WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.710 --> 00:00:05.830 A gigantic monster stomps across the land, with nothing able to stop its rampage except 00:00:05.830 --> 00:00:10.820 for - “Come and eat!” cries out a voice and the monster suddenly stops and falls to 00:00:10.820 --> 00:00:12.220 the side. 00:00:12.220 --> 00:00:15.750 The child picks up his toy and runs back to where his mother and father have spread out 00:00:15.750 --> 00:00:17.169 a picnic lunch. 00:00:17.169 --> 00:00:22.050 As they eat, the boy asks his father about the nearby buildings, a series of six identical 00:00:22.050 --> 00:00:26.679 structures, each of which is a small, rectangular building with a satellite dish on top of it. 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:30.029 The weathered buildings look like they have been out here for some time, and the father 00:00:30.029 --> 00:00:34.100 tells the boy that he isn’t sure exactly what they are or what their purpose is, but 00:00:34.100 --> 00:00:36.379 that they were probably built during the war. 00:00:36.379 --> 00:00:38.309 “What war?” the young boy asks. 00:00:38.309 --> 00:00:41.059 “The Pacific war,” his father answers. 00:00:41.059 --> 00:00:42.359 “What was that?” 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:44.809 “It was a war fought by many countries of the world.” 00:00:44.809 --> 00:00:47.039 “Why did they fight?” the boy asks. 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:48.629 “Well, there were a lot of reasons.” 00:00:48.629 --> 00:00:50.390 “What were some of the reasons?” 00:00:50.390 --> 00:00:54.001 The father has played this game many times before and he knows if he doesn’t end this 00:00:54.001 --> 00:00:57.570 line of questioning now, that he’ll never be able to eat his lunch. 00:00:57.570 --> 00:01:01.500 The mother, sensing the same, tells the boy that if he wants to he can go and play with 00:01:01.500 --> 00:01:02.769 his toy some more. 00:01:02.769 --> 00:01:06.530 The boy doesn’t need to be given the option again, He quickly gets up and grabs his toy 00:01:06.530 --> 00:01:08.590 monster before running off to play. 00:01:08.590 --> 00:01:12.570 “Don’t go too far!” his mother calls out as she watches her son head in the direction 00:01:12.570 --> 00:01:14.310 of one of the buildings. 00:01:14.310 --> 00:01:17.960 The boy stops in the shadow of one of the large satellite dishes and sits down in the 00:01:17.960 --> 00:01:21.960 grass to resume his monster’s path of destruction across the countryside. 00:01:21.960 --> 00:01:26.079 As the monster moves through the tall grass though, the shadow he is sitting in suddenly 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:27.680 starts to shift. 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:31.439 The boy looks up to see that the satellite dish on top of the building is moving. 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:35.310 With a groan, it begins to turn and change its angle. 00:01:35.310 --> 00:01:38.670 And it isn’t just the one on the building closest to him that’s moving, he can see 00:01:38.670 --> 00:01:42.229 that each of six satellite dishes are doing the same thing. 00:01:42.229 --> 00:01:45.750 They’re all turning to point towards the same spot on the horizon. 00:01:45.750 --> 00:01:50.090 The boy squints in the sunlight and sees what they’re all now directed towards. 00:01:50.090 --> 00:01:53.360 Off far in the distance… is a real monster. 00:01:53.360 --> 00:01:58.330 It’s a massive looking creature, a huge, half fish, half lizard covered in scales and 00:01:58.330 --> 00:01:59.909 spiky fins. 00:01:59.909 --> 00:02:05.009 It must be at least 50 meters tall or more, and it’s coming straight towards him. 00:02:05.009 --> 00:02:09.140 The boy can already hear the sounds of its giant webbed feet stomping and shaking the 00:02:09.140 --> 00:02:14.720 ground, and as it gets closer its high pitched shrieks and cries become audible too. 00:02:14.720 --> 00:02:19.070 Adding to the cacophony, an air raid siren begins to wail, followed by the sounds of 00:02:19.070 --> 00:02:23.083 gunfire, the marching of hundreds of boots, and the roar of engines. 00:02:23.083 --> 00:02:25.580 The boy looks around but he doesn’t see any of it. 00:02:25.580 --> 00:02:28.090 It’s just him, the buildings, and the monster. 