WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.350 --> 00:00:05.779 In blissful sleep, blood begins to leak out of the woman’s mouth. 00:00:05.779 --> 00:00:06.779 Her teeth… 00:00:06.779 --> 00:00:08.420 They’re moving. 00:00:08.420 --> 00:00:10.599 Slithering out of the holes in her gums. 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:16.379 Is something pulling them out, or are they just breaking free? 00:00:16.379 --> 00:00:21.289 It was supposed to be a sunny Saturday afternoon, warm and mild, without so much as a cloud 00:00:21.289 --> 00:00:22.439 in the sky. 00:00:22.439 --> 00:00:27.980 Instead, a storm rolled in, turning the sky grey and thick with dark clouds that drenched 00:00:27.980 --> 00:00:30.240 the town in a torrent of rain. 00:00:30.240 --> 00:00:35.059 So, the young woman had to scrap her beach plans and now she's driving through the rain, 00:00:35.059 --> 00:00:37.150 looking for a way to salvage her day out. 00:00:37.150 --> 00:00:40.860 What's a good indoor activity? 00:00:40.860 --> 00:00:43.489 She could go to the library, pick out a book to read. 00:00:43.489 --> 00:00:45.539 But she can do that any day. 00:00:45.539 --> 00:00:49.440 This was supposed to be a special day, a little treat after a particularly stressful week 00:00:49.440 --> 00:00:50.960 at work. 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:55.500 As if to answer her silent plea for a rainy day activity, she spots the marquee on the 00:00:55.500 --> 00:00:56.960 neighborhood movie theater. 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:01.269 A special screening of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory! 00:01:01.269 --> 00:01:05.150 Not only is catching a movie the perfect way to wait out the rain, they just so happen 00:01:05.150 --> 00:01:07.430 to be screening one of her childhood favorites! 00:01:07.430 --> 00:01:12.530 A warm rush of nostalgia washes over her, and she pulls into the parking lot. 00:01:12.530 --> 00:01:16.720 The screening starts at 2:00, and right now it's...1:50! 00:01:16.720 --> 00:01:18.220 Perfect. 00:01:18.220 --> 00:01:20.570 Things are definitely looking up. 00:01:20.570 --> 00:01:23.290 She parks her car, and pushes open the door to the theater. 00:01:23.290 --> 00:01:28.570 When she crosses the threshold, she is transported from the dreary, rainy day outside, to a paradise 00:01:28.570 --> 00:01:30.430 of sweet treats! 00:01:30.430 --> 00:01:35.300 The theater went all-out with their decorations for the special screening, and it really shows. 00:01:35.300 --> 00:01:39.350 Massive rainbow lollipops brush the ceiling, there is a balloon arch made to look like 00:01:39.350 --> 00:01:43.290 it's made of gobstoppers, and they've put up a chocolate fountain next to the popcorn 00:01:43.290 --> 00:01:44.300 machine. 00:01:44.300 --> 00:01:48.940 Of course they would have chocolate, what kind of Willy Wonka event leaves out the chocolate? 00:01:48.940 --> 00:01:52.630 The woman steps up to the counter, where a cheerful worker dressed as an Oompa-Loompa 00:01:52.630 --> 00:01:53.820 greets her. 00:01:53.820 --> 00:01:56.970 She's already here, why not treat herself a little bit? 00:01:56.970 --> 00:02:01.420 She purchases a ticket, along with some popcorn, some jelly beans, a large lemonade, and a 00:02:01.420 --> 00:02:03.100 big bar of chocolate. 00:02:03.100 --> 00:02:05.420 The day is really starting to turn around! 00:02:05.420 --> 00:02:10.800 The movie is just as delightful as she remembered, a mix of whimsy and dark comedy, and the accompanying 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:12.760 treats make it even better. 00:02:12.760 --> 00:02:18.020 As she picks a bit of jelly bean out of her teeth, she feels a slight twinge, a dull ache. 00:02:18.020 --> 00:02:22.290 Better remember to floss later, she really doesn’t need a cavity right now. 00:02:22.290 --> 00:02:26.550 After the movie concludes, she tosses the remains of her cinematic feast into the garbage, 00:02:26.550 --> 00:02:28.990 and heads home. 00:02:28.990 --> 00:02:32.690 The rain has stopped, and the sun is peeking out from between the clouds again. 00:02:32.690 --> 00:02:36.970 It was a lovely afternoon at the movies, the perfect way to save the day from being ruined 00:02:36.970 --> 00:02:38.180 by the storm. 