The problem with that is they have no idea what the engravings mean. The SEP has done stuff like that when they know what the engravings mean or if they have some basic idea. Look at how many times they run into situations blindly and almost blown up the world! I think it’s actually a good idea they didn’t do more than what they did… Imagine a world where everyone was stuck just because the SCP foundation messed up one tiny fraction of those hieroglyphs

Good theory, but sometimes other anomalies tend to be blessed or “cursed” with it’s properties.

Let's take SCP-963 as an example It is an amulet that was found at a cultist's home... It has no engravings (none that the researchers will share) It traps a soul in it and causes perfect immortality in a sense...

@@Lillpixeychic meet the super fan

the nail seems to have been made out of rust and led not metal or steel

There’s a unique scp for many professions. Make sure this isn’t one of them. Inspired by micheal dasanta gta 5

At our office a few years back the roofers didnt clean up the spare spikes and they all went down the gutter directly onto the entrance. I too picked up many nails that day...

lolasd

I worked in a carpentry shop for like 2 days, nearly impaled my foot. I switched to Welding.

@@Megamanthemachine you see hundreds of comments every day. make sure this isn't one of them

Don't forget redhead lift dude

yeah... or use it on SCPs like SCP 106 or other Keter SCP beings.

Well 682 would probably just be like “piss off”

yeah seriously. most of these tests were redundant experiments of cruelty..

it could explode the object if its too heavy

"Like a potatoe through a tennis racket." Did they have a food fight to reach that comparison. 😂

I was wondering about 106 myself, since its containment requires bright lights anyway, seems like the ideal situation.

How about SCP -682

@@laraalvinkurtc.5940 They did try with 682, the big lizard started glowing bright enough to get rid of his shadow and then breach containment. There's a short clip about it on this channel actually.

@@epyon_avenger Since he can just disappear into his pocket dimension, he probably can't be held by nail anyway.

Those aren't really troublesome, they are manageable. What isn't maneagable is a keter class SCP, so it would be better used there.

Really? Saying that they didn't have to die is like saying that they shouldn't test anything dangerous with humans. They had to know how dangerous it was, and what it could do. Obviously it's still horrible, but not worse than most SCP experiments.

@@Interestking I don't think making them go thru a wired fence was a reasonable experiment to do. They already established that it's dangerous when you move the lights, hence, that experiment could've easily be done with a rabbit or something. Sure it might not be worse than what others have been forced to undergo, but it was an experiment that really had no purpose and also led to loss of life.

@@saaddagoat I guess it all depends on whether or not it works on things other than humans. If it does, then you're right that it was a waste of human life. If it doesn't, then it gives them information on how much force is behind simply moving the shadow, and what would stay locked, and when those locked parts were dismembered, would they remain locked? It combined 2 or 3 experiments into one, so if it does in fact only work on humans, then this is not only necessary, but efficient too.

Animal tests would probably have been just as enlightening as human tests in this way. Why waste so many D-classes?

Right? at best they could've used mice. But simply dummies would've worked fine

Dude what they do to D class makes them disgusting

Ikr not some plot armor purely invincible godly bullshit

How did they not get expect vengeful d class.

They thought about that and tried 682 started to glow and the shadow dissapered i remember them talking about it in a previous video

The 682 one is funny to imagine

The shadow eating spider would be a good one.

Also any biblical scp because I suspect this is a nail of Helena, one used in the crucifixion of Jesus.

@@junconglin They thought about that and tried 682 started to glow and the shadow dissapered i remember them talking about it in a previous video ( comment sent by Superbakes420, just saying because i think u didnt see the reply above yours)

I need a scp 999

Even the d class are given permission to see 999. if anything, atleast the SCP foundation isn’t cruel enough to deny that.

The d-class torture sound close to Tantalus torture

@@omniverse7976 if someone is that cruel they need to see SCP 999 themself

ooh good point. maybe it could, but what if somebody looks at its face during that time? we may never know....

@@moonbroyal2935 yeahhhh same thoughts

@@moonbroyal2935 That’s some torture GOC shit right there. Better get Dr. Clef on the job.

