SCP-026-IT Human Leech

SCP Explained - Story & Animation

SCP-026-IT is a Slavic female, allegedly of Russian nationality, approximately 30 years of age. Subject's eyes are green and hair is red, standing 1.7 m tall, and weighing 60 kg.3 SCP-026-IT is capable of speaking and acting like a normal human. SCP-026-IT's eyes emit mild green light due to bioluminescence, with the amount of light emitted varying depending on the amount of blood present in SCP-026-IT's body.   LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to SCP Explained - Story & Animation  Follow us on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scpexplainedofficial  Join our Discord, share your SCP art, submit video feedback, chat with other fans...: https://discord.gg/scpexplained  Please let us know in the comments which SCP's we should cover next   Narrated by https://www.youtube.com/c/hitherehunter  Content relating to the SCP Foundation, including the SCP Foundation logo, is licensed under Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0 and all concepts originate from http://www.scp-wiki.net and its authors.   SCP-026-IT Human Leech is based on "SCP-026-IT" by Dottssa_Riba_Nahi, translated by Subervos: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-026-it  #scpexplained #scp #animation

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00:00It was a freezing day in April 1972 when Agent Yuri Petrov, one of the top field agents of the

00:06SCP Foundation's Russian branch, almost died in a military hospital 20 miles outside of Smolensk.

00:12The Foundation intercepted radio chatter between the hospital and the Kremlin that hinted at

00:16anomalous experiments going on inside the premises. So Yuri was given a cover story and

00:22infiltrated the hospital as a cleaner, instructed to observe and report any anomalies he happened

00:27to notice within the facility. The last thing that he expected was to be noticed first. It happened

00:34while he was mopping up after a long day's work. All he heard was the sound of a pair of

00:38boots and

00:39another pair of smart dress shoes tapping down the immaculately polished floor tiles behind him.

00:44The next thing he knew, he had the barrel of a suppressed Nagant M1895 revolver, one of the only

00:50revolvers in the world that you can actually suppress, pressed up against the back of his head.

00:55He said, Mr. Petrov, a calm voice said from behind him, I'm afraid you're going to need to come with

01:00us. He could see both men out of the corner of his eye. The one holding the Nagant was dressed

01:06in

01:06distinctive Spetsnaz army fatigues, and the other, who had a TT-30 pistol holstered in his belt,

01:13was dressed in a sharp suit. No doubt a member of GRU Division P, the Soviet answer to the SCP

01:19Foundation. Of course they would be the ones to sniff him out. Yuri wasn't stupid. He knew that

01:25if he complied here, he'd likely end up tortured and then shot, once they were convinced they'd

01:29gotten all the useful information out of him. In a situation like this, it was always better to

01:35just take your chances. The Spetsnaz operative pulled back the hammer on the Nagant with his

01:39thumb. You're testing my patience, Petrov. Rather than a witty retort, Yuri instead kicked the side of

01:45his mop bucket, spraying filthy water on them and making them instinctively raise their arms.

01:50He darted away down the hall, mop in hand, as the two gave chase. The Division P agent had pulled

01:56his TT-30 now, and begun firing shots after him, which Yuri was only narrowly able to dodge.

02:02Doing anything he could to avoid his pursuers, he ducked into a nearby room, one that, in all of his

02:07reconnaissance, he'd somehow never been able to scope out, and it would prove to be one of the most

02:12vital rooms for his particular mission in the entire facility.

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02:38get informed every time a new video comes out. Back in the secret room, Yuri was staring at a strange

02:44sight for a military hospital. A teenage girl, with strange, damaged skin, and half of her hair having

02:51fallen out, sitting immersed in a tub of water. She stared at Yuri with curious eyes, a curiosity that he

02:57very much returned, but before he could ask her a question, the door behind him burst open. The soldier

03:03and the division agent entered, guns blazing. Yuri didn't have time to draw the Makarov he'd hidden

03:08beneath his overalls. Instead, he needed to use what he already had in his hands, the mop. While the girl

03:14in the tub watched in fascination, Yuri spun the mop around with the accuracy of a Shaolin monk, striking

03:20the weapons out of his opponent's hands. In the same motion, he brought the hard mop handle down onto the

03:26back of the division agent's neck, knocking him unconscious. The Spetsnaz soldier wouldn't be so easy.

