Subject: | have no more to say to you. The dead bring 


you that message, so that you who master the world can 
prepare your civilization for the truth to come. | can 
speak no more. 


Afterword: The subject did not respond to further 
questioning. Minutes after the interview completed, the 
subject suddenly lapsed out of its "trance" state and 
began screaming and struggling to break loose of the 
restraints. The subject was subsequently used in 
Protocol 540-Meriden, and Class D amnestics were then 
administered. Ms. Velikovna has not displayed any 
further symptoms of infection. 


[FURTHER MATERIAL REDACTED] 


LEVEL 5/3675/CLASSIFIED 


Addendum 3675.3: Commentary from Project Head 


Sometimes | have awoken from a cold dream, disturbed 
by a sort of emptiness in my spirit; a vast void | cannot 
control. In my memories | feel this horror, like that of a 
man who has realized a crushing epiphany that has 
drifted from him, lost in the ebb and flow of time. For 
weeks and months | pondered this—! tried to grasp at 
the faded fabric of this dream, but in these waking 
moments they still flitted away from me. 


One day | was stirred from yet another one of these 
dreams by a strange feeling in my gut, as if my heart 
were cut out from my chest and set before me. Ina 
panic, | peered outside, and | saw a man in the street, 
standing like a predator at some invisible force and 
brandishing a knife into the silent air. | saw him, perfectly 
still, lit only by the flickering orange light of the streetlamp 
from above. Then, | went downstairs, and | put on my 
shoes. | walked up to this man in the warm night, and | 
asked him, "Why are you standing here? Who are you 
looking at?" 


(Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) and expiring. 
Notes: Genetic testing indicates that the blood is from 
the common Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus). 


Test Subject's Religion: Fifthism 

Duration: 25 minutes 

Results: Water transmuted into 100 specimens of the 
subphylum Asterozoa. Subject melted into candle wax. 
Notes: Suspected connections to SCP-1523. 


Test Subject's Religion: Church of the Second Hytoth 
Duration: 30 Minutes 

Results: Water transmuted into blood. Subject's 
forehead developed pigmentation in the shape of a 
seven pointed star. Subject displays previously unknown 
knowledge of Hytothan rituals and the language of 
Ortothan. 

Notes: Analysis indicates that the blood is from the 
common Seven-Arm Octopus (Haliphron atlanticus). 


Test Subject's Religion: Children of the Torch 
Duration: 17 Minutes 

Results: Water transmuted into an aqueous flame, 
similar to those created by SCP-2814. Subject then 
melted into a waxy substance, yet remained motile and 
cognizant. 

Notes: Subject expired after 24 hours. Remains stored 
on Site-23. 


Test Subject's Religion: Australian Church of Australia 
Duration: 1 minute 

Results: [DATA EXPUNGED] 

Note: Further testing with the Australian Church of 
Australia requires unanimous approval from the O5 
Council. Research into preventing AU-Class End of The 
World Scenarios deemed a Class XI priority. 


« SCP-474 | SCP-475 | SCP-476 » 


Footnotes 
1. The cause of death of St. Peter, the first Pope, according to 


He said in a quiet voice that he didn't know. | prompted 
him further, asked him to describe what he felt, but he 
was silent for a long time. Then he told me, "You know, 
every night as I'm walking home, | come across this spot 
on the road." He gestured to the air in front of him, 
waving his hands as he talked. "And every time | pass by 
here, | feel this kind of chill in my veins. It seems to drive 
me away. Sometimes it's more than that — | see things 
that just aren't there, or | sense a presence that simply 
doesn't exist. It's certainly paranoia, human irrationality, 
of course. Normally I'd avoid this patch of darkness, 
move on, walk home. But today, while | passed by, 
something — some noise or movement — drove me into 
pure terror. | felt like | was going to die any minute, and 
instead of running away | felt compelled to kill whatever 
was out there. Like some nerve was touched or played 
that made me know nothing but anger and murder." 


He fingered the knife reluctantly, then slipped it back into 
his pocket. "We humans, we're strange creatures. In our 
life, there are these times when we overreact, pursuing a 
primal response to some random, meaningless thing. 
And afterwards, we regret that part of us that rose to the 
surface. It's almost like we're being primed for 
something. That paranoia of absence makes us 
conscious of everything around us when nothing is there. 
And in moments, that fear becomes so intense that you 
want to strike out at something, kill something, do 
something that will justify your irrationality. I've never 
known why. | probably never will. And that's why | stand 
here — because it's all | can do to find answers." 


And at once, | understood. Death is an undiscovered 
country. It will always remain that way, as an 
unknowable blank that we will never have data on. We 
know not whether what lies afterwards Is a glistening 
euphoria or ceaseless pain, or both. But all along we've 
had these whispers of thought, these patterns of faint 
sentience reaching out across the void to speak to us. | 
understood that perhaps what lies after death is a 


separation from consciousness. The mind is released 
from the body, and now it wanders. 


