D-2473-01: | don't know. It's like the childhood 
thing. The place just made me feel that way. 


Begay: So, what did you do? What happened 
next? 


D-2473-01: | just walked. It all seemed the 
same at first, but then | noticed that there were 
these clouds over the mountains. Big, dark 
clouds, the kind you see right before the 
thunderstorms. | thought it was — ominous, 
but kept walking. | just kept walking, watching 
the clouds and the sky and listening to the 
birds, feeling the grass between my toes, 
enjoying myself however | could. Eventually, | 
came up over a small rise and saw a little girl 
sitting on the next rise, facing away from me. 
(Subject pauses briefly.) 


Begay: What did you do next? Can you 
describe the girl in more detail? 


D-2473-01: Uh, she looked to be about 11 
years old. Maybe a little older. | don't know 
where I'm getting that impression from, but it 
feels right. She had dark skin, but | don't want 
to say she was black. Her back was to me, so | 
didn't see her face, but she had long, dark, 
flowing hair. | just kinda — sat down next to 
her, watched the clouds with her. 


Begay: Did you see her face when you sat? 
Any other physical details you can think of? 


D-2473-01: No, | didn't see her face. Didn't 
care to look, really. We laid down and watched 
the sky for a few minutes, then she sat up and 
pointed at the mountains. | could see those 
clouds rolling, moving. After a few seconds, 
there was lightning and rolling thunder. 


Begay: Do you know if the girl has any 
significance? If there was any meaning to her 
pointing to the clouds like that? 


D-2473-01: (Subject hesistates momentarily.) 
If | had to take any significance from it, I'd say 
that she was telling me that there's always a 
warning before a flood. | don't think she can 
speak English, so she was resorting to 
metaphors and hoping it sticks, maybe. 


Begay: So what happened next? 


Dr. Moodley (addressing Researcher Begay): 
Let her take her time, there's no rush. We want 
her to remember as much as possible. 


D-2473-01: It — It just got cold, fast. The wind 
picked up, and the clouds — the mountains 
surrounded this whole little plain, and there 
wasn't a mountain that didn't have a cloud 
rolling over it — the clouds rolled in from all 
sides. | stood up and looked around, and 
everything had changed, just like that. (Upon 
saying "that," D-2473-01 snapped her fingers.) 
Before, the grass was green and everything 
looked, uh, everything looked safe. Now, the 
grass looked brown and dead. And the was 
wind kicking up dust. | Knew everything was in 
my head, but | was — | was scared. 


Begay: So what did you do? 


D-2473-01: | looked around and noticed that 
the kid was gone. | tried to shout for her, but | 
couldn't, and | wouldn't know what to shout 
anyway. | Knew there was about to be a big 
storm, and | had to get her out of it. | had to 
get her to the ship. | started running, looking 
for her everywhere. It felt like I'd searched for 
a real long time when | felt a big raindrop land 


on my face. | knew it was time to give up and 
get back to the ship. When | turned around, 
she was right in front of me, facing back 
towards the ship. 


D-2473-01 (Speaking rapidly): | was about to 
kneel down and start talking to her, face-to- 
face, but then | got it in my head there wasn't 
any time, | just had to pick her up and run back 
to the ship. So | did that. |, uh, | picked her up, 
started running for the ship as fast as | could. 
The ship was sitting on a small rise, so every 
hill | was looking for it. As | was getting closer, 
the rain started coming down hard. The grass, 
the dirt was all mud, which was all right 
because it stopped the damn dust. Water was 
puddling and flowing at the low point before 
the ship — | jumped over that and put the girl 
down so she could go up the ladder. She 
climbed up before me, then sat in the chair 
closest to the hole in the ship.3 | wanted to 
drag her to the back, with me, but it seemed 
like it was a bad idea. | ran to my seat, but as | 
got there, the whole ship felt like it'd been 
picked up and tossed and it all went black. 


Begay: Is that when you came to? 
D-2473-01: No, actually, not quite. 


Begay: All right, then. What happened next? 
Do you know if there's any sort of meaning to 
any of this? 


D-2473-01: | think the little girl is the pilot. | 
think she was trying to tell me about what the 
ship was built for, wnat she was running from. 
You gotta [sic] tell me, was there something 
sitting in the chair where the girl sat in the 
simulation? Every chair besides the one you 
sat me in looks like it's falling apart, and the 


other folks on the team don't seem to like 
going back there. 


Begay: I'm afraid we're not allowed to disclose 
that, sorry. 


Moodley: D-2473-01, you said there was 
more? Can you please continue? 


D-2473-01: Uh, yeah. Everything went black 
when | felt the ship get thrown. After that, it 
wasn't so much a simulation, a VR, as it was a 
— | don't know how to describe it. It just turned 
into images, flashes, snippets. | remember 
flashes of someone playing games in a house 
on the plain from earlier. | remember seeing 
the girl go to school, and come home, and do 
normal little kid stuff. The house didn't look like 
anything I'd ever seen — different architecture, 
| think — and none of the people there were 
speaking English. | recognized some of the 
writing that | saw in the ship — it looked 
similar. | remember seeing adults having 
conversations, they seemed scared and angry. 


