Per 
Entrance to SCP-13731
Item #: SCP-1373-RU
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: The facility is guarded according to standard protocol “Perimeter-1” during the day (06:00 – 22:00), and according to protocol “Perimeter-3” during the other time. All entry into the site are to be carried out exclusively with agreement of the curator of SCP-1373. Upon occurrence in close proximity of the employee sound of any musical composition (most likely – played on piano) is necessary sound an alert and relocate to rally point. In case of changing the tonality of the composition to a low “rough” one, immediately fasten yourself to the nearest tree or other strong object, activate the emergency lamp, camera and radio transmitter. Decision to rescue the attacked officer rests with the squad leader.
An example of a possible musical composition2:
Containment teams must engage SCP-1373-1 if an object attempts to cross the perimeter. In case of failure, the security squads must carry out a tactical retreat with maintaining control over the object's movements.
Description: SCP-1373 is a non-functioning since 1979 pioneer camp ██████████. The facility is located in the Nizhny Novgorod Region in the ██████████████ mixed forest. On a territory of SCP-1373 located complex of buildings: a three-story residential building, residential houses, a utility block, a dining room, an administrative building, a sports and games room, playgrounds, and a stage. Only one single road leads to the camp, the nearest populated centre lies approximately six kilometres away.
SCP-1373 attracted Foundation attention by missing reports of so-called “stalkers” in the “death-spot”. At the stage of collecting primary information, agents confirmed that missing of people in the facility has occurred. According to local rumours, a massacre occurred in the camp in the late 70s. Several camp staff were found strangled, while the rest (along with 6 children) were missing. SCP agents did not find any transcripts of interrogations. In all likelihood, the government of the USSR carried out large-scale measures to conceal the tragedy.
The anomalous property of SCP-1373 manifests itself in the presence on its territory of SCP-1373-1, entity, presumably active only at night. To date, the Foundation does not have enough information for generalized description of the object, research is ongoing. To see available data, open the Applications.
Transcript of video footage of MTF Epsilon-1 "Fireflies" entry on territory of object
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Note:MTF Epsilon-1 “Fireflies” consists of 5 people and was created to fight against corporeal, alternating, and incorporeal entities associated with occult thaumaturgic practices. The detachment is armed with various technical and occult devices necessary to counter and capture the above objects. Frequent work in dark conditions and the specifics of objects forces the group to use headlamps even when there is a risk of detection - target entities are usually poorly observed through night vision devices. During combat exits, the NVD and the thermal imager are used only by two fighters, leading and closing, monitoring the situation at long distances, while the rest of the staff make direct observation at short distances (in the area of the lights).
A day before the operation (in the daytime), a D-class employee studied the camp area superficially and did not find anything suspicious. The research program involved a number of additional entries, including night ones. On ██ / ██ / ████ at around 23:40, Incident 1373-1 occurred, resulting in the disappearance of an observer on duty near gates of the facility. After examining the fragmentary messages, a responsible officer decided to call the MTF Ipsilon-1 “Fireflies” to provide search of missing agent and entity which attacked him.
Start of footage
Moonless night, visibility is extremely low. The frame shows four fighters with their headlights on, standing in a row. The commander briefly instructs group and they begins to move in a “rhombus" with the closing fifth operator along a broken asphalt road. Inscription "Welcome!" above the rusty metal gate appears out of darkness.
Y-1 Commander(whispering): First, fourth, off the lights.
Leading and closing operators turned off the headlamps and switched to night vision.
The group moves along the asphalt path in the camp.
Y-1 First(whispering): Target! For eleven hours, two hundred meters, near a pair of spruces. Motionless.
Y-1 Commander(whispering): Copy that, observing.
The group slows down and moves crouched.
Y-1 First(whispering): All-clear. This is a bugler statue.
Y-1 Commander(whispering): Cancel. First, shot the head. Regular ammo.
Leading fighter makes a shot from a silenced sniper rifle. The head of the statue explodes with a little blast. Nothing unusual happens.
Y-1 Commander(whispering):Move on, we already made too much noise. To dining building, forward.
The group takes positions near the walls and looks in windows. A second fighter throws a █████████ gas through the window and the group enters. The camera captures an abandoned kitchen area covered with layers of dust. Metal cutlery, plates, large pots and other utensils are everywhere. Suddenly, something rumbling in the next to kitchen room.
Y-1 Commander(in small voice):Third, position!
An operator carefully peeks into the doorway with camera on a tripod and examines the image using different types of recording.
Y-1 Third:Nobody! Small premise with gas stoves.
Y-1 Commander: Black grenade.
The third throws a grenade into the room. After detonation, the group enters the room, almost completely covered with black soot. Operator number two examines the premise with a Coll counter.
Y-2 Second: Clear. Eleven Colls, without disturbings. Probably just a rat.
The detachment enters the dining room, illuminated through windows by moon which came out from clouds. Holding up at the entrance and visually checking the hall, the group begins to move along the rows of tables.
Having examined the building, MTF quickly moves to the administrative block. After a cursory inspection of the first floor, group goes up and enters the office with a glass "Director" sign. The attention of the operators is attracted by a large number of documents scattered on the floor, sheets torn from books and notebooks, empty cardboard folders "CASE" with the inscriptions "ССД" and various dates. On the sheets are signs of searing, probably somebody tried to burn papers. The MTF commander orders the operators to pick up documents which they consider to be important.
Y-1 Third: Commander, here.
Number three shows the open box in the wall. On video footage appears the on / off toggle switch and the round knob with scale of “0 - 1/4 -1/2 - 3/4 - 1”.
Y-1 Commander: I doubt that here it is on our part. Okay, stay vigilant, we are moving to a residential block.
The detachment goes into a three-story residential building. The soldiers inspect the first floor and find traces of dragging on a dusty wooden floor, but there are no traces of steps.
Y-1 Commander(in small voice): In series. Basement first.
The group goes down as quietly as possible. In a whisper, the commander reminds that the class D employee has not examined this premise. Below, a slightly flooded technical room with rusty pipes and a fuse box is found. In the end of a coridor located an unclosed door. The first operator throws two grenades at once inside - a marker "black" and a gas one. Upon entering, the group discovers a strange, rusty round structure containing several antennas and a broken pear-shaped glass object in the center. The walls of the room are covered with wires and sound insulation.
Y-1 Commander(whispering):What the hell was going on here? Are we needed here?
The group returns to the first floor and moves to the stairs.
Y-1 Second(whispering): Ahead. That is legs.
The group observes human legs hanging from the second floor, visible approximately to the knees. The leading operator quickly runs into the staircase and takes up a fighting position. After the commander’s climbing, the camera captures a body hanging on the railing of the second-floor platform. The subject's face is completely hidden under an indefinite white substance. The group goes up.
Fourth(whispering): This is our agent. What is on his face?
The third fighter removes part of the substance with a stone took from the floor and studies it. The corpse's mouth opens slightly, expelling a large stream of viscous white matter.
Y-1 Third(whispering): Commander, I think it’s in our wheelhouse. That is a toothpaste.
Fourth(whispering): A wonderful nap time.
Y-1 Commander(whispering): Gather. Move on.
The squad examines bedrooms on the second floor. All unusual or interesting finds are noted by fighters non-verbally. A beam of light catches metal beds, abandoned children's things, toys, notebooks. Commander orders to take one of them, with the inscription in pen "Diary of ████ ███████". Operators inspect the rest room on the second floor. A large mirror hangs on the wall next to a dusty old piano.
Y-1 Second(whispering in extremely low voice): Mirror.
Y-1 Commander(whispering): Copy that. Prepare counter.
Y-1 Second(whispering in extremely low voice): Сommander, you don’t understand. There wasn’t one in D-guy`s video. I mean, it was broken.
Y-1 Commander(whispering): Fuck that. Engaging!
The group takes up positions, the commander shoots the mirror with pistol. The glass shatters, revealing a corridor that goes into darkness.
Y-1 Second(whispering in extremely low voice): Extradimensinoal one, there must be outdoors behind this wall.
The third fighter breaks and throws green CLSs into the tunnel with force. The glow sticks fly about 1.5 meters and bounce off an invisible obstacle. The "corridor" turns out to be a small room.
Y-1 Second(whispering in extremely low voice): A sideshow. Darkness isnt real.
Y-1 Commander: That doesn't negate the extradimensionality. We shall take measurements and leave.
Measurement with a Call counter gives no results again. The group goes into the next room and, suddenly, a faint sound of piano playing appears on the recording. The melody being played is simple and does not contain fragments that are unpleasant for listeners, but it's causes unrelated to informational danger rejection. The squad urgently returns to the room with the mirror. The piano is closed.
The melody recovered from records. Listening is safe
Y-1 Commander: It's not from here. Back to stairs
The group was returning when they found out that the sound is coming from the third floor. Having gone upstairs, the fighters take positions on the landing. At the end of a long corridor, a slightly hovering dark figure in loose robes appears from around a corner.
Y-1 Commander(shouting): Enemy! Fire needlers!
Second and third fighters shooting target with needle-throwers. Special EM-needles and covered with [REDACTED] needles aren't causing any damage to it. Figure, staring straightly forward, starts to smoothly floating along the coridor to detachment, without changing speed. Recorded melody drops to low notes, changing sounding to the "rough".
Y-1 Commander: Prepare the webs! Throw them, do it! Second, set a blocking!
Fighter number two runs towards the figure, throws two devices connected by wire a couple of meters away from it, and returns. The entity passes through the thread without causing any effects. The operator spills salt and pins, but the figure goes through them too. Several magnetic nets from grenade launchers and a pair of gas grenades fly into the target. To no avail.
Being desperate, the commander uses a high-explosive rifle grenade and blows up the corridor, dropping down a fragment of the ceiling. A blockage which formed in front of the entity is not a serious obstacle for an ordinary person. The figure stops and silently looks ahead. It becomes possible to see the ash-gray face of an elderly woman with a complete lack of emotions and facial expressions. The figure stands motionless for a while, then silently turns back in the air and follows different way through the next bedroom.
Y-1 Commander(shouting): Faster, until she come back! Place the table across the stairs, and we're leaving!
The operators blocked the area with debris and furniture, setting up SCP-████ candles and another magnetic trap for safety. The group runs down to the second floor stair landing and remains there. After an unusually loud "click" sound, the "rough" melody disappears. On the recording, only the heavy breathing of the squad is audible.
The commander orders to go downstairs with gestures, while he himself looks into the corridor of the second floor. The camera captures an empty room. The group descends lower. Suddenly, number four screaming for help. Turning around, the operator captures a black entity standing below the platform of the second floor, pulling the operator’s wrist. Losing his balance, number four falls to the floor, a figure dragging him up the stairs.
Operators two and three open fire with normal and needle weapons, and then try to drag numbers four by the legs. After a few seconds of resistance, the figure gives up attempts to drag the victim up and suddenly begins to strangle it. The actions of the squad do not cause any effect. The figure continues to strangle number four, although he no longer shows signs of life.
Y-1 Commander(shouting): Everyone out! Retreat!
The further video sequence contains chaotically changing frames of the group running along the central alley. Visibility was satisfactorily good after moon came out from clouds and the team turned off their headlamps.
A barely audible piano melody appears on the video.
Y-1 First: She's here! On left, among the trees!
The dark figure moves very quickly across the way and closes path to the entrance gate.
Y-1 Commander(shouting): Scatter! Go to the rally point through the forest!
The group breaks up into parts and moves in different directions. The commander continues to move among the thickets alone. The melody sound disappeared. Somewhere nearby, a short burst of rifle fire and a single shout are heard, a little later - the clap of a grenade. The operator slowly moves forward, only the crunch of branches and the rustle of leaves are heard on the recording. The moon briefly sets behind a cloud and visibility is reduced to a minimum. The commander turns on the headlamp. The image is briefly blinded, then tree branches illuminated by the lantern become visible. A dark figure stands directly opposite the commander. Three low "rough" notes sound out of nowhere. The figure grabs operator, interrupting the video recording.
End of recording
Results of the operation: commander of MTF Upsilon-1 "Fireflies" missed and was declared dead, his radio tag was active for ten minutes after the attack and ceased functioning on territory of the residential block. The bodies of operators number four and number three (blew himself up with a grenade in the forest) were evacuated during the daytime by D-class personnel. The rest of the group successfully left the camp and carried important documents with them. Until the development of methods for actively countering the anomaly, entry into the camp is prohibited.
«Flight of the mind over a matter»
…gets his knowledge about world which surrounding him from direct contact with it. This is, of course, as true as possession of congenital knowledge, stored in genome. However, modern science misses another one important information channel, which is actively used by young children and almost never – by adults. The noosphere connection.
Last researches of SRI3 proved that [REDACTED] part of brain is capable to receive information from noosphere, the Worldwide Knowledge Storage of Humanity. A healthy adult human, without any psychic or linked to brain damage illnesses, is not susceptible to the effects of it, being in this case mainly “donor” of information and to a much lesser extent - a "recipient". [REDACTED] of brain proceed active consuming of knowledge only in first 1.5-2 years of life, after this period it goes into an inactive state, and providing well-known [REDACTED] function.
The noosphere helps a little human to get used to new for him world, leaving him alone with his material body only at beginning of creation his own “I” and separation himself from the noospheric environment. Memories of contacts with the information fields and absorbed knowledge after separation is lost as unnecessary (by that time child duplicates most of received information by his own experience) or are taken for fragments of dreams(or perceived as fantastic)
For an adult, the specifics of [REDACTED] work involve the exclusion of the logic from the processing of data received from the noosphere. Thus, the information received "from the outside" cannot be comprehend, and in some cases - even memorized. This communication channel can be used by the body in emergency cases, for example, for self-preservation purposes when there is a lack of data in a dangerous environment. There are other examples of contacts with the noosphere. Most of them we used to call "intuition".
Why does nature hide such an important source of knowledge from us? There are several answers to this question. Firstly, to protect the human mind and brain from overloading. Secondly, the extinction of the [REDACTED] function occurs precisely during the formation of a person's individuality, awareness of himself and his place (in the special sense) in the environment. Probably, the continuation of receiving information through the noosphere (as well as a qualitative increase in connections with it, as well as the complication of knowledge) can hinder the formation of personality as such and facilitate the unification of all people into a single information network, which will inevitably lead to the creation of a "collective mind." A society of this type will receive many advantages over a modern one, however, the role of the brain as a whole, and most of the brain processes will be diminished, which will require the primitivization of this organ. In fact, this will mean a familiar involutionary process, a simplification adequate to the current situation. According to the prevailing view in Bureau # 3, [REDACTED] took over as a "noospheric receiver" around the era of [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. By that time, the human brain had already reached a sufficiently high level of development, which determined the further vector of evolution - individual, not collective mind. Given this fact, the purpose of the organ becomes uncertain. Perhaps we are dealing with an atavism that has not yet been completely discarded by evolution, or with some completely different functional that we have not fully comprehended. If it is possible to prove the fact that ancient people used the possibilities of contact with the noosphere, then science will face the question of searching among old legends, myths and rituals for information about these practices (more about this in the chapter "Forbidden Knowledge of Minor Nations and Ancient People").
Science does not reject the possibility of the existence of a species that uses "collective intelligence" and is capable of providing scientific, technical and social progress, therefore, such a fate is not an evolutionary dead end. From the standpoint of modern man, the model of "collective intelligence" causes a persistent rejection based on associations with an ant or bee society, where the role of the individual is small, and he himself is a replaceable part. Fortunately, humanity has avoided this, however, the possible expansion of human consciousness must be progressive and careful in order to maintain a balance between the individual and the collective.
As stated above, the formation of the additional function of [REDACTED] was probably not accidental and could bring tangible results in the foreseeable future. It is unscientific to assume that evolution has shaped this organ for future use, when humanity will be ready for this both morally and physically. However, the SRI has no other versions on this issue. The existence of the additional function of [REDACTED] in our era is explained by the need to replenish the information field with new knowledge, i.e. fill the noosphere for future generations. A small "unlocking" of this ability could be used to help a person in non-standard situations.
Why is the human ability to perceive the noosphere interesting to science? The answer is simple, if we manage to at least slightly "open up" this opportunity, society will receive many benefits, ranging from simplification (or even elimination) of the institution of education, to a significant acceleration of scientific and technological progress and the formation of a posthuman. Obviously, child's brain, due to its greater sensitivity to the information field and a shorter period of "ossification", should become the key to a scientific breakthrough.
But there is also another, obscure and not obvious today possibility, due to which, perhaps, nature is hiding from us our "noospheric receiver". First researches have established that contact with the noosphere is capable of having a directed effect on the surrounding matter, causing some minor, imperceptible changes in it. The full implementation of this opportunity for a conscious small changing of the environment for various needs is possible with a completely different qualitative level of use of the brain, which is too early to talk about. Looking into the future, it should be noted that with the growth of human capabilities, society will face the question of containing and controlling collective consciousness.
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