00:02:38.180 --> 00:02:41.159 The woman doesn't think about it much more than that for the rest of the weekend. 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:45.349 But when she wakes up on Monday morning, something feels...off. 00:02:45.349 --> 00:02:50.819 The toothache she felt a twinge of at the movie theater has gotten worse. 00:02:50.819 --> 00:02:55.209 By the middle of the week, at least six of her teeth are throbbing constantly. 00:02:55.209 --> 00:02:59.209 Pain medication helps reduce the pain a bit, but the feeling of pressure inside the teeth 00:02:59.209 --> 00:03:02.790 persists, and is distractingly uncomfortable. 00:03:02.790 --> 00:03:07.180 She calls her dentist to make an appointment, but they can't see her until next week. 00:03:07.180 --> 00:03:09.069 For now, she'll just have to deal with it. 00:03:09.069 --> 00:03:11.440 No matter how terrible it feels. 00:03:11.440 --> 00:03:16.069 The rest of the week passes in a blur of dental distress, and on Friday night as she brushes 00:03:16.069 --> 00:03:20.430 her aching teeth, the woman notices something troubling. 00:03:20.430 --> 00:03:22.159 One of her front canines looks cracked. 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:24.120 How did she break it? 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:28.069 She hasn't eaten anything hard this week, she's been treating her teeth with the utmost 00:03:28.069 --> 00:03:29.370 care. 00:03:29.370 --> 00:03:33.260 But a closer inspection reveals that, indeed, the enamel is cracked. 00:03:33.260 --> 00:03:37.349 It doesn't look like she broke the tooth from the outside, but like something is pushing 00:03:37.349 --> 00:03:39.489 out from the inside. 00:03:39.489 --> 00:03:42.760 She shudders, and reminds herself that the dentist will be able to take care of it on 00:03:42.760 --> 00:03:44.080 Monday. 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:48.590 She just has to make it through the weekend, and everything will be fine. 00:03:48.590 --> 00:03:52.670 At some point during the process of ruminating on the troubles with her teeth, she falls 00:03:52.670 --> 00:03:55.090 into a restless sleep. 00:03:55.090 --> 00:03:58.310 The next morning, she wakes up in a state of surprising relief. 00:03:58.310 --> 00:04:00.310 The pain is gone! 00:04:00.310 --> 00:04:03.590 She sits up in bed, stretches, and yawns. 00:04:03.590 --> 00:04:07.780 She catches a glimpse of herself in the mirror across from her bed as she does, and freezes 00:04:07.780 --> 00:04:09.129 in place. 00:04:09.129 --> 00:04:14.049 The reason she can't feel her tooth pain anymore...is because her teeth are gone. 00:04:14.049 --> 00:04:15.530 Not all of them. 00:04:15.530 --> 00:04:20.519 But six teeth, the teeth that were aching all week, have vanished. 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:23.460 Did they fall out in her sleep? 00:04:23.460 --> 00:04:27.680 She strips the sheets off of her bed, shaking them out, searching for any sign of the missing 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:28.690 teeth. 00:04:28.690 --> 00:04:29.700 Nothing. 00:04:29.700 --> 00:04:33.710 She feels like she's losing her mind, teeth can't just up and vanish like that. 00:04:33.710 --> 00:04:36.400 But where could they have gone? 00:04:36.400 --> 00:04:37.740 Did she...swallow them? 00:04:37.740 --> 00:04:40.450 Her mind races as she struggles to explain the unexplainable. 00:04:40.450 --> 00:04:41.949 Wait a minute! 00:04:41.949 --> 00:04:44.550 She can find out exactly what happened the previous night. 00:04:44.550 --> 00:04:47.259 She has a security camera installed in her room. 00:04:47.259 --> 00:04:50.490 She had almost forgotten about the camera, which had been installed a year prior when 00:04:50.490 --> 00:04:53.630 an old roommate kept borrowing her clothes without asking. 00:04:53.630 --> 00:04:55.440 She never bothered to get rid of it. 00:04:55.440 --> 00:04:59.410 With a rush of gratitude for her past self, she pulls up the app on her phone that logs 00:04:59.410 --> 00:05:03.340 the footage, and selects the folder for the previous night. 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:07.440 She scans through the footage, seeing several hours of her sleeping body tossing and turning 00:05:07.440 --> 00:05:08.440 in bed. 00:05:08.440 --> 00:05:11.560 Then, in the video, her mouth opens. 