SCP-6448 │ Not Deer │ Keter │ Hostile/Amorphous SCP

[@OzzyLizardSCP]

Author of the article here. It's so strange (anomalous, some may say) to see TheVolgun, who first introduced me to SCP during lockdown, reading one of my articles. Thank you so much, Volgun, and thank you everyone else here for enjoying what I've written! :)

[@BradyPostma]

Congratulations on making it to the Big Time!

[@enigma7153]

Great job mate, the article is an incredible read. Love your other articles as well- well deserved 👍

[@thatonepotatopotatogarden9125]

"As somebody who is often plagued by Not Deer since I began my studies. I ask for your advice. One is currently pretending to be my dog and my family hasn't noticed the antlers yet. New anomalous property? None of them are aware of the anomaly. Could be a factor to them being unable to perceive it's behaviour." -Dr Jamison. The metaphysical nature of this message has registered it as anomalous. Please ignore any further communication. -05 ••••

[@TheInvisibleMan-06]

Bro, I love your article, it’s one of my favorites there is. Congrats on making it big

[@joejoer5199]

so you are the cause of my hylophobia

[@damiendean90]

I love that the containment procedures for this basically state "if you see something, no you didn't. If you hear something, no you didn't."

[@willstewart3871]

Thats Appalachia for ya lol. If something sounds like it’s far away it’s close and if it calls your name, DO NOT respond.

[@moodledoodle4861]

“If you see something say nothing and drink to forget” -Welcome to Night Vale

[@erika002]

You do not recognize the bodies in the water

[@ravendevino6419]

Funnily enough here in Appalachia we have crows who can make hoarse human like vocalizations and foxes which sound like a woman screaming so nope, didn't hear or see nothin

[@oraborat1266]

I like how the instruction to site personnel seems out of place until you realize how underprepared cite-44 is for this entity and its increased presence

[@wumbosauce6112]

Oh deer Oh... deer? Oh not deer? Oh deer...

[@wolfoffenris9951]

"He died, a very gruesome death, the wounds look like they were caused by deer, but not deer" "Dear good" * nods sagely* " yes most probably"

[@54032Zepol]

Oh yeah!

[@troyskeete8372]

@ OP's comment 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@alterperversersackkk]

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[@arthurmartin4616]

@@wolfoffenris9951 2845: You called?

[@FeedMeSalt]

As a kid I slept on the living room couch often. One night sometime after midnight I woke up but couldn't figure out why. Then a half second after looking around my family dog walked past the living room into the kitchen on its hind legs like a person. Freaked me the hell out because our dog to my knowledge couldn't walk on two legs. Then I realized our dog was under the blanket at my feet. Asleep in a ball. I lost my mind and screamed for my mom. Who came and calmed me down. It was almost certainly a waking dream, something kids experience often. But holy hell I hated that "not dog"

[@azzy-551]

That is perfect horror. I can't imagine experiencing that as a kid.

[@sarahthesarah2850]

Pucca and lots of strange beings are said to imitate pets. I have very vivid lucid dreams according to my kids therapist, so most of the time I just convince myself weird stuff is that. My Granny would say that the strange visits when we are feeling strange.

[@FeedMeSalt]

@@sarahthesarah2850 what about a moving water stain about three foot wide on your bedroom ceiling. As a very young kid I would tell my mom the stain moves at night. Mom thought I was noticing more water damage. That's not what I was seeing though, it would move while I was watching it in the dark. It would move a couple inches to entirely new tile. And the parts of the tile it was on would be free of any stain come morning. I drew a crayon circle around it once to prove to my mother it was Infact moving. And it never moved again. I was definitely just half asleep. But part of me wants to go back to that old family house and find out if it's still there.

[@sarahthesarah2850]

@@FeedMeSalt Drawing circles around things is said to contain them. Shadows are a very interesting topic. There are many biological and spiritual causes attributed to them. I am the friend who people recommend for help with the strange. I like to look into scientific, psychological and spiritual explanations for things. Truth is for the most part we don't know and are all exploring ways to figure it out. From the fluid motion you described though it sounds like a dream eater, if it was something spirit based. They like to feed off the ambient energy humans produce when dreaming, meditating or imagining. For the most part people don't notice them, they blend in really well. Some sensitive folks are said to see them. They're not usually dangerous but can be unsettling. They can become parasitic in some cases. There are many things it could have been. I'm sure you've heard the scientific and psyche explanations. We hallucinate our experience of reality though so the lines of human experience can blur in some interesting ways. Your experience and how it contributes to your life is most important. I've helped people who went on bad trips. It hurts them, even though it was from them. We often want to know if something is caused by internal or external stimuli. Usually it's a combination of both though. Hope that helps. Should you encounter more strange and unusual in your life, I pray that it blesses you in the best and most beneficial ways.

[@FeedMeSalt]

@@sarahthesarah2850 thank you sincerely for the response. You gave me a worm hole of topics to fallow. Some part of me hopes it actually was something real and not just my child neurons pruning and giving me lucid dreams. The concept or idea of extra planes of life or hidden creatures existing beside most of us we are totally unaware of reminds me of germ theory. Telling people in our early industrial history about bacteria viruses and microorganisms didn't go over well for a very long time. I guess my experiences made me curious. Nothing ever made me feel like it wanted to harm me. Even the "not dog" I was totally ignored for the couple seconds I saw it. And the water stain wasn't scary it was just super friggin weird. I'd love to be a child again and to be more naturally receptive to things that may be.

