Ah yes, the article with my favourite term to quote of all time from SCP. "A distinct lack of corpses"

"My one regret... Is that I have...Boneitis" - Typical SCP 783 victim

There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

I love just the slow burn escalation with this SCP. It seems like just another monster that preys on solitary victims and subjects them to horrible fates but when the Foundation digs more into it they realize that it gets so much worse.

"I have absolutely zero clue why I told you this" thank you anyway, it was interesting to learn

I like the use of the old words like "creel" in the kids rhyme, kind of gives a feeling that there's something more behind it. No modern kid would come up with the word "creel".

28:08 "I already know what you might be thinking, so if you're sensitive to that sort of thing, you may want to skip this log..." :(

D Class get hurt: They're red shirts; whatcha gonna do SCP staff get hurt: Meh, all part of the job Animals get hurt: *YOU SOULLESS MONSTERS*

24:45 Likely the only situation where one can truthfully say “thank god, it’s the massive pit full of corpses.”

6:02 "uh-oh, bad decision mark!"

Absolute classic, when a number this early has this king a video you know it’s a good one

DUDE it’s a testament to how well this one is written that it was able to keep me so invested in whether this D class was going to be ok. Brilliant

Thank you for doing this one! It's one of my favorites. Also "Taphos" is Hellenic for "grave" :)

“Command tells Nyx to investigate the foot.” Somehow this broke me🤣

The Crooked Mans awakenings makes him feel like a British version of Pennywise

Looking forward to this one. Crooked has always been a favourite word of mine. Its usage runs the gambit from, off angled, to corrupt, all the way over to "a bit eldritch yeah"

My favorite part of this was the D classes trying to rally together to save each other. Some of them are just unlucky, it's nice to see them humanized.

Special Operative Nix is so "OC do not steal" and I love her for that. I imagine her looking like a Tumblr fanart OC youd see in the 2010s.

this could make a a great movie, that “horror beyond a horror beyond a horror” kind of situation where it just keeps opening up to something bigger and darker than what you initially see/think is great… idk if id go so far to call it cosmic horror but it does cause a similar type of slow burning feeling that i enjoy

Oh shit! Hell yeah! Best exploration log on the site, or at least a strong contender to tie for first. This is a perfect follow up to Volgun's full read.

There's a short story titled "-- And He Built a Crooked House --" by Robert Heinlein, where the main character builds a house that, during an earthquake, "collapses" into a 4th dimensional structure.

This SCP is always interesting due to the strange details that are easy to miss. This time what struck me was the odd story of Agent Collins, D-774 and Doctor Lafayette. In the main article Agent Collins goes into the other dimension and is then given a leave of absence (with their name having gone crooked in the document) They are back however for the first exploration log (seems odd as its unlikely they would have delayed long enough for a leave of absence to take place), and then placed in charge of the second. When viewed as a whole her behaviour after returning from the other dimension is very suspicious: First she escorts director Kim to their quarters after Kim gets a migrane. Not immediately suspicous, but later Kim is the person left "tending" to the remains of the dead D-774 (The last time D-774 is mentioned before they somehow enter the control room). Did Collins do something to Kim? Next Collins carries researcher bond to the medical bay for "corrective treatment(???)" after they start vomiting. It's then Collins who convinces Doctor Peterson that a harness should be left for D-2172, which almost leaves to them escaping from the pit after being heavily affected by the anomaly. This is where D-774 and Doctor Lafayette come in, as they were two of the four people who try to help D-2172 out of the pit at the end of the first log. The next mention of them is that D-774 has helped Lafayette escape from their quarters (why were they confined? Did they notice something while helping D-2174?) They go to the police but are caught with D-774 killed. Despite being in charge of the exploration at this point, Collins leaves the control room to "aid Doctor Lafayette and ensure he receives proper medical care" Collins then returns to the control room WITH Lafayette as if nothing had happened! Why did Lafayette just calmly come back to the control room at this point? I can only assume he's been affected now too. As I mentioned earlier, D-774's remains were left with doctor Kim "tending" to them (with Kim possibly affected by Collins earlier) and then D-774 is later described to simply "enter the control room" with their name crooked. All very weird.

