SCP-3000 Anantashesha

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00:00The unease was felt throughout the entire crew as we descended on that first night.

00:04Whether this was due to our uncertainty at what we would discover, or something more sinister, I would not speculate.

00:12As we continued to descend, Williams began sweating profusely.

00:16When I asked about it, he could not respond, stating that he thought he was missing something he could not

00:23deduce.

00:24This is a section from the journals of Dr. Eugene Goetz regarding the discovery of SCP-3000.

00:31The way the brain produces and stores memories is incredibly complex, and mainstream science is only just starting to scratch

00:37the surface when it comes to understanding it.

00:40This makes the process of erasing memories incredibly tricky as well.

00:44In the distant past, the SCP Foundation made do with chloroform, opiates, and hypnosis.

00:49But this was an imperfect compromise, that often just left people with brain damage.

00:55While some members of the Foundation believed the correct option was still to just kill witnesses, more humanistic forces prevailed,

01:04and methods of more targeted memory erasure began to be explored.

01:08One of the early options were the pheromones produced by SCP-939, known as With Many Voices, which had been

01:15known to erase memories without lasting harm.

01:17But this idea was thrown out when it was discovered that anyone dosed with the pheromones would often wander off

01:23into an SCP-939 den and get brutally devoured.

01:27It seemed like the Foundation would never have a true method to erase the memories of innocent bystanders in anomalous

01:33cases.

01:34Then, that all changed in 1971.

01:38That's when the Foundation made a shocking discovery.

01:41That year, in the Bay of Bengal, off the coast of India, two Bangladeshi fishing vessels went missing, along with

01:48the 15 unfortunate souls who were on board at the time.

01:51This was big news, since Bangladesh had only just gained independence from Pakistan, and had yet to establish its provisional

01:59government.

01:59The country was vulnerable, and local media stoked fears that the missing boats were a prelude to an attack from

02:05a foreign power.

02:06At first, this event seemed like it'd be a problem for local government officials to solve.

02:11But Foundation researchers stationed in Kolkata soon discovered eerie similarities between this fishing boat vanishing and a similar incident that

02:19had happened two years earlier.

02:22Perhaps there was a more anomalous reason why the boats still hadn't been found.

02:28Expeditions to the area all reported strange psychological effects, paranoia, brain fog, and in the worst cases, partial amnesia.

02:37Dr. Goetz, writing about the events after the fact, described one of the crewmen, Williams, being particularly affected as the

02:44submarine they were on descended further under the water.

02:47Eventually, Williams seemed not even to know where they were, calling Dr. Goetz Darlene instead of his name.

02:53Similar feelings were expressed by other members of the crew, but Williams felt it the most, Goetz wrote.

02:59His memetic resistance was by far the lowest of all of us, but he was a biologist, not a memeticist.

03:06When we finally came into contact with the entity, he began whimpering, and had to be sedated.

03:11I remember him muttering the word, no, over and over again, as if in disbelief.

03:16He went silent after a while as we approached its head, and when I looked back at him, something had

03:21gone from his eyes.

03:23It did not even so much as blink as we made our final descent.

03:27Aided by Marriott-Paschler counters to offset any memetic effects, the Foundation were able to locate the two boats deep

03:33underwater, along with another enormous unidentified mass.

03:37Further submersible expeditions revealed that the mass, which at first looked like it could have been a rock formation, was

03:43actually alive.

03:44A massive creature unlike anything else known to science.

03:48Dr. Goetz described approaching it for the first time.

03:51At around 0940 hours, we first observed the head of the entity.

03:56The unease was palpable now.

03:58Several other crew members complained of feeling hazy, and of being uncertain what they were supposed to be doing.

04:03Captain Ritter, ever the man's man, wrote it all off as nitrogen intoxication, and forced them to continue approaching the

04:10entity.

04:11Everyone looked out of the portholes in awe.

04:13The massive head of the creature hung completely still, illuminated by an eerie glow that seemed to have no source.

04:21The captain steered the ship as close as he dared.

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05:38The closer the crew got to the entity, the worse Williams' condition became.

05:43He was incoherent now, described as barking like a mad dog, and screaming that he could see it in his

05:49head.

05:50He had to be subdued after smashing his head into a porthole so hard that it cracked the inner layer

05:55of glass.

05:56The damage was so bad that the submersible had to resurface.

