WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.640 The Investigator can’t believe their eyes. The  months of searching, the hours spent scouring   00:00:05.640 --> 00:00:11.160 through CCTV footage, and the days of combing  the woods for any clue as to where the missing   00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:16.880 woman was. The police have long since given  up on the case when it lands on the PI’s desk,   00:00:16.880 --> 00:00:20.440 their reputation for finding missing  persons having reached the ears of a   00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:25.960 grieving father. The man’s wife vanishes  on the same day their daughter is born;   00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:30.880 his story is full of things that don’t add up,  like his wife mentioning their daughter, despite   00:00:30.880 --> 00:00:37.440 having only just been delivered, spoke, in an  adult’s voice before the husband entered the room.  00:00:37.440 --> 00:00:42.280 It all sounds crazy, as does the notion that  someone could just walk out of the hospital   00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:48.000 and off into the woods after hours of painful  labor… but little does the Investigator know,   00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:53.440 this search is only set to get stranger. The woods are meant to be desolate,   00:00:53.440 --> 00:00:58.760 utterly devoid of human life save for the  occasional hiker. Yet, right in front of   00:00:58.760 --> 00:01:04.400 them stands a building that shouldn’t be there.  It contrasts heavily with the foreboding dark and   00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:11.480 towering trees, all garish pink, and oversized  lollipops in the front yard. It’s real, though,   00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:18.000 that much is clear as the Investigator steps  closer and closer… until they’re walking inside.  00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:24.000 It’s… a candy store. The shelves are filled  with rows and rows of open containers,   00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:29.600 with every variety of sweet treats on display.  If this wasn’t so strange, it would almost make   00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:34.680 the Investigator hungry. But any appetite  quickly exits their body in an instant when   00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:40.520 their flashlight beam falls over a body… lying  on the store floor, under a pile of those gummy   00:01:40.520 --> 00:01:46.280 strawberries that get stuck to the roof of your  mouth and lodged in your teeth when you chew them.  00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:49.280 The Investigator doesn’t even need  to uncover the corpse to know they’ve   00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:54.560 found who they’re looking for. The gown from the  local hospital is enough to tell them. Suddenly,   00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:58.040 something moves behind the counter of the  store, and the Investigator’s light quickly   00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:03.200 jumps over the source of it, causing them to yell  at the appearance of a clown in the torchlight…  00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:09.520 “Hi there, hon! Welcome to Millie’s Candy Shop!” The SCP Foundation has long been aware of an   00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:14.640 anomalous phenomenon that seems to affect the  population in the state of Rhode Island. Seemingly   00:02:14.640 --> 00:02:20.360 at random, this inexplicable event will occur  within newborn infants, regardless of where in the   00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:26.560 state delivery takes place. So far, the Foundation  has been unable to determine a causality, or even   00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:31.680 a common pattern among the affected births;  they don’t take place at one specific hospital,   00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:36.760 nor are they more likely to occur within close  proximity to any determinable point of origin.   00:02:36.760 --> 00:02:41.800 Yet, frighteningly, any baby born in Rhode  Island can potentially, without any early   00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:47.800 indicators to forewarn parents, suddenly start  speaking in an adult, masculine-sounding voice.  00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:53.480 These events are classified under  the designation of SCP-5986.  00:02:53.480 --> 00:02:58.960 Naturally, hearing a newlyborn child suddenly  speaking moments after delivery can be frightening   00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:03.400 for expectant parents. Early reports of the  incidents were dismissed by certain members   00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:08.280 of Foundation staff as being stress induced  auditory hallucinations experienced by new   00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:14.160 mothers as a result of intense labor. However,  this theory was quickly disproven both by the   00:03:14.160 --> 00:03:18.840 specificity of the newborns’ speech patterns  and the fact that the adult voice was heard   00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:24.680 by not just mothers post-labor but spouses and  hospital staff alike. Foundation researchers   00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:30.040 that ascribed to and advocated for the dismissive  ‘stress voices’ theory were sent to a mandatory   00:03:30.040 --> 00:03:34.640 workplace conduct and sexism sensitivity  seminar, and reassigned as a result.  