It was a freezing night a few days before Christmas when the Svensson family moved into
their new cabin in the remote rural village of Havstrask, Sweden. The cabin was surrounded by
fields of snow and mountains in the distance, their nearest neighbours were 5 miles away.
The Svensson’s children, Lucas and Maja, were getting excited for Christmas, they could hardly
sleep at night. Their mother settled them into their new beds and read them a story from their
favourite book. The children eventually fell asleep and their mother went back downstairs.
Suddenly Lucas shot up in bed, something had woken him from his sleep.
He walked towards his bedroom window to see if there was anything outside. He couldn’t
see anything. Maybe he’d just imagined the noises scratching outside his window? But then he gave a
small cry, for, staring back at him through the window was the face of an emaciated old man.
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Today we bring you the Keter class object SCP-4666.
SCP-4666 is a long lived humanoid entity of unknown origin,
it is currently believed that there is only one entity of its kind in existence.
It is described as resembling an old man of eastern european descent,
it is over 2 metres tall and is extremely emaciated looking. Witness accounts always
describe the entity as being naked, even when seen outside in freezing conditions.
Although little is known of the entity’s anomalous properties, what we do know is
that it is capable of near instantaneous travel to any location north of 40 degrees latitude.
SCP-4666 activity occurs exclusively within a period of 12 consecutive nights every year,
from the night of December 21-22 to the night of January 1-2; this period is known
as the entity’s “active phase”. During this phase, in what are termed "Weissnacht Events",
the entity will appear at dwellings in one or multiple locations north of 40°N latitude.
All recorded Weissnacht Events have one thing in common, they have all occurred
at the homes of families with at least one child under 8 years old
living in rural areas and the areas are snow covered throughout the entire event.
The Weissnacht events follow a general progression,
during the first 7 nights children will report to their parents they have seen
SCP-4666, usually standing in a field looking towards their home
or occasionally they have woken to find the entity staring at them through their bedroom windows.
Between the eighth and 11th nights family members
(including the parents) will report sounds of footsteps coming from the roof or the attic.
An extremely unpleasant odor will also frequently be noticed inside the dwelling.
No cause for these phenomena will be found. As a result, parents will often begin to
suspect that their family is being stalked, or even that their dwelling might be "haunted".
On the 12th night one of two scenarios will occur.
The most common scenario is that SCP 4666 will kill all the family members except for one child
under 8 whom he will abduct. The entity will first inflict incapacitating injuries on the
family members whilst they are sleeping, he will then take them into one room and
torture them before finally killing them all in what appears to be some form of ritual.
The second scenario occurs in only approximately 15% of the Weissnacht events. SCP-4666 will not
kill the family. The families will report hearing footsteps in their attics and smell
a strange odor, the source of which they cannot find. No signs of entry will be discovered. In
the morning the children awaken to find presents at the foot of their beds. These will be crudely
crafted toys made out of the remains of human children. These toys are referred to as SCP-4666-A
A confirmed Weissnacht event took place in 1913 in Eichstatt, Germany, an entire family was killed,
with the exception of the youngest child who was a 3 year old male, he was abducted. The
bodies of the parents and five other children were found inside a stable adjoining their dwelling.
They had been restrained by having knives, pitchforks and other sharp
implements forced through the palms of their hands and into the walls of the stable,
before having their tongues removed, leading to hemorrhaging and death. Blood from the family
members had then been used to paint elaborate patterns of unknown meaning on the hides of the
mule, goat, and two cows present in the stable but they were unharmed. Neighbours told authorities
that in the week preceding the killings the father of the family had mentioned finding tracks
in the snow around the family's dwelling, which appeared to have been made by bare human feet.
An example of a SCP-4666-A was discovered in Baard in the Netherlands in 2006.
It was a hairbrush, the handle was made from wood and it was poorly carved.
In place of bristles 43 deciduous human teeth had been set at irregular intervals into the handle.
DNA testing revealed that each tooth belonged to a different child
and they ranged in age from between a few days old to four hundred years old.
The Foundation first became aware of SCP 4666’s existence and ongoing activity in 1974
whilst using its newly-implemented Anomalous Signature Recognition Program.
Several highly-similar home invasion incidents resulting in family deaths were found to have
occurred throughout the Northern hemisphere on the nights of either 1st or 2nd of January.
Further extensive research was conducted into civilian and law enforcement archives worldwide.
This uncovered evidence of on average 3 Weissnach events taking place every year dating back to the
18th century. Numerous historical documents were also found which appear to describe SCP-4666
activity occurring prior to this period. Some cases in Europe and Russia dated back to the
2nd Century AD, whilst cases in Scandinavia were as far back as the 1st Century BC.
Fingerprints were discovered at the locations of all Weissnach events.
The fingerprints present showed characteristics not known to occur in human beings.
Human-like white hairs were also recovered from the locations of several Weissnacht Events,
though no DNA, human or otherwise, could be extracted from them.
Prints that were found preserved in dried blood on a recovered SCP-4666-A were found to match.
