Immediate Effects: None observable for 
1m32s. Subject expresses confusion, then 
begins to weep with no apparent cause. 
Subject touches face, expressing further 
confusion, then chuckles, before sitting cross- 
legged on the floor. Subject reports 
experiencing vivid memories of her brother, 
who had expired as a result of complications 
arising from leukemia several years prior to 
her incarceration. Subject begins to sob, 
verbally expressing personal regrets and 
lamenting her inability to recall the sound of 
her brother's voice. This continues for 
approximately 4 minutes before the subject 
spontaneously loses consciousness, secreting 


Through this three-month time frame, the subject managed to 
become a member of 2UU-5I9-Q3D's SCP Foundation equivalent, 
working its way up the ranks far faster than would have been 
anticipated assuming it had been made a member of Foundation 
personnel on the same day. At the time of its return, he was 
apparently in the field, working to contain 2UU-519-Q3D's equivalent 
of SCP- . Curiously, our Foundation had sent out a Task Force for 
precisely the same reason, on the same day. Further links between 
Universe 2UU-519-Q3D and our reality are being investigated. 


* Request: To be made a member of Site personnel. Denied. 


3JT-3MD-DIG 
Retrieval: Subject retrieved via implanted tracker; medevac required 
to Site 


Subject was immobile upon retrieval due to greatly increased body 
mass, measured at kg. Lead Researcher approved 
emergency use of SCP-394 to keep it alive in order to obtain a 
report. 


Upon recovery, subject reported being surrounded by "really 
[EXPLETIVE] big" creatures resembling . They quickly 
trapped him in a transparent container. It was then transported an 
unknown distance to a shiny surface, whereupon the creatures 
began to observe him. After approximately one day tubes were 
inserted into [DATA EXPUNGED] unknown fluid which was not 
found upon examination. 


Subject reported that the tubes were removed shortly before the 
shift and it observed [REDACTED] approaching it, presumably for 
the purpose of extraction. 


* Request: Services of a personal trainer. Dr. has agreed 
to let the subject borrow her workout tapes. Subject now 
displays a strong aversion to pudding. 


9J3-Y6X-GTY 


Retrieval: The subject was found hanging from its ankles in a tree 
on-site. Subject was partially encased in insulated, reflective 


tears and twitching occasionally. Subject 
removed from chamber via remotely operated 
retrieval system after 6m22s of total exposure. 


Lasting Effects: Symptoms of major 
depressive disorder lasting approximately 
three days, with occasional manic episodes. 
No treatment necessary. 


Nearest Proximity: 4.3 meters 
+Proximity Test 08/02/2014 
Subject: D-3898-04 


Procedure: Subject instructed to move as 
near to the object as possible without making 
physical contact. 


Immediate Effects: Subject promptly 
approaches SCP-3898 to a distance of 1.3 
meters before stopping abruptly. D-3898-04 
freezes in place. Spontaneous lacrimation 
begins. Subject lies down on containment unit 
floor and adopts fetal position, displaying signs 
of extreme emotional distress, including 
wailing, moaning, and uncontrollable, 
hysterical sobbing and hyperventilation. At 
5m45s, subject uncurls and attempts to crawl 
away from SCP-3898 while pleading 
incoherently, but stops abruptly. Subject turns 
head back toward SCP-3898. Subject's eyes 
widen in an expression of fear, and begins 
shrieking. Without moving any further, subject 
proceeds to scream for 1m27s until sudden 
loss of consciousness, presumably from 
hypoxia. Subject removed from chamber via 
remotely operated retrieval system after 
8m02s of exposure. 


Lasting Effects: Upon regaining 


consciousness, D-3898-04 remained ina 
semi-catatonic state, refusing to speak, eat, 
move, or willingly sleep, requiring intravenous 
nutrition and hospice care. After 11 days, 
D-3898-04 was placed on a psychiatric 
treatment regimen including regular therapy 
sessions and antidepressant medication. 
Subject responded to treatment and after three 
months recovered fully from the effects of 
exposure, but as of yet refuses to speak of his 
experiences within the chamber. 


