* SCP-3941-3 has the appearance of a male human in his early 30s; 
however, SCP-3941-3 does not appear to have aged since 
SCP-3941 was first discovered by the Foundation. SCP-3941-3 
claims to be Muhammad al-Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam of the Ithna 
‘Ashari and Alevi religions. Attempts to remove SCP-3941-3 from 
SCP-3941-2 have met with failure; furthermore, SCP-3941-3 
appears to possess the ability to summarily eject any person from 
SCP-3941-2 at will, causing them to disappear and reappear directly 
outside SCP-3941-1. SCP-3941-3 is responsive and cooperative 
with Foundation questioning, but refuses to be removed from 
SCP-3941-2. 


SCP 3941-3 is conversant in Persian, lraqi Arabic, Classical Arabic, 
English and French. SCP-3941-3 will respond to its official 
designation, but will refuse to answer questions if the interviewer 
insinuates that he is not the Twelfth Imam, as he claims. He has 
shown a keen interest in theological debate, apparently being 
relatively well-versed in a variety of religious traditions beyond his 
own. SCP-3941-3 seems to enjoy speaking to Foundation 
personnel; he has spoken positively of conversations with 
Researcher F on several occasions. 


* SCP-3941-4 has the appearance of a male human in his mid- 
teens; as with SCP-3941-3, SCP-3941-4 does not appear to have 
aged since SCP-3941 was first discovered by the Foundation. 
SCP-3941-4 is referred to by SCP-3941-3 only as Mahmud. 
SCP-3941-3 has refused to provide details of SCP-3941-4’s past. 
SCP-3941-4 is apparently mute, and is non-responsive to 
questioning by Foundation personnel. SCP-3941-4 serves 


SCP-3941-3 meals two times a day, with the exception of days 
when a fast occurs according to Ithna ‘Ashari customs; the content 
of these meals seems to approximate several modern Iranian 
dishes. SCP-3941-4 also responds to irregular requests for food or 
drink from SCP-3941-3. As previously mentioned, SCP-3941-4 
enters SCP-3941-2 from a door at the far side of the room. Attempts 
to remove SCP-3941-4 or to enter through the door from which he 
arrives have all met with failure, as Foundation agents are simply 
ejected from SCP-3941-2 by SCP-3941-3. 


SCP-3941 was first discovered by the Foundation in 199 , following 
the development of a local millenarian cult in the suburb of ; 
Karbala, where SCP-3941-1 was located. The leader of this cult, 
‘Abbas H _, claimed to have “found” the place of the Twelfth Imam’s 
occultation, claiming that he would soon “emerge as the Mahdi to 
restore the just kingdom” and herald an apocalypse. SCP-3941-3 
has repeatedly stated that he does not plan to leave SCP-3941-2 at 
any point “in the next thousand years”, and that Mr. H was 
mistaken in his beliefs. The Foundation was able to secure the site 
and transport SCP-3941 to before the Office for the 
Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts (ORIA) was able to reach the site, 
due to a political crisis precipitated in the latter organisation by the 
discovery of SCP-3941. Class-A amnestics were issued to all of 
those involved. 


Addendum 3941-1: On 30/04/20 , Researcher F was notified 
of the university records of one Hassan Tehrani, born 17/08/196 . 
Mr. Tehrani was an Iranian engineering student at the University of 
Tehran during the mid-1980s, who also took several classes in 
Shiite theology. According to his former theology tutor, ; 
Mr. Tehrani was profoundly dissatisfied with the doctrine of 
occultation; he apparently came to believe that the Imam was not 
present within the world, and that “justice and righteousness” was 
thus not present in the world either. On 21/03/198 , Mr. Tehrani was 
found missing from his apartment in —_, Tehran. Several surviving 
photographs of Mr. Tehrani exist; they appear to show a much 
younger SCP-3941-3. 


