WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.149 --> 00:00:05.121 The townsfolk of Temperance huddle in their homes, trembling in the dark. 00:00:05.121 --> 00:00:09.080 They sit beneath windows clutching their prayer beads and muttering desperately to a god they 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:10.241 hope is still out there. 00:00:10.241 --> 00:00:19.330 There is no light in the town, no breeze either, just the slow rhythmic boom of colossal footsteps. 00:00:19.330 --> 00:00:23.650 The Deputy stands with his back to the wall, not daring to look out of the next window. 00:00:23.650 --> 00:00:27.580 On the table is a dusty old glass of water. 00:00:27.580 --> 00:00:30.790 Each footstep sends ripples across its surface. 00:00:30.790 --> 00:00:36.820 He clenches his jaw, grips his rifle, and stares at the glass as the ripples get stronger 00:00:36.820 --> 00:00:38.770 and stronger. 00:00:38.770 --> 00:00:41.080 What curse had befallen this town? 00:00:41.080 --> 00:00:45.680 What grievous sin had taken place here that had heralded the arrival of these demons? 00:00:45.680 --> 00:00:49.280 A shadow passes across the window. 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:54.140 The Deputy presses himself even harder against the wall, closing his eyes and trembling. 00:00:54.140 --> 00:00:58.880 The footsteps are so loud now that he feels the Earth shaking beneath him. 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:02.019 A photograph of him and his Ma falls to the floor. 00:01:02.019 --> 00:01:04.229 The deputy dives for it with his hand. 00:01:04.229 --> 00:01:08.939 He prays into his bloody fist that the demon outside doesn't hear. 00:01:08.939 --> 00:01:11.920 But the footsteps stop. 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:16.049 The shadow that had passed by the window returns. 00:01:16.049 --> 00:01:20.409 He hears the sound of breathing, loud as a pair of bellows, right against the other side 00:01:20.409 --> 00:01:22.290 of the window pane. 00:01:22.290 --> 00:01:27.020 In the reflection of the shards of the broken photo frame lying there, he sees it. 00:01:27.020 --> 00:01:33.780 An eye the size of his head, demonic and hungry, staring through the window just feet away 00:01:33.780 --> 00:01:35.670 from himself. 00:01:35.670 --> 00:01:41.200 If he had any courage, he'd turn around now and shoot the demon right in the eye. 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:47.689 But all that happens instead is a warm, damp patch spreading across his denims. 00:01:47.689 --> 00:01:50.060 Outside in the street, a commotion kicks up. 00:01:50.060 --> 00:01:56.229 Voices yell and holler, and then, in a split second, the shadow is gone from the window. 00:01:56.229 --> 00:02:00.140 The Deputy lets himself have just a second to catch his breath and come to terms with 00:02:00.140 --> 00:02:05.200 the fact that he's still alive before that familiar sinking feeling tugs at his stomach. 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:09.759 He wheels around to look out of the window in horror. 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:14.950 The Preacher Man and several of his congregation have run out of the open church doors, waving 00:02:14.950 --> 00:02:18.280 around their crucifixes and rosary beads. 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:23.000 At the top of their lungs, they chant prayers at the demon, running this way and that in 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:24.360 an attempt to surround it. 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:29.819 But before they can do anything, their fervent prayers are drowned out by an ear-splitting, 00:02:29.819 --> 00:02:30.819 ferocious roar. 00:02:30.819 --> 00:02:37.879 Then, the Tyrannosaurus Rex lunges at the Preacher Man. 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:38.879 * 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:42.980 Talk of the Rapture had never been far from people's lips in the town of Temperance, Montana. 