SCP Foundation/SCPs/SCP-F-212

Item #: SCP-F-212

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-F-212 is to be closed to the public under the pretense of protecting its delicate gypsum formations. Suppression of information has been deemed unnecessary as the vast majority of the general public already believes it to be an urban legend. Foundation agent John Graham is tasked with maintaining a website debunking SCP-F-212 as such.

Description: SCP-F-212 is Interstate Cave, a section of the Timpanogos Cave System in Utah. Subjects that enter SCP-F-212 generally report feelings of unease, fear and paranoia. The effect intensifies as subjects goes deeper into the cave, with subjects experiencing hallucinations even after leaving. Persons that have spent a prolonged time in SCP-F-212 will often show signs of extreme distress; such subjects will invariably refuse to describe their experiences.

SCP-F-212-1 is the placeholder designation for the entity residing within the cave. Although no such entity has yet been directly observed, D-class personnel have encountered anomalous phenomena that infer its existence:


 * Low rumbling sounds, not caused by any passing vehicles on Utah State Route 92.
 * Occasional screams that appear to originate from within the walls of the cave. Efforts to determine the exact source of the sounds have been unsuccessful.
 * Sporadic air currents that originate from within the cave. Attempts to locate the source have also been unsuccessful.

SCP-F-212-2 is is a section of SCP-F-212 located approximately 30 m from the entrance. Contained within SCP-F-212-2 is an unusually round rock and hieroglyphics; the meaning of the latter is currently unclear. All photography within SCP-F-212-2 inexplicably fails; analog photographs appear as overexposed, and digital images and videos show only static.

Addendum F-212-1: SCP-F-212 was discovered by three speleologists who kept an online journal detailing their findings. All three subjects are known to have disappeared; efforts to discover their whereabouts or remains have all proven inconclusive. The journal is allowed to remain online as it is generally believed to be fiction.

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