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* The real crowning piece of terror inherent to nearly every single SCP object page: before you even get to the description, you get one or more paragraphs describing the special containment procedures needed for each object, forcing you to imagine just what requires this kind of containment process. These procedures often include battalions of elite commandos with assault weapons and body armor, 3-meter-thick titanium cubes, on-site nuclear self-destruct systems, deep underground or undersea locations, overwatch from AC-130s, unimaginably extensive monitoring equipment, people with unusual skills or attributes (such as fluency in Ancient Sumerian or a "marked sexual deviancy"), vats of hydrochloric acid, bulletproof glass, and ''other SCP objects''. In other words, stuff that no government in their right mind would ever authorize. It's around then that you know what you're dealing with.
* The sheer knowledge that if it wasn't for the Foundation, the world might have ended already. Also, the sheer knowledge that ''despite'' the existance of the Foundation it just might end anyways, since several objects that could cause [[The End of the World as We Know It]] require only one tiny slip-up to activate, and there are several others the Foundation ''cannot do anything about''.
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-583 SCP-583.] Good luck watching ''[[Sesame Street]]'' again.
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** For extra nightmares, think on this: As long as you look at it, it's a harmless statue with entirely curved edges, no claws or anything, made of concrete and rebar, so it shouldn't be able to move. So... what is it when you're not looking at it?
** Also: [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/revised-entry this short story.] What would happen if said statue replicated. Exponentially.
*** Said entry describes 150 SCP-173s attacking and ripping apart ''SCP-682. The fucking indestructible lizard.'' And 682 didn't regenerated after that.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBLIAasOfxk This video]. The statue in action.
** [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-232 SCP-232] falls into a similar vein. It's a statue of a Sumerian goddess that will cut you up if you allow any shadows into its constantly-lit containment area.
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* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-106 SCP-106] "The Old Man". An entity resembling a rotting old man. It causes severe corrosion and decay of whatever it touches. It drags its victims into its pocket dimension (which it seems to have complete metaphysical control over) and slowly tortures them for hours or days, before ejecting their mutilated bodies back into this world. Take a look at the page [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-106 pictures]. As if that wasn't enough, it's completely indestructible and almost impossible to successfully contain.
** The procedure for its recapture is, if possible, more terrifying than it is. Namely, taking a human in it's preferred age bracket and injuring them by breaking a bone or cutting a tendon, placing them in a cell, and broadcasting their cries to lure in SCP-106. If SCP-106 isn't taking the bait, ''additional damage'' is inflicted. If it still isn't working, more "prey" objects are brought in.
** Yes, this one was included in the game "SCP Containment Breach". Yes, you can enter in the dimension this monster creates. And you have to re-contain him if you want to get one of the less bad endings, using another D-class inmate you have found.
* SCPs [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-076 076-2] and [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682 682]. Both are indestructible, very sharp killing machines. Sure, you can put them down for now, but they'll just come right back again in a few minutes.
** SCP-076 has a long description on its page about how in "the worst breach to date", its containment site was forced to set off a nuke, killing everyone and incinerating the location... '''[[Nigh Invulnerable|and failing to kill the SCP]]'''.
** Not to mention the incident with the "[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-076-2 Mobile Task Force Omega-7]". In short, the Foundation tried to weaponize 076-2 by exploiting their blood-thirst and its apparent "respect" toward the ones they declared worthy enemies. So they assembled a task force for him to command and gave him work. It worked for a while, until the Foundation run out of missions to give him, and 076-2 ended killing his own men and breaching containment.
** SCP 682 is described as a reptilian monster able to mutate and regenerate body parts, with hyperintelligence, and [[Omnicidal Maniac|a hate of all forms of life]], and the ability to adapt to anything. It's still capable of talking (usually in the form of obscenities and threats) with as much as 80% of its body mass destroyed, and needs to be kept in an acid bath so as to constantly keep it weakened. What makes it worse is the fact that they have to experiment with other SCPs to try and find away to permanently destroy it. The most frightening thing? It usually fails, and then it becomes immune to whatever they tried.
** How about the interaction between 682 and 826? [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-826 862] is a pair of pewter dragon statues that transform the room it's in into the setting of any book placed between them. If the people fail to escape the room, they will lose all memories of their past lives, and the story will rewrite itself to incorporate them. Realizing this, the SCP wrote a 12 page short story called "The Generally Nice, Friendly Thing That Can And Will Kill SCP-682 Permanently if it So Much As Spots That Damn Lizard", that was just a description of a plain green field, and a large monster whose sole descriptive quality was the stated ability of permanently killing 682. So, they put 682 in there, and in a matter of minutes, the plain green field turned into a scorched crater-filled wasteland, and the 12 page short story had become a <s>1,000+</s> 209 page epic called "The Generally Nice, Friendly Thing That Tried To Kill SCP-682 Permanently But Failed" describing the epic battles between this monster and an innocent creature whose very existence was based around its ability to destroy 682. And 682 won. [[Tear Jerker|Poor thing]].
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* Then there are more subtle things, like the turnover in Class D personnel.
** Not to mention, the implication that some Class D personnel are hired as [[Schmuck Bait]], with the full knowledge that they'll ignore their orders and do something stupid... just so that the scientists will see what happens.
** Or what about how, if the need arise, they can "recruit" them from the normal civilian population, giving special preference to political prisoners, refugees and people in risky situations overall.
** [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1851-ex One explained SCP] explicitly says where the D came from, giving more fridge Horror. {{spoiler|It comes from "drapetomany", an old psudo-illness invented by racist American Slave-owners to dismiss the slaves's wish to scape and being treated as human beings. Yes, the Foundation used slave work to test SCPs back in the day, and even after the switch to prisoners the then current protocol gave an slant preference for black ones}}.
