WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.669 --> 00:00:05.250 The young woman looked again at her map, turning it this way and that, trying to figure out 00:00:05.250 --> 00:00:06.870 which way she should be going. 00:00:06.870 --> 00:00:11.910 “Excuse me… sir!” she calls out to a passing man, but he pays her no mind. 00:00:11.910 --> 00:00:16.840 A woman walks past and stops when the woman tries her hand at the local language. 00:00:16.840 --> 00:00:19.600 “Bud… um… laska.” 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:22.240 “Da?” the woman asks her. 00:00:22.240 --> 00:00:24.529 “Vy… ugh.. 00:00:24.529 --> 00:00:29.100 Ros… rosmovlyayete… uh… anglijskoyu?” 00:00:29.100 --> 00:00:33.110 “Net,” the woman replies before continuing on her way. 00:00:33.110 --> 00:00:35.489 The young woman feels that this is hopeless. 00:00:35.489 --> 00:00:39.219 Outside of a few phrases like “hello,” “goodbye,” and “where is the bathroom?” 00:00:39.219 --> 00:00:41.839 her local language skills are sorely lacking. 00:00:41.839 --> 00:00:45.659 She’s still at the beginning of her grand trip of Europe that saw her starting on the 00:00:45.659 --> 00:00:49.289 eastern side of the continent with the plan to travel westward and finish her journey 00:00:49.289 --> 00:00:50.409 in Paris. 00:00:50.409 --> 00:00:54.899 She’s traveled a bit before, but here in this Ukrainian city she’s realizing that 00:00:54.899 --> 00:00:57.329 she may be out of her comfort zone. 00:00:57.329 --> 00:00:59.949 This trip is very important to her though. 00:00:59.949 --> 00:01:04.089 After her parents were killed in a car wreck, she was paralyzed with grief and barely left 00:01:04.089 --> 00:01:05.590 her room for months. 00:01:05.590 --> 00:01:09.110 She decided that she needed to get away and give herself a clean break from everything 00:01:09.110 --> 00:01:13.320 back home, and so she decided to do what her parents had done when they were her age and 00:01:13.320 --> 00:01:15.180 backpack across Europe. 00:01:15.180 --> 00:01:18.929 All of the pictures from their trip showed the two of them together smiling and happy 00:01:18.929 --> 00:01:24.679 in front of great landmarks, but here she was, alone, scared, and unable to even find 00:01:24.679 --> 00:01:25.710 her hostel. 00:01:25.710 --> 00:01:30.999 “Sir, can you help me!” she cries to another passing man, waving her map towards him, but 00:01:30.999 --> 00:01:33.210 he too ignores her pleas. 00:01:33.210 --> 00:01:34.999 The young woman zips up her jacket. 00:01:34.999 --> 00:01:39.149 It’s getting late and the setting of the sun is accompanied by a cold breeze. 00:01:39.149 --> 00:01:42.790 She looks up and down the city street, and even though there are still plenty of people 00:01:42.790 --> 00:01:46.509 around, it feels as though all she can see are unfriendly faces. 00:01:46.509 --> 00:01:49.100 Her face lights up when she spots something though… 00:01:49.100 --> 00:01:50.500 It's a police officer! 00:01:50.500 --> 00:01:52.340 He’ll be able to help her. 00:01:52.340 --> 00:01:55.829 The young woman runs towards the police officer who is standing near the side of the road. 00:01:55.829 --> 00:01:58.889 Or at least she thinks he must be a police officer. 00:01:58.889 --> 00:02:02.850 His gray uniform looks a little old fashioned, but it’s neat and well fitting and he’s 00:02:02.850 --> 00:02:06.060 holding what appears to be a baton used for directing traffic. 00:02:06.060 --> 00:02:09.869 The young woman approaches the officer but his back is to her as he gazes out towards 00:02:09.869 --> 00:02:11.400 the street. 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:15.290 Unsure of what else to do, she reaches out with some hesitancy and taps the man on the 00:02:15.290 --> 00:02:17.989 shoulder, causing him to wheel around to face her. 00:02:17.989 --> 00:02:20.000 He stares at her without speaking. 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:23.470 “Umm… do you speak English?” the young woman asks. 00:02:23.470 --> 00:02:26.970 “Yes, little,” he responds in a thick Ukrainian accent. 00:02:26.970 --> 00:02:28.319 “Oh thank goodness. 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:32.060 You have to help me, please, I’m completely lost and I don’t know what to do.” 00:02:32.060 --> 00:02:36.110 As people continue to walk past her without giving any notice, she goes on to explain 00:02:36.110 --> 00:02:40.150 that after arriving in the North Eastern Ukrainian city she took what she thought would be the 00:02:40.150 --> 00:02:43.879 right bus, but ended up going in the completely wrong direction. 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:48.280 Now she has no idea where she is and is worried she won’t make it to her hostel before night 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:49.280 falls. 