SCPG-037: What You Meant To Say

Item #: SCPG-037

Object Class: Keter

Site of Containment: Site-179 (formerly Mikrorayon Saburtalo Residential Complex, Tbilisi, Georgia)

Threat Level: ██████ (Black)

Special Containment Procedures

SCPG-037 refers collectively to the anomalous elevator shaft, elevator car, and associated floor-selection mechanism located within the former residential building at ████ Nutsubidze Street, Tbilisi, Georgia (hereafter referred to as "the Locus"). Due to the nature of SCPG-037's anomalous properties, the Locus cannot be relocated, dismantled, or otherwise physically altered without triggering a Class-4 Cascade Event (see Addendum XXXX-7). All containment efforts are therefore site-specific and must be maintained continuously.

Physical Containment:

The Locus has been incorporated into Site-179, a Foundation-operated facility constructed around and within the original apartment block. The building's exterior has been maintained to resemble an abandoned residential structure consistent with the surrounding neighborhood. Perimeter fencing marked with Georgian-language signage indicating structural instability (ᲡᲐᲤᲠᲗᲮᲔ — სტრუქტურული სახიფათო მდგომარეობა) deters civilian approach. A secondary perimeter of 40 meters has been established and is monitored by no fewer than six (6) armed security personnel at all times.

The elevator shaft has been sealed on all naturally occurring floors (floors 1 through 9) with reinforced steel bulkheads rated to withstand a minimum of 800 kg of lateral force. These bulkheads are to be inspected weekly for signs of thermal stress, unusual condensation, or auditory anomalies. Any bulkhead found to be vibrating at a frequency of 17–19 Hz must be reported immediately to the Site Director and to Dr. Vakhtang Beridze (Primary Researcher, Anomalous Architecture Division).

The elevator car itself is to remain permanently parked at Floor 4, with its doors held in a mechanically forced open position. Power to the elevator's original motor assembly has been severed and replaced with a Foundation-controlled hydraulic system capable of remote immobilization. Under no circumstances is the elevator car to be allowed to move without explicit written authorization from two (2) Level 4 personnel and the current Site-179 Director.

The elevator's floor-selection panel (hereafter "the Panel") has been covered with a tempered polycarbonate housing, bolted shut with Foundation-standard tamper-evident fasteners. The Panel must not be touched with bare skin under any circumstances. Personnel assigned to SCPG-037 must wear Class-IV memetic hazard gloves at all times within the Locus.

Personnel Protocols:

All personnel assigned to Site-179 must undergo a full psychological evaluation every thirty (30) days. Any personnel who report dreaming about conversations that did not occur, hearing familiar voices in empty rooms, or experiencing intrusive feelings of "unfinished business" with known individuals must be immediately rotated off-site and referred to Foundation Psychological Services. Such symptoms indicate possible early-stage SCPG-037 cognitive contamination (see Classification: ECHO-RESIDUE).

No personnel with a history of significant interpersonal loss, unresolved grief, or documented regret-based cognitive patterns (as defined in Foundation Psychological Profile Form 7-G) may be assigned to Site-179 primary duty. This restriction is non-negotiable and is not subject to override regardless of personnel shortage.

A minimum of two (2) personnel must be present whenever any individual enters the Locus building. Solo entry is prohibited under all circumstances. In the event that one member of a two-person team becomes incapacitated or unresponsive within the Locus, the second member is to immediately withdraw and trigger Site-179 Protocol LOCKSTEP.

Protocol LOCKSTEP involves: (1) full lockdown of all Site-179 access points, (2) activation of the Faraday-class acoustic dampening system installed on floors 3 through 5 of the Locus, (3) notification of the O5 Council via encrypted channel, and (4) deployment of the on-site Quick Reaction Force, equipped with Class-B amnestic dispersal equipment and directed acoustic countermeasures.

