SCP-049, but SICK WITH PESTILENCE!

SCP 049 is a Euclid Class anomaly also known as The Plague Doctor.
SCP-049 is a humanoid entity, roughly 1.9 meters in height, which bears the appearance of a medieval plague doctor.
SCP049 will become hostile with individuals it sees as being affected by the Pestilence, often having to be restrained should it encounter such. If left unchecked, SCP-049 will generally attempt to kill any such individual.
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[@HalduBouyaNono2]

SCP-049 : deny to tell to any other doctors in the Foundation what the Pestilence actually is. Also SCP-049 when they can't find a way to treat the symptoms : "Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of my own actions."

[@Ultimate_nerd]

This is so underrated and hilarious

[@tower_defense_enjoyer]

Uh oh the irony. Everybody wants to be my enemy

[@marquisofhell244]

@@Ultimate_nerd i could not agree more

[@NoukonGlobal]

He gave them detailed notes. Not his fault that the foundation can't read.

[@marquisofhell244]

@@NoukonGlobal the notes are in a unknown language the foundation knows nothing about.

[@StepM4Sherman]

"I ain't shitting out another egg chill" is defienetly one of the moods of all time

[@Potatoesforbreakfast455]

This is my favorite comment ever

[@Monkey-ev3uh]

@@Potatoesforbreakfast455 same

[@Confusion372]

I gained an unhealthy emotional attachment to a lot of SCPs including the Plague Doctor and now i cry whenever hes hurt

[@IzumiKayo]

Hahaha

[@Emilyandmydog]

Ngl, me too ❤

[@TheRomanianThief]

Foundation: Likes to terminate dangerous scps. Also foundation:

[@michaeledmunds7056]

SCP 049 is important

[@Jonathan_Runner]

I mean they still didn't kill SCP-173, the only SCPs they tried to terminate are either little immortal shit lizards, or just extremely dangerous world ending introverts.

[@EnglishAaron]

​@@Jonathan_Runnerwhat introverts?

[@captainstarfe]

the 96@@EnglishAaron

[@nicolacarson]

Yeah and lanky boi could may be depressed too ​@@captainstarfe

[@musixex8166]

I need more of this story. It's ended too abrupt.

[@lixd3054]

Exactly, I hate when they do this. I wanted to see what happened!😭

[@Idk_what_to_name]

@@lixd3054 yeah

[@cynderblack5929]

Me too! I love SCP-049! He's my favorite out of all the other anomalies, besides 999.

[@markusskram4181]

Samee:(

[@dereckperkins]

They should make a whole mini series about this. I'd watch every episode.

[@Jackybat]

When they mentioned the egg inccident I cracked, literally burst out laughing I completely forgot it can do that

[@Stratoospheree]

Dude same I literally had to pause it and just take a moment lmao

[@meryfuentes1761]

Yeah 😂😂😂 i compleatly forgot abaut the litel guy 😂

[@akmullah7573]

Cracked 😂😂😂

[@John-Smith02]

049 is the goodest Plague doctor. He needs to be protected at all costs 🥺

[@bloodrinker]

ah yes, my favorite word, "goodest"

[@tunisino35]

Give him some gloves

[@itsdiamond5128]

@@tunisino35 exactly

[@itsdiamond5128]

@@tunisino35 see finally someone understand me

[@TheVoicesOfTheBeyond]

protected? *BUDDY HE HAS A DEATH TOUCH, HE CAN PROTECT HIMSELF!*

[@itsdiamond5128]

049:kill with a touch Goc sees 049 dying:great Foundation:we have to save him

[@brettnelson7048]

How can a doctor help a patient, if the patient happens to be the doctor? Riddle me that.

[@memelord1216]

I used the doctor to help the doctor.

[@illustriouschin]

@@memelord1216 Can you- can you do that?