06:00Once they were out of the depths, the strange psychological effects went away from most of the crew.

06:05But Williams would never recover.

06:07His skull had been fractured from slamming his head into the glass so hard, and his brain was severely damaged.

06:13All the medical team could do was make him comfortable.

06:16As he lay in the infirmary dying, all he could say was,

06:20There's nothing.

06:21Once the team returned to the Foundation headquarters in Kolkata, they moved quickly to secure the area.

06:27Current containment procedures were put in place in April of 1972.

06:32SCP-3000 is best described as an enormous sea serpent.

06:36Superficially similar to a moray eel, but with a head that measures 2.5 meters across, and a body that

06:42is about 10 meters in diameter.

06:44The creature is sedentary, with a body that is coiled in on itself, over and over, in a way that

06:50makes its true length impossible to measure.

06:53It's theorized that it could be hundreds of kilometers long.

06:56The beast is carnivorous, and though it normally doesn't move at all, its head can move extremely fast when it

07:02senses prey.

07:03Radiographs of the creature, taken to try and study its internal structure, suggest that once prey is eaten, it is

07:09not digested.

07:10SCP-3000 may not need to digest its prey in conventional means to get nutrients, but some form of biological

07:17process must happen when it eats, because after consuming prey, SCP-3000's body starts to excrete a gray slime into

07:26the water.

07:27When this process was first witnessed by the Foundation, they thought the creature was bleeding.

07:32Divers were sent in to collect the substance, but the process of collection was risky.

07:36The dive team was composed of three members of MTF Orion-9 Kingfishers, led by MTF-09-Alpha.

07:44The launch point was through the airlock of the submarine SCP-F Stravinsky.

07:48All divers were equipped with high-pressure suits and headlamps, and all members of the team were connected by a

07:54tether.

07:54This would be the closest anyone had ever come to the creature itself, and nobody really knew what would happen.

08:01The Stravinsky was in position, about 500 meters from the creature's head.

08:05Visibility was only about 3 meters in front of them, but they could still make out the massive coils of

08:10the enormous eel.

08:11In the darkness, if you didn't know what you were looking at, you might never notice something was down there.

08:17The Foundation had been observing the creature for three weeks, and it hadn't moved a muscle.

08:21The men attached themselves to the tether, and the chamber flooded with water, preparing them to leave the submarine.

08:27The water was dark and freezing cold.

08:30All three team members turned their lights on.

08:32The Stravinsky turned on the floodlights too.

08:35It was too dark to see, but they could almost feel the shape of the eerily still sea serpent lurking

08:40just below them.

08:41I can't remember how to turn the lamp on, said O-9 Foxtrot.

08:45Alpha turned to look at him.

08:47His lamp was on, and he told Foxtrot as much.

08:50Foxtrot looked confused.

08:51What did you call me?

08:53He asked.

08:54Your designation, said O-9 Alpha.

08:56It's Foxtrot.

08:57No?

08:58Said O-9 Bravo.

08:59I'm Foxtrot.

09:01The men talked to each other.

09:02The more confused the three of them became, they couldn't remember what they were supposed to do.

09:07Bravo, or maybe it was Foxtrot, started complaining of an awful headache.

09:12Alpha radioed back to the ship for instructions.

09:14You are roughly 150 meters from the head of the entity, Alpha, said command.

09:19You should be getting a visual soon.

09:21Very, Alpha said, using the name of a previous team leader who had died two years ago.

09:26I don't see anything.

09:28What are we looking for?

09:29While the dive team tried to fight against their confusion, the serpent began to move.

09:34All I can see is darkness.

09:36There's a chill, foul wind blowing, pushing me towards a brink.

09:39I can't see.

09:41Foxtrot, or maybe it was Bravo, spoke up, sounding distressed.

09:45On the edge of the nothingness, inches from oblivion, there's a sickness in my mind that I know can't be

09:54cured.

09:56Beyond me is only blackness and a single pair of dark eyes.

10:00As Foxtrot continued to rant, the Stravinsky's radar picked up signs of movement.

10:05Dive team, command barked into the radio.

10:07Something is moving towards you.

10:09Repeat, something is moving towards you.

10:11None of the team could see anything, no matter where they looked.

10:14But then, they weren't totally sure what they were looking for.

10:18Command tried to pull the team back to the ship, but something was wrong with the winch.

