Agent Watkins: "Unofficially, sir? She's only 
15... and she looks just like my daughter did at 
that age. She fled America - our nation - to 
hide from the Skippers and other groups 
hunting her down. Because we couldn't control 
what was happening here, she had to run to 
an anomalous island she had heard about 
during her time underground and beg them for 
amnesty. Now, that island has been destroyed 
and | refuse to abandon an underage 
American girl in a foreign nation that's 
decaying before her eyes. She's never 
committed a crime and yet she's being 
punished by having everything ripped away... 


[A 7-second pause commences. ] 


Agent Watkins: "She deserves to be brought 
home, sir. She deserves the right to live under 
the star-spangled banner without fear of 
imprisonment or execution from the Skippers 
and Suits, and Witness Protection can keep 
her identity hidden from both. We both know 
from what | found that the GOC will kill 
anomalous witnesses trying to flee the island 
in order to hide their failures following the Hy- 
Brasil Incident. | am, as one of the longest 
agents still serving in the Ul-Unit, asking you to 
grant her that right." 


[A long 35-second pause commences as the 
Assistant Director can be heard shuffling 


paperwork. ] 


Assistant Director :"l can't guarantee 
anything, son. You know that we aren't in 
charge of WITSEC handling... " [Assistant 
Director stands up from his chair] "But I'll 
forward the application to the Marshals. 
Whether they accept or reject it, I'll let you 
know." 


Agent Watkins: "Thank you, sir." [Agent 
Watkins shakes the Assistant Director's hand] 
"That's all | ask." 


<End Log, Interview Completed After 32 
Minutes Elapsed> 


Closing Statement: As of 08/31/1988, the above- 
mentioned request for Witness Protection submitted to 
the US Marshals Service is still pending review. For 
further details or to issue an update for this log, contact 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Records 
Department. 


Current Status of Investigation: Creature eliminated by an 
unknown anomalous party on 06/13/1988. Suspected anomalous 
parties narrowed down to either the Foundation or the Global Occult 
Coalition. Creature's corpse has been removed by an as-of-this- 
time-unconfirmed third party, suspected to be Marshall, Carter, and 
Dark. Case is considered closed. 


Investigation Conclusion: Creature has constituted a grave threat 
to United States coastal cities if there are others like it, which the 
Acting Director of the FBI has deemed to be of critical importance in 
this investigation. Hy-Brasil deemed to be a lost cause and of no 
further use. 


History of UIU Action: 


06/13/1988: Initial contact is made by Extranormal Informant 


Ramone Valtruz during the initial landfall of the creature. 


06/17/1988: The El and the FBI Field Office on Hy-Brasil both fail to 
submit their weekly reports to the FBI Records Department. The 
Assistant Director of the UIU is alerted of a possible situation on Hy- 
Brasil. 


06/18/1988: Assistant Director of the UIU launches an investigation 
and discovers that the area is experiencing one of the highest levels 
of presence between known anomalous parties to-date. UIU Agent 
Watkins activated & deployed to the island of Hy-Brasil, soon 
confirming the FBI Field Office to be destroyed, making document 
and body retrieval/recovery impossible. Agent Watkins then focuses 
on the missing El. 


06/29/1988: The El is finally located by UIU Agent Watkins at a 
triage-center-turned-field-hospital and is found to have been gravely 
wounded with third-degree burns. While the El is originally 
responsive and gives a full statement to Agent Watkins regarding 
the events of 06/13/1988, he succumbs to his injuries on 
07/03/1988. 


08/08/1988: UIU Agent Watkins informs the UIU's Assistant Director 
of the completion of his field investigation, and requests egress from 
the island. 


08/15/1988: The El's body is transferred to the UIU's custody and 
sent back to the US for burial under an alias name, with Agent 
Watkins egressing the island alongside. UIU Agent Watkins is 
debriefed by the Assistant Director of the UIU regarding his 
investigation. Shortly thereafter, the Assistant Director declares all 
records and investigations regarding the island nation of Hy-Brasil to 
be closed immediately, and classifies all records involving such as 
Secret, with the exception of select records being classified as Top 
Secret as deemed by the Assistant Director himself. 


Footnotes 

1. A UIU slang term for the fey at the time, with 'Mick' denoting their 
Irish accents and 'Point' denoting their elven ears. 

2. UIU slang for anomalous artifacts and locations, respectively. 

3. UIU slang for anomalous individuals. 


UIU File: 1997-007 


Electronic copy below as per Federal Records Act 
UIU File [1997]-[007]: Codename "Amplifier" 


Summary: An unknown piscine meme communicated by fish-to-fish 
interaction, providing affected fish with the ability to telepathically 
communicate. 


Irregularity Cross-reference: Animal, Piscine, Memetic, Telepathic 


Physical Description: Consistent with unaffected loaches of their 
species, sex, and age. Pangio kuhlilii will be orange with black 
stripes, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus will be sensitive to barometric 
disturbances, so on and so forth. 


