The camera falls approximately twenty metres, 
landing on what appears to be a number of 
human corpses piled in the centre of the pit. 
Light conditions are very low, and the 
camera's view is obscured by a female face in 
the early stages of putrefaction. It remains able 
to record sound. 


Agent Cooper: <calling out> Baby, don't go. 


A heavy scraping noise is heard from above, 
and the light grows dimmer. 


Agent Cooper: Baby, | hurt my leg. Stay with 
me? 


Several other female voices can be heard 
calling out from within the pit. The camera's 
view becomes completely dark. 


Over the next 28 hours, the camera records 
the sounds of at least eight female voices. 
Vocalisations consist primarily of laughter, 
screaming and indistinct speech. There is no 
increase in light levels. 


[[Cooper] is heard clearly only once, when 
she approaches the camera's position after 
approximately 20 hours. 


Agent Cooper: I'm hungry. <giggling> 


The camera's position is disturbed slightly, and 
then settles. 


At around 26 hours, a deep grinding sound 
reverberates from below the camera's position. 
It continues for four minutes, during which the 
voices in the pit fall silent. The camera records 
for a further 2 hours in darkness before its 
batteries expire. 


Afterword: Foundation investigators discovered Agent 
Cooper's body-camera at the top of the spiral staircase, 
near the entrance to the caverns. It was no longer 
attached to her combat vest. While MTF Zeta-9 has 
gained access to the caves, exploration and geophysical 
imaging of the cavern system has not located any of the 
other areas filmed in these logs. Neither Agent Cooper 
nor Agent Rey has been recovered. 


Footnotes 
1. These references are believed to be to Escher'sGravitationand 
Uccello'smosaicsfor St Mark's Basilica in Venice. 


SCP-3513: The brain that ate itself 


Item #: SCP-3513 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: The concrete bunker built 
around SCP-3513 is to be guarded and maintained by four 
permanent staff, maintaining the cover story of a water pumping 
station. 


Undercover Foundation agents are to be placed in all Namibian 
hospitals to cover up pathological reports suggesting the influence of 
SCP-3513. Any atypical increase in clinical rates of degenerative 
brain disease in a highly localised area is to be investigated as a 
potential further instance of SCP-3513. 


Proposals for a network of Foundation seismographs to detect 
potential anomalies in the Earth's outer core are currently under 
consideration. 


Description: SCP-3513 is a region of space located in Rocky Crest, 
Windhoek, Namibia. It is approximately cylindrical in shape, with a 
diameter of 3.4m and a height above ground of 2.3m. Excavations 
have revealed that SCP-3513 extends below the ground for at least 
10m, but its total depth has not been measured. 


Any organism with a brain that passes through SCP-3513 will 
become subject to an anomalous neurodegenerative disease. The 
disease will develop over a period of 4-6 months with the following 
progression: 


¢ A hard keratin nub develops in the cerebrum. The keratinized 
area grows in proportion to the overall size of the brain; in 
humans, it becomes approximately 5cm across. 


¢ The tip of the keratin nub opens, forming a beak. The interior 


of the beak is coated in pointed, keratin papillae (see image). 


* Over a period of months, the beak slowly ingests brain tissue, 
consuming it. The papillae assist in ensuring that the soft brain 
matter does not slip out of the beak once it enters. Brain 
tissue consumed by the beak disappears from the patient's 
brain - testing indicates that the interior of the beak leads to an 
intra-dimensional portal to another location or locations. 


The external symptoms of the SCP-3513 disease depend largely on 
where in the brain the keratin nub initially forms, but may be 
misdiagnosed as SCP-1086, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, Huntington's, 
Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease. Confirmation of the effects of 
SCP-3513 is only possible through MRI or CT scan, open 
neurosurgery or autopsy. Foundation autopsies have confirmed that, 
following the death of the patient, the beak continues to ingest any 
remaining brain tissue. 


Test Logs 


Procedure: Six D-Class were exposed to SCP-3513, and regular 
CT scans performed to track the progression of the disease. Upon 
the opening of the beak, Foundation medical staff performed 
conventional open neurosurgery on the relevant D-Class. The use of 
human test subjects was approved based on the requirements for 
brain size and ease of anaesthesia. 


During surgery, unnecessary brain tissue was removed to allow 
access to the beak. A microscopic surgical camera, fitted with a 
GPS tracking chip, was fed slowly into the beak and the results 
recorded and analysed. 


Exploration 3513-1 
Subject: D-2879 


Results: Inside the SCP-3513 beak, the camera filmed a 
passage lined with papillae. The camera was fed into this 
passage for a distance of 1.4m. The GPS tracker was 
not able to be located during this time. D-2879 reported 
no discomfort. 


