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Item #: SCP-X

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: Ten instances of SCP-X are contained within a standard storage locker labeled ‘SCP-X’ in Site-53, within the Safe-class wing. Any extant instances are to be incinerated, and the remains disposed of. Access to SCP-X for testing is currently prohibited.

Thanks to Richard ██████’s cooperation, the locations and dates of all upcoming SCP-X shipments have been identified. Blind agents have been inserted at the locations with orders to incinerated and dispose of the SCP-X instances. Location

Physical meetings of SCP-X-A groups are currently monitored by inserted agents, and their respective websites are policed by webcrawlers which replace images of SCP-X with images of standard caps. Any letters sent by SCP-X-A groups to politicians are to be intercepted by imbedded agents, who are then to reply with a forged response.

Description: SCP-X is a specific style of baseball cap. The bill of the cap shows a stylized depiction of Lon Chaney Junior as the Wolfman. The panels of the cap bear the phrase ‘[REDACTED],’ which is often described as being ‘pro-werewolf’ by SCP-X-A. This phrase is currently believed to be the most important mechanism of the anomaly. Inscribed under the bill is a url for the website [REDACTED], owned by Richard ██████.

When a person views someone wearing SCP-X, the observer becomes an instance of SCP-X-A. Testing has shown that this effect occurs through photographs and videos, but observing a painting of someone wearing SCP-X does not carry the effects.

SCP-X-A claims that anyone who wears SCP-X will become a werewolf, specifically emphasizing that causalities will occur when this happens, and attributes this perceived risk solely to the fact that they wore SCP-X. Testing has shown this to belief to be unfounded. Despite SCP-X-A's belief in werewolves, it identifies wearing SCP-X as the sole cause of transformation, and will reject any media that says otherwise. Despite this belief, SCP-X-A never takes direct action against a wearer of SCP-X, and in fact rejects mythical tradition regarding how to defeat a werewolf. Instead, SCP-X-A believes that the imagined threat will be eradicated solely if people are prevented from wearing SCP-X. Amnestics have been unable to reverse the effects of SCP-X.

SCP-X-A’s disdain for SCP-X has been shown to be no more extreme than the average American’s stance on political issues. However, this has led to the creation of several SCP-X-A groups, the most notable being Parents Preventing Werewolfism (PPW). The Foundation has succeeded at portraying PPW as a satirical organization via insertion of several agents, who also scrub any mention of SCP-X beyond being a ‘hat’ from PPW literature. Due to the continuing circulation of extant SCP-X instances bringing new, earnest members into PPW, the organization has not been disbanded.

Interviewed: Rebecca ██████, an active member of PPW.

Interviewer: Agent █████ Powell

Foreword: Agent Powell formed a rapport with Ms. ██████ while inserted in the the Richmond chapter of PPW. He conducted this interview in the field under the guise of a journalistic endeavor.

Powell: Why did you choose to join Parents for the Prevention of Werewolfism?

██████: Well, PPW is the largest anti-werewolf group in the country. And it had the cheapest dues, too.

Powell: I'm sorry, I should have clarified. Why did you join an anti-werewolf group in the first place?

██████: I joined it because I had to do something about the werewolf scourge that's taking over our nation! I remember when I could let my children out on their own without fear of a wolfman popping out of the bushes and eating them, but now I get worried just putting them on the bus to school. They're my little angels, and I don't think I could live without them. I feel helpless, and joining PPW was my attempt to take control of my life again.

Powell: Alright. Why does the PPW send so many letters to politicians?

██████: Because they don't do anything! It's shameful that our government is so useless. The talk all about school shootings and terrorism and, I mean, I get that those issues are important. But they never talk about the specter of werewolfism, and we need to bring this issue to people's minds.

Powell: How many werewolf attacks have occurred since you joined the PPW, may I ask?

██████: Zero.

Powell: Why would you worry, then, about something that isn't happening?

██████: We've gotten werewolf attacks down to a safe zero percentage due to our activism! Did Gévaudan have the PPW? Exactly. And look what happened there. The PPW is keeping the nation's youth safe.

Powell: How, exactly, is it doing this?

██████: Like I said, we write to politicians. We're trying to get them to ban hats; hats are the leading cause of werewolfism. Dr. [REDACTED] claims that it's because kids that wear hats start overheating, and it makes them nocturnal to get out of the heat. The hat suppresses the growth of hair on someone's head. and moves it to the rest of the body. And, I guess, from there it only becomes natural that these poor kids make a full transformation into a werewolf.

Powell: And that makes sense to you?

██████: Well, it's clearly the most logical explanation. Why are you bringing this up?

Powell: I just want to be sure that readers are informed of how youths are at risk for becoming werewolves.

██████: That's fair. I just wish there was a way we could get more people to join the cause, to rise up against the werewolf scourge. You know just how the rate of new members joining PPW is decreasing. I just wish I had some way to reach out to those poor youths, at risk of utilizing hats.

Powell: Well, thank you for your time. This will be greatly helpful in my article.

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