10:22Command gave the team the order to cut the tether.

10:24Suddenly, Foxtrot's radio went silent.

10:27Alpha frantically radioed back to the ship.

10:29The eel's head had appeared out of the dark, opened its jaw, and ate Foxtrot whole.

10:35Radio communication was patchy for the next several minutes, with command only getting snippets of voices.

10:40Bravo had started to rave the way Foxtrot had, saying that he felt like he was dying and that something

10:45had crawled into his head.

10:47All he could see was the eel staring at him from the darkness.

10:50Eventually, his radio went silent.

10:53The submarine was unable to recover any of the dive team members.

10:57Future missions were just as perilous.

10:59But eventually, the Foundation were able to get viable samples of the gray slime that the eel excreted.

11:04It was only upon taking samples of the substance that the Foundation realized what it really was,

11:10and how it related to the cases of memory loss and mental instability among all the people who had come

11:15into contact with the creature.

11:16Something about SCP-3000's biology causes it to excrete a natural amnestic within two hours of consuming live prey.

11:25In its unfiltered state, any contact with the substance has dangerous memetic effects and should be considered highly toxic.

11:33Long-term exposure with the water around the creature causes memory loss, confusion, and after a long enough period,

11:39a severe sense of dread and paranoid hallucinations, typically involving the eel itself.

11:45But when the substance, referred to as eel jelly by Foundation scientists, is refined and filtered, it becomes a compound

11:53called Y-909.

11:54Y-909 is the most effective amnestic the Foundation has ever discovered,

11:59allowing for extremely precise memory removal and suggestibility with remarkably few side effects

12:05and a negligible rate of spontaneous memory recovery.

12:08Since the discovery of Y-909 in the 1970s, it has formed the basis for every amnestic compound in use

12:15by Foundation agents.

12:17This makes SCP-3000 one of the most valuable thalmial-class anomalies,

12:21that is, an anomaly that serves a function within the Foundation.

12:25There is only one tiny problem when it comes to SCP-3000,

12:29and it is part in the production of Y-909.

12:32It only produces eel jelly after it eats, and the only thing it eats is human beings.

12:39There were attempts made to produce a synthetic version of Y-909 in the lab,

12:44as a way of reducing the danger involved in creating amnestics.

12:47Foundation scientists were able to produce a reasonable facsimile, which they called Y-919,

12:53but the side effects were catastrophic.

12:56The amnestics worked, but too well.

12:58Eventually, subjects given Y-919 would lose all of their memories,

13:02then all higher brain functions.

13:04Something was clearly missing from the formula.

13:07Something that could only happen as a result of human bodies going through SCP-3000's anomalous digestive processes,

13:14which allowed Y-909 to facilitate a more delicate and focused memory removal.

13:19The working theory was that instead of digesting the flesh of its prey,

13:24it digests their thoughts, breaking down whatever makes sapient beings sapient,

13:29and excreting the resulting waste through its skin as a type of prion slurry.

13:34But whatever the reason, it was clear to Site Director Knox that the only way to continue producing safe,

13:39side-effect-free amnestics for the Foundation would be to make sure that SCP-3000 was routinely fed human beings.

13:47This led to the creation of the ATSAC protocol.

13:51Members of MTF Epsilon-20 Night Fishermen are to prepare one individual D-Class to the feeding site.

13:57The D-Class is sedated ahead of time and tethered to an underwater ROV within the submarine's airlock.

14:03The airlock is filled with water and the hatch is opened.

14:06Operators within the ship direct the ROV towards SCP-3000,

14:10and upon reaching the feeding site, the tether is remotely detached from the ROV.

14:15Through this process, the creature's position is closely monitored,

14:18and adjustments to the course are made as necessary in the event that the creature moves.

14:23No personnel are permitted to leave the ship without gaining permissions from mission command.

14:27Once the eel consumes the prey,

14:29it will begin to excrete the jelly from the skin at the foremost section of its body.

14:34This occurs over the next two hours, and during this time, the eel jelly can be harvested.

14:39Dive teams are able to get close, as during the digestive window,

14:43the cognitive effects of the eel are less pronounced.

14:46After collection, the eel jelly is transported to the surface in a secure, airtight container

14:50and taken to be refined into Y-909.

