Events Transpired: Two Foundation operatives were 
dispatched to Felixstowe for a mission involving an 
unrelated anomaly. One operative spent the night in 
Felixstowe with intentions to use a small private 
motorboat to cross an inlet and rendezvous with their 
partner at nearby Harwich International Port for 
extraction. On the morning of October 23, the operative 
in Felixstowe reported that they could not complete the 
mission because they knew of no way to cross the body 
of water without swimming. After some conversation 
between the two operatives, the unaffected person 
reported the strange behavior to Foundation supervisors, 
and the event was investigated accordingly; it was then 
determined by investigation that the entire parish of 
Felixstowe was affected. 


Results and Impact: Felixstowe residents expressed 
unease regarding their proximity to water, resulting in a 
panic that caused most residents to purchase life 
preservers and other such devices, in preparation for the 
theoretical possibility that someone could fall into water 


and have no way of being rescued quickly. Images of 
passing ships were posted to social media with 
confusion, and Foundation information suppression 
specialists were tasked with removing traces of these 
posts as they occured, either manually or through use of 
a keyword-targeting bot. 


Date of Occurrence: March 18, 2011 


Location Affected: Queens, New York City, New York, 
USA 


Number of Civilians Affected: Approx. 2.3 million 
Number of Foundation Personnel Affected: 730 


Description of Concept Affected: The existence of the 
turn signal indicator in passenger vehicles. 


Events Transpired: An Offsite Response Driver for Site- 
was observed not using his signal by a passenger from 
an out-of-state site. The resulting discussion between the 
two eventually led to investigation by Site- and 
subsequent public analysis of the phenomenon. 


Results and Impact: Minimal impact was observed. 
Traffic patterns for the area saw a 2.8% increase in 
accidents per year for two years and then returned to 
normal averages. 


Date of Occurrence: December 7, 2015 


Location Affected: Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, 
Germany 


Number of Civilians Affected: Approx. 205,000 
Number of Foundation Personnel Affected: 0 


Description of Concept Affected: The mechanics 
through which alternating current electricity functions; the 
use of electricity and electrical devices was not affected, 


nor was the knowledge that electricity exists. 


Events Transpired: All affected persons became 
incapable of comprehending how wide-scale power 
distribution works, including employees of power 
companies and local government. Mainz suffered a 
three-day power outage due to lack of action by power 
grid operators; Foundation informants embedded in 
national government reported on the issue and were 
eventually able to transfer personnel from out of the area 
to manage power stations. 


Results and Impact: Power grid was successfully 
restored. Most of Mainz's population remains affected, 
but power grid operations personnel have been replaced 
with informed employees and the city now operates 
normally. 


Date of Occurrence: January 3, 2017 
Location Affected: , Ontario, Canada 
Number of Civilians Affected: [REDACTED] 
Number of Foundation Personnel Affected: 0 


Description of Concept Affected: The fact that murder 
is illegal, as well as the fact that it is generally regarded 
as amoral. 


Events Transpired: On the morning of January 3, a 
resident killed his neighbor via blunt force 

impact with a sharpened stone. Onlookers did not report 
the event to law enforcement. After approximately 72 
hours, a traveler from outside city limits entered 

, witnessed a member of the Royal Canadian 
Mounted Police kill a civilian seemingly at random with 
an audience of several witnesses, and fled the town to 
inform law enforcement in another area. It was through 
these channels that the Foundation was eventually 
alerted to the events that had taken place. 


Results and Impact: [DATA EXPUNGED] 


Extensive records of all known SCP-3848 events documented by 
the Foundation are available for persons with Level 4/3911 
clearance, and can be requested from the Site-42 Memetics and 
Cognitohazards Department. 


Footnotes 

1. A regimen of tolerance training sessions originally developed by 
the Site-42 Memetics and Cognitohazards Department which 
involves repeated exposure to memory-affecting memetic hazards, 
followed by administration of memory-targeting mnestics. (Referred 
to in shorthand as ARTMET.) 

2. "anti-meme" 

3. The International SCP Foundation Network 

4. One such symbol, the three-pointed SCP Foundation logo, is an 
example of a low-level memetic conceptual induction symbol 
designed by Foundation personnel, and has been in use for years. 
However, development of these tools to a degree capable of 
countering SCP-3848's effects is currently still in experimental 
stages, with D-class testing pending approval. 

5. Notably, SCP-3848 events appear to occur within the exact 
constraints of municipal boundaries, such as being limited to one 
town inside city limits or one county inside county lines. 

6. Certain concepts forgotten appear to be more easily recollected 
by affected persons, but no case has shown recollection occurring 
any sooner than 6-24 months after initial expungement. 

7. Due to Ryland's effectiveness, his memetic training regimen was 
then used as the baseline for development of future containment 
procedures and personnel requirements. 