The following interview was conducted shortly after this discovery: 


+Interview 3941-27 


Interviewed: SCP-3941-3 
Interviewer: Dr. F 


Foreword: This interview was conducted 
03/05/20 , within SCP-3941-2. 


<Begin Log> 


Dr.F  :!1have come to ask you a question, 
SCP-3941-3. 


SCP-3941-3: Ah, hello, my daughter. It is good 
to see you again. Shall | ask Mahmud to bring 
us some tea? 


Dr.F — : No, thank you. | would like to ask 
you a question about one of your followers. 


SCP-3941-3: A personal question, then. And 
here | thought you had come to enquire after 
my health! <laughs> How foolish of me. So, 
about whom do you wish to know? 


Dr.F :Amanby the name of Hassan 
Tehrani. 


<At this, SCP-3941-3 visibly stiffens and 
frowns.> 


Dr.F  :Hewas an engineering student 
during the 1980s. Disappeared suddenly. | 
was wondering if you knew what happened to 
him. You do take a keen interest in your 
followers, after all. 


SCP-3941-3: Yes... | know of this man. He 
was... a troubled person. He wanted a... 
restoration of sorts. 


Dr. F : A restoration? 


SCP-3941-3: He thought that the Imam could 
not exist. That he had died as a young child, or 
that he had never been born. He thought that, 
because of this, justice in the world was in 
abeyance. That there could be no apocalypse, 
because there was no Imam! Imagine that! 
The man was troubled indeed. 


Dr. F : So... what did he wish to restore? 
Justice? 


SCP-3941-3: Yes... or at least, he wished to 
restore what he had lost, what his cohorts had 
lost. He existed in the Islamic Republic, which 
claimed to represent Islam against the godless 
West. But everywhere he looked, the stain of 
the West existed in their hearts. He did not 
bear any particular hatred for the Christians, 
understand; it was just that he wanted 
something lost. He wanted to restore the 
smooth contours, you see. 


Dr. F : The smooth contours? 


SCP-3941-3: The lines that flowed, that had 
rhythm, that were naturally shaped... | do not 
know if | can make you understand. You are 
not from our world, you see. You do not 
understand what it is to lose your own identity, 
to have your sense of self turned into oblivion. 
For a thousand years, the people of the 
Persian-speaking world drew stunning 
miniatures, created beautiful calligraphy, 
carved geometric patterns into the most 
dazzling of mosques. The finely-weaved 
patterns of carpets, evoking the hunt and the 
glory of kingship.... the poetry of Ferdowsi and 
Hafez, those soft songs of heroes and 
monsters that were both true and untrue ....the 
swaying flowers imbued into white ceramics... 
there was sin too, of course, and wickedness, 


and cruelty, but these were human ills. They 
were their ills, the ills of their people. 


Dr. F : | don’t understand... 


SCP-3941-3: Of course not. You come from 

, yes? A country that helped shape the 
world we inhabit, that built empires over 
boundless oceans, that created the very 
concepts of life within which we live and 
breathe today. But Hassan Tehrani came from 
a country that was dying. Everywhere he 
looked, the presence of foreign ideas and 
foreign lives polluted all. The shapes of 
buildings reared up like blasphemous slabs of 
substance, defying the spirit and glorying in 
the material. His leaders had spent years 
extolling the virtues of the Sassanids and the 
Achaemenids, all so they could more slavishly 
accord themselves a place in a European 
cosmology. It was not a modernity that 
invigorated his people, it was a modernity that 
had been forced upon them, strangling them, 
turning them into deformed monstrosities! He 
wanted the old world, the world of blood and 
cruelty and righteousness! 


<Here, SCP-3941-3 has begun to shout 
angrily.> 


The world where they could create their own 
modernity, where they could reach the place 
they were meant to reach for the first time, 
without the curse of the farangi and their 
damned empires! 


<SCP-3941-3 appears to calm himself, before 
sitting back down> 


SCP-3941-3: My apologies, my dear. Please, 
come back. | got a little heated there, didn’t |? 


