Item #: SCP-4825
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: In a cooperative effort with Canadian Federal Government, the 65 km stretch of ████████ Highway currently affected by SCP-4825 has been closed down and barred against public access as of ██/██/2018, and is entrusted to the Foundation for containment (designated Provisional Site-██). All entrance points accessible by motor vehicles along the length affected by SCP-4825 are to be barricaded with equipment and concrete blockades indicative of extensive repair work, and Foundation personnel under the guise of workers and technicians are to guard the area. All witness claiming to witness the effects of SCP-4825 are to be amnesticized suggested that no such phenomenon occurred.
It should be emphasized that no persons under the age of 9 are permitted into the anomalously affected stretch of ████████ Highway. Accordingly, pregnant personnel are not to be assigned to SCP-4825 under any circumstance. Furthermore, Standard Cover Story D8 (Extensive Pipeline Damage) is to be disseminated should inquiry towards the nature of SCP-4825's containment arise.
SCP-4825 relocations are to be documented, but no manned exploration or testing is to be conducted with the anomaly until further notice. (See Addendum 4825-B Exploration Log 4825-2.)
Description: SCP-4825 is the anomalous manifestation of the structural interior of a bus within subterranean spaces under and throughout a 65 km length of ████████ Highway in Alberta, Canada. As well, apertures (such as potholes, manholes, maintenance shafts, and drains) connecting with SCP-4825 will spontaneously manifest where previously absent.
SCP-4825, along with all SCP-4825-A instances, will periodically relocate along the affected length of the highway at seemingly random intervals, leaving empty previously manifested apertures. Due to this - although limited only to its affected area - indefinite containment of SCP-4825 is not possible.
The interior of SCP-4825 vary between appearances, but is consistently observed to be mainly constructed of rusting metal, lined with seats composed of elephant leather, and a monitor screen is installed on the backside of each seat. Regardless of the actual number of children currently "taken" by SCP-4825, most seats are observed to be constantly filled. Despite being located underground, the view through the windows of SCP-4825 seem to indicate movement through a distorted and hellish landscape corresponding to the affected portion of ████████ Highway.
If any human individual presently riding a vehicle moving on the affected portion of ████████ Highway becomes irritated or agitated towards children below the age of 9 presently riding in the same vehicle and display a strong desire to discipline said children, the targeted children will instantly relocate into the interior of SCP-4825. At this point, they are designated SCP-4825-A-X instances for the sake of brevity.
Following relocation, worn and unsanitary surgical tools will manifest on the person of SCP-4825-A instances, and instructions outlining the task of crudely self-mutilating (referred to as "time-out games") a certain body region will play on the monitors, depicting methodical demonstrations made by an anthropomorphic elephant child, hereon referred to as SCP-4825-1. The animation will give in combination to create one set of "tasks", detailed instructions for, including but not limited to, the removal of eyelids, suturing of the lips, removal of the ear, removal of the ear drum, removal of the vocal chord, severing of the leg tendons, evisceration of the █████, and removal of the ███████.
If the SCP-4825-A instance does not complete a task within the time allotted by SCP-4825-1 or refuses to carry out the tasks at all, SCP-4825-A instances will be physically coerced by means of █████ protruding from under the seats to to [PROCESS REDACTED], resulting in improved compliance on the part of the SCP-4825-A instance to fulfill the tasks. It should be noted that SCP-4825-A instances will not expire due to hemorrhage or dismemberment as long as it remains within SCP-4825. It should also be noted that the loss of ability to complete tasks will effectively sustain their captivity indefinitely within SCP-4825.
In the case a SCP-4825-A instance does eventually complete their given tasks, it will be spontaneously returned to their original position prior to removal into SCP-4825, wherein most cases SCP-4825 instances will promptly perish due to shock or blood loss.
Addendum 4825-A:
The following log details the first manned exploration into SCP-4825 by a D-class personnel directed by Researcher Garnett. Records indicate that D-9437 was charged and imprisoned for domestic violence and infanticide prior to being recruited by the Foundation, and was not informed of SCP-4825's anomalous properties beforehand. D-9437 is equipped with a standard flashlight, hard hat, and padding to facilitate easier descent into SCP-4825.
