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| Foto:The origin of SCP-3812 |
VISTORBELITUNG.COM,The origin of SCP-3812, often referred to as "A Voice Behind Me," is shrouded in mystery and defined by its profound connection to the concept of narrative ascension. Before it became a terrifyingly powerful, reality-altering entity, SCP-3812 was known simply as Sam Howell, an ordinary, non-anomalous African-American man who was believed to have died in 1996.
From Man to Anomaly
The anomalous transformation of Sam Howell began shortly after his death. Reports indicate that SCP-3812 was observed rising out of his grave and then disappearing. This resurrection marked the beginning of its existence as an SCP object.
The Foundation's attention was drawn to the entity after its presence caused a catastrophic demolition of an apartment building in Warsaw, Poland. Upon initial contact, the entity was an extremely powerful reality-bender, but its capabilities were quickly overshadowed by severe and rapidly worsening mental illness.
The Theory of Narrative Ascension
The exact mechanism by which Sam Howell acquired his immense power remains unknown to the Foundation. However, a crucial piece of information was received by Foundation Overwatch Command—a cryptic message implying that SCP-3812 was created by an entity native to a higher "narrative."
This theory is central to understanding the entity's nature. In the SCP-3812 narrative, reality is structured into a stack of nested narratives, or planes of existence, where beings in a higher narrative view the lower ones as mere fiction, like a comic book or a story.
The Intentional Creation: The higher-narrative entity supposedly created Sam Howell with the intention of making him "supersede" all of reality to continuously ascend this stack of narratives, becoming more "real" and powerful than everything below it, including its own narrative creator.
The Mental Toll: This continuous, involuntary ascension to higher planes of reality is believed to be the root of SCP-3812's profound mental health issues, specifically an advanced Eigenmann-Veitor schizophrenia complex. A human intellect is simply incapable of perceiving such higher levels of reality without severe mental destabilization, leading to:
• Extreme paranoia and dysphoria.
• An inability to discern the difference between the real and the imagined.
• A compulsion to alter reality to diminish the discrepancy between how it perceives something and what is actually real.
In essence, SCP-3812's formation is not a simple mutation but a forced, continuous evolution into a being that constantly transcends its own reality, a process initiated by an unknown, higher-dimensional being.
You can learn more about the anomaly in this animation: SCP-3812 - A Voice Behind Me (SCP Animation). This video is an animation of the SCP article which discusses the entity's origin.