Nearest Proximity: 1.3 meters 
+Proximity Test 10/16/2014 
Subject: D-3898-09 


Procedure: Subject instructed to move as 
near as possible to the object without making 
physical contact. Test coordinators instructed 
by Lead Researcher Khan to maintain 
continual, conversational verbal contact with 
test subject to better gauge psychological 
alterations. Transcript follows. 


(D-3898-09 is directed into the containment 
enclosure. The hatch closes behind him.) 


D-3898-09: That's not ominous. 


Senior Researcher Reynolds: Do you see 
the object, 09? 


(D-3898-09 turns away from the door and 
faces the center of the chamber.) 


D-3898-09: Ah, yes. Having been to medical 
school, | can identify that as an ‘anchor’. 


Senior Researcher Reynolds: Listen 
carefully, 09. Quickly approach the object and 


position yourself as close to it as possible. 
D-3898-09: Is it going to eat me? 


Senior Researcher Reynolds: No. Please 
proceed. 


D-3898-09: Only because you asked so nicely. 


(D-3898-09 walks toward SCP-3898 at a brisk 
pace, and stops .3 meters from it. He places 
his hands on his hips.) 


D-3898-09: What happens now? 
(pause) 
Senior Researcher Reynolds: Stand by, 09. 


(D-3898-09 crosses his arms, and stands 
silently for 32 seconds. He then reaches up to 
wipe a tear from his eye. He looks at his hand, 
and sniffs.) 


D-3898-09: Odd. | don't... 


(D-3898-09 smiles. Tears begin to run down 
his face.) 


Senior Researcher Reynolds: Is something 
wrong, D-3898-09? 


D-3898-09: ... No. | don't think so. Nothing... 
specific. I'm not sure what's come over me, | 
feel... strange. Like... sinking. 


Senior Researcher Reynolds: Can you 
clarify? 


(Subject's eyes widen.) 


D-3898-09: Do you ever feel hopeless, doctor? 


Senior Researcher Reynolds: | suppose. 
Doesn't everybody feel that way sometimes? 


(Subject laughs) 


D-3898-09: Yes, they do! They feel hopeless 
when their car breaks down. They feel 
hopeless when they botch a presentation at 
work, or get a bad grade on a test. When they 
get hurt, or when someone they love stops 
loving them back. 


(Subject begins to sob, still smiling.) 


D-3898-09: They feel hopeless when they are 
told they will be dead soon. When a loved one 
passes away. When they stray too far, and 
they know they'll never be able to make their 
way back to where they were meant to be. 


(Pause) 


D-3898-09: But this is different from all of that. 
It takes my breath away. It feels like lead bars 
in my lungs. | can feel it press my shoulders 
down, and my spine is bending. 


(D-3898-09 turns to face the containment 
chamber's observation window, which is 
hidden behind a polarized concealment plate. 
D-3898-09 was not informed that he would be 
under visual observation prior to test 
commencement.) 


D-3898-09: Doctor, you hilarious waste. | can 
see what you see. And | know what you know. 
We're standing right in front of a leaking dam. 
There are so many things behind it and each 
One is better at what it does than the last and 
standing between them and our lives is... you? 
You and your colleagues? | can see it in your 


face. | can see the truth behind your eyes. And 
| understand it so much better than you do. 


(D-3898-09 turns back, and regards 
SCP-3898. His eyes widen, and he brings his 
hands to his mouth. He stares over SCP-3898, 
as though able to see something on the far 
side of the chamber. He places his hands at 
his sides.) 


