Only Pain and Madness | SCP-4971

The SCP Experience

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4.8 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Dispatched to recover a book from a mall-turned-spatial anomaly, an SCP retrieval team enters a forest beyond space where corpses hunt hearts, the trees breathe with eldritch hunger, and the only way out demands an unthinkable sacrifice. This story was derived from ⁠⁠https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4971 and is released under Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0. ⁠⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/⁠⁠ Author: Matt Doggett RULA: Huge thanks to Rula for sponsoring the show. Go to ⁠Rula.com/scp⁠ and take the first towards better mental health today. * * * DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content. Parental guidance is advised for children under the age of 18. Listen at your own discretion. #thescpexperience #scp #scpfoundation #scpencounters #securecontainprotect #scpstories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:08.0	It's hard and it's brutal and that's what makes it special.
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0:18.0	Upon my signal, unleash hell.
0:23.6	And every second counts.
0:27.9	When that shows zero, this restaurant ceases operations.
0:29.0	FX is the bear.
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0:38.5	Let's do some shopping, boys.
0:44.6	Royce says as the five of us jump out of the transport vehicle in the parking lot of the three-story mall.
0:50.6	A mobile command unit idles nearby, and there are a dozen other foundation employees scattered about,
0:53.5	most of them in uniforms of local law enforcement.
0:55.6	Otherwise, the derelict mall is quiet. The minor Midwestern city is asleep, and the fence around the mall's property line
1:01.8	keeps the looky-lose out. I would murder your mom for an orange Julius, Royce says, elbowing me in the ribs.
1:09.4	His perfectly trimmed eyebrows bounce up and down on
1:12.1	his tanning bed dark face. My mom would rip your nuts off, and tell him with a smile.
1:17.6	Don't threaten me with a good time, Saltwood. Stay put, and don't do anything stupid. Lieutenant
1:23.4	Rao says, coming from the front of the transport vehicle and heading toward the mobile
1:27.5	command unit. We all know he's talking directly to Royce, who is the only one liable to do
1:33.0	anything stupid at any given moment. Stupid is as stupid does. Royce cracks back in his best
1:39.9	Forrest Gump impression. Before the lieutenant gets to the vehicle, the door on the command unit
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