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00:01The SCP Foundation is a secret organization that has one goal.
00:06To secure, contain, and protect the world from bizarre creatures and objects.
00:12The secret bases of this organization are hidden all over the world.
00:16And each of them contains scary, dangerous, harmless, miraculous, and simply crazy objects.
00:23And now, you'll see some of the weirdest.
00:28Object SCP-410.
00:30This is a colony of 14 individual beetles, similar to scarabeus, of different colors.
00:36From light blue to dark emerald.
00:39At first glance, they look like ordinary insects.
00:42But soon, you notice that these bugs don't feed on leaves, larvae, and other food.
00:48They eat mistakes in a text.
00:51What?!
00:51Put a paper with some text containing spelling or grammar mistakes and syntactic errors inside the terrarium with object SCP
01:00-410.
01:01The bugs run up to misspelled words or punctuation errors and eat them.
01:0720 minutes later, the beetles secrete corrected letters or words from their bodies.
01:13This way, they completely edit the text.
01:16One member of SCP-410 can eat about 25,000 errors per day.
01:22The beetles can live without incorrect texts for about two days.
01:26Then they fall into a state of hibernation.
01:29To revive them, you need to put a text containing at least 50 errors next to them.
01:36Object SCP-2157 is a mysterious 200-square-foot piece of land found in a forest in Japan.
01:43People are standing in different poses on this territory.
01:4720 men and 21 women.
01:49They're all of different weights and heights.
01:52Their feet are on the ground, and their faces are turned to the west.
01:56People react to external stimuli.
01:58They blink, flinch, and get scared.
02:01And still, they're standing there, motionless like trees.
02:07They start screaming if somebody tries to lift them off the ground.
02:11But soil analysis has shown that SCP-2157 objects have no physical connection to the land.
02:18Their feet are in no way connected to the soil.
02:21A body scan has shown some earth inside their stomach.
02:26As soon as an SCP Foundation employee enters their territory, the people turn their heads in their direction and just
02:34stare at them.
02:35As soon as the outsider leaves, the people start looking to the west again.
02:39Monitoring of this object continues.
02:43Object SCP-621.
02:46It's hypnotic tulips.
02:48They look like ordinary tulips, but have bioluminescence.
02:52They get energy and other nutrients from the water and glow purple, blue, or green.
02:59This glow has a hypnotic effect on people and all nearby living beings.
03:04Bees, for example, start pollinating only these flowers, ignoring all other plants, which speeds up the reproduction of the tulips.
03:13Herbivores and other natural enemies avoid SCP-621.
03:18All this makes tulips a rapidly spreading species.
03:22While growing, SCP-621 takes all the nutrients from other plants growing nearby.
03:29It depletes the soil and consumes a lot of water.
03:32Under the influence of SCP-621, a person tends to take care of the plants and do everything to make
03:39them live as long as possible.
03:42For example, owners of large fields only take care of the tulips and ignore the rest of their farmlands under
03:49the influence of the glow.
03:51Thus, tulips can spread until they capture all territories, and people will treat them with love because of their hypnotic
03:59effect.
04:00Therefore, it's crucial to keep tulips in an isolated greenhouse.
04:05Employees of the SCP Foundation water them every day and don't allow them to get out of the area.
04:13Object SCP-2559-J
04:17While conducting research in one of the laboratories, a scientist accidentally opened a portal to another dimension.
04:24Little kittens began to come out of this portal in an endless stream.
04:28There's an infinitely huge world of kittens on the other side.
04:32If you pick up one of them, it will turn out to be an ordinary little kitty.
04:37The portal is located deep underground.
04:40It's not yet known how to close it.
04:43As a person approaches the doorway, they find themselves under the influence of cute kittens.
04:48Now, they're falling out into our reality at a rate of three kittens per second.
04:56SCP-999 is a large moving mass of transparent orange slime.
05:02It looks like jelly and has the viscosity of peanut butter.