Capabilities: Provides telepathy to loaches, such as Acantopsis 
dialuzona, Leptobotia elongata, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus, Pangio 
kuhlii, Pangio myersi, and Pangio oblonga. All loach species listed 
are common to the aquarium trade, and the three members of the 
Pangio genus are often kept together. Any loach can transmit the 
meme to any other loach, but often prefer to school with their own 
species, making cross-species transmission rare. 


Purpose/Motive: Unknown/Survival 


Modus Operandi: This meme is spread through loach-to-loach 
interaction, commonly when loaches are introduced to an aquarium, 
pet store, or pond. The affected loach will interact with other 
loaches, preferably of its own species, wildly wiggling its body and 
waving its barbels. The other loaches will observe this behavior, and 
begin to imitate it. After this interaction is completed, the meme has 
been transmitted, and the observing loaches are telepathic. 


Behavior: Loaches under the effect of this meme primarily request 


food, more hiding places, more loaches, more tank space, and a 
reduction in tankmates which compete for their food. However, they 
are more alert to humanoids uninvolved in the maintenance of their 
aquaria, and will alert their primary caretaker to visitors. If visitors 
are not acknowledged as permitted, the telepathic alerts will grow 
"louder" and more widespread, up to a radius of 2m multiplied by the 
amount of loaches affected by the meme. 


Tank of assorted members of the Pangio genus: A tank 
confiscated from the belongings of a suspect of multiple unrelated 
crimes, containing 14 kuhli loaches, 3 java loaches, and 8 giant kuhli 
loaches. Suspect had previously kept the fish in a 75 liter tank; tank 
was upgraded to 200 liters after complaints from the loaches. 


Video of memetic transmission between two loaches: A security 
camera from a pet store in Rockville, Maryland recorded a full 
sequence of memetic transmission in their stock of weather loaches. 
The clearest sample has been retained by the department. 


Image: 


Found on the side of a weather loach tank in a fish store in Three 
Portlands. This image was purportedly able to prevent the spread of 
the loach meme, but only when affected weather loaches were 
exposed to the image. 


Corpses of affected loaches: During a typical breaking-and- 
entering, a burglar encountered a tank of horseface loaches. The 
loaches promptly attempted to alert their caretaker, inciting the 
burglar to shoot the tank multiple times before fleeing the scene. 
Loach autopsies revealed no significant differences between 
affected and non-affected loaches. 


Current Status: Affected loaches continue to appear in aquaria and 
pet stores. 


Crimes: Not applicable, as animals cannot be charged with crimes. 
However, if applicable, the charges of chronic disruption of the 
peace and disorderly conduct would be applied. 


Sentencing: Indefinite detention and community service. 
History of UIU Action: 


11/07/1997: A fish tank recently installed in the maternity ward of 
Montgomery General Hospital begins to request that passing nurses 
relocate the loaches to somewhere "less noisy," increasing in 
volume as nurses become distressed. Nurses contact the police to 
report a "talking fish" harassing them in the maternity ward. By the 
time agents are dispatched, the maternity ward has been evacuated 
due to loach loudness. Tank is confiscated by agents, witnesses are 
given non-disclosure agreements and placed under total 
surveillance. 


05/27/2001: A burglar attempts to break into an apartment in 
Gresham, Oregon. The tenant's tank of horseface loaches begin 
screaming, causing the burglar to discharge his weapon into the 
tank multiple times before fleeing. The burglar is unable to escape 
the apartment complex before being affected by the screams of 
dying loaches. Police are called to the scene, and are immediately 
affected by the death screams of the loaches. The burglar is 
arrested. Federal agents are dispatched, arriving only after the 
loaches have expired. Conducted autopsies reveal no discrepancies 
between these loaches and non-telepathic horseface loaches. The 
tenant, an 85-year old woman by the name of Linh Nguyen, is 
interrogated on where she purchased the loaches. Mrs. Nguyen is 
revealed to be suffering from senility, and cannot answer the 
question. However, the home nurse, Mr. Dahal, explains that they 
were given to him as a gift by an unknown stranger. He explains that 
he chose to set up the tank after Mrs. Nguyen began to suffer from 
loneliness, and was unaware of their abnormal properties. Mrs. 
Nguyen and Mr. Dahal are released after signing non-disclosure 
forms, and placed under surveillance. 


05/31/2001: Mr. Dahal alerts UIU agents to the presence of a 
replaced loach tank in Mrs. Nguyen's apartment. It is unclear how 
the tank was smuggled in and set up without the knowledge of 
agents or Mr. Dahal. The new loaches are confirmed to be affected 
by the same memetic effect. Mrs. Nguyen is permitted to retain her 
loaches as long as they do not cause a public disturbance. 


