radio transmission from trapped ranger vehicle ceases. Many speculate that other small groups of visitors and staff are still trapped.
End of relevant timeline.
This entry, "if dryly written" is supremely interesting and detailed. High quality material here.
"Oh look, a huge mysterious living flesh hole, let's build a park in it, how bad it's gonna be?"
If there's one thing I learned about Jurassic Park, large flesh like thing as a park attraction does not go well
I cant disagree wholly but if the park was built to generate funds for testing and studying I can't say I blame them. Otherwise it would need to be solely done through government funding and we all would be paying through taxes anyways. May as well check it out if we have to pay.
This is how you get necrons…
@@novusnocturnm nah, necrons are mechanical and lived inside futuristic egyptian pyramids. That giant flesh hole belongs to either the Tyranids or chaos.
@@nikolai_O0 yes I know. But how many imperial and chaos world are old necron tomb worlds?
At least 2 primarch worlds were necron tombs. This is exactly the thing that gets you necrons. Even the age of the organism makes sense.
Necrons build vast underground systems long before most civilization in the galaxy had truly began. There no reason at all an organisms wouldn’t/couldn’t envelope their tomb.
This is something I knew I needed but never thought I'd find so quick: Basically an audiobook version of the 2007 disaster report. Thank you for this!
I LOVE this unfiction piece, precisely because it's presented in this form. I don't know why, it just really grabs me. Plus as a biologist, I can really appreciate the sheer amount of research that went into making this sound as scientifically plausible as possible.
Unfiction? There is either fiction or nonfiction some people like to say science fiction. There is either fact or fiction that's it. It's either for God or for evil that's it.
@@kristinareed6656 unfiction can refer to something fictitious, yet set in reality.
@@kristinareed6656 Unfiction generally refers to fictional material presented and engaged with as if it were non-fiction
This is not unfiction, what you're referring to are ARGs those that have real world shit
@@Mondy667 ARG stands for alternate reality game, it's a type of story. Unfiction is a genre of stories. Think Young Adult book is the genre, love story is the type. Or science fiction is the genre and Alien is the type. A genre can encapsule many types of stories.
Also as an afterthought the concept of an ARG is muddied nowadays as well, the G for game is most of the time completely ignored. They used to use audience participation in their storytelling, either by figuring out codes for the protagonist or sometimes even finding clues in the real world somewhere. Nowadays it's mostly just the audience watching it unfold without being involved. I think most ARGs nowadays are more like analog horror? 🤔
I once saw someone who said this could make an amazing survival horror game. The lore is there, and the plot could be military personal (or hired guns) going to salvage stuff lost in the mystery flesh pit
In wendingoon's video about that story many people (myself included ) pondered that it would make a good Bioshock-esque game... imagine ... it has all the makings of a good bioshock game in its world building.
it'd be really cool if there were different side story playthrough things of different people in the flesh pit, similar to Blue Shift or Opposing Force.
one playthrough you could be a survivor escaping the flesh pit or a responder immediately following the aftermath of the incident.
@@CaribouGutSludge what about a dlc that takes place during the 70s, where you are one of the original miners who discovered the organism? That’s be sick
@@DreamskyDance I was one of those people, I thought of the idea where you have to go into the visitor center, melting, horror, and you could even do a air thing where you start seeing stuff from the, no doubt half melted people, some stuff like that, I went it into a lot in the video in the original comment
Someone is already developing one.
If you pause and read the text on screen, it says that pregnant women shouldn't visit the park because smoking is permitted in all of the tunnels of the organism.
>Wendigoon makes a video
>TES makes a video
I am SO happy to see this project gaining the traction it deserves!
Edit: AGH! And AZFK, how could I forget!
First Wendigoon, then Markiplier, now TES. We saw a legend in the making just like sirenhead
IKR!
Was coming to the comments to say "Oh, saw the Wendigoon video, too, I see?"
Y'all forgot AZFK
@@ijon-y4549 Thank you my g 👁
Oh god, my friend sent me the "accident report" out of the blue last year and it gave me a vertiginous feeling of awe and mystery I had literally never felt outside of a dream before. So cool to hear you covering this!
