WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.110 --> 00:00:03.000 A young man and his girlfriend enter the apartment they share. 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:07.680 She tosses her keys on the entryway table as the man checks the time on his phone, he 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:10.509 reminds the young woman that they will need to leave soon if they don’t want to miss 00:00:10.509 --> 00:00:12.410 the movie they have purchased tickets for. 00:00:12.410 --> 00:00:16.850 The woman agrees, but she wants to take a quick shower before they leave. 00:00:16.850 --> 00:00:20.720 As she goes to freshen up, the man sits down at his computer to get in a quick round or 00:00:20.720 --> 00:00:24.140 two of his favorite online squad-based first-person shooter. 00:00:24.140 --> 00:00:27.310 He puts on his headset and jumps into a game. 00:00:27.310 --> 00:00:29.910 Before he knows it, he’s just finished his third round. 00:00:29.910 --> 00:00:33.680 He checks the time on his phone again and realizes that they are running late. 00:00:33.680 --> 00:00:37.030 He takes off his headphones and is confused when he hears what sounds like the shower 00:00:37.030 --> 00:00:38.030 still running. 00:00:38.030 --> 00:00:43.440 He gets up and goes to the bathroom door and listens, the shower is definitely still on. 00:00:43.440 --> 00:00:46.760 The man knocks on the door and asks if everything is alright. 00:00:46.760 --> 00:00:48.810 He waits a moment but there’s no response. 00:00:48.810 --> 00:00:51.820 He knocks again and still nothing. 00:00:51.820 --> 00:00:55.350 She doesn’t usually take showers this long and he immediately worries that she might 00:00:55.350 --> 00:00:58.780 have passed out or… well he doesn't even want to think about it. 00:00:58.780 --> 00:01:03.149 “I’m coming in, okay?” he announces as he opens the door to check on her 00:01:03.149 --> 00:01:07.130 The man immediately notices how steamy the room is, the hot water must have been running 00:01:07.130 --> 00:01:10.570 for a while and he’s worried she really did pass out from the heat. 00:01:10.570 --> 00:01:14.860 “What’s going on, are you okay?” he asks and when there’s no response again 00:01:14.860 --> 00:01:18.890 he pulls open the shower curtain to find… nothing. 00:01:18.890 --> 00:01:20.060 Just an empty tub. 00:01:20.060 --> 00:01:22.290 There’s no sign of his girlfriend anywhere. 00:01:22.290 --> 00:01:24.720 The man is beyond confused. 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:28.350 He turns off the water and goes to the bedroom but she isn’t in there either. 00:01:28.350 --> 00:01:32.830 He runs to the front door but it’s still locked, and her keys are sitting on the table. 00:01:32.830 --> 00:01:36.630 He unlocks the door and sticks his head out into the hallway anyway, but nothing is out 00:01:36.630 --> 00:01:37.630 there. 00:01:37.630 --> 00:01:39.370 What is going on?! 00:01:39.370 --> 00:01:43.990 He checks the bedroom again, then the bathroom, but she hasn’t suddenly reappeared in either. 00:01:43.990 --> 00:01:47.140 He’s in complete shock, unsure of what could be happening. 00:01:47.140 --> 00:01:51.650 He sits down on the toilet and puts his head in his hands, his head is spinning as it feels 00:01:51.650 --> 00:01:54.950 like the world is suddenly falling down all around him. 00:01:54.950 --> 00:01:57.700 The police are immediately suspicious of the man’s story. 00:01:57.700 --> 00:02:00.400 His girlfriend simply vanished while taking a shower? 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:02.119 “You expect us to believe that?” 00:02:02.119 --> 00:02:03.869 the detective asks. 00:02:03.869 --> 00:02:05.560 The man has no answer though. 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:08.009 It’s as if she simply blinked out of existence. 00:02:08.009 --> 00:02:12.640 He’s convinced she must still be in the building somewhere, that she somehow slipped 00:02:12.640 --> 00:02:16.280 out without him noticing, but none of the security footage from inside of the building 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:17.610 shows anything abnormal. 00:02:17.610 --> 00:02:21.260 There’s footage from the cameras in the lobby of them entering the building, but nothing 00:02:21.260 --> 00:02:23.590 after that of her leaving. 