D-2473-01: At one point, the little girl anda 
man — | think it was her father — got into a 
vehicle like nothing I've ever seen — big, 
knobby tires, and a cab that looked airtight — 
and went on a trip. We went through the 
mountains, through storms just like the one 
from earlier. The trip felt like it lasted weeks for 
them. They drove through some of the most 
beautiful landscapes I've ever seen, but no 
cities. No roads. When they stopped, they got 
into a spaceship — a rocket, not that thing — 
after spending the night someplace strange. It 
felt like a hotel, almost. The rocket launched, 
and connected to a space station. It looked a 
lot like those old NASA videos, the ones with 
the astronauts going to the ISS or the Apollo 


SCP-273: 3 years, that much | remember. And [pause] | 
think | had made some great mistake. Perhaps that is 
why | am what | am now. 

Dr. : And what are you now? 

SCP-273: A demon. 


Note: The preceding interview transcript omits 3 min 7 sec from the 
beginning and all parts after the last line for a reason. Level 3 
clearance or higher is required for access to the original recordings. 
Know that SCP-273 admitted in the former omitted fragment to 
involuntarily killing the two deceased subjects found near her point 
of extraction. SCP-273 also identifies the victims as old friends. 


Staff members working with or observing SCP-273 are to be 
reminded of this fact, and of procedure for working with humanoid 
SCPs in general. -Dr. 


Incident Report 273-02: 
Date: / / 
Location: Site- 


Agents and entered the enclosure of SCP-273 with intent to 
question regarding . SCP-273 had earlier been granted a 
bottle of Bacardi 151 for personal use, by Agent _ . It had been 12 
hours and 37 minutes since the last scheduled feeding. Upon the 
agents’ entry, SCP-273 demanded they leave. When they did not at 
first, SCP-273 became agitated, shouting at them and gesturing 
frantically. Less than one second after they secured the door, the 
bottle of Bacardi was observed to [DATA EXPUNGED]. 


[DATA EXPUNGED] extreme damage to SCP-273's enclosure and 
observation room due to flames of unprecedented strength. 
Recorded temperatures exceeded degrees Celsius. Agent 's 
death will be handled as per normal procedure. Agent is still in 
recovery as of this writing. SCP-273's ashes have been contained in 
an air-tight, fire-proof safe. The damaged enclosure is to be repaired 
for future use in containing other SCPs. 


Incident Report 273-03: 
Date: / / 
Location: Site 


astronauts? Like that. 


Moodley: Do you think you'd be able to read 
the writing inside the spacecraft, if we gave 
you the chance? 


D-2473-01: No. | only caught snippets, not 
enough to learn anything. 


Begay: What about the girl's face? This entire 
time, you've made a point of not looking at her 
face. 


D-2473-01: | have? That doesn't seem right. 
And for this part, | was seeing it through her 
eyes, | couldn't have seen her face. 


Moodley: All right, let's leave it. Please, tell us 
what happened next? 


D-2473-01: The space station was big — as 
big as a small city, | think. It was spinning, had 
simulated gravity. We were there for a few 
days, when | noticed it was docked to another 
spaceship — dozens of ships, actually, just 
like the one we did the tests in. Everyone on 
the station seemed busy. | remember, the girl 
was worried about her mother, her mother was 
still back on the planet we'd left. Not too long 
after | noticed the other ships, the shuttles, | 
was shoved into one in a big hurry. The girl's 
dad, he kissed us — her, | mean. He kissed 
her — and left the ship to go get more 
supplies. Then the door closed, the ship turned 
on, and it flew away from the station. 


Moodley: Did anything happen after that? Can 
you tell us anything else? 


D-2473-01: The ship was connected to 
something else, some sort of cylindrical — 


thing on the outside, the top. | don't know what 
it was. After the ship took off, | remember 
feeling scared — terrified, alone, helpless. | 
didn't know what to do. So | eventually sat 
myself in one of the chairs, and | felt the 
needles again. 


Moodley: What happened after that? 


D-2473-01: I'm not sure. It felt like something 
was talking to me, telling me to turn around, go 
back. But | didn't know how. And it felt like the 
people on the space station were calling for 
me to come back, too. But | didn't know how to 
speak, | didn't know how to turn around, and 
eventually, they quit calling for me. | could still 
hear them talking for a while, it seemed like, 
but that went quiet, too. And after a while, it 
didn't feel like | was sitting in the ship 
anymore, it felt like the ship was rocking me to 
sleep. 


Dr. Moodely: Is there anything else you can 
tell us? 