02/14/2003: A novelty ramen shop in Three Portlands employs 
affected kuhli loaches to take the orders of customers. A customer 
attempting to leave without paying their bill is caught when all 
employed loaches begin screaming in unison. Restaurant is fined for 
the public disturbance. 


05/04/2004: Due to persistent boredom resulting in detrimental 
behaviors, detained loaches are permitted to supplement their 
sentence with acts of community service, such as answering phone 
calls for UIU offices. 


04/19/2009: A shop in Rockville, Maryland is discovered to have 
their entire applicable loach stock affected by the meme after an 
employee posts a YouTube video of peculiar loach behavior. Video 
is taken down under guise of a DMC violation. Loaches are 
confiscated and detained, and employees and owner are 
interrogated, forced to sign non-disclosure agreements, and placed 
under total surveillance. After investigation of store records, owner is 
arrested for account falsification and tax fraud. No records of any 
loach purchases were recovered. 


06/24/2014: During an attempt to apprehend a suspect in multiple 
counts of murder, theft of animals, and other assorted crimes, 
agents discover a malnourished colony of multiple Pangio genus 
loaches in the garage that the suspect, codenamed Tachyglossa!, 
had been hiding in. Suspect is not apprehended, however, the 
loaches willingly provide information on Tachyglossa in return for a 
larger tank and community service privileges. 


Footnotes 
1. Real name Cyryl Mercier, File 2000-028 


UIU File: 1998-017 


Electronic copy below as per Federal Records Act 
UIU File 1998-017: Codename "Razorblade" 
Summary: Suspect with irregular abilities allowing him to cut off and 
reattach body parts without adverse effects. Working as freelance 
industrial spy and saboteur. Currently believed to be in the custody 
of organization "The Foundation". 
Name: Unknown, alias "John Smith" 
Irregularity Cross-reference: American, Biology, Human, Spy 


Physical Description: 


Sex Heigh Weigh Race Hair Eyes Identifying 


Build Attributes 
Male 70 in. 160 lbs, Native | Black Brown | Missing 
medium American final joint 
of right 
ring 
finger 


Capabilities: The suspect is an average-looking Native American 
male capable of controlling body parts that have been cut off of him. 
So long as the body part is cut off, rather than injured by other 
means, the separation is painless. These body parts function as if 
they are still connected to him and he has trained his muscle control 
to the point that he can use many small body parts in unexpected 
ways. Separated body parts can be seamlessly reattached at will by 
pressing them to the spot where they were cut off. 


Purpose/Motive: This individual appears to operate with a profit 
motive, hiring himself out as a spy and industrial saboteur, primarily 


Addendum: Audio data was recovered from what is left 
of Site-68. Although part of a CCTV recorded video, the 
video itself was too distorted to be of any use but audio 
proved salvageable and appears to reveal seemingly 
one-sided conversations by SCP-748-4. It is theorized 
that SCP-748-4 is communicating with instances similar 
to himself from throughout the world. It is suspected that 
Foundation personnel had already been converted to 
SCP-748-5 at the time of these recordings. SCP-748-4 
has been recovered stating the following over a period of 
several months: 


"Wake up Liverpool. It is time to get back to 
work." 


"A capital idea. We'll corner the market." 


"Ah. Tokyo. You survived. A pity we slept 
through the war. It would have been a most 
profitable venture." 


"Be proud, my friends, for the project moves 
swiftly.” 


"The Infinity Engine has been reactivated. The 
Crucible demands fresh material." 


"We have long awaited for this! The world will 
be that of producer and consumer and those 
who refuse will be industrialized. We are to 
fulfill our destiny and become one with the free 
market... 


Gentlemen, | do declare: The Factory is back 
in business!" 


Footnotes 

1. Greek god of the south wind. 

2. Greek god of the east wind. 

3. Greek god of the north wind. 

4. A theoretical device capable of guiding chemical reactions by 


to individuals and private companies. There is no indication that he 
has ever worked for or on behalf of a foreign power. 


Modus Operandi: Individual carries a variety of cutting implements 
with him at all times, in order to remove body parts as necessary. 
Individual frequently uses small body parts such as eyes, solitary 
fingers, and the tongue in order to access locked locations via 
ventilation systems. Individual also uses larger body parts such as 
hands or intestines to kill at a distance via strangulation. 


Behavior: Appears mildly sociopathic, with little regard for the safety 
or welfare of other individuals. Does not go out of his way to injure or 
kill others, but does not attempt to avoid it except as necessary to 
avoid detection during an infiltration. Fluent in English, Spanish, and 
Navaho, but frequently pretends to only speak Navaho when being 
interviewed/interrogated. Primarily operates in the American 
Southwest, but has also been spotted in New York City and London. 
True name is unknown, but primarily uses the name "John Smith" or 
variations thereof.