They can't manipulate the world, because all they are is 
just brain patterns. But they can connect their pattern 
with another mind, link something together, and that's 
SCP-3675-1. For whatever reason, the ghosts of this 
mortal coil ask us to die for them. They want us to all 
destroy our living bodies for some ultimate goal that still 
lies beyond our human reach. Can't you see them? 
They're reaching out, reaching and stretching 
themselves into our world in order for us to become 
them. 


That is the ascendance, then — to force our bodies 
against each other, soak this earth in our own blood by 
our own terrible hands. 


But then | pondered this second state, this other side. 
There was a peculiar choice of phrasing used by that 
woman, yet at first | dismissed it as madness. All the 
answers to my questions were there, in that muted 
prophecy. Then | came to a second epiphany, one that 
let me link SCP-3675-1 into something that made 
infinitely more sense and was yet infinitely more 
frightening to me. A single sentence was the key to my 
realization. 


"There is no virus." 


Infected information doesn't change who you are — it 
changes what you are. There is a set of circumstances, a 
group of mental states, that, when combined, enable a 
dead soul to etch within your brain a fatal symbol, a 
black poison that spreads throughout your mind. It is 
subtle in the beginning, a low overtone that colors your 
perception of how you see the world, making it darker 
and more meaningless. But slowly, the storm begins to 
take control of your subconscious, manipulating your 
conscious into acting with adrenaline-fueled emotional 
charge, and eventually, psychotic delirium. And the fate 


of the human race shall be nothing but fury as we plunge 
ourselves into a torment that we cannot comprehend. 


It has been observed that infection with SCP-3675-1 is a 
rather slow process, one with a dazzling degree of 
varying symptoms, but all with a single endgame. We 
were wrong, we were terribly wrong: there is no virus. 
There is no memetic contagion; only a message ringing 
throughout history, telling us all to surrender, letting 
these apparitions play with our minds and control us like 
marionettes. All we have to do is listen — and we cannot 
stop listening, listening to the voices of the words. 


Do you know what | see at the end of this road? The 
entire human race, every single one a once-good soul 
driven into this madness, this new horrific identity. And 
once we all have left our bodies, they shall be satisfied 
knowing that we, too, shall burn. It's all selfish, it's all 
spite and anger. And the thing is, that's who we are, 
deep inside. Hell itself hasn't made them any less flawed 
than we are. 


Don't you realize? We're looking at a reflection of 
ourselves. And the figure in the mirror is trying to pull us 
in. 


— Dr. Aruban Malthus 


Footnotes 

1. Invented in 1996 by the Memetics and Infohazards Division, the 
HLMD device disrupts the cohesion of all information in the area of 
effect upon activation, causing mediums holding affected information 
to disintegrate in a similar fashion to antimemetic effects such 
asSCP-033. 

2. It is speculated that this refers to Protocol 540-Meriden. 


SCP-3676: Burrower, Borrower, Diplopod, Warrior 


Item #: SCP-3676 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3676's containment is 
currently contested between the Foundation and Gol-466 (Wilson's 
Wildlife Solutions), as per the Boring Agreement — all related 
correspondence is to be directed through WWS Liaison Kim 
Madison, the designated head of the project. Chamber 3676-Alpha 
is to be used to contain the entity as often as feasible, and 
monitoring of its extra-universal passage is paramount. Forth- 
Scranton Equalisers are to be used to negate SCP-3676's effects 
wherever possible. 


SCP-3676 is currently uncontained. As and when it re-manifests, 
Mobile Task Force Upsilon-Peord ("Slings and Arrows")! is to track 
and sedate the entity, before transferring it to Containment Chamber 
3676-Beta. Full specifications for said chamber are available in the 
attached supplementary documentation. 


Description: SCP-3676 is an abnormally large specimen of 
Harpaphe haydeniana, or cyanide millipede, estimated to be at least 
1.5 kilometres in length and around 5 metres in diameter. Detailed 
analysis of SCP-3676's biology has not been possible due to its size 
and anomalous effects, but preliminary analysis suggests it 
functions on an internal body plan closer to that of most vertebrates 
than non-anomalous millipedes. It should be noted that, despite this, 
it is a genetic match with Harpaphe haydeniana and externally 
identical, excepting the additional body segments. 


Aside from its exaggerated size, SCP-3676's primary anomalous 
property occurs whenever it attempts to burrow, or otherwise move 
quickly between locations. When such an event occurs, SCP-3676 
will sporadically generate Class-E ("Momentary Lapse of Reason") 
wormholes between baseline reality and a related branch universe? 


and almost invariably pass through into said universe. These 
wormholes are two-dimensional, largely imperceptible, and 
temporarily stable following creation (existing for between 42 
minutes and 3 months, with a mean duration of 2 weeks); in addition 
to this, their generation is hypothesised to be restricted to Nx-17 (the 
Asphodel-class nexus localised in the town of Boring, Oregon, and 
the surrounding area), but this is unconfirmed as SCP-3676 has yet 
to leave the area. The effect is purely physical in nature, and 
SCP-3676 does not possess any additional temporal, metaphysical, 
or probabilistic effects related to alternate timelines or causal 
progression. 


