SCP-XXXX-2, photographed during descent
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Due to SCP-XXXX's immovable nature, it is to remain at its site of discovery. Containment teams have established a 4 km perimeter around SCP-XXXX, and civilian traffic is to be rerouted under the guise of a cover story alleging military operations in the area.
Only D-class may enter SCP-XXXX-Prime with 4/XXXX permissions. Due to the one-way nature of SCP-XXXX, all D-class slated for exploration must be administered 500 nanograms of Compound X26-Ω, a slow-acting neurotoxin that causes instantaneous cardiac arrest after an incubation period of five hours prior to deployment. This allows for remote termination of D-class stranded in SCP-XXXX-Prime.
Overwatch Command is currently conducting an investigation to determine the credibility of the information presented in SCP-XXXX-A. Additionally, the Foundation is currently attempting inter-temporal communication with SCP-XXXX-Prime to gain more information regarding potential anomalous influences on consensus reality. However, current temporal models, namely the Ogundimu-Zhang hypothesis of determinative sets, estimate an extremely high number of possible timelines (> 10100.) Therefore, chances of success are slim. Refer to Document XXXX-1 for further information on the Ogundimu-Zhang hypothesis.
Description: SCP-XXXX is an area of space located in Toole County, Utah, United States. The anomaly is roughly cylindrical in shape and appears as a distinct visual distortion of the surrounding area, taking on a prominent crystalline appearance. SCP-XXXX is approximately 500 meters in height and 2 meters in width at its base, tapering towards its top.
DISCLAIMER: The following description may no longer be accurate following communication attempts with SCP-XXXX-Prime. However, it is archived here until further notice.
SCP-XXXX-1 serves as a gateway to a presumably extradimensional area hereafter designated SCP-XXXX-Prime. Within SCP-XXXX-Prime there is significant visual and material distortion that appears as the same crystalline texture as SCP-XXXX-1. This creates great difficulty in directly observing matter inside SCP-XXXX-Prime. In addition, all matter inside SCP-XXXX-Prime takes on a red coloration. No sign of sentient life has been observed inside SCP-XXXX-Prime.
SCP-XXXX-1 serves as a gateway to an alternate timeline hereafter designated SCP-XXXX-Prime. Divergence from the prime timeline is estimated to have occurred between the 30th and 31st centuries BCE.
SCP-XXXX-2 is a metallic capsule, ellipsoidal in shape. Dimensions are approximately 1.3 by 2.8 meters. SCP-XXXX-2 was first seen emerging from the top end of SCP-XXXX-1 on 2/27/2019. Full emergence from SCP-XXXX-1 took 3 minutes and 21 seconds. After emergence, SCP-XXXX-2 traveled 264 meters due west via an unknown means of propulsion and crash-landed in the nearby desert. To date, this is the only observed occurrence of both contact from SCP-XXXX-Prime and reverse travel through SCP-XXXX-1.
Investigation of recovered materials from SCP-XXXX-Prime has revealed that it exhibits the following critical divergences from the prime timeline:
- Significantly advanced technology, including limited time travel
- Different sociocultural trends throughout history, including increased globalization in the 20th century and overall reduced rates of nationalism, isolationism, etc.
- The non-existence or otherwise historical displacement of numerous events and time periods of the prime timeline (see Addendum XXXX.1)
- The SCP Foundation revealing its existence to the public at some point in the early 21st century, acting as a global agency with significant influence in the governments of all world powers
Addendum XXXX-1: Major Observed Temporal Deviations
DISCLAIMER: The following table has been redacted for brevity.
