The tunnel which leads to SCP-2436-1 is not to be entered or 
interacted with without prior approval from the site director. 
Individuals who enter the tunnel housing SCP-2436-1 are to be 
transported off-site and interviewed. If the individual is found to have 
become an SCP-2436-3 instance, they are to be administered 
amnestics and released. Otherwise, they are to be released 


immediately. Any Foundation personnel assigned to Site-431 and 
known to be susceptible to becoming an SCP-2436-3 instance are 
to be immediately reassigned to another location. Any signs of 
unprecedented activity by SCP-2436-1 are to be reported 
immediately to Regional Director Vigdis Vilhjalmsdottir. 


Full adherence to the laws of the Republic of Iceland is to be 
maintained by all Site 431 personnel whenever possible. 


Description: SCP-2436-1 is a presumed humanoid of unknown 
appearance located 11 kilometers north of the village of 

, Skaftarhreppur, in the Republic of Iceland. SCP-2436-1 
was discovered by Foundation agents on 1973-01-27, shortly 
following the eruption, when an abnormal number of visitors to 
the farm that Site 431 is now located on were detected. The reason 
for this visitation has not been clearly established, but investigation 
of the property revealed multiple anomalous effects were present. 


Most immediately noticeable, there is a roughly circular tunnel 1.4 
meters in diameter at its mouth located near the center of the 
property, into which no Foundation operative was immediately able 
to penetrate. Initial attempts to explore the tunnel invariably resulted 
in agents quickly becoming lost and returning to the entrance 
without ever discovering an opposite end to the tunnel, despite the 
tunnel appearing to be almost entirely straight. Prior to the discovery 
of the object currently classified as SCP-2436-1, assumed to be 
housed within and responsible for the anomalous properties of the 
tunnel, the tunnel itself was initially classified as SCP-2436-1. 


Interviews of the residents of the farm revealed a number of 
superstitious beliefs regarding SCP-2436-1, most prominently a 
belief that there was a fairy, troll, elf, or member of the huldufélk' 
living inside the tunnel, and that it controlled access to the deeper 
extents of the tunnel. Interviews also revealed that residents 
credited this entity with the success of the farm over the course of 
several generations, with most residents readily supplying 
anecdotes of unusual good fortune occurring on the farm. 


While residents were initially willing to answer the questions of 
Foundation agents and host them within the farmhouse, all were 
adamant that nobody outside of the family of Hjértur Armannsson be 


permitted to enter the cellar of the house. Foundation agents initially 
agreed to this, but took the opportunity to investigate the cellar as 
soon as the house was fully vacant of all residents. 


In the cellar of the farmhouse, Foundation agents discovered a 
storage chest containing 26 handwritten journals dating from the 
apparent establishment of the farm in 1787 to the then-present year. 
A 27th journal was found on a writing desk, vibrating open to a blank 
entry dated to the current day. When the object, currently 
designated SCP-2436-2, was approached by a Foundation agent, 
text appeared on the opened page, stating, "I will be notifying the 
residents of your intrusion." 


The Foundation agents investigating the site then departed to avoid 
confrontation. Upon receiving reports of their findings, the 
Foundation applied all necessary pressures to obtain legal 
ownership of the property now designated Site 431, and to acquire 
all 26 journals understood to be former SCP-2436-2 instances. The 
active SCP-2436-2 instance was not recovered, and is assumed to 
have been taken by one of Site 431's former residents, but it has not 
been discerned who took it or where it has been relocated to. 


Attempts to locate the SCP-2436-2 instance active at the time of the 
discovery of SCP-2436 are ongoing. It is not known if SCP-2436-2 
instances are capable of being used to communicate with 
SCP-2436-1 when removed from the area of Site-431. The active 
SCP-2436-2 instance under Foundation control has never 
demonstrated this ability, but the nature of the object makes 
conclusive findings on this matter an impossibility. 


Following the initial assignment of Foundation personnel to Site 431 
and the removal of all civilians from the area on 1973-02-05, the 
ground surrounding the main Site 431 structure in a radius of 20 
meters shook violently for a period of five days. No damage to the 
structure was sustained. At the cessation of the shaking, a journal of 
similar size and composition to the 26 former SCP-2436-2 instances 
was found at the doorstep of the main Site 431 structure. Inside, a 
journal entry dated to 1973-02-10 was found, stating the following: 


| was not familiar with your organization until the arrival 
of your spies some days ago. | am not impressed with 


what | understand to be its purpose. | am not impressed 
with what | understand to be the methods by which it 
functions. | am not pleased that your organization has 
displaced those that | have made a pact with. | do not 
intend to cooperate with your organization's objectives in 
this or any other place. | will advise that others do not 
cooperate with your organization. | will not tolerate 
interruption or disruption of my duties for the duration of 
your stay here. | would be well-pleased if you were to 
return legal ownership in the eyes of the Republic of 
Iceland to those | have previously approved. 


