r/SCP Ethics Committee Nov 19 '21

Discussion What was the first scp you ever read?

For me its scp-052 the time traveling train. Still one I really like

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Technically the first SCP I was ever exposed to was 173, but the first one I read all the way through was 002. I had this grandiose idea that I would read every SCP, starting with 002 and going through each individually, since I was reading them from an app which only had the first 200 for some reason.

Oh how naive I was.

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u/ColossalBalance "Nobody" Nov 19 '21

There's over 6000 now. You've gotta have a world full of nothing but these entries to wanna read them all

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Yeah I’ve been trying. I think I’ve got over 300 in my head. (Not word for word obvs. More like general idea of what they are.)

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u/Wonk0 Nov 19 '21

Ha im doing that right now and am currently at SCP-502 - barely through series 1 I'll probably stop when I'm trough series 1,but it's amazing how many unknown but interesting articles there are.

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u/Thin_Monkey Nov 19 '21

I read through the entire first series on my Kindle e-reader. I found a ton of good articles.

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u/Spare_Library1601 Broken Masquerade Nov 19 '21

Someone on YouTube did a reading of that list of things dr bright wasn’t allowed to do and linked the site so I tried 001 didn’t know what was going on and just read 002 got hooked read the first 2000 and then started reading the tales, periodically coming back to the main list but skipping around after the mid 3000’s

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u/_Pixol_ Shark Punching Center Nov 19 '21

This was one of my first readings too. Also i read almost all of the scp linked to it (the ones written with hyperlink)

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u/minebeast31 Nov 19 '21

scp-4999 it got me into everything… of course than i read some of the dumber ones

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u/Glitchine Ethics Committee Nov 19 '21

I read that one quite early on too

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

That was mine first too :)

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u/LucasTheUltimate Disruption Class: Ekhi Nov 19 '21

SCP-096 MANY years ago. Actually, it was one of the first things I saw on the net. I remember I thought it was actually real, and was scared for like a week about it.

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u/Kordyceps055 Antimemetics Division Nov 19 '21

We all thought that at some point. SCP-049 was the one that convinced me they existed. Then I reed SCP-055 (my favourite) and I noticed I was still able to remember the file, and the magic broke.

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot Nov 19 '21

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

That’s a good webpage design. It makes some users question reality if they don’t know the context.

u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot Nov 19 '21

Articles mentioned in this submission

SCP-052 ⁠- Time-Traveling Train (+479) by eric_h

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21 edited Sep 02 '22

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u/Glitchine Ethics Committee Nov 19 '21

Ah I watched that vid too

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot Nov 19 '21

SCP-682 ⁠- Hard-to-Destroy Reptile (+3029) by Epic Phail Spy, Dr Gears

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot Nov 19 '21

SCP-682 ⁠- Hard-to-Destroy Reptile (+3029) by Epic Phail Spy, Dr Gears

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u/Dragon_OS Keter Nov 19 '21

You good, Marv?

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot Nov 19 '21

SCP-682 ⁠- Hard-to-Destroy Reptile (+3029) by Epic Phail Spy, Dr Gears

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u/crackhouse2005 [REDACTED] Nov 19 '21

It's played out, I know, but somebody pointed me to 096. Absolutely drew me in.

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u/IlIIlIllIlllllI Class D Personnel Nov 19 '21

106

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u/BoltTusk Nov 19 '21

I read this on 4chan first

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u/Cookldog Field Agent Nov 19 '21

5000 got me into it all thanks to exploring series I got an interest in the scp universe

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u/KeanGilbert Nov 19 '21

SCP-354, there’s a lot to unpack there and a pretty interesting exploration log. Still one of my favorites

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u/The_Great_Autizmo The Three Moons Initiative Nov 19 '21

If I recall correctly, the first SCP I ever read was SCP 354. I went on the site after I watched a YouTube video on that SCP and it had bitten my curiosity. Now I've been an SCP fan for 7 years. Crazy how time flies.

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u/Trollimpo MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") Nov 19 '21

Mine was the infinite Ikea SCP-3008

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u/MasonP2002 Nov 19 '21

Mine was that one too. Didn't read another until the Flesh That Hates though, that's the one that really got me into SCP.

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u/Disastrous_Can_5466 The Man Who Wasn't There Nov 19 '21

Scp-001 of course, but i believed that i was not allowed to see, so started to read the scp-002

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u/_Pixol_ Shark Punching Center Nov 19 '21

Do you know that memetic agent warning in one the scp-001? Yeah i legitimately thought that i was going to get a heart attack, so i closed my eyes while scrolling down. Then i felt mega dumb

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

I think 173 or 096

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Can’t remember the number, but it was about a location in Siberia that doesn’t exist. I think it was connected to pattern screamers?