After the camera had progressed approximately 0.8m, 
the passage ended and the camera emerged into a dark 
hemispherical space. A number of openings were 
observed at intervals around the sides of this space. 
After consultation, the surgical team proceeded to feed in 
the camera filament, allowing the camera to enter into 
the opening on the opposite wall of the space. 


The opening led to another passage lined with papillae, 
although observers noted that the direction of papillae 
was reversed. At 1.4m, the camera emerged from the 
interior of another keratin beak into what appeared to be 
further brain tissue. At this point, a GPS signal was 
obtained, registering the camera's location in Reedsburg, 
Wisconsin. After a short delay, the GPS signal became 
mobile. Local Foundation assets followed the signal to 
the Reedsburg Area Medical Center, where it was 
tracked to a recently deceased patient, Norman Miller. 
Mr Miller had suffered a stroke, presumed to be caused 
by the sudden appearance of the camera within his 
brain. 


The camera was retracted through the beak in Mr Miller's 
brain, back through the passages and the beak in 
D-2879's brain, and D-2879 was returned to monitoring 
without complications from surgery. 


Exploration 3513-2 
Subject: D-4353 


Results: The camera filmed a passage lined with 
papillae for approximately 0.7m, entering a similar 
hemispherical space to that observed in Exploration 
3513-1 and being fed into an opening opposite its point 
of entry. After progress down a second passage for a 
further 0.8m, the camera emerged from a second beak 
and filmed unidentified tissue, which appeared to be in 
motion. This movement continued for 8 seconds before 
the camera malfunctioned and lost picture. The camera 
was withdrawn from the passages and found to have 


been crushed. 


The GPS signal from the camera was traced to a 
location outside Naples, Italy. Further investigation 
revealed the coordinates belonged to a Cremonini meat 
processing plant. 


A later biopsy of D-4353 revealed trace amounts of 
processed meat within his brain. Transfer of the meat 
into D-4353's brain is thought to have occurred during 
the recovery of the camera from its alternate location, 
which appears to have allowed material from that 
location to travel back along with the camera. 


Exploration 3513-3 
Subject: D-3956 


Results: After the camera had progressed 
approximately 0.6m, it emerged into the hemispherical 
space. An accidental mis-feeding of the filament resulted 
in a change in the camera's alignment within this space, 
with the camera facing downwards towards a wider 
opening at the base of the chamber. The camera was 
fed into this opening, filming a papillae-lined passage 
which extended for more than 2.5m. No reversal of 
papillae was observed, and the passage was observed 
to grow wider as it continued. After progressing for 
approximately 3m, the camera feed suddenly cut out. No 
GPS signal was located. 


Upon retrieving the camera filament, attending medical 
staff noted that the camera was missing and that the end 
of the filament appeared to have melted. Five seconds 
later, a high pressure jet of molten metal began to spray 
from the incision in D-3956's brain. D-3956 and all 
attending medical personnel were killed. 


Following recontainment of the laboratory, analysis 
confirmed the presence of several hundred kilograms of 
iron-nickel alloy. Initial temperature of the molten metal is 


estimated to have been up to 4000 Kelvin. 


Testing discontinued. 


SCP-3514: The Moment of the Mahdi and the Moment 
of the Mortal 


Item #: SCP-3514 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: As of 22/12/1973, SCP-3514 
has come under the control of the Office for the Reclamation of 
Islamic Artifacts (ORIA). Access to and containment of SCP-3514 is 
therefore unfeasible at present. Due to the low threat level of the 
anomaly and the apparent competence of ORIA in keeping the 
anomaly hidden from the general public, the restoration of control 
over SCP-3514 is considered a low priority. 


Previous Containment Procedures 


Following a cover-up operation in the late 19th century 
involving cooperation between the Foundation and the 
Sublime State of Iran, the exact site of the battlefield of 
Chaldiran in the public record has been altered; it is now 
commonly believed to be a site near the village of Gal 
Ashagi, 10km away from SCP-3514. 


The subsequent expungement by Foundation personnel 
of documents within the Qajar archives related to this 
cover-up has resulted in ORIA being unaware of 
SCP-3514. Preventing ORIA from learning of SCP-3514 
is of paramount importance. 


A perimeter 50m away from SCP-3514 is currently 
cordoned off with electric fences and has security 
cameras positioned at regular intervals in order to 
prevent unauthorised entry. Foundation researchers 
have set up a rudimentary research base to observe 
SCP-3514-1 events and interview SCP-351 4-2; it is 
considered inadvisable to set up a full site, as this might 


attract the attention of ORIA. 


Description: SCP-3514 refers to a 2 km2 area in northwestern Iran, 
corresponding to the location of the 16th century Battle of Chaldiran. 
SCP-3514's primary anomalous effects activate at approximately 
each day, and continue until : , which matches the time of day 
during which the battle took place. This activity is henceforth 
referred to as an SCP-3514-1 event. 


