Are occupied by three or more residents, all of whom are 
closely related either through marriage or consanguinity 
(100% of cases) 

« Have never had previous issues with either vermin 
infestations, major infectious disease, or flooding (92% of 
cases) 

Are located in approximately middle-class residential 
neighborhoods (89% of cases) 


The anomaly will only occur when all residents are present within 
the household. 


The phenomena proceeds as follows: all residents of the household, 
save one, will be gathered in a single room. The absent resident will 


always be in another section of the house, but within earshot. An 
anomalous facsimile of the absent resident (designated 
SCP-3259-1) will enter the room where the majority of the residents 
are gathered. SCP-3259-1 will be mostly nude and bearing marks of 
obvious illness, including grey or decaying skin, hair falling out, froth 
at the mouth, an inability to speak, and a spastic, jerking walk. 


At this point, the residents will exhibit signs of concern or distress, 
including vocalizations and possibly physical contact. When all of 
the residents are focused on SCP-3259-1, a number of vermin of 
variable speciess will burst from its body, to the distress of the 
residents witnessing the phenomena. 


The resident that the anomaly had been mimicking will respond to 
the sounds of distress from the other room at this point. Upon seeing 
the remains of SCP-3259-1, the anomaly will de-manifest. The 
vermin will not, however, and in all cases a persistent, albeit non- 
anomalous, infestation by the species which manifested will occur in 
that household. 


Interview 3259-21 


Interviewer: Researcher Milton Inselmann 
Interviewed: James Dalton, 42 

Interview Location: Dalton family residence, 
[REDACTED], Ontario, Canada 

Date: 2016-05-08 

Regarding: 2016-05-07 manifestation of SCP-3259 at 
the Dalton family residence. Affected individuals include 
interviewed party, James Dalton, his wife, Janet Dalton 
(38), daughter, Annette Dalton (18), and son, Henry 
Dalton (17), who was the party mimicked by SCP-3259. 


Researcher Inselmann: How are you today, Mr. 
Dalton? 


Mr. J. Dalton: | want a fucking explanation for what 
happened in my house yesterday. 


Researcher Inselmann: We're still investigating, sir. But 
there have been a number of similar incidents. You'll be 


the first to know, when we determine the cause. Could 
you tell me about your experience? 


Mr. J. Dalton: Experience, hell. You think we were 
hallucinating, don't you? 


Researcher Inselmann: No, sir, | don't. 
Mr. J. Dalton: ...You don't? 


Researcher Inselmann: No. As | said, there have been 
similar incidents. Could you please describe what 
happened? 


Mr. J. Dalton: |...yeah, alright. We were having a normal 
day. It was fine. Nice spring day. All the windows were 
open. We were in the kitchen. My wife was making 

lunch. | was playing Go Fish with my daughter at the 
kitchen table. My son was...he was in his room. Probably 
on his computer, or playing video games. You know how 
teenage boys are. 


Researcher Inselmann: Of course. Was there anything 
unusual- anything out of the ordinary- about the day, or 
about the period leading up to...the event? 


Mr. J. Dalton: No. Nothing. It was completely normal. 
Then. It happened. 


Researcher Inselmann: Can you describe it, please? 


Mr. J. Dalton: Yeah. Yeah, okay. Henry, my son, came 
in. Staggered in. But it wasn't him. 


Researcher Inselmann: What do you mean? 


Mr. J. Dalton: | mean, it wasn't him. He was...he looked 
like a corpse. He didn't look ill. He looked fucking dead. 
Wearing a pair of stained briefs. His skin was all....yellow 
and grey. And slick-looking. His eyes were... dead. Dull 
and dead. He staggered like he didn't know how to walk. 
In these, like, twitching, half-falling jerks. There was foam 


at his mouth- dry foam, like scales, all down his chin and 
chest, like a bib, and more frothing up like...you ever 
seen a rabid animal? It gets you right in the back of the 
mind, when you see that helpless foaming. Right where 
the instincts live. You know that it means sick, 
dangerous, right away. 


