David Lynch's Proposal - Towards the Known Unknown

Item #: SCP-001

Object Class: Safe Thaumiel Keter

Special Containment Procedures: Due to the escalating events of 12/01/2020 and the implementation of Protocol THOUSAND-TREES, SCP-001 is to be declassified to the rest of the Foundation. RAISA has been authorized to remove the Berryman-Langford memetic kill agent from the SCP-001 decoy page, and to completely block access within the page to the other proposals. A meeting of all Foundation personnel who have both been granted 001-Alpha Clearance and have submitted a real or fictional proposal for the 001 slot (collectively known as the Council on SCP-001) have approved these actions and any future actions to provide access to this particular SCP-001 file for the Foundation, the general public, and life on earth. Members of the current Council represent a cross section of the Foundation and currently include, in no meaningful order:

  • Site Director Jonathan Ball
  • Dr. Charles Gears
  • Dr. Alto Clef
  • Dr. Sam Hughes
  • Dr. Jack Bright
  • Dr. Everett Mann
  • Dr. Mackenzie, the current Administrator
  • Site Director Steven Andrew Swann
  • Dr. Robert Scranton
  • Dr. F. Djoric
  • Dr. D. Matix
  • Dr. Ralph Roget
  • Site Director Karlyle Aktus
  • Regional Director Kate McTiriss
  • GOC operative "Twistedgears"
  • Dr. Carlos Kalinin
  • RAISA Director Maria Jones
  • Agent S.D. Locke
  • General Spike Brennan
  • O5-3
  • billith.aic
  • Director of Physical Plant Tim Hyne
  • Agent Lily
  • Dr. Robert Montauk

Any of these individuals should be sought out for assistance with Protocol THOUSAND-TREES if required, and their orders are to directly supersede any others given to Foundation staff. This proposal for SCP-001 is filed under aname mimicking that of a European or American filmmaker (previously Federico Fellini, currently David Lynch). This name is to cycle every month until SCP-001 is fully satiated.

Information on the exact nature of SCP-001 is both self-concealing and extremely dangerous. It is theorized to be a hostile non-corporeal emotional entity with info-hazardous properties, able to psychologically and physically affect large populations very quickly.1

Due to this, the description of SCP-001 is to be contained and encoded within a Zagreus-Class info-hazardous video meme generated by a supercomputer. SCP-001 applies to its description, and is present. Personnel viewing this meme who do not experience SCP-001's description in its entirety are considered inoculated against its effects. All subjects who are sapient, no matter if human, AIC, member of the Avian Division, demonic, or otherwise entity, who do not fully experience the Zagreus-Class info-hazardous video meme are affected by SCP-001, and considered KIA. Those who do are permitted a meeting with members of the Council.

The information in this Zagreus-Class info-hazardous video meme is not to be repeated or summarized. Doing so will cause a secondary 001 event and constitute a containment breach. If this occurs, one or more of the personnel listed above on the Council is to be informed.

Description: This is what dreams are. The feeling of horror pounding, pounding in your chest just before you wake up. And by every God in the cosmos it hates you for waking up

Personnel are advised to wear headphones and a high volume in order to comprehend SCP-001. Do not damage your eardrums. This Zagreus-Class video meme may startle unprepared personnel and some viewers may experience visual distortion. This is SCP-001.

A thing too terrible to see. A feeling too terrible to contemplate. I am in the woods. I am behind the door. Now I am you. Can you feel your cortisol shoot to the stars? Everywhere.

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