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Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is contained within the boundaries of Site O-A4. Site-O-A4 is a compound built around the collective neighborhood of Dormont, Pennsylvania, and is specially designed to contain only SCP-XXXX. Personnel assigned to Site O-A4 are to be subject to an intense psychological evaluation to weed out any shed of mental illness. No more than ten O5 assigned researchers are to be present within sectors twelve through twenty during testing. Researchers are able to examine the sites where instances of the entity have materialized but only via drones or robots. No staff regardless of clearance level is permitted within the containment area of SCP-XXXX as it poses too great of a threat. Any personnel who violate this are to be executed immediately.
In the event of an instance of SCP-XXXX materializing outside of its containment chamber, all researchers with level four security or higher are to be transported to a safe zone in a nearby Foundation front business, Kuhns Marketplace, which is equipped with a bunker designed for this scenario. Mobile Task Force; Wrench in the System is to then be deployed.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a man between the ages of 55 and 60 dressed in traditional hangman’s attire who materializes in a twenty-foot radius of any individual with a mental illness that it deems to be hopeless. SCP-XXXX has the ability to create a noose out of any material at its disposal, that it uses to hang those who are hopeless. As this occurs SCP-XXXX mumbles, “Your lack of hope is ruining my sleep,” in a repeated pattern until its victim parishes.
SCP-XXXX is entirely invisible to those in its presence without a prior or current mental illness diagnosis. Those who have a history of mental illness or are diagnosed with one in the presence of SCP-XXXX during this phenomenon describe trying to save the victim but never being able to physically reach them. This is a result of SCP-XXXX’s reality-bending properties. Foundation researchers are in the process of attempting to evaluate the entity as well as the nooses left behind in order to better understand it.
Recovery: The Foundation was first alerted of this being following a string of news reports of people going missing from their homes in Dormont, Pennsylvania, only to be found hanged to death with a note below their feet reading, “I wasn’t thankful for the joy in this world.” Initially, it was widely believed that the occurrences were the result of a mass suicide event until January 24th, 2016 where a family of three who had recently all been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder were found hanging from a single tree outside their home with a note on the ground reading, hope is slowly fading from the world, soon I’ll have no time to remove it all. The person who found the bodies wishes to remain anonymous. They refused Class-A amnestics.
The Foundation seized the neighborhood of Dormont and a relocation program began for residents of the area and in the surrounding suburbs. Those closest in proximity to the family’s home were given Class-A amnestics and relocated. Approval to construct Site O-A4 was granted the following week and construction began immediately.
Addendum-1: MTF Wrench in the System: Wrench in the System is a task force of bipedal robots void of a mind or AI, built to detect instances of SCP-XXXX and re-contain it. Other information regarding Wrench in the System is currently unavailable or is expunged from record by a panel of anonymous Foundation members with high clearance levels and direct connection to O5 board members one secretly obtained memo states.
Addendum-2: Addendum-2: SCP-XXXX has a cult following among a sect of Paganism known only as The Night. Their ideology centralizes around an account that states that SCP-XXXX, known to them as He Who Hangs the Hopeless, was God before the theoretical Christian God, and that SCP-XXXX was cast to hell before the creation of humanity. Fearing it would never witness humanity’s creation, SCP-XXXX dug its way out of hell with a gold shovel. To its followers the gold shovel represents hope. There is little knowledge of this cult’s behavior or beliefs. An active project spearheaded by Dr. Markel (Site O-A4 lead researcher) is investigating the cult and how it operates in regards to SCP-XXXX.