Amnestic Protocols:

Any civilian who has interacted with SCPG-037, or who has been in proximity to an active SCPG-037 manifestation event, is to receive Class-C amnestic treatment followed by psychological monitoring for a period of no less than ninety (90) days. Class-C amnestics have been shown to be approximately 78% effective at suppressing ECHO-RESIDUE symptoms in non-Foundation individuals. The remaining 22% require escalated treatment (see Addendum XXXX-4 for case studies).

Research Protocols:

All research interactions with SCPG-037 require prior submission of a Research Proposal to the Site-179 Review Board. Approved researchers must submit to a pre-interaction psychological screening, wear full Class-IV memetic protection (gloves, eye protection rated for visual memetic hazard class 2, and audio dampeners set to filter frequencies below 200 Hz), and must be accompanied by a Foundation-certified Psychological Monitor at all times.

Research logs must be filed within 24 hours of any interaction. Any researcher who fails to file a log within this window is to be considered potentially compromised and subjected to Protocol LOCKSTEP procedures.

Description

SCPG-037 is an anomalous elevator and associated spatial phenomenon located within a nine-story Soviet-era residential apartment block constructed in approximately 1971 in the Saburtalo district of Tbilisi, Georgia. The building was vacated in 2009 following structural concerns raised by Tbilisi municipal authorities and had remained abandoned until the Foundation's acquisition of the site in 2017 following the events described in Addendum XXXX-1.

The elevator itself is a Schindler-brand hydraulic passenger elevator, model consistent with Soviet-era Georgian residential construction, and appears physically unremarkable. It has a capacity of four (4) persons, a mirrored interior (one mirror, facing the doors), a fluorescent overhead light, and a floor-selection panel containing buttons numbered 1 through 9, consistent with the building's actual floor count.

The anomalous properties of SCPG-037 manifest when a subject presses a floor number on the Panel that does not correspond to an existing floor in the building — specifically, any integer above 9 or below 1 (including 0 and negative integers, which have been found to be accessible via physical manipulation of the Panel's internal wiring). When such a button is pressed, the elevator car will begin to move, regardless of whether the car's motor is connected to a power source. This movement is not consistent with normal elevator mechanics; acoustic monitoring indicates that the car does not travel along the shaft in a manner consistent with its physical dimensions.

After a period of between 11 and 47 seconds (duration appears to vary by subject and by the specific floor selected, though no predictive model has been successfully established), the elevator doors open onto a room.

Nature of the Rooms:

The rooms accessed through SCPG-037 do not correspond to any physical space within the Locus building, nor to any known location in Tbilisi or elsewhere. Architectural analysis indicates that the rooms vary significantly in style, size, and apparent age, though all share certain consistent features: they are furnished, they are lit (by natural or artificial light, varying by room), and they contain at least one ongoing conversation.

The conversations observed in SCPG-037 rooms are between individuals personally known to the subject who pressed the button. Subjects consistently report recognizing the participants in these conversations by voice, physical appearance, mannerism, and speech pattern. Linguistic analysis of recorded audio from SCPG-037 events confirms that the speech patterns, vocabulary, and vocal characteristics of the conversation participants are accurate to a degree that cannot be explained by confabulation or hallucination — in multiple documented cases, SCPG-037 participants have used phrases, verbal tics, or references to shared private experiences that the subject could not have consciously recalled or fabricated (see Addendum XXXX-3 for linguistic analysis data).

The conversations observed are uniformly of a type that the subject did not have. They are not memories. They are not fantasies. They appear to be, in the most operationally precise language available to the Foundation, conversations that could have occurred, or that should have occurred, between the subject and people they know — conversations that were never initiated, never completed, or never allowed to happen. They are, in the most dangerous sense of the word, the things that were left unsaid.

Common themes observed across SCPG-037 events include: reconciliation with estranged family members, apologies between former romantic partners, confessions of love or affection between individuals who never expressed such feelings, final conversations with individuals who have since died, and the resolution of long-standing interpersonal conflicts. In all documented cases, the version of the subject present in the conversation (hereafter "the Proxy") speaks with the subject's own voice and appears physically identical to the subject.