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.490 “Where is your khostel?” the policeman asks. 00:02:52.490 --> 00:02:56.620 “Somewhere called the…” she looks down at the words scribbled on the margins of her 00:02:56.620 --> 00:02:57.620 map. 00:02:57.620 --> 00:03:00.420 “The student… the studentskaya,” she tells him. 00:03:00.420 --> 00:03:01.750 “Ah yes, yes.” 00:03:01.750 --> 00:03:03.239 The police officer says. 00:03:03.239 --> 00:03:07.750 There are many hostels there including some specifically for foreign visitors and students. 00:03:07.750 --> 00:03:11.310 She has been very unlucky though, since it was actually near the metro station she first 00:03:11.310 --> 00:03:12.580 arrived at. 00:03:12.580 --> 00:03:13.849 He can help her get there though. 00:03:13.849 --> 00:03:18.409 There is a bus that will take her straight there, and the stop is only a few blocks away. 00:03:18.409 --> 00:03:20.459 He can walk with her there if she likes. 00:03:20.459 --> 00:03:25.349 The young woman accepts his kind offer and the two start heading down the sidewalk together. 00:03:25.349 --> 00:03:29.819 As they walk, he asks what she is doing in their city and she explains how she just needed 00:03:29.819 --> 00:03:31.750 to get away and see the world. 00:03:31.750 --> 00:03:36.319 She’s unsure why, but she feels like she can confide in this policeman, and she begins 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:40.290 to explain what happened to her parents, how alone she felt at home, and how this trip 00:03:40.290 --> 00:03:44.650 is meant to be a life reset, but so far it’s off to a terrible start. 00:03:44.650 --> 00:03:48.510 “We have a phrase,” he tells her, “Vsegda mozhet byt' khuzhe” 00:03:48.510 --> 00:03:50.739 “What does that mean?” she asks. 00:03:50.739 --> 00:03:54.379 “It can always get worse… this way” 00:03:54.379 --> 00:03:58.319 The police officer points towards an alleyway and starts walking towards it. 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:01.980 He can tell the young woman is feeling apprehensive about entering the dark space between the 00:04:01.980 --> 00:04:06.599 buildings and he assures her that it is a shortcut, there’s nothing to be afraid of. 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:10.280 The two walk into the alley together and the young woman again starts telling him about 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:14.340 her life back in the United States, what she plans to do when she gets back, how she hopes 00:04:14.340 --> 00:04:16.290 the trip will be a turning point for her. 00:04:16.290 --> 00:04:21.050 As she talks, she fails to notice that the police officer has begun to slow. 00:04:21.050 --> 00:04:24.540 She does notice though, that the shadow of the police officer has suddenly started to 00:04:24.540 --> 00:04:26.730 stretch out on the ground in front of her. 00:04:26.730 --> 00:04:31.010 She stops and watches as the shadow keeps moving, growing larger and larger. 00:04:31.010 --> 00:04:34.820 It stretches and lengthens, even as hers stays the same. 00:04:34.820 --> 00:04:39.610 She also realizes that the sound of the policeman’s footsteps have also stopped. 00:04:39.610 --> 00:04:44.040 She slowly turns to see it standing in the place where the police officer should be. 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:45.840 A grotesque, horrible sight. 00:04:45.840 --> 00:04:49.010 A massively tall creature, with long, disgusting limbs. 00:04:49.010 --> 00:04:53.590 She’s too scared to scream as she continues looking up its gigantic body before finally 00:04:53.590 --> 00:04:56.380 looking at its face, or what’s left of it. 00:04:56.380 --> 00:05:01.630 Half of its jaw hangs unhinged, as if it has been torn from its joint, and it has no ears 00:05:01.630 --> 00:05:02.730 or nose. 00:05:02.730 --> 00:05:06.970 She trembles in fear as she wonders if whatever this thing is can see her, since it also has 00:05:06.970 --> 00:05:08.170 no eyes. 00:05:08.170 --> 00:05:12.420 The last thing she sees before she turns to run is the creature lifting up one of its 00:05:12.420 --> 00:05:16.440 arms, where its hand has been replaced by a black and white metal rod that it brings 00:05:16.440 --> 00:05:20.300 down with terrifying speed and crushes her skull. 00:05:20.300 --> 00:05:21.300 Pryvit! 00:05:21.300 --> 00:05:27.540 Today’s file exploration has taken us to Ukraine, though the anomaly known as SCP-1366-RU 00:05:27.540 --> 00:05:31.120 has been known to appear in a number of other countries as well. 