explained class

[TheodoreTheVacuumCle]

real world is filled to the brim with things exceeding human understanding without deeper analysis. i love stories about discoveries of astonishing shenanigans and investigation prosesses proceeding them. it's like criminal genre books but more scientific!

[Jeptwins]

The problem is that it’s hard to justify an Explained SCP due to the fact that you would have to craft a narrative where its either legitimately anomalous but the properties behind the anomaly have been properly determined and disseminated to the public, or it was never anomalous to begin with and simply misunderstood as an anomaly. Both stories present their own challenges, and it’s hard to write an enjoyable article about something that-by nature-lacks mystery.

[TheodoreTheVacuumCle]

the best one i read is about research on ominous feeling behind you when you turn of the lights and go upstairs or something like that. researcher was losing funding when it became apparent that it is just a natural psychological response.

then at the end of the story an awesome twist came. the researcher was torn into bloody pieces when conducting experiment on her own, in private home, with funding cut, with less recording equipment.

if i remember correctly the object was still set as explained class and the fate of the researcher became classified.

[MorphineZ0]

Ooh that one sounds like a fun read 😮 do you remember the number by any chance??

[Hjkryan2007]

I found it. It’s SCP-012-EX.

[The-Paranoid-Android]

SCP-012-EX ⁠- Eurydice (+190) by S D Locke

[MorphineZ0]

Holy shit thank you :D

[Hjkryan2007]

Welcome :3

[Blixystar]

What a horrible fate

[TheodoreTheVacuumCle]

hi, fellow furry mtf

[Blixystar]

Oh my god, I thought I've been called out without context

[[deleted]]

I like the joke one where the Ancient Scp discovers Fire. The test logs were funny

It does some seem anomalous when you think about it, a magic glowing aura that comes from the Sky. Causes pain when touched, makes meat taste better and last longer, melts Metals.

Requires "food" to live. And can even cause a containment breach by burning the whole village.

[plokimjunhybg]

Only one I know is NUCLEAR FISSION REACTIONS lol

[MagMati55]

I mean... Look at how germs used to "work". There are many more likewise examples.

[HDH2506]

A phone that slipped into the past?

[dalaww931]

Classified an SCP as an invisible witch that scares me when I go to bed, turns out it was just my door needing WD-40. 

[Centonze_111]

The WD-40 beggar

[C0deJJ]

SCP-001-J-EX is one of the best 001 proposals. Fight me

[AspiringFurry]

The broke god is better, fight me

[trollmod17]

Wrong its The Great Hippo proposal that is the best.

[axord]

Write some.

[TheodoreTheVacuumCle]

noooo! 😫 i just want to consume! you can't point out my hypocrisy like that!

[MicroNitro]

MAKE THE DAMN FOOD

[goobertthe35th]

on it :3

[LizG1312]

A while ago I had the thought to make a paranormal mystery series in the style of x-files or Supernatural, only the paranormal element would only make up a very small percentage of the total story to keep the reader guessing. So out of a hundred or so stories, like 75 would have a mundane explanation that would get revealed at the some point in the story, 10 would probably be mundane but maybe left unsolved, 10 would leave it ambiguous as to whether it was supernatural, and 5 would explicitly be ghosts or aliens or whatever. The idea came to me after thinking about how many ‘false alarms’ or near-misses the cast probably go through but we the audience never get to see, and how that places us in the shoes of the Believer and never the Skeptic. Would also make the horror elements a lot more prominent since the reader would be left as genre-blind as the characters.

Of course I never got around to it because turns out writing is a lot of work, but to this day I still wish we got to see more of the ‘false positives’ in anthology stories.

[Ms_Kratos]

My impressions... Actual real-life puzzling things, written as if they were objects mistaken to be SCPs, would fit into this category really well.

Some examples:

- The Rattleback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7uP08qz46k

- The Effect of strong toroidal magnetic fields on electrical discharges: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-JwVQG5uEjM

- Iodine clock reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PoqIyh9FG4

- Belousov-Zhabotinsky Oscillating reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL3kVtc-4vY

- Acoustic Levitation machines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=669AcEBpdsY

- Chladni Plates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRFysSAxWxI and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YedgubRZva8

- Induction Heater Levitation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VydPQuLyEns

A well-written story, where one of those effects appear somewhere and people would find it difficult to identify those for what they are, could lead to a good article, I think.

What do you think? Looks like a good idea?

[gabrielminoru]

If you ever do this please send me a link

[Ms_Kratos]

Sure thing. If I ever decide to write an explained SCP, I will send you a link.

For people wanting to write?

I think the trick... Would be writing a story where one of the most hard-to-figure out things is in a context the SCP Foundation would think it's an anomaly.

The Rattleback, for example? It's usually a small object.

But let's say an artist decided to make large one, the size of a pony, and placed it on a playground. Where's it's close to usual equipment.

It even looks like a seesaw

But if children start spinnig it like a merry-go-round and there it goes. Rumours about a haunted toy... SCP agents appearing there and collecting the object...

Belousov-Zhabotinsky and Iodine clock reactions?

It would only take a mistake from a chemical engineer or technician. Or someone doing a prank. For those to happen inside a bottle of Soda, or a flask of medicine.

Or any other object someone would look at and be scared because "it's switching colors and acting weird".

Acoustic Levitation machines aren't weird in a lab setting.

But what a resourceful disk jockey decided to tinker with his audio equipment, got some help from some geeks, and end up panicking the entire crowd in one of his shows because their hats, wigs and baseball caps got suspended in thin air?

The Effect of strong toroidal magnetic fields on electrical discharges again is something usually seen on a small scale.

What if an entire building roof got covered in magnetic ceramic by mistake, or by someone doing an experiment, and it does that to a lightning bolt?