** According to [http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/seminario-niveles-clases this story from the Spanish-language branch], the "termination" of D-class personnel doesn't refer to killing, at least on the present time. It ''used'' to mean so, but the decrease on the application of death penalty and the subsequent reduction on human resources forced the Foundation to reduce the monthly culling to the aggressively violent and the ones who were compromised by the SCP they were assigned to. Instead, at the end of the month the surviving prisoners get the last month wiped of their minds with amnestics and are reassigned, so they eternally believe that they are working just a month in a science lab to shave off years from their sentences. This means that they get forcibly what the ex-staff of 231-7 gets ''voluntarily''. It then shows a couple of D-Class that the researcher giving the conference maintains around as his assistants; they were lobotomised to have retrograde amnesia deliberately inflicted on them. You almost want them to get mercifully killed.
*** Oh, and don't expect them to be released any time soon because the Foundation depends so much on the D-class that it could simply collapse without them, leading to innumerable security breaches and the release of every SCP in this page and then some.
*** The same story has this jewel (translated for your convenience):
{{quote|Non-D class personnel is never demoted to D-class. Never. Remember those jokes we discussed before? This is one of those. If we have to apply a fulminating and definitive disciplinary sanction to a Foundation member we don't beat the bush around that much.}}
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-882 SCP-882] is a clockwork... thing that grows by absorbing all nearby metal objects and can brainwash anyone nearby into "feeding" it. [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-271 SCP-271] is an engraved coin, whose inscription spreads to nearby objects and turns them into an indestructible metal with unknown properties. Accidental tests on living organisms suggest that both being absorbed by the machine and being converted by the coin are excruciatingly painful. There is an obvious reason these things are not to be allowed in the same room. The Church of the Broken God wants to try it out.
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-002 SCP-002] is a ball of flesh with a door in it. Through the door is a modest apartment, complete with furniture made out of the body parts of the people it's killed.
* The old [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-112-arc SCP-112] is an [[Artifact of Doom]] activated in the presence of any non-virgin or non-castrated person. And it has been stolen by radical Muslim terrorists. Get the idea?
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-415 SCP-415], The Harvested Man. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 SCP-231-07], a girl of undefined age who was impregnated with some kind of [[Cosmic Horror]] by a Satanic sex cult. The only way to keep it from being born is by putting her through "Procedure 110-Montauk" every twenty-four hours, which is described as involving "brutally (DATA EXPUNGED)". It can only be carried out by convicted sex offenders among Class D Personnel, and is being supervised by employees who have passed a psychological examination in which "mild sociopathic tendencies and marked sexual deviancy are not to be considered automatic fail conditions" (an early warning and implication of who carries this out), and it's [[Word of God|10 times worse than whatever you think it is.]]
** Here's one bit of extreme Nightmare Fuel relating to SCP-231: Some of the staff who were involved in the project have taken amnesiacs to forget it, and false memories have been implanted. Which means that ''you'' could have been on the project and not even remember it. <ref>
** Oh, and they started using amnesia-inducing drugs on 231 herself; the sum total of 110-Montauk was starting to induce a form of shell shock in the victim. As a constant level of agony and terror needs to be inflicted to suppress the [[Eldritch Abomination]], they started wiping her mind of her knowledge of Montauk. Eventually it was determined that a weekly dosing cycle was most efficient, as the 3rd to 4th time is the most mentally devastating; the first time is horrible, the second time establishes a pattern, and the third confirms that [[Despair Event Horizon|this is what the rest of your life is going to be like.]]
** The article contains an addendum added by one of the heads of the SCP foundation specifically stating (presumably to set straight employees having second thoughts about all this) that while "Procedure 110-Montauk" is quite possibly the most horrifyingly evil thing the SCP foundation has ever been involved in, failure to carry it out will result in the [[Endofthe World As We Know It]], judging by the death tolls that ensued when SCP-231-01 through SCP-231-06 gave birth. Sweet dreams.
** The specific age of SCP-231 is not specified, only a minimum and maximum, both of which are censored in the article. But the minimum is a single-digit number.
** In such fine print that you may have to View Source to find it: {{spoiler|"Don't believe it when they say they're trying to save her. Why would they bother? They've got exactly what they want exactly where they want it."}}
*** And in even finer print, there is a poem embed on the whole thing, apparently written by one of the doctors who over-viewed her. {{spoiler|It's implied that 231-07 is the last of the seals for some old Eldritch abomination, and should the Foundation fail with her containment, it will efectivelly destroy the world.}}
** Alternately, imagine being part of the support staff for the 231 containment site. Knowing what you're ordering done to the girl, watching it every day, obtaining supplies and materials to enable it, terminating anyone who tries to stop it. There's a reason why so many people associated with this thing commit suicide.
** According by [[Word Of God|the author]], "All the rape is in your head".
* One of the most disturbing things about the SCP series is that almost all of them were located and contained after coming into contact with a regular civilian human being going about their business, with no knowledge of what the thing is, how it works or where it came from. Consider that there's an indeterminate number of supernatural objects that could qualify as an SCP scattered around the world, and ''you'' could run into, say, an undocumented Keter-class at any minute during your daily routine.
* Even the [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-series#toc12 joke SCPs] are creepy.
*
** They have [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2006-j SCP-2006-J] an [[Eldrich Abomination]] (complete with tentacles and eyes in odd places) that fancies herself as a [[Magical Girl]], complete with costume and wand. Sound hilarious, until the fridge horror kicks in and you are forced to imagine what this girl does to her poor victims with that.
** [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-j The Procastination Stone], which made its investigator a [[Ridiculous Procrastinator]], was funny, until somebody decided to explore what the thing would do [http://www.scp-wiki.net/why-change if its effect expanded...]