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:37.970 SCP-1366-RU is a humanoid creature that, from what the SCP Foundation has been able to observe, 00:05:37.970 --> 00:05:43.130 appears to be sapient, and resembles a police officer, or militsiya, from the 1970s Soviet 00:05:43.130 --> 00:05:44.130 Union. 00:05:44.130 --> 00:05:49.110 It wears a long, dark gray coat, tall black leather boots, and a cap, and holds a black 00:05:49.110 --> 00:05:53.590 and white baton reminiscent of the type used by police officers in Russia and many Eastern 00:05:53.590 --> 00:05:56.170 European countries to direct traffic. 00:05:56.170 --> 00:06:01.371 When an individual begins interacting with SCP-1366-RU, they will find that they feel 00:06:01.371 --> 00:06:06.330 as if they are talking to a regular police officer and having a completely normal conversation. 00:06:06.330 --> 00:06:09.970 It is capable of exerting a mental influence over the person speaking with them, allowing 00:06:09.970 --> 00:06:14.760 it to easily mislead and deceive them, which explains why they ignore the fact that the 00:06:14.760 --> 00:06:18.450 officer is wearing a uniform that is several decades out of date. 00:06:18.450 --> 00:06:22.180 Those who pass by will not seem to notice the anachronistic clothing either, and they 00:06:22.180 --> 00:06:28.140 will pay no mind to what is happening.This same effect extends to those viewing SCP-1366-RU 00:06:28.140 --> 00:06:34.260 on a live feed, and it is only when recordings are viewed, that its true form is revealed. 00:06:34.260 --> 00:06:39.470 SCP-1366-RU’s actual appearance is that of a mummified human corpse, though it is 00:06:39.470 --> 00:06:44.690 taller than any human at over 5 meters in height, with arms and legs that are disproportionately 00:06:44.690 --> 00:06:48.900 long, with the legs alone making up two thirds of its total height. 00:06:48.900 --> 00:06:54.440 SCP-1366-RU is also extremely skinny, even for a desiccated cadaver, and its limbs and 00:06:54.440 --> 00:06:58.710 head look as though they are nothing more than brown, dry skin stretched directly over 00:06:58.710 --> 00:07:01.390 bones with no muscle at all underneath. 00:07:01.390 --> 00:07:06.120 Its left hand appears to be missing, and in its place the creature has a black and white 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:08.600 rod fused directly into its arm. 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:13.150 1366-RU’s face appears as though it has suffered tremendous injuries. 00:07:13.150 --> 00:07:18.180 Its eyes, nose, and ears all look as if they have been removed from its face, and the left 00:07:18.180 --> 00:07:22.530 half of its lower jaw hangs freely in its joint as though it were torn away. 00:07:22.530 --> 00:07:26.970 Despite this damage to its face, it is still quite capable of speech, at least when people 00:07:26.970 --> 00:07:29.110 are perceiving it in its human form. 00:07:29.110 --> 00:07:35.720 It’s currently unknown why, but SCP-1366-RU appears to be primarily interested in kidnapping 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:40.330 and killing people who are in countries that once belonged to the former Soviet Union. 00:07:40.330 --> 00:07:45.090 So far there has been no commonalities between the victims except for one thing, all of their 00:07:45.090 --> 00:07:48.830 parents were dead at the time of their abduction. 00:07:48.830 --> 00:07:52.910 Once the Foundation realized this uniting factor, they were able to create a scenario 00:07:52.910 --> 00:07:58.620 in which the anomaly appeared, though so far this has only been successful one time. 00:07:58.620 --> 00:08:04.240 Foundation researchers located a member of Class D personnel who was an orphan, D-1935, 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:08.310 and equipped them with a radio headset, a video camera, and a microphone, and instructed 00:08:08.310 --> 00:08:13.100 them to walk the streets of a city located in a country which was once part of the USSR. 00:08:13.100 --> 00:08:18.960 The D-Class was observed on location by members of MTF Eta-10 nicknamed "See No Evil" and 00:08:18.960 --> 00:08:22.860 they watched as D-1935 suddenly stopped on the sidewalk. 00:08:22.860 --> 00:08:26.800 He was approached by a police officer with an out of date uniform who saluted the D-Class 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:28.070 with his right hand. 00:08:28.070 --> 00:08:32.450 Eta-10, appeared to not see the police officer and reminded the D-Class to stay sharp and 00:08:32.450 --> 00:08:35.349 continue looking for 1366-RU. 00:08:35.349 --> 00:08:39.800 The police officer spoke to the D-Class, though only in mumbled, broken words, as if something 00:08:39.800 --> 00:08:42.250 had rendered him unable to speak. 