[@Kingbawl]

Different medical field... Example.. A foot doctor got sick and went to a medicine doctor

[@HalduBouyaNono2]

I'm an health worker (not a doctor but still an health worker acting on the patient) in dentistry. I currently need a treatment in another medical field, and in this one there is absolutely no doubt that I'm the patient

[@TheDeepThinker-sq3iy]

SIMPLE! You just stand upside down while balancing a glass of water on your chin... and then.... you grab to juggle.. a chainsaw... a leopard..... and three jack in the boxes. then recite the ENTIRE script of star wars the phantom menace, THREE times... BACKWARDS! AND THEN you give that glass of water that you've been carefully balancing on your chin to the doctor to drink which should then completely heal him..... ...and THATS. . . how one wins the war on drugs and std's in 1, 2 and 3.... AND it works every single time. you can THANK me later. . . ....and.... NO questions asked. . . simply profit. . . . . . .

[@serenaxiao3415]

1:01 WHY DOES HE LOOK SO ADORABLE!?

[@SimpyStarr]

IDK! HE'S JUST ADORABLE 🥺🥺

[@serenaxiao3415]

@@SimpyStarr AHHHHHHHH

[@noneclassified7286]

I wonder how far this disease can truly go

[@vaelegoro7782]

See 049 inside 914

[@jeanannd]

Through out the stories concerning SCP-049 I've wondered WHAT the Pestilence the Plague doctor has been obsessed with. Since 049 has claimed to see some people with it that seem to have no symptoms and other he says are free of it, it's always been a mystery. For the story, one would have thought they would have taken blood or small biological samples for testing would have been something one might think they would have done first before giving him a supposed cure.

[@Rulex-cq3rk]

My guess is that the Pestilence is ignorance about anomalies but I would really want to know for sure

[@nottheredelilah3757]

i think the people he sees who are free of it are probably people who die of unnatural causes, like a security breach or d-class testing. someone with 'symptoms' might be someone who is dying of something other than old age but also not destined to die by accident or violence, like a smoker who dies of lung cancer. It's the body's natural reaction to constant carcinogen exposure to get cancer, so 049 might see their progression towards death as a symptom of it.

[@ColdLuncheon]

I would love to see them go through the dinosaur and dinosaur-adjacent SCPs.

[@crazysilberking9541]

Me to!!!

[@lightningboltt5437]

Same

[@emetanti]

Going by the videos uploaded in the last months, im not sure actually explaining SCPs is what the channel does anymore.

[@ColdLuncheon]

@@emetanti Yeah I know, but one can still hope.

[@emetanti]

@@ColdLuncheon I get that, its just still disappointing to take a break from it specifically because of that trend, just to check back in and see that its gotten even worse.

[@CyberDragonArt]

The fact that 049 can have eggs and children like a bird astounds me and made me laugh a lot

[@TeerThePuppet]

I love how human 049 is treated. Not just like most other scps.

[@randompatriot]

Medic: It's so dumb it's brilliant! Dr. Omel: NO, IT'S JUST DUMB! Got me thinking about that meme.

[@gheata_playz874]

thats what they literally said

[@nottheredelilah3757]

big glass onion vibes

[@unrellated]

343 theorized that the Pestilence is the idea of Free Will, and backed it up with some good points. But I think it's actually the thing that causes someone to turn to Free Will. Doubt. I believe that it is the act of questioning whether you're contributing anything worthwhile. Whether what you're working toward is worth the effort. In short, wanting to escape your status quo. And I think that's what happened to the Plague Doctor. He started to doubt he was making any progress on perfecting his cure.

[@Sorain1]

That is kind of a fascinating take on it. Doubt would be 'cured' from those treated by him. But he's also said it manifests in different parts of the body in different patients. I've started to wonder if it's actually mutation. Micro scale mutation happens on the regular, especially as the body's error checking/correcting mechanisms break down with age. Even a benign mutation could be seen as a pestilence, after all it's clearly not part of you (as defined by an unnaturally exacting standard) but it is consuming resources from you.

[@kevinmccalister4602]

So basically extremely mild cancer on a microscopic level. That could also explain Scp 862 reaction. It constantly mutates. Brilliant!

[@Desiree917us]

Then I'm screwed.

