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Nyctophobia: Fear the Dark follows an anomalous entity designated SCP-[REDACTED], whose dormant form causes people who look at it to hallucinate their fears. It feeds on fear, then awakens as Phobia, taking forms that intensify its victims’ hallucinations as it hunts them.

The entity

In its dormant state, SCP-[REDACTED] has no documented form, though Foundation staff estimate it is about the size of a softball. Each person who looks at it experiences a different fear-induced hallucination. Once awakened, Phobia can assume any form and make its victims believe its vivid hallucinations are real. It feeds on adrenaline and cortisol, and toys with its prey to heighten their fear before attacking. People who resist fear draw its attention; continued resistance makes it more unstable.

Phobia cannot devour anything harder than 2.5 on the Mohs hardness scale, leaving bones, teeth and nails behind. It can also take the forms of other SCPs, using information about them held by people it encounters.

Containment and spread

The entity must be kept in a well-lit, soundproof room with 12-inch-thick lead walls and three redundant light power sources. Cameras cannot observe it, as it can affect people through cameras and speakers. Personnel who need to enter its enclosure must wear blindfolds and two layers of hearing protection, then follow guided rails to its containment cell. Touching it has been described as feeling an absolute, bone-chilling cold.

If the entity awakens into its mature form, the containment facility must be abandoned and sentient life evacuated from the surrounding area to starve it back into dormancy. If evacuation cannot be completed by dusk the following day, the procedures call for a strategic nuclear detonation. The entity has escaped containment before, and reports describe it spreading to a gated neighborhood, a mansion and a hotel within 30 days of the breach. Activity at each site surged before suddenly stopping; no survivors were found, and nuclear detonations were ordered for all three locations.

First encounter

The first documented recording came from a criminal asylum, where SCP-[REDACTED] was found in the cell of a person who had died after tearing out their own eyes. The entity began affecting patients and staff, prompting the Foundation to take control of the site. Later that year, it escaped, leaving no survivors; investigators found only the dead people’s bones. The account suggests it may have originated through the actions of a reality bender, but its origins remain unknown.