SCP-3676 was initially catalogued on 12/06/2015, as part of a joint 
investigation by Research Task Force Sigel-9 ("Oregon 
Trailblazers"), Mobile Task Force Beta-4 ("Castaways") and a team 
of staff from Wilson's Wildlife Solutions. While successful in 
identifying the creature and mitigating immediate damage to the 
area, disputes arose regarding which organisation should take 
control of the anomaly. As per the Boring Agreement, Wilson's 
Wildlife Solutions had area priority, while Foundation staff 
maintained (and continue to maintain) that SCP-3676 posed a 
sufficient threat to human life to warrant high-level containment by 
the Foundation's Department of Extra-Universal Affairs. 


The following is a record of all major events relating to SCP-3676's 
containment: 


Date Nature of event Followup action 
taken 
12/06/2015 Initial contact Containment 
established. Two established as 
personnel lost in an | Foundation-priority, on 
unknown branch the grounds that an 


universe after falling) alternate reality does 
through a tunnel left} not constitute part of 


by SCP-3676. the state of Oregon, 
Currently deemed regardless of its 
MIA. geographical status. 


Containment Chamber 
3676-Alpha built, with 


29/07/2015 


05/12/2015 


28/03/2016 


It is noted during 


Forth-Scranton 

Equalisers to prevent 
multi-universal shifts. 
Due to an inability to 


casual discussion that ascertain the persons’ 


three members of 
SCP-3676's 
containment team 


point of origin, and the 
lack of any debilitating 
psychological effects 


believed US President caused by the 


William Henry 
Harrison died of an 
infected wound after 
43 days in office, 
rather than of 
pneumonia after 31 
(as is established 
history). No other 


incident, the decision 
was made to assign 
the staff the positions 
of their counterparts, 
under the assumption 
that the alternate 
Foundation will do the 
same for our original 


major discrepancies in staff. 


recollections of 
historical events were 
noted. 

Power failure results 
in a containment 
breach of SCP-3676 


Wilson's Wildlife 
Solutions staff 
tranquillise the entity 


and a number of other at the scene, and 


anomalous entities. 
The entity escapes 
through an adjacent 
universe in which the 
chamber was not 
constructed, and re- 
manifests 13 km 
north-east, alongside 
large amounts of 
rubble and several 
irradiated corpses. 


Sedation chemicals 


begin to draft plans for 
long-term 
containment. 
Foundation staff 
object, but WWS 
Liaison Madison 
enacts home-ground 
priority provided the 
entity does not shift 
universes again. 
Long-term sedation is 
enacted, and remains 
functional until 
28/03/2016. 

The entity remains 


02/04/2016 


are spontaneously uncontained for 


removed from approximately six 
SCP-3676's weeks, during which 
bloodstream, time multiple 


presumably ejected | geological 

into a branch universe disturbances are 
of unknown nature, | noted in and around 
and the entity regains the area. 
consciousness, 

demanifesting almost 

immediately. MTF 

Upsilon-Peoré attempt 

to subdue it upon its 

re-manifestation, but 

are repeatedly 

dragged by SCP-3676 

into alternate 

universes, alongside 

near-identical copies 

of themselves. The 

entity escapes in the 

ensuing confusion. 

A large statue of Item taken into 
unknown origin is storage. Further action 
uncovered 40 km from deemed unnecessary. 
the border of Boring, 

presumably 

manifesting as the 

result of SCP-3676's 

activities. The object 

appears to be a 

representation of 

SCP-3676 itself, and 

is inscribed with the 

names of several 

hundred people, as 

well as what appears 

to be a cause of 

death. "Battle" 

features prominently, 


as do "Elsewhere" and 
"The Greater Good". 
Preliminary analysis 
places its date of 
creation at no more 
than five years 


previously. 

11/05/2016 SCP-3676 re- Plans are made to 
manifests in transport the entity 
Containment Chamberaway from Nx-17, but 
3676-Alpha. WWS Liaison Madison 
Numerous crossbow objects on grounds of 
bolts are found preserving natural 
embedded in the parabiodiversity, as 
entity's back, and it | well as supporting the 
appears severely group's development 
weakened from of esoteric 
extensive biood joss} containment methods. 

15/06/2016 SCP-3676 Pending — see below. 


demanifests from its 
chamber shortly after 
containment rights are 
transferred to Wilson's 
Wildlife Solutions. 
Attempts to pinpoint 
its location in U-space 
fail due to SCP-3676's 
removal and partial 
consumption of the 
relevant equipment.