00:02:28.090 --> 00:02:31.640 The boy can’t run though, he’s frozen in fear. 00:02:31.640 --> 00:02:36.130 All he can do is watch as it swipes at trees and power lines, knocking them down with ease, 00:02:36.130 --> 00:02:38.190 all while getting closer and closer. 00:02:38.190 --> 00:02:42.280 The satellite dishes finally finish their slow alignment and there’s a loud humming 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:46.900 noise, followed by a loud, cracking sound as each one emits a bright beam of electricity 00:02:46.900 --> 00:02:47.900 at the monster. 00:02:47.900 --> 00:02:52.250 The creature stops its assault and howls in pain as the six satellites focus their beams 00:02:52.250 --> 00:02:53.250 on it. 00:02:53.250 --> 00:02:57.920 The beams disappear and the monster appears stunned, but then it looks up and continues 00:02:57.920 --> 00:03:01.590 to come forward, this time even faster than before. 00:03:01.590 --> 00:03:05.170 The monster is only hundreds of feet away now and the boy doesn’t know what to do, 00:03:05.170 --> 00:03:07.240 he’s too scared to even scream for help. 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:11.410 He closes his eyes and starts to cry when he’s abruptly lifted into the air. 00:03:11.410 --> 00:03:13.160 The boy opens his eyes to see that… 00:03:13.160 --> 00:03:14.700 It’s his father! 00:03:14.700 --> 00:03:17.680 He picks up the boy and starts to run as fast as he can. 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:21.120 The boy can see over his father’s shoulder that the monster has not changed its course 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:25.490 to follow them, it seems to still be focused on the building he was playing next to. 00:03:25.490 --> 00:03:29.860 The monster finally reaches the building and begins swiping at it, tearing it apart as 00:03:29.860 --> 00:03:34.250 the other satellites slowly realign, all pointing at the creature once again. 00:03:34.250 --> 00:03:38.290 The sound of the invisible army increases and the monster reels as if it is struck by 00:03:38.290 --> 00:03:39.790 unseen weapons. 00:03:39.790 --> 00:03:43.980 It suddenly rears back in pain as an artillery shell appears just feet away from it before 00:03:43.980 --> 00:03:48.540 exploding in the creature’s face, but nothing seems able to deter it and it keeps clawing 00:03:48.540 --> 00:03:50.190 at the building with the satellite dish. 00:03:50.190 --> 00:03:53.920 The father finally reaches the mother who grabs the boy and embraces him tightly. 00:03:53.920 --> 00:03:57.980 There is a loud noise and the family turns to watch as the monster finishes destroying 00:03:57.980 --> 00:04:01.310 the building and turns its attention to one of the others. 00:04:01.310 --> 00:04:05.480 But then the dishes unleash another blast of electricity at it with a thunderous crack. 00:04:05.480 --> 00:04:09.530 The creature howls in pain as it stumbles and falls to its knees. 00:04:09.530 --> 00:04:14.420 It is struggling to get back up when yet another blast hits it and it falls to the ground. 00:04:14.420 --> 00:04:19.389 It breathes a couple of final, labored breaths before it closes its eyes, its enormous tongue 00:04:19.389 --> 00:04:21.060 lolling out of its mouth. 00:04:21.060 --> 00:04:23.620 The creature is finally dead. 00:04:23.620 --> 00:04:27.900 A loud, celebratory cheer goes up in the empty field from what sounds like hundreds of people 00:04:27.900 --> 00:04:32.990 as the creature begins to slowly fade from view before eventually disappearing completely. 00:04:32.990 --> 00:04:37.460 Meanwhile, all the family can do is stare in amazement at the bizarre scene they have 00:04:37.460 --> 00:04:39.180 just witnessed. 00:04:39.180 --> 00:04:43.110 The extremely strange events that just befell this average family may sound like the plot 00:04:43.110 --> 00:04:50.389 of a movie, and in some ways, it was, because this is SCP-2954, also known as… 00:04:50.389 --> 00:04:52.879 Looping Kaiju Killing. 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:57.650 SCP-2954 is an anomaly that consists of several distinct components. 00:04:57.650 --> 00:05:03.979 The first, SCP-2954-1A, are the six large structures that resemble buildings with satellite 00:05:03.979 --> 00:05:07.710 dishes which are located near a now deserted rural town in Japan. 