1. Analysis has revealed the arrows to be non-anomalous and are 
stored in a storage locker within Dimensional Containment Area 23 
2. at 11.2 meters tall 


SCP-3850: I Can't Drown My Demons 


Item #: SCP-3850 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: The area in a ten-kilometer 
radius around SCP-3850 is guarded by Local Task Force Dalet-16 
("Laplace Transform") and is currently off-limits to all civilians under 
the guise of an archaeological expedition. 


Description: SCP-3850 is a phenomenon centered around a body 
(termed SCP-3850-1) floating in Lake in the U.S. state of 

. A thick fog surrounds SCP-3850-1 within an estimated 5- 
kilometer radius, growing thicker as SCP-3850-1 is approached to 
the extent that viewers are unable to perceive objects more than ten 
centimeters away from them. When a person is close enough to 
SCP-3850-1, the fog will lift enough so that it can be seen. However, 
the fog does not lift at any distance farther than one meter from the 
viewer. 


SCP-3850-1 itself is the body of a Native American male floating 
face-down in the lake. Although SCP-3850-1 never moves of its own 
power when under observation, it has occasionally changed its 
position in-between observations so that it is perpendicular to the 
lake, its body contorted into the positions of a person floundering or 
drowning. Photographs of SCP-3850-1's face have been matched to 

, an Abenaki Indian accused and acquitted of murdering his 
brother in 1925. 


Individuals who come within viewing distance of SCP-3850-1 are 
subject to a spatial anomaly which prevents them from moving 
closer than 25 meters to SCP-3850-1, regardless of any movement 
made. Although fuel measurements, speedometers, and ripples in 
the water indicate that movement is taking place, GPS 
measurements, satellite imagery, and sonar/radar detection show no 
movement. Moving out of viewing distance of SCP-3850-1 also 


moves one out of the radius of the spatial anomaly. 


Two unorthodox attempts have been made to reach SCP-3850: 
once by a diving D-Class and once by a skydiving D-Class. The 
diver was unable to reach SCP-3850 but was able to retreat 
successfully; his bathymeter reached a depth of 25 meters before it 
stopped moving. The skydiver's altimeter stopped at an altitude of 
25 meters, but audiovisual recording indicated that she was still 
falling; all attempts to retrieve her by helicopter were halted by the 
spatial anomaly. The skydiver's camera recorded for approximately 
months before its battery died. The skydiver's body is currently 
visible and suspended above SCP-3850-1, though it appears blurry 
both in-person and through viewing equipment as if moving at high 
speed. 


Addendum 3850-1: Sonar observation of the area around 
SCP-3850-1 has shown the presence of a human skeleton partially 
buried at the bottom of the lake, directly below SCP-3850-1. The 
skeleton was retrieved from the lakebed via scuba divers, but 
dissolved into water immediately upon breaking the surface. At the 
same time, SCP-3850-1 sank to the bottom of the lake and landed 
at the same position where the skeleton was recovered, whereupon 
the flesh and muscle of its body dissolved, leaving its own skeleton; 
the water at its initial position on the surface was seen to coalesce 
into another instance of SCP-3850-1. 


Further attempts to retrieve the skeleton on the lakebed ended with 
the same result. However, small samples of bone have been 
recovered from the skeleton without incident. DNA analysis of the 
bone indicates that it is also of Native American descent. Since this 
incident, personnel observing SCP-3850-1 have reported hearing 
chanting from an unknown source, identified as a dialect of Eastern 
Abenaki, within viewing distance of SCP-3850-1. Attempts to 
recover SCP-3850-1 remotely are ongoing. 


SCP-3851: You May Not Be Able To Drown Your 
Demons, But The Demons Can Drown Your Screams 


SCP-3851 upon recovery. 


Item #: SCP-3851 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3851 is contained behind 
a chainlink fence measuring three meters in height topped with 
barbed wire which surrounds the lake's perimeter. Extra storm 
drains have been installed in the area surrounding SCP-3851 due to 
the lake's secondary anomalous effect. 


Description: SCP-3851 is a lake located in Palm Harbor, Florida, 
which displays two anomalous properties. The lake is known to have 
naturally formed due to excessive rainfall over the course of three 
months. A neighborhood (previously known as "Reign Springs") 
used to be located in SCP-3851's location prior to its gradual 
manifestation. 


SCP-3851's first anomalous property is that any and all living 
entities and manmade objects cannot submerge themselves in the 
body of water. If an entity or manmade object is to attempt to 
submerge themselves, they will be unable to pass SCP-3851's 
surface, appearing to stand atop the water. Due to this effect, it is 
unknown whether SCP-3851 has an ending point of depth. 


Deceased entities (which were living at any point) are able to breach 
SCP-3851's surface and will float or sink normally with their regular 
buoyancy. 


SCP-3851's secondary anomalous property is that, once every other 
day, a rainstorm lasting approximately ten minutes in duration 
occurs over the lake and the half-kilometer area surrounding 
SCP-3851.1 During the time of downpour, a visual hallucination will 


occur when a subject attempts to look at the lake. 


