The TRUE story behind this creepy WWI photo 

The worst..

that's war

9.7 million people got killed like that.

I find it amazing he recovered from a shot to the throat in about a year and was well enough to continue battle. This man was an absolute tank for that, and it it is very sad he was gunned down anyway. Also, I am Canadian as well.

17-20 million were killed for a useless war

Unf

That moment is the scariest of all, across all generations. Ugly pictures must cease to exist (except those that were taken for memories)

He was shot by a sniper in the neck. He survived, and that's his shock on how tf he survived it. A few moths later, he got hit by a mortar round, but the body never found

Frl tho

The true horror of war

Thank you for your service. 🇺🇸

My full respect, sir. I regularly donate to Vietnam Veterans of America.

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Not sure I can put into words my appreciation, but thank your service. I mean that with the deepest sincerity.

*salutes* We're forever in your debt.

Acturly bro

Modern mindset is to overwrite history to fit the narrative of today's generation. Noticed that alot with photos and stuff from decades ago being brought back without any factual context

...who then went on to die.

Or maybe he didn't really like the Sargeant he was talking to. 🤔 😂

Yeah PTSD

Yeah 1 outa 3 men died in WW1 the casualties in just 1 fucking battle were in the 250k range , horrific war

That's actually impossible, so I can't imagine it.

not radical larry

That's War for ya

War in a nutshell

RIP

Sure gave em' hell though.

He’s still a legend though

Imagine seeing him smile in heaven. This guy deserves to be there.

he is not dead he is a scp

not for long sadly

it really does

But then he didnt

A German Soldier: "Mmmmmm no"

"Mmmmmm nein"

SCP-106. Well, it is unfortunate that most people won't know about him.

​@@Apexdestroyer25Yeah, *_İ Still Remember When İ Scared of 106 and 049_*

Not by me. He’s remembered as one of the glorious dead. May he rest in peace.

@@youtubesucks8995Yessir

He got shot and survived, then was kill a few months later. RIP soldier.

ww1 was basically Zapp Brannigan-style throwing your men at the enemy lines until one side broke... and then it repeated

Yeah, World War One, despite being one of the most prominently influential wars of the 20th century, is generally one of the most niche-like subjects in the realm of major, world changing conflicts. Everyone talks about WW2, about Vietnam, about the Middle East, about Waterloo, about Korea, about the civil wars of various nations, about the Seven Years War and the American revolution, about the many wars of swords and bows and spears, about all of these things. But the war whose final motif was "Lest We Forget" has been almost completely disregarded by the average Joe of today's day and age. Because tell me: How many films, how many games, how many books, how many of _anything_ have you seen based on WW1? Chances are likely that it's not very big of a number. We promised that, as the sun goes down and in the morning, that we'd remember them, but we're already starting to forget...

@@no-legjohnny3691 Battlefield One and All Quiet On The Western Front come to mind for me, but I guarantee most people playing a video-game aren't playing it for the history, and AQOTWF is just niche media

​@@oldschoolChazzed That's a vast oversimplification. Raw infantry waves were used early on but quickly fell out of favor as wasteful. More than anything else, WW1 was an artillery war. Somewhere between two-thirds and three-fourths of all casualties were from artillery. Infantry charges were used later (you can't take ground if you sit in a trench), but they usually came after artillery tried to soften up the area. There were trenches trying to take each other at closer ranges than artillery could engage without risking dropping rounds on friendly lines, but these were much less common than the artillery fights. The war also saw revolutions in reconnaissance from aircraft, use of bombers (both zeppelin and prop plane), development of the tank and other armor, and new kinds of maneuver warfare. In short, it was horrific and an example of what industrialized war can do, but it was not the trope of callous officers ordering their men to be bullet sponges.

@@JarrodFrates I'm well aware of the way that World War 1 was fought, but I chose not to go in depth for the sake of humor and to keep from turning my reply into an entire essay as you have. people just don't like reading that much, from what I've seen.