D-3898-09: And you. 
(Subject laughs) 


D-3898-09: | can see you, too. | Know what 
you're asking for, and it won't be me. | refuse 
you. You don't get to suck away what fucking 
little | had left to live for, my last shred of 
fucking ignorance, and expect me to do 
anything more than crumble. | can see you, 
down at the very bottom. / CAN SEE YOU 
HIDING DOWN THERE, YOU PIECE OF 
SHIT. 


(D-3898-09 pauses, as though listening.) 


D-3898-09: Fuck you. No. | know what'll 
happen. 


(Pause) 


D-3898-09: Because | am not strong enough. 
And you fucking knew that already. 


(D-3898-09 begins inserting his thumbs into 
his eye sockets, without exclaiming or 
otherwise reacting to any pain this action 
causes. ) 


D-3898-09: The burden is heavy. And | am 
weak. 


(D-3898-09 successfully destroys his own 
eyes before Senior Researcher Reynolds is 
able to activate the pacification system. 
D-3898-09 is removed from the containment 
enclosure by remotely operated retrieval 
system and submitted for medical treatment.) 


Contact Tests: In each of these tests, the subject was instructed to 
approach SCP-3898 as quickly as possible (to avoid the incipient 
proximity effects) and make physical contact with it, via touching 


with a hand. 


Date 
13 April, 2015 


27 July, 2015 


Subject 


D-3898-13 


D-3898-20 


Resuits of Contact 
Subject's body is 
instantaneously 
transmuted into an 
equivalent volume of 
clear fluid, which loses 
cohesion and 
splashes to the floor of 
the containment 
chamber. A sample of 
this fluid was 
examined and 
determined to be 
seawater, with living 
microbes consistent 
with those found in the 
epipelagic zone of the 
mid-Pacific Ocean. 
Subject expires. 
Autopsy report 
revealed the majority 
of subject's abdominal 
viscera had been 
replaced with a mass 
of material comprised 
of algae, diatoms, 
various deceased fish, 
crustaceans, and 


06 September, 2015) D-3898-34 


09 October, 2015 


D-3898-38 


aquatic mollusks in 
various states of 
dismemberment and 
decomposition, a live 
octopus, three shark 
teeth belonging to the 
genus Somniosidae, 
decomposing 
seaweed, and 
seawater, causing 
near-instantaneous 
death. Remains 
incinerated. 

Subject's body in its 
entirety is crushed into 
a fine paste by a swift, 
sudden impact from 
above. Origin of force 
unknown. Impact 
energy estimated at 
roughly 400 kN. No 
information obtainable 
from remains. 
Subject enters 
respiratory distress, 
expelling large 
amounts of a clear 
fluid while attempting 
to cough. Subject 
removed from 
containment chamber 
via remotely operated 
retrieval system. 
Medical treatment 
attempted, but 
unsuccessful, as 
subject's lungs 
continually fill with 
fluid from an unknown 
source. Subject 


asphyxiates and 
expires. Fluid sampled 
and determined to be 
seawater, of an 
identical composition 
as that retrieved 
during test dated 13 
April. 

27 November, 2015} D-3898-58 See Incident Report 
3898-01. 


Incident Report 3898-01: On 27 November 2015, test subject 
D-3898-58 made physical contact with SCP-3898 as instructed. 
However, unlike all prior tests, there were no immediately 
observable effects. D-3898-58 remained motionless with one hand 
grasping SCP-3898's central shank in excess of a minute, speaking 
continually at a low volume, before observing staff attempted to 
question him using the chamber's intercom. D-3898-58 remained 
unresponsive, and Senior Researcher Reynolds gave the order to 
pull the subject from the chamber. Before the robotic loading arms 
could make contact with the subject, D-3898-58 ceased speaking, 
then uttered a last indistinguishable sentence. He then raised his 
arm, lifting the 350 kg object above his head and pointing it directly 
skyward. The subject then vanished, leaving behind his clothes. 
SCP-3898 fell to the floor of the testing chamber without suffering 
any observable damage. 