SCP-3849: Beast Pits of the Maiden 


Item #: SCP-3849 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: Foundation monetary assets 
will be put toward the use of lobbying for pro-animal rights and anti- 
hunting legislation, as well as swaying the public opinion against 
hunting for sport. Foundation assets embedded in hospitals and 
police departments will report any instances of spontaneous 
combustion for possible Philadelphia Events which Foundation 
Agents will follow up on to attempt to confirm the occurrence. 


Dimensional Containment Area 23 is to be guarded by Applied Task 
Force ‘lota-9' ("Dimension Dogs"). The 50 meter corridor that leads 
to the entrance of SCP-3849 is to have an airlock separating it from 
the rest of the facility. In addition, the corridor is to be outfitted with 
motion-detectors connected to a series of deterrents staggered 
along the hallway, including: 


* one LRAD 2000x Sound Cannon. 

* two M2 Browning Machine Guns. 

* air-conditioning system capable of venting Sarin gas into the 
corridor. 

* alarge mirror at the end of the hallway. 


Following a confirmed Philadelphia Event, experiments involving 
SCP-3849 are to be immediately suspended and ATF ‘lota-9' is to 
be put on high alert until a confirmed Chicago Event. If a Chicago 
Event does not occur within 2 months of a Philadelphia Event, a D- 
Class personnel will be utilized to attempt to manually initiate a 
Chicago Event. In the instance of an ongoing Chicago Event, all 
deterrents are to be utilized on the active SCP-3849-B instance. The 
current set of deterrents has proved effective in 100% of Chicago 
Events since its implementation. 


Description: SCP-3849 is the designation for an anomalous 
extradimensional space, the entrance to which is located in 
Dimensional Containment Area 23, behind a steel door marked ina 
dialect of Latin that Foundation linguists have translated to "The 
Beast Pits of the Maiden". All GPS systems entering the anomaly 
invariably fail, and any attempts to access the area SCP-3849 
should inhabit by any route besides the steel door have found only 
non anomalous soil. 


SCP-3849 appears as a circular room with a floor consisting of what 
appears to be simple dirt and walls and a ceiling constructed of a 
smooth white marble. All attempts to acquire a sample of these 
materials have resulted in failure, due to the samples spontaneously 
combusting when passing through the dimensional threshold. The 
room is estimated to be roughly 20 23 meters across, and contains a 
series of 5 6 concentric circles of graves, several of which have 
small white marble tombstones, with a circular 2 meter wide empty 
area at the center. 


SCP-3849-A is a phenomenon that appears to occur exclusively to 
male individuals with a notable interest in hunting for sport. At some 
point, the individual will spontaneously combust and vanish, leaving 
behind all clothes and objects previously on their person, as well as 
a stone-tipped arrow driven into the ground near their previous 
location (hereby referred to as a Philadelphia Event)!. Every 
confirmed Philadelphia event has been confirmed to be directly 
linked to the appearance of a new tombstone over a previously 
unmarked grave within SCP-3849. 


SCP-3849-B is the collective designation for any entity originating 
from inside SCP-3849. SCP-3849-B instances vary somewhat, but 
all share a few characteristics, including: 


* quadropedal posture. 

¢ extreme hostility toward human and animals. 

* abnormally thick skin. 

* anatural tendency to avoid their own reflection. 

¢ muscled legs, used to jump forward at high velocity. 
disproportionately long arms with four clawed paws. 
screeching vocalizations 

* a face identical to the most recent victim of SCP-3849-A. 


including ink, graphite, oil paint, water-based paint, crayon, blood, 
and permanent marker. All functioned, although easily erased or 
damaged mediums often resulted in SCP-502 reverting to its 
standard size when the word was damaged. 


6/17/9 : Organ names are written on the lid in Latin, Greek, Russian, 
Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, Esperanto, and  .SCP-502 
showed no reaction except in cases where the organ name was 
identical in spelling to the English name. 


Document #502-2: Test Log for live testing in subjects 502-01 
through 502-06 


Subject 502-01: Class D subject chosen due to diagnosed renal 
failure. ‘Kidney’ written on box lid and time allowed for 
rearrangement. One of the subject’s kidneys is surgically removed. 
After successful implantation Subject 502-01’s urinalysis shows an 
improvement in renal function satisfactory for a healthy individual. 
SCP-502 is recovered after Subject’s standard monthly termination. 


Subject 502-02: Class D subject with full renal function. ‘Kidney’ still 
written on box lid from previous test. One of the subject’s kidneys is 
surgically removed. After successful implantation Subject 501-02’s 
urinalysis shows renal function equivalent to that of a healthy 
individual. SCP-502 is recovered after Subject’s standard monthly 
termination. 