[@user-et2dx5du7e]

i thought it was either sin or death,but both should be more abundant in foundation facilitys so maybe not

[@Skibidsigmatoilet4728]

my favourite scp is 049 so it’s always good to see more content on him

[@stacyk123]

Bubonic plauge is actually very curable with modern day antibiotics. There are a few dozen cases ever year in the American southwest where it is carried by gophers and prairie dogs.

[@sandeepgill9975]

The Plague Doctor doesn’t know what the Bubonic Plague is but he does know what the “Pestilence” is, so it’s 2 different things

[@The_Penguin_Editz]

When the medic needs a medic

[@The_backrooms_documented]

Oh no 💀

[@ThePianogirl91]

I am way too invested in this, please continue it!! LOVE your stories, miss your every day videos!

[@NarutoUzumaki71069]

I want the rest of this story. Make it happen please!

[@khpoon5424]

Yessir

[@matthewgoodson9275]

I assume it’s implied that 049-j “cures” it’s father by killing him before old age takes him. Eventually 049-j will reproduce, as his father did, and grow old, to be “cured” by his fathers grandson. Effectively repeating the cycle of an entire lineage of fake doctors.

[@PlagueDoctoroux]

Yes!

[@tartagalicious]

Ayy 049 content finally ✌ Bet the interviewers are gonna bully him for this

[@marquisofhell244]

Doctors be like you see now why you should have told us what the pestilence is you almost died and we weren't able to help you it was just luck that you survived so will you now tell us what the pestilence really is. The doctor yes you are right it was pure luck that i survived it was just the pestilence has taken so many lives i just wasn't Abel to belive that i am the only one who knows what the pestilence is and i was just thinking that you are no real doctors because you didn't know what the pestilence is but i have understood now the mistake i have made so to make sure this will not happen again i will tell you everything i know about the pestilence.

[@serverllegion6184]

oh, it seams that scp-049 immortality started to "wear off" and he started to be affected by the "pestilence"(natural aging process) in a different way that scp-049 knew that it affected the(human) victims

[@user-pi3hd2bt3f]

I domt think pestilence is aging He has killed people of all ages trying to cure them of the pestilence

[@Theellephantintheroom]

Old age, sickness, other natural causes..

[@Chaotic_Queers]

More story’s of scp-049 is what we need

[@EvxrblazeWrites]

I didn’t know they actually made a reference to him laying a egg.

[@zappyapp]

I do believe the doctor's act of killing someone and turning them into a zombie is that of necessary evil and not just sheer stupidity and ignorance. I believe 049 knows his patience are incurable which is why he kills them. Killing them, by extension also kills the pestilence (and while there are dead bodies on the ground, might as well turn them into mindless slaves because why not lmao)

[@yujirohamna6121]

Okay, that was adorable. His son was so cute.

[@sandrasausville9103]

Sounds like the good doctor caught COVID-19

[@Gfish17]

Upper respiratory infection yikes

[@sandrasausville9103]

@@Gfish17 and he has to work on himself talk about self medicating

[@Gfish17]

@@sandrasausville9103 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@sandrasausville9103]

@@Gfish17 nice to see that someone got the joke

[@Gfish17]

@@sandrasausville9103 I typically don't get jokes🤣

[@lunaticafuntimefoxy]

Casi me dan ganas de llorar 😭 al ver al doctor 049 enfermo...verlo así es muy triste

[@itz4q1b]

WE LOVE YOUR ANIMATIONS AND STORYS ❤!

[@exiledphoenix]

Little do you know hes just gathering a mass following before posting a video of scp-096's face

[@Vapecatlol]

The animations come from a computer application . U might have seen them before in other videos .

[@crazysilberking9541]

The last new SCP was SCP-3077!!! That was 2 months ago!!! All we get right now is SCP: 682, 096, 049, 999, 914, 106, 173, and Dr Bright. We need new SCP'S!!!

[@roiitherizzler]

@@exiledphoenixfuck..