Review and subsequent filtering of the security footage from the 
incident revealed the content of D-3898-58's statements in the 
moments prior to his disappearance. Transcript follows. 


+Audio Transcript 27 November 2015 
D-3898-58: ... Oh. 
(Pause) 
D-3898-58: No. | can't say that I'm surprised. 


(Pause) 


D-3898-58: Me? You can't be serious. 
(Pause. Subject laughs.) 


D-3898-58: Then you know what you're asking 
for. | can't do that. Not even if | wanted to. 


(Pause. Subject laughs again.) 


D-3898-58: Buddy. Listen. You're already in 
my head, so look around a bit. Really look. Do 
you see all that? Look where | am. What's 
happened to me. What I've done. I'll let you 
down. I'll let the whole thing down, | guarantee 
it. I've fucked up everything I've ever tried, and 
I've fucked over everyone I've ever known. 
And I'll fuck this up too. I'm not strong enough. 
I'm sorry, but you've got the wrong guy. 


(Longer pause. D-3898-58 scowls.) 
D-3898-58: No. 
(Short pause) 


D-3898-58: Because she's fucking dead, you 
damp fuckstain. Where the fuck do you get off- 


(Longer pause. D-3898-58 smiles, blinking 
away tears.) 


D-3898-58: Because I'm the one who killed 
her. You fucker- 


(Subject's voice breaks. He cries silently for a 
short period.) 


D-3898-58: ... | had forgotten what she looked 
like. What she looked like after. You fucking 
bastard, I'd forgotten. | spent years pushing 
her out of my head. Her face... God, her 
fucking face... 


(Pause) 


D-3898-58: No. No, Jesus Christ why would 
you- 


(Pause) 
D-3898-58: ... Why are you doing this to me? 


(Longer pause lasting 2m31s, during which 
D-3898-58 dries his eyes with the hand not 
grasping SCP-3898) 


D-3898-58: | don't know whether to hate you 
or love you, you son of a bitch. 


(Subject sniffs.) 


D-3898-58: Alright. Alright, shut up, you've 
made your point. I'll do it. But not for you. 


(The muscles of D-3898-58's right arm flex, 
and he raises SCP-3898 above his head, 
showing no outward signs of physical exertion. 
Faint, but audible metallic groaning can be 
heard from the object, presumably due to 
mechanical stress.) 


D-3898-58: I'm sorry, Maria. 
(D-3898-58 closes his eyes.) 
D-3898-58: | accept the burden. 
(D-3898-58's body disappears.) 


The significance of this event is unknown. Investigation into 
SCP-3898's correlation to SCP-3983 and all other related anomalies 
is underway. 


titanium armor upon retrieval. 


The subject described the world it had arrived in as "extra shiny" and 
stated that it was apprehended by law enforcement officers upon 
arrival. After being apprehended, the subject was transported to a 
nearby manufacturing facility and placed upside down on an 
assembly line where a series of metal sheets were shaped and cut 
to fit its body. It briefly had time to ask what was going on and was 
informed that the radiation from the sun was extremely dangerous 
and titanium reflective suits were required by law to prevent thermal 
radiation damage to any person or structure. 


* Request: Sun-screen and an eye exam. Granted. 


52J-O79-3GH 
Retrieval: Via tracking device. Subject was found inside a padlocked 
metal shed, behind an abandoned house on the outskirts of ‘ 


Subject arrived in a small room housing several dried corpses. 
Besides said corpses, the room was mostly bare; the only things 
subject noted were a single paneless window and a light fixture on 
the ceiling which occasionally flickered. Subject attempted to rise to 
his feet, but had difficulty doing so due to repeated and 
unpredictable surges of motion. 


Subject eventually made its way to the window, at which point it 
discovered that its "room" was actually a container suspended in 
midair by a large chain. Subject watched as similar containers 
passed by him, and as it passed by others, via a complex web of 
rails above it which the chains were attached to. Subject could see 
nothing besides this but darkness in all directions.