'Mystery Flesh Pit National Park' Explained (ft. E.D.G.E) 

As someone from Texas, it would surprise me exactly zero percent to learn that an oil company turned a cosmic lovecraftian horror into a profitable national park here

He-he, is funny because "anodyne" means "unremarkable" or "boring", so is like calling a company "Notthing Suspiscious Here Inc."

I prefer to think the actions of the superorganism in the 2007 disaster were spawned more from panic than anger. It's just an animal. What probably happened was that it started chocking because of the water flowing into it's lungs, so it attempted to cough the water out, but the beams holding its throat open and the visitor center aloft held its throat open and still, affectively drowning the superorganism. Not only that, but Anodyne also administered the superorganism industrial drugs in an attempt to knock it out, but all that did was make the thing vomit. Most of us know what nausea and vomiting feels like, and it's not fun. The poor thing must have been terrified. It's just minding its own business, sleeping, but then all of a sudden it wakes up to find itself downing, with a sudden terrible nausea, and it can't move its throat muscles; of course it would start to rithe and seize in panic, it has no idea what's going on.

When I first found the mystery flesh pit, I instantly realized that the true horror was not the creature, but how we reacted to such a discovery.

This would make a good limited series TV show.

you guys keep saying horrifying but as a national park employee (Mojave National Preserve) everything about the Mystery Flesh Pit mirrors real world National Parks. Especially people being killed in accidents or eaten by animals.

This is indeed a horror story...for the MFP. Imagine if you were immobile, and ants decided to burrow into your flesh and make structures in your flesh and body, all while you stay alive.

It's so sad that they closed the park. I have fond memories hiking in there with my parents as child in the late 80's. Now I am a father myself and I am kinda sad not to be able to do the same with my young son.

All that damage caused by the creature basically doing the equivalent of coughing and shifting around a little before going back to sleep

You left out the best part: the Amorphous Shame, which is a parasitic organism resembling a bunch of disembodied organs, that apparently used to be a type of weasel

I mean, I will say, something like Yellowstone is pretty full of unique hazards. Besides being eaten by a bison or trampled by wolves, there's also a possibility of things like: 1. A giant Earthquake makes it impassible. 2. A caustic, boiling pool of primordial soup explodes all over you. 3. Severe winds cause your tent or whatnot to rip out of the ground and tumble across the plains (happened to our kitchen tent). 4. You fall into one of those boiling prismatic toxic pools, take one drink, and die within minutes. 5. A deadly cloud of Hydrogen sulfide kills you in your sleep. 6. A small eruption occurs directly under you and you're launched into the stratosphere. 7. A huge eruption occurs under you and the entire caldera collapses. You're dead before you realize what's going on. Your relatives on the other side of the country live somewhat longer but may die to the resulting famine.

This is giving me some Made In Abyss vibes. Feeling a little bad about people hurting the organism. Though, given its size, it would probably not feel much.

Some of the best bits that didn’t make it into the video: the amorphous Shame (some weasels snuck into the pit millions of years ago and evolved into these… things) and how people who’ve spent any time lost in the pit sometimes feel compelled to return and give themselves over to the pit.

How to kill the flesh pit: Step one: Find every piece of plastic ever made. Step two: Throw plastic in flesh pit.

Imagine being in a comma, you wake up after some time, and all of sudden you start chocking on metal beams, ships, metal fences, metal tunnels and suffer immense amounts of pain from drilled holes inside of you because a tiny species of organisms turned you into a national park for no reason whatsoever

I was there as a kid, i was grossed out and scared of the thing at the same time. Both of my sisters and dad went to the restaurant deep in the beast.. i didnt want to go, so my mom stayed with me. we decided to walk on the surface trails. thats when the disaster happened. i hardly remember what my dad or sisters looked like, i guess i erased those memories to cope. mom was never the same, descending into despair and eventually a catatonic state.. she passed years ago. i received financial compensation for the loss of my family and emotional trauma, been living off that since i turned 21. we decided to see the flesh pit instead of going to the grand canyon for a vacation. its crazy how one decision can change your life forever..

“I’m sure glad the park employees let us inside the pit super organism on July 4th, 2007”

Imagine a game based on this made by the Amnesia/Soma creators One can only dream

I’d love a Mystery Flesh Pit National Park Tycoon game, imagine trying to manage guest happiness and staff wages alongside fending off and mapping out the organism. Would be pretty sick I think.