[@elitemook4234]

What the heck kind of 911 operator instructs someone to walk into the woods to investigate a strange voice calling their name?

[@MilionMaru]

Had the same thought first time reading this, I wonder if the dispatcher had a CWD of their own

[@aaronreynolds2048]

An embedded foundation agent that's playing chicken with the ethics committee

[@B_4035mn]

That wasn't a 911 operator, that was most likely a foundation researcher that was a 911 operator in that location.

[@MrMundy-ov9vc]

Dude I was thinking the exact same, like that dude at the other end of the line just wanted to be done with their shift.

[@scarlet2847]

Maybe one of the deer?

[@Hsereal]

"If you're out in the woods, and you hear someone call your name; no you didn't."

[@Samagryn]

If you hear a baby crying out in the woods: No you didn't.

[@TheFluffyWendigo]

Don't be spreading my secrets!

[@canadiancanucklehead8310]

“Nuh uh!”

[@GnohmPolaeon.B.OniShartz]

If you see me in the woods, no you didn't.

[@Aknaught92]

One of my favorite bits of horror in this is the mention of them having 'forward-facing eyes'. What else usually has forward-facing eyes? Predators.

[@anthonygarland8839]

Plus predators do mimick human voices too

[@brianli6562]

Reminds me of the deer in adventure time.

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

Im more concerned by the fact they have eyes from other animals.

[@jwalster9412]

Also, the mention of it instantly recognising when a person notices it, and if they don't it might just leave them alone. It's like it wants to be noticed. The article hints towards several possibilities of what it might be, but also at the same time makes it sound like it's all of them.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

Forward facing eyes is about depth perception where as eyes on the side are about field of view. Obviously predators need the ability to decide how far away prey items are. But better to say prey items need the ability to monitor as much space around them as possible.

[@exxon101]

The deer were allowing themselves to be caught. "Since the capture site was relocated to another continent, no deer have been caught." They knew that other deer could rescue them using tunnels. Now that this is impossible, they aren't letting themselves be caught anymore. Edit: during the "interview" with the deer at the end of the video, it utters one word: "research." That's why they were letting themselves get caught. To see the inside of the facility.

[@TheReapergod36]

"Letting themselves be caught anymore." Which is spooky, were they letting themselves be caught so the facility thinks they're making headway or are they trying to look into the SCP Foundation? EDIT: Added a question mark.

[@masterzoroark6664]

Well- since one of the things the "deer' stole was a book on Rosvelt Incident, I have assumption that these things are either the same aliens as then (as in SCP verse Rosvelt aliens happened) or something that tries to anticipate how a local species reacts, be it violence or curiocity. This time it was curiocity- and the "deer" played humanity perfectly.

[@ameliagrace5777]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught that, it was my first thought when he said no successful capture attempts had been made since they moved the facility overseas. That's spooky as hell.

[@Brainflayer]

I'm still wondering why the interviewed deer said that one date specifically, July 7th 1947. Is there any specific event that happened on that day or any significance I don't know? Edit: Never mind, it's the date of the Roswell Incident. I'm thinking these Deer are aliens in disguise.

[@rhyderleming5851]

So, this means they clearly don’t get how the foundation rolls, guess what, there are multiple of you, you’re disposable, if they have it their way, you are knocked out, put in a room, researched, and killed if you do anything *suggesting* you have a plan to escape, this is likely why they stopped trying, the other site, as well as being on another continent, probably has advanced sensors, and this could just suggest that they are in a limited area or avoiding the site altogether.

[@Lochlann13]

These are my favorite types of SCP's. Not world-ending, all-powerful eldritch entities that can destroy the universe; just really interesting, strange creatures that are well-written.

[@zerrodefex]

Like what used to be the standard before it turned into writers trying to out-keter one another.

[@bimalpun4172]

I remember listening to these scp videos and always finding them creepy and unsettling until I kept hearing about other world ending and felt like it got so stale.. Like yeah it can end world and there's something scp is doing to stop or slow it down

[@twilitlloyd7167]

I definitely enjoy one type of story about world-ending entities. I like the ones where they already happened, their damage was done, all the Foundation is finding now is the leftovers and piecing together the story as best they can.

[@LordVader1094]

@@zerrodefex And trying to write literal novels in the addendums instead of making reasonably paced scientific articles.

[@thrillcollectors]

Same. Love me the occasional eldritch abomination though. One of my favs is the red spot of Jupiter.

[@renatobilodeau5128]

The date of July 7, 1947 and the UFO appearances near site-44 suggest that this SCP has something to do with the Roswell Incident of 1947.

[@VultureSkins]

And the book about Roswell being stolen

[@antitheist3206]

I thought that date sounded familiar. So maybe alien deer? Wouldn't be the first time, what with 2845 and all.

[@karkatshipper8383]

Add in all the missing 411 theories and the UFO sightings that happen towards the end.

[@OzzyLizardSCP]

👀

[@evanlucas8914]

Well, the population of this anomaly is apparently around Appalachia. So I'd argue site-44 is near the Linville Gorge, specifically Brown Mountain. There have been reports of odd lights over Brown Mountain for nearly a century.

[@cognitiveAfflatus]

who the fuck puts glass on a containment chamber yall got cameras for a reason smfh

[@ragg232]

They underestimated that thing.

