Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Due to the unpredictable nature of its manifestation, SCP-XXXX cannot be reliably contained, and efforts should be focused on treating it wherever it occurs. Foundation agents embedded in clinics, hospitals, and other medical facilities are to report any suspected cases of SCP-XXXX in patients. Any suspected patients will undergo a thorough examination of their medical history and, if sufficient evidence is found to confirm diagnosis, be referred to embedded Foundation doctors and surgeons for treatment.
Description: SCP-XXXX is an anomalous form of colorectal cancer. Though its effects on the human body and risk factors are identical to its non-anomalous variant, SCP-XXXX has an additional memetic effect. Any medical professionals attempting to diagnose the cancer in its early stages will fail, regardless of expertise or available data.
Addendum: Case record of first positively identified patient.
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is located on the lawn of a rural two-story house. This house, currently under Foundation ownership, is to be occupied by three assigned Foundation agents who will be tasked with deterring or subduing any unauthorized persons found on the property. A shed has been constructed surrounding SCP-XXXX to prevent accidental public exposure and is to remain padlocked except during active testing.
Instances of SCP-XXXX-1 are to be neutralized and their remains incinerated as soon as possible.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a green nylon clothesline located at the address of [REDACTED], England. One end of the line is tied to a hollow, studded metal post 1.5m in height, from which the rest of the line extends horizontally for 2.3m. The other end terminates in midair with no visible means of support.
Any human that grabs, bends, or touches SCP-XXXX becomes an instance of SCP-XXXX-1. SCP-XXXX-1 appear as humanoids with varying and severe deformities, many of which should be debilitating or fatal. Nonetheless, SCP-XXXX-1 instances are always initially alive and show no signs of pain, impaired body function, or bodily distress unless wounded. Any clothing worn or items carried on their person will be similarly distorted.
SCP-XXXX-1 instances invariably and immediately exhibit signs of extreme fear, including screaming, trembling, refusal to move, shutting eyes, and attempts to attack or flee from any nearby humans. On a few occasions, SCP-XXXX-1 instances have attempted to speak, but their vocalizations did not match any known languages, and in some cases should not have been possible even accounting for their altered physiology.
SCP-XXXX was discovered when Foundation agents embedded in the local police force discovered a case involving an apparent murder and body mutilation of the husband by the wife of the couple residing at the house. Class A amnestics were administered to the wife and her children, and Class B amnestics were administered to all non-Foundation officers involved in the case. The body of the husband was incinerated.
Addendum 1: Selected Experiment Logs
Experiment XXXX-01
Test Subject: D-4586, Asian male, age 23
Parameters: Subject ordered to approach and pull SCP-XXXX.
Result: Subject's appearance altered as follows: mouth lengthened considerably, extending vertically along right side of face and terminating near right ear; left leg bent outward and extended to an estimated 3m, with knee directly above ankle; waist contracted to estimated 5cm in diameter; three ribs protruded noticeably, with skin stretching to accommodate them.
After remaining motionless and mumbling incoherently for eleven seconds, subject attempted to break out of SCP-XXXX's containment shed and died after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds from agents present. Dissection of body was carried out and a full report is available to any personnel with a clearance level of 2-XXXX or above.
Experiment XXXX-02
Test Subject: D-2064, Caucasian male, age 35
Parameters: Subject blindfolded, ordered not to remove until permitted, and instructed to pull SCP-XXXX. Agents present armed with stun guns.
Result: Altered appearance: Subject's left arm, including hand, shrank to approximately 5cm in length. Head became flattened, taking the appearance of a vertically-aligned disc. No less than twenty tubelike growths emerged from subject's thighs and upper legs, connecting to various parts of the subject's body. Blindfold gained sixteen new flaps, covering the front side of the head and the upper neck.
Subject initially showed no signs of distress save for mild disorientation. When ordered to remove blindfold, subject expressed confusion and unease. Removal of blindfold revealed that each new flap concealed an additional eye. Subject expressed shock and extreme fear, dropping into an apparent crouching position at a roughly 45-degree angle with vertical. Subject was incapacitated and transferred to a standard humanoid containment cell for further study and observation, but was later terminated during an escape attempt when it charged Agent Ramsden and attempted to take his firearm. Remains of subject incinerated, blindfold and clothing recovered for examination.
