SCP-3576 creates detailed, reactive narratives using instances of 
SCP-3576-1 and a perception-altering effect that disguises 
instances of SCP-3576-1 as human, or humanoid 'characters' to any 
human within the bounds of SCP-3576. Audio-visual recording 
devices are not affected by SCP-3576's anomalous effects, and as 
such the content of the narratives are known only from firsthand 
accounts. While a human subject sees, hears, and can even touch 
what they believe to be a woodsman, knight, noblewoman, or other 
characters, digital recording equipment perceives only an animal in 
distress, forced through unknown means to stand on its hind legs, 


and make simple vocalizations when the 'character' speaks. 
Additionally, SCP-3576 also creates props and sets in what is 
believed to be a similar fashion to the characters, providing the 
backdrop for each narrative in a style that matches early-modern 
construction and architecture of the area, though with an ornate 
quality that is shared by the outfits and appearances of SCP-3576-1. 
All language either spoken by instances of SCP-3576-1 or written on 
‘props' created by SCP-3576 matches the native or preferred 
language of the primary human subject. At this time it is unclear how 
SCP-3576 'chooses' the primary subject when presented with 
multiple humans at once, though initial testing does point towards 
factors such as creativity, confidence, and leadership skills all 
affecting the likelinood of an individual being chosen as the primary 
subject. 


Subjects that are aware of SCP-3576, and know the true nature of 
SCP-3576-1, are not affected by SCP-3576, and their presence will 
return SCP-3576 to an inactive state within 5-10 minutes of entry. 
Subjects that discover the true nature of SCP-3576 or SCP-3576-1 
during the course of a narrative will cause a similar loss of activity. 
Instances of SCP-3576-1 that are ‘released’ before the intended end 
of an SCP-3576 narrative shown heightened states of distress and 
unpredictability, either attempting to flee the human presence within 
SCP-3576, or reacting violently to humans and other animals. These 
behaviors are consistent with wild animals in high-stress situations 
and are not believed to be a direct result of the anomalous effects of 
SCP-3576. 


SCP-3576 narratives last between 2-5 hours, depending on the 
actions of the subject. SCP-3576 narratives resemble a number of 
traditional local stories, though often veer away from the standard or 
expected end-point based on the choices made by subjects, and 
availability of SCP-3576-1. Narratives tend to form the following 
basic premises based on the number of animals within SCP-3576 at 
the moment of activation, though have been known to transition to 
more complex narratives if more animals, and thus SCP-3576-1 are 
introduced. 


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The tone and linguistic content of most SCP-3576 narratives has 
been described by test subjects as matching local folklore, and high 
drama. While no mental compulsions have been proven, subjects 
are often 'caught up in’ the narratives, often engaging with the 
characters even when instructed to do otherwise. 


At this time, no severe injuries have been suffered by subjects 
exposed to SCP-3576 during the course of a narrative, though a 
number of injuries have been suffered by test subjects that cause a 
cessation of the active state. Instances of SCP-3576-1 who are 
wounded or killed within the fiction of the narrative are unharmed, 
despite injuries apparent to human subjects. Monitoring and 
dissection of former instances of SCP-3576-1 and human subjects 
have revealed no physiological abnormalities, though human 
subjects who complete an SCP-3576 narrative without causing 
SCP-3576 to enter its inactive state have reported experiencing 
minor shifts in mood and outlook for up to 6-9 months following 
exposure, both positive and negative. It is currently unknown if this 
is a direct result of the anomalous effects of SCP-3576 or a non- 
anomalous response to taking part in a narrative centered around 
them. Subjects have reported increases in confidence and creativity, 
with a small portion developing narcissistic or self-destructive 


tendencies, believing themselves to be ‘important’ or ‘invincible’. 


A full psychological profile of former SCP-3576 subjects is currently 
being assembled. 


Recovery Report: 


Note: The following interview was carried out on / 
/2009 and comprises part of the debrief of the first 
Foundation asset to encounter SCP-3576. 


Interviewed: Agent J. Kowalczyk, attached to Eastern 
European recovery operations between 1998-2014. 


Interviewer: Dr. Harland. 
<Begin Log, / /2009, 15:37> 


Dr. Harland: We'll have you back in the field as soon as 
possible, agent. | just want to go over your report with 
you. Given the nature of this object, your first-hand 
account may prove important. 


Agent Kowalczyk: Alright. Where would you like me to 
begin? 


Dr. Harland: The very beginning. What drew your 
attention to SCP-3576? You were doing routine 
information gathering in the area, yes? 


Agent Kowalczyk: That's correct. We're still cleaning up 
objects that fell through the cracks when the USSR fell 
apart. Some security guard leaves a GRU-P operated 
site when the pay stops coming and takes home a 
souvenir that kills his whole bloody village. 