03:31Yuri. Before Yuri could even turn around, he'd already unearthed his taiga-style machete and swung

03:36for him. Yuri lifted the mop handle to block, and the machete's swing sliced it in half, a couple

03:42inches off, and that would have been Yuri's skull. He didn't intend to give the Spetsnaz operator another

03:47chance. Yuri dodged another swing, and then shoved the bottom half of the broken mop handle directly

03:53into the soldier's chest, piercing straight through his heart. The man fell to the ground with a heavy

03:58thud, bleeding out onto the tiles as Yuri painted with exhaustion. Strangely, the girl in the tub

04:04didn't seem at all phased by the violence she'd just witnessed. Instead, she watched the expanded

04:09pool of the soldier's blood with rapt attention. Yuri would later write in his report that he could see

04:14the hunger in the girl's eyes. She reached forward and placed her hand into the pool of blood, and

04:20Yuri was astonished to see the puddle shrink inwards towards her hand, seeping into the girl's skin.

04:25And as the girl seemingly drank the blood through her palm, Yuri saw a healthy coloration returning

04:31to her skin, and her hair beginning to rapidly grow out of the bald patches on her head. By the

04:37time all the blood was gone from the floor, she looked like any other teenage girl. And just like

04:43that, Yuri had found his anomaly. The girl, whose appearance matched that of a missing teenager,

04:49Vronka Lagonova, was soon taken in by the Russian branch of the SCP Foundation. Certain anomalous

04:55attributes were immediately apparent. She was often deathly ill, with symptoms that manifested

05:00in a similar manner to acute radiation sickness. She also had no ability to consume or digest

05:06standard food or drink. The only thing that provided respite from her symptoms was the absorption

05:11of human blood through her skin. In order to study this in more detail, she was sent to the

05:16Advanced Biological Facilities based in the Site Iridate campus of Italy. There, she was designated

05:22SCP-026-IT, the Human Leech. One of the many files transferred into the custody of the Foundation's

05:29Italian branch from the Russian division was an interview log conducted in Russian between the

05:34Human Leech and Dr. Nina Sokolova, who transferred to the Italian branch in order to continue her work

05:40on the SCP-026-IT case. Interestingly, Dr. Sokolova is one of the only researchers whose very presence

05:48seems to imitate and strike fear into the heart of the anomaly. You could easily see in the video

05:54recording of the interview that she avoids eye contact with the researcher, speaks quietly, and seems to

05:59uncomfortably swallow saliva. Through Dr. Sokolova's incredibly direct, no-nonsense attitude makes it clear to

06:06almost anyone why she is the kind of woman whose time you really wouldn't want to waste.

06:12She stepped into the containment chamber from across the anomaly's tank and took a seat

06:16as the recording began. She took fastidious notes in her leather-bound notebook.

06:20All right, we're all set. SCP-026-IT, let's get started, she said without looking up.

06:27The anomaly shrank away, meekly offering,

06:30If you don't mind, you can call me Veronica.

06:32With a simple, withering dismissiveness that could cause a vase full of daisies to wilt,

06:37Dr. Sokolova simply said,

06:39That won't be necessary. Can we start?

06:42Veronica cowed, replied,

06:43Okay.

06:44So first of all, what do you know about your condition?

06:48Veronica shrugged.

06:49I have always been affected by a congenital syndrome.

06:52They wanted to name it after me, but I think right now my name only appears in my obituary.

06:57Dr. Sokolova had no time for maudlin theatrics.

07:00She'd long since hardened her heart to the plight of the anomalies under containment.

07:04It was the cause of doing business.

07:07Please don't digress. Do you know what this syndrome consists of?

07:11Sorry. My immune system was spontaneously attacking a variety of my tissues,

07:15resulting in symptoms similar to necrotizing fasciitis. When it attacked superficial tissues,

07:21doctors thought they could use immunosuppressant drugs to calm the symptoms.

07:26Interesting. Dr. Sokolova quickly checked her papers on Veronica's medical records,

07:31since she'd come to the foundation, including the courses of drugs she was being given.

07:35You are not currently taking immunosuppressant drugs, so I assume the therapy was changed some

07:40time ago. Veronica gave a meek nod from inside her tank. Yes, immunosuppressant drugs were not

07:47enough, so they were discontinued. The biggest fear of the doctors was that my immune system would

07:52attack the nerve or bone tissue. Then one day, I was offered to move to Russia,

07:57to a place bordering Siberia for an intensive research session. From what I've heard,

08:02there are a lot of people who are sick like me from all over the world.

08:05This was the most fascinating tidbit that she had revealed so far. Dr. Sokolova thought,

08:10as she took furious notes, they didn't have anything on this group, only information on the

08:14military hospital where they'd first discovered her, and even there, the details were sketchy.

08:19Was this some group of interest, trying to get anomalous individuals under their control for

08:24study or even utilization? Dr. Sokolova tried to hide the extent of her interest.

08:29Her time working in the KGB, Soviet Russia's intelligence service, before joining the foundation,

08:34had taught her many valuable lessons. Chief among them, as she was exercising here,

08:38was to never let anyone know how much you want something. Give that away, and suddenly your opponent

08:44has leverage. With the practice detached calm, the researcher said,

08:48Who offered you this opportunity? The same doctors who were treating you?

