Summary: Wonderfully weird fiction.<br> ⁓The Voice before the Void<br> “A Video Oddity”<br> The SCP Foundation<br> Anomalous Item 20224 is a series of eight DVD-Rs containing unedited footage of an apparent nature documentary, collectively labeled as “Documentary 23”. The picture and sound quality of the footage is substandard, with audio-visual distortions, cuts, and missing footage common throughout the recordings. The disks will play on any standard DVD player, and the contained footage has been copied and archived.<br> No anomalous effects have been recorded regarding the disks themselves or the act of watching them. While the possibility of a hoax exists, such an undertaking would require several million dollars to produce equivalent special effects.<br> Anomalous Item 20224 was recovered from █████ ███████ on July 16, 20██. The previous owner was unaware of the objects’ origins, claiming to have received them through an anonymous seller on the internet. Anomalous Item 20224 is currently stored in Low Security Vault 2 of Site 19.<br> The following transcript lists only a general overview of major events of note.<br> Disk 1<br> 00:00 – Disk starts. The scene shown resembles the Serengeti Plain. A large group of wildebeests, gazelles, zebras, and other savannah wildlife are shown around a watering hole.<br> 00:12 – The voices of the filmmakers are heard for the first time. Three distinct voices are heard, one female, two male (Subjects 1, 2, and 3, respectively). The language spoken does not correlate with any known language, and has only been partially decoded. The Subjects seem to be describing the water hole scene, as the camera focuses on the drinking animals. Narration of this kind continues throughout most other segments of Anomalous Item 20224.<br> 05:15 – Subjects 1 and 3 appear on camera. Both are wearing similar outfits: utilitarian clothing in various shades of brown with backpacks. Documentary shifts focus to a nearby termite mound.<br> The next 34:06 of footage contains no anomalous or otherwise notable content.<br> 39:21 – First anomalous content seen. At this point in the documentary, focus is set upon a small bird, which on closer inspection is clearly a blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata). The bird displays no physical anomalies, besides being native to North America, not Africa.<br> 40:05 – Blue jay flies away. During the filming, the Subjects did not seem to find the presence of a non-native bird confusing or remarkable.<br> The next 19:55 of footage contains no anomalous or otherwise notable content. All animals featured show no unusual characteristics or behaviors.<br> 60:00 – Disk ends.<br> Disk 2<br> 00:00 – Disk starts. Scene shows a series of rocky foothills at the base of a mountain chain to the west. Scrub vegetation is common.<br> 00:10 – Camera focuses on a snake in the brush (Researcher’s note: Identified as a western diamondback rattlesnake). Subject 3 grabs the snake by the tail and uses a stick to handle it for the camera as Subject 1 narrates. At 00:55, the snake is released.<br> 01:01 – Cut. Next shot is the middle of a segment on a large ant colony. Ants are a light shade of blue.<br> 01:15 – Camera focuses on a group of roughly fifty soldier ants attacking a reef gecko (Sphaerodactylus notatus, native to Florida). Ants are tearing away chunks of flesh with their pincers. The gecko survives for nearly a minute.<br> 03:12 – Cut. Scene is now focusing on a pack of vultures feeding on the carcass of a large Bactrian camel.<br> 05:36 – Cut. The camel stands up and attempts to bite a vulture. The remains of the camel’s internal organs are dangling from the hole in its abdomen.<br> 05:45 – Cut.<br> There are no visuals for the next 10:45. Sound is in the form of five individual narrations on unknown subjects.<br> 16:21 – Cut. Camera focuses on a red panda drinking from a shallow stream.