14:53Between the effects of passive exposure to SCP-3000 and the grim nature of the ATSAC protocol,

14:59it's no surprise that the teams responsible for the collection of eel jelly experiences

15:04severe depression and other mental effects.

15:06In 2009, Level 3 researcher Venkhatrman Krishnamurthy was found attempting to leave the airlock

15:13on the SCP-F Airmatria submarine without diving equipment.

15:17He had never previously displayed signs of depression prior to being assigned to SCP-3000.

15:22After the incident, he was interviewed by on-site psychologist Dr. Anand Manava

15:27to try and better understand what motivated Dr. Krishnamurthy's actions.

15:31Krishnamurthy was clearly unwell and suffering from extreme stress.

15:35He could barely remember previous expeditions, or even how long he'd been in his current position.

15:40He could feel years of his life that were nearly blank,

15:43and had stopped being able to recognize faces that he knew had once been important people in his life.

15:47He couldn't even recall if he'd been married, or had children.

15:51In reality, Krishnamurthy had been married twice, and had five children.

15:55The only thing that was still clear in his memories was the eel.

15:59He told Dr. Manava a story that his mother told him, or at least that he assumed his mother told

16:04him.

16:05His memories of her had become fuzzy.

16:07He only remembered that he had been raised a devout Hindu,

16:10and had grown up hearing many old stories and legends.

16:13One of them was that of the serpent Anatashisha,

16:16which was the snake god that lay beneath Vishnu in the cosmos.

16:20He said that Anatashisha would linger past the end,

16:23and that it could see into the darkness beyond time.

16:26One day, the light of the universe would go out,

16:29and all that would be left would be Anatashisha.

16:31He believed that SCP-3000 was Anatashisha,

16:35a god that existed through all time,

16:38and would keep existing after time was finished.

16:41This was what he saw when he looked into the eel's eyes,

16:44an endless void without any light or thought,

16:47and made him feel acutely aware of his own mortality,

16:50and how much the eel had taken from his memories.

16:53The pain and fear had become too great,

16:55and he felt compelled to feed himself to the beast,

16:57before he was found and stopped.

17:00Unfortunately, despite what he told Dr. Manava,

17:03Krishnamurthy was only kept in a holding cell for observation for two days.

17:06Orders from the higher-ups were very clear.

17:08He needed to return to his station.

17:11Only three hours after being released,

17:13he started to exhibit strange behaviors again.

17:16At 2.19 a.m., Krishnamurthy made his way back to the airlock.

17:19At the same time, radar detected movement outside of the ship,

17:22and the proximity alarm triggered.

17:24The external floodlights were triggered as well,

17:27but the eel was still not visible in the dark water.

17:29Command was alerted,

17:31and started up the sub's engines,

17:32ready to engage in evasive maneuvers.

17:34At 2.20, Krishnamurthy was seen by the airlock by the security cameras.

17:38When his face became visible,

17:40it was clear that he was crying.

17:42He slowly approached the door and opened the airlock,

17:45when inside, he stood perfectly still before collapsing to the ground.

17:49The primary door closed behind him automatically.

17:52Meanwhile, SCP-3000 appeared to be getting even closer on the radar,

17:56though it was still invisible on the external camera.

17:58At 2.26, Krishnamurthy got back to his feet,

18:01and started putting on a diving suit.

18:04Once he had suited up, he opened the secondary airlock door.

18:07Personnel tried to close the airlock remotely from the bridge,

18:10but were unsuccessful.

18:11The secondary airlock door only closed when Krishnamurthy was already outside the vessel,

18:16hanging in the black water,

18:17and silhouetted against the external floodlights.

18:20There wasn't time to mount a rescue mission.

18:22In an instant, SCP-3000 was there,

18:26its mouth wide open.

18:27The captain sounded the horns,

18:29but neither Krishnamurthy or SCP-3000 seemed to react at all.

18:33Krishnamurthy made one final transition,

18:35and that...

18:36I was wrong.

18:37God save me, it's not...

18:39He couldn't finish his sentence, whatever it was.

18:42He was consumed by SCP-3000,

18:45which sank back into the inky depths once it had eaten him.

18:48Inside the ship, the crew began to initiate the ADSAC protocol to collect the eel jelly.

18:53After this event, Dr. Manava wrote extensively in his diary

18:56about what had happened.

18:58Psychologically speaking, having your memories affected like his is not a pleasant experience

19:03for anyone, he wrote.

