CTBlackout's SCP Sandbox

Item #: SCP-####

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: Site-#### has been build around SCP-####. Site-#### is to maintain the guise of a Canadian military testing site, with personnel equipped with the appropriate uniforms and equipment. Canadian laws regarding trespassing on government land are to be enforced as normal.

No personnel with any form of total sensory loss are to assigned to SCP-####. Items capable of causing significant sensory loss (see Document ####-1 for a full list) are not to be worn or used outside of testing.

Description: SCP-#### is an area in the Yukon territory of Canada, measuring somewhere between 4 and 18 meters in size¹. SCP-#### is not entirely perceptible, with observers claiming that it is constantly changing in an indescribable way, or that it is somehow 'out of focus.'

Direct contact with SCP-#### is impossible while it is being observed. Subjects attempting to do so will 'miss' the object. This effect extends to outside observation, such as cameras, as well as other senses. The only way to make actual contact with SCP-#### is if the subject attempting to do so is incapable of receiving visual, auditory, or tactile stimuli from the object, and no other direct observers are present. A set of thick wool gloves, noise cancelling headphones, and a blindfold have been provided for testing purposes.

Objects that do make actual contact with SCP-#### become SCP-####-1 instances. Instances of SCP-####-1 exhibit the same 'out of focus' effect as SCP-####, but otherwise behave identically to how they did before becoming anomalous. Along with being visually indistinct, any noises created by SCP-####-1 instances are described as both muffled and distorted. Despite this, communication with an SCP-####-1 instance has been achieved via indirect methods. See Testing Log #### for details. Site-#### currently houses forty six SCP-####-1 instances.

Discovery: SCP-#### was initially discovered by Jack Murray, an avid hiker and backpacker. On January 18th, 2019, Murray returned from a camping trip in the northern Yukon territory a week ahead of schedule, claiming to have seen a 'black hole' in the forest. After an embedded agent within the local government was alerted to this, those Murray had contact with were amnesticized and Murray himself was taken in for questioning before also being amnesticized and released.

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Interviewed: Jack Murray

Interviewer: Researcher Aiden Walker

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Researcher Walker: So, what exactly did you see out there?

Murray: I…don't know. A black hole was the best way I could describe it. But that's not really what it was.

Researcher Walker: Take your time.

Murray remains silent for approximately 40 seconds

Murray: It was kind of like…you know when you're talking, and there's a word you know that means exactly what you need to say, but you can't think of the the actual word?

Researcher Walker: You appear to be experiencing it now. Yes, I'm familiar with the sensation.

Murray: (laughing slightly) Yes, yes I am. God, now that's gonna bug me for the rest of the day. Anyways, it was like that, but with the world itself.

Researcher Walker: Could you elaborate on that?

Murray: It was like, something exists there, or should exist there, and the universe knows that, but it's not sure what exactly it is.

Researcher Walker: Interesting. Well, thank you Mr. Murray, you've been very helpful.

Murray: No problem, doc.

<End Log>

Closing Statement: Following this interview, the area Murray described located and the existence of SCP-#### was confirmed. The area was cordoned off and Site-#### was built around it.

Addendum: Interview with SCP-####-5

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Interviewed: SCP-####-1-5 (formerly D-90421

Interviewer: Dr. Samantha Park

Foreword: SCP-####-1-5 was created when D-90421 attempted to make contact with SCP-#### while wearing wool gloves, a blindfold, and noise-cancelling headphones. An earpiece was worn under the headphones to facilitate communication. It was then discovered that D-90421 could continue to use the earpiece after becoming an SCP-####-1 instance.

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Closing Statement: [Small summary and passage on what transpired afterward]

Footnotes

1. The average estimate is 6 x 8 x 5 meters.