19 days following the establishment of Site 431, after several 
attempts to explore the tunnel housing SCP-2436-1 resulted in 
failure, Researcher Jona Steinsdottir underwent an unauthorized 
expedition into the tunnel while off-duty, apparently prompted by a 
message in SCP-2436-2 directed specifically to her, which she 
blotted out in ink prior to leaving the main Site-431 structure. 
Researcher Jona Steinsddottir evidently successfully navigated the 
tunnel and reached SCP-2436-1, whereupon either direct contact or 
verbal conversation with the object caused Researcher Jona to 
believe that it was imperative that Site 431 be abandoned and 
Foundation containment of SCP-2436 discontinued. Following her 
return to the surface, Researcher J6na attempted several acts of 
covert sabotage of Site 431, including the destruction of Foundation 
firearms, equipment, and food and medical supplies. Researcher 
J6na's sabotage attempts did not include any activities that could 
have directly caused damage to the main Site 431 structure, or to 
the health of any Foundation personnel. 


Three hours after her return to the surface, Researcher J6na was 
apprehended and, following an analysis of her behavior, was 
designated as the first known SCP-2436-3 instance. An interview 
followed, which, in combination with the collection of former 
SCP-2486-2 instances located at Site 431, contributed most of the 
information we have about the motives and habits of SCP-2436-1. 


+ Show Excerpt of SCP-2436-3 Interview 1, 1973-03-01 


Researcher Hakon Stefansson: Hello, 
SCP-2436-3. Would you like to discuss what 


motivated you to destroy Foundation property 
earlier today? 


SCP-2436-3: Oh my God. 
<22 seconds pass in silence.> 


SCP-2436-3: You're using your interview voice 
on me. On me. | know your wife, Hakon. 


Researcher Hakon: | am following standard 
procedure. 


<SCP-2436-3 laughs for a period of 21 
seconds.> 


SCP-2436-3: Fuck. | know. | know. 


<SCP-2436-3 laughs for an additional 13 
seconds.> 


SCP-2436-3: We don't belong here. What 
we're doing here is a distraction to it. To 
SCP-2436-1. It doesn't need us to contain it, 
and we don't need to understand what it's 
doing. It hasn't /eft that hole in centuries. 


Researcher Hakon: And this belief motivated 
you to destroy Foundation supplies and 
equipment? 


SCP-2436-3: | know it was silly and impulsive. 
| was emotional. | knew none of you would 
listen to me, and destroying that shit while 
everyone was asleep seemed like the best 
way to motivate you to leave, at least fora 
while. Maybe long enough to think of 
something else. 


Researcher Hakon: Not all Site 431 
personnel were asleep while you accessed the 
equipment and supplies you destroyed last 


night. Would you care to explain how you 
avoided detection for so long? 


SCP-2436-3: No. 


Researcher Hakon: Many of the objects you 
destroyed following your emergence from the 
tunnel housing SCP-2436-1 show signs of 
being crushed as if by a hydraulic piston or 
similar device, but no tool of that nature is 
located at Site-431. Could you explain how 
you achieved this effect? 


SCP-2436-3: No. 


Dr. Hakon: Can you describe the physical 
appearance of SCP-2436-1? 


SCP-2436-3: Oh, yes. | won't ever forget what 
it looked like. It's big. Two and a half meters 
tall at least. Wide. Maybe three or four times 
the size of a man. It has two arms and two 
legs but it doesn't look human, more like a bat 
or a mole. Its voice is... hard to describe. It's 
like crystal - it's gentle and clear. Everything 
about it is like that. The place it lives - it's a 
hole in the ground, right? Dirt and stone. 
Everything there is dirt and stone but it fee/s 
like a home. It feels like walking into 
somebody's home - somebody who's been 
waiting to receive you as a guest for a long 
time, somebody who's cleaned and decorated 
just for you. That's what SCP-2436-1 looks 
like, do you follow? 


Researcher Hakon: | see. Would you be able 
to describe what SCP-2436-1 appeared to be 
doing in the tunnel? It has referred in 
SCP-2436-2 to its 'duties.' Was there any 
indication of what those were? 


SCP-2436-3: Oh yes, yes. That was why it 
brought me down there. It's concerned that 
Foundation containment protocols and 
experiments will keep it from protecting us. It 
said it's monitoring the movements of the 
Earth. Not through space - like, within the 
Earth. It said it's trying to supervise those 
movements, make them... clean? Clean, it 
said. | think it was talking about tectonic 
activity. 