00:02:42.980 --> 00:02:48.510 Living out in the Wild West in a town of just 40 souls, out here often felt like the destruction 00:02:48.510 --> 00:02:51.260 of the world had already come. 00:02:51.260 --> 00:02:56.120 Surrounded by the Montana boonies, with only the occasional trader or roaming pack of bandits 00:02:56.120 --> 00:03:00.819 passing through, it was entirely possible that the destruction of the world had happened, 00:03:00.819 --> 00:03:04.980 but God had forgotten to send any angels out to Temperance. 00:03:04.980 --> 00:03:10.349 Until the Flash happened, that's what the townsfolk called it, the Flash. 00:03:10.349 --> 00:03:17.560 Everybody, men, women, and children, all reported experiencing the exact same thing at the exact 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:21.700 same time: a white light filling their vision. 00:03:21.700 --> 00:03:26.290 They'd all then stepped out onto their porches, squinting into the summer sun, trying to work 00:03:26.290 --> 00:03:28.840 out what on earth had happened. 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:31.959 The Deputy remembered the moment clear as anything. 00:03:31.959 --> 00:03:36.400 That was the moment he looked out and realized they weren't in Montana anymore. 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:39.269 The dry grasslands around them were gone. 00:03:39.269 --> 00:03:43.439 The shape of them was still there, sure, but the grass was gone, the air was different, 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:46.620 and the sky was heavier. 00:03:46.620 --> 00:03:49.110 All around them, trees had sprung up. 00:03:49.110 --> 00:03:53.060 Not just young trees, mind you, but tall, luscious ones with a thick undergrowth surrounding 00:03:53.060 --> 00:03:54.060 them. 00:03:54.060 --> 00:03:55.060 It felt humid. 00:03:55.060 --> 00:04:00.640 The air was almost richer, so rich that you'd breathe in and go a bit lightheaded. 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:03.349 That was when one of the townsfolk started screaming. 00:04:03.349 --> 00:04:08.060 The Deputy rushed over to help, but by the time he got there, it was too late. 00:04:08.060 --> 00:04:09.689 The body was already dead. 00:04:09.689 --> 00:04:17.290 In total, six people died during the Flash: Old Pete, Mary, and all four of Annete's descendants. 00:04:17.290 --> 00:04:21.670 Most of the chickens were also dead, and one of the horses was slumped on the ground outside 00:04:21.670 --> 00:04:25.400 the saloon, its head half-floating in the water trough. 00:04:25.400 --> 00:04:29.030 No one could quite figure out what it was that killed them and why everyone else was 00:04:29.030 --> 00:04:30.030 alive. 00:04:30.030 --> 00:04:34.780 But even those that made it felt pretty rough: heads pounding, mouths dry, with waves of 00:04:34.780 --> 00:04:38.660 dizziness overtaking them, staggering for the rest of the day. 00:04:38.660 --> 00:04:39.660 * 00:04:39.660 --> 00:04:41.880 The Deputy tries his best to recount these events in his journal. 00:04:41.880 --> 00:04:47.660 He was never much of a scholar, only learning to read when he was 17, but he's 19 now and 00:04:47.660 --> 00:04:49.210 steadily getting better with his words. 00:04:49.210 --> 00:04:53.919 He racks his brain as he sits at the desk trying to make sense of the day he's had while 00:04:53.919 --> 00:04:57.590 also remembering which squiggly shape makes which sound. 00:04:57.590 --> 00:04:59.900 This here feels important to him. 00:04:59.900 --> 00:05:03.510 Even though he wants nothing more than to go to bed, he knows he needs to get it all 00:05:03.510 --> 00:05:06.199 down so no one forgets. 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:10.470 Outside his window, he hears the sound of the townsfolk, Many of them have been theorizing 00:05:10.470 --> 00:05:15.530 all day that they've wound up in Paradise, that their God has seen their good, hard work 00:05:15.530 --> 00:05:20.130 in this town fit for His Kingdom and chosen them to be the first to arrive in the Garden 00:05:20.130 --> 00:05:21.500 of Eden. 00:05:21.500 --> 00:05:25.889 The Deputy himself was quite optimistic, seeing the lush greenery all around them. 00:05:25.889 --> 00:05:30.470 It's only after a chat with the Sheriff that he starts to see the gravity of the situation. 