An SCP-3514-1 event begins with the manifestation of intangible 
representations of the combatants present at the battle, arranged in 
a manner believed to match the armies at the beginning of the real 
battle. These representations are henceforth referred to as 
SCP-3514-2 instances. The SCP-3514-2 instances then engage in 
combat, apparently recreating a version of the Battle of Chaldiran. 
These representations can only physically interact with one another 
and are unaware or unwilling to respond to any external stimulus. 


Despite this set-up, the course of the battle alters with each 
SCP-3514-1 event. Although some SCP-3514-1 events follow the 
course of the battle closely, at other times a radically different 
outcome occurs, ranging from the death of Shah Isma'il2 to the 
complete routing of the Ottoman forces. At times, SCP-3514-2 
instances representing apparently supernatural or mythical figures 
have appeared, including the Shi'ite figures of 'Ali and Hosayn, and 
Shahnama’ characters such as Rostam, Gordafarid and Zal. At the 
end of the SCP-3514-1 event, the SCP-3514-2 instances all abruptly 
disappear. 


Some examples of notable variations within the SCP-3514-1 event 
are detailed below. Note that the first three of these occasions took 
place before the development of practicable devices for recording 
sound or film, and the reports did not always possess the same level 
of observational rigour found in more modern reports. 


Date Variation Taking Piace 
18/09/1886 First observed Safavid victory and 
first time a major deviation from 
the events of the historical battle 
was observed. Ismai’il's forces 
attacked the Ottoman forces 


20/06/1888 


01/04/1913 


23/08/1937 


before the Ottomans set up their 
chain-linked line of cannons in the 
centre, cutting through their lines 
and killing Selim.+ 

An Ottoman victory, and the first 
observed occasion upon which 
the SCP-3514-2 instance 
representing Isma’il was killed. 
During a charge into the Ottoman 
lines, an Ottoman bullet appeared 
to hit Isma’'il "around the head or 
neck area", killing him almost 
instantly and prompting a 
complete Safavid rout. 

A "great celestial body", in the 
words of observing researchers, 
appeared above the battlefield. 
An "extremely tall and well-built" 
SCP-3514-2 instance descended 
from this object. All of the Safavid 
combatants then prostrated 
themselves before the instance, 
chanting the name "Ali" 
repeatedly. The SCP-3514-2 
instance then appeared to 
"destroy" all of the Ottoman 
combatants. Most of the 
remainder of the SCP-3514-1 
event was taken up with "wild and 
extravagant celebrations" on the 
part of the Safavid combatants 
and the "Ali" instance until one 
hour before the end of the event. 
At this point, the "Ali" instance 
abruptly disappeared, and the 
Safavid combatants wept and 
beat the ground for the remainder 
of the event. 

First observed event where battle 
did not take place. Instead, the 


Experiment Log 455 


First Encounter 
Team 3 


Explorative Logs of SCP-455 
First Encounter 


Initial reports of disappearance of a salvage operation regarding 
SCP-455 led to its classification in our databases. A research team 
of five members was dispatched to confirm status of civilian 
researchers. This team consisted of two field analysts and three 
security personnel. Due to the low threat level initially given to a 
beached cargo vessel, no direct contact was kept with this team. 
Team orders required one contact to their Control HQ every 24 
hours. After three days of uneventful activity team failed to report in, 
and after two days of lost contact a secondary team was dispatched 
to investigate lapse in communication. This team consisted of ten 
standard field agents with standard gear for confrontation with 
humanoid aggressors. 


A search of the vicinity of SCP-455 discovered encampment of the 
first research team in a condition that suggested an anticipated 
return. A rice cooker left running for several days contained heavily 
burnt food. Research laptops were left on and running, powered by 
the camp’s portable generator. An analysis of the reports on the 
laptop indicated minimal activity of note from the site or from 
SCP-455, up until the date of ceased communications. The last 
entry mentions recording of human voices coming from deep within 
SCP-455 and a departure of the team to investigate for possible 
missed survivors from the salvage operation. 


After reporting in the state of Team 1’s camp, Team 2 was ordered 
to maintain constant radio contact through the remote system 
already on camp. What follows is an abbreviated transcript of the 
audio recorded during Team 2’s investigation of SCP-455 in search 


only SCP-3514-2 instances who 
manifested were the Safavid 
combatants, who repeatedly 
attacked and appeared to fatally 
wound the SCP-3514-2 instance 
of Shah Isma’il. The Ismail 
instance appeared to suffer 
extreme pain, but did not expire 
from its wounds. The assailants 
reputedly chanted the words 
"false murshiad!"5 repeatedly while 
doing so.