SCP-3456: “Orcadian Horsemen”

Item number SCP-three four five six.

Object class, Keter.

Special containment procedures.

SCP-three four five six is currently uncontained.

All attempts to contain or neutralize it have failed.

Research into methods for containment is ongoing.

Personnel who observe the entity are to be treated with class G amnestics and must be treated at facilities with at least one freshwater stream, river, or lake within one kilometer of the site.

All historical references to SCP-three four five six are to be removed and or attributed to myth, shell shock, PTSD, and hysteria.

Reports regarding loss of life and damage as a result of SCP-three four five six incidents should be scrubbed of all references to the anomaly and replaced with narratives involving military conflict, natural or man-made disasters.

Regions in which SCP-three four five six are likely to appear are to be monitored regularly.

Personnel are to be deployed to aid evacuation efforts in the event of an incident.

Direct observation of SCP-three four five six should be avoided.

Description.

SCP-three four five six are a group of quadrupeds superficially resembling horses and other equines.

Individual instances deviate significantly from equines, particularly due to the lack of hair, presence of three-toed hooves, thick translucent skin, and either single or multiple human torsos fused to its back in addition to the normal equine head attached to the horse's body.

Each torso has a pair of arms and a head attached.

The arm span reaches twice the height of the entity itself and ends in five sharpened protruding bone digits in place of human fingers.

These appendages drag along the ground during the entity's movements.

In most instances, SCP-three four five six possesses a hole where the human nose is normally located and is capable of emitting high-pitched screams up to one hundred and ten decibels in intensity.

The size of each SCP-three four five six instance varies, with the largest recorded manifestation reaching thirty meters in height and fifteen meters in length.

Thus far, SCP-three four five six instances have proven to be impervious to conventional weapons.

Instances materialize near the sites of war, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters.

Multiple manifestations may occur depending on the scale of the event, as indicated by the entity's materialization during numerous historical events throughout the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.

SCP-three four five six instances display high levels of adaptive intelligence during incidents, often engineering situations to trap or torture their targets.

Common tactics include ambushes, luring, property destruction, and psychological manipulation.