Containment Class:
euclid
Item #: SCP-5045
Object Class: Euclid
City known now as Halifax following SCP-XXXX-1
Special Containment Procedures:
SCP-5045 is to be monitored carefully by at least 5 personnel at all times located at the office in the top floor of the Halifax HSBC Building. Any increase in electromagnetic activity or Hume levels should be immediately reported to Site Command at Site-██. Should a magnetic event take place, MTF Beta-7 will be deployed to help re contain SCP-5045. Tabs are to be kept on any drilling company showing interest in the Halifax Harbor. Agents embedded in CFB Halifax are to ensure that no submarine submerges within the harbor, and that no echo location equipment is to be used extensively within the bay.
Description:
SCP-5045 is a large creature located in the Halifax Harbor, roughly 2 Kilometers Long and 500 meters Wide. Topographical analysis has revealed that SCP-5045 is infact the bay itself, only covered in 5 meters of soil, gravel, sand, and various rocks. it is unknown what is below SCP-5045, as all attempts to map the ground below it have failed due to inability to penetrate the creature physically and electromagnetically.
SCP-5045 has an apparent 'face' located just below the surface in the Bedford Bay, and extensive radar mapping has shown it to resemble an elderly male with seaweed for what appears to be a 'beard'. analysis has shown that the face is the only detailed part of the organism, with the rest of its body flattened and recognizably deflated, providing evidence to the theory that it used to be inflated.
The surface of the anomaly appears flaccid and malleable, but is infact impossible to penetrate with conventional equipment, although it's believed that explosives could damage or possibly puncture the surface; see Addendum 01 for more details on explosives used to penetrate the skin of the anomaly.
It is believed that before the events detailed in SCP-5045-1, SCP-5045 was Halifax. The most popular theory is that SCP-5045 inflated parts of its body to resemble streets, buildings, and people. On the case of why this was never discovered before 1917, recorded hume levels suggest a possible mental deterrent that drove away any attempt for human contact above sea level.
Addendum 01: Captain Hans-Erwin Reith.
Captain Hans-Erwin Reith of U-190 was captured by Canadian Armed Forces in Bay Bulls Newfoundland, 1945, and was transferred to the Foundation following the inspection of his interrogation files in July 1945. The following two Addendum's describe his initial interrogation, and his third Foundation Interrogation, which to the containment of SCP-5045.
Interrogation Transcript
Date: 30/5/1945
Interviewer: Sgt. ████████
Interviewed: Sub Lieutenant Reith , U-190
Foreword: We traced this guy to Bay Bulls where he surrendered, but not before trying to fire a salvo into the fishing docks. he claimed he saw an 'ungodly face', similar to one he's seen before. I'm not getting my hopes up for this interview.
<Begin Log>
Interviewer: Please state your name and rank.
SL Reith: My name is Hans-Erwin Reith, I am an Oberleutnant zur See for the Kreigsmarine; my ship is known as U-190.
Interviewer: Not anymore it isn't; I was told this morning that we're gonna use it as confetti for a neat celebration outside St John's. you're out of a job 'komraden'.
SL Reith: Oh… I see…
Interviewer: So Reith, what's your service record?
SL Reith: All we did was sink one of your little destroyers, but you know this. Why have you brought me here of all places, 'Halifax'? Do your people not know what lies beneath its waves?
Interviewer: What are you talking about? Did you plant mines? Oh Christ you planted mines.
SL Reith: No no, no mines in Halifax, none except your own. I speak of the devilish beast who's face lies in the shallows of your bay
Interviewer: A beast? What are you trying to pull here Kraut? First you speak fluent English, then you mention a 'beast', and this whole time you've been █████ fidgeting in that metal chair! The war is over, you don't need to hide information from us!
SL Reith: I'm telling the truth, you're absolutely right. Why would I lie now?! Why don't you believe me!? I've seen the devil, and he leveled your city in 1917! I was there! how can you just sit there knowing the horror that lies dormant under your feet!?
Interviewer: Corporal, this guy is crazy, can we just send him back to Berlin?
<End Log>
Closing Statement: Confirmed my suspicion, brainwashed. Can we release a guy like this?
Following is the third interview by Foundation Agents following his transfer.
Interrogation Transcript
Date: 25/7/1945
Interviewer: Agent ███
Interviewed: Sub Lieutenant Reith , POW
Foreword: They say third time's the charm, but I'm starting to think we should just feed him some Amnestics and send him back to Germany. If this doesn't work I'll give it one more go.
<Begin Log>
Interviewer: Good Morning Oberleutenant.
SL Reith: Good Morning Agent.
