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Photograph of SCP-XXXX, taken by D-Class

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: Because of the anomaly's specific location as well as the inability to gauge how or when subjects may be transferred to SCP-XXXX, it is impossible to contain the anomaly. At all times, 3 (three) Foundation personnel must be present at the amnestic sites located 1 (one) kilometer away to the North, South, East, and West of the anomaly. No one is to be admitted to SCP-XXXX from anywhere outside the premises at any time.

Description: SCP-XXXX is an apparently empty stretch of desert, measuring 2 (two) kilometers by 1 (one) kilometer, located in the northwestern area of the Washoe County in Nevada, US. When brought to SCP-XXXX by its own methods, however, the area appears to be a flooded street, the water level being higher than a standard street sign reading "French St.¹" The water level appears to be approximately two (2) meters deep, however, no Foundation personnel have ever located the bottom (see Document XXXX-2).

To approach this location from the outside, walk through it, or view it from above, the side, or underneath (see Document XXXX-1) reveals no anomalies. To Foundation knowledge, the anomaly can only be accessed through the appearance of SCP-XXXX-001.

SCP-XXX-001 is a speedboat that appears only when the anomaly becomes "active". SCP-XXXX will, using unknown methods, teleport a person to itself, hence SCP-XXXX-002. SCP-XXXX-002 is a different person each time the anomaly becomes active, of varying age, race, sex, and previous location. SCP-XXXX-002 always appears on SCP-XXXX-001, but with varying fishing equipment, which they claim to be their own. SCP-XXXX-002 always claims to have been fishing before suddenly realizing that they were at SCP-XXXX, but never realize that they had arrived or how they arrived.

All instances of SCP-XXXX-002 have reported an intense feeling of "loss," "urgency," "desire," (translated from Russian тоска), and similar words. No instance of SCP-XXXX-002 has reported any sense of danger or fear. Some have remained and continued fishing for what they claim to be hours after first arriving. No fish have been recovered from SCP-XXXX (see Document 2).

Upon attempting to exit SCP-XXXX, SCP-XXXX-002 will attempt to navigate SCP-XXXX-001 away from the area. Each SCP-XXXX-002 reports that they traveled approximately 1 (one) kilometer from the street sign before suddenly being beached on SCP-XXXX-001, with no water in sight, no street sign, and no desire to return to SCP-XXXX for any reason, nor any particular feeling toward SCP-XXXX at all.

Discovery: The first SCP-XXXX-002 was found hitchhiking on Nevada Route 34, 6 (six) kilometers from SCP-XXXX, on 19██-██-██ The Foundation located him on the local news channel of ██████, learned of SCP-XXXX, and administered amnestics before creating Site ███, as mentioned above.

Addendum:

+ Document-XXXX-1

Description:
An attempt to determine how SCP-XXXX becomes filled with water or drains the water.

Aerial observation revealed no water to be visible, just as ground-level observation. Upon using 1000 (one thousand) D-Class personnel to attempt to reach SCP-XXXX, after 1 (one) year D-Class 48290 was successful. However, observation revealed no visible change in the area as viewed from Site ███ or through aerial observation. Site ███ personnel reported that approximately 1 (one) hour before the subject exited SCP-XXXX, the time when change would have been first visible, they felt no compulsion to check on SCP-XXXX, and instead continued playing Hearts. All observers of the D-Class personnel tests reported that they never saw the subject disappear, but also felt no compulsion to actively check on them until they were apprehended by Site ███ personnel.

Dr. Taylor was the first to suggest that SCP-XXXX could be due to some underground phenomena. The Foundation sent a small drill to go 500 (five hundred) feet beneath the visible surface of SCP-XXXX. However, the drill found nothing but soil and rock natural to the surrounding area.

+ Document-XXXX-2

Description:
An attempt to determine the nature and extent of SCP-XXXX's abilities.

1000 (one thousand) D-Class personnel were sent to fish until one of them was brought to SCP-XXXX. After 6 (six) months, D_Class 3830 was brought to the anomaly, and was able to bring with them their fishing equipment. However, the collection materials (1 container for obtaining water sample, 1 set of scuba equipment) the Foundation had supplied them with was not with the subject on arrival at SCP-XXXX. No materials replaced it upon arrival at SCP-XXXX. Acting upon their previously obtained instructions, the subject stayed to fish for 3 (three) hours, catching no fish. They report that they remembered their instructions to dive off of SCP-XXXX-001 and search for life or the bottom of SCP-XXXX, but felt that it was "no good for the lake, it might screw with the fish. I didn't wanna ruin the fishing for anyone else neither. Besides, I felt like I was fishing with my dad again, and he never let me swim. […] Felt like I was missing him for the first time in a while." The subject did not report seeing anyone else fishing at SCP-XXXX.

+ Document-XXXX-3

Description:
An attempt to determine what the anomaly does or does not consider fishing.

The personnel at Site ███ arranged for 1000 (one thousand) D-Class to begin fishing in different water sources. The test was arranged to take up to as many years as it would take for every D-Class involved to reach SCP-XXXX. The sources were as follows:

• A man-made 1 x 1 x 1 meter hole
• A natural puddle, 1 x 0.5 x 0.02 meters
• Lake Michigan coast
• Boat on the middle of Lake Erie

At this point D-Class 869 arrived at SCP-XXXX and felt an intense desire to stop all testing. The personnel at Site ███ felt the same compulsion, and cancelled the tests immediately.

Footnotes

1. No record of French Street has ever been heard of or noted in Nevada historical records, nor are any French Street prominent in American, European, or Foundation history.