Item #: SCP-8626
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: As all known victims have encountered SCP-8626 under unmonitored circumstances during their early life,1 containment possibilities remain minimal.
In place of targeted procedure, standard cultural suppression tactics are to be adapted in relation to SCP-8626 to minimize the credibility of all alleged victims, whilst increasing the probability of anomalous phenomena being equivocated with non-anomalous conditions.
SCP-8626 via. Oneiric Image Capture
Description: Allegedly, SCP-8626 is a broadcast of pre-recorded friendly tennis matches between two unidentified persons2 in the Centre Court of Wimbledon stadium. While generally adhering to the standard procedure for such an event, SCP-8626 deviates in the following ways:
- There is no ball;
- There is no chair umpire;
- The audience consists entirely of children, who watch in silence.
In every account, the game will progress to a tiebreaker with the players in deadlock, producing increasingly guttural, hoarse, or shrieking noises of exertion as they strike at an unseen ball.3 This continues until one of the figures collapses from apparent exhaustion, after which the display will fade to static. A new broadcast will begin anywhere from 1 hour to 1 week later.4
Subjects who view SCP-8626 will experience prolonged and intrusive auditory hallucinations of the broadcast regardless of physical proximity. Attempts to dampen the noise with hands, headphones, pillows, or other external implements will fail. These effects persist indefinitely, but can diminish over time.5
