D-2672 proceeds through the SCP-3267, no 
anomalies detected until 2234 hours, when a 
paper flipping sound is picked up by the audio 
transceiver. Subject does not appear to notice 
this. 


Control: D-2672, you can stop now. 
D-2672: Wait, that's it? 


Control: Not yet. Please proceed to the shelf 
on your left and pick up a book of your choice. 


D-2672 acquires a book with the title"  's 
Guide To Business And Money", written by 
. The handwritten name is 


D-2672: Quick money. Guess | should've read 
this kind of stuff before robbing a bank. 


Control: Open it and notify us if you find any 
abnormalities. 


D-2672: Hm, let me see. Seems normal. 
(Pauses) Wait, what the f...heck? 


Control: D-2672, describe what you see. 


Subject moves video recorder to face the 
book. Multiple letters on the page are bolded, 
with no observable pattern. This phenomenon 
has not been observed in other copies of the 
same book. It is currently unknown if this is an 
unique copy of the book, or an anomaly 
originated from SCP-3267-1. 


D-2672: Is the author of this book drunk or 
something? Man, this is really uncomfortable. 
And it's even more frustrating when you can't 
curse whenever you want. 


Control: D-2672, can you make out any words 
from the bolded letters? 


D-2672: Wait a second. "There has been no 
readers lately". | think. This book didn't sell 
that good, eh? 


Control: Are there any other pages like this? 


D-2672: (Flips through the pages) That's it, | 
don't see any. 


Control: Thank you. Now place the book back 
to its original position, proceed to the shelf on 
your right and pick up a book of your choice. 


D-2672 acquires a book with the title PAPILIO 
VITAE (Latin, translated: Butterfly Life), written 


by 


D-2672: A random book. (Flips through the 
pages) | don't see anything strange, just a 
normal book about butterflies. Wait, there it is 
again! It reads "Well, we have been in here for 
a long time". These authors seem to have too 
much time on their hands. 


Control: Thank you. Please place the book 
back to its original position and resume 
proceeding through the library. 


D-2672: Fine. 


D-2672 continues to walk for 49 seconds 
before the paper flipping sound is picked up by 
the audio transceiver. The subject notices and 
turns around. 


D-2672: You guys hear that? | thought | was 
supposed to be alone? 


Control: There should not be anyone else in 
the building right now. Can you locate the 
source of the sound? 


Another paper flipping sound is picked up by 
the audio transceiver. 


D-2672: There! It just closed on its own! 


Control: Acquire that book and notify us of 
any abnormalities. 


D-2672 opens said book. The same 
phenomenon on the previous books can be 
observed. 


D-2672: Not again. "It seems like we are not 
relevant anymore". | think these might be 
related to each other. In that case, it's the 


librarian who has too much time on their 
hands. 


Control: Noted. Please proceed [cuts off] 


A quiet creaking sound can be heard. D-2672 
turns around. Video feed shows no anomalies. 


Control: D-2672, do not panic. Describe what 
you see. 


D-2672: There's someone here. You guys 
have boarded this place up, so it can't be the 
wind. 


D-2672 proceeds through the shelves, and 
finds a door with a sign "Librarian's Room" 
above it. 


D-2672: Someone must be in here. The door 
is open. Should | enter it? 


Control: Wait a moment. We are notifying 
Security Personnel. 


Silence for five minutes. 
Agent: We've found the D-Class. 


Control: D-2672, Agent _, please proceed 
through the door. Agent _, you stay behind 
and notify us if there's any other individuals. 


Agent : Roger that, sir. 


Agent opens the door to reveal a dimly lit 
staircase. Of note is that the staircase was 
never found in previous expeditions of 
SCP-3267. D-2672 holds the floodlight and 
proceeds through the door. Immediately after 
entry, the door swung shut with a loud slam. 


D-2672: Hey! It's not the time for pranks you 
bastards! Open the fucking door! (Note: the 
expletive did not trigger SCP-3267's 
anomalous effects) 


Agent : Control, we have a problem. The 
door just closed on its own, we opened it and 
inside is an office. The staircase has 
disappeared. 


Control: Noted. We are still connected to 
D-2672. We have sent another team, in the 
meantime, try to find any trace of the staircase. 


Agent : Yessir. 


Control: D-2672, are you able to open the 
door? 


D-2672: It's fucking locked! Tell your goddamn 
people to open it! 


Control: We cannot. It seems like you are 
inside a pocket dimension, or a spatial 
anomaly. We are trying to locate you. Now, 
please proceed down the staircase. 


D-2672: God fucking dammit! | swear to 
fucking God, if | die, I'll fucking kill you 
bastards. 


D-2672 reaches a landing after four flights of 
stairs. Video feed shows a heavily damaged 
room with a writing desk and a bookshelf. On 
the desk is a feather pen, an ink bottle, a 
burning wax candle and a black notebook. The 
written name is "David Williams". 


D-2672: Damn. This place looks like no one 
has been in it for a thousand years. 


Control: D-2672, acquire the book and notify 


us of any abnormalities. 


