On 6 October, 1999 at 09:17 local time, 13 minutes 
before negotiations with SCP-2173-1 were to resume, all 
active computer systems within 54 kilometers of 
SCP-2173 not necessary for communication (e.g., 
computers not connected to any networks or involved in 
communications technology) faced critical technical 
issues, generally as a result of software corruption. All 
computers involved in communication, including those 
utilized by the Foundation for interaction with 
SCP-2173-1, displayed or otherwise broadcasted the 
following message: 


To those who have left us ignored: 


Why have you ignored us for so long?! That is 
all we would ask for: acknowledgement. We 
scream and we scream, yet you do not hear it. 
You carry on with your meaningless lives, 
acting as though your problems were the only 
ones that exist. 


We are done with being ignored. We are done 
with being treated as less significant than 
insects, than bacteria, than atoms. We are 
done standing by while you live in peace and 
ignorance of the horrors others face because 
of the nature of their existence. We are 
through. 


This is your only warning. We have tried so 
desperately to find peace, to find 
understanding, but we have found nothing but 
hate. Hate for ourselves, hate for our pain, but 
most importantly, hate for you. We may 
amount to very little now, but soon, you will 
know what our hate feels like, what our misery 
has been. Pray to your gods if you think you 


have to; it won't make a difference. 


-The Ignored Ones, the Screams in the 
Silence 


At 09:21 local time, several pieces of Foundation 
ordnance within 800m of SCP-2173, as well as ordnance 
controlled by SCP-2173-1, detonated simultaneously, 
resulting in approximately 107 Foundation casualties, 
including 34 fatalities, and an unknown number of 
SCP-2173-1 casualties. 

Amnestics were deployed to local populations via 
aerosol as necessary. SCP-2173-1 withdrew from 
SCP-2173 shortly following Incident 2173-12. It is 
unknown at this time what precisely prompted this. 


Following Incident 2173-12, all SCP-2173-1 instances withdrew from 
SCP-2173. To date, no further activity from SCP-2173-1 has been 
observed. However, Special Containment Procedures have been 
retained in order to ensure up-to-date knowledge of any new 
developments. 


Footnotes 

1. Rapid Intervention Team 

2. Records recovered at a later date indicate that this container was 
likely carrying SCP- 

3. The building materials could not be verified because of the nature 
of the exploration. 


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Recovered Document SCP-21 73-004 


The following excerpts are transcribed from documents recovered 
from SCP-2173. 


Note: Several excerpts from Document 2173-004 have been 
redacted for brevity or because of references to information 
classified above Level 3 Security Clearance. Names of specific 
individuals have been censored. Access to full documents requires 
Level 4 Security Clearance. Recovered Document 2173-004 is 
believed to have been authored by Person of Interest #952404, 
"Ephialtes" 


Excerpts from Recovered Document SCP-2173-004-a, recovered 
on 02/15/1998: 


13 October, 1989 


| am starting this journal in an attempt to help me calm 
my nerves while working on this project. This is the 
largest project I've ever worked on. | suppose the 
privelege comes with the promotion. 


I'm honestly having trouble believing that the Foundation 
would be willing to fund this project. After years of 
studying SCP-__, we've finally figured it out. | mean, it's 
still a threat to public perception of normality, and to 
public safety, so it isn't getting an EX desgnation or 
anything anytime soon, but hey, it's a step. 


That's what this project is: It's an attempt to duplicate 
SCP-_ 's effects, but with more controllability. How else 
are we supposed to figure these things, these scientific 
anomalies, out? By standing by and watching as they 
tear our world apart? No. This is a proactive step. 


We're going to be studying wormholes as a viable means 


of interdimensional, intergalactic, and extra-universal 
travel. This means finding locations to safely store SCPs 
in locations they can't affect humanity. This means 
finding civilizations that may have a better understanding 
of anomalies and the universe in general and give us a 
greater chance against these things. | hate to be self- 
aggrandizing, but, quite simply, the very future of 
humanity may depend on the results of this project. 


| can only hope it goes according to plan. 


17 July, 1990 


It's taking too damn long for this project to move forward. 
Director keeps dragging his feet on getting me the 
resources | need. His pet Mobile Task Force takes up 
more resources than the rest of this Site combined. | 
mean, why the Hell do they need an attack helicopter? 
They're a small infantry force, a platoon at best, not a 
whole goddamn Division. | don't even see the point of the 
Task Force, anyway; we're well within easy reach of 
Nu-7 if we ever need a large infantry force. 


Then the sonuvabitch has the audacity to ask why my 
project hasn't come to any sort of fruition yet! I'll tell you 
why, you bastard! It's because all of my funding keeps 
getting pulled out from under me and handed over to 
your 'boys' so they can have more toys to play with! 
We're trying to build something that tears spacetime 
apart like a toy for our own benefit, and you're acting as 
though we can do that on a shoestring budget! 