Researcher Inselmann: But you didn't try to leave? 


Mr. J. Dalton: | should've gotten Janet and Anne out of 
there. Looking back, that's the first thing | should have 
done. But...it looked like my boy. It looked like my boy 
was sick. 


Researcher Inselmann: What happened next? 


Mr. J. Dalton: Janet and Anne started talking. 'Oh my 
God, Henry, are you okay? What happened?" Stuff like 
that. | got up. | walked over to him. | put my hand on... 
that things arm... I....ah, hell. 


Researcher Inselmann: | understand if you need a 
minute. 


Mr. J. Dalton: No. I'm okay. It just... saw something 
with my boy's face ripped apart, you understand? Its 
torso started bulging. Like something out of that Alien 
movie. The sounds- bones cracking and flesh ripping. 
And it burst open. Like a plastic bag full of groceries 
bursting. And the rats4 came out. A flood of them. Most 
of them hit the floor at once, with this wet thump, and 
went squealing in every direction. Their fur was damp 
with blood. I...jumped back. But some brushed against 
me. Against my ankles. Ran over my feet. | looked up 
and... 


Researcher Inselmann: Yes? What did you see? 


Mr. J. Dalton: He was still standing. But his torso, neck 
to waist, was a hole. He was hollow. Some rats were still 
inside him, squirming around. Some climbed out, and ran 


down his legs. His head was tilted back- his face was 
slack. He looked really dead now, even if he was still on 
his feet. His mouth was forced open- and more rats 
started squirming out. One of his eyes rolled back in his 
head- not rolled back, but... pulled into his skull. It left 
his...eye socket empty. A rat's head poked out of it. 
Started squirming out. (Mr. Dalton laughs, slightly 
hysterically, at this point). | hear a rat can get through 
any opening it can fit its head through. Even my son's 
eye socket. Compresses its skeleton, see. 


Researcher Inselmann: We can take a break- 


Mr. J. Dalton: -No. | want to finish this. (Pauses). He- 
the thing, | mean, the thing pretending to be Henry- 
finally fell. It went forward, fell on me. | pushed it- one of 
my hands went inside it. It wasn't a hallucination. | felt it. 
The...wet meat. And | felt the rats squirming. | pushed it, 
and it went back. Hit the floor like a sack of meat, It was 
still twitching. Rats were still ripping their way out- of the 
meat of his thighs, his arms. | remember | saw one- one 
sharp little furry head, fur matted with blood- rip its way 
out of a little hole in his thigh. It blinked in the light, 
looked around. | lost it at that point. Started screaming, 
stomping, trying to kill them. My wife had climbed on the 
counter, and was screaming. She was starting at its face. 
The thing pretending to be our son, | mean. My daughter 
was sobbing. | could hear her behind me. And that's 
when... 


Researcher Inselmann: Yes? 


Mr. J. Dalton: That's when Henry came out of his room. 
He was yelling, 'what's happening, what's happening'- he 
shouted, without any words in it, when he saw the rats- 
and then froze up when he saw that ripped-open, 
twitching thing on the floor. We were all looking at him. 
For a minute, everything was silent. Then it was gone. 


Researcher Inselmann: The...thing mimicking your 
son? 


Mr. J. Dalton: Yeah. Just wasn't there anymore. Floor 
was empty. The last few rats ran off. And that was that. 
We didn't know what to do next, so we called the cops. 
They never showed up; you guys did. Where did you say 
you were from, again? 


Researcher Inselmann: Center for Disease Control. Ah- 
agent Georgio here has a shot for you. Nothing to worry 
about, just a precautionary rabies vaccination. Thank you 
for your statement, Mr. Dalton. We've contacted an 
exterminator on your behalf about the rats; I'm sure this 
matter will be resolved shortly. 


