SCP-3826: The Definition of Technophobia 


Item #: SCP-3826 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: The artificial entrance to 
SCP-3826 is to be maintained by two concrete walls at least 2 m in 
length and at least .5 m in thickness. The only authorized personnel 
to enter SCP-3826 through the airlock are research personnel of 
level-3 clearance or agents of Mobile Task Force Zeta-9 ("Mole 
Rats"). 


Upon exploration, personnel are to wear an actively transmitting 
earpiece and a pair of artificial surveillance glasses at all times. 
Mentioning the use of earpieces around the company of instances of 
SCP-3826-1 is forbidden. 


Description: SCP-3826 is an isolated civil construct located ~4 km 
beneath the highest point of the Kenai Mountains in Alaska, United 
States of America which is able to cause visual and auditory 
hallucination in human subjects. 


SCP-3826's area of occupation measures less than 20 km?. Inside 
of this area lies civilization similar to that of European colonization 
which was commonplace in the late 17th century and a population 
(~45,000 organisms) of bipedal humanoid entities (hereby deemed 
instances of SCP-3826-1). Instances of SCP-3826-1 are genetically 
similar to Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) and have 
constructed their own cultures, forms of engineering, and an 
organized civil government. 


SCP-3826-1's physical appearances include mutation and other 
physical deformities. SCP-3826-1 instances stand in-between 2.1 m 
and 4.6 m. The taller instances of SCP-3826-1 have been noted to 
commonly take the place of defenders and caretakers of other 
instances of SCP-3826-1. 


The civilization within SCP-3826 centers around the consistency of a 
hatred of technology. Instances of SCP-3826-1 will violently attack 
any individuals who have exhibited using technology developed after 
the year 1870. Following the attack, SCP-3826-1 will scavenge the 
technological components and transport them to a location which 
has yet to be identified by exploration personnel.! 


A photo taken within SCP-3826 upon recovery showcasing a large portion of | 

constructed by SCP-3826-1.2 Following the photo, eighteen instances of SCF 

murdered the three attending Zeta-9 personnel due to their use of modern c 
equipment. 


SCP-3826 functions similar to earlier civilization in terms of 
governmental constructs. There are established policing forces 
within SCP-3826, most of them being occupied by the larger 
instances of SCP-3826-1. These policing forces tend to use brute 
physical force to enforce the laws bestowed upon SCP-3826. The 
subject who created the laws and/or the construct that is SCP-3826 
remains unidentified. 


Unidentified symbols (assumed to be related to the occult) are 
commonly seen in buildings within, roads within, and the walls of 
SCP-3826. 


Addenda: The following is a collection of relevant information 
regarding SCP-3826 including exploration logs, interview logs, and 
incident logs. 


Foreword: D-16321 is a female Class-D personnel 
originally imprisoned for multiple accounts of arson and 
manslaughter. She was taken into Foundation custody 
on 8/19/2029. It should be noted that, during this time, 
artificial surveillance glasses were not in use per 
SCP-3826's special containment procedures. 


[BEGIN LOG] 
D-16321: These stairs go down for a really long way. 


Researcher Caroll: Please continue down the staircase. 


D-16321: What the hell is down there anyway? Why do- 
D-16321 pauses. Fine. D-16321 begins to descend the 
staircase. 


Researcher Caroll: Have you seen anything yet, 
D-16321? 


D-16321: No, | haven't. It's just hot and gross down here. 
Researcher Caroll: Continue your descent. 
D-16321: Seriously, that's an unnecessarily long walk. 


Researcher Caroll: You are bound to reach the bottom 
eventually. 


D-16321: | guess. 


Five minutes pass. D-16321 is approximately 10 m from 
the bottom of the stairwell. Vocalizations by SCP-3826-1 
are now audible. 


D-16321: Is this some kind of espion— 


D-16321 pauses as she looks around, examining 
SCP-3826. 


D-16321: [Extended] Holy shit. 


Researcher Caroll: Now, please report your 
surroundings only when they are not around. 


D-16321: "They?" This is some cryptic shit, doc. | don't 
like it. 


Researcher Caroll: Again, just follow protocol. 
D-16321: Yeah, yeah. 
Researcher Caroll: Is it currently safe to report? 


D-16321: | guess. | can see a bunch of buildings. The 
ceiling goes up really high. There's like, uh, a burnt-down 


church next to me. And there's a path. What is that, 
gravel? 


Researcher Caroll: Please continue along the path. 
D-16321: Uh, alright. 

Two minutes pass. 

D-16321: Jesus fucking Chr— 

SCP-3826-1-A: [Unintelligible] 

D-16321: What the fuck are you? 
SCP-3826-1-A: Unresponsive. 

D-16321: Doc, what do | do? 

Researcher Caroll: D-16321, | told you not to— 
SCP-3826-1-B: [Rough translation] Demon! 
D-16321: Yo, get the fuck back! 

Researcher Caroll: D-16321, calm— 


D-16321: Shut the fuck up, doc! You got me into this and 
I'm getting myself out of it! 


SCP-3826-1-B: /Unintelligible.] 