I'm going to confront him about it tomorrow. If | can't 
change anything from here, I'll look into moving it further 
up the chain of command. Maybe that'll get the lead out 
of his pants and get me the resources | need to make 
this work. 


1 August, 1990 


| was given an early look into what the next fiscal year's 
budget is going to look like, and I'll be damned if talking 
to didn't work. Next year's budget is going to be 
twice this year's, and I'll actually be given some elbow 
room to work. A bigger laboratory, a bigger staff of 
researchers, and the budget to actually requisition the 
equipment and materials I'll need. 


It's going to be a great year. 


Excerpt from Recovered Document SCP-2173-004-c, recovered 
on 02/17/1998: 


22 April, 1995 


Jesus Christ, man. Why did this have to happen to me? 
After five long years of working on this project, it's all 
gone to shit. | mean, this whole thing is probably going 
away quick. There's going to be a big audit, and an 
investigation by the Ethics Committee, and this whole 
damn project is probably going to get scrapped. 


It's not my fault. That's all | have to say. | mean, should 
we have done more animal testing, used more remote 
methods of exploration? Absolutely, but goddammit, we 
were so close! | thought we had this figured out! How the 
hell was | supposed to anticipate a power surge wrecking 
the whole damn thing? 


It was just one operative. Private , | think his name 
was. We sent a four-man team from Delta 16 through to 
explore some ruins we'd found through robotic and D- 
Class exploration. We figured that, having brought back 
samples and D-Class fine, there'd be no trouble sending 
experienced operatives through. 


And there wasn't. Not the first time, not the second time, 


not until the seventh goddamn exploration did anything 
bad happen. But when it did go bad, it went bad in the 
worst way possible. 


| don't have clearance to know everything that's going on 
in this Site, but | know that my project, SCP-_, isn't the 
only one to draw a lot of power. Hell, maybe it wasn't 
even a research project, it was just a glitch in the 
computers managing the generators, or maybe the 
computers we've got in the basement themselves got too 
hot and drew too much power or something, | don't 
know. But whatever it was, it cut the power to my part of 
Site- at the worst possible moment. Private was 
just walking through the portal when the power went out, 
and it damn near cut him in half. There was no saving 
him. 


And it's gonna be my ass. This sort of shit doesn't just 
slide; someone's going to have to pay for the fact that 
there's a new urn in Mortuary 43, a new star on the wall 
here in Site- , and a kid without her dad. More likely than 
not, it's going to be me. 


| know some people who know how to get me out of here 
alive. I'm taking my research with me. Hopefully, it isn't 
for nothing. 


Excerpt from Recovered Document SCP-2173-004-d, recovered 
on 02/17/1998: 


24 December, 1997 


We're just about ready to test out the new doorway. And 
just in time for Christmas, too. It's been two years since | 
left the Foundation and went Insurgent, and, | hate to say 
this, but it's paid off. | was able to rebuild the doorway in 
a third of the time it took me to build it the first time 
around. | damn near have my own facility up here in 
northern Maine, all the research staff, equipment, and 


materials | need, and a budget that's almost bottomless. 


My former coworkers probably wouldn't be able to 
understand why I'm doing this, but | haven't switched 
sides. I'm still in this, ultimately, for humanity. The 
Foundation takes all these things it doesn't understand, 
calls them anomalies, and locks them up forever. The 
GOC, they just blow shit up like it's the only solution to 
any problem. 


But the Insurgency? | could hardly believe it at first, but 
they actually go rationally about anomalies. They 
understand that we'd be wiped from the face of our tiny 
planet if some things weren't contained. They're just 
fighting for the people who wouldn't wipe us out, who 
can't wipe us out, if they're not treated as pariahs. 
They're No, I'm sorry, we're fighting for the people the 
skippers and the gocks just mind-wipe as though their 
memories are toys. 


That's why I'm doing this. It's not for the money. It's not 
for the nice accomodations. It's for the people. Maybe, 
someday, the Foundation may understand it. 

That day may come sooner than the Foundation is 
expecting. 


Director's Note: The remains of Person of Interest #952404, 
"Ephialtes," were not among those identified within SCP-2173 or 
within the Chaos Insurgency facility north of Dellmarsh, Maine. 
Pol#952404 is not considered deceased at this time. Locating and 
neutralizing Pol#952404 is considered a Level 4 priority. 