** [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1344-j SCP-1344-J] otherwise known as {{spoiler|the kool aid man}}, doesn't seem frightening when you know what it is, but if you read its description before you know its name, you may never look at it the same way again.▼
* What some find most disturbing isn't that they'll do things like what they do to poor 231-7, though that's quite sufficiently disturbing. It's how they treat people who qualify as SCPs, essentially imprisoning them for life without trial, without charges, and in at least some cases, with no evidence at all that they're dangerous or likely to become so.
* The [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/decomm:scp-316-d termination log of SCP-316-D] is absolutely horrific. Even though he seems to be one of those Gary Stus that pretty much psychically forces you to like him, Surveillance Log x316███ was just gruesome. Also: The thought that he could wake up on a space probe en route to the sun is what most everybody's worst nightmare is made of.
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** One of the other possible SCP-001s is [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-clef-s-proposal a huge humanoid figure standing in front of what is more or less the gate of Eden]. Getting within 1 kilometer of it will get you not only killed, but wiped from existence. If it ever goes active, [[The End of the World as We Know It]] will ensue. Making matters worse is that the page includes a transmission from [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] about SCP-001 waking up and bringing about said apocalypse. Mega-gulp.
** שמע ישראל יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד {{spoiler|In case you were wondering, that's the most important prayer in Judaism. It's supposed to be your last words.}} Translated: [[wikipedia:Shema Yisrael|"Hear, O Israel: YHWH is our God, YHWH alone."]]
** [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scantron-s-proposal Another concept] for SCP-001: {{spoiler|[[SCP Foundation|a massive worldwise organisation that acts like a sociopathic MIB agency]].}}
** Another
** Bright's proposal for 001: [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-001-o5 The Factory.]
** [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-manns-proposal Dr. Mann's proposal]. The SCP itself is very simple, just a circular gravel path. Travel clockwise, and you move normally. Travel counter-clockwise, however, and the path appears to go continuously uphill. [[Mind Screw|Even if you go all the way around to the start.]] The real horror comes when one reads the attached document from one of the founding Overseers. {{spoiler|Analyzing the Gravel Path led to the initial founders of the Foundation to the initial understanding of bending reality that allowed them to start manufacturing SCP objects. And the Foundation never "found" ''any'' SCP. They ''made'' them. ''All of them.'' -231, -051, -616, -682, all of them ''were created by the Foundation.''}} And the scariest part? {{spoiler|SCP objects are no longer being manufactured. They're just ''appearing'' in containment, with no indication of where they came from, and the Foundation has reached the point of no return.}}
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** The interview log when another version of that teleporter shows up from an alternate dimension is terrifying. Basically they refuse to elaborate on which one is from the "real" dimension, to keep the other guy safe. At the end, one reveals that "In his reality, Lincoln was killed while sleeping by his then vice-president, instead of by General Lee." The interviewer responds "In our world, Booth assassinated Lincoln." The end of the article just states that "Subsequent testing revealed that SCP-507s abilities have no biological basing, and that severed pieces will still “shift” along with the main body."
** During one of his trips to another reality, 507 arrived in what seemed to be the facility, only in a state of disuse with corpses covered in a strange, breathing mold. Further exploration revealed that possibly ''the entire world'' was covered in the stuff. Upon further inspection of a mold sample 507 brought back, it was found to be very similar to both [[wikipedia:Cordyceps|Cordyceps Fungi]] (some varieties of which basically brain-wash their hosts) and a fungus produced by - wait for it - [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-407 SCP 407]. The Foundation consequently restricted experimentation with 407, and all known copies were terminated by "Serpent's Hand," but no one is certain if more copies may be found elsewhere.
** One SCP-682 termination attempt was to tie the poor guy to the creature back to back, and then wait until his next jump. Technically, that ''did'' terminate 682... but then the Foundation equivalent from another dimension decided to use the same method (and guy) to rid of ''their'' 682, which has fangs and big wings.
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-294 SCP-294] is a coffee machine that can dispense just about any kind of liquid. If you value your appetite, do not use "joe" as a synonym for "coffee" when inputting what drink you want, especially if your name is Joe.
** Said machine can dispense "The Best Drink Ever", which causes the drinker to become depressive and commit suicide because "everything else is just a letdown now." For more straightforward ways of killing you, it will happily dispense any kind of acid. There's a ''reason'' why they have two security guards stationed there with orders to shoot anyone who is trying to order anything other than normal drinks for research.
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** And then there's the can of "Prangles." Once you pop, you can't stop. '''''Ever'''''.
** [[Nightmare Retardant|It also produced]] [http://tentaclegrape.com/ Tentacle Grape].
** What about the time it dispensed "Eetmees"? Those were creatures [[Let's Meet the Meat|so bent in being eaten]], that when the test subject refused to eat them, they forced themselves into his mouth and make him chew them, gleefuly chanting and screaming with joy while ingested.
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-835 SCP-835] was a collaboration between two authors: one of them was the guy who wrote the infamous SCP-231. The other wrote SCP-682. Their goal was to create the ultimate in squicky SCPs. Some would say they succeeded. For the full impact, read the article first, then the "uncensored" version, then the "uncensored" version of the exploration log.
** SCP-835 also serves as a bit of [[Fridge Brilliance]] [[Nightmare Fuel]] for the SCP series. Now you know what kind of disgusting, freaky things are behind all those (DATA EXPUNGED) boxes, and they're exactly as bad as you'd think. "Now we can be together, just like he wants..."
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** And then someone went and added a picture for 835. [[Brain Bleach|Cripes.]]