My favorite part of the whole scenario is the fact that ultimately human negligence is the cause of the 2007 disaster. It's a great way to show off just how dangerous the organism is without having it outright awaken or attack.

I’m still trying to imagine the shape and size of this thing… and how it would act if it was truly awakened.

Mommy mommy can we go to the giant flesh thing, instead of Chuck-E-Cheese

This would make a great horror game. It could be about how something mysteriously awful has been happening in the Flesh Pit and a secret branch of the U.S. government sends in a spy because the Flesh Pit owners are refusing to tell the government anything.

This would be such an amusing dnd campaign. "After hours of horrifying adventures, narrowly escaping with your lives, the party finds itself standing before a supposedly safe building - the gift shop But as you seek shelter, you realise this gift shop is deadlier than you first thought! The prices are way to high! How can the party escape from this tourists trap?!"

I convinced one of my friends that this thing was actually real once xd

I would love to explore the insides of this thing. But I feel bad for the animal it was just sleeping and minding it's own business.

I love seeing more content covering the MFP. As a Texan I find it important that we remember our history and reveal the corruption of Anodyne to the rest of the world.

I used to think people wouldn't be THAT selfish and stupid, but recent years and events changed my mind. I can really see this happening in real life, corporations exploiting a Texas-sized apocalyptically-powerful organism for profit with no regard for disastrous consequences and tourists who think visiting its absurdly dangerous internals is somehow a good idea.

“Mysterious flesh pit national park” ran by John Hammond and John Carpenter

Why do I feel like this is something Junji Ito would like?

This reminds me of a horror move from the 80s called "The Stuff". It's more intentionally funny at times, but the beginning premise is quite similar- a whole crew is working on something outside, some type of construction, something where they're digging in to the ground. One guy finds this white gooey substance, just in the ground in large quantities. Naturally, he tastes it and discovers that it tastes pretty good. The substance ends up being collected and sold as a frozen yogurt type treat in grocery stores and in kiosks, in commercials. Turns out, when people ate the Stuff, it ate them right back, because it was a sentient, dangerous creature, and not mystery yogurt from the ground. Would highly recommend checking it out.

I feel like the reasoning for why the Mystery Flesh Pit is hostile towards people is similar to why we don't like having parasites. The way the employee's are traversing the insides of the thing doesn't look painless nor non-destructive, and the organisms that are attacking the Employee's are likely the Pits natural defense system.

if we found this today there would be memes like: "Lemme get that Pitussy" or something idk

The only way to destroy this super organism is to breed and send Earth burrowing creatures from the same time period: Grabboids!

I just love how the primary expedition pod is literally named with a word meaning "to bury the dead"

I love the amount of moments in this where the pit is basically described as "We're almost sure it's mostly safe." It's like the "Kills 99% of bacteria" labels on cleaning products, but if the 1% of bacteria it misses was bigger than you are, and will brutally kill you if it gets the chance

“Mystery flesh pit”: awakens Godzilla: has entered the chat MONARCH: the entire time on vacation

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS- I've had a rough week, but seeing one of my favorite creators cover one of my favorite cosmic horror projects is gonna make up for so much of it.

i live in the dallas/fort worth area and this is one of my favorite bits of internet horror just for how damn authentic it is, down to font choice. it feels so believable, it’s like something from a parallel universe but a very nearby one, not far removed from my own at all. also i feel terrible for the creature, imagine taking a nap and having bugs pry some orifice open and building a theme park there. eek

Came across this belatedly, and it's a good intro to the wonders of the Mystery Flesh Pit. Two things to add though: 1. The Flesh Pit is not only being monitored to this day, but *actively exploited* via mining, albeit figleafed as "research". 2. It is heavily implied that the Flesh Pit is able to lure organisms in, where they eventually mutate into forms that serve its biological functions. Which, again, is still happening as people find themselves compelled to enter the pit even though entry is forbidden. The Marrow Folk may have entered far in the past in like fashion.

the pit is positively Lovecraftian

Jesus, this is terrifying.

Building a national park on a dormant super organism is as stupid as building one on a 30km deep super volcano that's overdue to go off... Anyways, I'm excited to go on my trip to Yellowstone next month!

I mean, this could make a great film, somewhat akin to Blomkamp's District 9. It would be shot in that rather documentary-like style and would be a satire of American highly capitalistic society where one can sensationalize, market and monetize almost anything.

nice unique concept that hasn't been used up a billion times. Would love to see a movie based on this. And the stuff people in these comments are talking about that exists in this universe makes it even more intriguing.