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:16.960 She watches carefully, her eyes widening as she struggles to process what comes next. 00:05:16.960 --> 00:05:22.900 On her phone screen, clear as can be, she can see teeth...climbing out of her mouth. 00:05:22.900 --> 00:05:29.410 One, two, three, four, five, six of them, crawling across her face, down her neck, across 00:05:29.410 --> 00:05:32.550 the bedspread, and onto her bedside table. 00:05:32.550 --> 00:05:36.050 That would have been enough to leave her questioning everything she thought she knew about the 00:05:36.050 --> 00:05:39.009 world, but the video keeps playing. 00:05:39.009 --> 00:05:43.400 The teeth scuttle around her bedside table, then onto her desk, collecting paper clips, 00:05:43.400 --> 00:05:48.770 a hair tie, some brightly-colored post-it notes, a safety pin, a scrap of string, and 00:05:48.770 --> 00:05:49.770 a barette. 00:05:49.770 --> 00:05:54.050 With their chosen items in tow, the teeth crawl down off of the desk, over the carpet, 00:05:54.050 --> 00:05:55.729 and out of her bedroom door. 00:05:55.729 --> 00:05:58.169 How are they getting around? 00:05:58.169 --> 00:06:03.300 They're walking on what look like little tendrils, but she can't figure out where they came from. 00:06:03.300 --> 00:06:07.919 Little tendrils poking out through cracks in the teeth...she shudders at the thought. 00:06:07.919 --> 00:06:10.789 While she slept, her teeth came to life? 00:06:10.789 --> 00:06:12.680 And made a break for it? 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:13.680 Where did they go from there? 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:16.389 Could they still be in her apartment? 00:06:16.389 --> 00:06:20.020 She shakily opens the door to her room, and peeks out. 00:06:20.020 --> 00:06:24.460 She half expects to see the teeth still in the hallway, but when she checks, there is 00:06:24.460 --> 00:06:25.830 nothing there. 00:06:25.830 --> 00:06:28.319 She combs every inch of her apartment next. 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:33.300 She isn't sure what she'll do if she finds the teeth- the creatures they've become. 00:06:33.300 --> 00:06:34.680 Maybe try to capture them? 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:36.550 And take them to the dentist? 00:06:36.550 --> 00:06:38.729 But it doesn't matter, her search is useless. 00:06:38.729 --> 00:06:40.360 They're long gone. 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:44.990 The only evidence they were ever even there is a light speckle of blood on her pillowcase, 00:06:44.990 --> 00:06:47.169 the sheet, and across the carpet. 00:06:47.169 --> 00:06:51.210 It's such a small amount, she'd never even know it was there if she weren't looking for 00:06:51.210 --> 00:06:52.210 it. 00:06:52.210 --> 00:06:53.210 But now what? 00:06:53.210 --> 00:06:57.129 She's sitting here with six missing teeth, no idea where they went, and no clue what 00:06:57.129 --> 00:06:58.129 to do next. 00:06:58.129 --> 00:07:01.650 How could she begin to explain...any of this? 00:07:01.650 --> 00:07:02.900 To anyone? 00:07:02.900 --> 00:07:04.590 She can't, she realizes. 00:07:04.590 --> 00:07:09.490 So, after taking a moment to weigh her options, she deletes the security footage, and leaves 00:07:09.490 --> 00:07:13.500 a voicemail for her dentist, telling them it's an emergency. 00:07:13.500 --> 00:07:15.849 She lost some teeth in an accident, she tells them. 00:07:15.849 --> 00:07:19.139 As for the truth...nobody ever needs to know. 00:07:19.139 --> 00:07:23.120 She wouldn't even know where to start if she decided to try and tell anyone what happened. 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:28.090 Better to just put it out of her mind, get her teeth fixed, and try to move on. 00:07:28.090 --> 00:07:31.870 Later that night, back at the movie theater, the Oompa Loompa from the concessions stand 00:07:31.870 --> 00:07:34.430 is tidying up in the hours after her shift. 00:07:34.430 --> 00:07:38.729 The limited run of Willy Wonka special screenings is over, and it's time to put all of the candy 00:07:38.729 --> 00:07:43.900 factory decor back in its respective boxes, and switch off the chocolate fountain. 00:07:43.900 --> 00:07:47.960 She breaks down the giant prop lollipops, deflates the jelly bean balloons, and cleans 00:07:47.960 --> 00:07:50.639 up the chocolate that spilled onto the counter. 