Researcher Hakon: And you believe 
SCP-2436-1 to be capable of influencing 
tectonic activity? That it /s influencing tectonic 
activity for our benefit? 


SCP-2436-3: | believe that, yes. | can't... 
explain this. It didn't give me proof - not 
beyond its ability to influence the rocks and 
soil in the area of Site 431 - but | believe it. It 
wasn't... insincere. | don't believe it lied about 
anything. I'm not sure it's ever lied about 
anything. 


Researcher Hakon: | see. 


Following this interview, an attempt to alter the memories of 
Researcher Jona through the use of proto-amnestics in order to 
forget her encounter with SCP-2436-1 proved successful in 
curtailing her desire to circumvent containment. Following this, 
Researcher J6na's classification as an SCP-2436-3 instance was 
suspended. Forty minutes following the reversion in Researcher 
J6na's classification, a new message was found in SCP-2436-2, as 
follows: 


| can see clearly that | was correct in assuming the worst 
of your organization. You plunder and destroy what is not 
yours to take. You have no respect for the natural rights 
of others; only for your own control. You have no respect 
for your stated purpose. 


Following the reception of this message, the main Site 431 structure 
experienced tremors for a period of one hour. No damage to the 
structure was sustained. 


Experimentation and observation over the course of SCP-2436's 
containment has shown that susceptibility to becoming an 
SCP-2436-3 instance correlates strongly with high levels of empathy 
and low levels of loyalty to the Foundation, where applicable. 
Correspondingly, civilians and nonviolent D-Class personnel who 
enter Site-431, in particular but not exclusively those who interact 
with the active SCP-2436-2 instance housed there, are at 
significantly more risk of becoming SCP-2436-3 instances than 
traditionally employed Foundation personnel. 


Notably, though SCP-2436-3 instances demonstrate an ability to 
destroy materials as if by crushing them with great force, this ability 
has never been directly observed, and does not appear to 
correspond to any increase in the physical strength or other abilities 
of SCP-2436-3 instances. This ability is completely non-evident in all 
former SCP-2436-3 instances. 


Addendum 1: SCP-2436-2 instances represent a significant wealth 
of knowledge regarding the nature and intentions of SCP-2436-1, 
both in regards to their composition and to the text written within 
them. All known former SCP-2436-2 instances are 18.3x13.1x2.6cm 
in dimension, 81 pages in length and bound with horse leather. The 
active SCP-2436-2 instance located at Site 431 appears to be 
bound in wolf leather but is otherwise identical to previous instances. 
All subsequent SCP-2436-2 instances appear to be based on the 
first known SCP-2436-2 instance, a journal originally owned by 
Bjartur Eiriksson.2 


The first SCP-2436-2 instance appears to have been used for some 
time preceding the establishment of the farm and the first 23 pages 
are filled with the owner's thoughts regarding agriculture, religion, 
then-contemporary politics, and his personal life. Partway through 
the 24th page, text written in a different handwriting begins to 
appear. Subsequently to this, most text written in the original 
handwriting appears to be directed at SCP-2436-1, which 
SCP-2436-1 inconsistently responds to. 


Included below are several notable excerpts from both former 
SCP-2436-2 instances and the active SCP-2436-2 instance. 


+ 1788-05-22 [Earliest known communication by SCP-2436-1.] 
Entry written by SCP-2436-1. 


| have noticed that you have recently acquired 
ownership of a plot of land under the laws of 
the Kingdom of Denmark and have begun to 
construct a home on that land. It is my 
understanding that you intend to begin using 
this land for agricultural purposes and that you 
have purchased a number of horses to that 
end. | have no wish to interfere in this 
enterprise, given the considerable investment 
it must have required to obtain horses in the 
current environment. However, | have been 
living on the land in question for some five 
years now, and relocation is untenable. 
Therefore, | believe we must establish certain 
rules between us. 


Firstly, you must not enter the tunnel located 
742 paces east-by-northeast from the location 
of the home you are currently constructing 
without invitation. Secondly, you must not 
block or prohibit others from accessing this 
tunnel. In return, | will assume responsibility for 
the conduct of any visitors brought here by the 
tunnel and ensure that no mortal power comes 
to harm you or your heirs without rightful legal 
authority so long as you live here. It is my 
intention to share this living space amicably. 
You may respond to me by writing in this 
journal. | will see it. 


| apologize for making use of your personal 
property to deliver this message and | regret 
that it is no longer a private text. | can promise 
that | have not read any previous entries in this 


cooperate to locate and bring down prey. They attack 
simultaneously, inflicting dozens of bites in a few seconds and 
incapacitating the target. They then drag it, conscious but immobile, 
back to their colony.