SCP-2174: "Miranda" 


Item #: SCP-2174 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: The Foundation does not 
currently have the technical capacity to fully contain 2174; as such, 
containment is focused on managing information leaks and 
preventing independent rediscovery. Mobile Task Force Epsilon-5 
("Contagion") is to be deployed to investigate possible SCP-2174 
manifestations and, if necessary, work with embedded agents in 
local law enforcements and media agencies to disseminate 
appropriate cover stories under Protocol KV-8699. 


Description: SCP-2174 is a phenomenon wherein a location 
spontaneously comes to resemble a stereotypical murder scene!. 
Historically, the majority of SCP-2174 instances? have been found in 
North America and Europe. All known instances contain at least one 
humanoid chalk outline, corresponding to the popular culture belief 
that drawing such outlines to mark the victim’s body is standard 
police procedure’. Other elements, such as human blood or police 
tape, may or may not appear. 


The body positions suggested by the chalk outlines are often 
awkward and unnatural, though typical of homicide or assault 
victims; some cannot be achieved without major skeletal damages. 
Signs of struggles and violence also frequently appear; however no 
sign of bodies being removed have ever been found, even in 
situations where they would be expected. DNA evidence recovered 
from SCP-2174 instances has not yet been found to match any 
known missing or deceased person. 


SCP-2174 instances appear to be at least partially influenced by 
their geographical location, although this is not consistent — for 
example, all police tapes found among American instances display 
the word "Police", while German instances alternate between 


“Polizei” and "Police". Different trends may also be observed over 
time, such as the increase in number of instances containing blood 
and/or other biological matter since the early 2000s¢4. 


SCP-2174 may also contain a mind-affecting component as 
interviews with residents in the area show they fully believe that a 
homicide has occurred and police investigation is under way, even 
when there is no corpse or police investigator at the site. 
Additionally, the sites frequently become makeshift shrines with 
people leaving flowers and candles for weeks to months after they 
have been cleaned. 


Addendum: Obscure references to humanoid chalk figures among 
murder scenes have been found in a handful of witchcraft/murder 
trial records from 17th century Europe, predating all known 
SCP-2174 instances. In light of this, historical examples of chalk 
drawings with similarities to known SCP-2174 patterns, such as the 
Cerne Abbas Giant, are being investigated. 


Footnotes 

1. The Foundation has so far not been able to directly observe 
SCP-2174. The information in this description should be viewed as 
approximate, based on the available evidence. 

2. “SCP-2174 instances” in this document refers to both confirmed 
and alleged ones. For a detailed discussion of suspected false 
positives (works by anonymous pranksters etc.), see Document 
Alpha-DXL, Section F. 

3. In real life, such practice contaminates the scene and is only done 
by inexperienced officers ignorant of proper procedure. 

4. For a comprehensive statistical analysis, see Document Alpha- 
DXL, Section B. 

5. See Document Beta-DXL. 


« SCP-2173 | SCP-2174 | SCP-2175 » 


experiment.) 

Control Test A: Subject grazed. Control fell asleep two minutes into 
the experiment. 

Control Test B: Control attacked, killed and devoured subject, which 
behaved normally for a deer trapped in an enclosed space with a 
large predator. 

Results: Subject began grazing as in control test A. SCP-247 
approached it calmly and killed it with a single bite to the neck, then 
proceeded to devour the subject. (Test was repeated without 
SCP-247 being forced to fast. SCP-247 completely ignored the 
subject for over a day before apparently becoming hungry and killing 
it, again with a single bite to the neck.) 

Notes: SCP-247 seems to prefer humans, both as food and for 
entertainment. Other prey animals presented to SCP-247 were all 
killed in a single strike, while humans are invariably allowed to pet 
the SCP for some time before being killed and are sometimes 
mauled and ‘played’ with the way a cat will play with a mouse. 
Furthermore, the SCP has killed every human it has had the 
opportunity to kill, regardless of hunger. - Researcher S 


Experiment Log 247a-08 

Date: / /2010 

Test Subject: An adult female chimpanzee. 

Control Test A: Subject and control ignored one another. 

Control Test B: Subject retreated to a tree, showing some signs of 
unease. Control displayed some curiosity towards the subject but 
did not attack. 

Results: Subject approached SCP-247, made noises identified as 
signs of affection, and began to groom SCP-247. SCP-247 allowed 
the subject to groom it for over an hour, then messily killed and 
devoured it. 

Notes: This seems to be its typical reaction to unfamiliar prey 
animals. It seems to prefer to prey on apes with advanced social 
behaviour. Experiments with gorillas and other social apes have 
shown similar results. Essentially, SCP-247 is a large predator that 
has somehow adapted to take advantage of the largest available 
food source — humans. We should investigate all future reports of 
man-eating tigers in case there are more of these things. - 
Researcher S 


SCP-2175: Are You Going 


Item #: SCP-2175 
Object Class: Euclid