This would make a great novel or tv show

Here’s some organisms I like to believe dwell in the pit: The sloth crawler Size: 6 feet high, 12 feet long. A descendant of the prehistoric ground sloths which dwelt here during the ice age, this bizarre organism represents a example of how the pit forces evolution to ocurr.It has the long claws of it’s ancestors, however it’s back limbs are much shorter then it’s front limbs and it has grown a long tail in order to better navigate the pits deeper areas.It has a very light coating of hair, and feeds on large growths of fungi and other plant fauna, possibly why it still heavily resembles its ancestors.It’s extremely docile, and seems to be quite fond of visitors during our post 2007 expeditions.The only other change is that it can mimic sounds, likely in order to avoid predators and scare off others when it wants to remain hidden.Disturbingly it can also imitate humans and machine sounds, although it was never encountered before now, raising the question of how it knows them. The dragon dweller Size: between 10-15m long, possibly larger The largest non insectoid carnivore known to date to dwell in the pit, this giant creature was first discovered in the 2011 expedition, feasting on a dead gastric whale by the far south shore.It is clearly descended from dinosaurs, appearing to descend from Albertosaurus which roamed Texas during the Jurassic.It has changed considerably since then, to the truly terrifying form that still exists in the pit.It has kept its scales, uniquely for reptilian dwellers of the pit, however they have grown into thicker spikes.It’s mouth is truly terrifying, having gained a chameleon like tongue which can extend several metres to grab prey hiding in small spaces.It has also grown wings, defying all logic as it is clearly too heavy to be able to fly according to the laws of aviation.It uses them to travel, occasionally venturing to the collapsed former visitor centre where they have been seen inspecting it, and in at least three cases taking metal for apparent nesting.The wings are like a bats, while it has gained four arms which are also considerably longer then the prehistoric ancestor was.As of the last expedition, we have found the giant skeleton of one, which measured 25m, meaning it could be considerably larger then we think. The Gastric Goliath Size:10m long The Gastric goliath is a enormous fish species, which based on recent dna samples appears to be Dunkleosteus, having likely existed since the permian era inside the pit.They have the same armoured face and bony body, however their natural armour has now become so thick it is actually composed of a layer of what appears to be sediment on top, which helps shield it from the acidic conditions.It has evolved to be able to walk on land and breathe air for limited periods, appearing to be able to do this for up to several hours.It’s front fins have also become arms and hands, disturbingly appearing to be mammalian, which it can use to manoeuvre itself.It dwells in the great Gastric sea, where it seldom comes inshore to where the visitor centre once was, and even then only during the time of year no one would go inside.A last feature is their ability to mimic light, with a retractable proboscis positioned just by its tail.It seems to be particularly good at mimicking human lights, and we found human clothing in one dead fish, suggesting that some of the poor victims of the 2007 disaster may have encountered it.

Imagine if someone made a story about a survivor of the 2007 incident where they managed to survive in the pit and their encounters with the fauna and discovering new areas.

That looks like a job for the scp foundation

I heard in the discord that the macro bacteria aren’t actually related to bacteria, and are simply mfp versions of sea urchins

My favorite thing on the website currently is in the most recent q&a section there's an artist rendering of what the super organism would look like if it was fully ambulatory. Thing looks fuckin badass.

Its good that this is picking up popularity, its a really cool concept that definatelly deserves more people to know about it

i love it when people make unique stories like this

This is literally an SCP that isn't an SCP

It’s great to see that you have grown so fast in such a small amount of time. Been subbed since seraphinianus and I’m sure you’ll keep growing exponentially this year

Hats off to whoever made that VitaSalve ad. The graniness is so well done, and looks exactly like a page from a magazine or flier you'd find tucked away in your grandparents house.

One of my favorite ARGs, so glad you covered it.

If there were a “mystery flesh pit” I’d be on the side of the Evangelist Christians “this _thing_ is the DEVIL’S RECTUM”

I'm definitely looking up this creator and his work. This was probably one of the truly horrifying works of science fiction I've heard of in quite a while. Such found H.P. Lovecraft vibes!