Crucially: the subject observing from the elevator doorway is not the subject in the room. The Proxy exists independently. The subject and the Proxy may observe each other simultaneously. In all documented cases where this has occurred, the Proxy does not react with alarm. The Proxy appears to be aware of the observing subject and, in several cases, has made direct eye contact. In two cases, the Proxy has addressed the observing subject directly (see Addendum XXXX-5).

Cognitive and Psychological Effects:

Exposure to an SCPG-037 manifestation event — even brief exposure of under thirty (30) seconds — produces significant and lasting psychological effects in subjects. These effects, collectively classified as ECHO-RESIDUE, include:

Persistent intrusive auditory recall of the observed conversation, often experienced as involuntary "replaying" of specific phrases
Heightened emotional sensitivity toward individuals who appeared in the observed conversation
Disruption of normal grief processing in subjects who observed conversations involving deceased individuals
In approximately 34% of cases: a compulsive desire to return to the elevator and press additional buttons, classified as SCPG-037-driven behavioral compulsion (ECHO-COMPULSION)
In approximately 12% of cases: a gradual replacement of actual memories of conversations with the subject's known individuals with the SCPG-037-observed version, classified as ECHO-SUBSTITUTION

ECHO-SUBSTITUTION is considered the most dangerous secondary effect of SCPG-037 exposure. Subjects experiencing ECHO-SUBSTITUTION begin to lose the ability to distinguish between conversations that actually occurred and conversations observed through SCPG-037. In advanced cases, subjects lose the ability to distinguish between their actual relationships with known individuals and the relationships implied by the observed conversations. This has led, in three documented cases, to subjects acting on the emotional content of SCPG-037 conversations in ways that caused significant harm to themselves and others (see Addendum XXXX-6).

Temporal Properties:

Analysis of SCPG-037 rooms has revealed evidence of temporal displacement consistent with a localized, non-linear temporal field. Specifically: the conversations observed are not always set in the present. In several documented cases, subjects have observed conversations that appear to take place in the past (as evidenced by the younger apparent ages of the conversation participants, period-consistent clothing and furnishings, and references to events that have since occurred). In at least two cases, subjects have observed conversations that appear to take place in a future that has not yet occurred, as determined by the apparent ages of the participants and references to events that cannot be verified but have not been contradicted by subsequent real-world developments.

The Foundation's current working hypothesis, developed by Dr. Vakhtang Beridze and the Site-179 Theoretical Division, is that SCPG-037 does not simply generate these conversations — it accesses them from a parallel or adjacent temporal-spatial framework in which the conversations did occur, or will occur, or exist in a state of unresolved potential. The mechanism by which SCPG-037 selects which conversation to present to a given subject remains entirely unknown.

Escalation Risk and Keter Classification:

SCPG-037 was initially classified as Euclid upon containment. Reclassification to Keter was authorized by the O5 Council following Incident XXXX-9 (see Addendum XXXX-7), in which an attempt to physically relocate the elevator car resulted in a spatial breach event affecting an area of approximately 400 square meters around the Locus. During this event, thirty-seven (37) individuals within the affected area simultaneously experienced SCPG-037-class manifestation events without entering the elevator, reporting that they could hear ongoing conversations in empty rooms, in the voices of people they knew, saying things they had always wanted to hear. Fourteen (14) of these individuals required immediate psychological intervention. Three (3) required long-term institutionalization. One (1) is still unaccounted for.

The O5 Council has determined that uncontrolled propagation of SCPG-037's memetic-temporal properties constitutes a potential XK-class end-of-world scenario under the following model: if SCPG-037's effect radius were to expand to cover a sufficiently large population, the resulting mass ECHO-SUBSTITUTION event could cause a wholesale replacement of actual interpersonal history with the SCPG-037-generated alternative — effectively rewriting the collective relational memory of the affected population and rendering them unable to function in or maintain social structures based on actual shared history. The psychological and societal consequences of such an event are considered potentially civilization-ending.

