SCP-4980

SCP-4980
Item #: 4980
Nicknamed: Brother of Slender

Object class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Item SCP-4980 currently lurks in a fenced off forest located near ██████████████████████████████ Nobody is to enter the forest without written permission from ███████████, manager of site 08.

Description: SCP-4980 appears to be a black, blank, featureless humanoid figure (Similar to slender) standing still that stares blankly into the distance. At night time, it will freely move from place to place.

SCP-4980 usually hides the mid to bottom part of its body behind something, whether it be a bush, tree, wall, anything it can find. It has not let anyone nor anything see the lower part of its body. SCP-4980 has never traveled out of the forest it lurks in, nor has it tried. Thus, the SCP Foundation has just fenced the area off and restricted all access to it.

Any person or entity that enters the forest that has not been there before will cause agitation to SCP-4980 and will cause it to [DATA EXPUNGED]. Anyone not trained specifically to survive SCP-4980 (refer to article: ████████████) that has wandered or otherwise trespassed into this area have gone missing, presumed dead.
People that have looked directly at SCP-4980 for longer than 12 seconds will develop a lethal sickness deemed ‘SCP-4980-X3’ In which, the victim will experience trauma, insanity, blurred vision, suicidal thoughts and/or actions, and other dangerous symptoms. Before the 12 seconds ends, SCP-4980 repeats the phrase “Y-whay o-day ou-yay are-stay e-may o-say?”

This sickness is only spread through looking at SCP-4980. The infected will die within 48 hours, and the bodies somehow disappear before burial. Every time someone dies of SCP-4980-X3, another instance of SCP-4980 is created, thus, the SCP foundation tries to prevent anyone from becoming infected by the SCP-4980-X3 sickness. We managed to interview one of the affected people, and he stated that they kept having visions of the humanoid stalking, or otherwise mocking him, as well as experiencing brain trauma, blurred and black and white vision, color blindness, and everything from the waist down in excruciating pain. Anyone infected with SCP-4980-X3 is immediately turned over to the SCP Foundation, in which they attempt to destroy the infected to prevent further instances of SCP-4980 from being created.

The only known safe ways of coming in contact with SCP-4980 is either not making direct eye contact with it, or by shining a light on SCP-4980, which in return will make it disappear. This is not recommended though, as SCP-4980 tends to re-appear behind whoever shined the flashlight on it, and follows close behind. If that person looks behind, or if someone else tries to look at it, SCP-4980 will temporarily disappear, until eye contact with the person's back is broken.

SCP-4980 was classified as elucid when it was first discovered, but after figuring out how dangerous it was, it was reclassified as keter.

Many incidents have happened involving SCP-4980, though half of them have been accidentally lost, or destroyed, and the other half are missing information.
The incidents that have been retrieved are listed below.

SCP-4980-J6: In attempt to interview SCP-4980, it was able to understand english and speak english, thus it was able to [DATA EXPUNGED]. It did not desire to talk any longer than required with the interviewers, as it did not feel comfortable when anything ‘foreign’ entered his forest. When one of the SCP officials asked why SCP-4980 refused to show his ██████████ section, it became extremely [DATA EXPUNGED], and proceeded to █████████████████████████████████. Everyone involved in that interview have suffered █████ and mental █████ including insomnia, depression, suicidal thoughts or actions, █████████████, etc.

SCP-4980-J25: The SCP foundation attempted to █████████ SCP-4890 and █████ it into a cell at the site 08 prison, but SCP-4890 [DATA EXPUNGED], [DATA EXPUNGED], and proceeded to destroy [DATA EXPUNGED] around it. No further attempts to detain SCP-4980 are to be made at this point.

SCP-4980-J91: In an attempt to destroy SCP-4980, it [DATA EXPUNGED], and proceeded to make a very loud [DATA EXPUNGED] sound, most likely to call his ████████. Three (3) instances of SCP-4980 then appeared, but they all were [DATA EXPUNGED] the mid-lower part of the ██████████, enabling them to ██████████ freely without needing cover. These instances of SCP-4980 (SCP-4980-01, SCP-4980-02, and SCP-4980-03) then proceeded to attack and ██████████ the personnel hired to exterminate SCP-4980.