A whirring noise is heard, attributed to the 
recording device being reset 


Voice 1: ...Yes, you are aware that the 
parameters have been met, correct? 


Voice 2: (inaudible) 


[REDACTED FOR BREVITY] The recording 
repeats itself four (4) more times, with many 
unsuccessful attempts by Dr Vasily to 
communicate with SCP-2956-1. Current 
theories suggest that SCP-2956-1 was able to 
access a recording device found in the control 
room where its consciousness is centered, and 
had been replaying it for some time. Audio 
specialists recorded hearing SCP-2956-1 


begin to communicate in the form of vibrations 
from the hull which had been picked up by the 
microphone. The vibrations, which were able 
to effectively mimic human speech, were 
interpreted by linguists at Reliquary Site- , 
who believe that SCP-2956-1 was attempting 
to shout or possibly cry, despite not having the 
physical capabilities to do so. 


Shortly after the 4th playback, the 
bathyscaphe contacted the sea floor, and the 
D-Class was ordered to detonate the 
explosive. The explosion totally destroyed the 
bathyscaphe, along with SCP-2956 
approximately 109m away. The shock wave is 
believed to have ruptured the hull, leading to a 
rapid decompression and collapse of the 
structure. Sonar imaging showed SCP-2956 
impact the sea floor before coming to rest. 
SCP-2956 deemed neutralized at this point. 


At the same moment SCP-2956 was 
destroyed, SCP-2956-2 expired.6 CCTV 
cameras from the site captured a rapid 
expulsion of all internal organs via a sudden 
bisection of the thoracic cavity, caused by an 
unknown force. Approximately 17 seconds 
after SCP-2956-2 expired, a bust of Lenin of 
unknown material manifested in the corpse's 
place. The entity appeared for only 1 second, 
before vanishing along with 3 containment 
specialists who were within sight of the object. 
This was shortly followed by personnel within a 
30m radius experiencing symptoms of retinal 
detachment, decompression sickness, 
nitrogen narcosis and [REDACTED]. Along 
with this event, Dr Karen Froon experienced 
pain in her lower abdomen, which lead her to 
discover that her unborn child had suddenly 
dematerialized. Researchers also noted a 


strong smell of wet paint and gunpowder at the 
manifestation point, along with feelings of 
dizziness, nausea and the sounds of a "sinking 
vessel" and "sonar pings" emanating from the 
containment chamber.” 


SCP-2956 has now been lowered to Safe, as 
both SCP-2956 and SCP-2956-2 are 
considered neutralized. SCP-2956-1, however, 
is still considered active, due to faint radio 
transmissions originating from within the 
remains, which are currently too faint to be 
recorded. Bathyscaphes and other 
submersibles have also reported the inner hull 
of the vessel to vibrate upon approaching the 
remains, along with the periscope atop the 
structure moving by itself. However, due to the 
irreversible damage sustained during 
Operation DP, the vibrations are too weak to 
be recorded and deciphered. The Ethics 
Committee will hold a vote on / / , discussing 
whether further action should be taken against 
SCP-2956 to ensure its complete destruction 
as perProtocol- / 8. 


Director Note: Safe anomalies have been 
briefly moved off site during investigation into 
the events preceding the death of 
SCP-2956-2. Dr Tomlinson is currently taking 
over the Psychological Communication 
Department at my request to allow Dr Froon to 
move projects for some time, which has been 
granted by my advisors. All other personnel 
affected by the event have been granted 
medical leave, and should hopefully recover. 


+ (1) New Message Received 


Message received: August 12th, -WEBCOM 13, 


1 A AL SS A RIN PIN OTN 7 PED ANN a AN 
IAAIN DAAINOT. FAMORITY bo, VIRCCIOUR OCYOOUNLY. 


To Site Director Chaim Hughes - 
chaimbsitecommand@indintra.scp 

From: Rsr. Richard Zapruder - rzapruder@fndintra.scp 
Subject - Tehran Apartment Evidence - PRIORITY 3 


Decrypting - Awaiting File Transfer 


The following is a handwritten note recovered from a 
deceased individual found inside an apartment in Tehran 
on [DATE REDACTED]. The man was found in the 
bathtub with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. 