*** And check out the filename on said picture: "[[Nausea Fuel|flbalanus.jpg]]".
* The former [http://
** It's not gone anymore. Behold the [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1995 Infinite Devil Machine 2.0].
** The current [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-995 SCP-995] is still quite nightmarish. Fungi creatures that develop more organs (like eyes, mouths and tentacles) the longer they grow, like to live under sofas and similar furniture, and eat people. If that doesn't sounds scary, they describe one instance of these beings that adapted to create sounds to lure prey, ranging from ringtones to baby cries.
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-217 SCP-217] is a virus that turns people into machines. It can affect any animal, replaces organs and such with mechanical parts, and the affected creature becomes repetitive and locked in a set pattern of behaviour. Scared now? Oh and did I also mention that the Church of the Broken God wants to bring it into contact with [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-882 SCP-882] and [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-271 SCP-271]?
* The worst one was [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-055 SCP-055]. Which was also the coolest. Imagine seeing something, and not being able to describe it. It basically makes you forget anything related to it, being reduced to what it DOESN'T look like. [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/incident-report-i-028-f This doesn't help either]. An area that makes people gain immediate knowledge of a random subject. A man enters the area, goes into a fit, and afterwards forgets he was even in the area. Locked the memory out of sheer horror? Amnesia?
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(the human head is that of a man around thirty five, with thick black hair and sideburns. He has extremely pale skin and dark circles under his eyes. He is severed at the neck, which reveals muscle and a bloody hole.)
'''Head''': Where am I? Who am I?! What the hell is going- (Begins looking around and turning up, down, and to the sides) Everything seems at a weird angl- hey, what are you doing! Get that knife away from me!
'''Waiter''': Bon appétit, gentlemen.
'''Head''': (begins screaming)}}
** To explain: this is a set of tableware that transform any piece of meat you place there into human flesh, made by people who [[I Am a Humanitarian|wanted to know what people tasted like]] but were probably too squeamish to actually murder for getting it.
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-847 SCP-847]. [[Uncanny Valley]] aside, the "[DATA EXPUNGED]", the attacking of all females in the area, and the victim being killed by 'massive blunt trauma' all lead to some unsettling implications.
* There is something distinctly disturbing about [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-914 SCP-914]. Testing shows that in spite of its supposed lack of sentience, it seems to have a rather twisted sense of humor, and on multiple occasions the "very fine" setting, which refines something to its most perfect form, has produced a (mercifully inanimate) replica of SCP-682, suggesting that it may have a "thing" for the beast. The fact that it knows 682's "home phone number" doesn't help matters.
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* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-826 SCP-826] is a very ordinary looking set of pewter dragon-head bookends, but if you close the door of the room, put a book or DVD between them, and open the door, the doorway will be a portal to the world of the book or film. It seems almost to be a joke entry, with a note about a researcher who was demoted for (apparently) planning to do very naughty things to a female Disney character on a DVD. But what if you tried it with the Necronomicon?
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-701 SCP-701]. Especially Incident Report SCP-701-19██ and that photo.
** For those who don't want to go unadvised, imagine if the effects of the play depicted in ''[[The King in Yellow]]'' only activated randomly, creating a [[Kill Them All]] situation for both cast and public when activated, but otherwise reads (and can be performed) as a normal Caroline-era revenge tragedy kind of play. Worse of all, the play was often performed at schools because it normally reads as a less bloody version of plays like ''Hamlet'' or ''Titus Andronicus'', and the incident described ''happened in a high school''.
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-610 SCP-610]: It's like the [[Dead Space (series)|necromorphs]] and The Flood rolled into a single package. Squick warning, obviously; the page image is [[Body Horror|especially bad]] (or [[Nightmare Fetishist|awesome]]).
** Even worse is it`s official nickname: ''The Flesh that hates''.
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* Dr. Clef. Even if we take everything he says about himself with a grain of salt there is a mountain of evidence in various entries, logs, and reports that suggests that he is something far, far worse than any of the actual SCPs. The fact that his head is always replaced with something else in photographs is actually one of his ''least'' disturbing quirks. ''And he is the guy in charge of SCP Training and Development.''
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-804 SCP-804]: A piece of "art" that, when activated, slowly but surely kills all humans and destroys all man-made works in an ever increasing radius around it. The only saving grace is that said artwork is not immune to its own effects. However, the most nightmarish element of this SCP isn't its potential to destroy the world. No, the scariest part is that, according to the former lead researcher, Dr. Sorts, [[Not Brainwashed|the SCP has no memetic influence on people]]. The people who created and activated a device that would wipe out humanity did it because, in Dr. Sorts' own words, ''they wanted to do it''. That the SCP Foundation transferred Dr. Sorts to another project and is continuing testing for a memetic component means either 1) the Foundation wants to be absolutely sure that no mind control is involved or 2) ''even the Foundation'' doesn't want to believe that there ''really'' are people in the world evil enough to murder humanity entirely of their own free will.
** The people "evil enough to murder humanity entirely" were [[Well Intentioned Extremists|well-intentioned extremists]], at least the original ones who sacrificed themselves. As in, they wanted to get rid of humanity because they thought it had a greater net negative than positive effect on other lifeforms. Meanwhile, the Foundation has terminated or is trying to terminate several lifeforms for the same reason (and real life humans do this all the time with diseases, though with other life the extinction we cause tends to be accidental). So when you think about it, the creators of the SCP-804 merely had the same views on their fellow humans as most humans do on lifeforms that threaten them. You could argue that the SCP-804 creators are more evil because they have betrayed their own species, if you like... or you can argue that their motivations are actually more objective, since their views on what lifeforms are more harmful aren't determined by what benefits their personal continued existence. Either way, thinking about this for long periods of time is a bit like reading SCP-079 (an increasingly rational and objective computer that nonetheless clearly hates humans, if not all life), in that it has a creepy "but what if the SCP is RIGHT?" air to it.