No way! You and Edge collabed and that makes me really happy! I love both your videos :D

“Thankful fiction” YOU SAID IT BROTHER

9:43 As Caver Dave might say that's not the right attitude for *exploring the FUNderground*

I love how they keep repeating "fictional," like they need to make sure we know we don't have to be scared of this thing

ooo i've been following this project for a while now, so glad you decided to cover it!

The Exploring Series covered this 2 weeks ago... Mighty coincidental.

RU-vid failed to notify me of a new video which angers me

Riko: (Stares at pit with excitment)👀 Reg: NOOOOOO!

Wow I’m so glad that you cover MFP, but I was a little disappointed that you didn’t say anything about Yosemite causing 2007 incident. I understand sometimes you have to cut things out of videos in order for Them to be more succinct and do better. I mean if you started to cover all the evidence relating to Yosemite National Park causing the 2007 incident this video would be way too long to get picked up by the algorithm. Keep doing what you're doing it's awesome.

Ever since I heard about the mystery flesh pit, I thought of the same "bug hotel" analogy. It's just a little detail that makes it so much more interesting

I like to think this is actually the entire planet and maybe even have phycic links to other planets or maybe they are even on lifeform

Wow, two of my favorite RU-vidrs in the same video! Keep up the great work yall!

I have a theory about the giant bacteria. My theory is that instead of being true multicellular life forms these organisms are colonies of bacteria merged together. Those bacterial colonies might also fill a variety of roles. Ones that digest organic matter,Ones that clean out foreign materials to keep the creature they reside in healthy,Some could be parasites that feed on the creature itself,and others that are simply harmless hitchhikers that neither harm or help there host.

I swear these are about other current realities running side by side with our timeline.That's where frebreeze is spelled right I bet.

I can't hear anything but captions always save the day, thx for the captions bro.

Yes I’m so happy you’re covering this! It’s such a creepy cool project !

POV: You are taking a good nap in your house and suddenly some random people try to crawl into your mouth, set up a camp in your stomach and lungs, and turn your insides into a tourist attraction, and destroys them too. Must hurt a lot for the poor creature :( EDIT: The weird and aggressive fauna that is in and around the "Pit" is probably the poor guys immune system

I'm glad the mystery flesh pit is getting more coverage :)

I am obsessed with this, I'm so happy you have made a video on this

Edge will be joining me for this entry. He makes great content about prehistoric life, unique modern animals, and bizarre cryptids, so he’s just the person to help investigate this mysterious organism. _He’s also kind of cute, but that’s neither here nor there…_

This NEEDS to be a movie

Really happy you posted this man, this was a great video!

The cross over I’ve been waiting for a while, holy shit I love both your Chanels

This could make the best horror survival game

Wow. I loved this video. Great work!

Ooh curious archive upload, it's a good evening fellas!

What an incredible cross-over between Curious Archive and E.D.G.E

The moral of the story: don't turn giant fleshy pit creature into a theme park.

Ive seen many dives into the MFP .this is one of the best.

i love your vids! Your commentary always adds more to the content while staying true to the canon/ source.

It’s the colab we never knew we needed

I'm pretty excited to see people covering this. I remember when this guy first started posting on r/worldbuilding.

In my science class we had to make slideshows about this, and it was one of the best assignments I’ve ever done

What is it with people named trevor and making absolute nightmare fuel?

Weird, went down this rabbit hole last night. Good stuff

That section of the pit was its Sand Gullet. When engineers went to fix the water pumps, the ENTIRE Sand gullet was almost completely submerged, which would cause the July 4th Incident at 9:52 PM, as shown in a report I commented, specifically two times of the Relevant timeline 1. The Relay Fault At 9:30 PM on July 4th - Control room operators initiate a routine system self-test and discover a relay fault error resulting from increased electrical demand from mining equipment and tourist infrastructure. A control room operator logs the fault and notifies an on-duty engineer. 2. The pumps At 9:41 PM July 4th - Water drainage from surface rain into the Entry Orifice begins to collect in the sand gullet. Drainage pumps are automatically activated by a sensor system but fail to initialize due to the relay fault. An emergency back-up pump running on a separate emergency circuit is automatically activated.

As Wendigoon said, perfect concept for a Survival Horror Game.

As soon as I found out about the Mystery Flesh Pit I hoped youd make a video about it.

Glad to see this is getting more attention. I remember there was only one video on yt about it.

The government turns a mysterious giant creature into a amusement park. Why do I feel that's the most realistic idea from this story.

Your channel is amazing.