00:05:30.470 --> 00:05:34.090 He clears his throat just as the clock on the wall chimes. 00:05:34.090 --> 00:05:37.449 It's time to do the job he's been dreading all evening. 00:05:37.449 --> 00:05:43.200 The Deputy gets up from the table, walks over to the back door, and picks up the shovel. 00:05:43.200 --> 00:05:45.789 These bodies ain't gonna bury themselves. 00:05:45.789 --> 00:05:46.789 * 00:05:46.789 --> 00:05:48.600 The Sheriff calls a town meeting the next day. 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:52.130 As expected, it devolves into pure chaos. 00:05:52.130 --> 00:05:55.840 Some are overwhelmed with paranoia, while their neighbors are convinced that they have 00:05:55.840 --> 00:05:57.520 arrived in heaven. 00:05:57.520 --> 00:06:01.639 In all the commotion, no one pays attention to one of the farmhands who tries his best 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:05.300 to tell everyone that his chickens are missing. 00:06:05.300 --> 00:06:09.430 Having barely slept and trying his best to overcome a splitting headache, the Deputy 00:06:09.430 --> 00:06:13.930 decides to go out and help this young boy, anything to get out of the chaos of the town 00:06:13.930 --> 00:06:15.380 hall meeting. 00:06:15.380 --> 00:06:19.270 The boy leads him around back to the chicken coop and tries his best to explain what's 00:06:19.270 --> 00:06:20.270 happened. 00:06:20.270 --> 00:06:23.919 The kid still struggles a bit with his English, but the deputy knows enough Spanish to bridge 00:06:23.919 --> 00:06:25.130 the gap. 00:06:25.130 --> 00:06:28.080 At the start of the previous day, there had been 20 chickens. 00:06:28.080 --> 00:06:31.090 When the flash happened, eight of them had died. 00:06:31.090 --> 00:06:35.560 The kid gestures to the coop, and the Deputy looks around, puzzled at what his companion 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:36.560 is getting at. 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:39.560 But sure enough, the boy is right, something is off. 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:43.410 There should be 12 chickens left, but they only count six. 00:06:43.410 --> 00:06:47.200 He asks the boy in broken Spanish what he had done with the bodies of the chickens that 00:06:47.200 --> 00:06:48.710 had died the previous day. 00:06:48.710 --> 00:06:52.880 The boy explains to him that he had piled them up around the side of the barn, in case 00:06:52.880 --> 00:06:55.250 they had been sick or contaminated somehow. 00:06:55.250 --> 00:07:01.000 He goes to show the Deputy around the corner, except as the pair of them look, there's nothing 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:05.169 there, nothing except a giant footprint in the dirt. 00:07:05.169 --> 00:07:08.340 The Deputy crouches by it, feeling more confused than ever. 00:07:08.340 --> 00:07:11.250 It's no coyote track, not even a bear. 00:07:11.250 --> 00:07:13.270 It's larger than both of those. 00:07:13.270 --> 00:07:15.810 But it's not the size that confuses him the most. 00:07:15.810 --> 00:07:17.520 It's the shape. 00:07:17.520 --> 00:07:22.860 If he didn't know any better, he'd think the print was left by a single giant chicken. 00:07:22.860 --> 00:07:26.479 Over the following week, it's a steady battle for the deputy and the Sheriff to rein in 00:07:26.479 --> 00:07:29.410 the chaos that's descending over the town. 00:07:29.410 --> 00:07:33.199 Without their animals and the usual trade coming through the town, food supplies are 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:34.599 starting to run thin. 00:07:34.599 --> 00:07:39.500 On top of that, the Sheriff institutes the rule that no townsfolk are allowed to leave 00:07:39.500 --> 00:07:43.259 the perimeter of the town until they have a better handle on what's going on. 00:07:43.259 --> 00:07:46.150 That doesn't go down well with a lot of people. 