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:54.540 Might as well sneak a bit of candy for herself in the process, and use the sugar rush to 00:07:54.540 --> 00:07:56.550 make the work go faster. 00:07:56.550 --> 00:08:01.980 It helps a bit, but there's still a lot to do for one employee at this understaffed theater. 00:08:01.980 --> 00:08:05.050 By the time she's finished, it's dark outside. 00:08:05.050 --> 00:08:10.050 Time to pack up her things, scrub off that orange face paint, and head home! 00:08:10.050 --> 00:08:13.530 As she walks through the back door, a shiver runs down her spine. 00:08:13.530 --> 00:08:15.060 What's that sound? 00:08:15.060 --> 00:08:19.220 It sounds like scratching and scrabbling inside the wall behind her. 00:08:19.220 --> 00:08:21.680 She turns, looking for an animal hiding there. 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:23.860 But she can't see anything. 00:08:23.860 --> 00:08:25.470 Maybe it's a mouse? 00:08:25.470 --> 00:08:29.560 But just as she's about to turn around and head to her car, she sees a flash of light 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:32.019 glinting off of something shiny. 00:08:32.019 --> 00:08:33.399 Metal? 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:36.909 All the while the noise continues, that strange scratching and scrabbling. 00:08:36.909 --> 00:08:39.510 What the hell is going on over there? 00:08:39.510 --> 00:08:44.140 There's some sort of unknown...thing...in the walls of the theater. 00:08:44.140 --> 00:08:46.830 Or, between the walls of the two buildings at least. 00:08:46.830 --> 00:08:51.560 Her curiosity gets the better of her, and she finds herself giving into it. 00:08:51.560 --> 00:08:55.540 Whatever's in there, she needs to see what it could possibly be. 00:08:55.540 --> 00:08:59.430 She tiptoes over to the crevice between the theater and the building next door to it, 00:08:59.430 --> 00:09:01.740 and peers into the darkness. 00:09:01.740 --> 00:09:06.540 She can't quite make out what she sees in there, but there's some kind of shape, like 00:09:06.540 --> 00:09:07.620 a little box. 00:09:07.620 --> 00:09:10.450 And she can see movement within the shadows there. 00:09:10.450 --> 00:09:11.959 What is that? 00:09:11.959 --> 00:09:16.190 She pulls out her phone, and is just about to activate the flashlight function, when 00:09:16.190 --> 00:09:20.380 suddenly the crevice lights up in the glow of...tiny spotlights? 00:09:20.380 --> 00:09:24.560 No, miniature flashlights, like the kind you put on a keychain. 00:09:24.560 --> 00:09:28.670 They're lined up in a row, and all switched on at once to illuminate the structure in 00:09:28.670 --> 00:09:29.990 front of them. 00:09:29.990 --> 00:09:34.450 Now she can see what it is, but getting a good look at it doesn't make her any less 00:09:34.450 --> 00:09:35.450 confused. 00:09:35.450 --> 00:09:39.640 If anything, it's only more baffling than it was before. 00:09:39.640 --> 00:09:44.800 The structure is visible now, a twisting mass of nerves and blood vessels, wrapped and braided 00:09:44.800 --> 00:09:46.870 together to form a platform. 00:09:46.870 --> 00:09:50.950 If she didn't know any better, she'd say it looks like...a stage? 00:09:50.950 --> 00:09:54.110 Yeah, it looks like a stage. 00:09:54.110 --> 00:09:59.150 And on that stage, constructed from a mixture of trash, string, fabric scraps, buttons, 00:09:59.150 --> 00:10:02.360 and other random objects, is a set. 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:05.779 Paperclips stand tall with colorful buttons attached to the tips of them. 00:10:05.779 --> 00:10:11.140 At first glance, they resemble the giant lollipops that the movie theater put up for the screenings. 00:10:11.140 --> 00:10:15.570 And there, in the center of the stage, a long piece of brown ribbon is stretched out to 00:10:15.570 --> 00:10:18.420 mimic the chocolate river from the movie. 00:10:18.420 --> 00:10:22.760 A boat made from tin foil and more of those nerves and blood vessels navigates the chocolate 00:10:22.760 --> 00:10:23.790 river. 00:10:23.790 --> 00:10:28.140 The employee was so taken aback by the sight of the makeshift set and stage that she didn't 00:10:28.140 --> 00:10:31.820 even notice the "actors" on the stage. 