Event |
Prime Timeline |
Timeline 18.Ephraim-4935A |
Qin's Wars of Unification |
230 BCE - 221 BCE. King Ying Zheng of the Qin state conquers the neighboring Han, Zhao, Yan, Wei, Chu, and Qi states and creates a unified China, declaring himself Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. |
245 - 241 BC. After unifying China, Emperor Qin proceeds to conquer a large portion of East Asia. China becomes a major unifying force in East Asia akin to the Roman Empire for the next nine centuries. |
Pax Romana |
27 BCE - 180 CE. The Roman Empire experiences a long period of relative peace and stability, achieving its greatest territorial area. |
4 BCE - 305 CE. Otherwise identical to prime version. The maximum size of the Roman Empire is observed to be greater than that of the prime version. |
First Crusade |
1095 CE - 1099 CE. Pope Urban II successfully reclaims Jerusalem from the Fatimad Caliphate. Victory results in massive public support for Urban and incites continued religious conflicts in the area until the late 13th century. |
1095 CE - 1098 CE. Pope Urban II fails to capture Jerusalem. Status quo ante bellum. |
Fall of the Inca Empire |
1532 CE - 1572 CE. The arrival of Spanish conquistadors in South America has a catastrophic effect on the Inca population, resulting in a population decline ratio of 58:1 between 1520 - 1571. Eventually results in the fall of the Inca empire in 1572. |
Does not occur. While the Inca population does suffer severe losses due to the spread of Old World diseases, Spanish conquistadors do not engage in hostilities and develop a mutually beneficial relationship with natives. Inca Empire persists for two more centuries. |
Existence of the Congo Free State |
1885 CE - 1908 CE. Belgian King Leopold II claims most of the Congo basin at the Berlin Conference. Natives suffer from disease, famine, and violence at the hands of Leopold's regime. |
Does not occur. |
Cambodian Civil War |
1968 CE - 1975 CE. The Communist Party of Kampuchea successfully overthrows the incumbent Khmer Republic, establishing the state of Democratic Kampuchea. Cambodian Genocide begins immediately after the Kampuchea victory. Total population loss amounts to 1.671 - 1.871 million over the next four years. |
1968 CE - 1971 CE. The Communist Party of Kampuchea loses the war. Cambodian Genocide does not occur. |
Rwandan Genocide |
1994 CE. A mass slaughter of the Tutsi ethnic group in Rwanda. Part of the Rwandan Civil War. |
Does not occur. |
Project BLACK CREVASSE |
2010 CE - 2011 CE. Operation fails. For more information, see Document XXXX.1: BLACK CREVASSE Project Brief. |
2010 CE - 2011 CE. Operation succeeds. |
Addendum XXXX-2: Selected Correspondence
Date: 1/16/2019
To: Dr. Liu Zhang, Project Co-lead on SCP-XXXX
From: Dr. Adebiyi Ogundimu, Project Co-lead on SCP-XXXX
Preliminary explorations have been completed. I can safely say that there is no sign of life in XXXX-Prime. Looks like we're dealing with another "crapsack" world, if you mind the informal language. Nothing particularly unique.
Date: 1/16/2019
To: Dr. Adebiyi Ogundimu
From: Dr. Liu Zhang
Your observations have been noted. I think we can agree that SCP-XXXX should be designated a low-priority assignment for the time being. We have more important issues on our hands.
Date: 1/20/2019
To: Dr. Liu Zhang
From: Dr. Adebiyi Ogundimu
My team and I have been conducting further explorations into XXXX-Prime recently. I'm well aware that you have designated it as low-priority, but I still think you're going to find this interesting.
From what we can determine, the basic laws of science still apply inside there. Hume levels are, surprisingly, approximately normal. This means that we can rule out Prime being a parallel/pocket dimension. This is a full-on alternate timeline we're dealing with here, Level I on the Tegmark scale. Given the condition of Prime, this obviously raises a couple of questions. For one, how did it become the way it is?
Date: 1/20/2019
To: Overwatch Command
From: Dr. Liu Zhang
I formally request the allocation of more resources to XXXX-related research, including an increase of D-class allocated for exploration up to 10 per month.
Date: 1/20/2019
To: Dr. Liu Zhang
From: Overwatch Command
Request approved. Keep us updated. -[VERIFIED OVERSEER ACCOUNT]
Date: 1/25/2019
To: Dr. Liu Zhang
From: Dr. Adebiyi Ogundimu
We've figured out what the facility on the other side of XXXX-1 is. It's a Foundation site.
Specifically, Site-82. For whatever reason, it exists over there. This opens up a whole new realm of intel we can glean from Prime. If they've built Site-82, then that means BLACK CREVASSE has probably been given the green-light as well. God knows what happened after that.
I don't know how much you know, but I was never really briefed on BLACK CREVASSE back when it was a thing. This was in spite of the fact that the hypothesis the O5 Council decided to repurpose for their uses is partly named after me. I just would have appreciated it if they let me in a little more, you know?
