"I found Doe; both deer and Jane, in the woods last night. They were next to each other, bleeding from a gunshot wound to the back of the head."
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SCP-9906
HEARTWORMHUNTER
An Article by KatyaStrangelove
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The following is a list of the sensitive content present in this article:
- Gore/Body Horror
- Autassassinophilia (a paraphilia in which an individual is aroused by the risk of being killed)
- Misogyny
- Explicit Sexual Content
- Consensual Homicide
- Animal Death (deer)
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This file is currently undergoing the standard process of audit and review. Should it be deemed inaccurate or incomplete, it will be amended or rewritten entirely to reflect all information available.
It has been given the temporary containment class, Æther, as it is only attested in unconfirmed eyewitness reports.
Annotations made by R.A.I.S.A. auditors will be marked using the symbol, .Information will appear here..
Item#: 9906
Level3
Containment Class:
Æther
Secondary Class:
none
Disruption Class:
vlam
Risk Class:
caution
Status
Pending decision
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SPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES
A prohibition on hunting is to be enforced in any area where SCP-9906 activity has been reported. Those who engage in the activity despite it being disallowed must be captured and amnesticized..INEFFECTIVE: Procedures do not account for expected rule-breaking behavior and do not allow for further research or the preservation of normalcy.
DESCRIPTION
SCP-9906 is a phenomenon observed in several wooded areas throughout the southern United States, most commonly in Tennessee, Georgia, and the northern half of Florida. The anomaly is primarily known to present among individuals hunting in pairs (with each individual given the designation, SCP-9906-1). It appears to be a prerequisite that at least one of the affected individuals has frequently visited the area alone in the weeks before their interaction with SCP-9906.
After spending an unknown period of time within SCP-9906's area of effect, instances of SCP-9906-1 will wander further into the woods in pairs, effectively separating themselves from others. Researchers have not yet determined if the anomaly is capable of impairing a person's sense of navigation. Search teams have been universally unsuccessful in locating missing individuals involved in an SCP-9906 event until its conclusion. The end of an event is marked by the pair's emergence from the wooded area, usually taking place between 3 and 5 days after they were last seen. Neither SCP-9906-1 instance will retain memories of what occurred during this period.INCORRECT: Must be edited to reflect information gained from additional sources..
Prior to their involvement in an SCP-9906 event, nearly all SCP-9906-1 instances were either strangers or were not on amicable terms. Regardless of these previously held beliefs, the affected pair will inevitably be found in the throes of profound romantic attraction.
SITE-158 INCIDENT REPORT
On July 8th, 2016, two members of Foundation personnel stationed at Site-158 were subject to SCP-9906. Researchers Tanner Guerrero and Dakota McMaster went missing while hunting for deer on site grounds, alongside Junior Researchers Collin Layman and Mason Stanfield. Prior to the incident, the four had engaged in the activity multiple times without issue.
INCIDENT TIMELINE
15:10, JUL 8, 2016
McMaster, Guerrero, Layman, and Stanfield are captured on CCTV footage as they exit BLDG-C. They exit Site-158's interior fence via the west gate. McMaster swipes her keycard and allows the others to follow behind her.
19:46, JUL 8, 2016
Layman and Stanfield reenter the site alone via the main entrance to BLDG-A. They head directly to the Site Security Office and report McMaster and Guerrero missing. Efforts to comb through trail camera footage begin immediately, but a decision is made that the site's Mobile Task Force will not be deployed until more time has passed.
00:00, JUL 9, 2016
MTF Omega-95 ("Kings of BFE") is dispatched. Six armed officers are ordered to search the area within Site-158's secured outer fence.
02:00, JUL 9, 2016
MTF Omega-95 is unable to locate either McMaster or Guerrero, nor any of their personal affects. Search suspended for the remainder of the nighttime hours.
Photos used in McMaster (left) and Guerrero's (right) missing persons bulletin.
