Note: The following is the audio transcript of an exploratory attempt within SCP-3785 by three members of MTF D-15 “County Line”, D-15 Teter, Jackknife, and Norse. The purpose of their mission was to ascertain the location of and recover eleven missing individuals.

[BEGIN LOG]

D-15 Teter: Alright y’all. Let’s go.

D-15 Norse: It’s getting dark in here.

D-15 Teter: Yeah, Command, I can confirm it’s starting to get dark. Not like we’ve got too much tree cover, but like it’s just nighttime. Can you confirm the time?

Command: Copy that, Teter. It is currently 1405 hours, local time.

D-15 Teter: That’s what I thought. Way too dark for this time of day.

Team continues on for an additional 2km before reaching the opening into SCP-3785.

D-15 Jackknife: You guys hear that?

D-15 Norse: Yeah, that’s freaky. It’s really quiet in here. All we can hear is the wind (pauses) and the occasional bird.

D-15 Jackknife: And it’s really fucking dark.

Command: Copy that, team. Proceed with caution.

Team activates their shoulder mounted lights, and proceed north across the clearing.

D-15 Teter: Command, status report.

Command: Copy, Teter.

D-15 Teter: We’re in some big clearing here, like you see where they’ve got power lines strung, only there are trees on this end, and… it’s hard to make out what’s much further north than where we are. There are stars in the sky, but they’re pretty dim and, uh… not any that I’m familiar with. We can see some really faint lights up ahead too, and a lot of hills, some rough dirt tracks. Nothing particularly unusual right now. (Pauses) Wish we’d brought some vehicles, though. Going to be hard to get around here.

Command: Copy, Teter. Continue on as far as you can safely, and return when you feel you can’t advance any further.

D-15 Teter: Copy that.

Team continues on for a short time.

D-15 Norse: Look over here. Footprints. (Pauses) Probably a few different sets. Think these are our missing kids?

D-15 Teter: Hard to say. Look pretty fresh, though. (Pauses) Huh. Check that out.

D-15 Jackknife: What?

D-15 Teter: That sign.

D-15 Norse: Command, we’ve got a sign here that says… “Jasper’s Hill”, and it’s got an arrow pointing… north, on it.

Command: Copy that, Norse. Anything else unusual where you are?

D-15 Norse: Negative. Looks pretty clear.

Command: Copy. Carry on.

Team continues north, passing several other similar signs and what appear to be small campsites and remnants of fires at the tops of hills. On the top of a particularly tall hill, the team pauses.

D-15 Teter: You see that out there?

D-15 Norse: Where?

D-15 Jackknife: Yeah, way over there. Is that a car?

D-15 Teter: Sort of looks like it, doesn’t it? It’s not moving very fast. (Pauses) Command, the landscape here is getting really unusual. The hill we’re on top of is taller than it should be, and it drops off pretty dramatically past here. I can see, shit, uh… maybe a half dozen other unusually large hills past here? And past that, maybe three or four clicks out, there are some headlights. They’re just sort of… creeping along out there.

D-15 Norse: Hey, they’ve stopped.

D-15 Teter: So I think we’re going to need to start to backtrack, see if there are any side roads away from here, or—

D-15 Jackknife: Shh, hang on. Look.

D-15 Norse: Uh, Command, those lights just flashed at us. It’s turning. (Pauses) It’s coming towards us.

Command: Copy that. How far away is this vehicle?

D-15 Teter: Sort of hard to judge. The landscape gets really strange past this point. I think it’s pretty far away. It’s— (pauses) the bird noise. It’s stopped. There’s something else there now.

Command: What is it?

D-15 Teter: It’s like a person making… cat noises. Er, like, “merw, merw”. Just over and over again. I don’t know where it’s coming from.

Command: Copy that, Teter. Go ahead and head back, we’re going to see about getting you some vehicles before trying this again.

D-15 Teter: Affirmative.

D-15 Jackknife: Thank god. My feet are fucking killing me.

Team proceeds to head back towards the access point.

D-15 Norse: Teter, over here. There’s something by this tree.

D-15 Teter: Yeah?

D-15 Norse: It’s a cell phone.

D-15 Teter: Huh. Yeah, go ahead and grab that. We’ll let the lab process it. (Pauses) Anybody seen those lights in a while?

D-15 Jackknife: Not since we came back down that ridge. (Pauses) That weird cat sound is gone, though.

D-15 Norse: Finally.

D-15 Teter: Hang tight. I can hear something else. You hear that? What is that?

D-15 Jackknife: I don’t know, honestly. It’s really weird, it’s like I can just make it out. (Pauses) Yeah, that’s weird. It’s like it’s really close to us, but I can barely hear it. It’s muffled? Sounds sort of like a lot of-

D-15 Norse: (Pauses) Oh, fuck. Look up there.

D-15 Jackknife: Oh my god.

D-15 Teter: Wha— shit, the headlights. Run! Turn off your lights, run!

Command: Teter? Teter, what is it?

D-15 Teter: That noise (heavy breathing) the power lines (heavy breathing) they’re on the power lines (heavy breathing) the kids we were (pauses) looking for, they’re hung upside down above (heavy breathing) it’s right behind us.

Command: Copy, we have an extraction team ready at the access point.

Command: Teter? Do you read us?

D-15 Jackknife: (Engine noise, then shouting, and then silence)

D-15 Teter: Fuck!

Command: D-15 team? Do you copy?

Silence.

Command: Do you copy?

A short time passes in silence as Command attempts to reestablish communications with the D-15 team.

D-15 Teter: Come on. We’re almost there.

Command: D-15, do you copy?

D-15 Norse: Command?

Command: We read you. What happened?

D-15 Norse: It hit Jackknife and drove into the woods. We heard a voice as it came near us, and it was talking to us, but we don’t think it could see us. It’s gone back over the ridge now, and (pauses) I can’t see it. Jack? Jack!

Command: Repeat, Jackknife is MIA?

D-15 Teter: Affirmative. Command, I think we found the missing subjects too, but (pauses) I don’t think they’re recoverable. We need to get Jack, we’ll stay here until-

Command: Negative, Teter. Proceed to the extraction point, let’s get you out of there. We’ll get another team in to recover Jackknife.

Remaining members of D-15 team are successfully recovered at the access point. Remaining team members are in good health, aside from minor scrapes and bruises and signs of stress. The cell phone discovered by the D-15 team is confirmed to have belonged to one of the missing individuals, and information recovered from the device is available below.

[END LOG]