SCP 745 The Headlights
It’s late at night, and you’re driving down a desolate stretch of highway somewhere. There’s nothing out here except for you, your car, and the road. What you don’t know is that you’re about to encounter something..something terrifying. There’s no moon and the sky is pitch black. Your own car is barely lighting up the dark road ahead of you. Just then you spot something in your rearview mirror. It’s a pair of headlights. There’s nothing too strange about them, except
that they are especially bright. Your eyes are so adjusted to the darkness that you have to look away. When you glance in the mirror again you see that they're much closer. They must be going awfully fast. You don’t know why, but something about the car behind you makes you feel uneasy, there’s something off. You speed up a little. Maybe you can keep some distance from them but the lights keep getting closer. So you speed up a little more. Still, they gain on you, growing bigger and bigger in your rearview mirror. You’re getting nervous. They look like they are barreling right towards you…you floor it. The lights are able to keep up easily though, and now they’re right on your tail. No matter how fast you go they stay right behind you. The lights are so bright and close that they’re almost blinding. You’re in a full blown panic, what’s going on? Now the lights are swerving back and forth behind you. What do they want? You take a sharp turn without indicating, but they follow you without difficulty. You keep your foot smashed down on the accelerator, your engine is screaming, but they just get closer and closer. They’re right on your bumper. The bright white lights burn your eyes so bad that you swat at the rearview mirror to point it down. You look up in time to see the deer standing in the middle of the road. You slam on your brakes as hard you can. Your tires squeal loudly in the night and you brace yourself to both hit the deer and get rear ended from behind. You stop inches from the deer as something incredible happens.
The two headlights seem to split, passing by you on either side of your car. You and the deer lock eyes for a split second as if you’re both thinking “what was that?”
Before the deer hops away into the night. You don’t know what's happening, but you’re not going to wait around to find out. You throw the car in reverse and hit the gas, before whipping it around one hundred and eighty degrees. You can’t remember how far the last town was, but there’s no chance you’re going in the direction of those lights. You drive as fast you can, checking your mirror constantly to see if anything is behind you. Nothing.. Just darkness. May be you are finally safe. NO!! They’re right in front of you! The lights somehow appear out of nowhere right in front of your car. You turn the wheel hard to avoid a head on collision and you go flying off the road, smashing your head against the window as the car goes flipping and rolling and tumbling. The car comes to a hundred feet off the road, upside down, with a long blinking turn signal dimly lighting up the surrounding field. A single headlight approaches the car, but it’s not moving like a vehicle, it’s moving...like an animal. You’re concussed from the accident and your vision is starting to fade. The last thing you see is a second light approaching.
Because scp 745 entities hunt almost exclusively in pairs, with their preferred hunting grounds being remote sections of highway, they are easily mistaken for oncoming or approaching headlights. Two scp 745 entities are able to move together in perfect synchronicity, running in tandem at a speed up to 180 kilometers per hour. Together they will target lone vehicles that they spot on the highway and will begin to chase or run straight towards them, giving the unlucky driver the impression that a fast moving car is rapidly approaching them. After they near the targeted car, they will attempt to stop it by any means necessary,
Other than the damages sustained during the accident, there is never any other sign of struggle or forced entry, with the only other evidence left at the scene being the child like handprints from scp-745’s small front paws.
Strangely, analysis of SCP-745’s genetic structure has revealed that unlike humans, they are not a carbon based lifeform, meaning it is unlikely then that they are able to derive any nutrition from the consuming of human flesh. It is theorized then thaat they may be hunting solely for sport or some other form of perverse enjoyment. This question remains unanswered, as currently there are n recorded observations of SCP-745 feeding in the wild, as successful attacks have never left any witnesses, and specimens captured by SCP foundation refuse to eat at all. No lairs, nests, or other refuge of scp 745 has ever been found, nor has the Foundation located any breeding grounds or young examples of the entity. It’s unknown how or if they reproduce, or when they may have first appeared. What is known, is that they had established a wide hunting territory across the American South West, until Foundation teams began a program to thin their numbers in the 1960s. The effort appears to have been successful so far, and all recent sightings of SCP-745 have been limited to a specific stretch of highway in Northen New Mexico.
SCP 745 has been classified as Euclid, and in order to limit potential exposure to civilians, the Foundation has purchased the land surrounding the highway, with traffic being redirected to other roads. Foundation security teams disguised as highway patrol officers are to remove any trespassers or lost travelers who accidentally find themselves on the dangerous stretch of highway. The security teams are also tasked with attempting to capture any instances of scp 745 that they can, and any recovered creatures, live or dead, are to be loaded into Class 3 BCU storage containers and transferred to Site 17 for further study. Containment procedures that are able to preserve living specimens are still being researched, and currently, no examples of SCP-745 have survived for more than a week in captivity. However, seeing as there have been no new sightings of SCP-745 outside of the isolated and monitored stretch of highway, and all reports of phantom lights elsewhere in the country have not pointed to evidence of additional SCP-745 outbreaks, they are considered to be effectively contained.
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