Mr. J. Dalton: That's it? That's all you can do? Give me 
a rabies shot and say ‘thanks for your time?’ | watched 
my son be ripped apart by rats! How am | supposed to 
forget that?! 


Researcher Inselmann: ...| think you'd be surprised 
how quickly people can recover from this sort of trauma, 
Sir. 


Follow-up: The Dalton family was amnesticized without 
incident. Exterminators have succeeded in eliminating 
the Rattus rattus infestation from the Dalton household. 


Footnotes 

1. Limited Artificial Intelligence 

2. Though the manifested vermin has been confirmed to be non- 
anomalous 

3. Observed species have included varieties of arachnidae, rodentia, 
chilopoda, diptera and corvidae 

4. Identified asRattus rattus, the common house rat 


SCP-3260: 10 Years Later 


Item #: SCP-3260 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-3260-A 
should be interrogated and exposed to SCP documents matching 
their previously assigned clearance in order to ascertain the degree 
of perceptive dissonance displayed by them. After such procedures 
are conducted, instances of SCP-3260-A may receive amnestic 
treatment and be reassigned to non-critical positions within suitable 
Foundation front companies. 


All Foundation facilities should be monitored for signs of SCP-3260. 


Description: SCP-3260 is a visuocognitive affliction affecting 
Foundation personnel exclusively. When in contact with official SCP 
documentation, an individual (SCP-3260-A) suffering from 
SCP-3260 will perceive the information contained therein differently 
from depicted, resulting in a perceptual discrepancy that may lead 
said individual to breach protocol, intentionally compromise 
containment measures, and perform other assorted actions based 
on the inaccurate interpretation of the relevant document(s). 


The nature of the perceptual discrepancy experienced by instances 
of SCP-3260-A varies, but recurrently entails false and/or misleading 
information. 


Asof // , cases of SCP-3260 have been identified among 
Foundation assets worldwide. Project Proxy currently coordinates all 
research efforts concerning SCP-3260 - Priority Aleph research 
subjects assigned to it include: 


¢ Identification of the vector through which SCP-3260 is 
transmitted, if existent. 


¢ Identification of personnel particularly susceptible to 
SCP-3260, if applicable. 


* Countermeasures to SCP-3260. 


No obvious pattern has been established between confirmed cases 
of SCP-3260 at this time, both in regards to individuals affected and 
discrepancies observed. 


Addendum: Abridged SCP-3260 Case Report - Appropriate 
Clearance Required 


Afflicted: SCP-3260-A/1 
Previous Clearance: Level 2, Junior Researcher 


Document Summary: SCP-_ . Euclid. Dis-2 
thaumaturgical entity. SCP- _is aggressive towards all 
non-Tartarean lifeforms, and was responsible for at least 
7 casualties before containment was established. 


Report: First reported case of SCP-3260. SCP-3260-A/1 
was detained after it repeatedly attempted to assign a 
cleaning crew to SCP-_'s enclosure. All containment 
cells housing aggressive SCP objects must be sanitized 
remotely as per standard Foundation protocol. 


When interrogated, SCP-3260-A/1 expressed confusion, 
citing the respective SCP document as the basis for its 
decision. Printed copies of SCP-__'s special containment 
procedures were then provided to SCP-3260-A/1, who 
was asked to read them out loud. SCP-3260-A/1's 
reading contained a non-existent addendum describing 
"Incident -V", in which SCP-3260 was supposedly fed 
an experimental compound, rendering it docile. 


Afflicted: SCP-3260-A/7 
Previous Clearance: Level 4, Site-27 Director 


Document Summary: SCP-_ . Safe. A humanoid Class 
Il essokinetic entity. SCP- has been cooperative since 
containment in / / and was reclassified as Safe after 


the introduction of Lang/Scantron-based devices to 
mainstream containment doctrine. SCP- is paraplegic. 