INTERVIEW (C. LAYMAN)
The following is a partial transcript of an interview between a member of Site Security personnel and Junior Researcher Collin Layman.
Interview start: 08:13, JUL 9, 2016
[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT]
OFFICER: You look exhausted, I take it you didn't sleep well?
LAYMAN: I took a nap, I guess. I was in here from around 8:00 last night, all the way until they called off the search at 2:00 this morning. Then, they called me and Mason back up at like 6:30.
<LAYMAN groans.>
LAYMAN: If you don't mind, can I get a second before we start the interview? Just to get my shit together.
OFFICER: Hate to say it, but they might want you back sometime after this. If you play it straight, I'm willing to speed things up a little so you can get a minute to rest.
LAYMAN: Fine.
OFFICER: I'll try and make this painless.
OMISSION FOR BREVITY:
Layman is asked basic questions, including personal information and information about McMaster and Guerrero's duties on site.
OFFICER: Getting to the incident itself, how long were you guys out there before they went missing?
LAYMAN: Maybe two hours, thereabouts.
OFFICER: Ballpark?
LAYMAN: Two and a half, max.
OFFICER: Gotcha, can you walk me through what happened? Just give me a play-by-play and I'll stop you when I need to.
LAYMAN: Just go and you'll tell me when to stop?
OFFICER: Sure, I'll say 'stop' if that helps.
LAYMAN: Right.
<LAYMAN takes a deep breath.>
LAYMAN: Okay, we got outta here at probably 3:00 or a little after. Probably after, but that's on CCTV — they told me when last night, but I forgot the specifics. We had all our stuff on us, then we left the gate and walked out there.
OFFICER: Stop.
OMISSION FOR BREVITY:
For approximately 12 minutes, LAYMAN is tasked with marking their directions of movement on a map of Site-158 grounds, including estimates of time taken to traverse relevant distances on foot.
LAYMAN: For the first hour, at least, we were pretty much around this area.
<LAYMAN points to the marked map.>
LAYMAN: We hung out and just messed around for the most part. Mason shot a few rabbits, Kota got one. Your guys might find them out there — we kinda ditched them later, once we realized that two of us were MIA. So we did that, then we decided to look for deer. I saw a buck after a while, but it ran off because Kota and Tanner were being too loud. That's when all of this started to go bad. They—
OFFICER: Whoa, hold on. When was this, relative to last time you saw them?
LAYMAN: I don't know… maybe fifteen-ish minutes before the last time we saw them? Twenty?
OFFICER: Okay. We're gonna have to go through this part carefully, if it's that close. You said they were being too loud — what do you mean by that?
<LAYMAN scoffs.>
LAYMAN: Fucking… arguing about something? Normal for them, though — those two are always fighting. Tanner says some shit to rile Kota up when she annoys him and she takes the bait every single time.
OFFICER: She takes the bait?
LAYMAN: He wants to make her mad and she jumps on it. Then she gets all high strung and starts acting like she has to prove herself. It's so bad, I swear we were about to tell her we won't bring her out next time.
OFFICER: Okay, so you're saying that he's usually the agitator?
LAYMAN: Not really, he just messes around and she takes it way too seriously.
OFFICER: You said he regularly tries to make her mad, I feel like that's pretty different from just messing around.
LAYMAN: Eh, its just shit like calling her short or ragging on her for keeping makeup in her backpack. Honestly, he usually tries to help her but she just gets pissed.
OFFICER: He helps her?
LAYMAN: Yeah, like he'll carry her shit for her so she can keep up — that kinda stuff, nothing bad. Not to her, though — one time, he tried to give her pointers on how to aim and she completely lost her shit.
<OFFICER pauses, then sighs.>
OFFICER: What were they arguing about yesterday, when they left?
LAYMAN: I don't even know… he was telling her she has no sense of humor, so I'd imagine the usual bullshit. Mason and I were so done with all of it, but they just wanted to keep going.