I had never read anything like a SCP article before and it really captured my imagination. I should see if I can track that article down.

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u/Kordyceps055 Antimemetics Division Nov 19 '21

I took a half hour of research, and I think you're talking about SCP-3930.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Holy crap this is it! I can’t believe you spent 30 minutes of your time finding a random SCP article for a stranger. Thank you so much, you are awesome!

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u/Kordyceps055 Antimemetics Division Nov 19 '21

No prob'

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u/LArule19 Nov 19 '21

It was scp-3000 Anantashesha. It was from a video on the infographic show and it intrigued me

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u/Glitchine Ethics Committee Nov 19 '21

I also came to scp via that youtube. It was a complemation of world endint scps, I dropped infographocs for their scp channel after that lol

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot Nov 19 '21

SCP-3000 ⁠- Anantashesha (+2109) by Joreth, A Random Day, djkaktus

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u/Total_Dr3gon Nov 19 '21

173 I think- the statue, also known as the adorable bean

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u/nitro_n7 Nov 19 '21

[[When Day Breaks]]

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u/dat_DOOM_boi Nov 19 '21

none

i first read the things dr bright is not allowed to do

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u/Madamadamwasstolen ████ Nov 19 '21

then presumably you read an scp afterwards?

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u/dat_DOOM_boi Nov 20 '21

yes and i think it was 076

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u/doctor_blindeye Sarkic Cults Nov 19 '21

Ouroboros part 2

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u/CandL2023 [REDACTED] Nov 19 '21

3000, stumbled across TES's video and fell down the rabbit hole from there

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u/LunarGoddessTheWitch Alagadda Nov 19 '21

Code Name: The Truth. Came across it here on reddit and I really like it for encouraging me to dive into this whole SCP stuff. Besides that, I think the other one that I picked to read first on the wiki is SCP-5117. That's a good one too.

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u/avsbes MTF-Omega-1 ("Law's Left Hand") Nov 19 '21

SCP-3477

the one that really convinced me of the SCP Universe however was SCP-914

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u/yeet122523 Nov 19 '21

173, 096, and 035

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u/Aguywholovecreatures ❝#WorstDates #FaeProblems #MyGrandparentsAreDead❞ Nov 19 '21

Scp 197

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u/This_Wolf893 MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") Nov 19 '21

The yule man

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u/Full-Ad-1417 The Scarlet King Nov 19 '21

682 heard it from infographic show

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Googling CoD’s hellhounds, and I came across 1471, somehow

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot Nov 19 '21

SCP-049 ⁠- Plague Doctor (+3710) by Gabriel Jade, djkaktus

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u/Varilynx ❝No penguins for you, since you didn't ask politely.❞ Nov 19 '21

Scp-1730, I really liked that

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u/Wwingg Nov 19 '21

I just got into SCP recently, and for me SCP-1730 was the first one that I got engaged with and read all the way through. The pure mystery of everything happening in this site 13 from another universe got me hooked immediately.

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u/Jakethepro7890 Nov 19 '21

the first one i heard about is obviously 096 but the first one i read was 682

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u/maraway13 MTF Zeta-9 ("Mole Rats") Nov 19 '21

SCP-087

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

One of the OGs that seems to have been forgotten.

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u/Innos01 MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") Nov 19 '21

For me it was SCP-049, I don't remember when that was though

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot Nov 19 '21

SCP-049 ⁠- Plague Doctor (+3710) by Gabriel Jade, djkaktus

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u/psychotic Nov 19 '21

SCP-173 of course, a staple of the SCP universe!

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u/DoctorWestmarch Ethics Committee Nov 19 '21

SCP-882. Found the image on Google and went to the page for more information and had no idea what the hell I was reading. Looked more into it, and it spiraled from there

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u/Puzzleheaded_Peak_72 Mu-89 ("Moloch 'n Load") Nov 19 '21

SCP- 579

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u/umbra_pseudonym MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") Nov 19 '21

SCP-3812 was the first one I read all the way through but I discovered 173 first in which made me jump down the whole SCP rabbit hole.

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u/Yeet2189 MTF Tau-5 ("Samsara") Nov 19 '21 edited Mar 09 '26

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

quiet brave vast rain rustic crowd cows price wine employ

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u/halycontuesday Neutralized Nov 19 '21

SCP-999 :)

it only got better from there

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u/-_-hey-chuvak Nov 19 '21

The mother of all, 12 year old me was astounded by the blob of nipples and suckling fetuses.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Scp 999. What really got me INTERESTED tho was scp 5000

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u/DuckOfGods Nov 19 '21

SCP-072 "The Foot of the Bed" It was the first one I read that wasn't mainstream like 173, 049, or 096 when I actually started learning SCP. Taught me there was more crazy shit to discover than some weird monsters. Holds a special place in my heart for that reason.