00:02:23.590 --> 00:02:28.220 Just as in every missing person case like this, the boyfriend is the number one suspect, 00:02:28.220 --> 00:02:31.570 but without any evidence, they can’t hold him any longer. 00:02:31.570 --> 00:02:35.870 After many long hours of interviews, they finally allow him to leave, but not back to 00:02:35.870 --> 00:02:38.940 the apartment since it’s an active crime scene. 00:02:38.940 --> 00:02:42.950 The man has no family to speak of and his few friends seem to have the same suspicions 00:02:42.950 --> 00:02:45.760 as the police and want nothing to do with him. 00:02:45.760 --> 00:02:50.270 His girlfriend was the only person he truly had in the world and now she’s gone. 00:02:50.270 --> 00:02:55.700 He’s put up in a shabby motel and days pass, then weeks, then months. 00:02:55.700 --> 00:02:59.640 But no evidence of the missing woman ever turns up. 00:02:59.640 --> 00:03:04.010 The man replays the memory of that day over and over in his head searching for some kind 00:03:04.010 --> 00:03:08.970 of answer, but try as he might he can’t remember anything helpful, no clue as to what 00:03:08.970 --> 00:03:10.050 could have happened. 00:03:10.050 --> 00:03:14.190 The case is completely cold, and has been from the very start. 00:03:14.190 --> 00:03:18.380 The police eventually have to move on to newer, more solvable cases, and they finally allow 00:03:18.380 --> 00:03:20.000 the man to return home. 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.790 He’s overwhelmed with emotion the first time he enters the apartment. 00:03:23.790 --> 00:03:28.430 The place is a mess, it looks like the police turned it inside out looking for clues. 00:03:28.430 --> 00:03:33.840 Not knowing what else to do, he starts the long process of cleaning up the apartment. 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:38.590 After hours of putting things away, he eventually gathers the strength to go to the one room 00:03:38.590 --> 00:03:41.470 he’s been avoiding… the bathroom. 00:03:41.470 --> 00:03:44.760 He opens the door to the last place he’s certain his girlfriend was. 00:03:44.760 --> 00:03:48.200 He enters to find that it looks like the rest of the apartment, as if someone has looked 00:03:48.200 --> 00:03:49.849 at every single object. 00:03:49.849 --> 00:03:54.599 But just like him, the police never found any trace of where she went. 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:58.170 After straightening up this last room, he decides that he should take a shower and go 00:03:58.170 --> 00:03:59.170 to bed. 00:03:59.170 --> 00:04:02.830 It fills him with dread to think about standing in the last place he knows where she was, 00:04:02.830 --> 00:04:06.830 but he’s had months to grieve the loss of his girlfriend and he’s decided that he 00:04:06.830 --> 00:04:11.530 needs to move on, whatever that means when someone goes missing without a trace. 00:04:11.530 --> 00:04:14.910 He turns on the shower and lets the water heat up before stepping in. 00:04:14.910 --> 00:04:18.789 Once he’s in, every thought he has is about her. 00:04:18.789 --> 00:04:23.599 He wonders if she ever actually got in the shower at all, or somehow used it as a diversion 00:04:23.599 --> 00:04:24.990 to slip out unseen. 00:04:24.990 --> 00:04:27.479 He just can’t figure out how. 00:04:27.479 --> 00:04:31.770 The day’s events race through his mind, just as they have a thousand times before, 00:04:31.770 --> 00:04:35.270 but his thoughts are interrupted when he notices that the water has started to pool around 00:04:35.270 --> 00:04:36.270 his feet. 00:04:36.270 --> 00:04:38.919 He looks down and sees that the drain cover looks normal. 00:04:38.919 --> 00:04:40.479 Maybe there’s a clog though. 00:04:40.479 --> 00:04:42.339 Do showers clog when they’re not used? 00:04:42.339 --> 00:04:43.830 He has no idea. 00:04:43.830 --> 00:04:46.119 He bends down to get a closer look. 00:04:46.119 --> 00:04:49.930 The long, black creature emerges from the drain in the blink of an eye and latches onto 00:04:49.930 --> 00:04:53.120 his mouth, muffling him before he even has a chance to scream. 