00:07:46.150 --> 00:07:50.060 One group in particular, who had just been passing through the town when the flash happened, 00:07:50.060 --> 00:07:54.150 decides to take off in the middle of the night, stealing one of the few remaining horses in 00:07:54.150 --> 00:07:55.970 an attempt to get away. 00:07:55.970 --> 00:08:00.289 No one knows entirely what happened to them, but the deputy, on his morning walk the day 00:08:00.289 --> 00:08:05.460 after, spots an abandoned carriage about a mile or two away with its horse missing. 00:08:05.460 --> 00:08:10.530 They'd forgotten some of their things in their haste to run away, including a stack of dynamite. 00:08:10.530 --> 00:08:12.810 Safe to say they didn't make it very far. 00:08:12.810 --> 00:08:16.819 The Sheriff, in an attempt to quell some of the rebellions that were kicking off across 00:08:16.819 --> 00:08:19.720 the town, says he'll go on a scouting mission. 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:24.580 Taking two other men and the only horse left with him, the Sheriff heads out, leaving the 00:08:24.580 --> 00:08:25.970 Deputy in charge. 00:08:25.970 --> 00:08:31.009 The 19-year-old man sure doesn't feel like he's in charge, though, as the days tick by. 00:08:31.009 --> 00:08:32.830 Fights break out on an almost daily basis. 00:08:32.830 --> 00:08:37.570 Most of the time, the deputy doesn't even know who is in the right. 00:08:37.570 --> 00:08:41.440 So one night, when the Preacher Man tiptoes into his room and shakes him awake in the 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:46.100 early hours of the morning, the Deputy damn near shoots his head off in fright. 00:08:46.100 --> 00:08:50.980 Wordlessly, the Preacher Man pulls him over to the window and points out into the darkness 00:08:50.980 --> 00:08:54.279 in the direction of the shallow graves they had dug for the people who died on the day 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:55.690 of the Flash. 00:08:55.690 --> 00:08:57.209 The Deputy's stomach turns. 00:08:57.209 --> 00:09:01.840 What can only be described as a demon is digging at the graves. 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:07.390 Eight feet tall and shrouded in darkness, it has a body like a snake but with a powerful 00:09:07.390 --> 00:09:11.170 pair of back legs and a twisting tail. 00:09:11.170 --> 00:09:15.529 Its head is normal, with eyes that glint red even in the dark of night. 00:09:15.529 --> 00:09:20.360 It's chomping and chewing at the open grave, swallowing whole parts of the man buried there. 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:25.260 With trembling hands, the deputy fetches his rifle, pushes open the window, and takes aim 00:09:25.260 --> 00:09:26.589 at the monster. 00:09:26.589 --> 00:09:30.790 The crack of a gunshot and a flash of light interrupt the darkness. 00:09:30.790 --> 00:09:35.080 The creature half turns and then goes back to its meal, clearly unconcerned. 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:39.959 A puff of dust at its feet tells him that he'd missed his first shot. 00:09:39.959 --> 00:09:44.353 He steadies himself and fires again and again, this time managing to hit it. 00:09:44.353 --> 00:09:50.890 The demon hisses and turns to him in frustration, barking and yelling in a strange kind of voice, 00:09:50.890 --> 00:09:53.680 before turning and going back to its meal. 00:09:53.680 --> 00:09:57.660 It just took the rifle round to its thigh as if it was nothing. 00:09:57.660 --> 00:10:04.470 As soon as he saw that, the Deputy didn't feel like firing his gun anymore. 00:10:04.470 --> 00:10:05.470 * 00:10:05.470 --> 00:10:09.829 Chaos had been bubbling for the recent few days; the following morning, it boils over. 00:10:09.829 --> 00:10:14.440 The Deputy, voice hoarse from shouting, tries and fails for the whole day to contain the 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:16.730 hysteria of the mob. 00:10:16.730 --> 00:10:20.269 First thing in the morning, as soon as he had been certain that the demon was gone, 00:10:20.269 --> 00:10:24.120 the preacher had run around the hotel telling everyone exactly what happened. 