05:05The shape and size of the creature are constantly changing.
05:09The object's surface is covered with a thin, flexible membrane that prevents the mass from spreading in different directions.
05:16It's a friendly creature that likes to play with people.
05:19So cute.
05:20It jumps on a person, hugs them, and makes gurgling sounds.
05:25SCP-999 emits a pleasant and constantly changing odor.
05:29It can be the smell of bacon or fresh bedding or roses.
05:34Touching SCP-999 causes euphoria that increases with the duration of contact.
05:41After that, a person experiences happiness for a long time.
05:45The object likes to completely envelop people and tickle them from head to heels.
05:51Object SCP-831 is a colony of unknown insects, similar in appearance and properties to ordinary termites.
06:00They feed on cellulose and water with sucrose.
06:04One termite lives from 25 to 40 days.
06:07The colony should remain in an empty bright room under constant supervision.
06:12The walls and floor in the room should be made of high-strength steel.
06:17Employees should pour water with nutrients on the floor to maintain the life of these termites.
06:22You can only enter the room in a protective suit.
06:26When the termites get access to any object, they begin to use it to make the most primitive tools.
06:32For example, if you put a pencil in a room, termites will extract graphite and use the wooden body to
06:40create chips or something else.
06:42If you constantly feed it, the colony will grow and multiply.
06:46It will use primitive tools to create modern technologies.
06:50These termites know the properties of all substances and understand how to use them to create inventions.
06:58With the help of knowledge of the laws of physics and chemistry, and using wood and graphite from the pencil,
07:04in a few days, termites can create a primitive steam engine.
07:08The longer they stay in some place, and the more they multiply, the more perfect the inventions will be.
07:16A colony of millions of termites can create high-tech machines or radio transmitters that are incomprehensible to people.
07:24The boundaries of inventions are unknown, but the results of their work surpass all human technologies.
07:31This is why SCP Foundation employees keep SCP-831 in an enclosed empty room.
07:39Object SCP-1689
07:41It's a big bag of potatoes.
07:44In stable condition, it weighs about 110 pounds.
07:48There are about 200 tubers of ordinary potatoes inside.
07:51The inner space of the bag is much larger than it looks from the outside.
07:56The size of this area is unknown, but it's completely filled with potatoes.
08:01It's impossible to determine where the bag ends.
08:05Oh my god!
08:06SCP Foundation employees once went on an expedition inside the bag.
08:11Scientists created a special paste that broke down starch and turned potatoes into liquid slush.
08:17This way, the employees made a tunnel for themselves by spraying the substance and raking potato muck with shovels.
08:26That's when they found out that the space had a concrete floor, concrete walls, and a ceiling.
08:32They were walking inside some kind of building filled with potatoes.
08:37The team punched a hole in the wall and left the construction.
08:41The ground was covered with dried grass.
08:44There were only potatoes around.
08:46What was at the top was unknown, since the entire space was filled with potatoes.
08:51They also found a rusty bicycle there.
08:55The expedition failed.
08:57SCP-1689 leads to a world similar to ours.
09:01But something happened there, and it began to fill up with potatoes.
09:07Object SCP-623
09:10This is a small room built in the 60s by a professor of biochemistry.
09:15There are only these items in the room.
09:17One blue sofa.
09:19One red sofa.
09:20One green sofa.
09:22One white plastic chair.
09:23One round table decorated in the same colors as the sofas.
09:27Seven chairs around the round table.
09:30And seven multicolored lighting fixtures.
09:33All the furniture is nailed to the floor.
09:36Strange patterns are painted on the walls.
09:39They perfectly match the style and the location of the furniture.
09:44The acoustics and the appearance of the room, as well as the arrangements of all the objects,
09:49have a strong, pleasant effect on a person.
09:52Inside the room, people feel harmony and happiness.
09:55They relax and become kind and harmless.