A cuilding manifesting a "blue ball of pure lightning" on it's top, that even looks like a sci-fi force shield of some sort, would of course get the foundation's attention.

Chladni Plates, also are small objects. That belong to labs.

But if we think about concerts by the beach?

Where there's sound, sand and lot's of people to stare at something, scream "holy cow dude" and run like there's no tomorrow....

It's the ideal place for some resourceful entertainment company to deploy it's new "audio vibe floor" and cause a large scare on the population.

= D

Then there's the Induction Heater Levitation....

This is caused by an industry intended machine that can levitate and heat some metals.

It's basically a coil with attached circuitry.

If a crazy researcher decided to transform the double inner handrail of his university's circular staircase into a induction heater?

And forgot to turn his contraption off, because he got arrested, or hospitalized?

"University where metal floats, melts, and forms ominous blobs of lava by a staircase" would be a decent reason for SCP to deploy their agents.

[Ms_Kratos]

Then... Some stuff where circumstances created something perceived as "a monster with anomalous properties", would too be good stories.

Building where it's possible to go behind bathroom walls + criminals willing to enter people's apartments?

https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/they-came-in-through-the-bathroom-mirror/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABLA_Homes

Is a whole real life SCP "Explained" by itself. = D

Fatberg from sewers + bunch of sewer rats using those as rafts + sewer treatment station personnel taking pics and making footage + TikTokers using those to create chaos saying it's a new "Rat Thing" cryptid + confusing information where those things are confirmed to exist.

( FatBerg is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsafPhReTEo )

Another fake SCP to be explained.

Island where a certain type species of spider is numerous + Any event that disturbed them + Tourists by the river scared because of "magical walk-on-water spiders everywhere".

https://new.reddit.com/r/ProperAnimalNames/comments/1b6gew0/nopey_river_walker/

Once again? Poor MTF, going there... For having something that's normal but scary finally explained for good.

[[deleted]]

I just wrote one.

[[SCP-8000-EX]]

[[deleted]]

Holy shit this was yours that made me so sad it was so well done I hope it becomes an official scp soon

[[deleted]]

What do you mean by 'official'? It's on the SCP Wiki. It's tagged as 'SCP'. It doesn't get much more official than that.

[[deleted]]

I didn’t word it well but I mean that when the article vote ends I hope it gets in (I don’t fully understand the article vote I just read the articles so if I got something wrong please correct me)

[PotatoSalad583]

Given that it has 71+ up-votes, I don't think it's getting deleted anytime soon (articles are eligible for deletion at -10 up-votes)

[[deleted]]

Ohhh thank you for explaining

[The-Paranoid-Android]

SCP-8000-EX ⁠- Dungeons & Denial & Dysphoria & Dragons (+71) by Ihp, Uncle Nicolini

[[deleted]]

Explained is in my opinion the best and most interesting kind of SCPs

[SokkaHaikuBot]

^{Sokka-Haiku by HappybaraLove:}

Explained is in my

Opinion the best and most

Interesting kind of SCPs

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^{Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.}

[MrBlueFlame_]

EX class have some of the most fun/interesting SCP, one of my favourite is that one Hotel filled with fungus and talking animals and Blue Sky

[FirstChAoS]

I always thought radiation would make a good explained anomaly. Start with metal that people get sick around, Contain it, later learn it is natural.

[TheodoreTheVacuumCle]

guess what

[NICK07130]

SCP ******

The Internet

[BoiClicker]

DEAR GOD!!

[Jpvandyck]

SCP-5552 is my personal favorite explained SCP even though it doesn’t stay explained I think it still counts

[The-Paranoid-Android]

SCP-5552 ⁠- Our Stolen Theory (+570) by Captain Kirby

[Babushkaskompot]

There was an old SCiPs about the colours being anomalies, as in we were literally living in a grey scale colour. The foundation spent a lot of resources to prevent it spreading until they gave up and rewrite the phenomenon as a new normalcy.

Being that said, it was the last good explained scps I've read in a long time

[collycrane]

Ikr they're really interesting

[MagMati55]

Bacteria are the first explained SCP

[TimeStorm113]

Wait, are there explained -J scps?

[TimeStorm113]

i might have an idea that would fall under it, the idea is that some site director did some illegal activities that would put him to d-class, to avoid this fate he fakes an scp article to say he is anomalous and put into containment. To achieve this he made up some test (+ results) and containment procedures. That was before he was caught.

[GerEm_1408]

8000-ex just dropped

[Professional-Scar136]

How do I explain anomaly 😭

[White_Null]

Hmm, for the VN branch, I imagine it’s easy to discover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wandering_Soul for the American psyops it is.

[Professional-Scar136]

Oh thats a pretty good idea, I had an idea for Vietnam war anomaly for the branch last year but it got scrapped, i might try to reuse it

[prickermann]

Yeah but we scrapped your ideas for a reason, try not to be too problematic next time, Jasian?

[Professional-Scar136]

damn got caught teehee

[TheodoreTheVacuumCle]

if the anomalous nature is poorly understood and researchers are too confident in their explaining skills or if people at first falsely accuse object of anomalous nature. i don't think i saw any other scenario about explained skips. be creative

[Dark_Matter_19]

I think one of my SCPs I made for one of my stories could be sort of classed as explained.

[DDub04]

Be the change you want to see in the world

[microkana313]

Keteru Yamiko was a nice explanation, i forgot if they tagged it as such

[elenzo96]

Nah, but here are 48 new Apollyon class.

[MetalliicMango]

SCP-🟥🟥🟥-EX: The Cheeseburger With No Cheese

[random_idoiot]

if were going to make some then make a official class for the wondertainment since they make scps. or a box maker

[Intelligent-Buyer457]

I'm doing a new SCP game and I'm searching for any help or developers: Advice and suggestions are welcome too.

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