Report: SCP-3260-A/7 received an updated copy of 
SCP- documentation following its reclassification, as 
per protocol. Upon reviewing the document, SCP-3260- 
A/7 alerted MTF Eta-10 ofa possible containment 
breach, citing suspicion that personnel assigned 
clearance 3/ might have been under the effect of an 
unknown cognitohazard. 


After no evidence of such contagion was discovered, 
SCP-3260-A/7 was questioned. Like in previous cases, 
SCP-3260-A/7 made allegations that had no correlation 
to SCP- 's actual containment procedures. Among 
them, SCP-3260-A/7 claimed the document called for 
unwarranted torture of SCP-__, including [REDACTED], 
in direct violation of multiple directives of the Ethics 
Committee. At this point in time, no further containment 
measures are necessary. 


Afflicted: SCP-3260-A/9 
Previous Clearance: Level 3, MTF  - Operative 


Document Summary: SCP-  (-, - ). Keter. Humanoid 
entity that actively attempts to breach containment. 
Capable of inducing unclassified, non-thaumaturgical/ 
essokinetic anomalous phenomena. Hostile to all human 
beings. Highly resistant to firearms. 


Report: SCP-3260-A/9 communicated desire to cease 
Foundation employ after receiving a digital copy of SCP- 
's containment procedures. According to SCP-3260- 

A/9, the document mentioned Project ,a 
hypothetical initiative to incorporate SCP- - toMTF~ - 
's roster. No plans to weaponize SCP- - currently exist, 
given the anomaly's Gimel classification following the 
most recent Thaumiel Review. No mention of Project 

among Aleph and Bet Thaumiel applications is 
present in mainstream Foundation databases. 


Mr Mellows: We know. 
SCP-418: Know what, White Man? 


Dr Lee: Drop the act. You came here for SCP- ? Look. Dr Lee 
holds up an image. This is a little thing called CCTV. It is a nice 
little image of you reacting in shock at seeing it through the 
observation deck window. You didn't know it was here! 


Mr Mellows: That struck us as odd. Then there was something you 
said. Affront. Its just the way you said that word. Sounded a little like 
you were from Brooklyn. 


Dr Lee: Now you haven't touched that cup of water, probably 
because when you heard someone say "Water D" you thought it 
was some kind of drug, but it isn't. 


Mr Mellows: So we think you are stalling for time. Maybe you are 
expecting rescue. And | have to say you have stonewalled 
marvellously until this point. 


Dr Lee: True enough, but now | reckon you better quit it or we will 
start with the more interesting kinds of interrogation. 


SCP-418: Okay, okay. You caught me. So [EXPLETIVE] what? Why 
should | tell you anything anyway? 


Dr Lee: Well I'm sorry to have wasted your time Mr Mellows. You 
can leave now; if he gives us more trouble we will just have to resort 
to supplementary interrogation. 


Mr Mellows leaves. 418 clearance no longer required by 
Mellows, revoked. 


Dr Lee: Right you bastard. You just made me look like an 
[EXPLETIVE]. So you either tell me what | want to know, or | will 
make you wish you had. 


SCP-418: So what do you want to know? 


Dr Lee: Who the [EXPLETIVE] are you? Why the [EXPLETIVE] are 
you here and what the [EXPLETIVE] do you do? 


Afflicted: SCP-3260-A/21 
Previous Clearance: Overseer 


Document Summary: SCP-_. Keter. Highly adaptive 
organism capable of anomalous regeneration of its 
biomass. Regeneration process often accompanied by 
violent, unpredictable phenomena. [REDACTED]. 


Report: SCP-3260-A/21 brought attention to SCP- 
during [REDACTED], when the improvement of 
containment measures was being discussed. At this 
point, it was discovered that SCP-3260-A/21 had 
authorized several attempts to neutralize SCP- through 
the use of other SCP objects. Such requests were sent 
by SCP-3260-A/22, SCP-3260-A/23 and SCP-3260- 
A/24, then senior researchers not known to have been 
affected by SCP-3260.