• Kalothar@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    Item #: SCP-4974

    Object Class: Euclid

    Special Containment Procedures:

    SCP-4974 is currently adrift in the Pacific Ocean, approximately 1,300 km southwest of Hawaii. Due to its unpredictable movements and the absence of propulsion, satellite surveillance via Orbital Tracking Array Delta-12 is to remain active at all times. No direct approach is to be made without O5 clearance. Naval units encountering SCP-4974 are to maintain a distance of no less than 5 km and report visual contact immediately.

    Any civilian reports regarding a “floating house” are to be intercepted and discredited via standard disinformation protocols (“maritime hallucination” narrative).

    Description:

    SCP-4974 is a single-story manufactured home of unknown origin, structurally consistent with prefabricated housing models from the early 2000s. SCP-4974 is capable of sustained buoyancy and locomotion without any observable propulsion system. It does not appear to be affected by ocean currents or prevailing winds and exhibits irregular movement patterns across the Pacific Ocean.

    Interior scans reveal standard furniture placement, though all appliances appear to be non-functional and lack any power source. Despite this, observers at a distance of over 1 km report seeing lights flickering on and off within SCP-4974 and silhouettes of humanoid figures in the windows. Upon closer inspection (within 100 meters), the interior appears completely vacant, and the anomalous lights cease.

    Notable Incident:

    On ██/██/20██, a U.S. Navy vessel encountered SCP-4974 during a routine patrol. Initial reports classified it as debris. Upon visual inspection, crew reported observing movement within the structure. Due to the lack of any threat response and confusion about jurisdiction, the structure was left uninvestigated. Foundation agents embedded within the Navy intercepted the incident logs and began tracking SCP-4974.

    Addendum 4974-A:

    Excerpt from crew debrief:

    “Looked like a house, just… floating there. No engine, no sails. Lights would flicker, but there wasn’t a sound. Like the ocean didn’t touch it. One of the guys swore he saw someone watching us from the window. But when we circled back, it was dark. Empty. Like it had always been.”

    Hypothesis:

    Some researchers theorize SCP-4974 may be a spatial or dimensional anchor, phasing intermittently between multiple states of occupancy. Its purpose, if any, remains unknown.

    • baltakatei@sopuli.xyz
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      12 days ago

      It is such a horrifying entity that even digitally compressed rasterized photographs cause any intelligent being to perceive SCP-4974 as a house. Efforts to split up raw photographs through automated computer scripts in order to analyze piecemeal portions of the image still yield portions of images of a house, indicating even incomplete digital copies themselves may be intelligent. So far, the only proof that SCP-4974 is not in fact a house is its persistence through storms and water damage that should have destroyed it long ago.

    • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Beautiful! I love SCPs that are just some weird, vaguely threatening, but otherwise unaggressive bit of mystery. Too many authors try to make every scp a barely contained keter-class global threat.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      12 days ago

      It’s his sled. It was his sled from when he was a kid. There, I just saved you two long boobless hours.

      • Kalothar@lemmy.ca
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        11 days ago

        Thanks, I’ve always wanted to write them actually and used to put them in my notes app all the time

        I think I’ll get back into that actually!

      • Kalothar@lemmy.ca
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        11 days ago

        That is so funny, I thought about checking if they got up that high. It’s been awhile since I’ve read some of them haha

    • GojuRyu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      You fooled me into thinking this post was just a hidden 4974 reference. Really cool write up, I didn’t question it being an actually existing article until reading the replies.

  • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
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    11 days ago

    The most unbelievable thing about this story is that the US military saw something that wasn’t a threat and left it alone

      • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
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        11 days ago

        Well, they believe that they are the world police.

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 days ago

          the orgs themselves don’t. really. they don’t want those missions.

          presidents with wild ideas and congress, on the other hand, have been known to push the mil in that direction.

          but look at the doctrine and history, the military does not want that mission. the US barely participates in UN & NATO peacekeeping deployments. we prefer ‘enemy here, bomb them’ kind of clear cut objectives.

          • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
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            11 days ago

            Of course you don’t participate in peacekeeping missions. You guys don’t want peace. You quite obviously want war.

  • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
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    11 days ago

    The most unbelievable thing about this is the US military refraining from shooting the fuck out of something that wasn’t a threat.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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      13 days ago

      Just have to add that from a distance they had noticed lights coming off and on and what seemed to be figures in the windows, but when they got a closer look it was totally empty.

      • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
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        12 days ago

        Before they got close enough to see what it was, the navigator was transcribing the flickering of the porch light as morse code…

      • Makeitstop@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        13 days ago

        While the ship is near the house, the crew reports finding an endless number of letters, tickets and citations from a homeowner’s association, all stashed in drawers, lockers and folders around the ship. The captain’s report on the incident contained three separate documents alleging violations of HOA rules regarding lawn maintenance and garbage can placement, which he claims had not been in the report when he logged it.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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      12 days ago

      Board the house, read the logs describing the occupants’ descent into madness, contract mysterious disease cured in sick bay by the 4th act.