10:00Because of the feeling of peace and serenity, people can't take the furniture out of the room.
10:05They just want to dance, laugh, hug the table, lie on the floor, and cry with joy.
10:11But as soon as they leave the room, they immediately become angry, aggressive, and sad.
10:18The real world outside the room seems to be a dangerous and dark place.
10:23If you stay inside the object for more than a few minutes and then go out, you can lose your
10:28mind.
10:29The dark days are mysterious natural phenomena that have occurred only a few times in the history of humankind.
10:37We can write them off as eclipses or just some weather events.
10:41But in reality, they're very creepy and we have no idea why they happen.
10:47So, what are these dark days anyway?
10:51What's so strange about them?
10:53Let's try to find out.
10:55The sun is off.
10:57What are we going to do?
10:58That's what the residents of Yamal, Siberia asked meteorologists on September 18th, 1938.
11:05In the morning, instead of going to work, they all gathered at the weather station.
11:10They were waiting for answers.
11:12All because on that day, they observed something inexplicable.
11:16An eclipse which they later nicknamed the Black Day.
11:20And neither astronomers nor meteorologists can explain what happened back then.
11:25Here's how one of them described this event.
11:28At 8.30am, we noted a decrease in light.
11:32At the same time, the color of the clouds began to acquire a yellowish-brown, sometimes red-brown hue.
11:38By 9am, the lighting had changed dramatically.
11:42It was as if you were looking at the world through a dark light filter.
11:46The brown tones of the clouds intensified.
11:49By 10.30am, the sky and Earth didn't differ from each other in lighting and color.
11:54Everything seemed homogenous, black, absolutely devoid of light.
12:01Pretty creepy, right?
12:02And that's not all.
12:04The city was also plunged into complete radio silence.
12:08Meteorologists couldn't even contact the authorities and local residents were unable to set up any stations.
12:14Everyone was in the dark, both literally and figuratively.
12:19Meteorologists decided to try and launch several flares.
12:22The flares soared into the air towards the heavy dark clouds hanging over the city and disappeared.
12:29The clouds were so dense that the flares were completely invisible.
12:33At the same time, the weather was perfectly fine.
12:37Everything was quiet.
12:38And this black silence lasted for about an hour.
12:42After that, the black day ended as unexpectedly as it began.
12:47Even more baffling, those strange clouds left literally no trace.
12:52No rain.
12:53No dust.
12:54Nothing.
12:55After that event, researchers found out that the black day had spread for 125 to 155 miles around.
13:04They also learned that the dark band was moving from west to east.
13:08After passing through the southern part of the Yamal Peninsula, it headed on for a while and then disappeared completely.
13:16Yamal isn't the only place where this phenomenon occurred.
13:19In fact, similar eclipses have been happening in different parts of Earth for many years.
13:24For example, in New England.
13:26On May 19, 1780, people there witnessed an event that was later called New England's Dark Day.
13:33But it lasted not one day, but several.
13:36A few days before this event, the sky turned yellow.
13:40And on May 19, in broad daylight, it suddenly turned black.
13:44Here's what one of the witnesses, Joseph Plum Martin, later told the press.
13:49It was very dark.
13:51People had to light candles in their houses to carry on with their usual business.
13:55The night was as uncommonly dark as the day was.
13:59The smell of soot rained in the air.
14:01Nearby rivers were covered with a thin layer of ash.
14:04When the real night came, people noticed through the clouds that the moon had turned dark red.
14:11Only a couple of days later, people were finally able to see stars through the veil of clouds.
14:16And then, everything suddenly returned to normal.
14:19No one had any idea what had happened.
14:2322 years later, on June 2, 1802, a schooner named El Dorado sailed across the Pacific Ocean.
14:31Suddenly, they were overtaken by complete darkness.
14:34There was no storm, and the ocean was completely calm.
14:38But the whole sky was covered with black clouds.
14:40These clouds dissipated after half an hour and left no trace.
