The pit, or an extradimensional space accessible through the pit, 
contains an indeterminate number of hostile entities, the escape of 
which is arrested by means of the containment regimen. Under 
ordinary conditions, these entities are believed to be incorporeal. 
Due to the efficacy of the containment protocol, SCP-1844 has been 
classified as a Type-ll theoeschatologic hazard. 


There is evidence that the existence of SCP-1844 has been known 
for an extensive period of time prior to the commencement of 
Foundation control over the site, and that some form of containment 
protocol (albeit more primitive and neither as rigorous nor as 


effective as that maintained by the Foundation) has been 
undertaken on a more or less continuous basis for at least thirty-six 
hundred years. Partial documentation and containment log follows: 


Date or reference 
c. 1600 BCE 


c. 70 CE 


c. 636 CE 


c. 1208 CE 


Remarks 
Approx. date of earliest written 
records referencing SCP-1844 
site. Records consist of papyrus 
scrolls dating from the reign of 
Senusret II (Egyptian pharaoh, 
Dyn. XII) chronicling an Egyptian 
military campaign into the Levant. 
Records indicate that the 
Egyptian army was directed to 
leave unmolested a "temple cult" 
headquartered at a site 
conforming to descriptions of 
SCP-1844. 
Reference to SCP-1844 in 
correspondence from General 
Vespasian to the commander of 
the Roman Legio X Fretensis 
during the First Jewish War. 
Vespasian commands the armies 
not to interfere with ritual activities 
at the site. 
Correspondence of Khalid ibn al- 
Walid to Umar, the Rashidun 
Caliph, describes SCP-1844 and 
requests that Islamic religious 
authorities inspect the site in 
order that the activities conducted 
there be augmented. Letters refer 
to a "circle of pious Christians and 
Jews who stand in a ring around 
the smoking hole and pray, so 
that the "Whisperer of Evil" 
shall not come forth from (,,Ua.s) 
"at 
Journals of Geoffrey de 


1529 CE 


1799 CE 


1873 CE 


Villehardouin, chronicler of the 
Fourth Crusade, describe what 
amounts to a containment breach 
at SCP-1844. The account refers 
to a Benedictine monastery and a 
Muslim madrassa that had been 
constructed next to the pit, and 
that a "wind of fire" erupted from 
the pit, destroying both buildings 
and preventing the monks and 
Muslim clerics from carrying out 
their normal containment activities 
for a period of several days, 
during which entities described as 
"demons" or "devils" are 
described as roaming freely. It 
should be noted that Geoffrey is 
not believed to have visited the 
site, but compiled his account 
from second-hand sources. 

Letter from Pope Leo X to Sultan 
Suleiman | refers to SCP-1844 
and pledges that despite the 
ongoing war between the 
Ottoman Empire and various 
Catholic powers, the jointly- 
conducted activities at the 
SCP-1844 site wouid continue. 
Napoleon Bonaparte visits site 
during French invasion of the 
Levant. Napoleon dispatches his 
chief engineer, Col. Picard de 
Phélippeaux, to study the site and 
to apply the principles of "natural 
philosophy" to augment traditional 
containment procedures. 
Commencement of site control by 
Foundation's predecessor entity. 
Rigorous recordkeeping of site 
activities begins at this date. 


1906 CE 


1921 CE 


1923 CE 


1932 CE 


1935 CE 


1938 CE 


1939 CE 


Site Director Casimir commences 
program of controlled study of 
revisions to containment protocol, 
measuring efficacy of various 
procedures. 

Formal organization of TF 
Omega-144's predecessor entity. 
Efficacy of a task force member's 
containment protocol is shown to 
vary as a function of the 
member's distance from the 
bottom of the pit. 

Containment breach of SCP-1844 
for twenty-eight minutes. Entity 
resembling a malformed juvenile 
specimen of Ovis aries with 
supernumerary horns and eyes 
emerges from pit and attacks 
containment personnel before 
being destroyed. 

Cumulative improvements to 
containment protocol lead to 20% 
decrease in seismic activity and 
15% reduction in incidence of 
psychological damage attributable 
to SCP-1844. 

Introduction of heat-shielded 
containment apparatus permitting 
containment protocol to be 
performed within SCP-1844 
rather than merely around its rim. 
Containment efficacy improves by 
30%. 

Introduction of regular rotation 
system among containment 
personnel reduces suicide rate 
among task force members by 
6%. 

Containment breach of SCP-1844 
for seventy-two minutes. Entity 


1952 CE 


1955 CE 


1964 CE 


1978 CE 


resembling an emaciated 
humanoid mounted on an albino 
specimen of Equus ferus caballus 
emerges from pit and escapes. 
Introduction of closed capsule 
containment module improves 
containment efficacy by 20%. 
Containment personnel report 
that the closed module system, 
which permits containment 
personnel to maintain proximity to 
SCP-1844 without establishing a 
line-of-sight, reduces distraction 
due to the "blasphemous images" 
commonly associated with 
SCP-1844's interior, although 
containment personnel continue 
to complain of nausea, vertigo 
and vivid, persistent 
hallucinations during and after 
duty shifts. 