<LAYMAN takes a deep breath.>
LAYMAN: We got pissed and told them to fuck off. We figured that we weren't gonna get anything out there with them scaring away every living thing within a mile radius, but neither of us wanted to jump in the middle.
OFFICER: That's when they left the group?
LAYMAN: Yeah, and I feel bad, given what happened. Mason does too. Like, at the time, we were like "haha yeah, get out of here!"… but then we couldn't find them.
OFFICER: Let's bring it back for a minute — you're skipping ahead. Did you hear from them after they walked away?
LAYMAN: Yeah, even though we couldn't see them, we could hear them for a good while longer. Mason had to yell at them to go further out. Even then, we could still hear them. We heard her tell him they had to go further — nothing after that.
OFFICER: I'm assuming you and Mason went back to what you were doing, at least for a little while?
LAYMAN: Until we were ready to leave — it was a good 45 minutes to an hour they'd been out there, and we were already packing our shit up. So, we yell, no response. We call their cell phones, no signal. After a few minutes, we just threw everything in our bags and headed back in the direction we came from — me, Mason, and Tanner agreed to do that if we got lost.
OFFICER: Did Dakota know about this emergency plan?
LAYMAN: Nope. For a little while after we found out they were MIA, we figured that it would work out fine because Tanner knew. Once we took our path back and got near the edge of the treeline with no luck, that's when we decided to start looking.
OFFICER: How long do you think you searched for?
LAYMAN: Probably around forty-five minutes, maybe an hour? Long enough for us to figure out that we weren't about to fix the problem on our own.
OFFICER: That's when you headed back here, yeah?
LAYMAN: Yeah. There's… one more thing, though. It's honestly been freaking me out a little. I keep reminding myself that we were hunting, that it could be anything, but while we were on the way back after searching, right before we got to the treeline, we heard a good few gunshots — maybe three or four?
OFFICER: Wait. Was it coming from the area you left from? How loud was it?
LAYMAN: I don't know the direction, but it was pretty quiet. I just didn't think they'd just start hunting alone, especially so long after they went off.
OFFICER: You think it could be suspicious?
LAYMAN: No, it could be nothing, right? I— I know folks hunt outside the big fence sometimes. Someone else from here could've been out too.
OFFICER: You know, I can tell that you don't want to think about it.
LAYMAN: No shit. They're arguing, they run off, we don't see them for an hour and a half at that point, then we hear a few gunshots? Could say a lot, actually.
OFFICER: But before, you said that what they get into it about is all banter, nothing serious?
LAYMAN: Because it's never been more than that. It's always been bullshit, but I don't know — anything could've happened, they're missing.
OFFICER: I appreciate you bringing that up to me. I'll let the MTF know as soon as possible. Just try and take care of yourself.
[END TRANSCRIPT]
INTERVIEW (M. STANFIELD)
The following is a partial transcript of an interview between a member of Site Security personnel and Junior Researcher Mason Stanfield.
Interview start: 08:49, JUL 9, 2016
[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT]
OMISSION FOR BREVITY:
For approximately 25 minutes, Stanfield recounts what occurred throughout the group's hunting trip, including the search for the two missing persons. This has been omitted due to its consistency with the interview included above.
OFFICER: Anything else important? Or, at least, important to you?
STANFIELD: I don't know… Collin said he heard gunshots in the distance, but I really couldn't tell where they were coming from. They really weren't loud at all — unless he told you, he could've just been paranoid.
OFFICER: He told me it could've been. Honestly, he sounded pretty concerned.
STANFIELD: Shit.
OFFICER: Being honest, do you think something could've happened?
<STANFIELD exhales.>
STANFIELD: I don't know…
OFFICER: He told me they were fighting.
STANFIELD: They're always fighting, though… why would anything be different?
<OFFICER takes a deep breath.>
OFFICER: We're trying to figure out if it is. I let the MTF know right before you came in, and they're searching.
STANFIELD: Do you think anything bad happened?
<Pause.>
OFFICER: I really can't make calls like that without more information. I'm sorry.