Addendum XXXX-1: Discovery and Initial Containment

Date: ██/██/2017

Reporting Agent: Foundation Agent ████ Kvaratskhelia, Georgian Regional Office

SCPG-037 came to Foundation attention following a series of reports filed with Tbilisi emergency services between January and March 2017. The reports described a recurring pattern: individuals who had entered the abandoned Saburtalo apartment block — primarily urban explorers, homeless individuals seeking shelter, and local teenagers — were found in states of acute psychological distress in or near the building's elevator. Several individuals reported that they had heard their dead relatives speaking to them. Several others could not be found at all.

The triggering incident was the case of ████ ████████, a 34-year-old Tbilisi resident who entered the building on ██ March 2017 and was found three days later sitting in the elevator car on Floor 4, non-responsive, with no memory of the intervening time. When she regained coherence, she stated that she had spent three days listening to a conversation between herself and her deceased mother, and that she had not been able to leave because "they hadn't finished yet." She was treated for dehydration and exposure and subsequently received Class-C amnestic treatment, though follow-up monitoring has indicated persistent ECHO-SUBSTITUTION symptoms.

Foundation Agent Kvaratskhelia was dispatched following a flagged police report and confirmed anomalous activity on ██ March 2017. Initial containment was established within 72 hours. The building was secured, the surrounding area was cleared under cover of a fabricated gas leak, and a Level 2 containment team was deployed from Site-179's predecessor facility.

The first documented research interaction with SCPG-037 occurred on ██ April 2017, conducted by Dr. Vakhtang Beridze, who had been assigned as Primary Researcher based on his background in anomalous architecture and his Georgian language fluency. Dr. Beridze pressed the button labeled "14" on the Panel while wearing full memetic protection. The elevator moved. The doors opened. Dr. Beridze observed a conversation for approximately 90 seconds before the doors closed again. His research log from this interaction is reproduced in Addendum XXXX-2.

Addendum XXXX-2: Initial Research Log — Dr. Vakhtang Beridze

Date: ██ April 2017

Researcher: Dr. Vakhtang Beridze

Floor Selected: 14

Duration of Exposure: Approximately 90 seconds

Log (transcribed from audio recording):

"The doors opened. The room was — it looked like my grandmother's apartment in Kutaisi. The one she lived in before she died. I recognized the wallpaper immediately. Yellow flowers. She always hated it but she said she was too old to change it.

There were two people in the room. One of them was me. Younger — maybe twenty-two, twenty-three. The other was my father. He died in 2009. He was — he looked the way I remember him from when I was young. Not sick. He was sitting at the table and he was talking.

I could hear him clearly. He was saying — he was saying that he was proud of me. That he had always been proud of me and that he had not known how to say it. He was using the specific Georgian phrase — 'შენი სიამაყე ვარ' — that he never used. He was not a man who said things like that.

The younger version of me — the Proxy — was crying. Not dramatically. Just quietly. And then the Proxy looked up and looked directly at me, standing in the elevator doorway. We looked at each other for a moment. And then the doors closed.

I need to — I need a moment.

[Pause, approximately 40 seconds]

I am recommending immediate Keter reclassification review. I am also recommending that no researcher with living family members be assigned primary interaction duties with this object. I am aware that this recommendation applies to myself. I am filing it anyway.

The conversation I observed did not happen. My father died without saying those things. I am experiencing significant difficulty accepting that what I observed was not real. I am requesting psychological evaluation and a temporary reassignment pending evaluation results.

This thing is not safe. It is not safe in the way that a weapon is not safe. It is not safe in the way that a — it finds what you need most and it shows it to you and it makes you need it more. That is the mechanism. That is what it does.