Containment breach leads to loss 
of capsule and its personnel.3 
Secondary containment measure 
prevents several entities from 
escaping from SCP-1844's 
interior. 

Introduction of electronic noise- 
reduction system within capsules 
is reported to further reduce 
distraction of containment 
personnel, and results in 15% 
reduction in suicide rate among 
containment personnel. 
Irregularity in containment 
protocol performance results in 
damage to occupied capsule. 
Omega-144 task force member 
JPI-265 (HH A. Luciani) is injured, 
retires from service and returns to 


1986 CE 


1994 CE 


2011 CE 


Rome. 

A further 30% cumulative 
improvement in containment 
efficacy is attributed to advances 
in heat shielding, improved 
screening of suitability of task 
force members, and ergonomic 
improvements to the containment 
protocols practiced by particular 
task force members. 

O5 approves re-designation of 
SCP-1844's object class to 
“Euclid”. 

Site Director Zafarul 
congratulates containment team 
on 200 consecutive days without 
a Class-C incident or a fatality 
among on-station task force 
members. 


Containment Memoranda 


To: Hector Gomez, Assistant Site Director 
From: Yusuf Zafarul, SD 
Re: SCP-1844 Containment 


Hector — | got your memo, and | don't 
understand why you would advocate scaling 
back the containment protocol. We've got 
them bottled up and people aren't getting 
burned or taken anymore. | would have 
thought that you — a Jesuit priest, of all 
people — would be happy about how 
successful the improved protocol has been. 
You seem to have forgotten what the "C" in 
"SCP" stands for. 

Yusuf 


To: Yusuf Zafarul; Director (Site 308) 
From: Hector Gomez, S.J., Ass't. Site Director 
Re: SCP-1844 Containment 


Yusuf — let me try this again. I've been 
keeping an eye on the instrument readouts for 
SCP-1844 for the last couple of weeks, and | 
am really worried that the contrathaumaturgic 
pressure that's building up under the bottom of 
the pit is getting dangerously high. All I'm 
saying is that before we keep patting ourselves 
on the back for attaining 99.6% containment 
efficacy over the last two months, we ought to 
think about the possible unintended 
consequences of screwing the lid on too 
tightly. By analogy, a boiler explosion is a hell 
of a bigger problem than a steam leak. 

Yours in Christ, 

Hector 


Footnotes 

1. Including a set of noise canceling headphones developed 
byMobile Task Force Eta-11and an audio amplification device 
engineered via study ofSCP-2167. 

2. The Foundation's computus office determines these instructions 
for each rotation based on data provided by a consortium of 
cooperating outside source, which include the Institute of Umm al- 
Qura Observation, the Vatican Observatory, the Department of 
Physics at Brigham Young University and the Scientific Office of the 
Baha'i Universal House of Justice. 

3. Three members were eventually returned to the Foundation 
viaSCP-2336. Treatment for extreme traumatic stress is still 
ongoing. 


« SCP-1843 | SCP-1844 | SCP-1845 » 


SCP-1845: Animal Kingdom 


Item #: SCP-1845 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1845 is to be housed in a 
fully enclosed, climate-controlled habitat simulating a North 
American temperate rainforest. Hidden cameras capable of low-light 
recording shall be installed throughout to monitor SCP-1845. 
SCP-1845 is to be provided with nutrient-supplemented, vegetable- 
based foods as necessary to supplement nutrition available from 
plant and insect life in the habitat. A keyboard and monitor shall be 
installed near SCP-1845-1's den to facilitate communication 
between SCP-1845-1 and agents Level 2 or higher. Any requests 
made by SCP-1845-1 will be considered by the site director ona 
case-by-case basis, in light of the nature of the object requested and 
SCP-1845-1's willingness to cooperate with agents. No outside 
mammals or birds are to be transported into facility except for testing 
purposes. 


SCP-1845's habitat is to be inspected twice monthly and after any 
observation of suspicious behavior. Any discovery of tools or plans 
intended for escape, communication, weaponry, starting fires, or 
interference with cameras will result in implementation of Procedure 
Escheat. In the event of a containment breach, Procedure Novel 
Disseisin is to be implemented. 


SCP-1845-1 is currently of the belief that it and its associates are 
prisoners of war and that its allies will ransom or rescue it in the near 
future; it is not to be disabused of this notion. Foundation wildlife 
surveys shall conduct regular reconnaissance of SCP-1845's native 
environment in search of any uncontained animals. 


Under no circumstances should SCP-1845 be made aware of the 
existence of SCP-1006 or of any non-human mammalian or avian 
SCP object. 


Description: SCP-1845 currently consists of the following; 


One male American red fox (Vulpes vulpes fulvus), 
approximately 3 years old at the time it entered Foundation 
custody in 20 , designated SCP-1845-1. 

Fourteen muskrats, twelve ducks, six bald eagles, two deer, 
three feral cats, two gray wolves, and two crows, designated 
SCP-1845-2. 