<Begin Log>
Researcher Garnett: Can you read me through your headset, D-9437?
D-9437: Um, yeah. So I'm going down that manhole, eh?
Researcher Garnett: Affirmative, D-9437. Please lift the cover and proceed downward at your own pace.
D-9437: Alright.
(D-9437 climbs into the passage leading to SCP-4825, and descends without issue.)
D-9437: Damn, it's getting dark down here.
Researcher Garnett: Use your flashlight, D-9437.
D-9437: Oh, yeah.
(After fumbling with his pack, D-9437 turns on the flashlight. No visual anomalies observed. D-9437 continues to descend until he reaches the bottom. Camera feed reveals a unlit concrete corridor.)
D-9437: I'm at the bottom, there's no water or sewage, only concrete. I think I keep going forward, though.
(Minor audio and visual interference begins.)
Researcher Garnett: Please do.
(D-9437 walks for approximately a minute, then pauses.)
Researcher Garnett: Why have you stopped, D-9437? Do you see or hear anything?
D-9437: No, not that. I just feel so irritated all of a sudden. Fuck. The air's damn cold but it feels so hot underneath my skin.
Researcher Garnett: Noted. Please remain calm and continue down the corridor.
(D-9437 sighs audibly, and presses forward again for 30 seconds before stopping. Researcher Garnett begins to speak, but is interrupted as D-9437 speaks in agitation.)
D-9437: There's a damn door here. But that's not the problem. (More audio interference) I can almost see them through the glass. Fuck, fuck.
(Audible vocalizations of distress and agony seems to emanate from both D-9437 and the metal door could be heard through the audio feed.)
Researcher Garnett: D-9437, do you copy? Please remain calm and open the door.
(Due to feed interference, it is unknown whether D-9437 complied with instructions at this point or not. Normal feed quality resumes shortly after.)
D-9437: (Unintelligible) It's such a weird feeling… I.. I feel angry and happy at the same time. (D-9437 laughs) All these kids in here is (sic.) reminding me of that sorry excuse of a son I've had, all he did was to wail all fucking day long and eat and pee and shit. (D-9437 chuckles)
(Researcher Garnett appears to become uncomfortable and seems to perspire heavily. D-9437 begins to ramble incoherently. Feed interference resumes.)
Researcher Garnett: If you do not follow my instructions D-9437, you will be reprimanded upon return. Confirm whether you've succeeded in opening the door or not, I repeat-
(Researcher Garnett pauses to catch her breath as her breathing becomes more laboured and erratic.)
Researcher Garnett: (Clears throat) Remain calm, D-943- (She cuts off mid-sentence and vocalizes in shock, sobbing.) My be- my Sarah!
(Researcher Garnett urgently calls for assistance before falling from her chair and collapsing onto the floor.)
D-9437: (Laughs, then speaks in a condescending tone) It's time to punish your baby.
(Failing video feed then confirms that the door to SCP-4825 is open, revealing that D-9437 had entered the interior of SCP-4825. All communication between D-9437 and command was then lost. Both the audio and video feed terminates.)
<End Log>
Afterword: It was later ascertained that Researcher Garnett, who was at the time 9 weeks pregnant, had lost consciousness due to shock and internal hemorrhage when the faetus spontaneously disappeared from her womb. Researcher Garnett made a partial recovery after extensive care, and confusedly requested for Class A amnestics after regaining consciousness; despite possessing sufficient clearance herself. Request was granted.
It is currently the hypothesis of personnel that it was in D-9437's own volition to target Researcher Garnett's child with SCP-4825's effects rather than any anomalous compulsory effect.
It was through either luck or by accident that D-9437 actually managed to trigger its effect from within SCP-4825 itself. In exchange for a life that will never know life, we now know this little more. I'd like it to be on the record that no more manned explorations into SCP-9437 are permitted nor are pregnant staff be assigned to this site under any circumstance from now on. -Dr. Laurel