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Entity: SCP-5532
Class: Euclid
Safety Procedures: SCP-5532 is contained in a botanical section of Site 53, approximately 4.5 kilometers in radius. The entity is allowed to roam freely throughout this area as it pleases. Three guard personnel armed with tranquilizers are to stand guard over its enclosure at all times, switching shifts every five hours. All on-duty personnel must carry their supplied mirror with them at all times to watch the enclosure for signs of SCP-5532.
SCP-5532 must be given food every 12 hours. When the time comes to feed the entity, a fourth individual, completely dressed in appropriate uniform to cover every bit of skin, will briefly enter the enclosure with one of the guard personnel to leave its food inside.
SCP-5532 must be tranquilized and taken to the research wing for medical treatment approximately every Thursday of every week at exactly 15:30. Personnel must alarm the staff if they are going to arrive past this time. Refusing to bring the entity to the research wing at all will result in heavy punishment of every individual on duty.
If no wailing is heard from the enclosure for over six hours on duty, personnel are to cautiously check the enclosure for signs of SCP-5532. If the entity is not found to be inside its enclosure at any point in time, it is to be reported to the staff immediately.
Alternatively, if they or one of their comrades are experiencing overwhelming feelings of nausea, dread, and/or terror, it is to be reported to the staff immediately.
If wailing is heard at any given point in time outside the enclosure, it is to be reported to the staff immediately.
Armed personnel guarding the enclosure have permission to tranquilize SCP-5532 if it becomes necessary.
Under no circumstances is SCP-5532 allowed out of its enclosure outside of testing and treatment.
Description: SCP-5532 is a seemingly-average vulpes vulpes (red fox). However, it appears to be thin and sickly. Its fur hangs off in clumps, and upon closer inspection, one can hear the difficulty it is having with breathing and notice its frail body quivering.
SCP-5532 can be heard at a distance of over 4.5 kilometers, at first sounding like distant, echoing wailing, whether it sounds like a man, woman, child, or infant depends on the individual hearing it. Choosing to follow the wailing results in it becoming louder, becoming more intense the closer one gets. When the entity is in sight, the wails turn into terrified, shrieking screams.
Those who spot SCP-5532 with the naked eye gain underlying feelings of nausea, dread, and terror. Attempting to approach the entity increases these feelings to the point of them becoming unbearably strong.
Yet, spotting SCP-5532 through a reflection, image, or video does not result in any emotionally-produced anomalous reaction.
While the wailing stops once SCP-5532 is asleep, its appearance continues to induce the same reaction as if it were conscious. Outside of its wails and feeling-inducing appearance, the entity behaves as a normal fox; and shows no signs of sentience, nor does it possess evidence of trying to use its abilities knowingly.
Touching SCP-5532 directly results in overwhelming panic and fear, triggering a fight-or-flight reaction that may result in the individual attempting to harm or potentially kill another person in what they believe to be self-defense. This effect can last up to two hours after making contact with SCP-5532. When the skin doesn’t come in direct contact with the entity, via gloves, sleeves, or otherwise, this reaction does not happen.
Discovery: SCP-5532 was first discovered in the woods outside [REDACTED], Indiana, on 4/13/2018, when the first 9-1-1 call about the “wailing in the woods” was made.
Many individual 9-1-1 calls began flooding in from diverse groups of campers and hikers after the first, all with the same complaint of hearing wailing in the woods. The only inconsistencies being the sex and age the wailing sounded.
There were also cases of homeowners who lived out in the forest reporting wailing as well. These cases were much more confusing, as a few called in believing people were being murdered or tortured outside their house due to hearing screaming instead.
SCP-5532 was contained on 8/17/2018 after countless police attempts to search the woods for the wailing people failed. The Foundation sent field agents to investigate, where they discovered SCP-5532 in its sickly state.
Many agents on the scene reported feelings of nausea, dread, and terror upon seeing SCP-5532, but cannot place why they felt this response, claiming,”it just seemed to be an obvious reaction at the time.” With the sight of the entity eliciting such a reaction, it was treated with caution and was never touched directly upon retrieval. Although it couldn’t flee due to its current conditions, SCP-5532 was decidedly tranquilized to be taken back to Site 53 unconscious.
Addendum: Upon arrival to Site 53, SCP-5532 was taken in for testing for the majority of its first month at the Site. On 9/01/2018, junior researcher, Maria Azber, was the first to volunteer to make direct contact with the entity, where its physical contact effect was discovered.
Further studying indicated this reaction still takes place even if the entity is unconscious.
Testing Log A-00: Junior Researcher Maria Azber volunteered to make physical contact with SCP-5532. She merely brushed her fingertips over the subject, but still had an extremely intense reaction, becoming utterly and completely panicked and paranoid. She became convinced her life was at stake and attacked her fellow researchers, managing to gouge out the eye of [REDACTED]. We could not calm her down, and had to pin her down and administer a sedative.
Touching SCP-5532 directly is dangerous, and we plan to do further testing in the future.
Testing Log A-02: SCP-5532 reportedly shows signs of illness. Its symptoms include:
Frequent vomiting
Loud, rattling breathing
Difficulty swallowing
Overheating and fever
Drowsiness
Symptoms similar to Mange (although no mites have been discovered)
Trouble standing for extended periods of time
General weakness
Constant shivering
The entity is too ill for immediate experimentation, but we cannot find anything in its body system to explain what is causing it to become so ill in the first place. We have decided to keep SCP-5532 tranquilized in the lab until [REDACTED] to apply emergency medical treatment.
Testing Log A-12: SCP-5532 can now keep its meals down without help. While it is still experiencing other symptoms of illness, we consider this a big step forward into getting the entity healthy enough for proper testing.
Testing Log A-21: SCP-5532’s fever has completely faded for the first time. The subject also studies its surroundings, showing no more signs of drowsiness. The subject is strong enough to stand for more than three hours now. We have decided the subject is ready for experimentation.
Testing Log A-43: SCP-5532 was given small animals to hunt. It caught these creatures with no issue aside from problems caused by its sickness. Researchers also released three foxes into a space with SCP-5532, where they interacted normally, again, with no issue aside from the subject’s sickness. This evidence suggests the anomalies the entity displays are human-reactive only. It is unclear why this is.
Testing Log A-67: SCP-5532 continues to show no sign of sinister goals towards humanity, still behaving as a normal fox. There was an instance where SCP-5532 was pushed into a corner trap for experimental purposes, and lashed out in an attempt to attack the researchers. This is deemed an unimportant reaction, as the entity was acting in self-defense, and merely reacted the way any threatened animal would.
Testing Log A-112: SCP-5532’s fur is no longer falling out, but it is not growing back. Alongside that, it still has difficulty swallowing and breathing. Multiple tests up until this point show evidence there is nothing wrong with the lungs, stomach, throat, skin, or flesh. We theorize these difficulties the subject is experiencing are permanent, without explanation, and will never go away, even with treatment.
Testing Log A-232: We simply cannot find an explanation for the anomalies displayed by SCP-5532. So far, the subject displays no other anomalies, it eats, sleeps, drinks, ages, and behaves normally.
We have labeled SCP-5532 as a Euclid, and further testing will be halted for the time being until the subject displays signs of suspicious behavior. The entity will be moved from the research labs to an enclosure in the botanical section of the Site. Because the entity’s continued illness implies it will never become healthy, we suggest SCP-5532 be treated medically once a week lest it become too ill overnight and dies.