Interviewer: I'm gonna get down to brass tacks; why are you withholding information? Why did you pour your heart out to the RCN but not to us? Don't you understand? we believe you.
SL Reith: Because Agent, you're not a government institution nor a simple drilling company, no. I believe you're part of something bigger, something that wants to re-awake the beast beneath the harbor.
Interviewer: And what would happen, should we choose to awaken this monstrosity?
SL Reith: Don't you know? this city was leveled because of that- that thing! I shot it! My crew and I were attacked by it, but we nearly escaped. We fired a salvo in retaliation, and my submarine was lifted from the sea and thrown onto the shore! It was blinding and deafening, and it smelled of raw iron! Oh mein gott, warum wurde ich leben gelassen? (Oh god, why was I left alive?)
Interviewer: Can you describe it to me Hans?
SL Reith: It was foul and vile! Its face was old and cracked with a beard of deep green tendrils! My comrades died on impact with the shore, I was left to evade custody and flee, knowing full well the secrets!
Interviewer: What happened following the incident, on shore?
SL Reith: It- It….
Interviewer: Stay with me Hans, we're here to help you.
SL Reith: …Like balloons, all of it. the streets, the ships, the houses, the people!? They all deflated and sunk into the ground! I- I-
Interviewer: That's enough for today Oberleutenant.
SL Reith: incoherent sobbing
<End Log>
Closing Statement: This was a success, I'm going to need to follow up on this.
Addendum 02 - SCP-5045-1
SCP-XXXX-1 is known more commonly as the Halifax Explosion of 1917. After intensive interrogation and research, this is the best theory pertaining to the series of events.
Series of Events: SCP-5045-1
6th December, 1917
7:30 AM: SM-UC-102 Passes the Halifax narrows under its own inertia, attempting to avoid sonar detection.
8:00 AM: UC-102 Drifts in past the Dartmouth Shore towards the Bedford Basin
8:45 AM UC-102 is attacked by SCP-5045, supposedly with physical force.
8:50 AM UC-102 recovers and tries to radio for help, but the radio emits what sounds like a voice, and the crew is unable to use it.
9:02 UC-102 fires a salvo of two torpedo's towards SCP-5045
9:04 A detonation roughly 3 Kilotons of TNT in force sweeps the bay. the shock wave is heard from all the way in Prince Edward Island.
9:30 SL Reith manages to escape the now wrecked U-Boat and flees the scene.
Addendum 03 - Investigation
Following the interrogation of SL Reith, and short recording and mapping sessions within the harbor, an investigation was launched into the cover-up of SCP-5045-1. Analysis of human remains revealed that some people in Halifax had been dead for almost 300 years, and this suggested a theory that prior to SCP-5045-1, SCP-5045 gained sustenance by allowing small groups of humans and animals to enter its exclusion zone, providing them with the illusion of Halifax before killing them. Mental Evaluation of Survivors suggested a memory wipe at the apex of the explosion attributed to SCP-5045-1, caused most likely by a large release of hume radiation. The only people alive who could recall SCP-5045 before the incident, were the Mi'Kmaq Peoples who lived across the bay. Below is a transcript of an interview with the current chief at the time.
Interview Transcript
Date: 23/5/1947
Interviewer: Agent ███
Interviewed: Chief █████, Mi'Kmaq First Nations
Foreword: I've talked with a few of these people in passing, and it's already giving me the feeling that these people might have worshiped this thing. Only the Chief'll know.
<Begin Log>
Interviewer: Gwe' , Chieftain.
Chief: Pjila’si, Traveler. What brings you here today?
Interviewer: I'm conducting an investigation into the Halifax Explosion, do you-
Chief: Do not speak of such horrors, that was the day our protector died.
Interviewer: Protector? Care to elaborate?
Chief: Before your people came to this land, our society flourished with art and culture, but the Europeans destroyed it all. In a last ditch attempt to save our identity, we fled here, where the elders said an old evil lay. We ignored their warnings however, and arrived some 300 years ago now. We swore servitude in exchange for protection.
Interviewer: What kind of servitude?
Chief: We hunted and fed his face in the basin, land animals, sea animals, birds, anything with meat.
Interviewer: What about people?
Chief: …
Chief: That was his own foul game, his own experiment. we watched as they entered clueless, not knowing the fate that was beset upon them. He played with them, trying to sustain an illusion for as long as possible. sometimes they'd be here for months, completely unaware. then one day, the ground would open up and swallow them whole, or a house would smash them to death.
Interviewer: I see. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Now these pills are…
<End Log>
Closing Statement: I administered some Class-A amnestics, but god knows if we can counter the effects of this thing. I suggest we start monitoring this thing, because if it reactivates, the veil will be most certainly lifted.
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