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:28.779 Now, rather than believing they've been transported to the Garden of Eden, the town's folk are 00:10:28.779 --> 00:10:31.140 certain they've arrived in hell. 00:10:31.140 --> 00:10:34.360 It came to a point where there was nothing more the deputy could do. 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:38.170 He shut himself into his house and just waited out the storm. 00:10:38.170 --> 00:10:44.100 The mob soon fell silent, however, as three figures wandered back into town: the sheriff, 00:10:44.100 --> 00:10:46.690 along with the two men he'd taken with him. 00:10:46.690 --> 00:10:51.980 He explained in a voice too exhausted to sugar-coat the truth that they had met an enormous reptile 00:10:51.980 --> 00:10:56.600 the size of a house, which had taken the horse from right next to them and tossed it up into 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.680 the air as if it were nothing more than a rat. 00:10:58.680 --> 00:11:04.450 And it was only a matter of time before that enormous predator found its way into their 00:11:04.450 --> 00:11:05.510 town. 00:11:05.510 --> 00:11:08.760 And sure enough, that night came. 00:11:08.760 --> 00:11:09.760 * 00:11:09.760 --> 00:11:12.550 The Deputy trembles, standing next to his window, staring at the dinosaur through the 00:11:12.550 --> 00:11:14.579 reflection in the broken photo frame. 00:11:14.579 --> 00:11:17.970 It's monstrous, and it stares at him. 00:11:17.970 --> 00:11:19.430 Then the commotion breaks out. 00:11:19.430 --> 00:11:22.959 The preacher man and several of his congregation run out of the church building waving their 00:11:22.959 --> 00:11:28.510 crucifixes and prayer beads, chanting and singing, and trying to surround the monster. 00:11:28.510 --> 00:11:32.370 The Deputy rushes out of the building just in time to see the T-Rex lunge at The Preacher 00:11:32.370 --> 00:11:33.370 Man. 00:11:33.370 --> 00:11:38.320 It could have swallowed him whole very easily, but it chooses not to, instead sinking its 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:42.600 teeth into him and tossing him up in the air before catching him and chewing him, still 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:44.589 screaming all the while. 00:11:44.589 --> 00:11:49.120 All of the bravery, all of the fight, suddenly leaves the congregation as they turn around 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:50.389 and run for their homes. 00:11:50.389 --> 00:11:56.000 But by now, it's too late; the hunter is hunting. 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:59.829 Running after them with thunderous footsteps, it catches them one by one, sweeping them 00:11:59.829 --> 00:12:04.589 up into its jaws and sending red spattering across the fronts of all the homes and the 00:12:04.589 --> 00:12:06.480 church itself. 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:08.610 Gunfire breaks out all around the square. 00:12:08.610 --> 00:12:13.180 The Deputy realizes he's just been standing there doing nothing, and so loads his rifle 00:12:13.180 --> 00:12:15.029 and starts shooting at the beast as well. 00:12:15.029 --> 00:12:20.970 The bullets prick at its thick hide, not even drawing blood, but the flashes and the sounds 00:12:20.970 --> 00:12:24.170 seem to be enough to rile the monster up further. 00:12:24.170 --> 00:12:28.820 It starts to swing its colossal tail, smashing it into buildings, sending splintered wood 00:12:28.820 --> 00:12:31.180 and shattered glass flying across the square. 00:12:31.180 --> 00:12:35.190 Then, out of one of the buildings, bursts the Sheriff. 00:12:35.190 --> 00:12:39.730 With a steely look of determination on his face, he reaches into his pocket and pulls 00:12:39.730 --> 00:12:41.850 out a bundle of dynamite. 00:12:41.850 --> 00:12:46.920 He roars at the top of his voice; it sounds pitiful and tiny in comparison to the creature 00:12:46.920 --> 00:12:50.560 standing before him, but it's enough to get its attention. 00:12:50.560 --> 00:12:55.779 The T-Rex turns and lumbers towards him, mouth salivating and tongue lashing. 