Pretty grossly disrespectful tbh. (Not you, the people who wrote him into the creepy pasta) Like this was a human being who had thoughts and feelings and had just suffered through some of the most traumatic things imaginable

@@scibus2593scp, not a creepy pasta 🙄

🎉😢😮🎉😂🎉😢😮😮

@@scibus2593 nothing disrespectful, in fact that immortalized his story and he will always be remembered.

@@JettySpaghetti1 still the same ig

World War I was so brutal...and must have felt so pointless compared to World War II, which must have made it so much worse

Add to the fact that often WHAT they were fighting IN was MUD....Cold, miserable, wet, dirty MUD.....Probably improved when it RAINED again???🙄🙄

All for nothing. Neither side gained any land. It was a blood bath of millions of young men and horses, and an utter waste of riches.

Here's the truth he was a Canadian Sargeant but he was injured and this was a photo taken and he was smiling for the picture

​​@@Eidelmaniaall for nothing dude because of world War 1 we have tanks and better aircraft along side the Geneva protocol banning chemical warfare

Idk why but this made me smile

My great great uncle died at mouquet farm in June 1916, from a direct hit from an artillery shell. I watched a doco on WWI, lo and behold, there was a shot of a man getting directly hit by an artillery. I have no idea if that was my kin or not, but does it really matter whether it was or not? Another young ANZAC warrior dying for “KING AND COUNTRY”

How do you know that?

he was the cameraman@@user-de6vq7rk8t

@@user-de6vq7rk8t it’s obvious

I was kinda thinking that’s why he was smiling, "I’M FOOKIN OUTTA HERE"!!!

... before going back and dying.

He might have been smiling at the thought of a respite from the trenches.

Lot of wounded military folks want to get back into the fight.

His face says.....I am become death, destroyer of worlds

As SCP-106. Sadly most of them will not know about this incident

@@Apexdestroyer25 thats disrespectful asf bro that wiki web need to be ban for showing wrong detail,the stupid wiki owner cant call a brave sokdier that die for their country scp his not a monster😡

@@luckyalido4835 why are you saying that here? What difference is it going to make? The wiki won't change it. Even if it does, most people and fans still won't know.

@@luckyalido4835 And you can't ban a wiki. The entire SCP fanbase and authors (who are millions in number) won't allow it. And the wiki is one of the biggest wiki in the world. Atleast he will be known. Not as a hero but as a famous creepy pasta

@@luckyalido4835I can tell your one of those 10 year olds who are trying to make themselves look like good people. Honestly it’s not disrespectful as they at least know him for something like do you realize the 44+million people who died in world war 2 and probably only about one thousand of them got any sort of recondition and we don’t even know about the other 44 million people who were brutally killed during world war 2 like at least he got any recondition which is more then you ever will

Ikr, Thank god something good came out of this tragedy One of the most iconic internet creepy-pastas.

@@Dr.Adrion-SCP what? Imagine the only thing your remembered for after fighting in a brutal war is internet losers using your face as a fûcked up character on a forum.

@@Dr.Adrion-SCP utter nonsense

​@@bane5921 shart

@@nickmorzinski5558 shit?

Gets even more funny when he actually says cheese.

Same

Same

Fuck, maybe im his reincarnation. Im Canadian, I've always been overly happy, and always had an itching yearning to charge a machinegun hill.

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Not so much skilled, there was less power behind those kinds of rounds than there is today, so surviving a hit like that was unlikely but still possible.

True but he would be gone by now anyway. Wonder if he has descendants?

Yeah. No wonder this looks very fammiliar! I Was a Very Big fan of The SCP Series, I was there when i saw the game being discontinued. Its was sad knowing all the memories we had.

What’s a wiki?

@@maxsparks5183 you dont know that?? Anyways, Wiki is like a Source of things like, When you want to know more about something, You can open its wiki and the wiki will Have alot of informations about the thing you want to know more. Its Like a book but in The internet.

​@@maxsparks5183 A wiki is a website/book filled with information regarding a specific thing.

Kimd of sick that a game would defame a veteran for entertainment.

