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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: All known maps, charts, or other recorded data shall be changed to show SCP-xxxx as two separate loop trails. Any media claiming the truth of the trail shall be dispelled by foundation agents.

Description: SCP-xxxx is a 2.2-mile trail in [REDACTED], Massachusetts. The trail was originally constructed as a BSA eagle project by [DATA EXPUNGED] in 19██ to connect Forge Park and Nelson Park. Based on recorded logs from hikers, it is believed the trail first gained anomalous properties during the 1950's, although an exact year is unknown. Any hiker who enters one side of the trail will come out the same trailhead they entered by after walking the allotted 2.2 miles.
Any attempt to deviate from the trail by bushwhacking will, after approximately 1 mile, come across the same trail again. Personnel who attempt to bushwhack into the forest will soon come across the trail. Either direction will lead the trailhead closest to where the person had originally entered the forest.

The trail, when hiked from either direction, is identical. Both seem to have the same path and the same landmarks, including:

• Large, triangular shaped boulder
• Stream crossing
• Fallen tree, cut to clear the trail
• "The Watchman", a large oak tree which oddly resembles a face See Addendum 1

Attempts at aerial or satellite mapping of the trails have proven ineffective due to the thick forest canopy.

Addendum: Following multiple people attaining the truth of SCP-xxxx using the old oak "The Watchman" as a landmark to prove both trails occupy the same space, the tree was scheduled for removal by foundation personnel. On August █, 2007 foundation personnel used a chainsaw to remove the tree from the trail. As personnel hiked out, a dead tree branch fell and struck the person who had cut down The Watchman, killing him.

This does not appear to be coincidental. There have been numerous reports of accidents befalling people who cause harm to the wildlife on the trail, dating all the way back to 1973 when a young man accidently created a small forest fire and was burned to death in the flame.
Other incidents are less gruesome, such as people tripping over a root soon after littering, or being stung by a wasp after breaking off a tree branch.

Experiment log

During an exploration of the area, personnel attempted to fly a drone down through the forest canopy. Drone was caught in the leaves until its battery died and connection was lost.

Attempt to launch drone up through the canopy
Same result as before

Class-D attempts to climb the trees to reach the top of the canopy.
Class-D disappeared into the dense leaves. After 20 minutes with no contact, the Class-D emerged from the canopy, displaying numerous scratches on his skin and tears in his clothes. Upon questioning, he said he had climbed for the entire duration, and heard no response when he called back down asking for directions. He reported the climb down to only take 2 minutes.

Class-D climbs into the canopy, equipped with a radio transmitter, altimeter, and a safety harness.
Class-D climbs into the canopy. At lowest point where he still has visual with the exploration team, he records the altimeter at 15 meters. He climbs for approximately 20 minutes before tying into a branch for a brief rest. Altimeter still reads 15 meters. Class-D is given orders to continue climbing. After 20 minutes, he stops for another rest and and comments how hard the dense canopy is to climb through. Class-D is ordered to continue climbing. Begins after some minor protest.
Class-D climbs for an additional 14 minutes, complaining most of the time about his physical condition.
Class-D slips off a branch and falls. After falling approximately 1 body length, he exits the bottom of the canopy and crashes into the ground amidst the research team. Only injuries sustained are minor scratches/abrasions and a sprained ankle.
It would appear as though the same spatial anomaly applies to the forest canopy. No matter how long one tries to climb up for, they constantly remain at the same height in the canopy.

Personnel tie a wire to a stake at the Nelson trailhead and walk the path trailing the wire behind them. Upon walking back out at the Nelson trailhead, they find the stake remains but no wire is tied to it. The wire extends back into the path. When recoiled, all 2.2 miles come out of the trail

Foundation personnel hold onto the end of the wire at the Nelson trailhead, while another agents walks the trail. Upon exiting at the Nelson trailhead, the intern is found holding 82 cm of wire. Intern claims that when he had turned to find his waterbottle, and looked back to find the wire had been cut.

Foundation agent walks the trail with a compass and the original trail map in hand.
After 1 hour and 23 minutes, Agent walks back out of the Forge trailhead, and begins looking back and forth between the map and compass in apparent shock. Agents claims that, according the the compass, he only walked westward, along the original path, and that the compass had, even until he walked out of the trailhead at Forge park, pointed him west. After leaving the trailhead, the compass was infact, pointing him east.

Foundation Agent walks the trail from Forge Park with a GPS tracker, that will map his location every 30 seconds. The GPS path shows the agent walking a circular path
Upon revi