I digress. We need to investigate this further.
Date: 1/26/2019
To: Dr. Adebiyi Ogundimu
From: Dr. Liu Zhang
Believe me, there was really nothing to know about. BLACK CREVASSE was nothing more than a set of ideas, only in the realm of the hypothetical. Looking back, it looks pretty clear to me that it was never meant to be. At least, in this world.
That is interesting, though. Maybe we could learn more about what could have been.
Date: 1/30/2019
To: Overwatch Command
From: Dr. Liu Zhang
Formally requesting further allocation of D-class to exploration of XXXX. We need to map out more of Site-82 and gain as much information as we can regarding their Foundation.
Date: 1/30/2019
To: Dr. Liu Zhang
From: Overwatch Command
Request denied. Dr. Zhang, your management of resources regarding XXXX has become rather excessive. You have expended twenty D-class for exploration purposes in the past month. This is not sustainable. While we think exploration of XXXX is an important responsibility, your utmost priorities lie elsewhere. -[VERIFIED OVERSEER ACCOUNT]
Date: 2/14/2019
To: Dr. Liu Zhang
From: Dr. Adebiyi Ogundimu
We've found information regarding BLACK CREVASSE in Site-82 from archived server data. My suspicions have been confirmed; it seems like they've moved forward with it over there. The most recent legible document we could find details the cessation of preliminary testing. But after that, it just stops.
That's not the whole story, though.
We've found other documents on another Foundation project called LIGHT EMPATH. They're highly corrupted, but from what we can gather, it seems that LIGHT EMPATH was put into operation as soon as BLACK CREVASSE ended. The documents are heavily corrupted, but what we can decipher is… intriguing. The temporal models that it presents are incredibly complex, far beyond anything we have developed. From our point of view, it seems like madness. But from theirs… maybe it's something else entirely.
Date: 2/17/2019
To: Dr. Liu Zhang
From: Dr. Adebiyi Ogundimu
Things don't quite make sense.
In all other documents we've recovered so far, there's nothing that could offer an explanation as to what happened. No Keter-class containment breaches, no distress signals, nothing. It's like Site-82 is frozen in time. Something about this doesn't feel right.
Also, we've used up our monthly supply of D-class. Judging by the Council's previous response, I presume they aren't keen to the idea of allocating more to my team. All we can do right now is think on things.
Date: 2/25/2019
To: Dr. Liu Zhang
From: Dr. Adebiyi Ogundimu
Last night, I had a nightmare.
It was kind that you don't remember. The kind in which all the fear, so clear and present just heartbeats ago, vanishes as soon as you open your eyes. Whatever it was, it got me thinking. And the first thing that I thought of, as I lied there in the middle of my bed, covered in sweat, was the same thing I've been thinking of as always.
XXXX-Prime is a dead world. Never in any of our explorations have we seen anything even resembling any form of life. Yet all the information is still there. Books. Maps. Even the damn Internet still works in there. And never have we ever came across a single piece of information that gave any background to how it became this way. No K-class scenarios, no Keter containment breaches, nothing.
Something doesn't quite add up.
I lied in bed, ruminating on this for hours. Then I realized something.
XXXX-1 is a window to another world. Another timeline, a completely different history. I think we've been peering through the looking glass so much that we've gotten tunnel vision. From XXXX-1, Prime looks dead, matter itself bathed in crimson like a world on fire. That is how it appears to us, from our side. And the window is one-way, just as a telescope does not work when viewed from the opposite end.
What if we've been looking through from the wrong side?
Date: 2/26/2019
To: Dr. Liu Zhang
From: Dr. Adebiyi Ogundimu
We aren't looking at them.
They're looking at us.
Document XXXX-1: The Ogundimu-Zhang Hypothesis
The Ogundimu-Zhang hypothesis of determinative sets hypothesizes that the creation of parallel timelines is facilitated by substantially different permutations of all forms of matter and energy in the mainline reality.
A similar comparison is to Newtonian physics, specifically Newton's third law, which mandates that the exertion of force by one object onto another is met by an equal and opposite force. As minute alterations of matter and energy occur, exerting a force on spacetime fabric due to the alteration of consensus reality itself, they generate an equal and opposite force in the opposite direction across the spacetime fabric, creating a determinative set.