00:10:31.820 --> 00:10:35.130 When she does, she covers her mouth to stifle a scream. 00:10:35.130 --> 00:10:41.300 The stage and the set are absolutely covered in human teeth, moving around and putting 00:10:41.300 --> 00:10:42.870 on a production. 00:10:42.870 --> 00:10:47.580 On the boat, a tooth dressed in a purple jacket and orange top hat guides a tour group made 00:10:47.580 --> 00:10:51.829 up of other teeth, dressed as the children and guardians from Willy Wonka. 00:10:51.829 --> 00:10:56.010 She opens the camera app on her phone, focuses it on the bizarre play unfolding in front 00:10:56.010 --> 00:10:58.290 of her, and begins to record. 00:10:58.290 --> 00:11:01.639 Otherwise, no one will ever believe what she saw here. 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:06.010 Then, unable to do anything else, she watches the show. 00:11:06.010 --> 00:11:10.920 One tooth, a particularly rotund one, is sucked into a pipe out of the chocolate river, with 00:11:10.920 --> 00:11:13.829 the help of practical effects from the nerves. 00:11:13.829 --> 00:11:18.260 The employee finds herself sitting on the ground, continuing to record the show. 00:11:18.260 --> 00:11:22.329 She laughs out loud at the sight of a tooth emerging from backstage, painted blue, and 00:11:22.329 --> 00:11:25.630 wrapped in blue fabric to make it look larger and rounder. 00:11:25.630 --> 00:11:28.089 No, not blue, Violet! 00:11:28.089 --> 00:11:29.300 It's turning violet! 00:11:29.300 --> 00:11:34.990 Next, a tooth "shrinks", exiting the stage and leaving behind a tiny fake tooth in its 00:11:34.990 --> 00:11:35.990 place. 00:11:35.990 --> 00:11:40.200 In between each transformation, another child leaving the chocolate factory tour, a group 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:43.390 of orange-painted teeth comes out to perform a dance number. 00:11:43.390 --> 00:11:48.470 At first, the employee expects them to sing songs of disapproval too, but realizes quickly 00:11:48.470 --> 00:11:53.410 that these teeth don't have mouths of their own, and therefore can't sing. 00:11:53.410 --> 00:11:56.110 Still, it's all quite impressive. 00:11:56.110 --> 00:12:00.220 For the fizzy lifting drinks scene, the teeth playing Charlie and Grandpa Joe are lifted 00:12:00.220 --> 00:12:05.610 up into the air by nerve tendrils, approaching a fan made from safety pins and aluminum foil. 00:12:05.610 --> 00:12:09.460 It's actually quite tense to watch, and if the employee had an actual seat, she'd be 00:12:09.460 --> 00:12:10.820 on the edge of it. 00:12:10.820 --> 00:12:15.290 Then, the show concludes, and an audience full of teeth that she couldn't see before 00:12:15.290 --> 00:12:19.630 stand up, clapping their tendrils together in a thunderous round of applause. 00:12:19.630 --> 00:12:24.450 It's the most bizarre thing she's ever seen in her life, but she can't deny that it was 00:12:24.450 --> 00:12:26.149 entertaining. 00:12:26.149 --> 00:12:29.910 The teeth then begin to clean up the set, striking pieces and tucking them away in the 00:12:29.910 --> 00:12:31.060 darkness. 00:12:31.060 --> 00:12:34.570 Once the set has been broken down, they all scuttle out of sight. 00:12:34.570 --> 00:12:36.300 And it's over. 00:12:36.300 --> 00:12:41.310 The employee drives home in a state of shock, uncertain about what to do next. 00:12:41.310 --> 00:12:45.390 She eventually decides to upload the video footage to the internet, titling the video 00:12:45.390 --> 00:12:48.560 "WIlly Wonka Performed By Teeth???". 00:12:48.560 --> 00:12:53.120 By the following day, it has a few thousand views and some skeptical comments. 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:58.060 By the day after that, it has a copyright strike, and has been removed from the Internet. 00:12:58.060 --> 00:13:00.149 So much for getting the word out about the teeth. 00:13:00.149 --> 00:13:04.440 The employee never forgets about them, but she gives up on trying to tell people about 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:05.860 what she saw. 00:13:05.860 --> 00:13:10.610 That tooth-based theatrical production is just for her memories now. 00:13:10.610 --> 00:13:14.850 Meanwhile, local dentists are noticing a pattern. 