[@Vapecatlol]

@@crazysilberking9541 f I’ll make a new scp for you bro haha

[@froggie9523]

My belief: the pestilence is FEAR, of well, emotions. And the plague doctor isn't sick but is having a panic attack:)

[@kevinmccalister4602]

And his son is the cure like a puppy or a bunny to us.

[@Theellephantintheroom]

NO NOT MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT BIRB

[@crazysilberking9541]

We need more Story's about other SCP'S?! The last new SCP was SCP-3077!!! That was 2 months ago!!! All we get right now is SCP: 682, 096, 173, 049, 106, 914, 999,1471 and dr. Bright. You can do everything between SCP-001 to SCP-6999. We need new SCP Story's!!!

[@scretladyspider]

I’m really wondering what happened to this channel. I used to really look forward to these. Now it’s like which one of these few are we getting today, spin the wheel

[@dangero2000]

@@scretladyspiderAt this point I'd have to agree. I mean, I was loving the cross-over stories for a while, but over time it seems like this channel is losing it's creative spark. Maybe the company that runs this channel, as well as the Infographics Show, are facing enormous budget cuts or something?

[@shiftervids7657]

Am I the only one who thought to order "something to heal SCP-049" from SCP-294? There's no guarantee it would work, but SCP-294 has shown to be capable of concocting the incomprehensible in times of need, such as "a cup of pertinent medical knowledge." What's the worst the foundation could lose from trying, fifty cents?

[@AiskCream]

accidentally creating a bio-weapon

[@Zurround]

Damn, the plague doctor is so damned interesting, he is like the "Hannibal Lector" of SCP.

[@pandorasAKT]

At 5:40, you mention how SCp-049 wears the outfit of a plague doctor during the black death of the medieval 1300s. However, the outfit actually comes from another case in the 1600s, when the bubonic plague was more limited towards Italy and France.

[@MyNameIsReaper]

I think SCP 049’a pestilence is actually SCP 2718. If he reanimated the dead they won’t be stuck in torment right? Perhaps we misjudged the doctor.

[@Foxffires]

I never thought of that! I see your reasoning!

[@uncomentarista3103]

What is SCP 2718?

[@MyNameIsReaper]

@@uncomentarista3103 The concept of your mind being trapped in your decaying corpse, fully conscious but unable to move since your body is dead. Did I mention it only happens when you hear about it? Oopsies.

[@SAMASURAS.REX318]

All this time they thought he was insane, that the pestilence was fake Well this is proof it is real

[@lightningboltt5437]

This guy never stops to amaze me

[@ChristopherKaelasAskaviHurley]

Sp, I have to say this brought a smile to my face, which while sounding weird, there's a reason. I remember coming up with a theory on 049 that since during 5000 mentioned people that were being tested by being stabbed, and they didn't feel pain or did showing if they were infected by The Entity or not. That maybe the pestilence is The Entity, maybe 049 was somehow immune to the events of 5000 and still remembers those events, or simply was simply able to sense it. Zombies wouldn't feel pain, so his cure is imperfect, but, yea, I remember at least being one of the people that came up with that idea.

[@itsmeitsmeitsme]

I know people are saying how good this is but nobody is talking about how impossible it is to make a extremely healthy anomaly become a sick creature

[@roseg5006]

Please keep up the content with the plague doctor, it gives me serotonin 🥺❤️✨

[@CaptainChip501]

"What about next of kin? Any luck there? I know he is very good at evading capture believe me I know." That is the best and most hilarious line I have ever heard.

[@PrimeGaming10]

They always end the story where it should have started :(

[@Legion_33666]

This NEEDS a part 2!!

[@passive-night-]

SCP-049-J is gonna beat SCP-049 with a shoe and say he's cured 💀

[@utrrogue7030]

I didn't know I needed mini 049 until today.

[@malinnilsen5188]

Okay but the Black Plague isn't as deadly as it used to be. From google; "Bubonic plague still occurs throughout the world and in the U.S., with cases in Africa, Asia, South America and the western areas of North America. Antibiotics greatly reduced mortality, and by 1990-2010 overall mortality had decreased to 11%."