Dr. Harland: You believe this may be what's causing 
SCP-3576? 


Agent Kowalczyk: No, no, that's just why we were in 
these tiny little towns nobody has ever heard of. We find 
someplace central, large enough to let a half dozen 


agents meet without getting noticed. That becomes a 
base of operation, and from there we split up and go 
check out the little towns in the area. | got 


Dr. Harland: Your report mentions local legends about 
the forest? 


Agent Kowalczyk: Folklore, yes. Not the sort of thing 
we usually focus on, but | was pointed towards a 
hunter... Well, more of a poacher. Most of the Biatowieza 
is protected these days, but the people don't care. They 
need the calories. Anyway, this poacher- 


Dr. Harland: This is a mister... Vadim Ivashka in the 
report? 


Agent Kowalczyk: Yes, that's him. He wasn't drunkenly 
retelling old stories, he had been telling anyone who 
would listen about something that had just happened to 
him a month or two ago. Apparently, a doe he was 
chasing had led him into an opening in the forest and 
turned into a beautiful woman. Told him stories about a 
hidden home deep in the woods, and how she had to be 
returned there before nightfall. He had lost his nerve and 
ran off an hour or so in, and been chased home by 
wolves. 


Dr. Harland: What reason did you have to believe him? 


Agent Kowalczyk: We've encountered similar things 
before. Shapeshifters aren't that uncommon out in those 
parts of Europe, not even today. | spent two years with a 
team chasing a pack of SCP- __ through the Exclusion 
Zone! back in- 


Dr. Harland: Let's stay on topic, please. 


Agent Kowalczyk: Right, right. Anyway, Vadim didn't 
seem bright enough to make up some of the details | got 
out of him. | had him lead me to where it happened, and 
let him run back home. He was spooked, and | didn't 


need him freaking out and shooting something. 


| entered the area he had pointed out and set my lapel 
camera to record. Almost jumped out of my skin when | 
looked back over the video later. Took about... ten to 
fifteen minutes? I'm not sure exactly when | entered the 
area, but it would have been around ten to fifteen 
minutes after Vadim ran off that | met the boy. 


Dr. Harland: The boy? 


Agent Kowalczyk: Young man. Maybe 14, 15. Wasn't 
dressed for the right century, like a page or squire or... 
something like that. Grabbed at my coat and started 
babbling at me about how his master was injured, and | 
needed to come and help. 


Dr. Harland: He spoke English? Not Polish, or Russian? 
Your file says you're Polish- 


Agent Kowalczyk: My family, yes, but | grew up in 
Maine. | think in English. 


Dr. Harland: Alright, please continue. 


Agent Kowalczyk: | think | covered the actual event well 
enough in my report. The burned carriage, the bodies. It 
was like walking into a set from a period movie, or out on 
stage. Very... Curated, | guess. I've seen what an actual 
ambush looks like, and this wasn't it. All these injured 
men were laid out where they could groan and show off 
their wounds as the boy led me in. Arrows littering the 
scene. Artfully placed. 


Dr. Harland: And that was when SCP-3576 ended its 
active state? 


Agent Kowalczyk: Is that what we're calling it? Yes, yes 
it was. | had a moment of realization, it all just lined up in 
my head that this wasn't real, that it was a show being 
put on for me and it collapsed. Suddenly | was standing 


SCP-464: The Foundry 


Item #: SCP-464 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Site 53 consists of a 
warehouse that has been built around SCP-464. The intervening 
space between the walls of the warehouse and SCP-464 is 
equipped with motion sensors and stationary cameras. Site 53 is 
staffed by a rotating complement of seven guards. Unclothed beings 
sighted inside the warehouse are to be shot on sight, and 
unauthorized clothed people to be detained for questioning and 
physical examination. 


Description: Discovered in 19 , SCP-464 is a large building located 
in the middle of a farm near : . The building consists of 
ten rooms, one of which takes up 70% of the building. The 
remaining nine rooms vary in size and function and take up two 
stories at the rear of the building. 


The largest room, designated ‘the floor’, contains fourteen (14) 
identical, large machines all of which are connected to a fifteenth 
machine as well as the control room. Several of the machines are 
damaged by neglect and abuse. A full listing of functionality follows: 


#01 — Nonfunctioning 

#02 — Nonfunctioning 

#03 - Undetermined 

#04 - Undetermined 

#05 — Malfunctioning — All products are mindlessly homicidal 
#06 — Functioning 

#07 — Nonfunctioning 

#08 — Functioning 

#09 — Functioning 

#10 — Malfunctioning — Will produce only a biological ‘soup’ 
containing several complete organs 


in aclearing with a dozen deer, some of them balanced 
on their hind legs, most of them laying around. They all 
bolted at once. 


Dr. Harland: And the recording? 


