SCP-6479
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Item #: SCP-6479

Object Class: Safe Euclid

Special Containment Procedures Pending Update

Special Containment Procedures: Due to the non-hazardous nature of SCP-6479, difficulty in conventionally containing it to any further degree, and that all staff operating within Site-26 became aware of SCP-6479’s existence during its original manifestation, SCP-6479 is permitted to roam the low-risk sectors of Site-26 freely. All staff should be made aware of SCP-6479's anomalous properties, and all security checkpoints should ensure SCP-6479 is not present before permitting personnel to pass.

Description: SCP-6479 is an animate two-dimensional silhouette, resembling the reverse projection of a large canine (most closely resembling a wolf), which first manifested in Site-26 shortly after its construction in 1952. SCP-6479 is not affected by incoming light, despite it resembling a shadow. SCP-6479 is sentient, actively aware of its surroundings, and capable of linearly changing the surface it appears on, as well as its shape and size, in accordance with outside stimuli.

SCP-6479 is typically extremely evasive, generally avoiding human contact. When in unavoidable human contact, SCP-6479 will adopt a larger size and heavily exaggerated proportions (e.g. jaws, fangs, eyes). Such behaviour is likely intended to induce a fear response.
Due to its evasive behaviour, previous attempts at studying SCP-6479 have failed. No further attempts should be made out of concern for causing excess stress for the entity.

It has been noted that SCP-6479 is most active in the lower maintenance levels of Site-26, though the reason for this behaviour is not known.

Addendum: During the construction of Site-26, a stone monument dated to the 1600s baring intricate carvings of wolves along with an inscription in Irish Gaelic was discovered on-site. Initial attempts at a translation of the inscription yielded little due to the lack of appropriate scholars and the condition of the artifact making the inscription difficult to read. After the discovery of SCP-6479 and the possibility of a connection, there has been renewed interest in the artifact (see Exhibit-6479-A).

Subsequent investigation into local archives has yielded only one source that mentions wolves (see Exhibit-6479-B).

Exhibit-6479-A - Translation Revision 5
Date: 30/10/52
Sasanaigh… [Uninteligable due to erosion]
You come here from lands afar.
You treat this land, here, as your own.
You… [Untranslated] the people from their… [Untranslated]
You… [Untranslated] the animals from theirs.
You fear not the majesty of nature.
For with your gunpowder, with your fire.
You… [Untranslated] even the wolves as if livestock, naught but game.
You slaughter them with unique fear, unique hate, unique spite.
You leave not one lone wolf standing, [untranslated] deeper and deeper into the woodland's shade.
Be it [Untranslated] to you however that you… [Untranslated] shadows.
For even the most cowardly or outmatched… [Untranslated]
You have… [Untranslated] them from the light, take victory.
You will not… [Untranslated] them from the dark.

Exhibit-6479-B
'Tales For The Burdened Mother' (1734).

"When the moon strikes high, and the clouds loom low.
Eyes start to pry, and shadows grow against the snow.

Onto the window, ratta tat tat.
Branches of a tree? Fangs, in fact.
Crawling along the floor, with the cold draft.

So you'd best keep your covers drawn,
Or you just might find yourself in the Faoladh's maw."

Correspondence with locals suggests that Exhibit-6479-B is still relatively prominent in oral tradition.


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