[@marceloaranibar8802]

I suppose it was reinforced glass, but that thing was too strong

[@solarshado]

On one hand, that seems like a fair point. On the other, said glass was _twenty inches thick_ (half a meter for the metric-inclined)...which, if you think about it, might be one of the more absurd aspects of the article overall...

[@cognitiveAfflatus]

@@solarshado im gonna be honest i overlooked that point, and it's hilarious that on retrospect that is probably one of the more ridiculous aspects of the entry, especially considering that thing STILL broke it. i do wonder, at that point, why you *wouldn't* use cameras though, that much glass must be expensive

[@Jubernuaght]

@@cognitiveAfflatusespecially given the nature of the foundations business. Granted the glass was 20 inches thick which is absurdly beefy, but when entities range from world ending, to books of music that make you commit un-alive, I ain’t taking any chances

[@TheAero1221]

What I think is most interesting about the not-deer in this case is not just that these guys are shapeshifting aliens wearing terrible deer disguises... but moreso *why* the deer disguises are so awful in the first place. For a creature that is used to being able to change its form and appearance at will (and assuming that this is a common characteristic among competing lifeforms in the environment they evolved in), it might not make any biological sense for them to be able to recognize slight differences in 'static' lifeforms. In other words, they might see their deer costume as being 'close enough', but to us, its an obviously incorrect representation.

[@tamlandipper29]

Might also be that we are more aware of deer aesthetically than they expect. We eat them, so they think we don't pay them any mind.

[@WoobooRidesAgain]

There are two explanations that immediately spring to mind. The first is similar to your idea. Namely, the aliens, being amorphous blobs of stuff, do not have much of an understanding of the differences between mammals and so construct the visage of a deer from what is effectively a limited understanding of what a deer is or should be. The second is that the "costume" is actually not a costume so much as it is the equivalent of an EVA suit. They find a deer, kill it, and proceed to wear it like a skin coat, because deer are not only plentiful, but corpses of such are much easier to get a hold of, or they create a "not deer" suit on the basis of a deer. The "modifications" are done to better suit (no pun intended) their goals - being a creature adapted to placid grass grazing and the occasional bit of predatory behavior doesn't really work if your goal is to capture humans for some nefarious purpose or another. It may be because the aliens aren't quite capable of perfectly replicating a deer, or because they feel they don't _need_ to, and deem perfectly replicating a deer is merely inefficient, "perfect is the enemy of good enough" and what. They only need to get close enough to you to grab you, so anything beyond the basics harms overall mission efficiency.

[@kR-qj7rw]

@@tamlandipper29 thats absolute nonsense if i see a crature eat something specifically it probably knows about whateverthat is more than likely its like how fishers use bait, its not at all the fish it should represent but they figure its good enough since it keeps working(all the none saved by the scp victims)

[@atreidesson]

We are intelligent. The insects are attracted by the freaking mate-shaped flowers! Maybe they competed against not-so-smart things...

[@Iylandrea]

I can't help but think this thing was inspired by The Thing (movie, Which if you haven't seen is something any SPC enjoyer would love. It is considered one of the best horror movies of all time mostly because of the superbe practical effects.)

[@Tula-cs1ef]

As a deer hunter in the Appalachian. This scares the shit out of me, more so the fact the eyes are forward because prey don't have that. Predators on the other hand

[@magnusm4]

Just imagine a deer pointing at you with straight unblinking wide human round eyes.

[@MouldMadeMind]

My favourite prey animal: the saltwater crocodile

[@geckoh3963]

@@MouldMadeMindreptiles are very different creatures! We’re talking about mammals.

[@MouldMadeMind]

@@geckoh3963 my favourite prey animal: the hippopotamus

[@ammyfatxolotl]

I live in Georgia, hit a deer once, moreso it walked into me. It's so insanely dark out here and I have a legit fear of these things because they just appear and disappear at random. Something is always creepy with them. Used to live in the bonus room of my parents' house in the woods and a flock would gather at 12 AM almost exactly every night right outside my window. Just creeps me out.

[@Brandon-1996]

A herd showing up next to my bedroom window at 12am would make me feel closer to nature. I'd be interested to watch or talk to them, but I wouldn't feed them anything. I don't know much, but I worry from time to time about human cohabitation with wildlife.

[@Fattts]

There's things in the woods.

[@Thomas_The_Thermonuclear_Bomb]

Deer are just fuckin weird sometimes man, but then they'll do things that make you think 'actually maybe it's not all bad' like show you their babies, and I think that's oretty neat

[@maximillian1109]

...the deer having a feeding schedule which includeed your backgarden is creepy to you?

[@Davorox1]

In a horror situation. Some of you will clearly not make it past the title intro.

[@Gilbert_gang.]

I LOVE the mention of missing 441 being a SCP cover up you could make so many stories around that

[@felixrowan646]

I knew David Paulides was a Foundation agent! Someone tell Lore Lodge.

[@Gilbert_gang.]

@@felixrowan646 lore lodge is such a goated KZbin channel

[@mercurial-mons]

"Your survival is dependant on your ignorance." it's such a good and creepy line, especially for us the curious ones. I'm only half way, but enjoying it so much, love the little encounters, almost like an anthology of short horror stories. Also yeah, a cryptid, but it reminds me of analog horror, with the emergency calls, and found footage of these occurrences.