Very happy to see TES do this one. I liked Volgun’s video about it too but I’m confident TES will explain wtf is supposed to be going on here.

NGL this is my favorite type of SCP aside from histories like the Kaktusverse. While large stories are nice… sometimes you just want a creepy monster.

SCP-783, if my information is correct, originally was a small Keter Class cottage in Russia that caused violent mutations to ANY lifeform entering it. Most victims became stronger, lacked pain receptors, and can graft scavenged body parts onto themselves. Some became smarter with enhanced visual capabilities. The addendums feature three short logs where the head researcher discovered the lab techs were making the mutated specimens fight each other for entertainment, and he plans to get new lab techs and expose the old ones to the anomaly in order to replenish the supply of specimens. The entire scip would very early on get a much needed rewrite, where now these mutations were not always beneficial, and single celled organisms were unaffected. The addendums would be replaced with a body horror-ridden experiment log evolving different animals and an interview concerning a containment breach where a mutated tick hijacks the body of a D-Class and runs away while the person is still conscious.

To me, this entire SCP reads like someone read SCP-106 and said "Hold mah beer."

This SCP is a reminder that the actual monster isn't needed to invoke fear or terror, but the impact and capabilities of it can give you a very direct idea as to what it can do. Considering that Freddy Krueger was dealt with through vigilante justice rather than judicial affairs (even though in Fred's case it was release on technicality via faulty arrest warrant), the parallels of their origins end right there. Well, aside from the detestable things done to kids. However, unlike the dream logic that Freddy Krueger uses in combination with instilling fear, the crooked man leaves far more physical, yet "fractured" remnants of it's legacy behind.

Oh hell yeah a classic! The older ones are the ones i actually think about long after reading the article or watching a TES/volgun video. I like a lot of the newer ones but sometimes i cant even tell what the scp is after 1,5 hours.. and i usually forget it after 10 minutes They are so convoluted they have to make up words to describe them sometimes.

19:20 I love that a "a distinct lack of corpses" is a cause for panic

If youre attacking that SCP in a volent way, you need an anomaly that eats calcium at the very least the same pace as the bone regenerations. Best bet is to figure out what caused the crooked anomaly, hopefully its from a ritual and not spontaneous.

Gotta love the original series up to 1000. Classic SCP.

No wonder TES took his time to make this video; the fate of that poor doggo must have been hard for him to read it through.

8.5k views in four hours. Not enough. Give this man more views, and 1 Million subscribers. We're nearly there.

Moment of silence for Taphos, the goodest boy

Hell yes!!! My wife and I have been waiting for you to do this one for a hot minute! It's one of my personal favorites and I absolutely adore it so hearing you finally explore this makes me so very very happy.

Your scp readings are some of my favorite things. Thank you.

This one scares me pretty badly. I'm so curious about the background events. The illnesses and the escaped staff are things I have been unable to reconcile with any theory.

Chad D-Class after feeling a hand caress him in a pit of bodies and freaking out: Nah I can keep going.

Ah, yes my 3am bedtime story. Edit: I think this is the most brutal SCP I’ve come across…Jesus.

Moment of laughter for nix. I can understand wanting to save your dog but at what point does it become a lost cause? He gave his life to save you originally and she just throws that away to save a dog that is 100% dead at this point.

One of my absolute favorites. I’m glad to hear your voice finally covering it.

Weirdly temby is such an out of place name for Oxfordshire. Villages with the suffix -by are almost always found in north-eastern England, since they’re almost always former Norse Viking towns

Had a shit day and no signs of the week getting much better, but having this new scp video to listen to later is really nice. Thanks

I'm glad you told us the history of the real world rhyme. I didn't have to pause the video to stop my curiosity

you know its crazy when it involves an ancient torture method " the wheel" and when guy who runs away and gets killed subsequently, has entered the control room.

i really appreciate the warning about the dog, i can’t handle that stuff

This is my favorite intro ever

Yes, another epic tale by the mang himself

I've heard readings of this story and it never really creeped me out, but your narration of it lent so much more weight to the story that this hit different.

I would have tested what happens if you build a house in baseline reality, does it manifest in the crooked reality? What if you do the reverse ? Maybe if it doesn't manifest, it could allow them to create safe spaces the anomaly can't "see". I would also equip any recon team with inflammatory weaponry, since pure physical trauma does not deter the crooked zombies.

