SCP-1150 The Passengers

SCP Explained - Story & Animation

SCP-1150 are sentient, human-like consciousnesses ("passengers") that share physical bodies with willing human hosts. When the host sleeps, the entity takes control of the body for 5 to 16 hours, acting with a distinct personality. SCP-1150 can transfer between hosts through skin contact, surviving even the death or cremation of its host by migrating to anyone who touches its remains.  LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to SCP Explained - Story & Animation  Follow us on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scpexplainedofficial  Join our Discord, share your SCP art, submit video feedback, chat with other fans...: https://discord.gg/scpexplained   Please let us know in the comments which SCP's we should cover next   Narrated by https://www.youtube.com/c/hitherehunter  Content relating to the SCP Foundation, including the SCP Foundation logo, is licensed under Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0 and all concepts originate from http://www.scp-wiki.net and its authors.   SCP-1150 The Passengers is based on "SCP-1150" by bimston: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1150   #scpexplained #scp #animation

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00:00Have you been feeling oddly... tired lately?

00:03If you have, please don't panic.

00:05The laws of probability dictate that there's likely an extremely rational explanation.

00:11Maybe you've got sleep apnea.

00:13Maybe your bed and pillow combination isn't quite the right match for you.

00:17At worst, you've been dealing with insomnia lately.

00:19Don't we all drink a little too much coffee?

00:22And you did promise yourself that you'd stop going on your phone in bed.

00:27But that doesn't matter. Not really.

00:30If you're feeling tired, then one of some of those things are probably the reason.

00:34Unless, well, you haven't been experiencing any strange happenings that you can't quite explain, have you?

00:42Like, say, bruises on your body that you can't remember getting.

00:46Or getting emails or text messages from people or businesses you've never met or visited.

00:51Maybe it's almost like, every night, you're being possessed by a whole different consciousness that lives inside your head.

01:00Maybe one that has a business making and selling boutique soap,

01:04while privately running a series of underground bare-knuckle boxing rings that's planning on turning into a domestic terror organization

01:10over time.

01:11But that'd be ridiculous, wouldn't it?

01:14You'd never get fight clubbed.

01:15And if you did, surely you'd at least realize that it was happening, wouldn't you?

01:22After all, you'd really need to agree to something like that.

01:25Unless you did agree, not so long ago, and you just didn't realize that was what you were doing at

01:32the time.

01:33Because if that's the case, when I tell you about SCP-1150,

01:37a lot of strange questions you've been having lately are about to get some even stranger answers.

01:44In the truest sense, SCP-1150, also known as the Passengers,

01:48are kind of like a roommate that you keep in your head.

01:52They're free-floating, transferable consciousnesses that move through people by direct contact.

01:57And they can take over your body whenever you sleep.

02:01What these Passengers do when they take over your body at night varies,

02:04apparently with the specific personality of the Passenger in question,

02:09because they're every bit as individuated as any human consciousness.

02:12In one strange case, we even found that a Passenger was unsubscribing their host from SCP-Explained at night,

02:19probably afraid that the host would one day discover this exact video and want the Passenger out of their heads.

02:25If you're not subscribed to SCP-Explained right now, that's probably why.

02:29So I recommend you subscribe immediately.

02:32And also turn on notifications so you never miss another video.

02:36In a positive turn for the Foundation,

02:38the SCP-1150 beings have consistently proven themselves to be extremely cooperative with Foundation staff.

02:45It's a boon for attempts to understand their motivations,

02:49and just what these beings are truly capable of.

02:52Agent Adrian Barton sat down with Jonas Hubbard,

02:55the first of the documented SCP-1150 infectees.

02:58He was also the de facto treasurer of the Kismet Doorway cult,

03:03a doomsday cult raided by the FBI,

03:06which was actually how the Foundation even discovered the strange phenomenon of the Passenger's in the first place.

03:12When Agent Barton mentioned that Hubbard's Passenger had expressed a willingness to answer Foundation questions,

03:18the Passenger replied,

03:19Within reason, yes.

03:21And the interview began in earnest.

03:23It immediately went into existential territory when Agent Barton asked,

03:28Are you Jonas Hubbard?

03:29The Passenger in Jonas' body replied,

03:32In a sense, I'm sharing his body.

03:34I assure you he's quite agreeable with our arrangement.

03:37When Agent Barton pressed the Passenger to explain those statements, he said,

03:41Sure, Jonas has allowed me to use his body.

03:44He thinks I'm a manifestation of his God and is happy to let me do my work.

03:49Are you a God?

03:50The Passenger actually laughed.

03:52Of course not.

03:54As far as I know, David made him up.

03:56But he may be remembering from before.

03:59Agent Barton took fastidious notes.

04:01David Thoreau?

04:02As in, the leader of the Kismet Doorway group?

04:05How are you involved with that group?

04:07All of the higher-ups are like me.

04:09We ride your bodies, if you let us.

04:12I was fourth in command out of the six of us.

04:14Barton tried to hide his concern.