The apartment was rigged with IEDs, and a speaker 
system left on playing an Arabic remix of "Yellow 
Submarine" by The Beatles. We don't know whether our 
John Doe set it up, or someone get their before us, due 
to signs of forced entry in the doorway. Whoever it was, 
they had a real sense of humor. 


I'm pinning this under the 2956 designation, but there's 
not much here. | hope this makes it's way to you. The 
lyrics at the end are written in Hebrew, with the rest of 
the note in Russian Cyrillic. 


Get back to us on anything you find. 

- Researcher Zapruder 
Translating - Data received, Russian - Hebrew 
Forgive me, for | have sinned. 


We went against god's will, and took a man 
from his natural shell. We removed charred 
bone, skin, flesh, everything - and mixed it with 
cold steel and depth gauges. Grew it up ina 
Petri dish, built it up to the real thing. 


We kept his soul, removed its chance of a 
place in heaven, and let a machine consume 
it. The machine churned up his mind, minced 


and reduced to the point of being completely 
unrecognizable and child-like. 


We should have stopped with the peat grinder, 
the lada, the tupolev, the hydroelectric dam, 
the helicopter, the oil refinery. We put broken 
men's minds inside of useless (unintelligible). 
One man was an honest cancer patient. Once 
he had a wife, took his children to school, sung 
the anthem. Now he sits there, out on the 
steppe, letting water in and out to power a city 
full of drunken Kazakhs. 


And you know what? Some days he'll let less 
water in, just to make a point. To piss 
someone off. Who? Some unknown entity, 
some ambiguous figure of authority which 
governs the Kremlin from the shadows. All he 
can do is stand and stomp his childish feet in 
that dingy room with Lenin and that fucking 
baby. Both him and Ivan, next to their little 
paintings. 


Ivan's still alive, and it pains me. I'm still 
getting his transmissions on my receiver. | 
know you soulless fucks will find my dead 
body, so | just want you to know that you 
failed. You failed. The mind of a child, trapped 
in a metal tomb, sitting at the bottom of the 
darkest hole on Earth - wanting nothing more 
than to see his brother and fee! life. And the 
worst bit? He still thinks he needs to finish his 
job - and end the world. 


End the world. He doesn't even know how a 
nuke works. How they remove cities, burn 
people alive, gut the atmosphere with radiation 
- leaving behind nothing but faded shadows 
against scorched concrete. He's just a child, 
doing what he's been told. 


This is my goodbye to everyone, and my wish 
for forgiveness. Ivan's struggle touched me, 
and this is my statement against the shit show 
we Call the GRU Division. 


I'm sorry Anna, I'm sorry Yuri, I'm sorry David. 


}In the village where | was born 
Lived a man who died in fire 
And he told us of his life 
His life as a submarine 


"Hit it!" 


We all live in a nuclear submarine 
Nuclear submarine, nuclear submarines 


Footnotes 

1. Audio analysis has determined that the transponder system is 
using a microphone, and that all the noises heard in the broadcasts 
are originating from the main compartments of the vessel. 

2. Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles, specifically RSM-52 150kt 
nuclear warheads carried aboard Akula class submarines. 

3. A spatial anomaly pathway either utilized by the GRU or the 
Soviet Government to instantaneously quantum tunnel matter 
passed through it to a point in space approximately AU from Earth. 
Evidence of the device only exists in documents compiled from GRU 
defectors. 

4. After further analysis and interviews with a forensic artist, 
researchers were able to determine that the "bearded man" was 
Slavoj Zizek, a notable Hegelian-Marxist philosopher. 