When a subject views the lake, they are able to broadly see the 
figure of multiple homes with an appearance similar to standard 
reflection. Despite looking like a reflection, no houses matching the 
appearance of the effect surround SCP-3851. 


Incident 3851-1: On 12 June, 2018, the corpse of an unidentified 
male child surfaced from SCP-3851. The corpse was swiftly 
recovered by local Foundation personnel and taken in for autopsy. 


Autopsy of the corpse revealed the child to be containing a small 
glass bottle with an enclosing cork within its chest cavity. The glass 
bottle contained a note. The contents of said note are as follows: 


To our Lord in Heaven, 
We have been beneath this body for three months now. We are 


We do not want to be beneath here much longer. We offer a sa 
up soon rather than crashes down upon us, crushing our homes 


Please, Lord, hear our plea. Send your angels to save us fro 
water above us and the Earth beneath us. 


We are still here. Please, our Lord, do not forget about us. 


Surveillance of SCP-3851's surface is to be conducted with the 
intention to find objects similar to those discovered in Incident 
3851-1. 

Footnotes 

1. This property was originally thought to be a coincidence, but due 
to the repeated pattern of being bidaily, it was considered an 
anomalous property. 


SCP-3852: Small Town Justice 


Item #: SCP-3852 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: Emergency Service calls are to 
be tracked and scanned for keywords by a Foundation operated bot. 
Upon confirmation of a SCP-3852 event, MTF Rho-18 "Kings of 
Maine" are to be deployed to subdue all members of the affected 
community and terminate the active SCP-3852-2 instance. Any non- 
Foundation emergency personnel are to be recalled in order to 
prevent contact with affected community. 


Members of the affected community are to be subdued and 
contained only following the termination of the active SCP-3852-2 
instance by MTF Rho-18. Members of the affected community under 
Foundation custody are to be contained in a standard holding cell at 
Site-11. Members of the affected community are to be questioned, 
amneticized, and released at discretion of the Site Director. 


Recovered SCP-3852-1 instances are to be preserved in standard 
biological storage units at Site-11. 


Description: SCP-3852 is a repeated phenomenon affecting rural 
towns and populations within the East Coast and Midwest of the 
contiguous United States. SCP-3852 has not been observed to 
manifest in any community with more than two-thousand permanent 
residents. As of 2013, seventeen SCP-3852 events have been 
confirmed since 1978. 


SCP-3852-1 refers to a set of adult, male corpses. All instances of 
SCP-3852-1 are genetically and physically identical. All instances of 
SCP-3852-1 have no signs of internal or external injuries, and 
autopsies conducted by Foundation personnel have been unable to 
determine a cause of death. Investigation into the identity of 
SCP-3852-1 instances is ongoing. 


During an SCP-3852 event, an instance of SCP-3852-1 will 
spontaneously appear within the vicinity of the affected town. Upon 
discovery of the SCP-3852-1 instance, all members of the affected 
community will identify the body as a specific male of the community 
(hereby designated SCP-3852-2). The SCP-3852-2 instance will 
remain unaffected by the SCP-3852 phenomena, but will not be 
recognized by the rest of the affected community. Instead, the 
SCP-3852-2 instance will be regarded as a newly arrived outsider. 


There is no apparent pattern to how the identity of SCP-3852-1 is 
chosen It is presently hypothesized that the SCP-3852-1 instance 
will be identified as a member of the affected community previously 
accused and subsequently acquitted of repeated or severe crimes!. 


Within 2-5 hours of the beginning of an SCP-3852 event, members 
of the affected community will begin to accuse SCP-3852-2 instance 
of crimes leading to or directly causing the death of the SCP-3852-1 
instance. In % of SCP-3852 events, 11-27% of the affected 
community refute the accusations leveled against the SCP-3852-2 
instance. Any dissenting members of the community will be accused 
of obstructing justice. The affected community will attempt to 
apprehend and summarily execute any and all of the accused, 
prioritizing the SCP-3852-2 instance. 


The affected community will only cease attempts to apprehend the 
SCP-3852-2 instance upon its capture or death. Upon successful 
execution of the SCP-3852-2 instance, the affected community will 
return to normal behavior. Community members have displayed no 
symptoms of long term psychological effects prior to or following 
amnestization, but have given inconsistent accounts of SCP-3852 
events. 


Excerpts from Event Log-16A2M 


Event: EV-3852-07F3T 
Location: IN 


Date: 03/01/1978 


SCP is rejected in under 24 hours and subject dies. 


Subject 502-06: Class D subject with history of mental illness due to 
a diagnosed brain tumor. ‘Brain’ written on box lid and time allowed 
for rearrangement. Subject’s brain is removed while on life support 
machinery and replaced with SCP-502. Upon waking from 
anesthesia Subject 502-06 [DATA EXPUNGED]. Two medical staff 
and three Level 2 security personnel are injured and Subject 502-06 
is killed by small arms fire during hostilities to prevent further danger 
to staff. SCP-502 recovered during autopsy. Further live testing 
halted while [DATA EXPUNGED] recorded during this incident are 
being analyzed. 