04:16And all six of you were, uh, body snatchers?

04:20He seemed to sneer at the crude term.

04:23We call ourselves passengers.

04:25We switch bodies from time to time.

04:28David said we could live like kings, and I believed him.

04:31It's clear to me now that he's quite insane.

04:34I disavow his ridiculous cult.

04:36You mentioned that David may have remembered from before.

04:39Before what?

04:41The Passenger shrugged, as though all of this was just run-of-the-mill information.

04:45Well, before we were awakened.

04:47That was in 1911, when the Englishman Davies unearthed our bones in Persopolis.

04:53You can't remember anything from before that?

04:55No.

04:56Well, maybe one thing.

04:59Darkness.

04:59And before that, wailing and screaming, and before that, a great consuming fire.

05:04I remember pain, too.

05:06But that could be a dream.

05:08David says that we were worshipped like gods, then.

05:11Utter insanity.

05:12Now we're getting somewhere.

05:13Agent Barton thought, trying not to let his curiosity register too overtly on his face.

05:18May I change course of it?

05:20How did you get your current body?

05:23Barton asked.

05:24Jonas gave himself to me just over a year ago.

05:26Well, before that, I was Annie Page, who was wife to David at that time.

05:30I was tired of that, so I transferred to Jonas.

05:34Transferred?

05:35How?

05:35We touch.

05:36Usually, we press our heads together in prayer.

05:39This way, it goes more smoothly.

05:41I pour myself from one human vessel to the next, like water from one bowl to another.

05:45Then, I see with Jonas' eyes, speak with his mouth, love with his genitals.

05:50And when I am not using them, he is himself.

05:53So, you see that I have not hurt anybody.

05:57It wasn't often that Agent Barton thought, little too much info there, buddy, during a

06:02professional interview.

06:03But this was one of those rare times.

06:05He gave a polite nod, and, not knowing anything better to say, said, that's all for now.

06:11Thank you for your time, Mr. Hubbard.

06:13As he rose to his feet, Hubbard's passenger twitched in his chair and raised a hand.

06:17Agent Barton, one last thing.

06:20May I be transferred to a larger cell until this trial?

06:23This area is inadequate for my needs.

06:26Barton forced a smile.

06:27I'll see what I can do.

06:29At this stage, the researchers were cautiously optimistic, which is one of the nicer entries

06:34in a Foundation employee's personal lexicon.

06:37If you took the SCP-1150 anomalies at their word, the body hopping and cohabitation were

06:42all consensual.

06:44They didn't have any kind of uniform, malicious plan.

06:47But if you're a Foundation researcher, you know better than to ever take an anomaly at

06:52their word.

06:53If they did that, Ferdinand the Cannibal likely would have been able to devour half the site

06:57at Site-19 by this point.

07:00But what the Foundation can generally trust is the scientific method.

07:04So, to develop a more objective sense of what they were looking for here, Dr. Bimston,

07:09the lead researcher on the case, planned a series of experiments into SCP-1150.

07:15Perhaps this way, they could either corroborate what the other passengers had told them, or

07:20find out the truth and discover weaknesses that they could exploit for containment or neutralization.

07:26In the first experiment, one of the passengers was already occupying the body of a D-Class, designated

07:32D-1905.

07:34The purpose of this experiment was to determine the extent to which the passenger could alter

07:38and control a heavily disabled body, or whether transfer would even properly initiate.

07:44To this end, they brought in D-2002, an almost completely healthy Hispanic male, 27 years of

07:50age.

07:51I say almost, because the one key caveat is that a medication-induced seizure left D-2002

07:57with heavy reticular damage that left him in a seemingly irrevocable coma.

08:02The Foundation saw fit to use his body in an experiment as a result of this, because hey,

08:08it's not like he was using it.

08:09In the experiment, D-1905 was brought into direct skin-to-skin contact with D-2002 for

08:16approximately 65 seconds.

08:19Sensors were positioned around the room to detect any ambient phenomena relating to the

08:23consciousness transfer.

08:24The sensors detected an incredibly low-frequency hum, and then D-2002, now inhabited by the passenger

08:32previously inside D-1905, got up and began acting normally.

08:37It was as though the body had never even been in a coma.

08:41When an EEG test was conducted on D-2002, while in a passenger-activated state, the waveform

08:47seemed completely normal.

08:49It was something that would be impossible for someone who'd been in a coma for as long as

08:53D-2002.

08:55When a 10-hour period had elapsed, D-2002's consciousness, or lack thereof, took back over,

09:01and he returned to a comatose state.

09:03A note left by Dr. Bimston on this experiment log read,

09:06Computer analysis of the radio noise reveals a high degree of organization and pattering.

09:12The significance, or meaning, of these patterns has yet to be determined.

09:16But dealing with a coma is one thing.

09:18Dealing with death itself was quite another.

09:21That was the next barrier that Dr. Bimston was hoping to test for SCP-1150.