For a series 1 skip, it's pretty surprising to see the Foundation treat the D-class so well. Even though he met a gruesome fate, that is.

I'm so happy you did this one! One of the first SCP files I ever heard, and one of my favorites

I didn't know about an expedition log with a dog 🐕, this is interesting.

you know its a banger scp when s d locke writes it

I feel like the Crooked Mans demension could neighbour Lewis Carroll's Wonderland

Thank you for All the scp videos you’ve made. Truly, from the bottom of my heart

I completly love your SCP description and your channel. Great work

I love it when I see a new video from you on my feed. Awesome narration as always.

Crazy how I never knew about this SCP for a long time, only until The Volgun made a video on it. Easy new favorite for me, despite the fact I should have known about this for a decade now.

"I have no idea why i told you this.", because you were saving people like me from a long rabbit hole. THAT sir is why you did it. And i commend you for it.

Seems like much the same as the hole, the deeper you go, the darker and more twisted it gets.

Ty for the doggo warning you're a good guy

That playground rhyme gave me chills. In the last line when it mentions the crooked wheel my mind immediately went to the medieval torture device (thanks, Berserk, for forcing me to know about that) and boy oh boy was the payoff massive when it actually got brought up in the story, thats some damn good writing

I love that you still do scp stuff

Thank you for taking the times to do these videos I'll always appreciate it

I enjoy the monster of the week genre. Worldbuilding is all well and good, but there is something special with the bite sized ones.

Oh surely it’ll end well for the dog. This dude literally makes more bones. Right?

Basically somebody saw the cave scene in Old and decided this is their type of horror.

This one's great! Glad to see you cover it

This is the best crooked man scp I've watched and I hope one day we get to see that MTF log

Dope. Absolutely love it. Perfect length for an SCP file.

Thank you for these readings. I’m going through a bout of major depression, and listening to these readings in the background as I muddle through my day has been helpful. Just wanted to say thank you.

I just wanted to say thanks, you've been helping me fall asleep for years now, I won't listen to anything else. I have some of your videos downloaded I listen to them again and again. So thanks ❤

genuinely thank you for the dog warning. much easier to stomach when you know it's coming

One of my favorite SCP's after all the exploration logs were added to the article!

The audible gasp I did when I was about to listen to the latest audiobook and saw this pop up in my feed. Love you mate, you're my comfort content (oddly enough)

Absolutely loved the intro. I could listen to history facts like that forever

The correct way to start the week, an hour long video from TES ❤

Though it might have been pointless, thank you for that explanation on the possible origins of the poem! :)

Always excited to see you upload 🎉🎉

YES thank you for covering another monster/location SCP. The other kinds you cover are great too but I just love listening to these horrifying exploration logs

THANK YOU TES! I'm so excited to listen to this one!!!

Ah, I look forward to episodes every week but classic SCPs are always my favorite.

It's rendering victims Crooked, whether morally or physically, and even forces your identity to become Crooked.

I love this story, thank you

Haven’t been around as much lately, but it’s nice to see every time I click I’m never disappointed. You the man

Oh nice! Love this SCP. Thanks for doing a video on it

Thank you for still uploading SCP videos

Awesome this is one of my favorites. Honestly coulda sworn you did this one already lol

This is one of my favs and theres a lot of killer coverzs of this classicmCant wait to hear this one

You got a good chuckle out of me with that intro 😊

15:25 My first thought when he says the ground around the tree is littered with broken limbs: wait, tree limbs or dismembered broken human limbs?

As soon as I heard "K9 unit" my anxiety spiked.

"Logic has no place in these situations"... the SCP universe in one sentence.

We eating good tonight and thank you for continuing with scp's!

im glad you did this sone

Wow, it been a while since you did a video on the first series of SCPs that isn’t a 001 proposal.

I love these weird and unknowable scps, instead of the long book sized ones that have some deep philosophical meaning behind them

A fundamental scp for sure. Can't wait to hear more of this crooked world

This kicks ass. Ya did a great job with it. If things go the way I hope, we may very well see the next log this year. It’s been long enough.