** To make thing worse, the whole incident inspired the creation of dadaist terroist art collective "Are We Cool Yet?".
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-354 SCP-354: The Blood Pond]. It's a pond in the Canadian wilderness that is full of a liquid similar to blood. Highly dangerous creatures emerge from it from time to time; most of whom have nothing in common. And according to one SCP agent, it's alive. And intelligent. And angry. '' {{spoiler|And growing}}''.
** The fact that a seemingly normal human emerged from the pond at one point for ostensibly diplomatic reasons and was shot on sight probably didn't help on the "angry" front.
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** ''Why'' can't Mr Deeds explain how he does what he does, even under torture, and why does he appear so uncomfortable when asked? The photo of him from the Desire Camera showed him exactly as he was, posing for the photo, which suggests his greatest desire is to do what he's instructed to do. Is he so uncomfortable when asked where he goes and where the items come from because he's unhappy that he's literally unable to explain, or because something worse will happen to him if he does? Also, he was disturbingly calm when offering to be fed to SCP-682.
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-597 SCP-597]. [[Freud Was Right|The Mother loves you.]] [[Mind Rape|You will love The Mother.]] [[Fate Worse Than Death|The Mother will provide for you forever.]] Why this powerfully telepathic...''thing''... has not been terminated or even properly contained is a mystery.
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** Let's count everything that's wrong with SCP-597 or "The Mother", shall we? Well, for starters there's what it is, a massive ball of mammaries, nipples for every species of mammal, and no matter what the milk will always be perfect for whatever mammal's drinking it. Most mammals can't resist it. Bats, rodents, cats, dogs, all of these can be found sucking on the thing, and refuse to let go; it's described as being a sexual, psychological, and hunger compulsion all at once. Also, the male staff have sex with it. Regularly. So regularly in fact that they don't do anything to discourage it. The thing is always covered with slobber and semen, which D-class personnel clean. Of course, that just means they get brainwashed faster than everyone else. They also have the task of collecting the milk for study (which they often sneak whole bottles off for themselves). All staff at its facility are affected. In early stages, people who quit smoking for years have a 100% relapse rate, people binge on snacks (especially dairy products) or chew gum. So much gum that they choke on it. Later stages the behavior gets even more extreme. Formerly heterosexual woman begin to engage in lesbian sex, some men become rapists, others latch onto large breasted women as surrogate mothers. If things are allowed to progress this far, all milk samples from The Mother will be fought over by the staff. Next staff begin to regard the mother with superstitious awe, worshiping it with incense, food offerings (even though it doesn't eat) and animal sacrifice. One scientist circled every one of the nipples with a red marker and wrote the word "life" next to them before killing herself. Then they begin to revert into child like states, losing bladder and bowel control, masturbating constantly, calling it "mommy", crawling on all fours and talking like toddlers, before finally curling up and joining the rodents and bats in suckling. The milk will keep them alive the rest of their adult lives, and they will be in blissful happiness, but their muscles will atrophy, and their teeth will fall out, and they will experience digestive problems from the sudden switch to a liquid diet. There is no way of stopping this. Even if you send them away from it, the effects are permanent, and they have several data expunged section describing staff that took this mental illness home with them (including one where it was implied that a man raped and killed his own mother for "not being good enough"). The only thing they can do is constantly rotate, and kill staff members.
** Even worse: The Mother ''can'' be destroyed, but the ones who have the authority to do so use The Mother as a sexual experience, ordering a Class D to pry them off after an hour of suckling.
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** It gives a date of May 25th, 20██. Now, scrolling through The Other Wiki, I found [[wikipedia:2009 North Korean nuclear test|something that happened on May 25th]].
** Presumably, adding the arrows made the nuclear test occur. That's not the worst thing; there's mention that it once took the appearance of a Khmer stone carving. The description of said carving has been expunged. Predictable, considering [[wikipedia:Khmer Rouge|what happened...]]
** Almost all SCP [REDACTED] or [DATA EXPUNGED] marks are indicative of [[Nightmare Fuel]] or something else really gory. Most refer to something that the Foundation did, or something that an SCP did. Not the description of the Khmer
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-823 SCP-823]. A theme park that killed over 200 people in horrific ways (such as somebody in a mascot costume being filled with stuffing). Anybody sent in after that dies. So they can't find out what's going on, and that can't contain it because it's ''growing''.
** [[Nothing Is Scarier|"Unable to determine context or content of above photograph."]]
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* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-741 SCP-741] is a sunken Russian submarine split into three pieces and guarded by the Foundation. The [[Nightmare Fuel]]? An attached interview with an American spy that said that the sub was carrying some kind of new weapon that not only made a bioweapons researcher sick, but that the Soviet couldn't safely control -- they sent the sub away to get rid of whatever it was.
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/opportunity-knocks Opportunity Knocks]. Apparently based on a recurring nightmare of the author's...
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* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/wednesday-1 This story], especially the ending. Watch me fly!
** [[Nothing Is Scarier|The fact that you didn't list which SCP caused it is really freaking me out.]]
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** Death nothing. The examples provided in the main SCP page for 624 state the last track continues ''into the afterlife.'' Specifically, continuing ''as the soul is tortured in hell.'' This happens '''Twice.'''
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-750 SCP-750] is a pair of contact lenses made by The Factory. When you put them on, it displays a variety of changes, like food becoming piles of limbs and gore, walls becoming coated in biofilm, and the skies becoming red and black. Victims who have the glasses on for too long usually get schizophrenia or PTSD. Real scary part? The lenses LET YOU SEE THINGS AS THEY REALLY ARE.