Agent Kowalczyk: On the whole time. | returned to 

and checked the footage. Nothing. No carriage, no 
arrows, no wounded soldiers. Just the deer moving 
around, looking uncomfortable, making these mewling 
sounds like they were being held in place. But the boy 
was worse. He was a wolf, and when he was tugging at 
my coat the camera... The camera was right on the 
wolf's face. Eyes rolling, whimpering. Poor thing was 
terrified. 


<End Log> 


Closing Statement: Following visits to SCP-3576 by 
Agent Kowalczyk returned no anomalous effects, now 
known to be due to the nature of SCP-3576 and how it 
interacts with knowledge of its properties. Agent 
Kowalczyk declined further involvement in research into 
SCP-3576. As of 2014, he has been acting as a liaison 
to the Duchéw wing of the Polish government. 


Incident 3576-38-B: On 09/01/2014 a guard dog (German 
Shepherd) attached to one of the perimeter patrols around 
SCP-3576 escaped its harness and chased a rabbit into SCP-3576 
before it could be recaptured by its handlers. At that time test-218 
was underway, and the escaped dog became an anomalous variant 
of SCP-3576-1, hereafter referred to as SCP-3576-2 after entering 
the active zone. 


SCP-3576-2 did not integrate with the narrative underway. 
SCP-3576-2 successfully escaped the perimeter of SCP-3576 and is 
currently uncontained. SCP-3576-2 retained its anomalous 
properties on leaving SCP-3576, and its retrieval is considered a top 
priority for agents operating in Belarus, Poland, and surrounding 
areas. 


SCP-3576 has been updated to Euclid status. 


Footnotes 

1. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation. See 
document CH-0331 for more information on Foundation operations 
in the area. 


SCP-3577: Pack To The Future 


Item #: SCP-3577 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: As the majority of SCP-3577's 
containment is handled by Gol-466 ("Wilson's Wildlife Solutions") 
Foundation resources are to be focused on the research of the 
SCP-3577 anomaly. 


Currently, a pack of 16 unsterilized instances of SCP-3577 are held 
in Controlled Habitat-02 on Site-64 for research purposes. 
Personnel assigned to the observation and handling of SCP-3577 
are to check all currently available documentation regarding 
individual instances in Foundation captivity on a daily basis, for the 
purpose of detecting any discrepancy in the number of instances in 
Controlled Habitat-02 or the length of time instances have spent in 
Foundation captivity. In such an event, containment procedures are 
to be adjusted depending on the extent of SCP-3577 generation. 


SCP-3577 instances of opposite sex are to be separated into groups 
and transferred to two secondary enclosures one week prior to the 
conclusion of a courting period. Following the conclusion of a 
courting period, enclosures must be checked for the generation of 
new SCP-3577 instances before releasing both groups back into 
Controlled Habitat-02. 


MTF Beta-4 ("Castaways") are currently engaged in an ongoing 
joint-effort operation with Gol-466 in order to locate and capture all 
undocumented instances of SCP-3577 in the wild, with the intent of 
sterilization and controlled release back into the wilderness. 


Description: SCP-3577 is the designation for multiple instances of 
Canis latrans' that exhibit retroactive reality-altering properties in 
lieu of nonanomalous reproduction. To date, over 265 instances 
have been discovered and contained by both Foundation and 


Gol-466 personnel. 


Instances of SCP-3577 are otherwise identical to non-anomalous 
members of Canis /atrans but display no naturally occuring 
reproductive behaviour. To date, no instance of SCP-3577 has been 
confirmed to be less than 4 years of age or observed to be visibly 
pregnant. 


Anomalous behaviour occurs following a ‘courting’ period, during 
which two SCP-3577 instances of opposite sex remain in each 
other's presence for 63 days. An exception to this occurs during a 
time period from February to March, in which the courting period is 
cut down to 31 days. SCP-3577 cannot initiate a courting period with 
a non-anomalous counterpart. Sterile instances of SCP-3577 are 
unable to initiate a courting period. 


Upon the conclusion of a courting period, a litter of 3-14 new adult 
instances of SCP-3577 will be generated in the surrounding general 
area of the original parent instances. All new instances are a genetic 
mixture of both parent instances and will invariably be 2 years 
younger than the female parent. The generation of a SCP-3577 
instance to date has never been observed. 


Following the generation of additional SCP-3577 instances, 
information will be retroactively injected into the past two years that 
proves the existence of the corresponding SCP-3577 instances prior 
to their generation. Information created as a result of SCP-3577 
includes: 


¢ The appearance of tracks, droppings and animal remains 
produced during the last two years that can be linked back to 
new SCP-3577 instances and the area containing its 
generation point. 

¢ The creation of documents and files having been 
chronologically produced at some point during the last two 
years, containing information regarding new SCP-3577 
instances. Existing documents cannot be modified by 
SCP-3577's retroactivity.