D-16321: You better back the fuck up before you get 
smacked the fu— 


SCP-3826-1-C: /Rough translation] Dismantle! 
D-16321: Get the fuck back, yo. Get the fuck— 
Researcher Caroll: D-16321? Are you there? 


[END LOG] 


Foreword: D-16899 is a male Class-D personnel 
originally imprisoned for multiple accounts of kidnapping 
and assault and battery. 


[BEGIN LOG] 
D-16899: Hey, doc. 


Researcher Caroll: Hello. 


Zeta-9 agents proceed to open SCP-3826's containment 
airlock. D-16899 steps into the airlock with the door 
shutting behind him and the door located in front of him 
opening. 


Researcher Caroll: Please proceed. 


D-16899 proceeds down the stairway leading to 
SCP-3826. 


D-16899: Fuckin’ cold in here, man. 
Researcher Caroll: Others have said that before, yes. 


D-16899 remains silent for the majority of the duration of 
his descent. He is approximately twenty meters from the 
bottom of the stairwell when he spots a larger instance of 
SCP-3826-1 located at the bottom. D-16899 takes 
multiple steps backward while hyperventilating. 


Researcher Caroll: D-16899, please continue— 
D-16899: Who is that? What is that? 


Researcher Caroll: The citizens we have briefed you 
about. Interact with the citizens and— 


D-16899: They ain't no fuckin’ citizens, doc. 


Researcher Caroll: ...organisms and attempt to survey 
a large portion of SCP-3826 while you are at it. 


D-16899: Yeah, yeah, alright. 


D-16899's heart rate decreases as his breathing 
stabilizes. He continues down the stairwell, eventually 
reaching the bottom. Surrounding him is the interior 
image of SCP-3826 as found in the document. 


D-16899: What the fuck? 
Researcher Caroll: Hmm? 
D-16899: Where did they all go? 


Researcher Caroll: Let's find out for ourselves. 
Proceed, explore, and survey SCP-3826. 


D-16899: Alright, here | go... 


D-16899 proceeds to walk down the path seemingly 
paved by instances of SCP-3826-1. He takes multiple 
turns at random intervals, eventually leading him to a 
chapel. 


D-16899: Another church? These fuckers are super 
religious. Or, I'd assume. 


Researcher Caroll: D-16899, please enter the chapel. 
D-16899: ...you're kidding. 


Researcher Caroll: Sorry to say, but I'm not. Enter the 
chapel. 


D-16899: Come on, man, | don't want to have to— 


Researcher Caroll: D-16899, enter the chapel or armed 
personnel will be sent to retrieve you. 


D-16899: Alright, fuck. 


D-16899 opens the double doors located at the chapel's 
entrance. Approximately forty SCP-3826-1 instances 


come into view of D-16899's surveillance equipment 
along with an unidentified humanoid entity. The entity 
stands significantly shorter than the SCP-3826-1 
instances. The entity has the upper section of its body 
identical to a human female wearing a robe, with the 
lower section of its body ending in a snake-like body. 


D-16899: Stuttering, incomprehensible. 


Unidentified Entity: Are you here to— your clothes. 
Your clothes, they smell of him! 


SCP-3826-1 instances stand up from their seats and 
begin to approach D-16899. D-16899 prematurely turns 
around and begins to sprint in the direction in which he 
came from. SCP-3826-1 instances follow at a faster 
pace. 


D-16899: Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck— 
Researcher Caroll: D-16899, ru— 


Researcher Caroll is interrupted by the sudden drop of 
his technological equipment. The SCP-3826-1 instances 
stop their pursuit and the unidentified entity picks up the 
surveillance tool, holding it close to its face. 


Unidentified Entity: And don't come back, heretics. 


[END LOG] 


Afterword: Agents of Mobile Task Force Zeta-9 were 
sent to recover the unidentified entity following the 
incident. The unidentified entity could not be found within 
SCP-3826. The agents sent on the recovery attempt 
recalled undergoing visual and auditory hallucinations 
picturing a gargantuan organism that seemed to lack 
skin entirely. All agents reported the organism to end its 
body in multiple "tails" and that the organism's head was 
shaped extremely similar to that of a squid. 


11:01:56 pm, camera fails due to acoustic stress. 


11:25:58 pm, due to an unrelated simultaneous breach 
at Site , containment teams arrived nearly 25 minutes 
after the alarm was activated. Upon arriving at the scene, 
it was discovered that D-4112 had at some point crawled 
himself to SCP-498 and activated the snooze reset. He 
was found repeatedly depressing the button, despite 
suffering from burst eardrums and internal bleeding. 


After Action Report 

New containment protocol initiated. Both Security 
Officers Wilson and Thomas were diagnosed 
with eardrum rupture, resulting in deafness. Officer 
Wilson treated for severe internal bleeding. Both re- 
assigned. D-4112 was treated for severe internal 
bleeding, commended for preventing a potentially 
catastrophic containment breach, and successfully 
terminated at the end of the month. 


« SCP-497 | SCP-498 | SCP-499 » 


The following is an audio log by Researcher Roy Caroll following 
authorized self-exploration of SCP-3826. 