14:45And again, 74 years later, one of the dark waves happened in Wisconsin on March 19, 1886.
14:53It was 3 p.m., and this time, the wave was very short.
14:57It lasted only 5 to 10 minutes.
15:00A sudden night fell on the city.
15:03Frightened horses were neighing, and terrified people were running around, trying to find a place to hide.
15:09When everything calmed down, local newspapers reported that the wave passed from west to east.
15:15There was no solar eclipse, no winds or hurricanes.
15:19Nothing that could cause the darkness over the city.
15:23And finally, once again, it happened on December 2, 1904, in Memphis.
15:29Or rather, that's what rumors claim, since there's no scientific evidence of this event.
15:35It was clear and cold dawn over Bluff City.
15:38People were doing their usual Friday morning chores.
15:41Then, around 9 in the morning, without any warning, the sun suddenly disappeared from the sky.
15:47It took only a minute for the bright sunny day to turn into pitch darkness.
15:53People interrupted their work, and children in schools were completely terrified.
15:58And just like in previous cases, the weather was perfectly calm.
16:02It lasted for about half an hour, and then suddenly ended.
16:06A little later, following a mysterious eclipse, a ferocious storm hit the city.
16:12So, what's going on?
16:14All these strange cases can surely be explained scientifically, right?
16:19Well, actually, scientists don't have a definite answer.
16:23All these events are very similar, but we don't have a single explanation that could cover them all.
16:29Let's take a look at some theories.
16:32The first thought that comes to mind, it's probably a partial or total eclipse.
16:36But no, this is not the case.
16:38There were no eclipses on those days.
16:41And even if we consider this theory, before any eclipse, the sky darkens gradually.
16:48Eclipses themselves only last a couple of minutes.
16:51Certainly not a few hours or even days.
16:54Also, unlike eclipses, these events were local to specific cities.
16:58Well, maybe it's some other astronomical event.
17:02Some scientists believe that during the event on Yamal, a band of cosmic dust touched Earth.
17:09But later, they found out that no astronomical bodies approached the planet that day.
17:14Alright, any other ideas?
17:16Forest fires could be the reason.
17:18When a large area of forest is burning at the same time, a column of air can rise to great
17:23heights, like three to four miles.
17:26These air flows carry ash and other burnt stuff to different places.
17:30And, since all these things are so high in the sky, they simply freeze there and turn into something resembling
17:37black clouds.
17:39That was probably the case for New England.
17:41At that time, a wave of forest fires broke out in Canada.
17:45They could easily spread through the north of the U.S.
17:48Also, just look at this description.
17:51Yellowed sky, the smell of soot, ash on the water.
17:56Everything sounds logical, but this theory of fires only works for the event in New England.
18:02What about the other cases?
18:04Where would you find a forest fire in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, for example?
18:09Alright, moving on.
18:10Scientists tried to explain the story from Memphis by saying it could be a hurricane.
18:14But the black cloud swept through the city before the storm, not during or after it.
18:21And it wasn't some kind of typical storm cloud.
18:24It was full-fledged night darkness.
18:26So what's really going on?
18:29Now, meteorologists call this phenomenon a local decrease in the transparency of the atmosphere.
18:35Unlike solar eclipses, this darkness is denser.
18:39It also covers only a small area.
18:42The transparency of the atmosphere is its ability to let through radiation and light.
18:47It's basically, how well can I see distant objects?
18:51Everything can get dark and blurry, for example, because of the dust in the air, volcanic eruptions, fogs, and so
18:58on.
18:59So, according to this theory, dark days are just an extreme drop in the transparency of the atmosphere.
19:06But it's still strange.
19:08If that's the case, shouldn't everything have been covered with thick fog or something like that?
19:13Yeah, it was very dark.
19:15But when people lit the lamps, the visibility was pretty good.
19:19Nothing blocked the view except the black clouds that covered the sun.