@@moonbroyal2935 immoveable object meets unstoppable force

everybody gangsta until the scp foundation loses power and now the shadows that have been holding shy guy are no longer there

There is no way the person running that experiment didn't know exactly what would happen. He literally only did it to watch him die like an absolute psychopath. Getting impatient he didn't die already.

@@thecrimsonfuckeralucardlor5087 after the sunset experiment, then doing this, id strongly consider making that researcher a D-class

tbh that wire wouldnt hold anyway. There is no way in hell that this would hold in place a grown man to the point of slashing. Net would be ripped out of the frame and our guy would be in real pain but should be alive.

Well that's one way to reference Resident Evil

Why a wire fence the whole point was to see if they can stop the force nail does! A solid wall would have been better to use instead of something that has hundreds of holes.

Your comment hit the nail on the head.

You naild it

@@fromthethirdplanet what can I say? Puns are really nuts. Especially when it comes to this lol

That joke hammered me

I see u have a point

Would be a possible test off course they would need to avoid eye contact with it

You don’t mean SCP-5031, do you?

You know reality exists right?

@@michaelporter7629 i was thinking more like 538 and 017

Shadow spiders

@@tauceti8060 Yeah that’s 538

probably beheaded

Or the shadow of a mobile but non living subject

Given the sunrise experiment and the fence experiment, it’ll pull the subject to it

good question...

@@DeathnoteBB true...

But getting back power would either destroy them or deal severe dmg

Said SCP would develop skin that makes it so that it has no shadow. Nice thought thou.

FINALLY!! Someone who's not thinking about more tests but puts some theory into the origins of the item, and what the implications of it could bring.

yep.

Look, at the time we had some budget issues. We used what was available.

He probably could destroy the nail...

He would probably destroy the nail considering that it's a interdimensional planet destroyer

@@osamabinladen1996 BUT all that harms the nail is killed by it!

If the nail could be multiplied it could be used on containment procedures on other scps

@@the-Jubi-no-okami true but it's a destroyer of worlds Alr ima think about this

They tried it... And failed yet again....

Why are you everywhere?

@@Lifegotmid of course it failed. I wonder if whoever, or whatever, made 682 to test Humanity's capacity to kill?

Honestly 682 is pretty dumb “oh shit it can adapt to ‘anything’ so much so that it cant be stopped by any means...oh besides that standard, normal acid it’s placed in so it can’t escape and to keep it totally contained...woops

@@silentsamuel_ 682 is a training dummy

You REALLY don't want to do that.

I don't think it can pin inanimate objects. But if it did the moon will be dragged along with the Earth's rotation in a geostationary orbit and when the nail is removed the moon will fly off into space. I think there might be a maximum weight if it could only hold one person at a time.

but then again it could be absolutely terrible for him

It sounds more like the Global Occult Coalition

@@5ivv that's why it's a Halo "wait... That's illegal" meme moment

Scp-682 must be destroyed- The scp foundation

@@tawanza6570 I am confusion

When you play them playing containment breach and you find 682 document and must be destroyed

They did. With SCP-682. Didn’t end too well.

even if it could teleport I think the nail would kill them if it tries

096 would be interesting to test with the nail

@@michaelporter7629 I mean I’d imagine as much. It IS 682 lmfao

It's a lot of extra work for something most people don't notice anyway

What a nice name

@@5ivv you have a nice name …uhhh I don’t have any oil! 0-0

@@noelblack8159 Thanks I'm still comming for the oil. 🤫

@@5ivv gosh darnit

Taunt him face to face on the edge of the shadow...

Ask for a pizza of scp 272

096 would tear out it’s limbs and chase and kill you with its legs

There's one veeeeeeeeeeeery famous execution involving nails, you know.