[@Artemiska58]

Your comment freaked me out because I was reading the comments while listening to the video and the sentence "Your survival is..." Came exactly at the same time I was reading your comment

[@TheXell]

"No, we are NOT going to attempt to pacify the subject by dancing in front of it while holding glowsticks. How did you even GET that idea?!"

[@Punishthefalse]

The not-deer is confused. Keep doing it.

[@ShadeOps45]

😂😂😂 which researcher said that again?

[@mailcs06]

@@ShadeOps45 Probably Dr. Bright

[@shadowseige___5604]

@@mailcs06😂😂😂😂

[@ReySchultz121]

You watched the deer anime, didn't you.....

[@dragonyami]

Dang, those are some really INCOMPETENT emergency services, telling the caller to 'Go Investigate Yourself' Wow...

[@bestaround3323]

Just like the real thing

[@itsbuggers]

if it makes you feel any better, that was most likely an SCP agent that hijacked the line or was planted at the call center to gather more info

[@zippyparakeet1074]

At least she got off fine.

[@DesignThinkerer]

Might have been a not-deer passing of as an emergency operator

[@JasonLihani]

Yeah you'd think but I've called 911 over homeless people ODing and they asked me to go shake him. Like okay I will but this sucks gang.

[@v.k.8153]

The deer's voice and sound effects were very impressive.

[@magnusm4]

They used Elk shrieks as they are very uncanny to many and easy to make scary.

[@quinnroberts3309]

Ah ya now that's the good old-fashioned SCP stuff I love. No existential, time manipulating, reality bending concept entities, just some spooky deer who recently discovered scientology.

[@raycearcher5794]

Between Not Deer and The Deer, it seems like we should just avoid anything remotely LIKE a deer.

[@teecee1827]

But there's the human deers from 6466.

[@Mecha_mage]

How else will you buy real estate? Everyone knows realtors live in the bellies of deer.

[@_antisocialmedia6377]

except for the Deer College, then again, several Deer College graduates turn into AWCY? members so maybe the logic still rings true

[@forickgrimaldus8301]

Fun fact Bambi was a Marine

[@Ant-nh9lq]

Hmmm.... i wonder why they can contain that God deer but not these smart deers...

[@johnfuller2339]

I had a cool idea like this a long time ago, but it was about predatory deer road kill. They pretended to be hit deer carcasses but then attacked when you got too close.

[@inquisitorialllama638]

Thats knarly, Iove it. Venus fly trap, but for mountain folks instead of flies

[@Sentralkontrol]

Do it

[@mailcs06]

Would read. Please leave a link or smth if you make this

[@johnfuller2339]

@@mailcs06 will do

[@christopherjohansson9935]

There was a short story I remember listening to from a knock off SCP Podcast called "The Redwood Bureau" which had a very similar premise. Actually, two now I think about it... The pilot focused on an ambush predator that would hide in the bodies of medium sized creatures, such as deer, bursting out when they sense easy prey. The evil SCP equivalent was putting them into the bodies of animals, then selling them as cheap alternative meats; in this case road kill. The Bureau would then study how the creatures would hunt in an urban environment; speculating their use as a bioweapon.

[@peterstoric6560]

Easily my favorite recent SCP. It’s not some inter dimensional threat to existence or some indescribable and uncontainable god with a novel’s worth of lore. It’s simply something we do not fully understand that is right here in front of us. It is both familiar and alien all at once and really plays at the idea that something is simply not right, like being in the dark and thinking you heard something from beyond the light. This is pure horror and I love it

[@bionicdragon5]

I'm getting pretty sick of all the "big scary thing that blows up the world if too many people think about it/know it exists at the same time" SCPs that were flooding the site for so long. I don't know what the admins were thinking letting so many samey stories through, while rejecting so many actually interesting and well-written ones. Here's hoping we get to see more like this.

[@zerrodefex]

Yeah it feels like a classic SCP from the first two thousand entries. I stopped caring about anything above 3000 a long time ago.

[@Sentralkontrol]

@@zerrodefexthe writing quality tends to be higher but the actual content can be more homogeneous. Most of my all time favourites are medium sized and localized and I can’t think of any of the big ones I actually like overmuch. My faves that come to mind are Red Sea object, lamplight, and bodies in the water

[@user-c4b9b]

@@Sentralkontrol "overmuch"? ... "I can’t think of any of the big ones I actually like - a lot" "I can’t think of any of the big ones I actually like- very much" "I can’t think of any of the big ones I actually like- all that much" ... I am figuring you aren't a native speaker, I'm a tutor and this info I just gave you will help you not sound stupid when you are speaking my language. The rest of what you wrote was fine. Keep working on your English man your doing good.

[@alejomontoya9794]

One of the things that makes this kind of stuff great is the use of the thing we fear the most. The unknown

[@neeneko]

Heh.. between the sounds foxes and cougars make, combined with raccoon break ins, I could easily see how such an idea could come out of the region.

[@phfighter9465]

I was born and raised in the city and moved to a rural area and the 1st time a heard legit screaming in the woods I nearly s#+t myself only to have my neighbor laugh in my face the next morning saying "that's just a fox ya doofus"...fox my ass...

[@erinfinn2273]

Fox screams echoing and distorting due to forest conditions become VERY human like. It's disturbing, but our brains are wired to listen for human speech and sounds of distress. Same with seeing faces in trees or outlet plugs. Our brains assume human, until proven otherwise.