00:13:14.850 --> 00:13:19.399 Everyone who attended the screenings of Willy Wonka at that specific movie theater experienced 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:23.190 dental issues, followed by sudden unexplained tooth loss. 00:13:23.190 --> 00:13:27.911 It’s such a concerning trend, it attracts the attention of the SCP Foundation, who begin 00:13:27.911 --> 00:13:29.940 a thorough investigation. 00:13:29.940 --> 00:13:35.080 After some time looking into it, they designate the phenomenon SCP-3827. 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:41.269 SCP-3827 is a cognitohazardous phenomenon that is known to affect certain movie theaters 00:13:41.269 --> 00:13:43.290 across the United States. 00:13:43.290 --> 00:13:49.360 Audience members at theaters impacted by SCP-3827 will later report statistically unusual rates 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:55.120 of dental problems, including but not limited to gingivitis, pulpitis, and degradation of 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:56.750 the dental enamel. 00:13:56.750 --> 00:14:02.759 It is unknown what exactly causes a theater to be subject to the influence of SCP-3827, 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:07.030 but the effects of the anomaly can be exacerbated by the consumption of high-sugar concessions 00:14:07.030 --> 00:14:11.649 by moviegoers, by screening of films that prominently feature teeth in at least once 00:14:11.649 --> 00:14:14.449 scene, or a combination of the two. 00:14:14.449 --> 00:14:18.870 If it were as simple as just an increase in dental problems, the anomaly might not warrant 00:14:18.870 --> 00:14:23.680 much Foundation attention, just an increase of fluoride in the local water supply and 00:14:23.680 --> 00:14:26.630 perhaps an alert to dentists in the surrounding area. 00:14:26.630 --> 00:14:31.540 However, it does not begin and stop at dental pain and discomfort. 00:14:31.540 --> 00:14:38.690 The living centers, or pulps, of affected teeth (referred to from now on as SCP-3827-A) 00:14:38.690 --> 00:14:44.010 will begin to notably change over the course of a week following exposure to the cognitohazard. 00:14:44.010 --> 00:14:48.759 They will grow and expand to the point of pain, causing the enamel of the affected teeth 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:52.540 to crack and split from the internal pressure. 00:14:52.540 --> 00:14:59.300 After approximately a week has passed, the SCP-3827-A instances will eject themselves 00:14:59.300 --> 00:15:02.490 from the jaws of the affected person while they sleep. 00:15:02.490 --> 00:15:06.630 Once freed from the jaw, these teeth will push portions of their nerves and blood vessels 00:15:06.630 --> 00:15:10.190 through the cracks in the enamel, using them as limbs. 00:15:10.190 --> 00:15:14.949 Now capable of independent movement, the teeth will move themselves around the area, stealing 00:15:14.949 --> 00:15:20.160 small items such as loose trash, scraps of fabric, buttons, and pins. 00:15:20.160 --> 00:15:24.670 Once they have grabbed an object of interest, the teeth will attempt to leave the area. 00:15:24.670 --> 00:15:29.350 Sometimes, the teeth are stopped by witnesses, a misplaced step, or a housepet. 00:15:29.350 --> 00:15:33.560 But frequently, they make it out of the house and reach their intended destination. 00:15:33.560 --> 00:15:35.660 But do they go next? 00:15:35.660 --> 00:15:41.449 Naturally, Foundation researchers were curious about the movements of SCP-3827-A instances. 00:15:41.449 --> 00:15:46.279 So, one affected moviegoer was fitted with miniature tracking devices during a dental 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:49.290 checkup at a Foundation-affiliated office. 00:15:49.290 --> 00:15:53.579 Later that night, when the teeth ejected themselves from the person's mouth, the Foundation was 00:15:53.579 --> 00:15:54.579 able to track them. 00:15:54.579 --> 00:15:59.060 The research team followed the tracking device's signal back to the movie theater where these 00:15:59.060 --> 00:16:05.190 SCP-3827 effects originated, where the affected individual had seen a screening of the then-recent 00:16:05.190 --> 00:16:06.750 film Life of Pi. 00:16:06.750 --> 00:16:10.860 The researcher who was tracking the signal followed it all the way to a small crevice 00:16:10.860 --> 00:16:12.830 in the concrete outside of the theater. 00:16:12.830 --> 00:16:17.279 He pulled a flashlight from his pocket, and cast its light into the crevice. 