STANFIELD: Seriously? Tanner's my friend.
OFFICER: I know. Listen, we need more to work with.
<STANFIELD huffs.>
STANFIELD: So we just have to wait?
OFFICER: What I like to say is to expect the best, but prepare for the worst.
STANFIELD: Please, just keep looking.
[END TRANSCRIPT]
RECOVERY
After over four days of unsuccessful searches, Researchers Tanner Guerrero and Dakota McMaster were observed reentering the West Gate of Site-158's inner fence at 09:59 on JUL 13, 2016. Both individuals had a significant amount of blood on their attire. Guerrero's camouflage shirt was torn from the neckline to halfway down the chest.OMISSION: Does not include the fact that Guerrero displayed several inexplicable injuries.. McMaster no longer had her jacket, nor her ammunition pouch. Both remained in possession of their rifles. Their appearances were otherwise consistent with what could be expected after spending a significant amount of time in an outdoor survival situation, without proper equipment.
CCTV footage from cameras pointed at the treeline captured the pair's emergence from the wooded area. Prior to walking in the direction of the site, Guerrero is observed backing McMaster against the trunk of a nearby tree. The two then embrace each other, kissing for approximately three minutes.
INTERVIEW (D. MCMASTER)
The following is a partial transcript of an interview between a member of Site Security personnel and Researcher Dakota McMaster.
Interview start: 12:56, JUL 13, 2016
[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT]
OFFICER: Here's what I heard from the rest of the group — y'all were out there, you and Tanner started fighting, then the other two told you to get outta there because they needed it to be quiet, yes?
MCMASTER: Yeah, I remember that…
OFFICER: Okay. Collin said that after you guys walked away, you were still too loud. He hollered, then you walked off further — to the point that they never saw you and Tanner again.
MCMASTER: Your guys told me they were looking for us…
OFFICER: They were, they searched the whole area. I don't see how you weren't found. I apologize for that, we really should've.
MCMASTER: No, it's okay, I'm fine…
<Pause.>
OFFICER: I wouldn't exactly say it's okay, but I'm glad to see you feeling better than I thought you would.
MCMASTER: It's not like I remember it much, honestly.
OFFICER: What do you mean, you can't remember it?
MCMASTER: Everything. It's faint, but I can kinda picture what happened around when we left. After that, it's all a blank to me.
OFFICER: From when you left the group, all the way until you came back out to the gate… you remember none of it?
MCMASTER: I don't even know what we did out there.
<OFFICER hums.>
OFFICER: Taking that into account, I guess we'll have to start here — what's the last thing you remember, right before you and Tanner went missing?
MCMASTER: I don't— I think we were arguing about something, maybe? Probably something stupid. Is Tanner okay?
OFFICER: Tanner is fine, I'll be talking to him after you. What I'm curious about is how this might be a big switch-up from what I've heard about y'all before this event took place. I'll be transparent — Collin and Mason gave me mixed messages. They swore up and down that the arguments you had with Tanner were just messing around, but what they told me actually happened suggested more legitimate issues. I'm hoping you can clarify that for me.
MCMASTER: I wouldn't say it was just messing around. I remember it being worse than that… maybe they were just covering for him? I bet they'll stop, now that me and Tanner are in love.
OFFICER: Okay, so in your words, you two are in love. What about your relationship with Tanner before this, though?
MCMASTER: I know it kinda sucked — he used to be a giant asshole to me. Thought he could boss me around…
OFFICER: That's the part of this I wanted to get to. Isn't it odd if you were on bad terms, that you'd be proclaiming love for each other after such a short period of time?
MCMASTER: Maybe we talked it out?
OFFICER: Do you think that's likely — it's only been four days?
MCMASTER: Probably not, but what else do I have to go on if I can't remember any of it?
<OFFICER exhales.>
OFFICER: Right. Lets go with this — how did you feel when he kissed you outside the gate? You didn't seem particularly surprised by it.