The Ogundimu-Zhang hypothesis does not consider insignificant alterations in matter and energy, and therefore the spacetime fabric, as facilitating the creation of new determinative sets. Rather, only factors that exert a significant change in the spacetime fabric, and in consensus reality, are considered to generate determinative sets. This means that the parallel timelines created through this process possess a substantially different outcome than that of the main timeline.
Document XXXX-2: BLACK CREVASSE Project Brief
TOP SECRET
Project Codename: BLACK CREVASSE
Project #: KT-41117632
Project Aim: To create a convenient means of travel to and from determinative sets outside of normal temporal progression as understood by conventional science.
Project Leads: O5-1, O5-13
Attached Notice from O5-1: The Overseer Council has deemed it necessary to formulate a secondary contingency plan for potential world-ending threats when the use of SCP-2000 is impossible. In light of the recent hypothesis proposed by Dr. Adebiyi Ogundimu and Dr. Liu Zhang, a viable proposal has been created.
Over the course of the past twenty years, the number of Red- and Black-level threats has increased by an estimate of █ - ██%. This, coupled with, the overall increase of anomalies discovered by the Foundation, has created a significant threat to consensus reality.
We must not rely on lesser failsafes to ensure the continuity of consensus reality. Instead, we must take a proactive hand in changing it. If achieved, Project BLACK CREVASSE will provide us with a true reset button. While SCP-2000 sows the seeds of a new beginning on a scorched earth, BLACK CREVASSE will ensure that such an earth will never exist in the first place.
The majority of work on BLACK CREVASSE will take place in the future Site-82 after it has finished construction. Monitor your local communication channels for further information.
[EXTRANEOUS DATA REDACTED]
OFFICIAL NOTICE FROM OVERSEER COUNCIL 6/21/2018: Following Incident BC-291, construction of Site-82 and all activity regarding Project BLACK CREVASSE are to be suspended indefinitely.
Document XXXX-3: File Recovered From SCP-XXXX-1
NOTICE: The following document is currently subject to an extensive investigation by the O5 Council to determine the credibility of its contents. The following information is currently not verified as truthful and may be misleading or completely false.
scp-001.pdf
Item #: SCP-001
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-001 is currently uncontainable. Contact with SCP-001 must be avoided, with the exception of Project LIGHT-EMPATH Initiative 14-Phi-B. More information to follow.
Project LIGHT-EMPATH Initiative 14-Phi-B: The contents of this file, along with Document 001-8672A, are to be sent to SCP-001 via Project LIGHT-EMPATH to establish one-way communication with the citizens of SCP-001.
Description: SCP-001 is an alternate timeline. Divergence from the prime timeline is hypothesized to have occurred around ███ BCE. Project LIGHT-EMPATH has revealed that SCP-001 is under the influence of numerous anomalous social, economic, and cultural trends that have not been observed in any other timeline. It is hypothesized this is due to a malignant entity currently exerting control over the inhabitants of SCP-001. The effects of SCP-001 are currently spreading throughout all iterations of reality at an unknown rate. The vector of infection is unknown.
Refer to Document 001-8672A for more details.
Addendum 001.1: Document 001-8672A
This document is intended for the eyes of:
O5-1: REAL NAME [DATA EXPUNGED PER ORDER OF O5-1]
O5-2: REAL NAME [DATA EXPUNGED PER ORDER OF O5-2]
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To the O5 Council,
We've been watching you. Your world is of great interest to us for reasons that will soon be readily apparent.
Five years ago, we launched Project LIGHT EMPATH: an attempt to catalog as many determinative sets, as a contingency plan if things went wrong in ours. LIGHT EMPATH was born out of Project BLACK CREVASSE; without it, we would not have sufficiently advanced technology to carry out such a monumental task. One of the initiatives for LIGHT EMPATH was the creation of stabilized breaches in the temporal array, one of which you designate SCP-XXXX-1.
LIGHT-EMPATH had cataloged nearly 1095 significantly different timelines before we discovered yours. What we discovered disturbed us.
