I can see it on your face again. The conflict between doubt and desire. That's what you learned last week, isn't it? You want to know more about the operations the Foundation has out there. What kind of containment perimeters it uses and what its response capacity is. In short... you want to know about the monsters that are loose. I don't even know all of them, and to be honest, I think it's better that way. But you've come to look for an extra dose, a snack before midnight. Something classic, then? A girl who makes people disappear in the woods...
The Containment Site
St. Landry Parish. Right in the center of Louisiana. It's rare for the Foundation to share precise details about an SCP's location, but in this case, let's say they have no choice. Too much swampy terrain to cover, 2.77 square kilometers enclosed with fences and barbed wire. The watchtowers are separated by 500 meters, and all the "rangers" you can see patrolling there are in fact security personnel.
The Anomaly
Such an operation to contain what appears to be a girl. Pre-adolescent, with long hair and covered in mud. Others say she can take the form of animals, or worse, of people reported missing. The "girl" was designated SCP-1692-1, while the other anomaly is SCP-1692-2, a sinkhole in the center of the protected area, full of water, mud... and corpses.
The Evidence
So far, the Foundation has identified the remains of 31 human beings and 24 animals near SCP-1692-2. Fourteen of those bodies matched reports of missing residents between 1910 and 1959 (the exact years were classified). The Foundation installed a series of cameras near the well, and its agents discovered that new bodies have come out... but they never saw anything enter it.
SCP-1692-1's appearances are more frequent when someone enters its influence zone, and in some way it causes the individual to follow it until they are completely lost. At that point, all their traces (from footprints to the clothes they were wearing) disappear. Anyone would think SCP-1692-1 devours lost people, but the story doesn't end there. We're just getting started.
The Emergence of SCP-1692-3
Sometimes the process takes a couple of hours. Sometimes several weeks. One thing is certain: within that interval a new instance emerges, SCP-1692-3, and tries to leave the region. SCP-1692-3 has a physical appearance very similar to that of the missing person, but there's a problem... it's not "complete." I mean, SCP-1692-3 shows signs of mutations and deformations, drastic alterations in its body, as if someone had tried to... reconfigure its form.
Foundation data on SCP-1692-3 instances speaks of missing limbs without amputation, extracted organs, and hydrocephalus. More than 80 percent suffer from other "errors": different blood type, organs of different age, changes in eye and hair color, command of languages unknown to the original subject, signs of vivisection, dissociative amnesia with depersonalization, and more. Only two instances of SCP-1692-3 managed to survive.
The 1938 Incident
The Foundation first learned of SCP-1692 in 1938. Several children disappeared and were located within a few days. Two of them had lost fingers, another had extra fingers, and three showed changes in eye and hair color. Several officers vanished into thin air during the search, and one of them returned screaming that he was African-American, when he had white skin. People simply commented that he "came back haunted."
The Dunbar Case
Foundation personnel soon discovered the body of a boy missing his legs and much of his head above the jaw line. The body was compatible with the description of a certain Bobby Dunbar, who had disappeared 25 years earlier and was found "safe and sound" within a few months.
The adult Bobby Dunbar insisted during his interview that he could not remember anything about the incident... except for a memory about "the other boy in the carriage." The Foundation's investigation revealed that the young man recovered by the Dunbar family had been in the custody of a certain William Cantwell Walters, who at the time said that the rescued child was Charles B. Anderson, son of a woman who worked for him. That woman tried to sue the Dunbars, but the child himself said that Mrs. Dunbar was his mother. Bobby Dunbar passed away in 1966, and a DNA study in 2004 established that he had no genetic relationship to the Dunbar family.
Another Case
The other relevant SCP-1692-3 case involved a woman who had lost her left eye and had several stitches on the left side of her face, following the jaw line. Her testimony helped identify SCP-1692-1 and SCP-1692-2, where they found two bodies. One of them was very similar to the woman's, with another detail: parts of the left side of her head were missing... including the eye. The woman denied any relationship to the corpse, received amnestics before being released, and lived her natural life without incident. After her death, the Foundation conducted a DNA test... and there was no compatibility with her direct relatives.
Final Thoughts
None of the studies were conclusive due to extensive hydrolytic deamination damage in the genetic samples. But I imagine you already understand the nature of SCP-1692: it attracts people, mutilates and transforms them in unthinkable ways, only to set them free again. What does it want? What is its plan? Perhaps... some of its copies are already Foundation agents. I could be a copy. So could you.