00:03:34.640 --> 00:03:40.560 Given the abrupt and unpredictable occurrences of  SCP-5986 events, the Foundation has seen it fit   00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:45.160 to covertly station a number of its agents within  maternity wards and centers throughout the state   00:03:45.160 --> 00:03:49.920 of Rhode Island. These operatives are embedded  within the ranks of medical staff with the goal of   00:03:49.920 --> 00:03:55.520 administering amnestics to any civilians – be they  parents, midwives, or other hospital workers – who   00:03:55.520 --> 00:04:03.160 bear witness to an SCP-5986 event. In order to  prevent widespread knowledge of SCP-5986 or any   00:04:03.160 --> 00:04:08.200 panic that may occur should information reach the  public, covert Foundation agents are authorized   00:04:08.200 --> 00:04:13.720 to use their cover story as medical staff in  order to ensure any witnesses to an SCP-5986   00:04:13.720 --> 00:04:19.160 event receive an appropriate dosage of amnestics  in order to wipe their memories of the incident.  00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:23.760 Foundation agents posing as maternity ward staff  have also gathered information about the state   00:04:23.760 --> 00:04:29.920 of the affected infants after an SCP-5986 event  takes place. Through observing medical records   00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:33.640 and the results of the standard tests  performed by doctors after birth,   00:04:33.640 --> 00:04:40.280 the SCP Foundation has determined that newborn  children affected by SCP-5986 suffer no residual   00:04:40.280 --> 00:04:45.400 side effects after the initial incident. By every observable measure, both medical   00:04:45.400 --> 00:04:50.800 and anomalous, they are unharmed and completely  healthy. While, at present, none of the affected   00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:55.680 newborns have grown to adulthood, their medical  records are being kept on file by the Foundation,   00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:59.960 with automated alerts set up should any of  them be admitted to hospital with potentially   00:04:59.960 --> 00:05:03.640 anomalous symptoms in the future. While they can affect any child born   00:05:03.640 --> 00:05:09.760 in Rhode Island seemingly at random, the only  known consistency of SCP-5986 events themselves   00:05:09.760 --> 00:05:15.200 is that they all follow the exact same sequence.  Regardless of the gender assigned at the birth   00:05:15.200 --> 00:05:19.600 of the affected newborn, they will still  produce the exact same masculine-sounding,   00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:24.960 adult voice. Foundation audio engineering experts  have conducted a thorough analysis of recordings   00:05:24.960 --> 00:05:30.480 of this voice, some even spending months poring  over waveforms in order to try and match the exact   00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:36.920 inflection, tone, and accent to any other known  recording. At present, the Foundation has been   00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:43.000 unable to determine who the voice belongs to. Theories have ranged widely, with some audio   00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:48.080 engineers speculating that whoever the original  owner of the voice is, they must have spent the   00:05:48.080 --> 00:05:53.520 entirety of their life avoiding any form of audio  recording device, leading to a lack of potential   00:05:53.520 --> 00:05:59.160 matches. Other specialists in the research of  anomalous entities have expressed the belief that   00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:05.560 the voice heard during SCP-5986 events is being  projected psychically through newborns and isn’t   00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:11.200 the actual speaking voice of another human being. All anyone can agree on, however, is that the   00:06:11.200 --> 00:06:16.800 voice uses no digital alteration, nor is it  generated by artificial intelligence. However,   00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:21.040 it is reaching the newborn children of Rhode  Island, there is seemingly no electronic   00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:26.560 component to the voice, not being broadcast  via radio waves or even using the internet.  