5. The voice may belong to Dr Stanislav Yurovsky, a GRU personnel 
who is believed to have defected to the Warsaw Sect in 1996. 
Whereabouts currently unknown. 

6. Moments before his death, SCP-2956-2 was witnessed to have 
crossed himself before "wishing lvan goodbye" and apologizing for 
"getting them into this mess". 

7. The sounds were not picked up by any cameras on site, and was 
only heard by affected personnel. "THANK YOU CONCUBINE", 
spoken in Russian, was also heard by multiple personnel on site 


escape from it? 
Dr. : | can't say | have. 


Agent _ : Yes you have, we all have. That's what it felt like when 
they put the hose in to try to drain it. Everything stopped being real. 
It was like we had to escape right now. 


Dr. : And you were the only one feeling this sensation? 


Agent _: No, everyone had it at the same time. It came from the 
fucking pool! 


Dr. : Please, lower your voice. What happened when they 
activated the pump? 


Agent : Wenever did. We couldn't. It wouldn't let us. 
Dr. : What wouldn't let you? 

Agent _ : The pool! 

Dr. : Please, | ask you to lower your voice. 


Agent — : Up until now it's been content just throwing monsters at 
us. It's been playing. But now we have it locked up and we just tried 
to execute it! Now it's angry! 


Dr. (to PA) Guards, please restrain Agent 


Agent _ : My buddy measured its banks once and compared them 
to the photos from its first discovery. You know what he found? 
(Agent grabs Doctor ) 


Dr. : Guards! 

Agent _ : It's growing! The pool is growing! It gets bigger and 
stronger every day and now we've made it angry! Get your hands 
off- 


Dr. : Sedate him. We'll continue this in the morning, if he's 
lucid by then anyway. 


during the event, seeming to emanate from the ground immediately 
around the containment chamber. 

8. Tansey, K., Frugel, P., Reddy, S., et al. (1989).Sapience and 
Sentience - Ethical Guidelines and terms of EuthanasiaEthics 
Research Archives,c.89-91AC (781648) 


« SCP-2955 | SCP-2956 | SCP-2957 » 


SCP-2957: The Lunar Watchers 


Item #: SCP-2957 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2957 is kept on the 
grounds of its original semi-private park location. The park gardens 
remain open to the public during the daytime, with gates closed 
promptly at dusk under the guise of routine maintenance and 
cleaning occurring during the evening. Foundation associates 
currently oversee the park's security services, under the guise of 
addressing recent vandalism and drug use reports. A security office 
close to the premises is kept for Foundation agent housing and 
temporary storage. 


Two Level-3 field agents are currently assigned to the location, and 
are to patrol the grounds during 6-hour shifts. A storage cabin on the 
premises provides utilities and storage space, and is to be kept 
stocked with materials used in exchanges made with SCP-2957-1. 


A roster of staff members trained in interaction with SCP-2957-1 is 
kept by Site-DE04. Foundation contacts with SCP-2957-1 
individuals are to be rotated every six months. Backup personnel 
may be called in as necessary. 


Any instances of SCP-2957-2 produced are to be carefully labeled 
and transported to Site-DE04 for analysis and long-term storage. 


Description: SCP-2957 is a silver-tinted cultured marble statuette 
measuring 60 cm tall. The object's appearance bears strong 
resemblance to antique German "Night Watchman" garden gnome 
figurines', with the exception of polished moonstone fragments inset 
into the eyes and fingernails of the figure. 


SCP-2957's anomalous effects will manifest when exposed directly 
to the light of a quarter moon.2 Approximately seven minutes after 


initial exposure, SCP-2957 will disappear and an instance of 
SCP-2957-1 will manifest in the statue's location. 


SCP-2957-1 are a small humanoid creatures measuring 40 to 60 cm 
in height, possessing waist-length silver-haired beards and very pale 
(nearly white) blue-toned skin. Instances of SCP-2957-1 appear thin 
and frail-looking, similar to elderly humans, and stand slightly 
hunched over. Notably, the large, rounded eyes of SCP-2957-1 
instances are pitch-black except in the presence of moonlight; when 
reflecting the light of the moon, the sclera give off a faint yellow 
glow. 