Except that new recruits are more likely to die than those that have already seen combat.The largest chunk of the fatalities tend to come in the first couple weeks of combat. After that, the numbers drop significantly. Yes, there is some increase in risk as time goes by, military service is risky, but it's not anywhere near as risky as that first bit. Plus, when it comes to a larger scale war like WWI there may not even be people available to enlist after a while if re-enlisting is off the table.

Rip to your great uncle he was the hero

May he rest in peace.

THEY SHOT A MEDIC?

@@goobero343 Yes, it was very common for those venturing out onto the battlefield, after an attempted attack, to be shot at. Both sides were guilty of that.

@@violetfoxchu837 it was a joke but thanks

Collateral

He got a kill and an assist apparently.

As a gamer i laughed. I'm going to hell.

@@adampaul454as a cod gamer i feel bad too

“Bro how tf did I not get a double collateral?”

🤡...🇨🇦 we are the only country to kick your ass in war, if you're a dumb American! Canadians are tenacious fighters.🇺🇸💥🤛🧔🇨🇦🥅🏒

nah bro only the brits look like that

​@@darthmaul550well you're obviously a dummy because the guys wearing a Canadian uniform!😂😂🍁👨‍✈️🇨🇦💪🧔

​@@darthmaul550He's just a human being.

Not an American. Too early for them.

not sure if this video was the real story. it well was probably was shell shock he had. he did die 1917. this video just says it could've been other things.

It's absolutely reckless to do such an insane thing. However, I will admit that it is incredibly hardcore to just run at a machine gun line like that.

@@deadlikedisco4726 There's hardly an action open to a human that's more stupid than charging towards machine-guns over open ground.

It often blew their minds too.

Who's there actually to say he wasn't shell shocked, though? It seems like you and this guy just want to be on the alternative side to everything. If this exact explanation is to be believed, this guy had a serious and potentially fatal wound and had just watched his ally die in front of him from the exact same bullet, yet chose to smile big for a photograph back when --- despite this youtuber's whopping 3 examples --- hardly anyone chose to smile for pictures --- nevermind in combat. That's why everyone else in the picture was smiling too, right? Not only that, but he chose to return to combat despite an injury he could've milked to possibly go back home. This sounds a lot like what happened to Civil War vets who were all miraculously "fine" and suffered no PTSD from much, much more grisly combat than those from most-to-all wars thereafter, simply because they weren't diagnosed with PTSD or "shell-shock" back then. It has long been theorized that the entire "wild west" era of triggerhappy ginslingers and bloodletters was largely a result of the extremely young boys hardened by war returning to society with no clue of how to get along as a normal person.

69 Likes? Nahhh More Like 70

@@goldyoutube7663 bruh..

😂

Yes, this was before it officially became, “Say poutine!” Today, “Say cheese!” results in confused looking Canadians.

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13)

And all their efforts were for nothing bro our generation is fucked

​@amishoven your comment mid

@amishoven Agreed, fuck the wiki

​@amishoven never heard glenn leroi's song?

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Softcore Porn?

And some narration styles as well lol

not really. it very well was shell shock probably. the man died in 1917. the dude who made this video wasn't alive back then. he just gave his own opinion

​@@mr.mendez9426could be,could be not.who knows

@@mr.mendez9426it very well was shell shock probably how do u say it was something then say probably you’re literally just giving ur opinion as well then

@@mr.mendez9426plus other soldiers always smiled at the cameras well why would he be doing anything different

They always say he's insane

Honestly I'd just like to be immortalized no matter how

What does scp mean ? Shell shocked pic?

@@luechmillionzSecure Contain Protect, Its a horror fandom community, open for anyone with enouch creativity to create stories about the supernatural, anomalious and then share it with others.

The beast of the black dimension just wants you to believe this false story. Don’t let him confuse you. He is coming for you.