00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:30.040 Another hurdle presented to those  trying to determine the voice’s origin   00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:35.200 is the lack of any other soundbites. All the  Foundation has access to are the recordings   00:06:35.200 --> 00:06:42.840 from SCP-5986 incidents, and these all follow the  same transcript, with little to no variation. The   00:06:42.840 --> 00:06:48.320 spoken words themselves always take the exact  same form as well, that of an advertisement   00:06:48.320 --> 00:06:54.160 which is spoken aloud by newborns as follows: “What’s up, parents? Hey, did you know that   00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:59.360 children have three times as many taste buds as  you old folks? It’s crazy! That’s why you should   00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:05.280 take me down to Millie’s Candy Shop, so I can eat  plenty of delicious, sweet goodness! And don’t   00:07:05.280 --> 00:07:11.160 worry about packing on extra weight or getting  cavities, as all of Millie’s candy is zero-calorie   00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:17.840 with no sugar! That’s right zero calories and  no sugar! Maybe you parents will even want in   00:07:17.840 --> 00:07:23.800 on some of this action, eh? We’ll see you there!” Following delivering this ad copy, the affected   00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:31.080 newborn will then wink and lose consciousness,  signaling the conclusion of an SCP-5986 event.  00:07:31.080 --> 00:07:35.360 Naturally, as well as trying to determine the  source of the voice and any potential harm   00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:41.680 SCP-5986 does to the children it affects, the  SCP Foundation was also eager to ascertain the   00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:47.440 location of the aforementioned business, Millie’s  Candy Shop. An organized effort was carried out by   00:07:47.440 --> 00:07:52.240 Foundation web crawlers to scour the internet for  any mention of a confectionary store operating in   00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:57.480 Rhode Island under the aforementioned  name. There were zero results found.  00:07:57.480 --> 00:08:02.000 Agents were dispatched to conduct interviews with  members of the public in the area, under the cover   00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:08.080 story of a marketing questionnaire. Unanimously,  residents of Rhode Island all consistently stated   00:08:08.080 --> 00:08:13.560 that they’d never heard of or visited anywhere  called Millie’s Candy Shop. Another theory started   00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:18.440 gaining traction among Foundation researchers  observing the situation: what if the advertisement   00:08:18.440 --> 00:08:23.480 originated from a different point in time? Detractors argued that the language and   00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:27.720 vernacular used were too close to modern day  spoken English for the message to have been   00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:33.760 somehow anomalously transmitted from the past.  Still, determined to find a definitive answer,   00:08:33.760 --> 00:08:38.640 the Foundation requisitioned the entire documented  history of Rhode Island, gathering up city   00:08:38.640 --> 00:08:44.200 charters that dated back to the very formation of  the state itself. There was no written record of a   00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:50.240 Millie’s Candy Shop having ever existed anywhere. The Foundation had been, thus far, unable to   00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:57.280 determine where the message heard during SCP-5986  was coming from. That is, until a web crawler,   00:08:57.280 --> 00:09:01.320 who had been tirelessly trawling through  swathes of online data, found one of the   00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:07.160 first and only references to Millie’s Candy  Store anywhere on the internet. The source   00:09:07.160 --> 00:09:13.840 was an amateur blog written by Leah Hampton. Back on the eleventh of March 2020, Leah Hampton   00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:18.880 had been assisting her wife, Sarah, during  labor. Leah worked alongside Paula Gallagher,   00:09:18.880 --> 00:09:24.440 a midwife from the local hospital, and was able  to successfully deliver the couple’s son, Stein.   00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:31.720 Upon delivery, like several other Rhode Island  newborns, Stein underwent an SCP-5986 incident.   00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:35.880 However, there existed no record of this in the  Foundation’s accounts of known occurrences of   00:09:35.880 --> 00:09:42.440 the anomaly. Normally, a name associated with an  SCP-5986 event would have been immediately flagged   00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:49.080 by the Foundation’s automated system, given that  they kept a log of all the SCP-5986 incidents.  00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:53.800 However, because the Hampton’s son was delivered  during an at-home birth, any record of the event   00:09:53.800 --> 00:09:58.320 was missed, and, as a result, the three  witnesses – Leah and Sarah Hampton and   00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:03.440 their assisting midwife, Paula Gallagher –  did not receive subsequent amnestic treatment.  00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:09.520 As a result of this, Leah was able to document  her experience of an SCP-5986 publicly on her blog   00:10:09.520 --> 00:10:15.040 titled Rhode Why?