00:12:55.779 --> 00:12:58.019 The Sheriff seems to know what he has to do. 00:12:58.019 --> 00:13:02.800 He nods once to his Deputy across the square before lighting the fuse. 00:13:02.800 --> 00:13:07.910 He runs forward and jumps into the T-Rex's mouth, arm outstretched before him. 00:13:07.910 --> 00:13:12.860 The explosion is so bright it's almost like the flash has happened a second time. 00:13:12.860 --> 00:13:18.810 An unimaginable boom rips through the entire town, shaking the glass windows in their frames. 00:13:18.810 --> 00:13:22.610 When the dust clears, the creature is dead. 00:13:22.610 --> 00:13:27.180 It lies in the dirt, bloody and still. 00:13:27.180 --> 00:13:30.370 The townsfolk just stand around and stare. 00:13:30.370 --> 00:13:33.589 Until one of the kids turns to the deputy. 00:13:33.589 --> 00:13:35.910 "Now what?" 00:13:35.910 --> 00:13:36.910 * 00:13:36.910 --> 00:13:41.740 SCP-4003 is the blanket designation for the town of Temperance located near Jordan, Montana. 00:13:41.740 --> 00:13:46.240 Efforts are ongoing to scrub any mention of the town from existence, but the Foundation 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:50.740 has discovered plenty of references that verified its existence throughout history. 00:13:50.740 --> 00:13:55.830 The town contains a saloon, sheriff's office, trading post, general store, church, and domestic 00:13:55.830 --> 00:13:58.279 buildings along its main street. 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:02.330 Its earliest mention was in the journals of a gold rush miner in 1859. 00:14:02.330 --> 00:14:06.399 It is safe to say that the small town had very little part to play in the broader history 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:10.660 of the United States, that is, until its disappearance. 00:14:10.660 --> 00:14:16.279 One day in November 1866, the town of Temperance, Montana, vanished. 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:19.550 Or at least it did to those from outside of the town. 00:14:19.550 --> 00:14:23.320 For anyone unlucky enough to be in the town on the day of its disappearance, they would 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:28.111 have found themselves transported back to the Cretaceous period, roughly 66 million 00:14:28.111 --> 00:14:29.480 years ago. 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:33.199 Investigations are ongoing as to what caused this temporal shift. 00:14:33.199 --> 00:14:38.790 There are a number of theories linking the events of SCP-4003 to other SCP phenomena, 00:14:38.790 --> 00:14:41.959 such as SCP-3834. 00:14:41.959 --> 00:14:46.120 Piecing together the events that took place following the town's displacement is difficult. 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:50.830 The town was discovered deep underground in 1871 by a gold miner. 00:14:50.830 --> 00:14:54.899 Initially, archaeologists believed that the remains were Neanderthal, but once it was 00:14:54.899 --> 00:15:00.140 discovered they were, in fact, Homo sapien, the SCP Foundation stepped in and administered 00:15:00.140 --> 00:15:05.450 hypnosuggestive agents to all those involved before setting up Site 1200 as the base of 00:15:05.450 --> 00:15:06.450 excavation. 00:15:06.450 --> 00:15:11.889 Officially, the mine and the town of Temperance do not and have never existed. 00:15:11.889 --> 00:15:16.020 While the town was transported back in time, it appears that it was not returned to its 00:15:16.020 --> 00:15:17.020 rightful place. 00:15:17.020 --> 00:15:21.420 Instead, it remained in place for millions of years, steadily being buried underground 00:15:21.420 --> 00:15:24.470 where the inhabitants were fossilized. 00:15:24.470 --> 00:15:29.209 That means that in the 1800s, when Temperance was constructed, it was actually being built 00:15:29.209 --> 00:15:35.160 about 200ft above its fossilized future self from millions of years ago. 00:15:35.160 --> 00:15:36.870 Confusing enough for you yet? 00:15:36.870 --> 00:15:41.079 The town has wound up being an extremely useful resource for Foundation paleontologists. 