Log ends."

Psychological Monitor's Note: Dr. Beridze was evaluated and cleared for continued duty after a two-week reassignment. He returned to primary researcher status at his own request. He has since undergone eleven (11) additional SCPG-037 interaction events, each meticulously documented. He has not pressed the "14" button again.

Addendum XXXX-3: Linguistic Analysis Summary

Date: ██ July 2017

Analyst: Dr. ████ Nakashidze, Foundation Linguistics Division

A comprehensive linguistic analysis was conducted on audio recordings from fourteen (14) SCPG-037 interaction events involving eight (8) different subjects. The analysis focused on the speech of SCPG-037 conversation participants (i.e., the individuals observed in the rooms, excluding the Proxy).

Key findings:

Vocal accuracy: In 100% of cases, the voices of SCPG-037 participants matched the voices of the actual known individuals they represented, to a degree indistinguishable from authentic recordings of those individuals. This was verified by comparison with authentic audio samples in six (6) of eight (8) cases. In the remaining two (2) cases, the relevant individuals were deceased and no audio samples were available for comparison; however, subjects confirmed that the voices were accurate.
Idiolect accuracy: SCPG-037 participants used vocabulary, syntax, and verbal mannerisms consistent with the actual speech patterns of the individuals they represented, including highly specific idiosyncrasies (habitual filler words, characteristic mispronunciations, personal idioms) that subjects confirmed were accurate. In three (3) cases, subjects reported that SCPG-037 participants used phrases or expressions that they had not consciously remembered the individuals using, but which they recognized as accurate upon hearing them.
Information content: In four (4) cases, SCPG-037 participants referenced specific shared memories, private events, or personal information that the observing subject had not disclosed to Foundation personnel and could not have been generated by the Foundation's research process. This finding has significant implications for the mechanism of SCPG-037 and is currently under investigation.
Emotional authenticity: Linguistic markers of emotional authenticity (prosodic variation, speech rate changes, micro-pauses consistent with genuine emotional processing) were present in all analyzed samples. SCPG-037 participants do not speak like actors reading a script. They speak like people having a real conversation.

Conclusion: The conversations accessed through SCPG-037 are not generated by a memetic or hallucinatory mechanism acting on the subject's mind. They are, or represent, actual conversations occurring in some accessible framework. The source of these conversations, and the mechanism by which SCPG-037 accesses them, remains unknown.

Addendum XXXX-4: ECHO-RESIDUE Case Studies (Selected)

Case XXXX-R-04:

Subject: Junior Researcher ████ Tabatadze, assigned to Site-179 administrative staff.

Exposure: Incidental. Subject was present in the Locus building during a containment breach event (see Addendum XXXX-7) and was exposed to SCPG-037 manifestation properties without entering the elevator.

Symptoms: Subject reported hearing a conversation between herself and her estranged sister for approximately forty-five minutes following the breach event. Subject described the conversation as "the one we should have had after our mother's funeral." Subject showed no outward signs of distress during the event and was only identified as affected when she attempted to contact her sister (with whom she had had no contact for seven years) immediately following the breach.

Outcome: Subject received Class-C amnestic treatment. Memories of the heard conversation were suppressed. However, subject subsequently reported a persistent sense of "something important I was supposed to do" that she could not identify. Subject was rotated off-site. Psychological monitoring continues.

Case XXXX-R-07:

Subject: Agent ████ Jgenti, Site-179 security staff.

Exposure: Direct. Subject entered the elevator in violation of Protocol while off-duty and pressed button "23."

Symptoms: Subject observed a conversation between himself and his deceased son, who died in a road accident in 2014. Subject remained in the elevator doorway for approximately four hours. When retrieved by security personnel, subject was non-responsive. Upon recovery, subject stated that he had been "waiting for it to end" but that "it kept going."