[@meowbahhsucks]

When you become infected with the thing you swore to destroy

[@CafeWillows]

SCP-049 being like Joy Milne's (the woman who could Parkinson's disease) with an unknown disease before then getting sick himself is some sort of comedic justice that I feel bad for laughing at

[@coopernieman9623]

wow I actually never seen SCP-049's son before. He's cute

[@shroomlight3492]

049-j again lmao

[@roiitherizzler]

MY DAILY DOSE OF SCP-049

[@sujataneogy2400]

wait a minute. did he gave birth to that scp-049-J?? WHAT THE HELL!!

[@enzo1275]

He laid an egg

[@sujataneogy2400]

@@enzo1275 that's wield

[@nativeTania]

Remember kids: take your vitamins and wash your hands so you don't end up like SCP-049

[@mitcheldeltoro9223]

MG i knew it!!!! for years i have always believed the pestilence was "IT"!!! I FKN KNEW IT!!! there are so many SCP's that are either disgusted or enemies to "IT".

[@GuyllianVanRixtel]

D-Class all have death sentences, but death sentences will eventually stop. What will the SCP foundation do?

[@sirajuwahajkurdish5105]

Normal crinimal?

[@Godoferror.]

D-Classss are like prisoners with good food but bad service.

[@GuyllianVanRixtel]

@@sirajuwahajkurdish5105 that seems illegal

[@CreativeWitchArt]

@@GuyllianVanRixtel the foundation feed babies to some entities using normal prisoners is more humane

[@stargazer-elite]

It is definitely ethically questionable but my guess is regular prisoners and once the governments of the world say no more jail and prison they will probably use SCP-2000 to make clones of the D-classes they had before basically using the same people as test subjects over and over again after all those clones won’t necessarily know everything there original did as the Foundation can manipulate those memories I know SCP-2000 is only used in emergency K-class scenarios but by that point it might be different

[@DaMooKing]

I like to think that at 6:05 its Dr.Bright examining the doctor instead of the other way around.

[@ElysionGear]

Tee hee! Loving this little story! And you brought back Junior!

[@skatertux8051]

End the story!!!!

[@sirajuwahajkurdish5105]

Tell SCP 343 to cure him, done and simple!

[@georgedawson5621]

I like the what if scenario vids, but please do vids examining different scps again

[@w1ndgeneral226]

Ok, hear me out, *what if we combined the living lego with the red ice?*

[@crazypamela]

If I hadn't come across the story of how he laid an egg, I would be caught off guard. Though I'm curious of what happened to mini plague doctor. I love that little guy ❤❤😊😊

[@xa-xiidarksiderl6010]

Listening to these get me through my work day, so thank you.. also definitely make more ive watched all your videos like 3 times, big like

[@ragerenegade]

I think the reason he cant tell them about the pestilence is that whoever knows also becomes infected, he is infected but controls it in some way

[@Sa1hrr_r]

i never want to look at the thumbnail ever again

[@V0X6666]

You mean the plague doctor holding a syringe with red eyes all the while giant goopy yellow hands are coming out of his stomach? yeah me neither

[@lazygaga-ie8qr]

"its so dumb!" "its so dumb, its brilliant!" "no its just dumb!" isnt that from glass onion

[@snoozymac2377]

It makes total sense. Death is cured by ressurection. Corpses to living beings, unable to die again.

[@Sage-et6ce]

Love the Glass Onion reference 🤟

[@petraryca]

Waiting for another scp like scp 7 or scp 123

[@thbehemoth9219]

I never thought that my theory would be considered! Thank you!

[@rosallis6182]

WOW THERE'S GOTTA BE A PART 2 FOR THIS

[@simasmaksvytis7868]

Pls do part 2

[@m3ntalhedgehogz243]

Excellent work guys

[@NinjaCman1]

Not exactly sure how this could happen considering 049 has a sense of detecting the Pestilence in other creatures. Day 511 of asking the O5 Council to use SCP-1968 to create a universe in which 682 doesn't exist.

[@aidenyorke2132]

they've already done that.