* Goddamn it, the whole ''website''. The titles are very mundane numbers and stuff, so
* According to [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/document-recovered-from-the-marianas-trench The document recovered from the Marianas Trench], they frequently have containment failures so massive that it kills nearly every person on earth, and the survivors use SCP technology to repair the devastated planet, clone the dead and make them think nothing happened, with geologic features covering up bigger damage (evidently the Marianas trench used to be a dry land ravine). You'll never know how many times you've died to make it to the end of the "week", or how many years have passed between Monday and Friday....
* How about [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-528 SCP-528]? They're little plastic containers containing silly putty that copies whatever image of a person is pressed onto it. Sounds harmless right? Wrong. Whatever happens to the picture happens to the person. The tests are horrific, the first one involving a D class having first his arm stretched unnaturally long, which is apparently painful and then torn off. The second subject is crushed into a ball and suffocates on his own flesh. The third one however is the worst of all. The putty is dipped in boiling water and the D class actually melts until he suffocates on his own nose.
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** The [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-736 replacement] is probably more chilling. It's something that is messing with the orbit of one of Saturn moons and constantly sends transmissions to the earth. {{spoiler|The transmissions make it clear that whatever is doing the messing it's trying to derail said moon and sent it to crash with the Earth and annihilate humanity. And yes, according with another transmission, it specifically wants the humanity, read, all of us, dead.}}
* [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-939 SCP 939]. Read the whole page and all its included documents. {{spoiler|They are these ''things'' that attack people and breathe amnesiacs. Doesn't sound scary? Read the document, "Reproduction of SCP-939." The whole thing. The audio log is a blend of [[Nightmare Fuel]], [[Tear Jerker]], and just a bit of [[Adult Fear]]. Those things are sentient and, when they're young, they ''are just like small human children''.}}
** The worst part? Putting them into 914 on "Fine" and "Very Fine" ''killed'' them–in essence, they're '''supposed''' to be dead.
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* [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-515 SCP-515] is a young man who causes celestial objects to move towards earth whenever he moves any part of his body. The good part is that he is asleep and is easily constrained, the bad part is that he sleepwalks and his very breathing counts as movement. The sheer impact SCP-515 has on this troper is that not only is it causing a potentially world-ending scenario, it isn't even trying to do so. In addition the feeling of inevitability really nags away on you.
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-895 SCP-895] is not really all that scary to read about. A little chilling, but the really scary thing {{spoiler|is that live video feed. Watch it. [[Schmuck Bait|See what happens.]]}}
* [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1237 SCP-1237] is a brain wave that occurs in some people, causing them to go into a deeper-than-REM-sleep state. It causes the person to experience dreams that are not really any different from other dreams. The kicker, though, is that whatever occurs in the dream ''becomes reality''. That's right, it's literally a reality warping dream. Some examples of effects from 1237-sleep include people changing gender, significant changes to city layouts, people ''losing or regrowing limbs'', people gaining super powers, and governments being changed. The scary part is anyone involved in the dream will simply see the changes as normal, but will still have memories from before the change (imagine remembering two different things and believing that both are true, even when you know they simply can't be). However, the memories of people not involved in the dream will be unaffected, meaning they could get up one morning and be in a city they don't recognize with a new government regime they know nothing about. And absolutely none of it is under the dreamer's control. And since this is a brainwave we're talking about, the Foundation can't contain so much as limit it's influence and mind-wipe everyone affected with class omega amnesiacs. And the dreamers themselves? They're taken by the Foundation and constantly mind-wiped to stop them from forming memories and never allowed to enter REM sleep again.
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-017 SCP-017] is a shadowy figure roughly the size of a young child. Unlike some other dangerous SCP objects, it generally remains stationary and does nothing to actively harm anyone... until a shadow is cast upon it. When that happens, it will immediately leap at and engulf the object or person, then return to normal size as if they were never there to begin with. And all of the Foundation's attempts to discover what, if ''anything'' is within those shadows or where the victims go has been unsuccessful.
* [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-020 SCP-020] is a germaphobe's nightmare-- a mold that is invisible to humans unless videotaped or photographed, can grow all over your house and ''even on your body'', and changes your personality to make you more sociable so it can spread to all your friends.
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* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-973 SCP-973] is essentially an evil police man who likes to chase down unlucky vehicles at high speeds with his police cruiser until overtaking them in a few minutes. Yeah sure, this SCP may not SEEM as horrifying as the other SCPs listed above, but consider that it has already killed 34 people from 19 vehicles on the highway where it has been driving, with said victims eviscerated, raped, and damaged beyond the point of identification and their cars sustaining heavy impact. Also, attempts to destroy the highways used by SCP-973 have proven ineffective, as it can simply relocate to a different road and attempts to contain it led to the death of nine agents. And as a final little note to keep you awake at night, a post-mission interview by one of the surviving agents revealed changes in the police man's appearance, with red eyes and a black hole where his mouth should be. No teeth, no tongue, just a hole.
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1983 SCP-1983] is a farmhouse that has a set of containment procedures pre-written by an unfortunate Agent who became trapped in it. The classification reads "Keter, God help you", and the Special Containment Procedures read "You're going to die, you poor dumb fuck." [[It Gets Worse]].
** Fortunately, some Class D who found the procedures managed to neutralize the anomaly within and was posthumously awarded with the Foundation Star {{spoiler|Unfortunately, it's implied that there are more of these around the world.}}
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-833 SCP-833] will make you WISH you were only infected by ordinary intestinal parasites. Anyone infected by this SCP become kinder and more generous. Doesn't sound bad? WAIT there's more! Not only do the victims become more altruistic, they try to help others in the best way they can think of....by feeding them pieces of their own flesh which they think is the most delicious thing in the world. Due to most people's issues with cannibalism, the infected try their best to keep their actions a secret.
