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Item #: SCP-7561
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures:
SCP-7561 is currently uncontained in any physical sense; containment is limited to identification and monitoring of affected individuals. Any civilian reporting recurring visual anomalies involving "a black dot that follows their vision" is to be flagged through Project OMEGA-EYE and discreetly brought into Foundation custody for evaluation.
Affected individuals are to be fitted with the "Ocular Occlusion System" (OOS), a specialized visor that bombards the visual cortex with randomized low-intensity static. This reduces SCP-7561’s apparent activity and stabilizes psychological decline in 67% of cases.
No images, video recordings, or electromagnetic attempts to document SCP-7561 have succeeded. All testing indicates the phenomenon exists only as a perceptual anomaly localized to conscious observers. Under no circumstances should two or more affected individuals be permitted prolonged eye contact.
Description:
SCP-7561 is a cognitohazardous visual anomaly perceived as a large, perfectly circular black dot surrounded by a faint, uneven coffee-brown outline. The dot maintains a consistent presence in the center of any affected individual’s field of vision, regardless of direction or ocular movement. SCP-7561 does not shift relative to saccades or blinking and cannot be occluded by physical objects.
When an affected subject closes their eyes, SCP-7561 undergoes a radical perceptual shift: the black dot becomes a luminescent white disc, burning at an intensity described by subjects as “retinal fire.” Victims report feelings of dread, nausea, and a persistent sound resembling whispering in reverse phonemes while the eyes are shut. These symptoms intensify with duration of eye closure.
The outline of SCP-7561—a mottled, coffee-colored halo—has been identified in 78% of subjects as bearing movement, akin to “smoke watching you back.” Attempts to correlate this outline with known memetic signatures have been inconclusive.
Long-term exposure results in visual and auditory hallucinations, with later stages including:
Persistent "afterimages" of unknown symbols (not matching any known script).
Hearing repeated instances of the phrase “We are watching you watch it.”
A compulsion to draw or recreate the dot, often with increasingly disturbing detail.
SCP-7561 was first documented in ██████████, Belarus, when a painter gouged out both eyes with a palette knife after producing a series of canvases entitled The Eternal Dot. Subsequent analysis revealed that over 60% of viewers of his paintings developed SCP-7561 symptoms within two weeks.
Addendum 7561-A – Cross-Test Proposal
Requesting Researcher: Dr. Jack Bright
Proposal: Exposure of SCP-7561-affected D-class to SCP-035 to determine visual interference.
Status: Denied by Site-19 Ethics Liaison: “We will not be compounding mind-horrors just to see who screams first, Dr. Bright.”
Addendum 7561-B – Wondertainment Connection Hypothesis
Recovered marketing materials for a defunct product tentatively linked to SCP-7561, labeled Dr. Wondertainment's Shadow Paint Play-Set™, mention the following line:
“Be very careful; you wouldn't want to erase a real shadow by mistake!”
No direct link has been established, but color, form, and behavioral parallels between SCP-7561’s outline and the “shadow residue” in Play-Set™ testing logs remain under review.
Test Log Excerpt 7561-T1
Subject: D-7881
Procedure: Subject observed a blank white wall under controlled lighting conditions while describing the SCP-7561 manifestation. Subject instructed to close eyes for 30 seconds.
Observation:
Upon eye closure, subject immediately screamed, clawing at face.
Subject described the white dot as “alive” and “breaking the sky open.”
Heart rate elevated to 170 BPM; subject attempted to bite own tongue off after 15 seconds.
Outcome: Subject sedated. SCP-7561 intensity reported to decrease after 48 hours. Subject permanently blind due to self-inflicted trauma.
Excerpts of note:
Affected individuals are to be fitted with the "Ocular Occlusion System" (OOS), a specialized visor that bombards the visual cortex with randomized low-intensity static. This reduces SCP-7561’s apparent activity and stabilizes psychological decline in 67% of cases.
The outline of SCP-7561—a mottled, coffee-colored halo—has been identified in 78% of subjects as bearing movement, akin to “smoke watching you back.” Attempts to correlate this outline with known memetic signatures have been inconclusive.
Long-term exposure results in visual and auditory hallucinations, with later stages including:
Persistent "afterimages" of unknown symbols (not matching any known script).
Hearing repeated instances of the phrase “We are watching you watch it.”
A compulsion to draw or recreate the dot, often with increasingly disturbing detail.
Addendum 7561-B – Wondertainment Connection Hypothesis
Recovered marketing materials for a defunct product tentatively linked to SCP-7561, labeled Dr. Wondertainment's Shadow Paint Play-Set™, mention the following line:
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