Out of 1095 temporal variations, 1095 possible realities that could blossom forth from the seeds of time, your reality was different. Your technology was thousands of years behind even the most primitive timeline we had encountered up to that point. Half of the major wars in your world's history never occurred in virtually all other timelines. Millions of children starve around the world, their bellies round with edema. Churches, festivals, even schools have become places of danger, even in developed countries. The amount of hatred and distrust we have seen of your people is unprecedented. You are living in a dystopia worse than any of us could have ever dreamed of.
From what we know, you are living in the worst possible timeline.
Things aren't supposed to be like this. We wish we could do more to help. We want to see you realize your true potential, to be free of this terrible curse. But the truth is, we're scared of you. We know too little about whatever is affecting your world to risk excessive interaction. For all we know, it might be contagious. This message is all we can give you. Let it be a beacon of hope for you, a light cutting through the bleakness of the abyss, reminding you that you are not alone.
We're so sorry.
This document has been electronically signed by:
O5-1
O5-2
O5-3
O5-4
O5-5
O5-6
O5-7
O5-8
O5-9
O5-10
O5-11
O5-12
O5-13
WARNING: O5 EYES ONLY
RECORD OF DECISION - OVERSEER COUNCIL ACTION #31-1 ("PIC-6)
MOTION: CLASSIFY THE PHENOMENON AS DETAILED BY SCP-XXXX-1 AS ANOMALOUS AND ENACT EMERGENCY SPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES.
YEA: O5-2, O5-3, O5-7, O5-11, O5-13
NAY: O5-1, O5-4, O5-6, O5-8, O5-9, O5-12
ABSTAIN: O5-5, O5-10
RESULT: MOTION FAILS
Statement by O5-1:
I believe it is considered improper for Overseers to disclose details of their private lives, but in this case, I believe it is appropriate.
I was born in a war-torn country. Growing up, all I knew was death and destruction. My memories, my very being, will forever be changed from what I witnessed over there. I remember sobbing as I held my mother's hand in her final moments, watching the woman who cared for me for eight years bleed out in the middle of broad daylight with a chest full of bullets. I remember taking a little Persian cat off the street, full of fleas and worms, raising and nurturing her as my dead mother did to me until the poor thing was reduced to a smear of gore on the street by a stray landmine. On clear nights I would lay down outside and stare at the sky and pray to God for a way out, for a way to somehow fix the ugliness of humanity.
America was that way out. I devoted all that remained of myself to pulling myself up by my bootstraps: to forge a brighter future, to hope that someday I could return home and see it not as a reminder of the most horrible depravities mankind is capable of, but rather as a beacon of hope and progress. The same fingers that bandaged gunshot wounds back home wrote papers on physics in college, hoping to make a change.
It worked, for a while. Yet, what remained of my past still followed me. Darkness still followed me. The things that one witnesses in a big American city when I was in graduate school are not a far cry from the horrors of a war-torn country like my homeland. Murders in alleyways. Drive-by shootings. I distinctly remember one highly publicized court case that went to trial. A man had raped and killed a twelve-year-old girl in her own house. He was a family friend. She trusted him as she did her own father. When the rapist was sentenced to death, he only had one thing to say: "She should have run faster."
In all my years in the Foundation, dealing with abominations not of this world and anathemas to reality itself, I have yet to experience something that stuck with me as long as this memory of a regular human did. I thought to myself, Why, God? Why have you created a world so horrible? I'm not sure how I even managed to keep my faith in God. But despite everything that happened to me, I still find myself faithful to that young child staring out into the night sky, believing in a better future for humanity.
In the movies, one would come to a conclusion to this question like a firefly suddenly lighting up in the dark, a single moment that makes everything clear. A single epiphany that makes the wheel of life spin so predictably. In real life, things are different. My epiphany did not come to me in one singular moment; rather, it resulted from nothing but time. Day after day, year after year. Living my life to the best of my ability. Through what I've lost, who I've loved, and what I've lived through, I have finally come to a conclusion. I have witnessed the deepest depths of depravity that humanity can fall to. Yet I still believe that with every black crevasse that exists, there is a peak that is just as tall as the crevasse is deep. I learned that with age, with experience. And I still believe that after countless years in the Foundation. This is not a job that gives you hope. The things we see on a daily basis, the things we do, challenge the very notion of a brighter future.