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:23.130 There, he spotted a structure, resembling a small theater, composed of chips of what 00:16:23.130 --> 00:16:25.399 appeared to be tooth enamel. 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:32.040 On the makeshift stage, several dozen instances of SCP-3827-A were putting on a performance. 00:16:32.040 --> 00:16:36.339 From the animal costumes, and the set piece of a boat constructed from aluminum foil, 00:16:36.339 --> 00:16:40.579 the agent was able to determine that the living teeth were performing their version of the 00:16:40.579 --> 00:16:43.029 events of Life of Pi. 00:16:43.029 --> 00:16:47.480 He stood there for the next hour, allowing them to finish their performance, before collecting 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:51.259 the instances and bringing them into Foundation containment. 00:16:51.259 --> 00:16:56.269 Notably, after some time in containment, the teeth began putting on original productions 00:16:56.269 --> 00:16:59.460 in addition to live stagings of their favorite films. 00:16:59.460 --> 00:17:04.190 One original production was described by a research assistant as "Star Wars but with 00:17:04.190 --> 00:17:05.270 werewolves in it." 00:17:05.270 --> 00:17:07.939 He added that it was "quite moving, actually. 00:17:07.939 --> 00:17:09.610 I cried." 00:17:09.610 --> 00:17:15.439 After SCP-3827 was identified, and the Foundation was able to properly understand its nature, 00:17:15.439 --> 00:17:18.930 a set of containment procedures were put into place. 00:17:18.930 --> 00:17:22.260 Foundation agents embedded within the film industry have been instructed to introduce 00:17:22.260 --> 00:17:27.490 scenes and motifs involving teeth into films by major studios, particularly those belonging 00:17:27.490 --> 00:17:30.490 to especially successful franchises. 00:17:30.490 --> 00:17:36.990 This is intended to root out (no pun intended) theaters affected by SCP-3827. 00:17:36.990 --> 00:17:42.940 These theaters can then be closed down, the SCP-3827-A instances contained, and any affected 00:17:42.940 --> 00:17:46.049 individuals can be amnesticized. 00:17:46.049 --> 00:17:51.510 Contained instances of SCP-3827-A are kept in Standard Containment Cells. 00:17:51.510 --> 00:17:56.290 As an incentive for good behavior, they are gifted with spare scraps of trash, and may 00:17:56.290 --> 00:17:59.440 be shown a screening of a new film once a month. 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:04.110 An addendum has been added to the official file, which I will include here for reference: 00:18:04.110 --> 00:18:09.200 "Following successful Foundation interference with the production of the 2015 film Avengers: 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:13.760 Age of Ultron (Namely, the inclusion of a short sequence depicting the character Iron 00:18:13.760 --> 00:18:18.309 Man knocking a tooth loose from the Hulk), Foundation agents managed to identify and 00:18:18.309 --> 00:18:23.570 close down 119 theaters affected by SCP-3827. 00:18:23.570 --> 00:18:28.440 Despite no new instances having been discovered since, current procedures are to continue 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:30.450 until further notice." 00:18:30.450 --> 00:18:32.520 We go to movie theaters for magic. 00:18:32.520 --> 00:18:35.460 To laugh, to cry, to care. 00:18:35.460 --> 00:18:40.100 In my personal opinion, the movies are a sacred place, one where we shouldn't have to worry 00:18:40.100 --> 00:18:44.659 about our teeth jumping out of our skulls and running off to start a theatre troupe. 00:18:44.659 --> 00:18:47.809 But in this world, things don't always go as planned. 00:18:47.809 --> 00:18:52.940 Hopefully, all of the theaters affected by SCP-3827 have been shut down for good. 00:18:52.940 --> 00:18:54.800 But you never know for sure. 00:18:54.800 --> 00:18:58.820 Sometimes, a film brings out emotions in you that you never expected. 00:18:58.820 --> 00:19:03.170 And sometimes, it brings out your teeth too. 00:19:03.170 --> 00:19:06.049 Check out the Dr. Bob Patreon and become a junior researcher today! 00:19:06.049 --> 00:19:12.070 Now go and watch another entry from the files of Dr. Bob, like "SCP-5150 - Anomalous Dental 00:19:12.070 --> 00:19:12.570 Office."