Outcome: Subject received Class-B amnestic treatment (stronger than standard due to duration of exposure). Memories of the observed conversation were substantially suppressed, but subject retained a general emotional impression of the event. Subject was discharged from Foundation service on medical grounds. Last known status: under private psychological care in ████, Georgia. Foundation monitoring is ongoing.

Note from Dr. Beridze: Agent Jgenti's case represents what I consider the most insidious aspect of SCPG-037's danger profile. He knew the rules. He had read the research logs. He knew what the elevator was. He went anyway. The compulsion generated by ECHO-RESIDUE in individuals who have already been exposed, and the initial pull of SCPG-037 on individuals who have experienced significant loss, cannot be adequately addressed by informational countermeasures alone. People will choose this. They will choose it knowing what it costs. That is the nature of regret.

Addendum XXXX-5: Proxy Interaction Events

In two documented cases, the Proxy observed through SCPG-037 has addressed the observing subject directly, breaking the apparent fourth wall of the observed conversation.

Event XXXX-P-01:

Subject: Dr. Vakhtang Beridze. Floor selected: 31. Observed conversation: Between the Proxy and Dr. Beridze's former doctoral supervisor, Professor ████ Abuladze (currently living, residing in Tbilisi).

Approximately 2 minutes and 17 seconds into observation, the Proxy paused mid-sentence, turned to face the elevator doorway, and addressed Dr. Beridze directly.

The Proxy said (translated from Georgian): "You should call him. He's still there. He thinks about you."

Dr. Beridze did not respond. The doors closed 11 seconds later.

Dr. Beridze subsequently confirmed that he had not spoken to Professor Abuladze in approximately four years due to a professional disagreement. He has not contacted Professor Abuladze since the event. He has not explained why.

Event XXXX-P-02:

Subject: Researcher ████ Kopaliani. Floor selected: 17. Observed conversation: Between the Proxy and Researcher Kopaliani's mother.

Approximately 45 seconds into observation, the Proxy stood up from the table where the conversation was occurring, walked to the elevator doorway, and stood directly in front of Researcher Kopaliani. The Proxy and the researcher were face to face.

The Proxy said: "I know you can hear this. I know you're going to remember it. I want you to know that it's true. All of it. Everything she's saying. It's true."

Researcher Kopaliani was unable to respond before the doors closed.

Analysis (Dr. Beridze): The Proxy's apparent awareness of the observing subject, and its ability to address the subject directly, raises fundamental questions about the nature of SCPG-037. If the conversations accessed by SCPG-037 are real events occurring in an adjacent temporal-spatial framework, the Proxy's awareness suggests either: (a) the Proxy is aware of being observed from outside its framework; (b) the Proxy is a separate entity constructed by SCPG-037 to serve a communicative function; or (c) the observing subject and the Proxy are, in some sense, the same individual, and the Proxy's address is a form of self-communication across temporal or dimensional boundaries. I find option (c) the most disturbing and the most difficult to dismiss.

Addendum XXXX-6: Incident XXXX-8 — The Kopaliani Incident

Date: ██ November 2018

Classification: Level 4 Security Incident

Summary:

Following Researcher Kopaliani's exposure to Event XXXX-P-02 (see Addendum XXXX-5), standard psychological evaluation was conducted and Researcher Kopaliani was cleared for continued duty. This evaluation is now considered to have been inadequate.

Over the following six (6) weeks, Researcher Kopaliani developed advanced ECHO-SUBSTITUTION symptoms that were not identified by monitoring staff. The researcher began to conflate the SCPG-037-observed conversation with actual memories of conversations with their mother. By week four, Researcher Kopaliani had effectively replaced their actual relational history with their mother — a complex, difficult relationship marked by significant conflict — with the SCPG-037-observed version, which was characterized by warmth, resolution, and mutual understanding.