Haha, I started a painting of a station deep in the thing's interior (at the beginning of "Exotic Anatomy") but my CPU bricked in the middle of it and I still haven't gone back to finish it. Maybe now tho...
Do the thing!
Do the thing!
It's my first time hearing the full thing be read to me by my favorite voice guy😆
Do the thing!
Do the thing!
You got a lot of nerve calling the Mystery Flesh Pit "paranormal." I'm getting a solid impression that it was here before we were. Arguably, it has more of a claim to "normal" than the bipedal cyborg apes that started showing up out of nowhere.
Paranormal means supernatural, as in exhibiting traits thst can't be explained by natural science
Brother there is nothing normal about a giant worm like creature in Texas
I'm not saying the people that died had it coming. What I am saying is that a "mistery flesh pit" would be the absolute and indefinite last place I would ever go. No matter how long it was safe for.
No, just No. Never.
This thing would be way too scetchy for me. This thing is even worse then Yellow stone.
In this world going to the "mystery flesh pit" is not any diferent than going to the grand canyon or to the Niagara falls, it's just another landmark that has existed for decades and people are just used to it at this point
What does absolute and indefinite mean? You're sure of it, but a little vague?
@@carso1500 but that would never fucking happen. why would they even name it that?
@@SantaFishes101 technically, that's just the nickname the public gave it that seems to have stuck
There's the obvious horror angle from a human perspective, but imagine it from the creature's perspective. Imagine waking up one day to find that tiny beings have built infrastructure inside you.
And you're so drugged up you can barely do anything about it besides choke and slightly twitch.
Well…that’s bacteria in a nutshell
And you feel a bunch of parasite crowling inside of you
Like the Pfizer vax?
@@brigittebeltran6701 Care to elaborate on that? I'd really love to hear you explain yourself.
Better title. Never feed a giant ancient Sarlac the leftovers from a Texas chili contest.
Love the world building in this. The author did such a great job at making the characters, organism, and overall world feel alive :)
Its been 5 minutes chill
@@tselmegrim101 they're just complimenting lmao
I see what you did there.
@@tselmegrim101 I saw Wendigoon's video covering the flesh pit before this one
I can’t take this story or this universe seriously. The Permian basin superorganism ? It sounds like a really bad anime not the good ones the one that someone made in ms paint.
This remind me of a video game I played called Torment: Tides of Numenara. In that game you go to some giant flesh pod thing where people have set up a town and launch expeditions into the ‘Bloom’ they call it. People routinely get swallowed up and pathways regularly shift with giant mouths shutting in your way. Random acid baths and nasty fleshy beasts are constant hazards. People however have created an economy around the bits and pieces of stuff they find and manage to survive for years down there. It has a latent mental affect on people so prolonged stays drive people insane. A similar idea for a different world this fits our commercial tourist thrill seeking world perfectly.
I played that game. Lots of talking, just like the other Torment. Never beat it though.
thanks for the recommendation looks like a great game!
There. Are already game start ups for the flesh pit all over now
It was suppose to be the spiritual successor to planescape torment but never really lived up to the legacy.
I found the game kinda boring and jumbled and disorganised. Way too short too.
So yeah i didnt like it, especially with the hope i had that it would be at least a little good as the original.
Unfortunately it wasnt. What interesting stuff there was, like the start area you describe, was just not enough to negate everything else bad about it. Which was pretty much everything else apart from the setting. Im sure theres reviews that can sum up the problems better then i can if anyones interested.
Is the game cool
The author did a very, VERY good job writing this. I almost thought this thing was real!
This is masterfully done. And I'm shaking my head. "That's what you get for climbing into a giant life form and playing around."
You get digested😨
why do ppl climb the highest mountains or fly int space?!, because its there & they can...... humans....
Stuff it Normie
God... The graphic design is perfect. Literally perfect! It matches so perfectly the zeitgeist, the corporate mindset, and aesthetics considerations of the time that I'm completely amazed to fact that this is a fan project- AMAZING!
Honestly, give it a few years. They'll reopen the park under "New Management", and pieces of the original lower visitors center will just be a small memorial.