-land, although owing to its low  readership, the Foundation was able to contain the   00:10:15.040 --> 00:10:19.600 spread of this information once it had removed the  website and successfully administered amnestics to   00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:24.440 the Hampton family, Ms Gallagher and the handful  of people who owned computers that had accessed   00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:30.280 the Rhode Why?-land domain through their browsers.  However, one crucial piece of information that led   00:10:30.280 --> 00:10:34.800 to the Foundation archiving a copy of Leah’s  blog post about the incident was the fact that   00:10:34.800 --> 00:10:40.880 her newborn son’s SCP-5986 event differed slightly  from the standard transcript that the Foundation   00:10:40.880 --> 00:10:47.680 had recorded before: this one came with directions  to reach the elusive Millie’s Candy Shop.  00:10:47.680 --> 00:10:52.480 The post itself opens by detailing what happened  to Leah and Sarah Hampton directly after the birth   00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:57.400 of their son, Stein, having delivered the  baby in the comfort of their own home. Leah   00:10:57.400 --> 00:11:01.400 even attributes the commenters on a previous  blog post for recommending Paula Gallagher   00:11:01.400 --> 00:11:08.760 to be their at-home midwife. Once Sarah, Leah’s  wife, held Stein for the first time, the SCP-5986   00:11:08.760 --> 00:11:14.160 incident was triggered. Leah recalls listening  to her newborn son speaking in a deep voice,   00:11:14.160 --> 00:11:19.520 providing the location of Millie’s Candy Store.  Eager to capture her son’s first words, Leah   00:11:19.520 --> 00:11:25.160 copied the directions down verbatim – although the  SCP Foundation has been unable to find anything by   00:11:25.160 --> 00:11:30.040 following the written copy of these directions. Having copied down the directions, Leah kissed   00:11:30.040 --> 00:11:35.360 Sarah and swiftly exited their home. In the  post itself, she acknowledges how people might   00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:40.600 perceive her leaving her wife and child only  moments after Stein was born and seems fully   00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:45.120 cognizant of the absurdity of her actions.  Her written justification for her sudden   00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:50.560 departure seemed to stem from some uncontrollable  compulsion to try the advertised zero-calorie   00:11:50.560 --> 00:11:56.280 candy for herself. Leah also exhibited a lack  of ambivalence towards whoever ‘Millie’ was,   00:11:56.280 --> 00:12:01.000 and instead seemed assured that the anomalous  confectionary shop owner was reputable, despite   00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:05.280 her apparent preferred method of broadcasting  advertisements through newborn infants.  00:12:05.280 --> 00:12:09.840 Following the directions she had noted down,  Leah arrived at what she described as a cute,   00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:16.200 pink house situated in a nearby forest. Outside  was a front garden; rather than the type of flora   00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:22.800 commonly grown out front at a suburban home, this  area was instead populated by oversized lollipops   00:12:22.800 --> 00:12:27.600 that seemed, initially, to have been stuck  into the soil. Entering the candy shop itself,   00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:32.240 the interior and décor were exactly what  Leah expected from a confectionary store:   00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:38.160 all the garish bright colors that evoked the kind  of hyperactivity sweets caused. But Millie’s had   00:12:38.160 --> 00:12:43.240 boasted all the good parts about candy without  the high sugar content and all its risks like   00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:48.480 cavities. It still sounded too good to be true,  but yet something still compelled Leah to venture   00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:53.240 into the store and find out firsthand. According to the archived post taken from   00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:58.520 Rhode Why?-land before the blog’s deletion, upon  entering the store Leah was quickly met with the   00:12:58.520 --> 00:13:04.040 only other occupant, that being Millie herself.  Her description likened her to a circus clown on   00:13:04.040 --> 00:13:09.520 the count of wearing similar face paint, however,  Leah Hampton’s retelling of events includes no   00:13:09.520 --> 00:13:14.760 photographed evidence of Millie’s appearance that  the Foundation could potentially use to track her.   00:13:14.760 --> 00:13:19.320 Some researchers have pointed out that, even  if there were photos, certain configurations of   00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:23.800 makeup are known to confuse facial recognition  software, meaning that it would likely be   00:13:23.800 --> 00:13:29.960 impossible to accurately identify Millie. Whoever – or indeed whatever – she was,   00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:35.440 the entity introduced itself as Millie and asked  Leah what she wanted from the shop. Immediately,   00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:41.080 Leah recalled the advertisement’s promises of  zero-calorie candy, but was still unconvinced   00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:46.000 such a thing could exist. When asking Millie  about it, the anomalous store’s owner explained   00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:50.800 that everything stocked in her shop had no  calories whatsoever, which is impossible through   00:13:50.800 --> 00:13:56.200 any known confectionary production methods,  even using lower calorie sugar alternatives.  