« SCP-501 | SCP-502 | SCP-503 » 


Affected Population: 368 


Overview: First known occurrence of SCP-3852. SCP-3852-1 
instance is discovered in the town square shortly after sunrise. 
Identified by the affected community as 28 year-old Glenn san 
unemployed man. SCP-3852-2 instance is captured after failing to 
cross a nearby river, and is hanged by the affected community. 


SCP-3852-1 instance recovered by Foundation personnel. Members 
of affected community questioned, amnesticized, and released. 


Event: EV-3852-15C1K 
Location: , OH 

Date: 02/05/1996 
Affected Population: 572 


SCP-3852-1 instance is discovered in a school yard. Identified by 
the affected community as 31 year-old Hector __, a former factory 
worker paralyzed from the waist down in an accident 5 years prior. 


Roughly 23% of the affected community reject the accusations 
against the SCP-3852-2 instance. Dissenting members and the 
SCP-3852-2 instance seek shelter within a nearby abandoned barn. 
Roughly two hours later, SCP-3852 event is confirmed and MTF 
Rho-18 deployed. 


SCP-3852-1 instance located and recovered by MTF Rho-18. As of 
2015, 96% of the remaining members of the affected community 
have successfully been released and redistributed. 


Interview Log-22M7B 
Subject: Matthew Escot, age 52, a member of the 
affected community. 


Interviewer: Dr. Kieger 


Foreword: Interview took place 2 weeks following 
SCP-3852 event EV-3852-15C1K. 


<Begin Log, 14:30, 2/19/1996> 


KIEGER: Good afternoon Mr. Escot, | appreciate your 
cooperation. With any luck, things will be back to normal 
soon enough. 


ESCOT: Soon? It's been two weeks since you scooped 
us up and | haven't even seen my wife yet! You didn't 
even bother to tell us where or what this place is! 


KIEGER: All in due time, | assure you, Mr. Escot. The 
sooner you answer our questions the sooner we can 
answer yours. 


ESCOT: (subject sighs) Right, get on with it then. 


KIEGER: Well I'd like to know a little bit more about the 
uh...victim. Could you describe him for me? 


ESCOT: Hector? Kinda brutish, big fellow. You uh... 
probably already know this, but he was paralyzed a few 
years back in an accident. He killed some other poor 
bastard too, and from what we all could tell, it was 
Hector's fault. 


KIEGER: Was Hector well known prior to the accident? 


ESCOT: Well everyone basically knows everyone 
around , small town and all that. Besides, Hector was 
never exactly the ideal neighbor, if you catch my drift. He 
made standoffish a lifestyle. And if people didn't like ‘em 
before, they basically hated him after he got off the 
negligence charges scot-free. (subject pauses) T- 
Thinking back, we were probably a bit rough on him, 
but...Accident or not, two healthy men for a cripple isn't 
the most ideal trade. 


KIEGER: How did you react when you saw the body, Mr. 
Escot? 


ESCOT: | was...well, stunned, really. Couldn't make 
heads or tails of it. Hector was one of those people you 
thought was gonna live forever. Then, he just turns up 
not only dead, but murdered. 


KIEGER: So you're certain the body was Hector's? 


ESCOT: Sure as anything. | mean, he wasn't someone 
who could easily blend into a crowd. 


KIEGER: And you're also certain he was murdered? Is it 
possible Hector died of natu- 


ESCOT: Doc, please y-you...must've saw the body too. 
There was nothing natural about it. 


KIEGER: You said someone arrived shortly after you 
found the body? 


ESCOT: Yeah, just a few minutes after most of us had 
gathered. He was...well he wasn't really answering our 
questions right, a-and then he uh...Well his wife showed 
up. Hector's, | mean. 


KIEGER: How did Hector's wife react to seeing the 
body? 


ESCOT: (subject sighs) She was in hysterics, doc. God, 
| don't know what she saw in him that the rest of us didn't 
but...T-That newcomer came up to her and was tryin’ to 
talk to her but she was just screaming and sobbing, 
and...that's when things turned sour. 


KIEGER: About this newcomer, did you happen to notice 
that he was paralyzed as well? Don't you think that's 
rather coincidental? 


ESCOT: (subject sighs) Doc, |'m not a genius, okay? To 
be honest, | don't know why you chose to speak to me, 
cause | wasn't the ringleader or anything. It goes the 
same way right? One person pointing fingers at 
someone doesn't mean much, but...after she accused 


him people started looking at it from a different angle. 
And, well, | figured they all knew a few things | didn't. 


KIEGER: Not everyone agreed though, isn't that correct? 
ESCOT: (subject pauses, before nodding) 


KIEGER: Did you know any of the dissenters 
personally?