19:23In other words, this phenomenon is very hard to explain.
19:27As far as we know, it happened only five to six times in the history of humankind.
19:31If there were other cases, they weren't documented.
19:34This phenomenon is impossible to predict, and no one knows how it works, as well as where and when it
19:40will happen next time.
19:41And although there are many hypotheses, none of them can be verified.
19:46Maybe if these events happen again in the future, we'll be able to study them better.
19:50But, unfortunately, at the moment, the dark days remain a mystery.
19:56Throughout history, humans have used tattoos to protect themselves against sorcery,
20:00claim membership in groups, declare their love, honour their loved ones, or simply express themselves.
20:07And it looks like tattoos are going nowhere, because as of 2022, 46% of the United States population has
20:15at least won.
20:16That's why it's not shocking that tattooing has taken the sixth spot amongst the fastest growing industries in the country.
20:23And it's safe to assume that this percentage will only go up.
20:27But have you ever stopped and wondered when this form of body modification came into existence, and how it changed
20:34over the years?
20:35Let me tell you.
20:37Tattoos date back thousands of years.
20:39Have you ever heard about Otsi the Iceman?
20:42He's the 5,200-year-old mummy who was found embedded in glacial ice in 1991 in the Oatstel Alps.
20:50Yep, that's how he got the nickname Otsi.
20:53The reason I'm talking about him now is that he holds the record for the oldest tattoos in the Guinness
20:59World Records.
20:59He had 61 markings across his body that are considered to be tattooed by the experts.
21:06These markings are composed of vertical and horizontal lines which were created from fireplace ash or soot pigment.
21:13Otsi, however, was not trying to express his true self with them.
21:17When they examined Otsi's bones in detail, they noticed that there was age or injury-related degeneration on the tattooed
21:25areas of his body.
21:26This made scientists believe that his tattoos may have been related to discomfort relief treatments similar to acupuncture.
21:33That also explains the somewhat random distribution of those markings on his body.
21:39Experts also believe the fact Otsi had so many tattoos means that others in his culture knew about tattooing and
21:46that he wasn't the first person ever to have tattoos.
21:49Although Otsi's tattoos are considered to be therapeutic, evidence of figurative tattoos, which are images of real subjects such as
21:58animals and so on, were also discovered on two 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummies.
22:03As well as pushing back evidence of the practice of tattooing in Africa by 1,000 years, this discovery also
22:11holds the importance of changing the belief that only Egyptian women got tattoos.
22:16However, other mummies with tattoos have been recovered from at least 49 archaeological sites, including locations in Greenland, Alaska, and
22:26the Philippines, which only suggests that tattoos were a worldwide thing.
22:30But despite all this evidence that shows the art of tattooing is ancient and universal, the exact date of when
22:37and where it began is unknown.
22:40There are written records that date tattoos back to 5th century BCE, Greece, where they were used to mark criminals
22:47and enemies so that it would be easier to identify them if they tried to escape.
22:52Romans and Persians also used tattooing for the same purposes.
22:57Other cultures, on the other hand, had different uses in mind.
23:01In the Philippines, tattoos were symbols of tribal identity, kinship, bravery, beauty, and social or wealth status.
23:09They were also believed to have magical abilities and were done as protective talismans against any evil supernatural forces.
23:18Consequently, the process of tattooing was believed to be sacred, therefore, it involved some rituals.
23:24For example, if an artist or a person who was about to get a tattoo sneezed before the tattoo began,
23:31this was seen as a sign of disapproval by the spirits.
23:34So the session would be called off or rescheduled, and once a tattoo was complete, a celebration usually would be
23:42held on its behalf.
23:45When it came to ancient Egypt, tattoos were originally used to show a dedication to a deity, and they were
23:51believed to convey divine protection.
23:54What's worth mentioning here is the fact that many of the tattooed mummies discovered in Egypt were female.