Twenty-six pigeons, sixteen mountain lions, twelve squirrels, 
eleven sheep, eight black bears, six raccoons, and a Bengal 
tiger, designated SCP-1845-3. 


The members of SCP-1845 are physiologically indistinct from 
normal animals of their species. However, the animals have been 
demonstrated to possess near-human intelligence, the ability to 
construct simple tools from objects in their habitat and introduced by 
the Foundation, and a system of government modeled on medieval 
European feudalism. 


Tools discovered during inspections of the habitat include: 


A sling made from bark and twigs. 

A small hatchet with a wooden handle and a sharpened piece 
of flint for its blade. 

Fire starters. 

Primitive musical instruments, including a flute, drums, and a 
stringed instrument resembling a lute. 

A flint carving knife. 

A lance-like weapon apparently intended to be mounted to a 
quadruped's back pointing forward. 

A small catapult. 

Several shades of paint made from ochre and crushed 
insects. 

Several crosses and religious icons carved or painted (using 
above-mentioned paint) on wooden surfaces or habitat walls. 
A small canoe. 

Feather quills and ink. 

A tarpaulin designed to cover the entrance of SCP-1845-1's 
den. 

Woolen capes and hooded cloaks. 

Rosary beads. 


SCP-1845-1 has been observed to be the leader of the colony and 
the only member of the group observed to be able to use the 
installed keyboard. SCP-1845-1 considers itself to be of royal 
heritage and identifies itself using the title "His Royal Highness, 
Eugenio the Second, by the Grace of God, King of the Forest, Lord 
of the Plains, Duke of the Grand Fir and the Undergrowth, Count of 
the Swamp, Margrave of , Warden of All the Streams and 
Rivers, and Lord Protector of the Cities of Man, Defender of the 
Faith." SCP-1845-1 identifies itself and its followers as Roman 
Catholics and appears to be extremely pious in its devotions - it has 
been observed on video praying over its meals and observing 
holidays and saintly feast days, and has been observed to order 
punishments against other members of the colony for perceived lack 
of piety. 


Though unable to speak, SCP-1845-1 has demonstrated an ability 
to read, and understand when spoken to it, modern and archaic 
dialects of English, French, and Latin, and is able to communicate 
with Foundation agents by means of the keyboard. Preferred 
language of communication is Middle French. All communications 
from SCP-1845-1 use first person plural (i.e., the "royal we".) 


SCP-1845-1 has demonstrated a broad body of knowledge relating 
to medieval European feudalism, Roman Catholic theology, ancient 
Greek and Roman history and mythology, and the works of Homer, 
Aristotle, Chaucer, Mallory, Bodin, Shakespeare, and Cervantes 
(though it expresses a strong distaste for the latter.) 


SCP-1845 refers to examples of SCP-1845-2 as its "knights" and 
"gentry", and claims to assign them titles such as "Duke of the Elm", 
"Countess of the Trail", or "Knight of the Thistle”. It likewise 
identifies members of SCP-1845-3 as "serfs" or "the common folk". 
This hierarchy appears to be rigidly enforced, with SCP-1845-3 
conducting menial tasks such as building tools, gathering food, and 
construction of earthworks under the supervision of SCP-1845-2, 
who report to SCP-1845-1 for instructions. Acts of violence are 
strictly punished - only three violent casualties, two pigeons anda 
muskrat belonging to SCP-1845-3, have been documented - the 
latter having been executed by hanging after being convicted in a 
"trial" of causing the death of the former. Members of SCP-1845 are 


able to communicate with each other through vocalizations and body 
language, apparently irrespective of species. 


Direct communication with any SCP-1845-2 or SCP-1845-3 has yet 
to be achieved. Only one animal other than SCP-1845-1 has been 
observed to understand written language - a raccoon belonging to 
SCP-1845-3, which has been observed using a quill pen and ink to 
take dictation, in Latin, from SCP-1845-1. SCP-1845-3 has refused 
to write anything under instructions from members of staff. 


Excluding those animals mentioned above, four animals — a duck, a 
bald eagle, and two crows — have died in the habitat since 
SCP-1845 entered containment. Six animals — two pigeons, two 
ducks, a bald eagle and a raccoon — have hatched or been born. 
These animals acquire a level of intelligence comparable to their 
parents at rates on par with normal periods of growth and sexual 
development for their species. 


SCP-1845 came to the attention of the Foundation in 20 , when 
reports of unusual animal behavior and attacks against humans and 
other animals began appearing frequently in the vicinity of : 
Preliminary investigative units were forced to retreat after being 
viciously attacked by a group of raccoons, ducks, squirrels and feral 
cats with what appeared to be war paint smeared across their faces. 
Mobile Task Force Sigma-853 ("Elected Dogcatchers") was 
dispatched, which discovered that two groups of animals of assorted 
species, wearing red and black paint respectively, were apparently 
"at war" with each other in an area extending across several 
hundred square kilometers of and bleeding into the and