This reads/sounds so on-point and so accurate to real-world incident reports. The writer has clearly either done their homework or has helped with one before, and it's amazing. The true horror here however is the idea of a living creature's body being used as basically entertainment, and as someone who's had surgeries before it gives me chills. In addition, the full seeming disregard for life all-around be it human, animal or otherwise, all as dryly-written and understated as real-world terminologies like "disassociated portions" being used in lieu of "exploded human body-chunks".
I was on the world-building subreddit when this started and I stopped seeing it all of a sudden. I'm glad it is becoming so popular now and until recently I was a member of the Patreon
Hearing this, I first go "Who in the WORLD who go inside a being that can absorb you?"
And then I remember Action Park
Yeah I remember this. All TV news were talking about this all day long. I was just a child back then and I complained that I couldn't watch cartoon shows. Several years after, I learned this in a history class and realized how serious this accident was. My teacher had cousin's family died during the accident so he hated the company so much. They went a family vacation there and it happened. His cousin, the father in the family was a firefighter. So my teacher believed that he would've continued to save other people until all of them were succumbed by the flesh. Only his wife came out of the pit partially melt by gastric acid. But she went back to the pit several hours later. Nobody knows why and my teacher still blamed people at the scene that how they couldn't stop the victims from returning to the pit.
2007 was a weird year for sure.
It isn't real
@@HerMajesty1 No shit.
This happened to my buddy Eric!
@@HerMajesty1 yes it is, I lost my nephew because of it.
Don't be so disrespectful.
This is a pretty interesting take on an eldritch horror, and to be honest I love it.
What if...
We opened a Amusement Park inside C'hutulu?
Eldritch capitalism
@@TheHungarianMan you act like the Texans wouldn’t do that
As a Texan, being a park ranger is actually kinda tempting
Eldritch? Sounds like a bit of the warp got placed on the planet.
@@illuvitarv5 Warp could be considered eldritch horror as well.
This reminds me of 40Ks larger Tyranid Forms, where some weapons and their ammo, and in some cases literal parts of the creature are symbiotic, all controlled by the hivemind and not actually just one biological system. This could be a cool concept where parts of this react to the stress of other parts, similar to how tyranid ammo is pretty inert in the "magazine" but goes bananas when its pushed out of the weapon organism
3:36 The reveal that K Street lobbyists are involved is the most ominous thing about the meat pit. The dissonance between the cosmic horror and tourist spot makes sense once you realize that good old lobbying turned this into a beloved vacation destination
To capitalize and then justify all that by feeding it so it could continue the horror. Sometimes people are the monsters.
This is such a weird coincidence- early last night, I rewatched Wendigoon’s video on this for no particular reason. I was pleasantly surprised to see a new video about it from you. Thanks for the great content!
Turns out the world really does revolve around you
@@collinchristensen7405 Yeah, that’s what I figured. Thanks for noticing-
Imagine that this is literally Cronus, and we stumbled on Tartarus.
In more scientific terms, we can consider this is some kind of planetary orfice, and the planet itself is alive. We would then be like dust mites or bacteria, living on it's surface.
This is going to be an all time classic for this channel, def one of the most unique and quality
That last sentence of the conclusion was a real kick in the guts.
Interesting to see where the report takes its inspiration from the reviews of similar disasters such as Chernobyl, the Challenger explosion, the collapse of the WTC towers, and doubtless many others...
from the perspective of the superorganism this entire catastrophic event was likely on par to waking up and coughing then going back to sleep.
This is a horror story about an unfathomably large system with no regard for human safety causing thousands of deaths and injuries.
There's also a superorganism turned into an attraction involved.
Nice.
@@coloradohikertrash9958 I honestly can’t tell if you’re trolling or not
Excuse me wtf bro._.
@@coloradohikertrash9958 …could you run that by me again chief?
I’m pretty sure it’s a metaphor for corporate disregard of public or environmental safety
@@coloradohikertrash9958 I have no idea where you got that one from tbh, and I'm black too. This one's really just about the horrors of capitalism and the ramifications of corporate greed and negligence (along with the body horror that the creature experiences too)
The saddest thing about this is that aside from the supernatural elements in this story, stuff like this happens pretty frequently.
I’m still thinking about the 38 people that climbed back into the pit. To have such a poignant detail just kinda passed by adds to the horror and mystery of the pit
Agreed. I’m curious why they did that? We’re they infected by the chemicals of the organism and had an urge to return back “home”?
Didn’t anyone try to stop them? I just. How hard is it to stop 38 people?
@@carljohnson7168 It is theorized that they had lost loved ones and tried to go back in and get them. It’s surprising common.
I’ve got like 8 exams next week. Having trouble falling asleep. I saw that you put out a new video, and immediately decided that this is what I’m falling asleep to tonight. Thank you so much.
Same
Good luck on ur exams 👍👍👍
No joke. I love his stuff, but this makes me pass out like a sleeping pill.
Please tell us what dreams you end up having.
@@IchbinX it's the voice and tambre
I hope they are making a "guidebook" or history book for this. They can put all the story and great photo collection that they have accumulated so far but make it look like it is a real place.
The creator has mentioned making a sort of “coffee table” book of the story of the mystery flesh pit national park, so one day soon you can freak out your friends with it !
@@b00ktravels published by National Geonkgraphic Society
@@b00ktravels Really? Where and when?
This is one of my favorite little world build projects, super happy to see you talk about it! it's older, but I don't think it ever got the attention it deserved.
The idea of something like this becoming “ambulatory” is terrifying
Oh, yeah! I was picturing something like the giant flesh-thing at the end of the movie"Evolution". But with more solid, extensive, musculoskeletal structures on the exterior.
One nuke and it's "irresponsive"
@@pja6476 that’s a hell of a gamble though.
@@samuelfawell9159 how so, nukes can quite easily obliterate any flesh, and seeing how big they are and their radius, it shouldn't even be that hard, at most 2.
And that's not even considering conventional firepower and how we can strap nukes inside of it before it even wakes up.
It's probably the best for it's own well-being that it stays asleep.
@@pja6476 because like many things in the SCP universe or tangent universe, the fear of dropping a nuke and it not working.
Given the size of this thing, given it’s various natures, the idea of it withstanding a nuke is not out of the realm of possibility, and what then? You have a giant… thing, and we have already fired our shot and it didn’t work.
I was four when the 07 incident occurred, so my recollection isn’t the best, but I recall the tremors I felt in Dallas. My parents were crying around the tv and there were helicopters moving towards something in the distance.
We need more factual/informational articles like this. The content on this channel has always been interesting, but a lot of the articles on the wiki are _so, so in depth_ that they're difficult to even process, and thats what makes reading them interesting. These kind of articles really show how dedicated some of these writers are
You spoil us; also, as a Recreation Management major, this concept is so flipping funny.
I consider this a perfect companion piece to SCP because it's a textbook example of why the Foundation is necessary, or else all anomalies would end up like thjs
I just found out about this a little bit ago and got obsessed. It's the first thing I've read in many years that actually made me feel scared and disgusted. It was just how truly disturbing the idea of the organism is and how casual the park guest's/ staff feel about it. Very well done. I felt like I was a middle schooler reading creepy pastas again.
Thanks for the great videos man! Really love just how much effort and time you put into your content.
Not everything has to be an SCP video and I’m happy you have fun making a variety of content.
Funny to see you here
Agreed tbh
@@mapptn906 why?
For many years I work for a company that stored the extracted waste of this creature and stored it in tanks .it was highly acidic and the tanks had to be cleaned and patched. that was my job. I had several life threatening events while doing this work eventually was able to retire and moved away from the permanent basin.
This documentary/ incident report is way better than the one I saw on PBS, the tour guides should be required to watch this!
Figures all the news reports were yanked, can't find a single one anymore.
This didn't really happen.
@@hilltop4847 yes it did I lost my uncle in this disaster how can you say that
So sorry 😒
@@hilltop4847 let me guess the holocaust never happened ethier right? Typical denier how much proof do you need before you believe? Wake up sheep
1st I've ever heard of it
Supervisor: (stops tape) ...and THIS, ladies and gentlemen, is why we will actively listen to those "boring" and "cheesy" safety training videos! Thanks to a culture of greedmongering, scared silence, and corner-cutting, it was the end of an era...not that the era of a recreational park inside an eldritch superorganism was entirely a good thing to begin with, mind you, but it's the principle that counts. Any questions?
Trainee: Sssssooooo if I wanted to chip off a peice of tooth for a souvenir...?
Supervisor: ....You're fired.
I think my favorite part was the section explaining the park's experimental/untested failsafe using mystic relics that were supposedly meant to control the creature.
That incident report's conclusion was the most Texas thing I've ever heard.
So glad you've found this world-building project, it's one of my favorites! I've shared this one with even my mom and she loves it at 60 years old.
When I went here as a kid with Ms Frizzle it was a really fun biology trip, sad to hear about what ended up happening years later :(
Just learned about this one like yesterday, funny that you came out with a video around the same time. Just last year I had created a dimension in my D&D setting that was basically the Flesh Pit. I called it the "Plane of Flesh" and it was an entire dimension between planes that was made up entirely of the innards of one organism. It could open its maw in any plane or dimension to feed on entire cities, and within it is a decaying mix of people and architecture from every culture across every plane of existence. I THOUGHT this was a very original idea. Turns out somebody else came up with almost exactly the same thing and took the concept much further than me, and did it years earlier. Kind of a bummer but also this is exactly the type of fictional biology type stuff I love.
It sounds very cool
shit. I know exactly what story you're talking about, the one (spoilers) where the main character timeloops back to lead themself to the entrance? why not just write it? We definitely need more stories like that, just because somethings similar doesn't mean it's a copy, just look at the legal stature with the lion king and the similar story that came before it but got little fame comparatively, even extremely similar stories can be considered not the same.
Man thats a cool idea, imma steal it for my games. :O
@@alabasterstone7160 noooooooo!… but actually yeah go for it. I should write about it and publish it as some kind of story or campaign setting so others can use it.
Just a friendly reminder that: Not original =/= not clever/good! Some of my players most beloved plot points are either things that I deliberately took and walmart-branded for my own use, or things I thought were unique and clever only to later find were totally done before, often several times
These mid week Thursday vids are saving my soul!
The thing that peaks my interest with mystery flesh pit is the thought that if this was real we might've actually done something like this turning it into a nightmare park or something, I just feel bad for the thing
Just wanted to suggest you have a look at "Roadside Picnic" - a book set in a town right next to a giant anomalous zone, where many go to scavenge paranormal objects to sell on the black market
Yeah. Stalker. The brothers that wrote the book then wrote the movie stalker and both were used for adaptation into the games. Its utterly fantastic, all of it. (Well, except maybe clear sky 🙄) but yes, it is very well known amongst this type of community and writers/readers.
Here's hoping S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is another success in this series.
@@michaelandreipalon359 hear hear 🍻
Get out of here, Stalker!
This was told so well, I had to look up if it was fictional. It’s so creepy, and seeing how things are in the world. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was real.
Gotta love the last bit of that timeline: 3:51 PM July 5th - Radio transmission from trapped ranger vehicle ceases. Many speculate that other small groups of visitors and staff are still trapped.
End of relevant timeline
There are quiet possibly dozens if not hundreds of men, women, and children still trapped inside this thing struggling to survive, but this section of the disaster is not deemed 'relevant' and their fates are best left unaddressed. Pure Weyland-Yutani levels of dystopia.
I also noticed that the three "inter-pit lifeforms" aren't actually specified. If you've read the lore, you'd remember the only lifeform detailed actually larger than your average human is the Abyssal Copepod. While large and disturbing looking, they are described as relatively slow and sluggish with an aversion to bright lights and loud noises. They don't seem like the kind of creature capable of killing a bunch of screaming people. That mean's the whatever got ejected was something else, some sort of unidentified eldritch chaos spawn that rampaged through the area ripping people apart before being brought down by gunfire.
A lady behind the quick-stop once showed me a mystery flesh pit and I have never been the same. Be safe out there.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I hit it because I'm not a Chi-Com Stooge...
I love it. I am in disaster management and it reads exactly like the after-action reports that we create.
I feel bad for the pit, it just wakes up and finds out there are bugs mining and creating recreational facilities only to then be drugged when it tries to cough out the threat.
This was my introduction to the story and I been obsessed with it. It’s really cool when a great artist gets into world building and creates something that feels real.
I love this - the tone of voice and dry diagrams make me feel like I’m watching a mining safety briefing at 9am with a cup of terrible coffee
Spot on!