Dr.F =: Perhaps alittle, yes. So, Mr. Tehrani 
wanted to restore his... the sense of pride 
belonging to his people? 


SCP-3941-3: Yes. And he succeeded. He 
restored the Imam’s- he restored my position. 
He... gave his form over so | could once again 
take a physical body. He died, screaming, in 
the hands of those devils who had taught him 
the arcane arts, making his flesh my own. He 
gave me a home, he gave me a place to live, 
and he gave me a beautiful servant. Because 
of his sacrifice, justice can once again reign in 
this realm. We can reclaim our past, we can 
reclaim our ancient beauty, the old meanings 
now long-divorced from their subjects. And 
one day, | shall emerge from my occultation 
and once again live free. 


Dr.F  :1!see. So... your body was once that 
of Mr. Tehrani? 


SCP-3941-3: Yes. He exited his body, and my 
soul entered in. He is assured a place in 
Paradise for his pious actions. 


Dr.F =: So, presumably his dietary habits 
were tied to his bodily self, rather than to his, 
erm, "soul"? 


SCP-3941-3: ...1 am not sure | understand 
your meaning, child. 


Dr.F =: The dishes are not, surely, those 
that the Imam would have eaten. They feature 
rice, which was brought into Iran by the 
Mongols, three centuries after the beginning of 
the Imam's occultation. They features spices 
that only came to Iran many years later, too. 
You can't have been familiar with them, so 
presumably the fact that you are inhabiting Mr. 


Tehrani's body means you've picked up some 
of his habits... 


SCP-3941-3: |... 
<SCP-3941-3 now seems visibly shaken> 


Dr. F _ : It was just a question. I’m sorry if it 
upset you. Anyway, there are some more 
important matters | wish to ask you ab- 


SCP-3941-3: | think you should go now. 


At this point, Dr.F — was ejected from 
SCP-3941-2. 


<End Log> 


Following this interview, SCP-3941-3 removed SCP-3941-1’s 
anomalous properties for a period of 157 days and 12 hours exactly. 
Upon the reactivation of SCP-3941-1, all components of SCP-3941 
were found to be functioning as normal, with SCP-3941-3 acting in 
line with previous conduct; however, SCP-3941-3 will now expel all 
personnel and deactivate SCP-3941-1 for several hours if any 
personnel mention Hassan Tehrani, or question SCP-3941 -3's 
identity as the Twelfth lmam. 


UNDEFINED: Containment Chamber #3942 


Item #: UNDEFINED 
Object Class: UNDEFINED 


Special Containment Procedures: Containment Chamber #3942, 
located at Site-39, must be kept structurally sound at all times. Any 
damage to the containment chamber must be repaired immediately. 
Containment Chamber #3942 must always be kept within the area of 
effect of at least two active Scranton Reality Anchors. No personnel 
are to enter Containment Chamber #3942 without prior approval 
from at least three on-site personnel with Level 4 or higher 
clearance. 


A minimum of four cooked trout must be deposited into Containment 
Chamber #3942 at least three times each day. Test subjects or 
personnel entering Containment Chamber #3942 are encouraged to 
deposit additional servings of trout, if able. 


D-24390 has been designated as a high-priority Person of Interest. 
D-24390, and all known associates, must be apprehended for 
interrogation. 


Description: PENDING 


Provenance: Foundation agents were dispatched to Bingara, 
Australia on 27 June 2017 following reports of widespread panic and 
mass evacuation of the area. Questioning by attending agents was 
ineffective, as residents would not provide information explaining 
their panic or reason for evacuation; however, the agents were 
directed by civilians to several areas in and around the town. 


After requesting for assistance, the attending agents cooperated 
with Mobile Task Force Epsilon-6 ("Village Idiots"); while 
inappropriate for the situation, the cooperation successfully 
minimised incurred injuries. MTF E-6 requested use of Containment 


Chamber #3942 (Approved), devising and initiating containment 
procedures upon arrival. 