@@thenuttednutter2669 smh

It wasn’t any of those, but it does capture the idea very well. People with a thousand yard stare or whom were shell shocked often had a completely sane look on their face until they were brought to peace to some extent. After that their faces would turn normal, but their behavior remained questioned. For example: a soldier who was in a ward was deaf due to shell shock, but the only thing he would respond to (and his response was taking cover under beds) was the word “bomb”.

PTSD certainly

+1

Real sigma knows its a scp 106

​@Wales Countryball report to your work station for updated countermemes

​@@Vamutus perfect comment 😂👍

@@PlasmaGunner44154 kid, it's a creepy pasta, what did you expect?

How to lose a battalion: have a lawyer politician lead the 308th Infantry Regiment of 77th Division into a forest

there is no paradise...only darkness, nothingness

@@lorenzovandekeere3242 not darkness in that case, and not nothingness as the nothingness exists for 0 seconds as it is not being experienced. but that might actually be better than paradise

@@lorenzovandekeere3242 Then u will rot in darkness , i hope you enjoy the rest of ur life remembering that

Glad you did too, man.

Funny enough in some canons, it actually is and has been for a while

That could be scp 106 or just yet copywriter.

What in the fuck is this SCP thing I keep seeing

​@@FriendlyNeighbourhoodSpideyImagine if there was a wikipedia for fictional monsters, and the various pages were typed to appear as if they were produced by a shadow CIA-type agency. Basically the internet playing "men in black" Might have been pretty cool at some point but now.... holy fuck is it annoying to see EVERYWHERE!

​@@FriendlyNeighbourhoodSpidey Secure Contain Protect, its goofy ass monster show.

Or he was smiling because his sergeant who bought it was a total dick. 😂 Happens more often than you'd think. Military more often brings out the best in humanity. Also attracts the absolute worst too. I had a squad "leader," like that once. Gave real serious thought one night to doing the world a favor and fragging the blue falcon.

Nah that's how SCP 106 was become he currently was

🤦‍♂️

its called war , you think it would of been better if we had just sat in our trenches twiddling our thumbs for another 10 years? till we eventually got beaten by the germans because they would attack? And anyway many upperclass officers were killed going over the top leading their men and trying to boil it all down to rich is evil is just simplistic and stupid

This was how war was fought back then. The usage of tanks and over armored vehicles were scarce back then so many modern tactics didn't exist and were limited. They have no reason to get punished, it was just a different time with different methods

​@@stevewhite4080No, the political elites still cause the wars where they send the lower classes off to die, even with tanks and modern tactics. I know of no politician in Canada who has a son or daughter serving in the military and I can't think of a single example of one during the Afghanistan deployment either.

I agree, but the British and german nobility was gutted by ww1. Their officer corps were stacked with young nobles that all died. The military had become a bit of a refuge and a source of purpose for them as the new industrialists displaced their economic relevance and absorbed their political power. The old nobles might not have died, but their sons probably did. The war was all their fault tho so good riddance I suppose.

Same breed, but raised by men… not single mothers and tv.

​@@sandwich-breathI was raised by a single mother and went on to serve 24 years in the Royal Artillery. Nearly every day of it abroad . Plus 4 tours of duty . How long did you serve?

​@@wodens-hitman1552😮 You just owned him 😂

@@wodens-hitman1552 So you comparing yourself to ww1 soldiers?

​@@sandwich-breath🏆👏👏👏👏😎..yes & CANADIAN! 🤡💥🤛🧔🇨🇦🥅🏒

Thank you for the knowledge 😊

And what good did it do him? A year later he was dead. Sacrificed as cannon fodder.

@@carlblix7794 Strong men don't do things for themselves they do things for their community and family. maybe a foreign concept to you.

@@user-fp6rn2km4i No. But ww1 was pointless. And all those men died for nothing.

​@@user-fp6rn2km4iexcept his death accomplished nothing except make the wealthy richer and make the death count go higher, just like millions of other soldiers did.

not really

2000s -2023 : SCP-106 original story “The Young Man” by Dr. Gears

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...what?

2010-2020: SCP-106 has escaped through gate A! Fire the HID turret immediately!