SCP 379 – AdoptMe!.com
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Access to the domain AdoptMe!.com (and all known mirrors) is to be restricted at the ISP level within Foundation-influenced regions. This measure is acknowledged to be only partially effective, as SCP-379 reliably reappears under a new registrar and near-identical domain name within 48–72 hours of any registered takedown.
A standing web-crawler under Site-77 monitors SCP-379 for structural changes on an hourly basis. Any household reported to have accessed the Adopt section of SCP-379 is to be identified via cooperating ISPs and flagged for Family Contact intervention within 24 hours, particularly where children under sixteen years of age are confirmed or suspected residents.
Any instance of SCP-379-A recovered prior to a child's disappearance is to be seized and contained in a standard biological containment locker at Site-77. Contained instances must be shown a minimum of one image classified as "aesthetically pleasing" no less than once every seven days.
Failure to observe this schedule will result in the instance's death; see Description for further detail. Terminating an instance of SCP-379-A intentionally is prohibited except under Director-level authorization, as all recorded attempts have resulted in harm to Foundation personnel disproportionate to the method used.
Households confirmed to have lost a child to SCP-379 are to be administered Class B amnestics, and all devices used to access SCP-379 are to be forensically wiped. The family is to be flagged for annual passive monitoring, as three of eleven documented families have independently attempted to re-access SCP-379 within eighteen months of amnesticization.
Description: SCP-379 is a website, publicly accessible under the name "AdoptMe!.com" or "PleaseAdoptMe.com," styled to resemble amateur web design common circa 2000–2005: a flat light-grey background, a nonfunctional search bar, and three navigation links reading "Home," "About," and "Adopt." No scripts, cookies, or tracking behavior of any conventional kind have been recovered from the site's source code.
The Home page displays a single static image of a dog. Subjects who scroll the page report the image "looping" or repeating the further they scroll, despite no additional page content existing below the fold. This effect has not been reproduced outside of live access to SCP-379 and is assumed to be a minor perceptual component of the site's anomalous effect rather than the primary hazard.
The About page contains solicitation text inviting the reader to "adopt" an unnamed animal from a fictitious "Balocchi Pet Shelter," instructing the prospective adopter to show their "charge" objects classified as beautiful, paintings, plants, weather phenomena, or photographs of children under the age of sixteen, approximately once per week.
The text simultaneously instructs any visitor residing with a child under sixteen to leave the site, and disclaims responsibility for "the cognitive hazard" prior to instructing the reader to conceal "the unwelcomed ones" from their children.
The Adopt page displays a rotating gallery of images depicting common household pets, principally cats and dogs, digitally altered such that the region of the face is replaced by a smooth, unmarked plane bearing two eyes of human shape, coloration, and iris structure. At irregular intervals, an entry in the gallery will instead display a blank image accompanied by the following text, rendered in sequence:
- Please no children 🙁
- Please no children
- Please no
The final line has been observed to repeat indefinitely on affected devices, accompanied by escalating visual corruption, and reliably culminates in total system failure of the viewing device. No data recovery has been possible from any device that has undergone this failure state.
Should a household containing one or more children under sixteen complete the site's adoption process, an instance of SCP-379-A will manifest at the residence's primary entrance within 2–4 days, without exception.
SCP-379-A instances are physically consistent with a common domestic animal (cat- and dog-morphology instances are most frequently recorded) but possess no facial features aside from a pair of human-like eyes in the position a face would normally occupy.
If a child under sixteen remains resident in the household following SCP-379-A's arrival, all children in that household will be reported missing, typically discovered absent between one night's sleep and the next morning.
No physical evidence of removal, forced entry, or third-party involvement has been recovered from any of the eleven documented cases. Standard missing-persons protocols and Foundation tracing methods have failed to produce any lead connecting the disappearances to a location, individual, or organization.
Within 3–9 days of a confirmed disappearance, a new entry will appear in the Adopt gallery of SCP-379 bearing the missing child's first name, age, and a small number of simplified personality descriptors consistent with information not publicly available about the child before their disappearance.
Instances of SCP-379-A placed in households without a resident child under sixteen behave indistinguishably from an ordinary pet of the corresponding species in all respects other than dietary needs.
Such instances do not require food; instead, they require exposure to an object classified as aesthetically beautiful by a plurality of the household's residents no less than once every seven days. An instance denied this exposure will die within 24 hours of the deadline lapsing, its body decomposing at a rate several orders of magnitude faster than expected, ultimately leaving a skeleton anatomically consistent with a juvenile human presenting several nonhuman skeletal mutations.
Attempts to euthanize, dispose of, or otherwise destroy an instance of SCP-379-A before natural death have uniformly resulted in injury to the personnel involved, ranging from minor lacerations to, in one case, permanent loss of vision in both eyes (see Incident 379-1). The mechanism of this retaliatory harm has not been identified, as no instance of SCP-379-A has been observed to move, vocalize, or otherwise act during the incidents in question.
Incident 379-1: During an authorized attempt to incinerate a contained instance of SCP-379-A following its natural death, the presiding researcher sustained sudden and total loss of vision in both eyes with no external trauma to the eyes themselves. Ophthalmological examination found no physical cause. Vision has not returned as of this filing. Destruction of instances is no longer authorized outside of Director-level review.
Adicctional files :
Text recovered from the “About” section of an instance of SCP-379.
“Please adopt me!
Our shelter is currently facing a big problem, and we need YOU to help!
We lack space to accommodate all of our special friends and keep their needs in check!
We ask you- yes, YOU reading this to take one of them in!
They don’t need a lot!
Once a week, allow your charge to look at beautiful things – such as paintings, plants, weather phenomena, or family photos with children under the age of 16 present in them.
Our holds have wonderful personalities! And aren’t hostile towards other pets or adults!
Any potential adopters who currently reside inside a home with children under the age of 16 are asked to leave this site immediately upon receiving this message.
Balocchi Pet Shelter is not responsible for any effects caused by ignoring the cognitive hazard you and your family might face in the upcoming days,
Don’t allow your children to see the unwelcomed ones.
Protect their eyes.
We won’t take them in.”
Source: r/TalesFromTheCreeps · by /u/COW-BOY-BABY