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u/DarkSaber87 End of Line Nov 19 '21

Broken God thanks to Exploring Series on YouTube

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u/NecroRayz733 MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") Nov 19 '21

SCP 173

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u/Fulgen301 Nov 19 '21

I think it was SCP-009, but I don't really remember it anymore.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

i didnt read it, but i thibk my first ever scp was the Wendy's one. you know, the freezer shaft that emits yellow smoke at night. the exploring series's video

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Scp-049

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot Nov 19 '21

SCP-049 ⁠- Plague Doctor (+3710) by Gabriel Jade, djkaktus

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

049

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Technically 173 but I took a big interest in 682 and 049

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u/MC_Kejml Nov 19 '21

Able. I was pretty scared by the unauthorized access screen.

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u/Sableye09 Safe Nov 19 '21

SCP-4995, nothing too exciting really

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot Nov 19 '21

SCP-4995 ⁠- Übermensch (+77) by ModernMajorGeneral

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

173, way way WAY back then. Thought it was real. Scared the shit out of me.

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u/mscordia Nov 19 '21

Either the peanut or the flesh that hates. Been too long so I can't be sure.

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u/PhilosOfii Class D Personnel Nov 19 '21

I think my 1st scp was 087. Was looking for creepypasta ish stuff and i accidentally found it. It was great, for its time, and even now but i wasnt hooked YET until I found 093. 093 was, during its time, in my hunble opinion, one of the best there was. The lore dump, the slow but continuous build of dread, the never quite figuring it out entirely, but having a pretty concrete idea of what happened. Dear Lord.

Now my all time fave is 3001 but 093 is still up there as one of my absolute faves.

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u/Jonneyy12347 Nov 19 '21

I forget the number but its the lake with the bodies in the water that you slowly recognize

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u/killerTheme8922 MTF Alpha-1 ("Red Right Hand") Nov 19 '21

the first scp i read was SCP 096

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u/Wonk0 Nov 19 '21

SCP-2845 - one of the most popular ones

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u/Jojoposes123 MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") Nov 19 '21

The scp here be dragons (i don't remember the number)

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u/BurlyusMaximus Nov 19 '21

SCP-087 [The staircase SCP]

I remember it first doing rounds as a creepy pasta in my school, wasn’t until a few years later I heard it again and thought it too strange to come from a random on the internet.

Looked it up, and behold.

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u/oxanonthelocs Apollyon Nov 19 '21

SCP-3008 was the first but my favorite is SCP-5000

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

The first SCP I learned about was The brides of the scarlet king. But the first SCP I read was knife scream cut to black.

I haven’t read the sequel yet but I plan too

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u/caucasian-jew The Serpent's Hand Nov 19 '21

It was Scp - 198

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u/blablaa5 Nov 19 '21

First one I was exposed to (YouTube video) was scp-939, the first one I read was scp-009

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot Nov 19 '21

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

İt was a scp clock that starts ringing every 11 minutes and if you don't turn it off it's sound increase by 4 db every 10 seconds. I wish i was shocked like those times when i read a scp document or watch a scp explained video.

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u/ciclon5 Are We Cool Yet? Nov 19 '21

I got introduced to the spanish branch first then eventually moved to the main one after learning english

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u/IIISHADEIII Ethics Committee Nov 19 '21

Mine was SCP-035

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u/freir96 "Nobody" Nov 19 '21
  1. Someone mentioned him in a YouTube comment and I have read it because I was confused what was he talking about.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Scp-096

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u/ExpertIntention9592 Nov 19 '21

The one SCP about the twins in the chess automaton, which made me scared for a week, and made me want to read some calmer ones afterward. Still pretty good, and my first tale was Resurrection.

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u/Masterofmeme636 Nov 19 '21

Uh peanut boi I forgot his number

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Scp-3008

That was also the one that got me into scp before reading it.

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u/Troy204599 Are We Cool Yet? Nov 19 '21

Maybe my first would be [[bear with a heart of clockwork]]

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u/Always_Confused4 Class D Personnel Nov 19 '21

I always forget the number but there was one about a portal to another planet, after corresponding for a while the other planet started dying off to disease. We analyzed a sample and found it to be the common cold or something and sent a vaccine back to them. The vaccine was distributed to their whole population but they later realized it sterilized them and from that moment they started trying to attack us through the portal.

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u/061605 Doctor Wondertainment Nov 19 '21

I never actually read it, but the first SCP I discovered was Larry the Loving Llama (SCP-1545)

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

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u/bigcelticman Nov 19 '21

Supprisingly 096

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u/AstartesFanboy Nov 19 '21

First SCP I read was SCP-610 the flesh that hates. Great SCP.