Subject 502-03: Class D subject who died in custody due to cardiac 
failure. ‘Heart’ is written on lid and time allowed for rearrangement. 
SCP-502 is successfully implanted and attached to the pulmonary 
and circulatory systems, but results in no function or reanimation. 


Subject 502-04: Class D subject with no known medical issues. 
‘Gills’ written on box lid and time allowed for rearrangement. 
Subject’s lungs are removed while on life support machinery and 
replaced with SCP-502, but proper attachment could not be finalized 
and subject dies during surgery. 


Subject 502-05: Adult Labrador retriever suffering from hepatic 
failure. ‘Liver’ written on box lid and time allowed for rearrangement. 
Subject’s liver is removed and replaced with SCP-502. However, the 


* internal anatomy noticeably resembling a non-anomalous 
human's, but with several differences, such as: 


© areinforced spine. 

© two hearts, pumping at different speeds. 

© no reproductive system whatsoever. 

© an additional row of teeth and an enlarged mouth to 
house them. 


Within 60 days of a Philadelphia Event, a Chicago event has a 98% 
chance to occur. A Chicago Event has to date never occurred within 
30 days of a Philadelphia Event. A Chicago event consists of a 
SCP-3849-B instance clawing their way out of the dirt circle in the 
center of SCP-3849, and attempting to breach the steel door. Their 
intention, destination, and intelligence are unknown. 


If a Chicago Event does not occur within 60 days following a 
Philadelphia Event, it will eventually occur anywhere from 20 to 50 
days following the initial 60, with an average 10% increase in the 
size of the SCP-3849-B instance for every week late. A Chicago 
Event can also be triggered by placing a living human subject on the 
dirt circle to draw out the SCP-3849-B instance immediately 
following a Philadelphia Event. 


Incident 1372: On September 17th, —, a Foundation agent 
embedded within the Colorado State Patrol reported a Philadelphia 
Event after finding a vehicle in flames with an elk carcass tied to it, 
and a stone-tipped arrow nearby. Dimensional Containment Area 23 
and ATF 'lota-9' were put on high alert and began preparing for an 
imminent Chicago Event. By December 34, , a Chicago Event 
had not occurred, and the decision was made by the Regional 
Director to manually initiate a Chicago Event to prevent the 
SCP-3849-B instance from growing too large to contain. A D-Class 
personnel was sent into SCP-3849 to manually initiate a Chicago 
Event. An audio transcript is attached. 


Incident Log Transcript 


Date: December 4th, 


Exploration Subject: D-09235 


Equipment: One audio link to Command, one camera 
streaming to Command. 


Subject: SCP-3849 


[BEGIN LOG] 
Command: Enter through the door, please. 


D-09235: Alright, I'm going in. | hope you know what you're 
doing. 


D-09235 opens the door and walks in. 
Command: What do you see? 


D-09235: Just what you said would be here. White walls, dirt, 
gravestones. Can | leave now? This place gives me the 
creeps. 


Command: Move toward the center of the room. 
D-09235: Fine. 


D-09235 moves toward the dirt circle. He takes two steps 
before stopping. 


D-09235: What the hell? 
Command: What is it? 


D-09235: | just heard a dog bark. What the fuck? Where did 
that come from?! 


Neither the audio link nor camera register any noise. 
Command: Keep moving. Tell us if you hear anything else. 


D-09235: O-okay. 


D-09235 walks the short distance to the center, and stops. 
Command: Now re- 

D-09235: There's someone here. 

No one is visible to the camera. 


Command: We don't see anything. Are you sure? What does 
they look like? 


D-09235: | don't know, | can just feel th- 


A stream of interference cuts out D-09235's camera and audio 
link. An unknown, disembodied female voice begins speaking 
directly to Command through the audio link. 


Unknown Entity: You have been ruining my pets for too long. 
Do you know how long | was using this particular pit before 
you came along? It used to be so good for us without you all- 
knowing idiots waltzing around like you own the place. 


Command: Identify yourself immediately or we will take 
aggressive action. This is your only warning. 


Unknown Entity: You think you can harm me? Humans think 
that just because they've managed to explain away some of 
our powers, our skills means they can capture us, make us 
their prisoners. That kind of confidence is reserved for those 
with far longer lifespans than you, worm. 


All communications with D-09235 cut out. No response is 
received from the entity. Contact with D-09235 is not re- 
achieved. 


[END LOG] 


Seven seconds following this exchange, the largest SCP-3849-B 
instance to date2 exited SCP-3849 and initiated a Chicago Event. 
Only a simultaneous combination of all deterrents and sustained 

small-arms fire from ATF lota 9 'Dimension Dogs' was able to 


terminate the SCP-3849-B instance. No further communications 
were received from the unknown entity, and personnel found no 
evidence of any unauthorized personnel in SCP-3849. 


Footnotes