All observed instances of SCP-2957-1 have manifested adorned in 
similar dark blue robes with silver trimmings, and additionally 
wearing or carrying a large conical hat decorated with moonstone 
fragments similar to those embedded in SCP-2957. Despite the frail 
appearance of SCP-2957-1, their behavior suggests the individuals 
are in good health. 


Upon manifestation, SCP-2957-1 individuals will address the 
nearest autonomous being$ and inquire as to whether the being is 
interested in "imbuing a select stone with the whispers of the moon". 
When provided with any stone4 with a longest dimension of 17 cm or 
less, SCP-2957-1 will request payment for their work, usually in the 
form of food, building material, or other non-luxury items. If 
presented with the requested payment within 50 minutes®, 
SCP-2957-1 individual will then proceed to complete a complicated 
ritual involving various gestures and unintelligible spoken 
incantations to impart simple anomalous effects into the stone 
provided. Stones imbued with anomalous effects as a result of 
SCP-2957-1 are designated SCP-2957-2. An excerpt of notable 
recorded Foundation exchanges made with SCP-2957-1 includes: 


Name, Material Payment Exchange 
appearance provided > requested / made 
Aiteration Transiation 


Schiefer,® 45 cm10 cm flat slate "So viel grtiner Bulk amount of 
tall, slightly dark tile fragment — Seetang wie ich tightly-packed 
skin, stone can be tragen kann."/| preserved 
arrangement of used as amirror,"As much green seaweed sheets. 
moonstones on reflects an Seaweed as! | SCP-2957-1 


hat forms a individual's can carry." examined stock, 
circumpunct visage with took roughly 
excellent clarity. 23 kg of 
seaweed. 
Bimsstein, 6 cm long clear "Wir bedurfen | 20 kg crucible 
49 cm tall, pale calcite prism — neuen steel, 20 kg 


skin, when struck Werkzeugs fur| modern-process 
arrangement of against the die Arbeit, bringt steel. 
moonstones on ground, emits a uns das starkste SCP-2957-1 

hat forms an faint glow similar aller Metalle, so instantly rejected 
inverted triangle to moonlight for wir daraus the modern steel 


roughly 3 hours 


feinstes in favor of the 
Werkzeug crucible steel. 
machen mdgen." 

/ (Archaic, 

pretentious) "We 

require new 

tools for work, 

bring us the 

strongest of all 

metals, So we 

therefrom may 

make the finest 


tools.” 
Kohle,55cm | 8&cmirregularly- "Das beste 10 kg of full- 
tall, extremely | shaped Leder das ihr | grain leather. 
pale skin with | moonstone — | finden kénnt, SCP-2957-1 
faint hint of blue, when exposed|tosoviel in meine took 
a single visible light, Tasche passt.'|/ approximately 
moonstone diffuses scent of "The best 7 kg of the 
embedded in Cestrum leather you can provided 
hat, beard is nocturnum’, into find, as much as material. 


notably shorter 
compared to 
other instances 
of SCP-295/7-1 
Marmor, 60 cm 7 cm diameter 
tall, pale skin a circular 

shade darker moonstone > 
than Bimsstein, provides 


the environment fits in my 


satchel." 


"Etwas warmes Seven small 
fir mein Haupt, royal-blue wool 
aber kleiner als knit hats. 

mein Kopf."/_ | SCP-2957-1 


3 moonstones | immediate 
arranged soothing effect 
vertically on hat, upon skin 
beard is notably contact. Can be 
darker than used as 

other instances analgesic for 

of SCP-2957-1, minor long-term 
this instance ailments. 

also has a much 

thinner physique 


"Something appeared visibly 
warm for my pleased with the 
pate, but smaller number and 
than my head." color.