[@comradeconrad9920]

@@phfighter9465lol urbanite

[@appalachiabrauchfrau]

don't forget about bobcats sounding like drunk sorority girls yelling at each other, or peacocks that sound like children wailing 'help'. a new citypeople neighbor called a whole squad of cops to our 300 population holler cuz of a fox roaming the woods looking for a ladyfriend. Scared everyone half to death. Never seen so many rubberneckers on their lawns before.

[@phfighter9465]

@@comradeconrad9920 🤣

[@shell126]

Me after finding SCP-6448 in my bedroom: 🎵🦌shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan 🦌🎵

[@ejmuerterisefromthedead8924]

Omg 😂😂😂😂😂

[@DarkHypernova]

🎵🦌shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan 🦌🎵 🎵🦌shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan 🦌🎵 🎵🦌shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan 🦌🎵 🎵🦌shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan 🦌🎵 🎵🦌shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan 🦌🎵 🎵🦌shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan 🦌🎵

[@brenolk4642]

Everything is deer

[@jorgeacosta6698]

Lol

[@cuttleboi1339]

oh deer

[@mathieuleader8601]

this SCP entry is how I picture an adaptation of Bambi in the Blood & Honey cinematic universe to go down

[@b4tman_and_Rob1n]

this needs to happen

[@Antifa-Howard-Hamlin]

*”It was a deer in the way that a graveyard is a playground. You can treat it as such, I guess, but it won’t feel the same.”* This is a great SCP. Gives me old-timey creepypasta vibes from back those were still popular. It’s actually gotten a spiritual sequel, SCP-6466, written by Ecronak. Appropriately, SCP-6466 is titled “Not Human, Either” as a response to SCP-6448 being titled “Not Deer” and dealt with the horror of “things that seems to be deers but AREN’T” from the completely OPPOSITE angle.

[@DollarStoreAbomination]

Ooooooooooooo.... Cannot wait for Volgun to cover that!

[@OzzyLizardSCP]

Ekronak's sequel is a fantastic read for anyone who liked 6448 imo

[@Antifa-Howard-Hamlin]

@@OzzyLizardSCP The author themselves, everyone. Your work is fantastic!

[@user-lq5yx1ke5k]

I just read 6466 after I saw your comment, its kinda heartbreaking..

[@blondejohn525]

When the one SCP broke into the woman house and started stalking her, I was reminded of the Vita Carnis series, with the person hiding in their closet from the mimic.

[@veggier8362]

as a person who is already deathly scared of deer and lives in the Appalachian area, I will not be going outside for a while

[@rustyshakleford5230]

Not a lot of people know that deer have the strongest venom in the animal kingdom but their fangs aren't long enough to pierce human skin. Their venom is held in sacs that run along their back on either side of their spine. Hunters tend to eat these venom sac "back straps" to build immunity to their poison.

[@MilionMaru]

The fact that moose are deer is enough to justify your caution

[@Lordingish]

Don't worry, last night I heard some shit here in coastal SC that you can NOT tell me was just a fucking owl. Like bruh, that shit was saying words and coming from all around the house. The neighbors heard it too. We're all falling asleep armed.

[@sirwagon3054]

@@Lordingishbro wtf. legit the more i delve in these comments, the weirder they get. I’m never going to the US 😭

[@hossdelgado626]

​@sirwagon3054 it's okay. When We are done with lordingish, We'll find you 😁

[@tbdaemon]

This was a nice diversion from SCP's usual schtick of referencing its own lore. I really liked how it combines an obscure cryptid with the Roswell incident and some cosmic horror. Great stuff 👍

[@basementtroll3819]

The not deer is a top shelf scp

[@RedMike-ym8hd]

Not deer is not a lower-shelf scp

[@Camcolito]

Agreed, this one was really well written.

[@brianlewolfhunt]

Casualty report: 7 recordings, 3 human civilian disappearances that we can safely assume are lost, as well as a metric buttload of cattle. One call indicated the anomaly intended to eliminate the park ranger but fled from the law enforcement. We can assume the Cryptozoologist interrogating the captured skip was killed by it during its escape. That makes 4 casualties, 3 civilian and 1 foundation, as well as a bunch of cows, though this is incredibly lowballing things considering they have been around for the better part of a century.

[@Kati_Gory]

It was mentioned there was an unprecedented amount of deaths that go unrecorded because of how rare it is for people to get any word out first hand like calling 911 which is worth mentioning

[@commonviewer2488]

On top of this, ever since the containment breach, they've been more active.

[@HypnoPantsOnline]

You're right, it's not a deer. It's my friend. My deer friend. Nokotan.

[@warbossgegguz679]

As someone who lives in a state with about 750,000 White Tail Deer and been surrounded by them my whole life, this is the first SCP to creep me out on a visceral level in years. If you haven't been around deer that much, you wouldn't understand how casual and unphased by humanity they've become, nor how quickly a casual encounter can go South purely based on the time of year or any number of random factors (a buck rammed my foxhound when I was a kid, despite being like 3 times his size). Nor would you know how disturbing chronic wasting disease looks. It's literally nicknamed "zombie deer" because it rots their brains and bodies simultaneously. So yeah, needless to say I've always sort of hated deer in ways that range from annoyance to spite to fear/paranoia... so this SCP is great for my sanity! Never before have I put off watching one of your videos for so long, but I was the title and thumbnail in the notification and was like "Yeah, I don't need this atm."