Test Subject: D-6079, Caucasian male, age 28
Parameters: Subject attached to tether and instructed to pull SCP-XXXX. Agents present armed with stun guns.
Result: Altered appearance: Due to events occurring during the experiment, a summary of subject's changes is not possible. However, certain reported alterations were corroborated by multiple agents present:
- Masses of polyp-like growths covering majority of subject's body
- Arms diverged into multiple larger arms
- Three separate heads, attached to subject's back by cubical necks
Tether remained attached, length wrapped around subject shifted to accommodate new physiology. Subject began to frantically and repeatedly tug at the wire, causing body to undergo rapid physiological shifts, and agents expended four stun gun charges before successful hit and incapacitation. Subject has been transferred to a secure humanoid containment cell and is scheduled for future medical testing.
Addendum 2: Notes from Project Research Head Dr. Bruyer
It's clear that, whatever is happening to someone who pulls the line, everything about their body still makes sense to them. Nothing feels different It's why they're fine until they remove the blindfold. Perhaps we're just seeing them from the wrong angle somehow - as though they've been pulled askew of reality. It makes me wonder, though: considering what they look like to us, what does the world look like to them?
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: A security perimeter at a distance of two kilometers from the edge of the affected area is to be maintained at all times, consisting of a two meter high electrified fence with patrols of armed agents at regular intervals. Foundation personnel are not to enter the affected area except for approved research missions. Agents are authorized to use lethal force against unapproved persons who succeed in bypassing the fence. As a cover story for these measures, the Foundation will claim that the area is a testing site for military weaponry.
Expeditions involving bore drilling are not to be approved under any circumstances (see Addendum XXXX-02).
Description: SCP-XXXX is a roughly circular geological depression approximately twenty kilometers in diameter, near the northern border of the [REDACTED] province of Canada. No indications of permanent habitation by any flora or fauna have been found since its discovery by the Foundation in 195█.
The ground of SCP-XXXX is composed primarily of sand of varying depth, with the deepest measured being 0.83 km. Depth generally increases approaching the center before giving way to extensive, slightly raised plates of granite. Any soil introduced to the region is gradually converted to sand at a rate of roughly 3.5cm3 per hour unless removed. It is believed that most or all of the sand present is a result of this effect and that the site was once a bare granite bed, indicating the presence of large quantities of surface lava in the past.
Unusually frequent and intense seismic activity has been observed at the site of the anomaly, with earthquakes of magnitudes in the range of 4.2 to 4.9 occurring daily and periodic earthquakes of magnitude 3.2 recorded once every 77 minutes. This activity has never been seen to extend beyond the boundary of SCP-XXXX.
Addendum 2034-01: Observation has revealed that all seismic disturbances related to SCP-XXXX have a common epicenter, approximately 400m beneath one of the granite plates. Investigation into the source is pending.
Addendum 2034-02: Due to the events of Expedition XXXX-0C, bore drilling at SCP-XXXX is prohibited in all circumstances.
Document 2034-0C: Summary of Expedition XXXX-0C.
Using a diamond core drill fitted on a mobile rig, Foundation researchers attempted to bore a hole to the apparent source of the seismic activity in an attempt to investigate the cause.
The expedition proceeded without incident for several months until the drill bit broke into a hollow pocket 19m above its destination. A burst of sudden, violent seismic activity severely fractured the plate beneath the drilling rig along with several adjacent plates. The site was immediately evacuated, during which time all present reported sounds of [DATA EXPUNGED] from the direction of the borehole. Crew sustained causalties of three dead (one falling into a fissure during the initial earthquake, two engulfed by sand while escaping) and seven wounded.
Addendum 2034-03: Multiple changes in anomalous activity were observed in the immediate aftermath of the expedition:
- Rate of soil conversion to sand increased from 3.5cm3 per hour to 7.2cm3 per hour.
- Average daily peak earthquake magnitude increased from 4.9 to 5.4.
- Periodic earthquakes increased in frequency from one every 77 minutes to one every 53 minutes.
- The epicenter of all seismic activity shifted by 63 meters.
Over the course of four months following the expedition, soil conversion rate, average daily magnitude peak, and frequency of periodic earthquakes returned to previously measured levels. The epicenter remains in its new location.