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SCP-762-1 is a torture device similar to the infamous Iron Maiden of Nuremberg. When opened, SCP-762 was found to have a male human in it, now known as SCP-762-2. When found inside SCP-762-1, SCP-762-2 had the device’s large spikes embedded in his flesh, but when removed from SCP-762-1, all of the subject’s wounds healed instantly. SCP-762-2 was found to be completely catatonic, but otherwise in decent health except for several rotten teeth and a large scar on his left arm.

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Transcript
00:00There's no such thing as a slow day at the SCP Foundation, and few days are more nerve-wracking
00:06than the ones where field agents discover an anomalous torture device hiding inside
00:10a warehouse owned by Marshall, Carter, and Dark.
00:13That was exactly what happened the day that the Foundation discovered SCP-762, and the
00:20poor, unfortunate soul trapped inside it.
00:23Even among the many frightening groups of interest that the Foundation has rattled sabers
00:28with, MC&D are some of the most genuinely dangerous.
00:32It's all thanks to their seemingly bottomless pockets and access to a vast number of anomalies.
00:38And, of course, they intend to sell it off to the highest bidder, no matter how sinister.
00:44A field agent received a tip-off from an informant based in the anomalous underground about an
00:49upcoming MC&D auction, which is always the talk of the town, and it always means a number
00:55of deadly objects and entities changing hands.
00:58The Foundation had long since given up on the idea that they could perform an honest-to-God
01:03sting operation against the auction itself.
01:06The last time they tried doing something like that, it was an absolute bloodbath.
01:11Another thing the group has always been famous for is its security.
01:15An inevitable result of having the deepest pockets in the anomaly game is having the capital
01:20to hire some of the most dangerous anomalous mercenaries in the world.
01:24The particular auction incident, which occurred in November of 1997, saw a Foundation Mobile
01:31Task Force unexpectedly come up against several squads of Chaos Insurgency shock troops, as well
01:37as a powerful Sarkic assassin and a handful of sentinel anomalies.
01:42The one survivor on the Foundation side took a full year to recover physically and five to
01:47recover mentally, even with all the Foundation resources at their disposal.
01:52So the emphasis of the project shifted.
01:55Using the intel that the next auction would be held in the German city of Nuremberg, at the
02:00historic Wiedler Auction House, the Foundation began a covert scan of all the larger warehouses
02:05in the area.
02:06They took a particular note of ones which scanned with unusual Hume levels.
02:11That was exactly how they found their paydirt, a large facility just outside the city limits.
02:17The Foundation prepared an all-out raid, but nobody is ever more prepared than Marshall
02:23Carter and Dark.
02:24When the field agents arrived and infiltrated, they did so to an almost empty warehouse, where
02:30all the employees had already long vacated, and all but one of the anomalies were gone.
02:35The only one that remained was a huge, grimacing statue of a woman, like a human-sized Russian
02:41doll.
02:42Every agent with some working knowledge of history immediately fell into a nervous silence.
02:47It was an Iron Maiden, a supposed torture device that was the piece de resistance in
02:53any medieval monarch's dungeon.
02:55A huge, hollow chamber made in the vague shape of a woman, but is really more like a standing
03:01room-only coffin, lined on the inside with huge iron spikes, positioned to pierce the
03:06flesh of the victim trapped inside.
03:09Pierce, of course, but not kill, so the victim's screams could rattle through the metal and echo
03:14with a clang off the dungeon walls.
03:17Just like my voice can echo off your walls every day if you make the very wise decision
03:23to subscribe to SCP Explained, where you can find all the best explanations of the Foundation's
03:29thousands of anomalies.
03:30Anyway, back to the Maiden.
03:33Nobody wanted to be the first one to touch it.
03:35If the soulless suits at Marshall, Carter & Dark already knew that Foundation agents were
03:40coming, it wouldn't be all that surprising for them to leave a trap.
03:44Something that could be activated with just a touch, and would potentially drag a Foundation
03:49agent into a world of unimaginable pain, just out of spite for messing with their plans.
03:55As such, they waited for reinforcements to arrive, equipped with some Scranton reality
04:01anchors and at least one career thaumaturgist to assess the potential for damage.
04:06Luckily for the people present at the warehouse, it didn't seem to pose any threat to them.
04:11It caused a whole different form of distress when the thaumaturgist, who was also a psychic,
04:16noticed a life-form inside the Iron Maiden.
04:20They were trapped, and from the ruinous vibrations emanating from the Maiden, he could tell that
04:25whatever was inside was filled with great pain and hatred.
04:28They'd managed to be smart and avoid one trap.