[@TheOriginalLousyGamer]

This was one of the first SCP's in a long time that had me genuinely freaked out.

[@raymond4218]

shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan

[@BeyondAIR15]

Skinwalkers just want to be your neighbor

[@BradyPostma]

They're like if Mr. Rogers wanted you dead.

[@mmisafire]

two very distinct and different things

[@54032Zepol]

Yes please be our neighbor! we are so very hungry! I meant lonely! We are so very lonely won't you be our neighbor?!

[@Calvin_Coolage]

If you're cold, they're cold.

[@ju1c31ng0t]

nudists?

[@Steriodsman1]

When I originally read it, I didn't expect this entry to be as creepy as it was or as memorable. It's one of my Favorites. You don't always need Eldrich Horrors or Reality Ending Entities to illustrate horror.

[@shuffle811]

"Your survival is dependant on your ignorance" is a line that goes so hard. Anybody when frightened will try to gather as much information as possible to make a decision, but in that instance your survival is possible, only if you go against one of the most basic human instincts.

[@MadBeausuff]

7:05 Evidently not a southerner.... We would have said "HELL NAW, GIT yo ASSES here and check it out youself...."

[@Fakemarcel]

bruh

[@Mepharias]

Based on the supposedly American hiker saying "I don't think it's well," I think the author of the SCP is probably British.

[@Peptuck]

The most interesting part of this is that its clear that whatever the hell is going on, there's something either inside the deer that is changing their bodies or it's something pretending to be a deer. I like that whatever the creature is, it is both intelligent and not infallible as there's multiple moments in the article where the entity clearly makes some kind of mistake and the subsequent violence or escape is the creature panicking.

[@rickkcir2]

I think it's kind of like the alien bug from MIB1, which unalives and hollows out bodies to possess just like it did to the farmer.

[@yosblitz9026]

INSANE how this SCP Article says that Missing 411 is a SCP Cover story to distract from anomalies, amazing detail

[@jesmcdevlin3116]

Love how some of the rural myths have been gaining relevance as SCPs. The "not deer" has been a myth down here in rural Mississippi for a long time too. But it also borrowed attributes from skin walkers and windiegos. As a kid I was taught how to hunt and handle guns. Namely, how to be safe with firearms, and how to make clean, ethical kills. We were regaled with stories of people who would let animals suffer, being found barely alive, but fully skinned and some of their guts eaten/removed only to die a short time later from extreme trauma and blood loss. Legends were of deer that looked just not quite normal, emaciated, almost decomposed, joints int he wrong places, or bending the wrong ways, horns that moved or twisted, extra eyes, no eyes, wrong eyes, wrong teeth, covered in blood, or walked/moved in erratic jerky, or otherworldly manors. Normally after witnessing the beast and acknowledging something was not right, they'd twist their head around in impossible ways to stare dead at the hunter, and standing up on hind legs. Only to either sprout root like tendrils from their bodies, or grow rapidly and their skin shredding as they enraged and enlarged and then chasing down the unethical hunters for their own sick sport. Always though, blood curdling screams and them shouting either just the person's name or "WHY !?" Though oddly some times it was reported that they'd even use the voices of loved ones like wives, daughters, sons, or such. In some of the tales they even apparently had some control over the minds of their prey, or very nature around them. Making a clear day storm, or turning the normal game trails into endlessly twisting paths of living thorn brambles that shred people as they flee. Tales of roots pinning people in place, or the treetops growing so dense mid day became pitch as night. When asked what the creatures were, or came from, we were told it was an endless cycle, that unethical hunters would be eaten by the not-deer and their souls would then inhabit the dying game they'd let suffer, and their twisted visage was a reflection of what they'd done. Or that some committed the ultimate sin of hunting man like game and eating his flesh, only to turn into this twisted abomination of predator and prey.

[@Minecraft-3699]

The concept of a deer with forward facing eyes on its own is horrifying enough

[@nickyboi4237]

That means it's time to carry a double barrel shotgun at all times.

[@overthinker5805]

Nah look it up, they look goofy

[@MrWol]

Imagine your hiking and some deer that looks like a character from an animated kids movie that sounds like joe from family guy just goes "sup."

[@andrasbelecz411]

It's hind legs for me Makes my skin crawl

[@thewildpotato1814]

This was one of the few SCP’s that genuinely terrified me

[@drashkana4864]

I just imagined The Hunter: Call of the Wild introducing these creatures as possible deer without the devs saying anything about it. God that would make a great scare

[@Kehy_ThisNameWasAlreadyTaken]

several years back there was a Halloween event on Layton where 'cursed' deer and elk that were twitchy, twisted, and glitching. At first you were investigating them, but eventually the mission culminated in them attacking that old church on Layton in waves. UNFORTUNATELY I had just started playing and only had a .243 and a .270 with not much ammo between them, and it took the longest time before I realized I was going for lung/heart shots instead of brain shots to maximize ammo efficiency. In fairness, some of their heads were very twitchy. I don't know if I reached the final wave or they took pity on the fact I legitimately was out of ammo and could not continue. I have been disappointed with every holiday event and update since then

[@drashkana4864]

@@Kehy_ThisNameWasAlreadyTaken I had no idea this happened, it sounds terrifying!