08:52Veronica nodded. Yes. They said they had received funds for the study of particularly rare diseases,

08:59like mine. But I suppose that was a lie, since the only memories I have of those days are of

09:05me

09:05falling asleep on the journeys on the way out. I have no memories of that time. None at all.

09:10A dead end. Still, Dr. Sokolova hid her disappointment behind an impenetrable mask of

09:16neutral professionalism. What are your earliest memories after that period of emptiness?

09:21I remember waking up in a military hospital, being told that a military patrol found me in an abandoned

09:28factory on the Siberian border, naked, alone, and unconscious. They were shocked that I had survived

09:34more than an hour in that state in the middle of Russian winter. And how were you? I mean,

09:40how are you now, or how were you before the trip? Veronica looked down again, focusing on the ground,

09:46as though she expected a trap door to open from which she could fetch up all those hazy memories.

09:51Right now, I spent in that hospital a few days before I was taken and detained indefinitely by you

09:58guys. Dr. Sokolova simply nodded. It seemed that would be the extent of the information she could

10:04extract from the human leech. She clicked her pen, stood up, and said, I see. This should be enough.

10:10Thank you for your patience. The log cut out there. Everything they learned about SCP-026-IT seemed to

10:17open up more questions than answers. How had she survived so many of those improbable circumstances,

10:23despite her clearly having such fragile health? Who had been the forces behind the mysterious doctors

10:28that had treated her in the warehouse out in the Russian wilderness? Was she always like this? Or was

10:34at least some of her condition a result of experiments that these doctors performed on her in order to

10:39treat some other pre-existing condition? All lines of inquiry that Dr. Sokolova feared would ultimately

10:46come up short, though she was too gripped by the intrigue of it all to miss the opportunity to work

10:51with

10:51the girl in Italy with more time and better funding. Ultimately, she thought, this girl is just a

10:57harmless victim of all this. The real mystery lies behind whoever did all this to her. And for the

11:03most part, Dr. Sokolova was right. Except for one thing. Veronica was not harmless. One of the biggest

11:10challenges to containing SCP-026-IT is keeping fed with a fresh supply of human blood, often taken from

11:17D-class donors. It's pumped into her water tank on a daily basis to make it easier to diffuse into

11:23her

11:24skin. Something the Foundation learned the hard way is that this blood must be as pure as possible,

11:29free of contaminants and diseases. If not, these impurities will manifest in radical physical and

11:35behavioral changes for Veronica. On May 25, 2002, this oversight was made. Blood taken from a diseased

11:43source was pumped into the girl's tank and, upon absorption, immediately caused her

11:47behavior to change. She became short-tempered, paranoid, psychotic, and aggressive, along with

11:53the typical hallmarks of acute radiation poisoning, with symptoms escalating throughout the course of

11:58the day. At 6.43 p.m., Veronica somehow depleted all the water in her tank by absorbing it into

12:04her

12:04body, a feat previously thought to be impossible. She demanded more infusions from staff who denied her

12:10request. This was how the Foundation discovered that when Veronica does consume infected blood,

12:15she seemingly becomes addicted to it, as though it's giving her some kind of narcotic effect through

12:21unknown means. Every time her requests were denied, her anger seemed to increase.

12:26At 7.17 p.m., Veronica underwent another psychotic episode, and this time summoned up seemingly unimaginable

12:33strength and used it to smash her way out of her container, attempting to make a beeline for the store

12:39of

12:39infected blood. Of course, nobody had any idea how Veronica was actually aware of this route she was

12:44taking, but she nevertheless was going the right way the whole time. In the course of her rampage,

12:50multiple guards and researchers attempted to stop her. This would be the last decision they ever made.

12:56Any attempts to physically subdue Veronica resulted in her reacting with extreme violence and aggression,

13:01crushing skulls and splattering torsos. During the course of the event,

13:05she killed eight different members of staff. The rampage was only brought to a halt at 7.43 p.m.,

13:10when she was surrounded by a large number of armed and armored guards in full-coverage hermetic

13:15suits with powerful stun prods. It took their combined effort to end the horrors,

13:20at which point Veronica was taken back to her containment chamber and given an infusion of clean

13:24blood, which made her return to normal over the next few hours. It's a sobering reminder that no

13:30matter how innocent or even pitiful an anomaly seems to be, they often defy explanation and prediction

13:36of future behavior. And it's exactly when you feel the safest that you're in the most danger of all.

13:43Now check out SCP-3989, The Bone Orchard, and SCP-1861, The Crew of the HMS Wintersheimer, for more.

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