MCMASTER: It wasn't a surprise — it was just natural. Like we'd been doing it for a while, almost, even though it couldn't have been more than a few days. Maybe a few hours, for all I know.
OFFICER: So you have no idea how or when this occurred? Beyond that it happened while you and Tanner were missing?
MCMASTER: I wish I did, honestly.
<Pause.>
OFFICER: Are you willing to subject yourself to a voluntary interview under the influence of mnestic drugs?
[END TRANSCRIPT]
Following the initial interview, McMaster was administered Class W mnestics. She remained unable to remember any significant details of the event.NOTATION MISSING: It should have been noted that the majority of cases where a healthy adult subject is not affected by mnestic drugs involve purposeful deception..
INTERVIEW (T. GUERRERO)
The following is a partial transcript of an interview between a member of Site Security personnel and Researcher Tanner Guerrero.
Interview start: 14:01, JUL 13, 2016
[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT]
OFFICER: So, Tanner, I spoke to Dakota—
GUERERRO: Oh! How is she?
<Pause.>
OFFICER: Well, she says she doesn't remember anything about what happened during the past few days. I'm hoping that you might be able to offer some help.
GUERERRO: We went hunting.
OFFICER: Right, but what about after that?
GUERERRO: We walked away on our own.
OFFICER: Do you remember anything after that, Tanner? If you do, please let me know.
GUERERRO: Nothing until we got back.
<Pause.>
OFFICER: I know this has been a lot for both of you, but you seem… stiff.
GUERERRO: Stiff?
OFFICER: You're answering me almost robotic-like. I get it if it's the stress, but it's still a bit odd.
GUERERRO: I'm just exhausted.
OFFICER: I don't doubt that. Listen, I'll let you go rest in a few, but can you try to come up with at least something basic from when you were there? Dakota can't tell me anything beyond what Collin and Mason did.
GUERERRO: I wish I could, but I don't remember either.
<Pause.>
GUERERRO:It's weird how I've never wanted anyone like I want her, but I have no idea why. Do you know?
OFFICER: Know what? Why your feelings changed?
<GUERERRO nods rigidly.>
OFFICER: Well, how did you feel about her before this?
GUERERRO: I didn't like her much. We argued a lot.
OFFICER: Right… that's what I've been hearing.
GUERERRO: So you don't know why I love her now?
<Pause.>
OFFICER: Not yet, just trying to figure this out. Are you really sure there's nothing you can tell me?
GUERERRO: No.
OFFICER: Both of your buddies told us that they heard noises in the background while they were looking at you, said they were probably gunshots.
GUERERRO: We were hunting.
[END TRANSCRIPT]
Following a period of evaluation, both Guerrero and McMaster were cleared to return to their duties on-site.
UPDATE
Over two years after the previous incident, Researchers Tanner Guerrero and Dakota Guerrero-McMaster were parties to an SCP-9906 event for a second time, returning at 14:18 on SEP 23, 2018. On this occasion, the pair spent approximately seven days unaccounted for. A request for the performance of a Standard File Audit has been submitted to R.A.I.S.A., alongside the resumption of investigatory research related to SCP-9906.
Additional information regarding this file and its associated anomaly has been discovered during its period of review. The following statements represent the determination of the Review Committee, decided on NOV 11, 2018
➢ SCP-9906's database file must undergo a full rewrite to include new information.
➢ File co-author, Researcher Tanner Guerrero.RULES VIOLATION: Conflict of interest, disguised change in sapient identity., has been subject to containment following the discovery of his association to the post-correction anomaly.
➢ Researcher Dakota Guerrero-McMaster has been confined to her quarters and placed on indefinite suspension. This is pursuant to the discovery of multiple posts made by her on the 'Parawatch' forum and on the 'Living Dead Girls' forum.INFORMATION: 'Living Dead Girls' is a fetish forum primarily centered on topics of murder, death, suicide, and necrophilia., both under the alias, 'heartwormhunter'. The information gathered suggests a likely association to the post-correction anomaly.