SCP 3456 The Orcadian Horsemen
It’s 1916, right in the middle of World
War One, and a British soldier is huddled
in a trench, occasionally peeking over the
top.
He’s supposed to be on watch, but there’s
little to see in the darkness that hangs over
no man’s land.
But then he spots something.
Something big.
It’s a shadowy figure, only about twenty
feet away, and it looks like it’s digging
in the mud.
It’s too dark to make out what he’s looking
at, so the soldier shoots a flare into the
sky, lighting up the battlefield with a dull
red light.
Now he can see it clearly and it’s like
nothing he’s ever seen before.
A huge, terrifying monster, picking up bodies
out of the mud.
The soldier can only stare, petrified by what
he’s seeing in front of him, when the creature
suddenly turns to stare back at him.
And smiles.
Hi!
I’m Tajmor, and THIS is SCP-3456, also
known as...
The Orcadian Horsemen.
SCP-3456 is the designation given to a group
of quadrupeds, of which the exact number that
exists is unknown.
These entities resemble horses, though with
some marked differences.
SCP-3456s lack any hair and their thick skin
is translucent revealing the fat and muscle
underneath.
They have three toed hooves, and strangest
of all, they have one or more human shaped
torsos fused to their backs.
Each torso has a pair of arms and a head,
but no legs, the torso seeming to meld directly
into the back of the creature’s horse-like
body.
The arms are much longer than those of a human,
with a total wingspan that is double the anomaly’s
height.
The arms are so long they typically drag along
the ground when the creature moves.
At the end of each arm are five sharpened
bnes that protrude from where fingers would
normally be.
Instead of a nose, most instances of SCP-3456
have a hole in the middle of the face, which
is capable of producing a high-pitched scream
that is as loud as a jet engine.
SCP-3456 instances vary in size, with the
largest recorded manifestation standing 30
meters tall and 15 meters long.
Their bodies have also shown to be quite resilient,
and are completely impervious to conventional
weaponry.