D-2473-01: If | didn't know any better, I'd say 
that the last thing | heard before everything 
went quiet sounded like screaming. After that, 
it felt like everything was quiet for a long, long 
time, but eventually, | realized where | needed 
to be, where | was supposed to go. So | 
started running. But it wasn't like running, it 
almost felt like — swimming in a big, deep, 
dark ocean, but | knew where | was going. And 
then | woke up in the chair. 


Moodley: Thank you very much, D-2473-01. 
This has been insightful. 


End Transcript 


Closing Statement: Full significance of 
D-2473-01's experience during this experiment 
is unknown. Dr. Moodley has filed a request 
for further tests at this time. 


Footnotes 

1. Yes, on an institutional level, we like to maintain some skepticism 
regarding anomalies. But we've spent the last decade taking it apart 
and noting every single millimeter. We know what it does and how it 
works. Anyone who disagrees with the assertions in this document 
can take it up with my team personally. —Dr. S. Moodley, SCP-2473 
Technology Research/Restoration Team Chief 

2. SeeSCP-1795and attached documents for information regarding 
SCP-. 's utility as an observational tool for astronomical anomalies. 
3. This seat is believed to correspond to SCP-2473-1-11, where 
SCP-2473-2 was located. 


« SCP-2472 | SCP-2473 | SCP-2474 » 


SCP-2474: Irnini Mons 


Item #: SCP-2474 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: All electronic communications 
originating from the Divine Unity 3 space station are to be monitored 
for signs of influence by SCP-2474. Any missions in the vicinity of 
Venus undertaken by international space agencies, nonprofit 
consortia or private interplanetary firms are to be investigated for the 
potential of encountering SCP-2474, especially those likely to 
generate data concerning the northern hemisphere of the planet. 


All persons suspected of exposure to SCP-2474 are to be 
quarantined under Designation A3 protocols. Contact with research 
subjects and personnel exposed to SCP-2474 is limited exclusively 
to the Manu Thirteen system. 


Due to the high risk of exposure resulting from the New Shambhala 
Colonization Expedition, operatives from Mobile Task Force Rho-19 
("Cythereans") have been placed as part of the First Thousand 
group of specialists tasked with establishing a full base of operations 
in the Venusian atmosphere. MTF Rho-19 is scheduled to conduct 
an exploratory mission to SCP-2474 upon the arrival of the 
Expedition in March of 2153. 


Dispatches filed in the late 20th century by Dr. Richard Simonis 
documenting SCP-2474 have been expunged from records of the 
era. 


Description: SCP-2474 is a complex artificial structure located on 
the summit of Irnini Mons, a shield volcano on the Ishtar Terra 
continent of Venus, in the appearance of an ornate geometrical 
pattern. While the composition of SCP-2474 cannot be determined 
at this time, observation has concluded that the material comprising 
SCP-2474 is not consistent with materials known to exist in quantity 


on the Venusian surface. The height of the structure making up 
SCP-2474 averages 6.8 m, with a variance between 2.6 m - 18.3 m. 
The anomaly spans an approximate area of 30 km2, occupying the 
highest reaches of Irnini Mons. DESCRIPTION TRUNCATED FOR 
READER PROTECTION 


SCP-2474 is a Designation A3 (indirect observation) cognitohazard. 
The first known human exposed to the anomaly was Dr. Richard 
Simonis, lead topography consultant on the Magellan observational 
mission of Venus, conducted by the now-defunct National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1992. SCP-2474 was first 
documented by Dr. Simonis using synthetic aperture radar during 
Mapping Cycle 3 of Magellan's mission. Subsequent radar mapping 
activities examining the Venusian surface have confirmed the 
existence of SCP-2474. 


SCP-2474 exhibits pronounced neurological and psychological 
effects on humans observing it through indirect means, such as 
reading detailed accounts of the anomaly or viewing photographic 
records. These effects vary in form and severity, as evidenced by 
Incident 2474.1. 


SCP-2474 is believed to be inhabited by a previously undocumented 
species of entities. The precise nature of these entities is unknown. 
Based on records of Incident 2474.1 and subsequent events, these 
entities are presumed to be hostile until further notice. 


Records of Incident 2474.1, as well as seized archives of 
Gol-004B1, have led to the currently prevailing theory that the 
structure comprising SCP-2474 is of human origin. The means by 
which SCP-2474 was constructed at least 150 years prior to viability 
of planetary exploration technology is unknown. 


Addendum 2474.1 - Initial Containment 


Public knowledge of SCP-2474 prior to Foundation containment was 
limited by the mistaken belief of Dr. Simonis, then the Magellan 
mission operative in charge of visual data, that the anomaly was a 
digital artifact resulting from an error in the software converting radar 
data to maps of the Venusian surface. This resulted in visual 
evidence of SCP-2474 being removed as part of a general 


smoothing process of graphical errors in maps of the surface of 
Venus.