Perhaps since it would adapt and escape or maybe get long tentacles and move it or take it and escaping containment

And maybe it could stop all the lightin the room and making it be able to move

Item: SCP-272 Tissue Test Record: N/A Termination Test Record: SCP-682 is released into enclosure amidst a circular array of thirty (30) two-thousand-watt (2,000W) stadium lights, of which only one (1) is switched on. SCP-272 is dropped onto SCP-682's shadow, and embeds itself in the reinforced concrete as expected. SCP-682 quickly discovers that it is trapped by SCP-272's presence in its shadow, and starts to attack SCP-272. SCP-682 then stops midway through its attack, examines 272 closely, bellows an incomprehensible string of words, and slowly backs away from 272. All thirty stadium lights are then switched on and off in random stroboscopic "disco" pattern, at 4 Hz. SCP-682 is forcibly hurled around the enclosure in random directions, in accordance with the stroboscopic pattern, and sustains heavy damage. After fifty-five (55) minutes of this process, >95% of SCP-682's epidermis has been abraded away, its anterior left limb has been severed, sixty-three (63) of its teeth have been broken out of its jaw, and its skull has been fractured to the point that both its eyeballs have been dislodged from their sockets. At this point, SCP-682's exposed sub-dermal tissue begins to luminesce. The luminescence rapidly increases until it is brighter than the stadium lights, which eliminates SCP-682's shadow entirely. SCP-682 then collapses, and is no longer affected by the stroboscopic pattern. SCP-682 continues luminescing for forty-eight (48) hours, remaining immobile for the duration; D-class personnel who recovered SCP-272 from the enclosure were not attacked, but sustained permanent retinal damage from SCP-682's luminescence despite wearing eye shields. After 48 hours, SCP-682 resumes normal activity. Note: How did 682 know not to attack 272? Did it recognize the artifact? Was it able to read the glyphs carved into 272's surface? If 682 is literate, is it vulnerable to textual memetic-kill agents? Suggested methods for a viability study are welcome.

They did use it on 682

Lots of questions, I know, but I feel that the researchers for this SCP may have missed some good opportunities here...

It has effected beings like 682

It likely couldn’t reach the gate guardians shadow and the person with it would probably be obliterated. Meanwhile the scarlet king can just destroy universes by existing in them

@@Crusader-7382 it'd probably be worth a try though cause if thrown it embedds itself, so they could chuck it and run maybe? Or maybe use something to shoot it long distances (think t-shirt cannon meets nail gun lmao😂) a super interesting scp either way!

@@absolutely_catastrophic_ It can be destroyed, so the Gate Guardian would likely obliterate it before it lands (and I doubt he would suffer any ill effects)

Maybe not able as he might just reappear back in the coffin again quicker and wouldn’t be able to predict it probably better for someone like shy guy or the peanut

It was tried on 682, but it produced a light that outshone all the other lights, then breached containment and killed a bunch of people, as usual.

A dangerous question to ask, when the meaning of the engravings isn't known.

@@Myth_Incarnate true, but my hypothesis is that most likely those engravings are what give that nail its anomalous properties. Maybe one day we will find out

@@StormGundam Maybe someday. Might be handy to have a bunch of shadow-pinning nails around.

3:30

@@chaosimperatorh4385 no this is ehat happens if a place is pinned before lights come on, we're wanting to know the opposite

Well they did say light base test went uneventful after that incident

@@annthom5301 The nail doesn't work if the object doesn't cast a shadow. Meaning regardless of when the nail was dropped, before or after light, it stops working.

I'm sure it's been considered as a Thaumiel-class object, but to my knowledge no cross-testing with other SCP's has been tried.

That’s what I was thinking

@@m.richardpavao7921 this was a long time ago and since then I have read the experiment logs and this was indeed used to trap 682 it didn’t work because he started glowing so bright shadows couldn’t exist in the room

That was my first thought aka the intelligent thing prolly why this isn’t a top comment

"Where pass the shadow, judgement in its wake. Burdened by youth, I make suffering great. Beyond the horizon, salvation ever out of reach. From the icy, dark depths my hand holds your karma." - Unpublished translation of the engravings, source unknown.

:) I have that book on my desk.

There was another object intended to be written up along side the nail, but unfortunately I never got around to it. Suffice to say, a sufficiently bright light, so as to illuminate even the shadow, would in theory have an effect.