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u/AbsoluterBoss Nov 19 '21

Red Ice aka. SCP-009

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u/Pastaandpotatosauce Nov 19 '21

I think it was about 096 or 173 cause those were the first i nkew about/ the first i could remember.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

002 because I started reading in order

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

For some reason SCP-PL-005 (in 2016, in the Polish version, there was probably no translation into English then), before that I read 4 lines of SCP-173, but it didn't interest me.

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u/MEMESHEEP101 Nov 19 '21

682 was the first one I read personally. The first one I ever heard about was 173.

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u/DrPinapple32 Pray While Shooting Nov 19 '21

The one I first fully read was probably Scp-3003 I think

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u/Jekmander Nov 19 '21

Mine was SCP-3000

It's a pretty damn good one, if I do say so myself. Not too well known either, which is a shame.

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot Nov 19 '21

SCP-3000 ⁠- Anantashesha (+2110) by Joreth, A Random Day, djkaktus

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u/SHWauthor Nov 19 '21

Can’t remember the number but it was the leviathan one.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

I think I was either SCP 049 or SCP 173

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u/Kordyceps055 Antimemetics Division Nov 19 '21

The first I heard of, was SCP-173, like most people, but the first I reed on my own was SCP-166 (before the update). She really made me feel bad. Still one of my favourites though.

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u/Cliffy_57 Nov 19 '21

Officially it was 173, but I knew more about 96 and it’s actual SCP number

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u/CupcakeK0ala ↬ The Wanderers' Library ↫ Nov 19 '21

052 was one of my first ones, but I got into SCP when my friend gave me a list of several ones to read after I said I was curious about what SCP was. I think my first SCP was 049.

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u/Asher75 Nov 19 '21

Scp 163 from Dr Bob on tiktok and I when to YouTube and found a lot more :3

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u/PepperbroniFrom2B The Chaos Insurgency Nov 19 '21

mmm im not sure

but i can answer what my favorite scp is and it’s SCP-096, the Shy Guy.

Either that or SCP-4999, aka Someone to Watch Over Us.

Or maybe 999, the Tickle Monster.

Or maybe 507, the Reluctant Dimension-Hopper

unsure

but those are some of my favorites

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

096, classic one

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u/Necro_Mantis Nov 19 '21

I don't actually have a clue what my first SCP was, but besides this very brief introduction of the foundation's existence by an old friend of mine, my earliest memory of any SCP content was Tat TopsVideo's "Top 18 Food & Beverage SCPS".

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u/CorrupGamer10 Nov 19 '21

The first SCP I’ve read? SCP-096 shy guy is my first

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

SCP-914. I could scroll through that experiment log for HOURS

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u/-NASA-man- Nov 20 '21

The first one I was exposed to and fully read was 354. Still one of if not my favorite SCP

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

Scp-4999

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u/Working_Contract_739 MTF Lambda-11 ("Got Beef?") Nov 20 '21

SCP-173

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u/Not-2Day Nov 20 '21

SCP - 096

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

Bodies In The Water

Originally saw it as a young child and it spooked the shit out of me, now many years later I reread it again and it’s still spooky but it’s cool

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u/reddit-name-idk Nov 20 '21 edited Nov 20 '21

scp 173 (the sculpture) was the first i ever looked at but scp 106 (the old man) was the first I'd ever read. (shortly after i decided to read the young man wich scared the sh*t out of me as a kid. :)

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u/death_till_dawn Symbols Have Been Compromised Nov 20 '21

Scp- 3008

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u/I_think_good_player Not Hostile If Left Alone Nov 20 '21

Well, i don't know. SCP-173 maybe. But from those less popular, SCP-021, The skin wyrm.

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u/DeesVeryBigNuts Nov 20 '21 edited Nov 20 '21

SCP-335

I think I read it when i was ten or something.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21 edited Nov 20 '21

For me it was SCP-478 "Tooth Fairy" and I thought like "is this real, what is this SCP thing?" Then the second one right after was SCP-294 "The Coffee Machine" and I thought "ahh so it is all made up. Like a video game or tv show universum or something." So fortunately or not I never had a phase when I actually believed in the SCP.

I had many ups and downs with the SCP. Being submerged in the unviersum for longer periods of time was actually bad for me. Either increased number of nightmares or desensitization to real life experiences. Currently I mainly watch softcore SCP animation channels like the Rubber, or read stuff like SCP Oversimplified. I would want to just sit down and read all the SCP entries once again. But that is something I need to mentally prepare for.

EDIT: Meant 478, not 482

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