00:05:07.710 --> 00:05:12.319 The word “resemble” is very important, because these are not actual satellite dishes, 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:16.720 but instead appear to be nothing more than facsimiles of real ones. 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:21.830 The interior of the SCP-2954-1A buildings lack all of the mechanical components one 00:05:21.830 --> 00:05:26.599 would expect to find inside, and instead contain only a crude rope and pulley system, which 00:05:26.599 --> 00:05:29.610 control the satellite dishes on the building’s roof. 00:05:29.610 --> 00:05:33.479 Despite their lack of internal machinery, the satellite dishes are nonetheless somehow 00:05:33.479 --> 00:05:38.110 capable of discharging powerful electric arcs of energy, which they only do when confronted 00:05:38.110 --> 00:05:42.680 by an SCP-2954-2 instance. 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:47.560 SCP-2954-2 refers to creatures which have a mix of reptilian, amphibious, and fish-like 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:48.560 traits. 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:52.960 They are always fifty to sixty meters in height, and most of their body is smooth and blue-gray 00:05:52.960 --> 00:05:56.479 in color, except for their scaled underbellies, which are red. 00:05:56.479 --> 00:06:02.939 Both their back and forearms have large spiny fins and SCP-2954-2 instances walk upright 00:06:02.939 --> 00:06:06.250 on two legs, though they are always hunchbacked. 00:06:06.250 --> 00:06:11.410 Their mouths are also always agape, and are capable of spitting a highly corrosive liquid. 00:06:11.410 --> 00:06:15.129 These creatures appear during a period of time that have been designated as Tsuburaya 00:06:15.129 --> 00:06:16.620 Events. 00:06:16.620 --> 00:06:22.759 These events, which start every seven days, consist of a single instance of SCP-2954-2 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:28.590 manifesting near the SCP-2954-1A buildings before it begins destroying its surroundings. 00:06:28.590 --> 00:06:32.510 The buildings will then activate, turning their attention on the creature and firing 00:06:32.510 --> 00:06:35.340 their electric arcs at it in an attempt to stop its rampage. 00:06:35.340 --> 00:06:41.229 This will cause SCP-2954-2 to focus its attention on one of the buildings, which it will then 00:06:41.229 --> 00:06:42.719 try to destroy. 00:06:42.719 --> 00:06:47.039 As it does so, the sounds of weapons being fired, vehicles moving, and orders being shouted 00:06:47.039 --> 00:06:49.180 in Japanese can be heard. 00:06:49.180 --> 00:06:56.000 This phantom army, which has been designated as SCP-2954-1B, is only heard not seen, and 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:59.909 there are never any physical signs of their fight, save for the creature’s own reactions 00:06:59.909 --> 00:07:03.999 to the weapons, and the occasional artillery shell that will materialize in midair before 00:07:03.999 --> 00:07:05.740 striking it. 00:07:05.740 --> 00:07:11.779 During these Tsuburaya Events, the SCP-2954-2 instance will always destroy at least one 00:07:11.779 --> 00:07:15.949 of the satellite dish buildings, and various other explosions roughly equivalent to what 00:07:15.949 --> 00:07:20.289 would be expected from small vehicles being destroyed will also be seen as it fights back 00:07:20.289 --> 00:07:23.069 against the 2954-1B army. 00:07:23.069 --> 00:07:28.219 Eventually, the combined assault of the 1A and 1B forces will be enough to overwhelm 00:07:28.219 --> 00:07:33.590 the creature, and it will collapse, grow transparent, and eventually disappear completely. 00:07:33.590 --> 00:07:39.120 A disembodied cheer will be heard, presumably from the 1B army, and any damage to the environment 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:42.469 including the 1A buildings will be reversed. 00:07:42.469 --> 00:07:46.520 But what is the cause of this endless cycle of destruction and restoration? 00:07:46.520 --> 00:07:49.210 Where do the creatures come from and what do they want? 00:07:49.210 --> 00:07:53.490 And who is the invisible army that always stands ready to fight back against the rampaging 00:07:53.490 --> 00:07:54.620 monsters? 00:07:54.620 --> 00:07:58.130 The answers to those questions may have been discovered while exploring the area where 00:07:58.130 --> 00:08:00.180 the Tsuburaya Events take place. 