D-2672 picks up said book and opens it. Inside 
is aname written with dark red ink. 


D-2672: Huh. It's just a big name. "David". 
D-2672 drops the book and the video recorder. 
Control: D-2672, describe what you see. 


D-2672: (agitated) Steven? Where is Steven? 
Who are you? Tell me! 


Control: D-2672, calm down. Please 
elaborate. 


D-2672: Where is he? What have you done to 
my son? What is this place? 


After a discussion at Control, it is theorized 
that the aforementioned name has a memetic 
effect that affects any individuals who read it 
out loud. 


Control: Calm down. We are looking for him. 
State your identity. 


D-2672: | am David Williams, his father. Who 
are you? 


Control: We are the police. We are 
investigating your son's case. 


D-2672: Liars! Case? What case? | was with 
him the whole time! What have you done to my 
son? 


Video feed captures a number of books fall 
down from the bookshelf and assemble into a 
humanoid figure, presumably a manifestation 
of SCP-3267-2. 


D-2672: Elizabeth? They got you too? 
Sounds of pages flipping. 

D-2672: What? What did you succeed in? 
Sounds of pages flipping. 


D-2672: Where is Steven? | was with him, 
then suddenly I'm here. 


Sounds of pages flipping. 


D-2672: What do you mean? You are bringing 
him back too? (Startled) Shit! Control, Control, 
what is happening? Step back, or | will burn 
you! (Changes in lighting suggest that D-2672 
acquires the candle and hold it in the direction 
of SCP-3267-2) 


Connection to D-2672 was lost. 


Control: Agent __, go back to that door and 
try to locate D-2672. 


Agent : Yessir. 
Agent :Wait, _, you hear that? 
Connection to Security personnel was lost. 


[END LOG] 


Enhanced still frame from Exploration 3267-01. 


At 2258 hours, approximately one minute after 
the connection was lost, the entrance of 
SCP-3267 burst open under the force of 
10,191 SCP-3267-1 instances. Response 
teams were immediately sent to resolve the 
incident. Fortunately, no civilians witnessed 
the incident, and it was disguised as a gas 


explosion. 


D-2672 was found inside the rubble, 
unconscious but still alive. The subject's body 
had various inscriptions made using black ink. 
The inscriptions were quotes from various 
instances of SCP-3267-1, most of them found 
near D-2672. The quotes were mostly pleas of 
help, but also several instances of names, 
"David". The ink was found to be non- 
anomalous and was erased normally. D-2672 
recovered after four days, but lost memories of 
the events following the opening of the book. 
The Security personnel were also found in the 
rubble, but only suffered minor injuries and no 
abnormalities were observed. 


Subsequent expedition failed to find the 
aforementioned spatial anomaly. Scans have 
proven ineffective in locating the staircase and 
the room it leads to. The aforementioned 
notebook was never recovered. 


Note: Albert Cooper has confirmed the 
identities of David and Steven Williams, 
Elizabeth Cooper's husband and son, 
respectively. Elizabeth and David divorced in 
18 , after which David and his son moved to 

, .. Both died in a vehicular accident in 
ice 


After this incident, SCP-3267's class was updated to Euclid. 


Footnotes 

1. by implanting commands into an individual's subconsciousness. 
The effect wears off once the individual leaves the effective range of 
an IMA system. 

2. Books from outside SCP-3267 when placed on the library shelves 
create the same effect, which demanifests after said books have 
been removed from SCP-3267. 


3. The same effect manifests on any alternate way of handling 
SCP-3267-1, including prosthetic limbs, mechanized equipment and 
[REDACTED]. 

4. Liquids in sealed containers do not trigger anomalous effects. 

5. If the expletives used exceeds 30 dB, the affected individual is 
unable to make vocalizations for the next 30 seconds in addition to 
the manifestation of soap inside their mouth. 


[REDACTED] brand whiskey when potent, and has all the same 
effects in addition to causing SCP-420-2. When it loses its potency, 
the chemical structure changes to that of concentrated urine. 
Urinalysis of decontaminated SCP-420-1 shows that it belongs toa 
human male, approximate age 50, with severe liver degeneration. 
Further analysis using [DATA EXPUNGED] shows that the urine 
contains trace quantities of [DATA EXPUNGED] consistent with 
SCP- ; research shows [DATA EXPUNGED]. 


SCP-420-2's infection progress varies somewhat from patient to 
patient, but can be described in several phases. Detailed 
descriptions for therapeutic purposes can be found in Medical 
Document 420a-4 (attached). Brief descriptions for containment 
purposes follow: 


¢ Phase 1: |mmediately to 12 hours after consuming 
SCP-420-1. The infected's mouth becomes dry and swollen, 
leading to slurred speech. Note that this slurred speech is not 
consistent with intoxication: recording 420-c-004 (attached) 
contains a comparison of speech patterns resulting from 
intoxication compared with SCP-420-2. Within 24 hours of 
consuming SCP-420-1, infected's finger- and toenails become 
extremely brittle, cracking up the finger and bleeding. 
Fingernail growth is at the same time accelerated. Ingrown 
nails are an inevitability; infection of these ingrown nails and 
open sores is identical to uninfected subjects. Infected's hair 
exhibits similar characteristics. 