00:15:41.079 --> 00:15:46.620 Over 50 dinosaur remnants have been discovered in and around the excavated town, including 00:15:46.620 --> 00:15:51.639 two Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons, though one of them is notably missing its head. 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:55.851 The human remains appear largely consistent with having been underground for 66 million 00:15:55.851 --> 00:16:00.949 years, but there are a number of non-organic objects that appear to be in uncharacteristically 00:16:00.949 --> 00:16:01.949 good condition. 00:16:01.949 --> 00:16:05.990 A pair of revolvers have been recovered that are in very good condition for their ages. 00:16:05.990 --> 00:16:10.610 They have undergone the expected oxidization, and their wooden stocks have decayed away, 00:16:10.610 --> 00:16:12.870 but the metalwork appears to be in very good condition. 00:16:12.870 --> 00:16:17.780 There is also a silver crucifix that has been recovered in excellent condition, appearing 00:16:17.780 --> 00:16:22.699 newer than many similar such artifacts discovered just 300 years ago. 00:16:22.699 --> 00:16:27.329 But most interestingly of all is the safe that the Foundation recovered. 00:16:27.329 --> 00:16:31.430 Found in 2008, the safe has no signs of aging whatsoever. 00:16:31.430 --> 00:16:34.610 The iron components inside have not rusted at all. 00:16:34.610 --> 00:16:38.069 Inside, all of the items appear to be similarly anomalous. 00:16:38.069 --> 00:16:42.970 There are musket balls, revolver rounds, a rosary, daguerreotypes, and a journal apparently 00:16:42.970 --> 00:16:48.610 belonging to a man named Pendleton Tweed, a sheriff's deputy living in the town. 00:16:48.610 --> 00:16:52.480 This artifact was key in piecing together some of what happened in Temperance when it 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:53.769 disappeared. 00:16:53.769 --> 00:16:57.910 While his entries are quite short, they paint a useful picture for the Foundation of what 00:16:57.910 --> 00:16:59.329 took place. 00:16:59.329 --> 00:17:02.959 Over the course of two weeks, the town was steadily ravaged by a number of dinosaurs 00:17:02.959 --> 00:17:04.949 with increasing severity. 00:17:04.949 --> 00:17:09.949 Accounts point to the presence of raptors, triceratops, and, of course, a dramatic showdown 00:17:09.949 --> 00:17:11.890 with a Tyrannosaurus rex. 00:17:11.890 --> 00:17:15.880 Quite how long the townsfolk survived after this incident is still unknown. 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:20.750 There are only two entries following the events of the Sheriff's death when fighting the colossal 00:17:20.750 --> 00:17:21.750 dinosaur. 00:17:21.750 --> 00:17:25.839 In each, Deputy Tweed appears to be growing steadily more religiously devout. 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:30.419 He writes prayers to God and documents religious experiences where he feels he is getting closer 00:17:30.419 --> 00:17:32.179 to his creator. 00:17:32.179 --> 00:17:37.179 The ultimate entry talks about him going outside, looking up at the sun, and feeling God's presence 00:17:37.179 --> 00:17:38.840 with him. 00:17:38.840 --> 00:17:42.169 Researchers have theorized that none of the townsfolk would have survived for long beyond 00:17:42.169 --> 00:17:46.530 this point as the effects of oxygen poisoning set in, as they were breathing an atmosphere 00:17:46.530 --> 00:17:49.630 much richer in O2 than their bodies were built for. 00:17:49.630 --> 00:17:53.870 This, coupled with the threat of the megafauna surrounding them, as well as limited supplies 00:17:53.870 --> 00:18:00.030 of food and potable water, spells a grim prognosis for the population of Temperance. 00:18:00.030 --> 00:18:04.210 The dig site remains securely protected by the Foundation, which uses it as an opportunity 00:18:04.210 --> 00:18:09.210 to examine dinosaur remains and gain greater knowledge about our giant extinct neighbors. 00:18:09.210 --> 00:18:13.790 Check out the Dr. Bob Patreon and become a junior researcher today! 00:18:13.790 --> 00:18:20.659 Now go and watch another entry from the files of Dr. Bob, like SCP-6198 The Black God - Chernobog.