Item #: SCP-023

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-023 is to be contained in a standard 5 x 5 m Containment Unit. SCP-023 is to be contained in a walled-off intersection of two (2) corridors at Site-*borf*, with at least three (3) meters of space in each direction, and false doors at three (3) of the four (4) ends, in addition to the real door. Security cameras will be placed and maintained above all four (4) doors.

At all times, SCP-023's eye sockets are to be filled with spherical inserts made of hard rubber. Eye inserts must be replaced as they degrade. Degradation can be monitored by measuring the brightness of the "burning" effect as observed by security footage. Brightness greater than 12 candela requires that the inserts be replaced within twelve (12) hours. Eye inserts are only to be replaced individually, and only after the sun has completely set. Personnel are not to look directly into eye sockets of SCP-023 at any time.

Following Incident 023-27 all reflective surfaces, including displays, monitors, and eye-wear of any sort are not permitted within 30 meters of SCP-023's cell. This includes monitors linked to security cameras within its enclosure. Security personnel posted at checkpoints outside both corridors will enforce and adhere to this measure.

Experimentation involving SCP-023 has been suspended indefinitely.

Description: SCP-023 is a large, sexless shaggy canine (1.5 meters at the shoulder) with black fur. It has bright orange-red eyes and prominent teeth (see Incident Report 023-26). Any time an individual makes eye contact with SCP-023, either that person or a member of their immediate family will die exactly one (1) year after eye contact is broken. Research into the method of selection is incomplete due to a moratorium on experiments, but the available data suggests that having a larger immediate family lessens the chance of the individual making eye contact themselves dying, and neither a pattern nor a preference in victim types have been found. This may indicate that SCP-023's victim is designated entirely at random, but it is unknown whether this selection occurs at the beginning or at the end of the one-year time period. Attempts to terminate an individual who has made eye contact with SCP-023 and their entire immediate family before the one-year time period has ended [DATA EXPUNGED].

Autopsies of individuals killed by SCP-023's effect show that, while outwardly appearing unharmed, their remains have been 'filled in' with highly compacted ash, including but not limited to all organ systems and the circulatory system. Muscle tissue, bones, and brain tissue universally show signs of exposure to temperatures above *borf*°C.

If not contained in a setting that at least superficially resembles a "crossroads", SCP-023 will phase through walls to get to the nearest suitable location, incinerating all materials it passes through.

SCP-023 was first brought to the Foundation's attention when it attacked a church in *borf* while it was in session, killing *borf* civilians directly and [REDACTED] as a result of eye contact. Following retrieval of SCP-023, Class-B amnesiacs were administered to all witness and surviving victims. The incident was covered up as a case of arson.

Addendum 023-001
SCP-023 has been responsible for the deaths of *borf* personnel and *borf* civilians since it was first brought into containment on 10/12/*borf*94

Addendum 023-002
SCP-023 has been responsible for the deaths of *borf* personnel and *borf* civilians since it was first brought into containment on 10/12/*borf*94.

Addendum 023-003:
Request for reclassification to Keter pending.

Addendum 023-004:
Due to both anomalies focusing on specific geographic spaces, their destructive capabilities, and canine appearance, it is possible the SCP-111-1 may be a variant of the same phenomenon observed in SCP-023, or vice versa. Investigation into the origin of both anomalies is ongoing. Due to the inability to capture SCP-111-1 for study, investigations are currently focused on SCP-023.

Incident 023-27:

SCP involved: SCP-023

Personnel involved: Dr. *borf*, [DATA EXPUNGED]

Location: Site-*borf*

Description: Timeline of events:

00:00:10 – A pair of glass eyeballs are inserted into the eye sockets of SCP-023 by two D-Class personnel.

00:00:15 – Glass eyes take on an orange-red glow, similar to what SCP-023's real eyes looked like before removal.

00:03:13 – Molten glass begins to run out of SCP-023's eye sockets.

00:05:54 – [DATA EXPUNGED] appear on all lenses, window, mirrors, monitors, and glass surfaces at Site-*borf*

00:06:12 – Evacuation of Site-*borf* ordered.

06:54:07 – Sun visible over horizon. D-class personnel sent in to check area around SCP-023's enclosure. [DATA EXPUNGED] gone. Only trace of SCP-023 is a burnt section of floor around a puddle of colored glass.

