Item #: SCP-2354
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Lack of knowledge regarding SCP-2354 has made direct containment
infeasible.
Containment efforts should instead focus on monitoring likely targets of SCP-2354 and
attempting to preempt the entity.
This policy is to continue until more effective containment procedures can be developed.
Description: SCP-2354 is an anomalous ambush predator targeting individuals who have recently
experienced the death or disappearance of a loved one.
SCP-2354 is believed to stalk a given subject for an extended period of time, variably ranging
from three weeks to six months, before luring its target to an isolated location and bludgeoning
them to death.
SCP-2354 will then lacerate the subject post-mortem, typically by removing a single body part.
Most often the hands or genitals.
The significance of this process is unknown.
Beyond these factors, little is known about SCP-2354’s appearance, movements, or current
whereabouts.
Although initially attributed to a series of non-anomalous serial killings, the inexplicably
broad range of SCP-2354 manifestations has made the likelihood of anomalous influence
a near certainty.
Incident Log: The following is an abridged record of deaths connected to SCP-2354 and
descriptions of their circumstances.
Date Description Notes 9/15/2002 Howard Keitel, 27.
Found deceased in a forest one kilometer from his home in Berlin, Germany.
Feet removed at the base of the ankles.
Bludgeoned to death in accordance with typical manifestation.
Keitel’s twelve year old son, Howard Jr., had recently died after falling from the roof
of the family's country retreat in Bamberg.
Keitel expressed despair over the death, and had recently been hospitalized following a
suicide attempt.
8/16/1994 Katherine Smith, 33.
Found deceased in an alleyway in Trenton, New Jersey, nearly five hundred kilometers
from her home in Richmond, Virginia.
Believed to have travelled in an attempt to evade SCP-2354.
Hands removed.
Bludgeoned to death in accordance with typical manifestation. Smith’s twelve month old
daughter, Hosanna, had recently died of sudden infant death syndrome.
Smith had expressed concerns about childbirth but was described as a loving mother.
Reported feelings of being watched prior to death, dismissed as symptoms of an anxiety
disorder.
12/27/1992 Jose Gonzales, 20.
Found deceased in his apartment in Brooklyn, New York.
Genitals removed.
Bludgeoned to death in accordance with typical manifestation.
Gonzales’s eight year old niece had recently disappeared in a suspected kidnapping.
Gonzales had begun to exhibit strange behaviors shortly after this event, primarily centering
around feelings of being watched, which intensified shortly before his death.
1/2/1992 George Berkowitz, 43.
Found deceased in an alleyway three blocks from his home in Los Angeles, California.
Hands removed at the base of the wrists.
Bludgeoned to death in accordance with typical manifestation.
Berkowitz’s fiancé, Laura Hoover, had disappeared one month prior in what was later ruled a
homicide.
Her body was discovered shortly before Berkowitz’s death.
No suspect was ever identified.