Shambling Blackness. By MrHidden

Item#: SCP-5???

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5??? shall be kept in a containment area with no sources of lighting, else the creature will become violently aggressive and will attack anyone who enters its containment area. Subject must be fed and/or interacted with on a bidaily basis, as without food or interaction, it becomes somber and will decrease in size out of sadness. Its chamber must also be cleaned once a week, else the same thing will happen. It will also attack those that approach it within 28 meters during this period. Class C, Level 2, containment procedures are to followed while near SCP-5???.

Description: SCP-5??? is a large mass of pure blackness around nine feet, four inches tall, weighing approximately 540 pounds. Its movement speed varies widely, sometimes, it travels no more than 4km/h, other times, it can move at upwards of 54km/h. Human subjects feel a strange presence of terror or fear while looking at it and some even attempt to get away from it for fear that it might [REDACTED]. According to law enforcement reports, SCP-5??? was discovered in Wyoming in a small cavern near an airfield sometime before 5/9/1978. It attacked the police officers and was contained shortly afterward.

Addendum:Research shows that this specimen eats only food that it deems "dark" these include █, █, █, and perhaps the strangest of all; █. It bears no facial features, yet is capable of emotion and somewhat mangled speech in an unknown language. Researchers have experienced nightmares after doing research on it and have since refused to go any closer.