Which brings me to the motion at hand. Even if we could theoretically "right" the path of history, pull a reverse Pandora's box and contain all the evils of the world and put them in a little box just like all the thousands of other objects we contain, what would that do? What would happen if we ended world hunger, closed all the sweatshops exploiting eight-year-olds, stop all terrorism? Would the world suddenly become a utopia? Would we find everlasting peace, happiness, meaning?
There may very well be determinative sets out there, other iterations of history, that don't suffer the same horrors that our reality does, where everything's so much better. There may be one or a billion, it doesn't matter. The Foundation is devoted to one cause: to secure, contain, and protect. If we are truly the anomaly, does it really matter? The sad truth is that suffering has been so deeply ingrained in our history, ever since the beginning, that it would be the very antithesis of the human condition itself if it were to be eliminated. Maybe it's not supposed to be like this. Maybe there are other timelines out there, versions of history in which a different series of events led to a better world. I don't think they are relevant. If an anomaly has pervaded our reality for so long and affected it to such an extent, then we have no choice but to accept that it is the new iteration of normalcy.
We're stuck with the world we live in, for better or for worse. Suffering doesn't matter in the end. It is not our duty, both as Foundation members and human beings, to concern ourselves with why the world is the way it is. All we can do is live the best lives we can. There's always moments to cherish and people to be loved. The dark corners of the world have absolutely no control as to how we can live our lives. We can do anything we want.
I've always disapproved of the robotic cloak-and-dagger stoicism that seems to pervade the Overseer Council and most interpersonal interactions in the Foundation. So, get ready. This is the first and possibly the only time you will see me speaking not as O5-1, but as the human that's still alive in there somewhere, buried under so many levels of secrecy and mystery.
To the Foundation:
To say that our history together has been a rough ride is an understatement. Despite all of the trials we've been through, I want you to know that you have helped me live my life to the best of my ability. You have reminded me to love in spite of the grave duties that this job carries with it. And above all, I appreciate with all of my heart the blood, sweat, and tears you put in to help realize that little kid's dream of a brighter future.
It's a pleasure working alongside you.
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We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
The Gas Station
A few days ago, I had a dream.
I was driving through the city at night, the unnatural glare of fluorescent lights juxtaposed against the blackness of the sky. The stars were shining bright, far brighter than they should in such an urban environment.
I'm listening to a song I don't remember. I glance at the fuel gauge and realize that I'm almost out of gas. All of a sudden I look to my right and there's a station right there. I pull into the gas station.
Except it wasn't a gas station.
What used to be gas pumps were now metal hatches painted orange. Looking at them, I inexplicably knew that the holes that lied underneath them would never end. Pulling over next to one of the hatches, I turn off the engine and get out of the car. The cool night air is sharp as a razor over the bristles of hair on my skin. I look up at the sky, and I realize that the stars in the night sky are gone.
At that point, I wake up. I get out of bed and I feel my body crumbling with fatigue, threatening to give up. I try to get into the shower. I find I can't take another step forward.
I tell my mom I can't go to school that day.
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Photo taken inside SCP-XXXX during Exploration II.
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Travel in and out of SCP-XXXX is strictly forbidden. All civilian traffic is to be diverted from SCP-XXXX and rerouted. A perimeter has been constructed around the boundary of SCP-XXXX based on the geographic designation of La Jolla, California, United States.
Due to the large population of SCP-XXXX and its reputation as a popular tourist destination, extensive disinformation procedures must be enacted in order to maintain secrecy and containment. All correspondence, electronic and physical, going in and out of SCP-XXXX must be intercepted and destroyed. Information of SCP-XXXX found on the Internet must be filtered out and eradicated. The sudden disappearance of all residents of SCP-XXXX from workplaces, family gatherings, etc. is to be addressed with standard disinformation procedures and distribution of amnestics.
Area-XXXX has been set up in the nearby neighborhood of Mira Mar to conduct exploration of SCP-XXXX and to interview SCP-XXXX-A instances. Area-XXXX is to maintain secrecy under the guise of army operations in the area. Personnel must wear Level A hazardous material suits equipped with a self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) before entering SCP-XXXX. After returning, personnel must undergo decontamination for all biological hazards that may have been present inside SCP-XXXX. SCP-XXXX-A instances appear to be unwilling to leave the boundaries of SCP-XXXX; therefore, the threat of breaching containment is slim. Absolutely no attempts of rescue are to be conducted. Termination of SCP-XXXX-A instances is authorized if they become hostile.
