Meat Baby

Close-up of a sample of SCP-XXXX

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be kept in a storage room at Site-51. If anyone working at Site-51 displays symptoms of SCP-XXXX’s perception-altering effects, they are to be transferred offsite and amnesticized immediately. Once per day, personnel assigned to SCP-XXXX are to insert a ½ liter bottle of human milk into SCP-XXXX and are not to leave until the bottle is empty.

Following Incident XXXX-A (See Addendum), Site-51 staff assigned to SCP-XXXX as to be cycled every third week. Revisions to containment procedures for SCP-XXXX-1 are pending.

Description: SCP-XXXX is 3kg mass of ground porcine, bovine, and human flesh. Approximately 10% of adult humans perceive SCP-XXXX to be a human infant of variable appearance, though affected individuals who are themselves parents will often describe SCP-XXXX as looking similar to their own children. Individuals affected by SCP-XXXX feel an extreme compulsion to feed and care for SCP-XXXX and will become distressed if they are refused contact with it.

Testing has shown that SCP-XXXX is not alive. Despite this, SCP-XXXX is capable of metabolizing human milk, and doing so delays the putrefaction process and give SCP-XXXX limited regenerative properties. SCP-XXXX requires approximately half a liter of milk a day to maintain these properties. If SCP-XXXX is given milk in excess of this amount, it will slowly grow in size proportionate to the amount it was fed, though it will revert to its original size over time if feeding portions are brought back down.

If SCP-XXXX is not fed or is fed less than half a liter of milk a day, it will begin to rot like nonanomalous ground meat. Additionally, individuals working near or with SCP-XXXX when it is unfed have reported hearing a baby crying, with the frequency and intensity of the crying increasing the longer SCP-XXXX goes without feeding. The number of individuals who perceive SCP-XXXX as an infant has also been shown to increase over this period.

Addendum:

+ Incident XXXX-A

On 02/05/20██, Dr. Javier Martinez, then the head researcher for SCP-XXXX, was rushed to the infirmary after falling unconscious following complaints of abdominal pain and nausea. An examination of Dr. Martinez revealed that he had grown a functional uterus and birth canal. Additionally, ultrasounds of the organs showed what appeared to a human fetus at four months of development. Dr. Martinez was given an emergency cesarean section, and 1kg mass of ground meat, now designated SCP-XXXX-1, was removed from his abdomen. The mass’s composition and anomalous properties are identical to SCP-XXXX.

Following the incident, all staff at Site-51 were given a thorough medical examination. 75% of staff who had been working in close proximity to SCP-XXXX for more than 3 weeks displayed physical abnormalities similar to Dr. Martinez’s, though none were more than a week into the gestation period. All individuals were given Mifepristone and administered amnestics. Affected males had extraneous organs removed.