In week six, Researcher Kopaliani's mother visited Tbilisi. Researcher Kopaliani, operating on the basis of the SCPG-037-substituted relational memory, behaved toward their mother as though the resolution observed in the SCPG-037 event had actually occurred. When their mother did not respond in kind — because, from her perspective, the underlying conflict had never been addressed — Researcher Kopaliani experienced acute psychological decompensation.

Researcher Kopaliani subsequently returned to the Locus outside of approved research hours and accessed the elevator. Security footage shows the researcher pressing multiple buttons in sequence over a period of approximately two hours. The researcher was found unresponsive in the elevator car the following morning.

Upon recovery, Researcher Kopaliani stated: "I was looking for the one where we fixed it. The real one. The one where we actually fixed it. I know it's in there somewhere. I just needed to find the right floor."

Researcher Kopaliani received Class-A amnestic treatment (full targeted memory suppression of all SCPG-037-related memories and associated emotional content). The researcher was discharged from Foundation service and is currently under long-term psychological care. Their prognosis is uncertain.

Policy Change (authorized by Site-179 Director): Following the Kopaliani incident, all personnel assigned to Site-179 are now required to submit to monthly psychological evaluation rather than quarterly, and the criteria for ECHO-SUBSTITUTION identification have been revised and expanded. The revised criteria are detailed in Foundation Psychological Profile Form 7-G (Revision 3).

Addendum XXXX-7: Incident XXXX-9 — The Relocation Attempt and Keter Reclassification

Date: ██ March 2019

Authorization Level: O5-7, O5-11

Summary:

Following fourteen (14) months of operation under Euclid-class containment protocols, a proposal was submitted to the O5 Council to physically relocate the SCPG-037 elevator car to a purpose-built underground containment facility. The proposal was motivated by the logistical difficulties of maintaining a surface-level containment site in an urban environment and by the ongoing challenge of preventing civilian approach.

The relocation attempt was authorized and conducted on ██ March 2019. A team of twelve (12) Foundation engineers and six (6) security personnel entered the Locus to disconnect the elevator car from the shaft and prepare it for transport.

At 14:23 local time, approximately forty minutes into the disconnection process, the elevator car moved. This occurred despite the hydraulic immobilization system being fully engaged and the car having been physically chained to the shaft walls at three points. The chains did not break; they were found afterward lying on the floor of the shaft, intact, as though they had never been attached.

The elevator moved upward. It passed Floor 9 — the top floor of the building — and continued moving. Acoustic monitoring indicated that the car continued to ascend for approximately eleven (11) seconds after passing the building's physical roof. Then it stopped.

At 14:24, the elevator doors opened. No floor was visible. Personnel inside the shaft reported that the open elevator doorway appeared to look out onto a space that was not the shaft interior and not any known location. The space appeared to be a large room, well-lit, containing a large number of people engaged in conversation.

At 14:24:30, the spatial breach event began.

An area of approximately 400 square meters surrounding the Locus building was affected. Within this area, thirty-seven (37) individuals — Foundation personnel and civilians — simultaneously began to experience SCPG-037 manifestation events. Unlike standard SCPG-037 events, these manifestations did not require proximity to the elevator. Affected individuals reported hearing conversations in empty air, in the voices of people they knew, saying things they had always wanted to hear.

The breach lasted for eleven (11) minutes. During this time, Foundation personnel were unable to enter the affected area due to immediate onset of SCPG-037 symptoms upon crossing the perimeter. At 14:35, the elevator doors closed. The breach ended.

The elevator car was found returned to Floor 4, doors open, in its standard parked position. The chains were on the floor of the shaft. The hydraulic system showed no record of activation.

Casualties:

14 individuals required immediate psychological intervention
3 individuals required long-term institutionalization (2 Foundation personnel, 1 civilian)
1 individual (Foundation Security Agent ████ Dolidze) is unaccounted for. No body was found. Security footage shows Agent Dolidze approaching the Locus building during the breach event and entering through the front door. He is not seen on any subsequent footage. The elevator car, when examined after the breach, showed no signs of occupancy. Agent Dolidze has been listed as Missing, Presumed Anomalously Displaced.