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:57.039 He struggles and pulls down the curtain on top of him as he falls back onto the shower 00:04:57.039 --> 00:05:02.639 floor, but it’s already too late, and in a matter of minutes, he too will be gone without 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:04.229 a trace. 00:05:04.229 --> 00:05:09.020 Is there anything more comforting after a hard day than a nice, long, hot shower? 00:05:09.020 --> 00:05:11.409 The answer to that is… no. 00:05:11.409 --> 00:05:12.830 There is nothing better. 00:05:12.830 --> 00:05:17.229 But that relaxing shower might just be the last you ever take when, unbeknownst to you, 00:05:17.229 --> 00:05:22.249 your pipes are home to an instance of SCP-153, also known as… 00:05:22.249 --> 00:05:23.629 Drain Worms. 00:05:23.629 --> 00:05:29.719 SCP-153 refers to a species that resembles the common nematode or roundworm, consisting 00:05:29.719 --> 00:05:33.309 of a long, thin body with a large mouth on one end. 00:05:33.309 --> 00:05:37.879 While some roundworms can grow to as large as a meter long, which is in itself a disturbing 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:44.029 thought, SCP-153 instances can be much, much larger, and it is estimated that they can 00:05:44.029 --> 00:05:48.669 reach up to nearly 10 meters in length, though it is hypothesized that some instances in 00:05:48.669 --> 00:05:51.279 the wild may grow even longer. 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:55.550 These worm-like creatures will feed off of any available organic material, however their 00:05:55.550 --> 00:06:00.139 favorite form of sustenance is fresh animal tissue, and they appear to have an especially 00:06:00.139 --> 00:06:03.409 strong predilection towards human flesh. 00:06:03.409 --> 00:06:08.469 In order to satiate their desire to feed on their preferred prey, SCP-153 has developed 00:06:08.469 --> 00:06:13.789 a rather unique predatory style that perfectly suits its elongated body structure. 00:06:13.789 --> 00:06:17.860 While it is unknown just where they originate, they are most often found in the pipes of 00:06:17.860 --> 00:06:19.899 sewer and drainage systems. 00:06:19.899 --> 00:06:25.050 153 instances will swim up these pipes, seeking out ones that lead to people’s homes, and 00:06:25.050 --> 00:06:28.740 especially those that connect to showers and bathtubs. 00:06:28.740 --> 00:06:33.270 Once they reach the end of the pipe, SCP-153 will latch onto the drain cover and begin 00:06:33.270 --> 00:06:35.490 secreting an acidic substance. 00:06:35.490 --> 00:06:40.349 The acid quickly dissolves the drain cover and SCP-153 will position its own mouth in 00:06:40.349 --> 00:06:46.099 its place, which it then is able to camouflage as the missing drain cover almost perfectly. 00:06:46.099 --> 00:06:51.080 Once SCP-153 has taken this position, it is virtually impossible to distinguish it from 00:06:51.080 --> 00:06:55.009 the original or discern that anything has changed. 00:06:55.009 --> 00:07:00.830 SCP-153 will then lie in wait until it detects that someone has entered the shower or bathtub. 00:07:00.830 --> 00:07:04.909 Once the unsuspecting person has begun to bathe, it will very quickly emerge from the 00:07:04.909 --> 00:07:08.649 drain, latching onto the victim’s face, most likely in order to prevent them from 00:07:08.649 --> 00:07:09.889 calling for help. 00:07:09.889 --> 00:07:14.139 It then begins to rapidly secrete more of the same acid that it used to dissolve the 00:07:14.139 --> 00:07:15.139 drain cover. 00:07:15.139 --> 00:07:19.990 With how effectively it was able to dissolve metal, it’s no surprise that SCP-153 is 00:07:19.990 --> 00:07:23.659 able to quickly produce the same effect on its victim. 00:07:23.659 --> 00:07:29.849 Their skin, muscle, and bone will all be almost immediately liquefied, allowing SCP-153 to 00:07:29.849 --> 00:07:31.389 feed on the slurry. 00:07:31.389 --> 00:07:34.289 And the Drain Worms feed extremely quickly as well. 00:07:34.289 --> 00:07:38.219 After just several minutes, basically nothing will remain of the person who stepped into 00:07:38.219 --> 00:07:43.369 the shower, and 153 will retreat back into the drain, leaving no signs that it was ever 00:07:43.369 --> 00:07:46.709 there save for the missing drain cover. 