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1076 SCP-1076]: Say your a little kid whose parents discovers a 3-5 year old child who looks like they suffered from severe abuse. As responsible and sympathetic human beings, it's only natural they take him/her back and care for them until they get better. But then, after a while they begin to show a little TOO much concern for this child, to the point they begin to forget looking after YOUR needs. Eventually they stop paying attention to you and you begin to suffer from starvation and neglect. You become lonely, withdrawn, and depressed, desperately in need of the love that has become monopolized by the strange new child. Eventually your condition attracts the attention of concerned school authorities and social well-fare agents. As they investigate the cause for your misfortune, your heart lights with hope that they will help save you and your parents from this nightmare. But no, it was all just a [[Hope Spot]], since now the SCP the authorities have encountered have ensnared their affections just like your parents. And now, with no other hope left, you watch as all your family and caretakers succumb to starvation, disease, or fights to the death as they neglect their own well-being as well as yours attempting to care for their new "baby". Its like an humanoid and lethal version of the cuckoo bird, but at least the cuckoos leave their foster parents and don't kill them by proxy.
* At first glance [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-428 SCP-428] just looks like an ordinary huddled crowd of people. In reality, it is actually a [[Hive Mind]] whose internal organs have been removed and replaced with an unidentified amorphous mass attached by umbilical-like lengths of flesh. Any person who comes within two meters prompts the crowd to go into hostile mode by grabbing the unfortunate victim and pulling them into their mass, where they are assimilated into the crowd within ten seconds (those who try to escape are hunted down by the crowd who use the methods gained from each members' knowledge, skills, and memories to absorb anyone who gets in their way). Remember, the members could be your friends or family, which the SCP may use to their psychological advantage to lure you into their fold.
* [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-511 SCP-511] exemplifies [[Cats Are Mean]] [[Up to Eleven]]. It's an SCP made up of hundreds of feral neglected diseased cats and some kind of cat-like.....THING that takes the form of a mass of extra limbs, eyes, mouths and other organs made up from the bodies of said cats as well as other material (small rodents, plant material, insects and insect larva, black mold, human [DATA EXPUNGED]). It's also in a constant state of degradation and decay, which means the cats find new material to add to the mass. And that's not all. An interview with a survivor of a mobile task force sent for containment of the SCP revealed that when they tried to roll the captured cat thing SCP out the door, it exploded and splattered its contents onto the force, who were immediately torn about by the horde of rampaging cats. May I remind you that the surviving member had half his face ripped off when he accidentally locked himself in his van with just one of the cats trying to escape the onslaught of feline fury. And it's revealed it's not the cat thing that influencing the cats' actions, the cats MADE it because they hate humans.
* [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1055 SCP-1055]. It appears to be a harmless little teddy bear, but it can change in size and shape into an enormous [[Eldritch Abomination]] based on how many people know about it. Worse, its behavior is also influenced by how people aware of it generally think of it; hostile and fearful awareness make it act in a more hostile and fearful manner. It has no upper limit to the size it can achieve, so even what starts as benign awareness can quickly grow fearful. The SCP is believed to be capable of causing an XK-class end-of-the-world scenario, and the only way they have to contain it is to have a mentally retarded man constantly hug it. The only way anyone thinks they can destroy it would be to kill at least 80% of all people who are vaguely aware of the existence of the SCP...which now includes ''[[You Bastard|you]]'' for having read the page for it. And this entry.
* Speaking of scary teddy bears, [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1048 SCP-1048] is a vicious subversion/deconstruction of "[[Team Pet]]"-style SCPs that aren't kept under close watch because they're considered harmless. It provides some excellent perspective on [[Properly Paranoid|why]] the Foundation continues to use the [[Kick the Dog|methods that they use]] when handling SCPs classified as "Safe."
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1981 SCP-1981]. [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|Holy. Crap.]] Just try watching any political speech after reading that. {{spoiler|It's a tape allegedly containing Ronald Reagan's famous "Empire of Evil" Speech, with a weird man in a black Ku Klux Klan-like robe behind him. The tape changes content each time is seen, the only common thing to all reproductions is that Reagan is horribly injured in each one (the specific injuries change each time) and the man ''just keeps talking'' even if his injuries would have killed him already. The speeches usually devolve into incoherent talking, and sometimes it has been known to predict future events.}}
** Worse of that? {{spoiler|[http://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-1981/ronreagancutupf2s.jpg I SEE YOU.]}}
* The background "[[Hell Is That Noise|music]]" from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usomxn6xABk SCP-087-B game]. This has to be the most spine-chilling, [[Paranoia Fuel|paranoia-inducing]] track in video game history.
▲* [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1344-j SCP-1344-J] otherwise known as {{spoiler|the kool aid man}}, doesn't seem frightening when you know what it is, but if you read its description before you know its name, you may never look at it the same way again.
* [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1875 SCP-1875] is a chess computer that comes with an engine with a timer that has it's maximum setting worn out, a 32-piece chess set made out of human bone (sorta creepy), and a suit of samurai armor presumed to be used for performances involving the computer. {{spoiler|The computer also affects other computers, in one case sending a memetic image, of two girls in black and white playing chess, that causes insanity. By the way, SCP-1875 also altered it's own file, corrupting two incident reports and putting a possibly memetic file in the last one.}}
** Special
* [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-956 SCP-956], quite a disturbing inversion of pinatas. They can also detect children not matter how far they are.
* [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1994 SCP-1994], a serum that causes people to develop teeth in any part of their bodies, and the people infected with it can also infect other people when said teed decay and turns into dust. It was developed by a russian odontologist who studied the Tooth Fairies above mentioned and decided to mix whatever they used to generate teeth with some fungi to create replacement teeth.