O5 Council Response: SCPG-037 was reclassified to Keter effective ██ March 2019. The relocation proposal was permanently withdrawn. A formal notation was added to the SCPG-037 file: "This object does not wish to be moved. We do not currently have the capability to compel it."

Addendum XXXX-8: Research Note — Dr. Vakhtang Beridze

Date: ██ January 2020

Filed by: Dr. Vakhtang Beridze, Primary Researcher

I have been working with SCPG-037 for nearly three years. I have overseen forty-one (41) documented interaction events. I have written the containment protocols that govern this site. I have watched colleagues be broken by this thing and I have, I believe, remained functional. I am filing this note because I think there is something important that the clinical language of our reports does not capture, and that I believe is relevant to our understanding of the anomaly.

SCPG-037 is not malicious. I want to be precise about this because I think it matters. It does not select the most painful possible conversation to show you. It does not choose cruelty. What it shows you is the conversation you needed most, and the reason that is so dangerous is that the conversation it shows you is, in the most meaningful sense, true. The things the Proxy says are things that could have been said. The things the other people say are things they could have meant, or might mean, or mean in some framework where the right words were found at the right time.

The harm comes not from deception but from accuracy. SCPG-037 does not lie to you. It shows you something real that did not happen. And the human mind, confronted with something real that did not happen, does not know what to do with it. We are not built to hold that kind of truth. We are built to live with the conversations we actually had, the ones that were incomplete and clumsy and too late and sometimes not at all. We are built to live with the silence. SCPG-037 removes the silence, and the silence, it turns out, was load-bearing.

I have not pressed button 14 again. I know what is on Floor 14. I know that my father is there, or something that is my father, saying the things he never said. I know that the conversation is still happening. I know that I could go back.

I am not going back.

But I want to. That is what I need the record to reflect. After three years of research, after everything I have seen this object do to the people around me, I still want to go back. That wanting does not diminish. I do not believe it will diminish. I believe that is the mechanism. I believe that is the point.

The Foundation's mandate is to secure, contain, and protect. We have secured SCPG-037. We have contained it, after a fashion. The protection — I am not certain we are protecting people from SCPG-037, or protecting them from something that might, in the end, be the truth about themselves.

I do not know what to do with that. I am filing it anyway.

— Dr. V. Beridze

Addendum XXXX-9: Current Status and Open Questions

As of ██ ████ 2023:

SCPG-037 remains contained at Site-179. No breach events have occurred since Incident XXXX-9. Containment protocols have been stable for four years.

The following questions remain unresolved and constitute the current primary research focus:

What is the source of the conversations accessed by SCPG-037? Are they occurring in a parallel temporal framework, an adjacent dimensional space, or are they being generated by an unknown mechanism?
What is the nature of the Proxy? Is it a separate entity, a temporal duplicate of the subject, or a construction?
Why does SCPG-037 exist in this specific location? Historical research has found no anomalous events associated with the Locus building prior to approximately 2009, suggesting either that SCPG-037 arrived at the Locus at that time or that its properties only became active then. No explanation for either scenario has been identified.
Is there a Floor 0? Attempts to access negative floors through Panel wiring manipulation have been suspended following a near-breach event in ██ 2021 (details classified Level 5). The single researcher who observed the doors open during this event has been placed on indefinite medical leave and has declined to describe what they saw. They have stated only: "Don't go there. Whatever you want to find, don't go there."
Where is Agent Dolidze?

"The elevator does not take you somewhere new. It takes you somewhere you have always been trying to get back to."

— Graffiti found on the wall of the Locus building's ground floor, in Georgian, author unknown. Predates Foundation acquisition of the site.

Document Classification: Level 3/XXXX

Unauthorized access to this document constitutes a breach of Foundation security protocols and will result in immediate amnestic treatment and reassignment.