[@Trojanamoeba]

"It's a real good i was here that time you laid an egg" EXCUSE ME WHAT

[@Haze083]

I hope he gets an opportunity for voice acting for other animations, he's very good!

[@cheeseman144]

Day 5 of asking the scp foundation to sent scp 096 to the backrooms

[@epicwillgamer9124]

My theory is that the pestilence is not dying of old age but the concept of catching a disease since Dr Hamm was suffering from old age when he interviewed 049 and when he gave his example of the pillar rotting, I believe he was Implying that they should not let his vulnerability to disease get any worse otherwise it would kill him. So the reason scp 049 is sick is because he is gaining a vulnerability to disease. But that just my theory so this may not be the case.

[@ScoutTF2Gaming]

0:25 why did i hear the heavy from TF2 going "MEEDIC!". but with just the "DIC!"

[@Scarlett0987]

This is truly a interesting Situation to think about but it definetly could happen

[@rebelcommander7starwarsjur922]

PLEASE FINISH THIS STORY! Then PLEASE finish the SCP-049 and SCP-001 when day breaks PLEASE

[@Suppernotsuper]

I love how everytime something happens go him the egg gets mentioned thats hilarious

[@Cherryblossom-ink]

oooh we need part two this was to good to end so fast i love scp explained i hope u guys do more new scp so we can learn about them

[@mvrv3962]

I request you to do a video of 049 enhanced with 916 fighting the sarkist God with mekhane

[@StuckUnderTheCovers]

The bubonic plague is treated with antibiotics... having death at your door every day has made these agents a little too jumpy

[@THATGuy5654]

I like how everyone in the Foundation is assuming that The Pestilence is a real thing, and not the ravings of an insane anomaly.

[@DivergentS1la]

Now I feel bad for 049 I now think HE is the real CURE

[@beginningchest2871]

Looks like scp-049 failed...

[@itachidawnstar6898]

Got to love 049's son has a little hat it makes him cute

[@marshkat6653]

The little cut top hat🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@meghirst8718]

Yes 🥺🥺

[@0u70fSync]

Foundation staff never going to let 049 forget about the egg incident

[@spawnofragnarok9267]

When DAY breaks (parawatch) When DAY breaks (the starrett hammer)

[@TraciPeteyforlife]

0-49 is a good Doctor and good soul. He is clearly doing his best to help the world. I think he is related to the Scarlett King in some way.

[@NoctivagantDiurnal]

oh yeah, if it is death, it would make sense cause from that interview 049 said it could manifest in the heart, brain, even the liver. well, there's dementia, heart problems when you age, and liver issues as you age

[@sydneyrose6455]

I can kinda see most doctors either being able to diagnose and treat themselves, a sorta all purpose doctor catching the flu, or having to a doctor in a different field of medicine for treatment, a foot doctor suffering pain in their hands. Unfortunately, the plague doctor seems to be mostly a surgeon and it would be hard, painful, and lethal for a surgeon to operate on himself. Anesthesia supposedly not only helps numb the patient and makes them sleep but it also prevents the patient from bleeding to death. I can't see 049-J being able to operate on it's parent alone, especially when it's cure for a sore throat is beating the patient with a shoe. The fainting does sound like possibly a high fever so a lot of tests would have to be done and he should probably be kept cold somehow. With him being an old anomaly though, I can't say if using anesthesia would be wise or effective and with him wearing his skin, which is black, I don't know how well his nervous system works or if he has blood going to his skin at all. I know some people are just dark skinned but again, 049 is an anomaly and dying limbs have a tendency of turning black.

[@gumball9307]

YOU CAN KILL SCP 682 WITH HAKAI OF BEERUS

[@DTE305]

Thank you for sharing information “ SCP explained” your services are greatly helpful to the foundation.

[@DTE305]

Also, please stop making references to “it” laying a egg it is too funny.

[@salmuttotabreabittlecochicarac]

I would get the doctor's bag IMO.

[@TueyAmos]

day 12 of asking for the old man vs the yule man