* [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2521 SCP-2521] is a creature who steals every piece of information about itself, as long as the information is expressed in verbal mode. Because of that, everything about it must be registered by ideograms and pics. Did we mention that people reading its report loud counts as "things that can be stolen" by this monster? And that the monster is impossible to contain?
* It's a pity that the SCP from the foreign branches aren't translated, because they can bring the creepy. Some from the Spanish branch:
** [http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-es-045 SCP-ES-045], a doll made of porcelain and... some kind... of human tissue. It makes people stay still, lose their communication skill, and then [DATA EXPUNGED]. The subjects do survive and get better, but get a reasonable fear of dolls after the experience. The doll was found in an abandoned house in a neighborhood after the disappearance of a number of children, which gives you a hint on how this thing was made. When in contention, a note from its creator appeared, promising the doll to rescue her. After a containment breach, which ended with the assigned personnel found with their tongue and several internal organs removed and dressed in baby clothes, another note from the creator was found, saying, more or less "I don't want you anymore. you're as evil as always. Also, I have new toys. Don't come back, or I'll tell Daddy". The thing is so vile, ''not even its creator wants it back.''
** [http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-es-053 SCP-ES-053], "Mother and ████", combines the unknowing aspect of SCP-579 with an inversion of 231. It consists of an ordinary woman in her thirties and an unknown number of [DATA EXPUNGED] (one of them being a cognito-danger of some sort) that only she is able to contain in their cell. It's implied that whatever she is containing has affected her, to the point that she has stopped collaborating with the Foundation, but the danger they present is so big they can't be terminated, and merely permitting them to leave the cell can have a massive effect in all the humans' psyche.
** [http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-es-020 SCP-ES-020], a funerary urn from the Tonocoté aboriginals. When a person touches it, an humanoid entity with the appearance of an attractive native of the opposite gender invites them to know the wonders of their world, and uses the urn as a portal to a world where the pre-columbine cultures are still alive and blooming. If the person doesn't come back immediately, they begin to integrate to the new culture, up to the point of losing their ability of speak their mother language and instead adopting the local aboriginal language. After some level of integration, the person is offered to remain in that world; many of the subjects accept. All was fine and peachy, until a volunteered D-class discovered that some people invited to live in the world inside the urn was offered as human sacrifices and escaped to avoid that fate. The urn also wants to break containment, and from time to time arrows with poison come from it.
** [http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-es-088 SCP-ES-088] a labyrinth that can manifest in any hotel or equivalent establishment. You can easily enter on it, barely without realizing that its decoration clashes with the rest of the hotel, until it was too late to come back. Inside of it there are miles and miles of corridors, with no doors and constant muzak. Also, human bodies, the corpses of the people who got lost there and weren't rescued on time. And still, those who died are way luckier than the guy that managed to find "the center"...
** [http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-es-019 SCP-ES-019], the apocalyptic headphones. It's a pair of headphones that [[Apocalyptic Log|tune to transmissions]] from different scenarios of human extinction. The people who hear any of those begins to suffer either related PTSD or the physical effects of said scenarios. One of the described world-end scenarios involves the "Human Cattle Breeding project". Just do the math.
** [http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-es-061 SCP-ES-061], the alternative VCR player is, in contrast, pretty harmless: just a VHS player that display the [[What Could Have Been]] version of whatever tape you play on it. Until you see that the O5 has forbidden its use with documentaries and non-fiction material after the (expunged) results obtained when played several documentaries, in particular one about the evolution of men.
** [http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-es-071 SCP-ES-071] is a memetic agent that manifests as a writing in one of many indigenous language in the skin of any person that read its text from any written surface it was transcribed. The text is basically the address of some magical golden city with many riches, but the location differs in each language transcription. The person infected has also vivid mental images of the geographical accidents near the site, acquire the compulsion to go to said city, and the infection can be get even if the person doesn't know the language of the text, and every time they want to write it is in said aboriginal language. Fortunately, the memetic effect doesn't spread when said person repeats the content of said text in their mother, occidental language, but since by then the infected has lost their ability of write in anything that isn't the aboriginal language of the text they carry, that's isn't much of a consolation. As if the former wasn't already bad, all the addresses registered direct to places specially engineered to kill anyone non native from America, and, specifically, Europeans. One of the places the text directs is the original location of [http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-es-082 SCP-ES-082], a Mayan sarcophagus who contains something who gleefully kills anyone of non-indigenous ascendant. Another address directs to the location of an Amazonian tribe incredibly hostile to foreigners, and another one The last of the described places had its data expunged, save for the fact that the Foundation had to raze the pace with napalm and then irradiated until it was rendered unhabitable.
** [http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-es-027 SCP-ES-027], the constantly mutating air ducts of a Venezuelan building, and the man-eating predator that lives in them. Another generic labyrinthine manifestation with attached homicidal being who can be contained by just sealing it, right? {{spoiler: Except that isn't limited to that specific building: it can manifest in other buildings on the globe as their wish, ''and isn't just one creature''. The containment procedures had to include feed them D-class personnel in the original building as a way to impede them to move away from their original location.}}
** [http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-es-015 SCP-ES-015] are pills that are impossible to ingest. Literally. Trying to swallow one just chokes you. Powdering and dissolving it to drink it only accelerates the process. If you manage to introduce it on some living organism it will cause their death unless you extract the substance from their bodies. And every time, the substance will reform into their original pill form once they got out of the formerly living being. But the real disturbing thing is its backstory: apparently its creator developed what could be constructed as an improved version of SCP-500, so good it really gives you immortality; but a super-religious coworker decided that this was an heresy, so they tampered with the formula so no-one could ingest the substance ever.
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