SCP-5704

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= **SCP-5704** - Digital Corruption by [[*user PeppersGhost]]

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**Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-5704 is to remain bound to its current host, Walter Scheefer, who is to reside at Site-181. Mr. Scheefer has been granted provisional access to unrestricted areas of the facility, but must provide advance notice so as to ensure personnel are vacated from the requested location. A suitable replacement host is to be kept on-site at all times in the event Mr. Scheefer should expire. 

SCP-5704 must be further confined in no fewer than three layers of cotton socks, replaced daily. For their own physical and spiritual wellbeing, personnel are to maintain distance from Mr. Scheefer's quarters while SCP-5704 is redressed.

**Description:** SCP-5704 is an intelligent spectral entity composed entirely of coalescent human malice. SCP-5704 induces instantaneous and irreversible psychosis in living subjects who view it directly; however, it is safe to view SCP-5704 indirectly via recorded media, wherein it visually presents as an undulating cloud of fuchsia mist.

SCP-5704 exudes an invisible aura of malevolent energy which inspires fear and dread among living beings. These sensations escalate proportionally with proximity: a distance of ~50m rarely provokes more than an underlying sense of uneasiness, whereas subjects within <5m are likely to respond with abject terror. 

SCP-5704 is generally intangible, but may condense itself at will and forcefully integrate with the flesh of a living creature. Any biological matter corrupted by the presence of SCP-5704 will fall under its control and exhibit the same mind-affecting properties as its intangible form. Thaumaturgic markers indicate that SCP-5704 will only revert to incorporeality after the death of the flesh it is bound to.

SCP-5704 was ritually awakened in 2011 by a religious cult known as the Children of Karfax[[footnote]]According to the cult's religious texts, Karfax is the true name of SCP-5704. The apparent similarity in name to the automotive service Carfax is mostly believed to be coincidental, though connections between the business and the cult continue to be the subject of investigation.[[/footnote]] who had intended to harness its power to achieve global conquest. Upon its invocation, SCP-5704 entered the body of Walter Scheefer, a non-cultist who had been kidnapped to serve as an offering and host. However, the condensed mass of SCP-5704 only sufficed to possess the outermost toe of Mr. Scheefer's left foot. Fraught with disappointment and inadvertently-induced madness, the cult quickly collapsed. SCP-5704 and remaining cult members were taken into Foundation custody shortly thereafter.

**Addendum:** Excerpt from Mr. Scheefer's most recent psychiatric evaluation, conducted via Zoom.

> **[BEGIN LOG]**
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> **Dr. Loehr:** You seem to be doing well. Are you no longer affected by SCP-5704's aura?
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> **Scheefer:** Oh, it's still there. Definitely still there. Yeah. I'm just getting used to it. The first few nights, I think-- I don't think I slept. Every day I just thought, "this is bad." But now when I feel all the, uh, the //evil// comin' off it, it's just-- I think, "well, this is the way it is." 
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> **Dr. Loehr:** I'm glad to hear you're coping. Sleeping any better now?
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> **Scheefer:** Oh yeah. Yeah. I sleep alright now. Course, the thing's up all hours wiggling. Little britches got a mind of its own, you know. But now with those-- those straps I got for it, it's just a little wiggle. Little twitch. Little spasm. Can't complain. The, uh, the //evil// is worse, but I sleep. I sleep fine. It's... it is how it is.
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> **Dr. Loehr:** Sometimes a good night's rest can work wonders. How are your dreams?
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> **Scheefer:** I don't dream much. Haven't ever, not much at least. Sometimes I think I can hear it, the //toe//, a-whisperin' out in the dark. You know, at night. When I'm tryin' to sleep. Or maybe it's all in my dreams. Maybe not. But it whispers.
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> **Dr. Loehr:** What kind of things does it whisper to you?
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> **Scheefer:** Just... nasty things. //Evil// things. 
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> **Dr. Loehr:** Could you give me an example?
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> **Scheefer:** Not really. See, it's more of the //tone// of the whisperin'. The attitude. Can't actually make a word out through all those socks. But 'sides all that, uh, life as usual, I suppose.
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> **[END LOG]**

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> **Author:** pxhere
> **License:** CC0 Public Domain
> **Source Link:** https://pxhere.com/en/photo/538662
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