[BEGIN LOG] 


Researcher Caroll: The following is in, uh, regards to 
my exploration of SCP-3826. 


Researcher Caroll: They're building a portal. | don't 
know if that's the best term, but its intent is to open a rift. 
| don't know where this rift is going, but I've heard plenty 
of chatter between SCP-3826-1 to realize what the 
reasoning for construction is. 


Researcher Caroll: | tried to ask where it was going, 
and they all responded with the same answer: "the 
present." The meaning behind this is unknown, but my 
team of research personnel are currently investigating 
the possibilities. 


Researcher Caroll: Only around the portal, hume levels 
were significantly more erratic than the surrounding 
areas. We decided it would be best to not use SRAs 
because it might just contribute to their ‘project.’ 


Researcher Caroll: I've also been having nightmares 
recently. Normally this wouldn't be relevant, but the 
nightmares contain the exact description of the Zeta-9 
agents’ hallucinations within SCP-3826. | genuinely do 
not know who this could be describing, but the 
presumably-occult-related symbols within SCP-3826 
have been— | don't know, bleeding? | only noticed it 
after the nightmares when | relooked through the 
footage. 


Researcher Caroll: Again, this is under investigation. 
This has been Researcher Roy Caroll, signing off. 


[END LOG] 


Addendum 3826-HLELA: On 4/15/2033, all Foundation personnel 
within ~5 km of SCP-3826 experienced a common hallucination. 
The following is a report written by Zeta-9 Agent Magubane. 


Report filed by: Zeta-9 ("Mole Rats") Operative Randy 
Magubane 
Access: Level-3, EYES ONLY 


On April 15, 2033, all research, MTF, and Class-D 
personnel assigned to SCP-3826 shared a singular 
auditory and visual hallucination. This hallucination was 
in regards to Sarkicism and the Grand Karcist lon, the 
leader of Sarkicism. 


The hallucination started with all participating subjects 
believing they had been transported to an unidentified 
location. It is to note that this transportation never 
actually occurred as surveyed through SCP-3826 
surveillance tapes. The location in which participants 
were transported to can only be described as a chapel 
constructed of fleshy, biological substances. 


Within the chapel were instances of SCP-3826-1 along 
with the unidentified entity in 3826-Exploration-2 and 
Grand Karcist lon. All individuals were gathered around a 
statue of Vazjuma, the primary Sarkic deity. 


Upon approaching the gathering, Grand Karcist lon 
would approach the Foundation personnel and state the 
following sentence (broadly gathered from all 
hallucination witnesses): "Will you see it? Can you? Our 
Lord, Vazjuma, preparing to rise once more. Every piece 
of salvage could be used to reform Mekhane, and we 
cannot allow that. We must teleport to His realm, the 
Present, and assist him in his uprising. We know you can 
feel Mekhane rising. Jupiter churns as our enemies 
grow. We have won the war once, and now, it is 
commencing again. We, His followers, shall uphold our 
victorious stance not only for this next war but forever 
on." 


Following this, no more hallucinations have been 
witnessed. The location depicted in the hallucination is 
currently under investigation with the ultimate goal to find 
the location. 


Footnotes 

1. SeeResearcher Roy Caroll's audio log. 

2. The lighting showcased within the photo are all ignited torches 
supported by metal reinforcements. 


SCP-3830: Sleeping With The Fishes 


Item #: SCP-3830 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3830 is to be kept in a 
standard Safe-class storage locker in Site-64. All SCP-3830-2 
specimens are to be kept within a specialized D-Class housing block 
used exclusively for subjects affected by non-lethal anomalous 
items. 


Should a non-D-Class Foundation personnel become an instance of 
SCP-3830-2, they are to be allowed to continue their employment. If 
the affected subject is currently assigned to an aquatic item, they 
are to be reassigned immediately (see Addendum 3830-B). 


Description: SCP-3830 is a crochet doll of red and blue coloration 
arguably resembling a betta fish (Betta splendens). 


SCP-3830's anomalous effects manifest upon a subject entering 
within 1 m of the object. Once in the 1 m radius area, the subject's 
melatonin production will substantially increase until the subject 
enters any stage of sleep. 


Upon entering said stage of sleep (hereby referred to as 
SCP-3830-1), the subject will experience a dream in which they are 
a betta fish in a river occupied solely by other betta fish. 

SCP-3830-1 always occurs in some form of wetland. The subject will 
remain in their stage of sleep until a fight is lost despite any and all 
attempts to awaken them. 


In SCP-3830-1, all betta fish which occupy the same body of water 
as the affected subject display complex sapience with the ability to 
speak and comprehend English. The fish exhibit signs of extreme 
hostility and will commonly engage in vulgar conversation followed 
by physical combat with other organisms. 


The physical combat with the fish commonly takes place within one 
of multiple small boxes consisting solely of kelp and seashells 
seemingly replicating the appearance of boxing rings. The fights 
within these boxes are commonly spectated by the other betta. The 
spectating betta are usually seen with the letters "SFFFC" written on 
multiple parts of their body. 


If a betta fish is to engage in combat with the affected subject and 
"win,"! the subject will immediately awaken from their stage of sleep 
showing a complete lack of tiredness.