The caves underneath La Jolla Cove are to be filled in with concrete as soon as possible following the events of Exploration III.
Description: SCP-XXXX is the seaside community of La Jolla, located within San Diego, California, United States. SCP-XXXX contains numerous biological and spatial anomalies following the Bird Rock Incident (see
Of note are XXXX-Θ events, which appear as spontaneous physical manifestations and auditory hallucinations to all humans in SCP-XXXX at random intervals. XXXX-Θ events vary radically in content with no discernible pattern in occurrences. In approx. one out of every ten events,
XXXX-Θ events will manifest as incorporeal depictions of interactions between multiple individuals. The identity of these individuals is unknown. Refer to Addendum XXXX.1 for an incomplete list of XXXX-Θ events.
Residents of SCP-XXXX are designated SCP-XXXX-A instances. They exhibit significant physiological abnormalities as a result of exposure to SCP-XXXX but otherwise appear healthy. Instances of SCP-XXXX-A are cooperative and non-confrontational towards Foundation staff (see Interview Logs XXXX.1-XXXX.3.)
WARNING
Please consume antidote now.
A Poem
One fine day in the middle of the night,
Two dead men got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other.
One was blind and the other couldn't see,
So they chose a dummy for a referee.
A blind man went to see fair play,
A dumb man went to shout, "Ignorance is in the blissful claws of the foolish deprived of the shorn prosopagnosia of the alive. Your world is a shadowy isolate in the supernatant of broken dreams."
And then I put a bullet in my fucking head and everything was alright.
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Addendum XXXX.1: Incomplete List of XXXX-Θ Events
Location |
Description |
Pearl Street & Draper Avenue |
Twenty-three burritos wrapped in aluminum foil manifest on the northeast curb of the intersection for 3 minutes and 47 seconds before de-manifesting. Analysis reveals that their interiors are comprised of cooked beef, fried potato, and avocado. |
Torrey Pines State Reserve |
The entirety of the song Teenage Dream by American pop singer Katy Perry is heard throughout the entire reserve. Source unknown. |
Via Sonoma |
Sound of porcelain smashing. Drops of reddish-purple fluid appear on the ground in the shape of a bullseye approx. 1.6 m in diameter. Determined to be a mixture of A-positive human blood and the juice of Hylocereus costaricensis fruit. |
N/A |
A fresh layer of rainwater manifests on all motor vehicles in SCP-XXXX. |
La Jolla Village Square |
The sound of wet splattering, as if one is regurgitating liquid onto the ground, manifests, followed by hysterical laughter. |
La Jolla YMCA |
Brief discussion between two males regarding music. |
Rushville Street, outside La Jolla High School |
An adolescent male is conversing with the driver of a white Nissan Versa, who is stopped in the middle of the street, through the driver seat window. The driver is shown to be an adolescent female. The two talk for 17 seconds before de-manifesting. Both lack all facial features throughout the event. |
Torrey Pines Elementary School |
A Boston UP-118S model piano manifests in the playground and plays two octaves of a C major scale before de-manifesting. |
N/A |
A backyard sofa set manifests, surrounding a brick fire pit. The adolescent male and female are sitting together on the sofa. The boy appears to say something to the girl, who responds by leaning against him and resting her head on his shoulder. The boy puts his arm around the girl. They remain in this state for 12 minutes and 15 seconds before the girl leans closer to the boy and presses her face against his, appearing to kiss him. The kiss lasts for 2 minutes and 8 seconds before the girl breaks away and shifts her body onto the boy's lap, straddling his legs and touching his chest before de-manifesting. Both lack all facial features throughout the event. |
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Shaky, gasping breathing akin to hyperventilation is heard inside the house, interspersed with sobbing. [DATA EXPUNGED] |
Document XXXX-1: Exploration I & Related Interviews
Exploration I
Assigned Personnel: One rover, designated "Duke"
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Document XXXX-2: Exploration II
[MASSIVE DATA CORRUPTION: DO NOT LEAVE YOUR STATION. CONTACT PATAPHYSICS DEPARTMENT IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT LEAVE YOUR STATION.]
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Document XXXX-3: Exploration III*
Photo recovered from inside SCP-XXXX. Photographer unknown.