Currently web traffic and law enforcement channels worldwide are being monitored
for evidence of the entity’s activity, the Foundation are particularly looking
for cases of stalking or reports of anomalous phenomena involving families with young children.
Should a Weissnacht Event be suspected to be in progress,
the nearest Containment Task Force will be dispatched to attempt containment of the entity.
The usual PDP/VIII Humanoid First Contact Protocols will apply.
All media coverage of family deaths attributed to the entity is to be suppressed or falsified
to make the deaths appear as non-anomalous home invasion murders.
Any forensic evidence or examples of SCP-4666-A that has been collected by non-Foundation agencies
is to be confiscated, and witnesses will be amnesticized.
On the 2nd of January, 2018, a Weissnacht event took place at a family's home in Hoonah, Alaska.
SCP-4666-A-0960 was discovered at the home, it was a crude, life-sized doll made from the emaciated
body of a female child. Some modifications had been made to it, a dress made from various pieces
of dirty, discolored clothing had been sewn around the body, and in several places, into
the actual skin of the body. The mouth had been sewn shut with thread made from human tendons,
and the lips painted red with a solution consisting primarily of human blood.
The fingernails of another child had been glued onto the fingers of the body using pine resin.
The fingernails had then been painted red using the same human blood based solution.
The entire scalp had been removed from the head, and the scalp of another child with long,
blond hair sewn onto the head in its place. The hair had been tied into two braids.
The bodies eyes had been removed and in their place were two large round pebbles
on which eyes had been crudely painted.
The child from whom the doll had been made was subsequently found to
be still alive by its family, although in an unconscious state. The child was taken
to Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau, Alaska where she survived for 18 hours.
Two Foundation agents were sent to the hospital to interview the child.
Agent Antoni Kowalczyk and agent Susan Mews conducted the interview, they discovered that
the subject was a 7 year old girl named Ekaterina Morozova. The hospital had removed the thread from
her lips thus allowing her to speak. Despite the fact that she had been given morphine she remained
conscious for around 30 minutes. The subject spoke in a language unknown to both agents,
she wasn’t able to speak English at all. The agents eventually managed to conduct the interview
in Russian as both Agent Antoni Kowalczyk and the subject were reasonably fluent in that language.
Agent Antoni Kowalczyk began the interview, it went as follows,
“Hello, I’m Antoni. What’s your name?”
“Are… are you going to take me back to him?” Asked the subject.
“No, I promise. I’m just here to talk to you.”
The subject paused for a few seconds before saying “I don’t want to go back.”
“You don’t have to, you’re safe now, myshka.”
The subject remained silent.
“Can you tell me what happened to you? Do you remember the night he came to your house?
“I remember … He hurt Mama and Papa and Katja and Yulianna for a long time
and they were bleeding … After they stopped screaming he put me in his bag.”
“His bag?”
“He had a big bag. Other children were in the bag too.
I think we go to other houses, I hear people screaming outside the bag all during the night.
Each house he put another child in the bag. Then after the night he take us away.”
“Where did he take you?”
“Underground.” She then said something which was unknown before continuing. “Deep …”
“Underground? You mean in a basement?”
“Deep … everything earth and mud and ice.
Bones everywhere. Everything cold. I can’t sleep because it’s too cold.”
“Were there lots of other children there with you?”
“Lots of children … lots of tunnels, lots of holes, but I can't see all. I can't see the
other... Too dark. My hole is with René and Hekla and Sasha and Paul. We make the toys together.”
“The toys?”
“If you don’t make the toys, you don’t eat. Don’t stop making the toys,
don’t fall asleep. Or he hurt you.”
“He hurts you? How?”
“He hit you, or he burn you … Or he bite off your
fingers. Or he cook you on the fire in his room and eat you. He eat Philippe and Sally.”
“What about you, how did … this … happen to you? Did he do this?”
The subject paused for a moment. “René and Hekla and Sasha and Paul do this. They have to.”
“Why?”
“I get sick. When you can’t make the toys, you become the toys.”
The interview concluded then as the subject became unconscious.
After the subject’s passing DNA testing was conducted, it revealed the subject had been
Ekaterina Morozova, age 7, a known abduction victim of SCP-4666 taken from her family's
residence in Dubovka, Russia on the second of January 2016. An autopsy of the subject’s
body showed she had been severely malnourished during the two years following her abduction,
which had resulted in considerable stunting, at the time of death her weight was only
15 kgs and her height 90cms. A number of scars and burns were present on her skin,
and she had suffered two bone fractures to her left tibia and left ulna that had
not been reset and had healed improperly. Her hands were heavily calloused and the cause of
death was attributed to multiple organ failures resulting from severe, sustained malnourishment.
Analysis of recovered police photographs has shown that the size, shape and configuration
of SCP-4666’s teeth do not match those of a human being or of any known animal.
Also known as A.S.R.P., this program marked the Foundation’s first use of algorithms
as a means of detecting anomalous phenomena.
Recordings of this interview are currently being studied by the Department of Linguistics,
as the language spoken by the subject was later found to match no known language,
living or dead. Early indications are that it might be related to pre-Proto-Germanic.
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