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VISTORBELITUNG.COM,SCP-939, designated a Keter class anomaly and commonly known as "With Many Voices," stands as one of the SCP Foundation's most unsettling predatory entities. These pack-based creatures, characterized by their translucent red skin, lack of eyes, and, most notably, their chilling ability to perfectly mimic human voices, lure unsuspecting prey to their doom.
While the SCP Foundation's documentation provides exhaustive detail on their biology, behavior, and containment procedures, the true, definitive account of their origin remains shrouded in mystery, contributing significantly to their inherent horror. The lore, however, offers several unsettling clues and theories about how these monstrous creatures came to be.
The physical description of SCP-939 itself hints at a non-natural, or at least, an extremely rapid and drastic evolutionary history.
Troglobitic Atrophy: SCP-939 exhibits atrophy in several systems, particularly a complete lack of eyes or eye sockets, similar to organisms adapted to living in deep caves (troglobites). This suggests a long, isolated evolution in a lightless environment, or perhaps an accelerated process.
Absence of Vital Systems: Strangely, SCP-939 lacks many standard vital organs, including a central nervous system, circulatory system, and a functional digestive tract. They have no biological need to feed, yet they relentlessly hunt, killing and accumulating ingested material in their respiratory system, only to later regurgitate it. This points away from a normal evolutionary path and towards a highly anomalous or engineered creation.
Amnestic Exhalation,Instances of SCP-939 exhale minute traces of a colorless, odorless Class C amnestic, AMN-C227. This compound causes temporary anterograde amnesia, inhibiting memory formation in those exposed. This unique biological function is a near-perfect hunting tool, as victims exposed to the amnestic may forget crucial moments of their encounter, hindering survival and reducing the credibility of any survivors.
The Reproduction Enigma
Perhaps the most unsettling clue about SCP-939's background lies in its reproductive cycle, as detailed in Foundation addendums.
Female instances of SCP-939 are capable of giving live birth. Astonishingly, the initial offspring are described as being morphologically and genotypically indistinguishable from healthy human infants. It is only later, through an unknown transformative process that involves cannibalism of their own bodies (a process involving the consumption of their old skin and head), that these human-like infants fully develop into the adult, predatory SCP-939 form.
This transformation from a human infant to an anomalous predator has led to several prominent theories within the SCP community:
Theory 1: The Result of a Failed Experiment or Curse
Given the creature's human-like origins and subsequent grotesque transformation, some hypothesize that SCP-939 is not an evolved animal species but rather the product of an anomalous transformation inflicted upon humans.
Sarkicism: The violent, transformative nature of the process and the almost sacrificial elements of the transformation lead some to speculate a connection to Sarkic Cults, which in SCP lore are known for their body horror, flesh-crafting, and transformative rituals. SCP-939 could be the result of a botched ritual or an engineered predator designed to specifically hunt and lure humanity.
Bioweapon: The creature's specialized physiology from the amnestic gas to its hunting tactics suggests that it could be a highly evolved biological weapon created by a hostile Group of Interest or a forgotten civilization, purpose-built to eliminate human populations in a psychologically devastating manner.
Theory 2: An Ancient, Hidden Predator
Another theory posits that SCP-939 is simply an extremely rare, ancient species that has existed in isolation for millennia. Its vocal mimicry is compared to mythological creatures like the Crocotta (or dog-wolf), an ancient Aethiopian beast said to mimic the human voice to lure prey.
However, the modern SCP-939's biology, particularly the amnestic gas and the human-infant stage of reproduction, strongly suggests a more modern, or at least, a more anomalous, source than a mere prehistoric animal.
Ultimately, the Foundation has yet to issue a clear, canonical file detailing the precise "birth" of the first SCP-939. The chilling ambiguity surrounding its origins is it an ancient curse, a monstrous bioweapon, or a creature that simply was and is a predator that somehow uses humanity as its chrysalis is a key element of its terror.
What remains clear is that SCP-939, "With Many Voices," is a devastating Keter entity whose very existence is a perversion of biological life, using the sound of human distress and familiarity as its ultimate weapon.