[@maxiarmyplus6214]

I always wondered how having actual threat in this game, like animals that actually chase you, or some gamemode whit werewolf or other

[@Kehy_ThisNameWasAlreadyTaken]

@@maxiarmyplus6214 tigers are kinda like that, but not nearly enough. Classic has werewolves

[@_Hierophant]

I have waited SO LONG for a game like this

[@alicrius]

Something is extremely funny about the eldritch nightmare deer running from the cops while trying to keep their cover

[@TheMooper27]

It broke through 20-inch thick safety glass? Damn, that's no joke.

[@raisp6073]

Ngl I think they just might not be deer

[@zippyparakeet1074]

You might be onto something man... 🤔

[@sideways_chip_eater6420]

They look like normal deer to me

[@Barbwire1996]

Creature SPC'S are by far my favourite, and this one was incredibly well written! Something about anomalous creatures and monsters just hits the right spot

[@GGPlex_]

Police: So uh, you’re gonna want to walk out there and investigate. Gamma 6: Shut up, clock in, and load up.

[@tvwonder7032]

shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan

[@Self-Aware-Russian-Bot]

I work 3rd shift in an industrial park. Nothing is creepier then listening to this while I go out for a smoke and see a group of deer hanging out outside my car

[@sleeplesswhipdcreme_nosleep]

Nokotan appears to have snapped. *run*

[@lavaforevah]

me when i get horrendously teared to pieces by shikanoko nokonoko koshitan tan

[@themonolougist]

I love when such basic folk legends are made scps in such simple yet so well made methods. I love it even more when I find it relatable, although not from Appalachia but we have similar tales told by grandparents here in rural Hungary

[@reyrapids63]

I love the subtle horror of "a creature not quite perfectly disguised... yet." The implication that they are getting better, learning, reasearching...

[@SylvisNuvara]

very 'The Thing'

[@reyrapids63]

@@SylvisNuvara oh yeah. "This disguise didn't work... But maybe the next one will. Maybe next time you won't be paying close enough attention." What's that one quote? "Oh but you must travel through these woods again and again, said a shadow at the window... And you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... But the wolf, the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once."

[@tomayto70]

So glad this is just a good, inexplicably spooky creature. So many of these later SCPs get too indulgent with the jargon-filled exposition/story that they forget to be spooky

[@HolyCommissar]

Nothing like a deer-based SCP to listen to on the way home from work at 4AM driving through dense woodland. I’m sure this will make me feel safe and secure and definitely not trigger any base fear responses.

[@capthavic]

See, this is why if you're gonna have a site wide emergency lockdown it needs to be instant! Even a few seconds is too long a delay.

[@arcanewhiskers2662]

damn this became a favorite SCP real fast. I'm pretty darn hard to scare but for some reason this one had me nervous about turning around and looking out my window in the dark.

[@redoak4543]

The most unbelievable part of this is the dispatcher telling the woman to go into the woods alone at night to investigate what sounds like a strange man screaming her name

[@sgtskrubby9029]

actual photo of Shikanokotan

[@sprolyborn2554]

SHIIII-KAAAA...SHIIII-KAAAA...SHIIII-KAAAA...

[@phfighter9465]

17:53 Cryptozoologist F.Oz in the UK is no doubt a reference to Frank Oz. Legendary voice actor of the orignal Yoda and multiple Henson-verse characters

[@engineergaming3422]

The author is also named ozzylizard so it might be a reference to that

[@phfighter9465]

@@engineergaming3422 I realized that just after I clicked send 😅

[@cep2311]

"Ominous shikonokonokonoko koshitantan"

[@kickslinging]

Anyone else notice the detail that they kept capturing them but then they would get broken out by other instances using tunnels, so they changed sites to overseas, but, since the move, none of have been captured. Did they... allow themselves to be caught before, knowing it was no problem to break out?

[@Marqhll]

I love this! A newer SCP that's getting back to the roots of old SCPs. Not that I don't like a good longform SCP that makes you think. But sometimes I just want a creepy monster that will keep me up at night.

[@huma474]

As someone who has lived in Deer country in Indiana , this spoke to me in an amazing way. The idea of a Cryptid Deer population stalking people in the woods only makes me cringe more when I think of the cars that my family has had taken out by them

[@DasnotHIM]

Black Myth Shikanoko

[@GameBooAdvancePlus]

Feels inspired to how we tell people to not investigate screaming in the forest because its probably just a very testy mountain lion ready to maul you lmao.

[@boudicaastorm4540]

I don't usually think of deer as a scary animal, but the anecdote at around 15:00 would be pretty darn freaky if you were like, alone in your house and something like that happened O.O holy crap lol

[@huma474]

All of these SCP stories really make me wish that they could be published in some sort of Magazine every month like the old school Asimov mag does. Trying to drum something like that up would be great because it would potentially give amazing authors like this one a chance to make some money on their work.

[@wonderstruck.]

After seeing SCP-6448: “oh deer” After petting SCP-6448: “you deer”

[@elux5504]

Evil Shikanoko nokonoko be like

[@somedumbracc7743]

I'm so glad to see one of my favorite (albeit scary) cryptids being covered. Stories of these creatures have been passed from generation to generation for hundreds of years in the Appalachians where I grew up and seeing them on the SCP list makes me a bit happy. Especially with accurate representation. NGL these things are scary to encounter and part of the reason we don't go outside at night.