00:08:42.250 --> 00:08:46.050 The recording equipment captured the D-Class seeming to have a one sided conversation with 00:08:46.050 --> 00:08:50.310 the policeman, where he insisted that he wasn’t lost, and that he was actually out walking 00:08:50.310 --> 00:08:51.339 with his mother. 00:08:51.339 --> 00:08:53.850 Or rather, he thought he was out with his mother. 00:08:53.850 --> 00:08:57.730 It seemed to the D-Class that she had just left, and he requested the police officers 00:08:57.730 --> 00:08:59.680 help in finding her again. 00:08:59.680 --> 00:09:03.939 The officer then took the D-Class’s hand and began leading him away, eventually taking 00:09:03.939 --> 00:09:05.939 him into a dark alley. 00:09:05.939 --> 00:09:09.040 All the while Eta-10 seemed completely oblivious to what was going on. 00:09:09.040 --> 00:09:14.829 They didn’t even realize that D-1935 had left until the two disappeared into the alleyway. 00:09:14.829 --> 00:09:19.250 They began searching the area but they were unable to locate the D-Class anywhere. 00:09:19.250 --> 00:09:23.459 It was as if he had been there one moment and then simply disappeared. 00:09:23.459 --> 00:09:28.240 Luckily, D-1935 had also been equipped with a GPS tracking beacon. 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:32.930 But when Eta-10 looked at their locator, they were convinced something was wrong, since 00:09:32.930 --> 00:09:37.120 it showed that the D-Class was now over 5,000 kilometers away. 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:42.060 A nearby containment team was sent to the location being broadcast from D-1935’s tracker, 00:09:42.060 --> 00:09:45.839 and they arrived roughly two hours after his disappearance. 00:09:45.839 --> 00:09:50.339 When they got to the location, they discovered that it was coming from a very strange place… 00:09:50.339 --> 00:09:51.589 a cemetery. 00:09:51.589 --> 00:09:55.970 The team cautiously entered the cemetery and began making their way in the direction of 00:09:55.970 --> 00:09:58.560 the beacon, unaware of what they would find. 00:09:58.560 --> 00:10:02.769 When the GPS locator finally signalled that they were in the correct position, they realized 00:10:02.769 --> 00:10:08.529 that they were standing directly over a grave, specifically, a grave belonging to the mother 00:10:08.529 --> 00:10:12.870 of D-1935, who had been dead for over 50 years. 00:10:12.870 --> 00:10:17.250 There was no question though, this was the location the beacon was broadcasting from, 00:10:17.250 --> 00:10:21.360 and after receiving permission from the Foundation, the containment team began to dig. 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:25.819 When the coffin was finally revealed, the team readied their weapons, unsure of what 00:10:25.819 --> 00:10:30.420 they might find inside, but when they opened its lid, they saw that their guns weren’t 00:10:30.420 --> 00:10:31.420 necessary. 00:10:31.420 --> 00:10:36.639 All that was found within was the mummified body of a woman… that and the body of D-1935, 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:42.100 who was curled up in the fetal position, tightly hugging the remains of his mother. 00:10:42.100 --> 00:10:47.360 Following this event, the parents of other suspected SCP-1366-RU victims were exhumed 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:52.730 as well, and in each case, the missing person’s body was found inside alongside their deceased 00:10:52.730 --> 00:10:55.069 mother or father. 00:10:55.069 --> 00:11:00.639 SCP-1366-RU, which has been given the nickname Uncle Styopa, a play on a popular Russian’s 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:05.399 children character who is an extremely tall policeman, has so far eluded all containment 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:08.740 attempts, and it has been classified as Euclid. 00:11:08.740 --> 00:11:12.329 Disappearances of those without living parents in former Soviet Union countries should be 00:11:12.329 --> 00:11:17.160 investigated to determine the involvement of SCP-1366-RU. 00:11:17.160 --> 00:11:20.899 Any recording devices in the area where they disappeared must be checked and should they 00:11:20.899 --> 00:11:26.749 contain any images of SCP-1366-RU’s true form, then they are to be immediately confiscated 00:11:26.749 --> 00:11:29.509 and destroyed. 00:11:29.509 --> 00:11:35.170 Now go and watch another entry from the files of Dr. Bob, like SCP-1098-RU - The Theater 00:11:35.170 --> 00:11:38.620 of Living Puppets, for another anomaly from the Russian SCP Foundation. 00:11:38.620 --> 00:11:43.699 And make sure you subscribe and turn on notifications, so you don’t miss a single anomaly, as we 00:11:43.699 --> 00:11:47.550 delve further and further into the SCP Foundation’s classified archives.