The surviving residents and ex-residents of Bingara were 
amnestised. 


Addendum: Testing Logs. 
Test Log 1 
Subject: D-24390 


Procedure: D-24390 instructed to enter Containment 
Chamber #3942, and remain inside for 30 minutes. 


Results: D-24390 enters Containment Chamber #3942. 
Subject requests to leave (Denied). Subject is motionless 
for the entire 30-minute period, then quickly leaves 
Containment Chamber #3942. 


Test Log 2 
Subject: D-24390 


Procedure: D-24390 asked to describe the contents of 
Containment Chamber #3942. 


Results: D-24390 becomes agitated and violent. Subject 
sedated. 


Test Log 3 
Subject: D-24390 


Procedure: D-24390 instructed to enter Containment 
Chamber #3942 with a single cooked trout, and remain 
inside for 30 minutes. 


Results: D-24390 refuses to enter Containment 
Chamber #3942; they are forced to comply. Subject 
throws the cooked trout and demands to leave (Denied). 
Subject remains motionless for 17 minutes, then begins 


speaking. Subject speaks intermittently for the remaining 
13 minutes, after which they leave Containment 
Chamber #3942. 


Test Log 4 
Subject: D-24390 


Procedure: D-24390 asked to explain why they spoke 
during Test [Log] 3. 


Results: D-24390 becomes agitated, then refuses to 
respond. 


Test Log 5 
Subject: D-24390 


Procedure: D-24390 instructed to enter Containment 
Chamber #3942 with a single cooked trout, and to 
remain inside for 30 minutes. 


Results: D-24390 enters Containment Chamber #3942, 
discarding the cooked trout inside. Subject speaks for 
the entire 30-minute period, pausing intermittently. 
Subject then leaves Containment Chamber #3942. 


EXTRANEOUS LOGS REDACTED 
Test Log 10 
Subject: D-24390 


Procedure: D-24390 instructed to enter Containment 
Chamber #3942 with a single cooked trout, a measuring 
tape and a single ink marker. Subject is instructed to use 
the measuring tape in the room, and use the marker to 
note the result. 


Results: D-24390 enters Containment Chamber #3942, 
discarding the cooked trout inside. Subject uses the 
measuring tape four times, marking each result. Subject 


SCP-511: Basement Cat 


Item #: SCP-511 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: When an instance of SCP-511 
is identified, the affected residence shall be quarantined and will 
receive the next sequential site designation. 


Excepting one main entrance, sites hosting SCP-511 will have all 
points of possible entry or exit permanently sealed with appropriate 
building materials. The main entrance will remain locked at all times. 
Entry is permitted to Foundation personnel with written authorization 
from Level 3 or higher. All SCP-511 sites will be equipped with 
remote monitoring equipment allowing for 24 hour surveillance and a 
continual tracking of the numbers of SCP-511-1 inhabiting the site. 


At all times one (1) Class D personnel will be resident in the site. 
Personnel with this assignment are exempted from monthly 
termination for the duration of assignment. Candidates for this 
assignment shall be exclusively drawn from a population of post- 
menopausal women with a global Clinical Dementia Rating of 2 or 
greater. (Note: due to the exclusive nature of this population, O5- 
has approved recruiting from local hospice and/or nursing homes if 
necessary. Ref: Incident I-511-11) 


The population of SCP-511-1 within a site must remain within an 
optimal range of 50 to _ individuals. Below this range, adult Felis 
domesticus should be introduced to the site to increase population 
to minimum levels. If population exceeds __ individuals, it must be 
culled immediately. Any SCP-511-1 found outside the containment 
site shall be euthanized and the remains incinerated. 


Any biological material leaving the containment site for testing will 
be handled in accordance with standard protocols for a level 4 
biohazard. All specimens are incinerated after testing is complete. 


then leaves Containment Chamber #3942, with the 
following measurements: