SCP-XXXX located in Norway
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: All entrances leading inside SCP-XXXX are to be guarded to prevent public access. The anomaly is currently under investigation by foundation members. SCP-XXXX-1 is to be kept in a standard cell fit for humans. No further special containment procedures are required.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a road tunnel approximately ███ metres in length located in ███████, Norway. While SCP-XXXX’s appearance does not appear to be out of the ordinary, upon entering the tunnel, all means of video or audio recording cease to function until the tunnel is exited. Furthermore, once out of view of the outside, anyone entering the tunnel will re-emerge sometime later on the other end of the tunnel assisted by an elderly couple, SCP-XXXX-1, and will have regressed to an infant of age around 6 months. DNA and fingerprint analysis confirms the identity of the subjects that have entered, to the infants that have re-emerged.
SCP-XXXX-1 appears as an elderly couple in their seventies of Norwegian nationality, they emerge out of the tunnel in any medium that was used travelling in, i.e. if subject enters driving a vehicle; the vehicle will exit being driven by an instance of SCP-XXXX-1, with the subject on the lap of the SCP-XXXX-1 instance not driving the vehicle or in a booster seat in another seat in the vehicle. In cases where a subject enters on foot; an instance of SCP-XXXX-1 will exit on foot either carrying the subject or in a stroller. The origins of said stroller and booster seat are unknown. Instances of SCP-XXXX-1 do not display any hostility or anger towards anyone and will remain calm unless threatened, which will result in them showing signs of fear.
If a subject enters through the tunnel while an instance of SCP-XXXX-1 is detained, the instance will disappear before re-emerging from the tunnel with the subject. Attempts to observe the disappearance through video camera have proved unsuccessful as the video camera used seems to momentarily malfunction, after which SCP-XXXX-1 will have disappeared. Attempts at observing the disappearance of SCP-XXXX-1 directly have been unsuccessful. Staff ordered to observe SCP-XXXX-1 have described having their brain momentarily overlook the anomaly as if it was not there, forcing their line of sight to shift to another object, after which the instance will have disappeared after looking back. The same has happened with objects such as strollers and booster seats that have come out of SCP-XXXX.
Subjects regressed do not appear to have gone through any pain, and will be in the same health condition as when they entered. Photographs, people, or objects that may have significance in the subjects’ personal lives that are brought to them, appear to bring a reaction to the subject indicating that, at least to an extent, regression does not cause a loss of memory. Subjects that enter through the tunnel a second time do not regress further also indicating that the age of 6 months is a default. Subjects brought through that are under the age of 6 months, have not been affected by SCP-XXXX.
Interviewed: SCP-XXXX-1
Interviewer: Dr. █████
Foreword: SCP-XXXX-1 is being interviewed after a subject entered the tunnel on foot and re-emerged in a stroller after being regressed. The subject was being pushed by the elderly woman. The interview took place in Norwegian and has been translated for ease of reading.
<Begin Log, 13/4/████>
Dr. █████: Hello. My name is Dr. █████ and I am here to ask you some questions.
Elderly Man: Ask away.
Dr. █████: Firstly, may I ask what your names are?
Elderly Man: Yes of course, my name is ███████ and this is my wife ████.
Dr. █████: And do you know where this infant came from?
Elderly Woman: We don't, we just came across them while walking through the tunnel.
Dr. █████: When you left the tunnel you were pushing them in a stroller. Where did you get the stroller?
Elderly Woman: They were already in the stroller when we found them.
Dr. █████: And why did you decide to take the infant with you.
Elderly Man: Well we have a grandchild of our own that is around 6 months that we haven't met yet, and seeing this child made us think of our own grandchild and decided we can't just leave it here.
Dr. █████: What were you doing that brought you here to this place?
Elderly Woman: This is a route we take all the time when going on a walk. We usually walk from our house in the town we live in, to the city not too far away.
Dr. █████: Can you tell me what you were doing before coming across the infant in the tunnel?
Elderly Man: Well we were on a walk and… I don't really remember what we were doing beforehand.
Elderly Woman: …Unfortunately our old age is catching up to us and with that we often forget what it was we were doing.
Dr. █████: Alright. That's all I have to ask of you for now. Thank you for your cooperation.
<End Log>
Closing Statement: A subsequent interview took place with SCP-XXXX-1 after a subject entered driving a foundation vehicle and exited with the vehicle being driven by SCP-XXXX-1. In the interview they were asked where they got the vehicle, to which they had claimed to not remember after showing visible discomfort. They also appeared to not remember any previous interview or encounter with any other subjects, however they did remember Dr. █████.
Addendum 1: SCP-XXXX-1 have claimed to have a grandchild, the existence of which is still unknown however it may have significance to the regressive abilities of SCP-XXXX specifically to the age of regression being 6 months, which corresponds to the age of the supposed grandchild.
Interviewed: SCP-XXXX-1
Interviewer: Dr. █████
Foreword: This interview took place soon after the discovery that the elderly couple known as SCP-XXXX-1 were a couple who were alive and during the 20th century. It was found out that the couple had died in 19██ after the collapse of a tunnel.
<Begin Log, 20/5/████>
Dr. █████: Hello again, I'd like to begin by asking you what year you think it is.
Elderly Man: I believe it is 19██.
Dr. █████: I'm afraid that is not correct. The current year is 20██. Tell me, what do you remember of recent history?
Elderly Woman: Recent history… I'm sorry, I can't quite recall anything significant happening in recent years.
Elderly Man: No, me neither I'm afraid.
Dr. █████: Okay, let's proceed. What can you tell me about your occupation. Am I correct to assume the two of you are both retired?
Elderly Man: Yes, that's right.
Dr. █████: And what occupation did you have during your earlier years?
Elderly Man: I served in the military during World War II and after the war I worked in a small shop in my town. That's where I first met <Elderly Woman's Name>.
Elderly Woman: Yes. At the time I was working as an accountant in the city but after I met <Elderly Man's Name> I decided to move to his town where we started doing our own research.
Dr. █████: What kind of research did you conduct?
Elderly Man: Actually we still are doing the research. Even though we are retired, we decided to continue our research as a hobby. We often look at different objects that are said to be cursed.
Dr. █████: Cursed? What do you mean by that?
Elderly Woman: We'd sometimes get given items from neighbours or we bought objects from people that were said to be out of the ordinary. Some items were simply mechanical contraptions which the people simply didn't understand how it worked. Other's on the other hand were truly strange. Some seemed to have some sort of influence on people, while others did things that seemed truly supernatural!
Dr. █████: Could you provide me with an example of one such object?
Elderly Man: There is one example I can think of, a few years ago we had bought a [REDACTED] in a second-hand shop. It was supposed to [DATA EXPUNGED], however when we got home it quickly became clear something wasn't right. Instead of [REDACTED] it instead [DATA EXPUNGED]. This immediately intrigued me and <Elderly Woman's Name>. We added it to our collection of these strange objects and over the past couple of years we have been able to find out that it [DATA EXPUNGED].
Dr. █████: Would you be willing to allow us to study [REDACTED]?
Elderly Woman: If it helps us to further understand it then we wouldn't mind letting you do your own research on it along with any other things you'd like to study.
Dr. █████: Thank you. That's all questions I have for you. We will send a dispatch team to retrieve the items.
<End Log>
Closing Statement: A dispatch team was sent to retrieve the items at the house of the daughter of the elderly couple who still had all their research.
Addendum 2: After finding out the true identity of SCP-XXXX-1, a dispatch team was sent to the house of their daughter, now in her mid-80s, who still had the research of the elderly couple along with all of the anomalous objects they had collected. The objects have been transported to a foundation site for study.
Interviewed: Mrs. Eriksen
Interviewer: Dr. █████
Foreword: Interview takes place at the home of Mrs. Eriksen after being informed about the existence of SCP-XXXX as well as SCP-XXXX-1
<Begin Log, 25/5/████>
Dr. █████: Hello. My name is Dr. █████ and I am here to ask you some questions concerning your parents as well as your child. Firstly I'd like to ask you what you can tell us about your parents' work, and what their research has led to.
Mrs. Eriksen: Well since I was little, my parents had a keen interest in strange objects. While my neighbours all said the objects were haunted and called my parents crazy for trying to understand what these things did.
Dr. █████: Did their work ever get in the way of them raising you?
Mrs. Larsen: No, quite the opposite, they involved me in their work whenever possible, always explaining what they new about the strange objects and always being cautious so that I wasn't put in danger.
Dr. █████: And what about your child? where are they now?
Mrs. Eriksen: I did have a son but he passed away when he was only around 6 months old due to health complications.
Dr. █████: When we interviewed your parents, they said they had not met your son and had also said he was 6 months old. Did they not know of his passing?
Mrs. Eriksen: I did tell them when it happened, I think the…'SCP' is of my parents just before he passed away.
Dr. █████: Can you tell me what happened after your son died?
Mrs. Eriksen: My husband and I were absolutely devastated. My parents… upon seeing our grief, they tried everything in their power to bring our son back. Using their research they tried to create a way to somehow bring him back to life…
Dr. █████: Take your time.
Mrs. Eriksen: …They were making progress. They wouldn't give up trying even though they knew how difficult it would be to achieve. A couple months had passed and one day when they were on their daily walk… the tunnel which they'd go through every day collapsed… and they were both killed. (Mrs. Eriksen leaves the room in tears)
<End Log>
Closing Statement: Mrs. Eriksen was later asked a few more questions which revealed that her husband had helped her deal with the death of her parents and son until his own eventual death 22 years later in 20██.
Addendum 3: The death of the grandson that brought SCP-XXXX-1 to create some way to bring him back to life, is likely to have some correlation to the effects of SCP-XXXX. It is thought that what had been created using various anomalous objects that the elderly couple had collected is what brought the anomalous properties to SCP-XXXX. The creation itself however, hasn't been found and was likely lost during the tunnel collapse that had killed the elderly couple.
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