00:07:46.709 --> 00:07:50.939 The SCP Foundation became aware of this anomaly following multiple mysterious missing person 00:07:50.939 --> 00:07:56.020 cases that all had one key element in common, each was reported as having disappeared after 00:07:56.020 --> 00:07:59.520 entering a bathroom to either shower or take a bath. 00:07:59.520 --> 00:08:04.550 The Foundation soon discovered that large populations of SCP-153 instances were living 00:08:04.550 --> 00:08:09.080 in the sewers beneath several major American cities, and immediately began enacting containment 00:08:09.080 --> 00:08:10.470 procedures. 00:08:10.470 --> 00:08:14.459 The Foundation collected as many specimens as they could find and brought them to Bio-Research 00:08:14.459 --> 00:08:19.250 Area-12 where they keep them contained in 10 by 10 by 5 meter tanks that are kept partially 00:08:19.250 --> 00:08:23.149 filled with sewage and other organic material for them to feed on. 00:08:23.149 --> 00:08:26.939 Of course it is of the utmost importance that these containers are never connected to any 00:08:26.939 --> 00:08:30.689 other plumbing systems, either internal or external. 00:08:30.689 --> 00:08:34.599 With several specimens contained, the Foundation began researching the creatures in order to 00:08:34.599 --> 00:08:38.659 hopefully better understand them and how they were able to develop such complex hunting 00:08:38.659 --> 00:08:39.899 techniques. 00:08:39.899 --> 00:08:43.550 Research was also approved to find out whether they could be used as a sort of waste disposal 00:08:43.550 --> 00:08:49.709 system in certain extreme circumstances, such as with SCP-2717, a mass of living animal 00:08:49.709 --> 00:08:54.620 tissue that has grown to line nearly 4 kilometers of sewer pipes beneath Amsterdam. 00:08:54.620 --> 00:08:59.550 A small number of SCP-153 instances were approved for release into the wild in order to test 00:08:59.550 --> 00:09:05.200 whether they could stall the spread of 2717, however this experiment was halted following 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:07.649 some disturbing new reports. 00:09:07.649 --> 00:09:12.579 More missing person reports came to the Foundation’s attention that bore the hallmarks of an SCP-153 00:09:12.579 --> 00:09:16.920 attack, but these new reports were not limited to people who vanished after bathing. 00:09:16.920 --> 00:09:23.329 It now appears that SCP-153 has further adapted, and has begun to emerge not just from showers 00:09:23.329 --> 00:09:29.269 and bathtub drains but now also from sinks, and yes, even toilets. 00:09:29.269 --> 00:09:34.270 The Foundation is unaware of just how many instances of SCP-153 continue to exist in 00:09:34.270 --> 00:09:38.920 the wild, but there’s no doubt that many continue to live and hunt undetected in sewers 00:09:38.920 --> 00:09:40.399 around the world. 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:45.370 This anomaly, which has been classified as Euclid, is taken very seriously by the Foundation, 00:09:45.370 --> 00:09:49.149 and any reports of people who go missing from bathrooms are immediately investigated for 00:09:49.149 --> 00:09:51.760 signs of SCP-153. 00:09:51.760 --> 00:09:57.000 Field agents are to be equipped with infrared and ultraviolet sensors which can bypass SCP-153’s 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:01.190 camouflage, and if specimens are able to be captured alive, then they are to be brought 00:10:01.190 --> 00:10:03.589 to Area-12 for further research. 00:10:03.589 --> 00:10:07.130 But don’t bother worrying too much the next time you step into the tub. 00:10:07.130 --> 00:10:12.459 If you’ve been targeted by SCP-153, there’s not much you’ll be able to do anyway, and 00:10:12.459 --> 00:10:18.110 your worries will soon be going down the drain, along with whatever remains of you. 00:10:18.110 --> 00:10:23.680 Now go and watch another entry from the files of Dr. Bob, like SCP-2385, for another anomaly 00:10:23.680 --> 00:10:28.079 that has a special way of getting inside you, and make sure you subscribe and turn on notifications, 00:10:28.079 --> 00:10:33.329 so you don’t miss a single anomaly, as we delve further and further into the SCP Foundation’s 00:10:33.329 --> 00:10:37.879 classified archives.