Personal Log of: Dr. *borf*

Date: *borf*/*borf*/*borf*

It's my fault. I have doomed my research team, and possibly the rest of the facility. All that's left is to keep trying. We must contain SCP-023.

Note: On *borf*/*borf*/*borf*, one year after Incident 023-27, *borf* personnel were interred in an unmarked mass grave outside Site-*borf*

Eyes: Mothers' Love:

The passions of the dead can be vast and mighty, but we are not all-powerful.

There are things I can never see. There are things I can never touch. There are things I can never overpower. Because of that, there are many things I can never protect my-children-who-birthed-me from. Because of that, oftentimes they die in bitterness and pain. Because of that, their deaths can also birth Hates, large and small.

Hates are things I can see and touch. I must see and touch them, because my-children-who-birthed-me cannot. I must protect my-children-who-birthed-me where I can, just as my strange brethren are driven to curse them. I do not have the power to unmake Hates. The best I can do is bind them to a seal made from things that my-children-who-birthed-me where I can, just as my strange brethren are driven to curse them. I do not have the power to unmake Hates. The best I can do is bind them to a seal made from things that my-children-who birthed me can see and touch. The truth of our nature is all we have and are, and denial of that truth is denial of our power, but, more importantly, my-children-who-birthed-me can guard themselves against what they can see and touch.

The form of a ladybird beetle or butterfly is a fine seal for small Hates. In a seal of that size, it is easy for me to reduce the power of their curses to almost nothing. The larger seals needed to hold larger Hates are more difficult. A Hate sealed as a cat can still cause sickness and misfortune.

Then there are vast Hates, birthed from wars and plagues that kill together many of my-children-who-birthed-me. There are few Loves vast enough to deny the truth of their nature, but I have tried once. It was a Hate birthed out of the smoldering rage in the hearts of so many who died knowing that their bodies would be burned together in a pit of pestilence and anonymity. I rarely call upon the power of the light that brings life to create a seal, but there was little choice against a Hate natured so strongly of death.

The weakest part of any seal is always in the eyes, because they are the windows to the soul. My-children-who-birthed-me only believe in that as a concept, but concepts are far more real to my brethren—whether they are strange or not—and I than what my-children-who-birthed-me would think of as "concrete". To line up the windows is to make an open path between a soul and the most vile curse a sealed Hate can still inflict. I used every method I knew to reinforce the seal's eyes, but even then I could not stop it from setting a cause of death in anyone it met gazes with. My blessing could only delay the curse's full effects for a single cycle around the light that brings life.

My misguided children, why did you take its eyes?

Incident Report 023-06:

SCP involved: SCP-023

Personnel involved: Dr. *borf*, 5 D-Class personnel

Date: *borf*/*borf*/*borf* - *borf*/*borf*/*borf*

Location: Site *borf*

Description:

In an attempt to curtail the danger posed by SCP-023, Dr. *borf* has approved the removal or both 023's eyes and teeth. Immediately after both its eyes were removed, SCP-023 breached security by vanishing completely. SCP-023 was re-obtained on a stretch of Interstate *borf* at 4:37 P.M., and brought back into containment, where D-Class personnel finished pulling out its teeth. While the total number of civilians exposed to SCP-023 during this period is unknown, death record monitoring has tied 9 civilian deaths to this incident.

Timestamps confirmed over the course of the next 48 hours that SCP-023 vanished only while the sun was visible in the sky from outside Site *borf*.

Addendum-023-026-1:

As of *borf*/*borf*/*borf*, Dr. *borf* has been suspended pending disciplinary review for contributing to, if not being directly responsible for, Incident-023-026. Dr. *borf* is now in charge of SCP-023.

The increased difficulties in containment that have been incurred as a result of Dr. *borf* should serve to remind all personnel of The Foundation's purpose. Secure, Contain, and Protect. Research, experimentation, convenience, and even the safety of Foundation personnel are secondary concerns. We are not working to protect ourselves.

O5-*borf*

Addendum-023-026-2: A total of *borf* bodies with a time of death exactly one year after Incident 023-026 have been identified as consistent with SCP-023 exposure.