09:26While D-2002 was in a comatose state, the researchers euthanized him with a fatal dose of sodium pentoarbital.

09:33When D-2002 entered cardiac arrest, the passenger suddenly took over his body, and he began desperately

09:40trying to escape his restraints.

09:41He moved with such force that he actually snapped one of D-2002's arms.

09:46However, despite the valiant effort, D-2002's cardiac arrest did not end.

09:51The passenger using the body became increasingly lethargic until collapsing, at which point the

09:56body experienced what one might term biological death.

09:59But this wasn't the end of the experiment.

10:02In fact, Dr. Bimston would only need to wait two hours before beginning the next one.

10:08D-1968, a 34-year-old white female with an IQ of 70, was brought in and told to feel

10:14the

10:14arm of the deceased D-2002 in order to check his pulse.

10:18After a few moments, she recoiled, saying that she'd been shocked.

10:22The waveforms in the air were consistent with previous SCP-1150 transference events.

10:27However, despite showing some brain activity consistent with SCP-1150 presence while undergoing

10:32an EEG, she didn't manifest any outward symptoms while sleeping.

10:37Interestingly, the symptoms did start to manifest when D-1968 was told by Foundation personnel that

10:43she'd been possessed by a benign angel spirit.

10:47It seemed to create a tether between her and the passenger.

10:50A week later, another researcher posing as a D-class told her that she'd actually been

10:54possessed by a demonic entity.

10:57When she believed that the entity was benign, she experienced possession by the passenger at

11:02an average of 10.5 hours each night.

11:05During this time period, D-1968 experienced a modest increase in IQ and motor coordination.

11:11However, when she believed she was being possessed by an evil demon, she lost the IQ increase

11:17and was only possessed for around 8 hours per night.

11:20Dr. Bimston left another note on these findings, reading,

11:22This indicates that A. SCP-1150 is capable of rapid transfer to an unwitting or unwilling host,

11:30but cannot secure control without some level of host awareness and or consent, and B.

11:35The degree of host willingness correlates to the amount of time that SCP-1150 is active.

11:40So now the Foundation knew not only that, but that the passenger could seemingly survive

11:45several hours after the death of its host and still make a successful transfer.

11:49In the next experiment, Further Matters of Consent, the researchers found that while there were

11:54seemingly no limits to the number of transfers possible, that included transferring from a

12:00dead or unconscious host, but there was no way that a passenger could transfer into a host

12:05that was unconscious at the moment of their contact.

12:08While analyzing the nature of the transference, Dr. Bimston wanted to see whether recreating the

12:13unique sound conditions of transference caused any changes in the efficacy of active transference.

12:19They instructed the passenger to initiate transfers in a room filled with 50 to 100 megahertz

12:24radio wave interference, the same sound band that had been observed during all the other

12:29transference states.

12:30While the transfer could happen in any condition, they did find that when the sound was particularly

12:35loud, it did extend the time it took for transfers to take place, all the way to an absolute maximum

12:41of around 700 seconds.

12:44Dr. Bimston's note on the file read,

12:46It appears that the radio burst is a facilitative effect, or perhaps a side effect, rather than a

12:52necessary condition for the transfer.

12:54And with all these discoveries logged, the researcher team wanted to return to what they

12:59believed was one of the most strange and concerning aspects of the anomaly, the ability to transfer

13:04after the death of a host.

13:06Just how extreme could they go before transference became impossible?

13:10Was there an upper limit to this?

13:12To find out, a passenger was transferred into D-1412, a 68-year-old black male who suffered

13:18from diabetes and CHD.

13:21After the natural passing of the subject from health complications, his body was taken to the

13:25Site-40 crematorium, where it was rendered into ash by extreme heat.

13:29From there, the ash was kept in storage for five weeks, while other experiments went on.

13:34And after the five weeks had elapsed, D-2333, a 50-year-old white female, was made to sift

13:40through the ashes with bare hands.

13:43She jumped back, startled, and claimed she'd touched something prickly inside the ash, like

13:48a cactus.

13:49Later analysis found that the passenger had indeed transferred to D-2333's body in a passive

13:55state.

13:56It led Dr. Rosenberg, another one of the researchers, to exasperately add the note,

14:01How the hell are we supposed to kill these things?

14:03And he had good practical reason to ask that question.

14:07It's recently come to light that Marshall, Carter, and Dark, one of the most well-funded

14:11and dangerous groups of interest in the Foundation roster, had hired two passengers and somehow

14:16inserted them into the minds of Foundation employees.

14:19They were tasked with acting as spies and deliver sensitive Foundation information back

14:23to their handlers, and those are just the two that were caught.

14:27We have no way of knowing if there are others out there.

14:30Because the passengers are not a monolith.

14:33They're individuals with choices, just like us.

14:36So inevitably, some of those choices are going to be dangerous.

14:41Now go check out Can SCP-049 Cure the Pestilence in SCP-3008 Infinite Ikea?

14:47Or what if SCP-096 was put inside SCP-914?

14:51For more.

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