Divine Hunger

Item #: SCP-P

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: Media outlets are to be suppressed and mentions of SCP-P removed.

Monotheistic houses of worship are to be monitored for signs of SCP-P infection. Individuals affected by SCP-P are to be detained and transported to Offsite Containment Facility 37. Those affected but not infected by SCP-P are to be amnesticized and released.

Description: SCP-P is a phenomenon randomly affecting religious leaders of any rank from monotheistic religions. Individuals affected by SCP-P (referred to as SCP-P-A) become prone to bouts of extreme rage and aggression, ultimately leading SCP-P-A to attack another individual.

All attacks lead to the attempted consumption of the victim, with 87% of these attacks being successful. During this time, SCP-P-A is able to eat an apparently unlimited amount of human material in an incredibly short amount of time.

SCP-P-A instances have been shown to be immune to diseases normally associated from contact with human fluids and tissues.

If SCP-P-A is unable to consume human tissue for a prolonged period of time, they will experience symptoms consistent with malnutrition (fatigue, dizziness, etc) and eventually expire. No physiological changes have ever been noted in any SCP-P-A to date.

Addendum-P-1: SCP-P was first encountered in 1967 affecting the Southern United States. An abnormal amount of cannibalism cases were encountered by police departments at the time, at which point the Foundation took over operations. Initial encounters were relatively rare, low in severity, and constrained to the Southern United States. However, since 1988, encounters have been steadily increasing in frequency, severity, and have spread to the rest of the United States.

Interview-P-1:

Display Interview Log

Interviewed: SCP-P-A-192

Interviewer: Dr. Micheals

Foreword: SCP-P-A-192 was a former catholic priest and had been detained in Beaufort, South Carolina after consuming an individual during a confession. SCP-P-A-192 was considerably more cooperative than the other SCP-P-A instances and agreed to give this interview.

<Begin Log>

Dr. Micheals: Good morning A-192. How are we doing today?

A-192: I am doing fine, Doctor, thank you for asking.

Dr. Micheals: Excellent. I just need you to state your ID and name, and then we can begin.
A-192: Alright. My ID is SCP-P-A-192, real name Antonio Borst.

Dr. Micheals: Perfect. So then, Father Borst, how long have you been a priest.

A-192: About 30 years now, I believe.

Dr. Micheals: And in that time, have you always been…

A-192: (laughs) Eating people? Yes, in that time, I've always been like this.

Dr. Micheals: So then what motivates you to eat people? We know it isn't exactly natural, but can you elaborate?

A-192: Natural is just what it is. The bird flies, the fish swims, and we eat. It is a part of us, like any limb.

Dr. Micheals: So then, if this thing is as you describe it, have you felt this way all your life?

A-192: No, not always. I felt it for the first time in Middle School. I was an altar servant. I had served for several years, been to sunday school since second grade, yet I was growing…unsure of my faith. But one fateful Sunday morning, as I brought the priest the wafers, as he turned the bread into the body, and as he ate it, I felt something. It was a stir in the air, something from beyond touching my heart and my stomach. Yet still I was uncertain.

Dr. Micheals: So then was the first time you, uh, ate someone?

A-192: Not long after that. The weeks following my revelation were the hungriest I've ever been. I was scared, confused, and still uncertain. I was on the brink of starvation when one of the other altar servants asked me to meet him in the woods. I was at the height of my hunger at that point. There he told me he felt that same hunger. We had not seen the same revelation; where I had known hunger, he had known sacrifice. And he wanted, no, needed me to eat him. So I consumed him. All of him. His bones, his brain, everything. And soaked in his blood, hands in his chest, my uncertainty was blown away. That was my calling; when I felt Him within me, when I was able to pierce the veil between our world and His, if even for just a moment.

Dr. Micheals: What did you see?

A-192: I stared into the gaping, abyssal maws of god and I felt his divine hunger.

Dr. Micheals: And the other servant, the one you ate, are there others like him?

A-192: Plenty. No matter who it is, anyone who truly opens their eyes to God feels the same hunger. Some are like me and wish to help Him satiate it. Others are like my dear friend all those years ago, who wish to help him directly. I only consume the willing, Doctor.

Dr. Micheals: And you don't find any of this wrong?

A-192: What do you mean?

Dr. Micheals: You eat people. That's not exactly a part of the commandments.

A-192: I am quite familiar with some of the things you people do here. Of what I've heard, your Foundation is quite the atrocity committer as well. And I'm sure that there's far worse and far more than just what I've heard, all done in the name of the greater good. What we do is no different.

Dr. Micheals: And what greater good is that?

A-192: God has hungered for hundreds of years. It's only now that He's begun to starve.

<End Log>

Closing Statement: Following the interview, SCP-P-A-192 was eaten by his cellmates. New Containment procedures are currently being evaluated by the ethics committee. Possible connections to SCP-3004 are being investigated.

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