19:04I really shouldn't be surprised he chose to relieve himself from having his memories

19:08middled with.

19:09After all, it is really alarming.

19:11Being briefed on its effects doesn't change the fact that I need to constantly keep tabs

19:15on all staff, myself included, and ground us to reality.

19:19After a brief period of mourning, life on the submarine went back to normal.

19:23Dr. Krishnamurthy's replacement was sent for by Site Director Knox.

19:26Before the replacement arrived, Dr. Manava took one final look at Dr. Krishnamurthy's office.

19:32It was sparsely furnished.

19:33Just a chair, a desk, and a bookcase,

19:36with a statue of Ganesh and a framed photo sitting on it.

19:39Dr. Manava looked at the photo and recognized the people in it as himself, his wife, and

19:44his daughter.

19:45He was confused, wondering why his colleague didn't have a photo of his own family.

19:49He thought nothing of it, taking the photo and the Ganesh statue into his own office.

19:53It wasn't until much later that he realized something was wrong.

19:57While working late one night, he knocked the photo over, causing the frame to break.

20:01Manava leaned over to pick up the picture from the broken glass.

20:04He looked at the back of the photo and saw three names, Anad, Shanti, and Padma.

20:09Anad was his name, but that was Krishnamurthy's handwriting, and Shanti and Padma were his wife

20:15and daughter.

20:16The true meaning of this didn't hit Manava until later that night.

20:19Dr. Krishnamurthy's memories had somehow replaced his own.

20:22The two men were friends.

20:24Manava had known Krishnamurthy's family, but Manava himself had never been married.

20:29At least if he had, he had no memory of it.

20:31Even though he was a psychologist and he was aware of what the eel was doing to his mind,

20:36he still couldn't stop it.

20:38He tried to remember other things and came up blank.

20:40He got flashes of a man on a bicycle sometime in the 80s.

20:44But who was it?

20:45His friend or just some stranger he'd seen once.

20:48He'd never been a religious man before, but now that he feared completely forgetting his

20:53culture, he started reading scripture.

20:55He got a copy of the Vedas and tried to memorize some poems and songs, but the lines never stuck

21:00in his mind quite right, and he always needed to reread them.

21:04Manava wrote one final diary entry, which was found ripped out of his journal and placed

21:08on his nightstand.

21:09The horror of this realization has been replaced with a queer sort of dread.

21:14I've figured out what the eel does.

21:16Something about it, some latent part of its creation, abhors cognition.

21:21It breaks down human consciousness and scatters the part of us that we believe is a soul,

21:26until all that remains is what we really are.

21:29Electrical signals that will someday become inert.

21:32If I can't remember myself, how can I expect anyone else to remember me?

21:36I have forgotten my own life, and I am strangely apathetic at this revelation.

21:43I will fade into the darkness, as thousands before me have and thousands after me will.

21:49No one will care about me as I am forgotten.

21:52I do not despair for my own sake.

21:55But for us all, you and I, we will all face obliteration.

22:00I am not important.

22:02You are not important.

22:04Vast droplets of irrelevancy stretching eons in the sea of time.

22:09We may fight against it, but our enemy is inevitability.

22:14I do not think that the eel is an atashisha.

22:16I do not think it would matter if it was.

22:20What is clear to me now, as I feel myself coming apart,

22:24is not that the eel is some mythological creature or divine serpent.

22:29Perhaps it's just a primitive creature that eluded us, holding no malice.

22:34Perhaps it really is a primordial deity, harboring resent beneath the surface.

22:40The eel is not the harbinger of my demise or humanity's doom.

22:44The eel is not the end of all things.

22:47It only shows us what the end looks like.

22:50And in spite of everything we might believe,

22:53every ideal we hold or providence we pray for,

22:57I know this much is true for all of us.

23:02Our end will be a forgotten one.

23:06Manava was discovered near the airlock, in an unresponsive condition.

23:10He had broken into the storage locker and consumed a large quantity of unprocessed Y-909.

23:15He was taken to Site-151 for analysis,

23:18and still remains in a catatonic state.

23:21But if you don't want to be in a catatonic state,

23:23we've got some exciting videos to keep you awake and alert.

23:26Now go check out SCP-1861, the crew of the HMS Wintersheimer,

23:30or SCP-2317, the devourer of worlds, a door to another world, for more.

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