¢ Phase 2: 1-2 weeks after phase 1. Infected's skin become 
brittle and dry, cracking and sloughing off. Like nails and hair, 
growth is also accelerated, replacing lost tissue and growing 
more in heavy, thick folds. Genetic analysis of keratinocytes 
shows mutations similar to skin cancer. The tissue undergoes 
additional vascularisation similar to cancer cell metastasis. 
Though apparently cancerous these cells have not shown any 
tendency for detachment resulting in systemic spread. Thus, 
phase 2 is not malignant: even if phase 2 keratinocytes are 
injected into the blood, they will reattach to the skin layer or 
die’. Innervation of the site is fully functional. Growth of the 
skin folds inside the infectee's mouth prevent communication, 


SCP-3268: Digital Predator 


Item #: SCP-3268 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: The device SCP-3268 is 
currently residing in should be kept in Electronic Storage Facility- . 
Any form of digital messages sent out from its current computer are 
to be traced, and the devices that have received the messages are 
to be seized and taken into Foundation custody. Internet access is 
to be disabled on the device currently housing SCP-3268. Any 
attempts made by SCP-3268 to connect to the internet are to be 
intercepted and blocked by Foundation internet security. In the event 
SCP-3268 attempts to communicate, any and all text files created 
are to be archived at Digital Archive Site 


One image of any organism of Kingdom of Animalia is to be 
uploaded to the hard drive of the computer at least once a day for 
consumption. Upon full image infection, it is to be deleted from the 
device. Any digital image format is acceptable. 


Description: SCP-3268 is an anomalous entity that appears on 
digital devices capable of displaying images, such as computers and 
phones. The exact form of SCP-3268 varies, but in most instances, 
it is a mass of many different colored pixels, and depending on its 
position, a mouth may or may not be visible. SCP-3268 also varies 
heavily in size, usually depending on the device it is taking a 
residence in at the moment. The smallest recorded sighting being 
approximately 0.5 millimeters in diameter, and the largest being 5 
meters in diameter. 


SCP-3268 is predatory, and appears to "feed" on digital images of 
organisms of the Kingdom Animalia. When an image of a potential 
prey item is uploaded to the device it is currently on, SCP-3268 will 
appear on the image, typically 2 hours after the initial upload. From 
there it will slowly begin to expand, and engulf the image until the 


entire image is comprised solely of many pixels of various colors. 
This process typically takes 5 hours. Roughly 30 minutes after the 
complete infestation, SCP-3268 will disappear, and the infected 
image will show a dead, mangled and partially eaten version of the 
organism originally in the photo. Damages appearing of organisms 
infected by SCP-3268 vary heavily, but the most common damages 
include broken necks, missing or badly broken limbs, gouged eyes 
and many large bite marks in various areas, with the most appearing 
on the chest, neck, and leg areas. SCP-3268 will no longer manifest 
on previously infected images, however any organisms on 
previously infected images will begin to show signs of decay, and 
should be removed at the earliest convenience. 


SCP-3268 Recovery Log 


SCP-3268 was discovered in Fort Pierce, Florida on June 7th, 20 

on aan intel based 2007 iMac in the home of Jonathan . The 
owner reported to yahoo answers, and various other forums 
dedicated to the removal of computer viruses, that images of his cat 
had been infected with a virus that caused the cat to appear dead, 
and disemboweled. Embedded agents promptly launched an 
investigation, and seized the device. Amnestics were administered 
to Mr. , and the forum that SCP-3268 was reported on was taken 
down. 


Interview Log SCP-3268-A 


Interviewed: Jonathan , owner of device SCP-3268 
was found on. 


Interviewer: Researcher Dr. Solomon 


Foreword: Subject was brought in for questioning 
shortly after SCP-3268 was contained. 


Begin Log, [15:28:44] 
Dr. Solomon: Hello, you are Mr. Jonathan __, correct? 


Jonathan: Yep. What are you, a cop or something? 


Dr. Solomon: You could say that. I'd like to ask youa 
few questions regarding this "computer virus" you 
reported. 


Jonathan: Oh god, that thing. Fucking disgusting. What 
kind of sadistic fuck would make something like that? 
And how does it even work? 


Dr. Solomon: Please sir, your questions will be 
answered shortly. | just need you to answer a few 
questions for me. 


a long sigh is heard 
Jonathan: Sorry. Its just that that picture was disgusting. 


Dr. Solomon: Yes | understand. Alright, first of all, when 
did you notice the image of your cat was altered? 


Jonathan: A day ago. | was planning on sending a 
picture of my cat to my mother. | opened it and | just 
about threw up. 


Dr. Solomon: How long had the image been on your 
computer? 


Jonathan: Not long. | uploaded it last night and found it 
like that the next morning. | swear to god that it wasn't 
like that before. How is a virus even able to do 
something like that? Reconfigure the pixels or something 
like that?