24:00One of those mummies came to be known as Amunet, the tattooed priestess of Hathor, who had a variety of
24:07tattoos on her body.
24:09When she was first discovered, experts initially thought that due to the placement of her tattoos, these were either done
24:16as a medical treatment for a lower body condition, or they were simply the markings of lower status.
24:22But in recent years, a further examination revealed that she was a person with high social status, so the previous
24:29theory was debunked.
24:30This discovery led some to believe that her tattoos possibly functioned as protection against the difficulties of pregnancy and childbirth.
24:39Now let's take a look at Japan's history with tattoos.
24:43Tattooing for spiritual and decorative purposes was widespread in Japan, and it actually extended back to at least 300 BCE.
24:53Some written texts also described tattooing and other bodily markings to indicate social differences among Japanese people.
25:01By the 17th century, however, most criminals were tattooed as a mark of punishment.
25:07And by the mid-19th century, tattoos were banned altogether, and those who had them were viewed as lacking respectability,
25:15which in turn created a subculture of outcasts who formed the roots of the Yakuza.
25:20But how did the modern and more expressionist role of tattoos in the Western world begin?
25:27James Cook was a British explorer and captain who was famous for his three voyages to the South Pacific, which
25:35took place between 1768 and 1779.
25:39During one of these voyages, he traveled to the Tahitian Islands, where he was introduced to the art of tattooing.
25:45When he landed on the island, he was surprised and impressed by the heavily tattooed men and women, and he
25:52wanted to make note of them in his logbook.
25:55So, to describe their body art, he used the term tattoo after hearing the locals use a word that sounded
26:01similar to it regarding their markings.
26:03Before that, tattooing was simply referred to as scarring, painting, or staining.
26:10Many of Cook's crew returned to England with tattoos from this voyage, which, in return, restarted a tattoo tradition among
26:17the sailors.
26:18They started using tattoos as a way to record their travels.
26:22For example, they would get an anchor tattoo if they crossed the Atlantic Ocean successfully, or a shellback turtle tattoo
26:30if they crossed the equator.
26:31This paved the way for the traditional style of tattooing.
26:36By the 19th century, although tattoos were still largely associated with sailors, they had spread to British high society as
26:44well.
26:45During the 1870s, they had even become fashion statements among some members of the upper classes, as well as royalty.
26:52The people who had them among the high society included British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, Prince
27:01of Wales, the future Edward VII, and his sons, as well as several of Queen Victoria's relatives.
27:07It was even rumored that she herself had a tattoo of a tiger fighting a python in the area of
27:13her body that could easily be covered with clothes, just in case.
27:16This all led to tattoos becoming a mark of wealth by the late 1880s.
27:23In 1891, the tattoo machine was created by Samuel O'Reilly, who was a New York City tattooer himself.
27:31His design was based on a modification of Thomas Edison's electric pen, which was originally designed to help businesses with
27:39document duplication.
27:40It was also around the same years that tattooed women started to make appearances, though mostly in the circuses to
27:47entertain people.
27:49Although that industry eventually slowed down, by the 1920s, more women began to get tattoos as a cost-effective alternative
27:57to makeup, since products were so expensive at the time.
28:01In 1939, Mildred Hull became the first female to open her own tattoo shop in New York.
28:07It was around this time that the US introduced social security numbers, and many citizens got theirs tattooed on their
28:14bodies as a memory aid.
28:17However, despite these tattoos, decorative tattoos continued to be looked down upon.
28:22If you had a tattoo during the 50s or the 60s, you would still be viewed as a rebel or
28:28a criminal by the majority of people.
28:30In 1961, the New York City Health Department actually banned tattoos because they saw them as the cause of spreading
28:38diseases.
28:39The ban was not lifted until 1997.
28:43Today, tattoos are so common that even toys have them.
28:46So there's no ban, no stigma, no style or color restriction, and nothing to stop you from getting the tattoo
28:53of your dreams.
28:54Maybe except your mom.