[@bryanpate9531]

I love this SCP I've always found deer very creepy

[@freddyandfoxy7526]

Reminds me of the other deer SCP.

[@zerg0s]

You mean god?

[@GammaCruxis]

Is that the one where the Foundation has a fake ‘ritual’ that keeps it interested just enough to stop it from just…leaving?

[@StrangerForever85]

Probably “The Stag”. Think I saw some people comparing it to the god Saturn, though.

[@B_4035mn]

There are only 2 deer scps they could be mentioning, either the stag AKA Saturn, or the deer that try to become people, or the tower of babel.

[@B_4035mn]

@@StrangerForever85 "comparing" Bro have you ever seen it's containment ritual? This isn't "comparing" this is *STRAIGHT UP SATURN.*

[@Retalak]

They definitely should have locked this thing in a solid containment cell and observed it via video rather than one-way glass.

[@_ramroc]

This is my favourite SCP so far. As someone who loves skinwalker/wendigo stories, I can see the inspiration that was put into this SCP. This is genuinely creepy, and some parts of this story, like the emergency services telling the caller to go investigate, and the 6448 going into all fours and scuttling toward the wardrobe. The latter was absolutely brilliant, and I love how the story ties into the Roswell crash incident. This is an incredibly creative story, and it is refreshing to be unsettled by SCP after years of me being numbed by it.

[@ChillyWing]

Man I wanna hear more logs like this. The unholy screeching and noises were so peak

[@oldred890]

My only issue with this one is the first emergency call. Not only would they never ask someone in possible danger to open their domicile to put a phone outside so they can hear, they'd NEVER ask them to go into the woods to investigate themselves.

[@dpolaristar4634]

Shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan! Shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan! Shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan! Shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan!

[@The-toast]

SCP is so consistently fun cause I see the name or thumbnail and I go "that's very silly" and then it's taken as seriously as tuberculosis and I go "oh my God..."

[@tresting]

what the shikanokokshitantan is going on

[@arnararnarsson7224]

this is just average Nokotan activity

[@njnjco]

shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan

[@HeWhoMurksWithOneLeap]

A new one based on real cryptids. 🍺

[@AroundTheBlockAgain]

LOVED the effect of the Not Deer's messy sounds slowly morphing into more and more distinctive speech, excellent job once again.

[@jamesnorman9160]

If I had a penny for every deer-related SCP I've seen, I'd have at least 3. Which isn't much, but someone on the site must have a thing for deers at this rate. Plus the thought of walking home at night, and you can hear something breathing on your neck or whispering/calling out your name has to be absolutely terrifying, but you need to just ignore it if you're going to survive.

[@MrWol]

As a guy who already finds deer kinda unsettling, i have never been more glad to live on the other side of the continent from the Appalachian mountains.

[@Cen21000]

Pretty sure I came across one of these in Wyoming at 3AM while driving across country.

[@shentanomoroy7361]

Tell me more details brother, I recently started camping in the Appalachian and the locals speak of these creatures

[@Cen21000]

@shentanomoroy7361 I'd been driving down the alcan highway for the previous 4 days, so it was already a long road trip, but I'm making my way through the southeast part of Wyoming at around 11pm and I nearly hit a deer corpse on the side of the interstate. About 10 minutes later I came across another deer corpse that looked remarkably like the first one. Another 15 minutes, another deer corpse, but it looked like it was hunched over in the process of getting on its launches. This happened for another 3 more "deer" and it looked like each time they were getting closer to standing. I stopped at the next motel after that, because I was clearly too damn tired to be driving

[@briarrose8631]

This reminds me so much of the Deer from Adventure time and that deer from the "Danger Planet" Pilot. Creepy but SO freaking Metal

[@kiarafindlay]

Say it with me fellas!!! Shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan

[@Hyde472]

Haven't watched thevolgun in so long. Can't believe I have the treat of so many unwatched videos now.

[@maucaw]

is this related to the Shika Shika Network?

[@caiocbcn]

You are walking in the forest at night. All of sudden, you start hearing chanting in the distance. You pay attention, and what you can hear sounds like this: Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan

[@johnynoway9127]

Shikanoko nokonoko koshtantan!🦌🦌🦌🦌

[@yaboiminecraff]

God I hate how at the time of this scp being uploaded the local cwd cases tripled

[@dejavuman22]

I was really curious what your 300th video would be. I absolutely love this one.

[@lptotheskull]

Honestly? This is *S-Tier* horror writing. It really goes to show that you don't need some big, grandly horrifying concept to make effective horror; sometimes the best horror is the horror written in tiny little puzzle pieces, little blips of information that are just specific enough that your mind starts racing to fill in the gaps with the worst case scenario. It's the kind of horror that, bit by bit, claws itself under your skin and gnaws at that tiny little voice in your head that tells you "Something is horribly, *horribly* wrong here". There's one part in particular that *really* got to me, and it's what inspired me to write this comment. It's the not-deer home invasion; the complete erasure of any video evidence say for a single bombshell frame. But it's the information the writer *chooses* to give us, namely... why did they specify that the not-deer were not seen exiting the home?... ...Are they still there? This is the kind of horror that actually keeps me up at night. It's phenomenal, I want more like this.