Second Childhood
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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: Victims of SCP-XXXX are to be immediately sedated and brought to the nearest Foundation surgeon for a cordectomy1. Staff in Site-3005 are not to enter Wing Six2 without use of industrial grade earplugs.

SCP-XXXX victims are approved for high-class antimemetics upon request, provided that they are within safe amounts, and that SCP-XXXX has not passed into its fourth phase. Writing does not spread SCP-XXXX but is still prone to the effects.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a virulent memetic infohazard which inserts itself into memories when the victim is relaying a memory to someone else. The infohazard spreads when any verbal relaying of memories happens between a victim of SCP-XXXX and the uninfected. SCP-XXXX has been described as an unnamed five or six year old girl, typically wearing blue overalls. SCP-XXXX infection happens in four distinct phases.

Phase One entails SCP-XXXX appearing as a recurring character in every story that an SCP-XXXX victim tells. Victims tend to believe that SCP-XXXX was at the event that they are describing, but do not recall them having any significance in their life. Victims tend to express confusion when the character recurs in every other story told.

Phase Two entails SCP-XXXX replacing the most significant person (or in cases where this does not apply, objects or animals) in stories. Effects similar to Phase One manifest in cases wherein no living person is involved other than the victim, in which SCP-XXXX will appear in a random location within the story. Victims are almost always aware that the character is incorrectly placed in the story but are incapable of remembering who was originally there.

Phase Three entails every living thing in the memory of a victim being replaced by the anomaly. Victims are always aware of this fact, and express distress when attempting to recall events and failing to correctly remember who was involved.

Phase Four is the final stage of infection, and entails victims believing that they are SCP-XXXX. As in previous phases, victims are aware that there is something wrong, but are unable to explain the difference between themselves and SCP-XXXX. Approximately eighty percent of victims attempt self-harm during this phase. Full conversion occurs between one and three months of Phase Four exposure, and victims completely believe they are SCP-XXXX, losing the ability to read and write.


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Item #: SCP-X

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: Due to the widespread nature of SCP-X, Foundation assets are to focus on the tracking and retrieval of infected individuals. All infected individuals are to be given high-ranking amnestics in safe doses and held in isolation until signs of SCP-X infection are no longer present.

All identifying materials pertaining to individuals infected with SCP-X is to be taken down and removed from the public view. Foundation web-crawlers are to search for any videos online pertaining to infected individuals and are to take them down under the guise of a terms of service violation. Any individuals with prior knowledge of infected individuals or their last known location are to be tracked and administered amnestics at the earliest possible convenience.

Should the distribution of amnestics become unfeasible, Foundation assets are to focus on containment of all known individuals infected with SCP-X. Affected individuals are to be kept in an enclosed space free of clutter at all times to prevent the manifestation of SCP-X's anomalous properties.

Description: SCP-X is a cognitohazard affecting depth perception in regards to motion tracking of the optical nerves. Affected individuals experience an increase in blind spots, hallucinations4, and blurred vision along with an inability to grasp the locations of moving objects once they reach its last known location.

Due to the nature of SCP-X, affected individuals lose the ability to perceive any object that moves outside their field of view by moving behind another object. Any attempts to locate lost objects, including living entities, fails.

If presented with the object, individuals report being unable to perceive the object in question.
Any living entities which are observed in this manner attack and drag them to a shadowed portion of the room and causes them to disappear. The manner in which the entity drags the individual depends on the entity in question, whether by mouth if quadrupedal or by hand if bipedal.

When the affected individual in question is either unable, or is injured to a point where it is unfeasible, to be dragged, the entity smothers the person with its body and "consumes" them by engulfing their entire body in living shadow. Afterwards, it sinks into the floor and leaves no trace of the individual in question.

Any witnesses to this act also become infected with SCP-X and are at risk of attack by the entity. Amnestic administration is effective in suppressing SCP-X's anomalous properties as long as prior contact has not been established between affected individual and aforementioned entity.

Addendum: Foundation personnel become alerted to the existence of SCP-X when a spike of unexplained disappearances are reported to law enforcement officials over a period of three weeks. Foundation personnel track the calls and arrive at the local precinct posing as federal investigators, during which time they ask the officers to relinquish all known documents and recorded calls pertaining to the recent incidents. One of the more noteworthy calls discovered during the investigation is edited and cataloged below:

<Begin Log, 23:30:01>

Dispatch: 911… what is your emergency?

Caller: I-it's my husband! He's started walking around and yelling at shadows claiming that somebody's inside the house. H-he was recently diagnosed with dementia… b-but this doesn't seem like one of his normal flare-ups.

Dispatch: Please stay calm, can you give me your address?

In the background, the voice of a frantic elderly male yelling can be heard. Due to the distance from the receiver, the conversation is too muffled to discern.

Dispatch: Ma'am, is that your husband?

Caller: Y-yes, that's him. He's been on edge ever since he saw it. He keeps on yelling about an intruder…

Dispatch: Has he had an episode similar to this in the past?

Caller: Y-yes sir, this is probably the second or third one this month.

Dispatch: Alright. Can I have your name and address please, ma'am?

Caller: My name is ████ Howitz, and I live on ████ Winchester St.

Dispatch: Alright, Mrs. Howitz, I have dispatched officers to your location. Would you be able to stay on the phone with me?

Mrs. Howitz: I-I can try, but…

Mrs. Howitz slides the receiver from her mouth to communicate with her husband. The following audio has been enhanced for clarity.

Husband: W-who's there? You can't hide from me forever!

Mrs. Howitz: C-calm down, Harold. W-we'll be getting you the help you n-need soon.

Harold: I know you're in this house! I saw you before! Come out, come out wherever you are…

Mrs. Howitz: H-harold, please… you're scaring me more than usual. Please… s-sit down in your chair. The ambulance is on its way.

Harold: Get your dirty hands off of me, you hooligan! Help! Help me!

Mrs. Howitz: I'm n-not bu-buying it, Harold! You're n-not getting me o-off of this ph-phone!

Harold: Help me!

Dispatch: Ma'am? Is everything alright?

Mrs. Howitz: I… I d-don't know. M-maybe I should g-go and take a l-look…

Mrs. Howitz steps away from the phone, leaving it off of the hook. The scream of an elderly woman can be heard from the living room before panicked steps can be heard coming back to the phone.

Dispatch: Ma'am? Are you there? We're almost at your location. Help will be there any minute now.

Mrs. Howitz: Y-yes, I am. M… my husband was right! There… there is something in this house! Hurry! Hu—

Mrs. Howitz was cut off by garbled static, accompanied by a wispy hiss directly into the receiver. Audio cuts back in to frenzied screaming which only lasts a few seconds before a pop and fizzle sound can be heard. After the pop, only the soft clacking of the receiver against something solid can be heard.

Dispatch: Ma'am? Is everything alright?

Silence can be heard on the other end, until a soft voice can be heard.

Unknown: No, everything is not alright officer.

Dispatch: W-who is this?

Unknown: That's none of your concern. Just remember… what you can't see, can still hurt you…

<End Log, 23:55:20>

Closing Statement: A soft click can be heard at this time signaling that the person on the other end has hung up. Officers arrive on the scene to find the house unoccupied and untouched. A thorough sweep on the house yields no traces of its occupants. The search for the missing elderly couple is currently ongoing, despite no substantial leads to their whereabouts.