04:31They definitely weren't going to chance releasing what was waiting inside.
04:35The Maiden was taken to the nearest Foundation containment site, on the bottom of a helicopter,
04:40and was placed into a secure containment chamber outfitted for any possible scenario.
04:45It would be so typically MC&D, trick them into a false sense of security about the Iron Maiden
04:51itself, only to let them be attacked by a dangerous anomaly trapped inside the Maiden.
04:57They couldn't afford to take any chances here, with so many Foundation lives on the line.
05:02While everyone else stood behind a lead wall, a member of D-class personnel was told to step
05:08forward and pry the device open.
05:09He did so, his complete ignorance of history preventing him from noticing how ominous this
05:15thing was.
05:16Everyone who watched was tensing up, preparing for a sudden flood of grasping tentacles, or
05:21a hungry wolf made out of fire and fog.
05:24The last thing they expected when the D-class wedged open the door was an injured, emaciated
05:29man falling out onto the ground.
05:31He looked like he'd been through absolute hell, mottled and bruised, his skin covered
05:37in puncture marks where the rusty spikes inside the Iron Maiden pierced his flesh again and
05:42again and again.
05:43His eyes were open and alive, but glassy and absent, his breaths heavy and ragged, blown
05:50weakly through a rattling old tube.
05:53He looked like he'd dropped dead from the sheer shock at any minute.
05:56But then, quite the opposite happened.
06:00Researchers marveled at the man on the ground began to convulse without a word, and the wounds
06:04across his body closed, his bruises washing away beneath his skin.
06:09A moment later, he looked as healthy as anyone else in the room, except he was still laying
06:14on the floor, naked and catatonic.
06:16The Iron Maiden remained empty and inert, off to the side.
06:20The D-class, who'd been watching this whole thing, said,
06:23What in the same hell is going on here?
06:25That was exactly what the Foundation wanted to figure out, too.
06:29So began the historical investigation into their latest anomaly, SCP-762, and the poor
06:37SOB who was trapped inside it.
06:39The anomaly itself wasn't the only thing they were able to pick up at the warehouse.
06:43They were able to receive some context from a piece of paper left in a filing cabinet in
06:48the warehouse's office.
06:49A series of insert slips for the impending auction, one of which contained Marshall Carter
06:55and Dark's description of the Iron Maiden they'd just picked up.
06:59Someone else's eternity of pain might just be your eternity of pleasure.
07:03This charming 16th-century item, in the style of the famous Iron Maiden of Nuremberg, is sure
07:09to be a stunning conversation piece in the home of any discerning anarch collector for its
07:13aesthetic value alone, and could be considered the jewel of the collection on that basis.
07:19But far more interesting than just the device's value as a historical object d'art is its unique
07:25anomalous function.
07:26Have you ever wanted someone to disappear?
07:29The paper was roughly ripped off below that part of the description, which made the Foundation
07:34researchers all the more curious.
07:37Some of the anomalous historians were immediately skeptical about the supposed dating of the device,
07:42because the historical accuracy of Iron Maidens in general has long been a subject of serious
07:47debate. During the Victorian era, it was a popular hobby for the bored, rich, and well-traveled
07:53to create so-called cabinets of curiosity. These were often whole rooms filled with strange and
08:00curious items from across the globe, often for the purposes of impressing and beguiling their other
08:06bored, rich, and well-traveled friends. They had naturalia, stuffed creatures and natural objects,
08:12exotica, plants from distant lands, and the shells of strange sea creatures.
08:18scientifica, scientific instruments that were all the rage in this new age of reason,
08:23and artificialia, peculiar and interesting man-made objects like works of art and antiques.
08:30Or, if you were the more morbid sort of rich person with the more morbid sort of friends,
08:35you could invest in some medieval torture instruments. Dealers, including Marshall Carter
08:40and Dark and its immortal owners, would make a mint selling grisly devices like thumbscrews and pairs
08:46of anguish to their clientele. But when history ran out of supply and the demand marched on,
08:52dealers would imagine new tools of barbarism to sell to these blood-hungry Victorians.
08:57One of the most coveted at the time was the Iron Maiden, as described the queen of all torture.
09:04These days, historians dispute whether any of these Iron Maidens actually existed before the
09:09Victorian era, but the truth has never gotten in the way of a good story. As the Foundation began
09:16conducting tests, they found that SCP-762 was the exception. Carbon dating established the anomaly
09:23as at least several centuries old, and all the pieces really started coming together when they
09:28realized that the same was also true of the man who'd been trapped inside the device.
09:33Foundation psychics who touched the man could sense hundreds of years of history,
09:37but the lion's share of that history was spent in terrible pain and darkness,
09:42darkness from which there seemed to be no chance at all of escape. The Iron Maiden had healed the
09:47man's every physical affliction, save for his grotesquely rotten teeth. There was no questioning
09:53him directly about what had happened here, because he had remained in a non-responsive state since he'd
09:59been freed. They performed an EEG test on the man, and found that his brain was still very much alive,
10:05displaying patterns indicating severe anxiety or even terror, but that terror was turned inwards. He was
10:12completely unresponsive to any outside stimuli, and didn't appear to be reactive even to pain.
10:18When a Foundation doctor made a small incision in the man's leg to test the man's potential healing
10:22factor, they found that it did not heal, meaning that the healing quality was inherent in the maiden
10:29rather than the man. The researchers were curious about whether his leg would heal instantly if he was
10:35put back in the maiden, but this proved to be a no-go. Despite him otherwise being completely dead to
10:41the world,
10:41when researchers brought him into the proximity of the Iron Maiden with its open doors, he began
10:47screaming and thrashing with the force of several men, so much so that it was deemed not worth the
10:52risk to the researchers, the anomaly, or him, to attempt to force him back into the maiden.
10:58So the Foundation decided to shove a bunch of D-Classes into the Iron Maiden instead, because after a
11:04point, that's kind of their answer for everything. The same D-Class that was first brought into the
11:09chamber to open the Iron Maiden was brought back into it, and then shot several times in the abdomen
11:15by a Foundation guard. The screaming, bleeding man was shoved into the Iron Maiden and shut away inside,
11:20adding injury to injury. When the doors were closed, the screaming immediately stopped,
11:26and researchers first assumed that the D-Class had died inside. They waited an hour before opening the
11:32doors again, at which point the D-Class collapsed out of it. All of his bullet wounds had been healed,
11:37and instead his body bore all the wounds of the Maiden's vicious spikes. He was asked what happened
11:43on the inside, and for the first few hours, he just screamed in terrible anguish.
11:48When they were able to calm him down through physical contact with SCP-999, they were able to conduct a
11:55proper interview. He said that his hour inside the Maiden was worse than any kind of hell he was
12:00capable of imagining.
12:01It's dark, man. It's dark, but you can see. You can see everything. I could draw the patterns of the
12:09rust in there. You can't move. It won't let you move, but it lets you feel and know. Those spikes
12:17in
12:17my skin, in my muscles, worse than the damn bullets. It was cold. So goddamn cold. Please, I'm begging you.
12:26I know I did wrong, but don't make me go back. Anything but that. Anything.
12:32For the next test, they'd be putting him back inside the Maiden.
12:36Considering he survived the first time, it only made sense to use him again,
12:40given that it would likely be cruel and unfair to subject an entirely different member of D-Class
12:45personnel to the same torture. But this wasn't just blind sadism. This was very much a point to
12:51performing additional tests. This time, they starved the D-Class and deprived him of water,
12:57before sedating him to prevent resistance and shoving him back inside.
13:01This time, for the experiment, they left him inside the Maiden for an entire week.
13:06They were curious to see whether this level of deprivation would result in death,
13:10or whether the Maiden would be too hungry for pain to ever allow this poor fool to die inside of
13:15her.
13:15And that turned out to be the case. When the Maiden was open, despite the fact that the D-Class
13:21very
13:22much should have been dead of either dehydration or starvation by the time he was removed,
13:27he was in exactly the same state he was in when he was first shoved in. Just as before,
13:32when he stopped screaming and was given a pastrami sandwich from the break room,
13:36he was given another debriefing interview.
13:40I just feel broken. I don't know how I can keep living after that. It's a nightmare. A living nightmare.
13:50I felt so hungry. So thirsty. I thought I was going to die, and I just didn't. It didn't make
14:00any kind
14:01of sense. And no matter how bad the pain of my good god or how my lips cracked and bled,
14:07it never felt worse than the spikes in my skin. Never. Look man, I'll sign a contract. I'll give
14:13you my immortal soul. Seriously, just don't put me back in there. For the next and most important test,
14:19they were going to put the D-Class into the Maiden for a lot longer. Despite his screams and protests,
14:24he was shoved inside the box. This time, he would be left there for five years and then removed to
14:31see
14:32what would happen. Would he have survived? Would he have aged? Well, he was put in three years ago,
14:37so we'll let you know in another two when he comes out. Now check out SCP-2419, The Laughing Men,
14:44Top 10 D-Class Torture Tales, and SCP-4511, Swine God, Top 10 Evil SCP Oddities for more.

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