00:08:00.180 --> 00:08:04.759 There, in another small abandoned building, SCP Foundation agents discovered a trove of 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:08.939 objects that may shed some light on just what these creatures are. 00:08:08.939 --> 00:08:13.620 The objects located included various movie posters, film reels, and documents that appear 00:08:13.620 --> 00:08:17.249 to be related to the production and distribution of motion pictures. 00:08:17.249 --> 00:08:23.029 The posters seem to depict creatures quite similar to the SCP-2954-2 instances, and the 00:08:23.029 --> 00:08:28.099 title of the poster when translated from Japanese reads: Fukaeru's Assault! 00:08:28.099 --> 00:08:31.580 When agents viewed the footage on the film reels, they found that it depicted a scenario 00:08:31.580 --> 00:08:34.510 quite similar to the Tsuburaya Events. 00:08:34.510 --> 00:08:38.479 Also of interest are a series of notes found within a filing cabinet inside of the building, 00:08:38.479 --> 00:08:40.330 with several being of particular note. 00:08:40.330 --> 00:08:43.720 The first, when translated from Japanese, reads: 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:46.030 Our sponsor gave twenty monsters to shoot. 00:08:46.030 --> 00:08:47.700 We'll pick the best footage. 00:08:47.700 --> 00:08:50.900 The second which is dated to 1974 says: 00:08:50.900 --> 00:08:51.900 Filming completed. 00:08:51.900 --> 00:08:55.780 Don't forget: call our sponsor to say further shipments are unneeded. 00:08:55.780 --> 00:08:59.640 The third and fourth are both addressed to what may be the film’s producers, and they 00:08:59.640 --> 00:09:00.640 read: 00:09:00.640 --> 00:09:01.640 Do you need more Fukaeru? 00:09:01.640 --> 00:09:03.390 We can resupply until you're satisfied! 00:09:03.390 --> 00:09:04.390 And: 00:09:04.390 --> 00:09:06.200 You have not replied for a while! 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:08.230 Regardless, we will send another shipment. 00:09:08.230 --> 00:09:09.470 Happy filming! 00:09:09.470 --> 00:09:13.310 But perhaps strangest of all, is that there are multiple similar versions of the last 00:09:13.310 --> 00:09:18.490 note, and while the oldest is dated to 1972, additional instances continue to appear to 00:09:18.490 --> 00:09:23.360 this day, with new letters sporadically manifesting inside of the filing cabinet. 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:28.420 The obvious danger that is caused by a rampaging, 50 meter tall monster is clear, and this anomaly 00:09:28.420 --> 00:09:31.100 has been classified Euclid as a result. 00:09:31.100 --> 00:09:36.770 Though since the creature is inevitably always killed by the SCP-2954-1 forces, containment 00:09:36.770 --> 00:09:40.150 is instead focused on keeping the public away from the area. 00:09:40.150 --> 00:09:43.470 Guards have been stationed around the area to prevent civilians from entering during 00:09:43.470 --> 00:09:47.850 Tsuburaya Events, and any members of the public who do manage to witness an event are to be 00:09:47.850 --> 00:09:50.520 administered Class A amnestics. 00:09:50.520 --> 00:09:52.940 What is the origin of these Looping Kaiju? 00:09:52.940 --> 00:09:56.360 Did someone attempt to harness an anomalous source in order to produce special effects 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:57.360 for their film? 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:01.610 If so, were they killed by their own creation before being able to turn it off? 00:10:01.610 --> 00:10:04.200 Leading to a never ending cycle of attacks? 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:08.770 While we may never know the answer for sure, at least the result is entertaining, provided 00:10:08.770 --> 00:10:10.990 you keep your distance that is. 00:10:10.990 --> 00:10:16.790 Now go and watch another entry from the files of Dr. Bob, like SCP-2863 the Gashadokuro, 00:10:16.790 --> 00:10:20.470 for another giant, frightening SCP that hails from Japan. 00:10:20.470 --> 00:10:21.470 CUT!... 00:10:21.470 --> 00:10:25.790 And make sure you subscribe and turn on notifications, so you don’t miss a single anomaly, as we 00:10:25.790 --> 00:10:28.830 delve further and further into the SCP Foundation’s classified archives.