00:13:56.200 --> 00:14:01.760 When quizzed on how exactly she was able to create  candy without any calories and that didn’t contain   00:14:01.760 --> 00:14:06.560 high enough levels of sugar to cause cavities,  Millie stated that her products were homegrown in   00:14:06.560 --> 00:14:12.120 her garden. Asking how she was able to grow candy,  the anomalous store owner simply answered that she   00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:17.720 did so using candy seeds. The SCP Foundation  has consulted numerous experts in biology,   00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:22.360 particularly in the field of botany, and all  of their findings concur that there is no such   00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:27.560 thing as candy seeds, nor is it possible to  grow candy in the way that plants are grown.  00:14:27.560 --> 00:14:32.360 It is worth nothing that, at no point throughout  their exchange, does Leah Hampton express any   00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:38.120 concern for how Millie used her newborn son Stein  to broadcast her advertisements. At least as far   00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:42.800 as their conversation is recalled in the blog  post, there is no mention of Sarah or Stein,   00:14:42.800 --> 00:14:49.040 instead, Leah remains solely focused on the  singular topic of discussion at hand: candy.   00:14:49.040 --> 00:14:54.120 However, Foundation behavioral analysts believe  that this hyper fixation on Millie’s candy was   00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:59.440 likely triggered through anomalous means during  the SCP-5986 incident witnessed by the Hamptons,   00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:03.680 in much the same way that Leah suffered an  instant compulsion to seek out Millie’s Candy   00:15:03.680 --> 00:15:08.760 Shop after hearing details of its location. Researchers are currently still uncertain   00:15:08.760 --> 00:15:13.560 however as to why the same compulsions weren’t  exhibited by Sarah Hampton and Paula Gallagher,   00:15:13.560 --> 00:15:19.520 who were also present to witness the SCP-5986  event involving the newborn Stein. Although, many   00:15:19.520 --> 00:15:24.440 researchers have expressed their relief that this  wasn’t the case, as had all three witnesses been   00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:29.040 compelled to find Millie’s Candy Shop, this would  have resulted in a newly delivered infant being   00:15:29.040 --> 00:15:33.880 left completely isolated without the presence  of an adult only moments after being born.  00:15:33.880 --> 00:15:39.040 During the next part of their exchange, possibly  still under some kind of mesmeric or cognito   00:15:39.040 --> 00:15:45.000 hazardous anomalous influence, Leah Hampton  requested a sample of the advertised zero-calorie   00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:49.720 candy. She was presented with a small pack of  gummy bears by Millie and instructed to give   00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:55.680 them a taste test. Noting that these were her  favorite type of candy, Leah obliged and opened   00:15:55.680 --> 00:16:00.800 the packet. She retained at least some level of  awareness of the laws of physics in spite of her   00:16:00.800 --> 00:16:06.200 current situation, as evidenced by her reaction  to what happened next: the candy reportedly   00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:11.480 began floating weightlessly out of Leah’s hand.  Even when she tried intentionally dropping them,   00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:16.680 gravity simply did not act on the gummy bears,  and they remained suspended in the air. Millie   00:16:16.680 --> 00:16:20.680 chimed in to offer the explanation that her  products still naturally follow the digestive   00:16:20.680 --> 00:16:26.560 tract when eaten, and pose no risk of being stuck  inside the body during or after consumption.  00:16:26.560 --> 00:16:31.840 Without hesitating, Leah then quickly ate the  anomalous confectionary and was instantly enamored   00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:37.600 with them. She then proceeded to buy several large  boxes of the candy, justifying the bulk purchase   00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:42.880 with how reasonably they were priced and as a  means to fulfill Sarah’s post-pregnancy cravings.   00:16:42.880 --> 00:16:49.200 It is unclear how many boxes Leah purchased or  how. The SCP Foundation has been, as of yet,   00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:54.400 unable to recover the anomalous candy despite  making serval sweeps of the Hampton residence.   00:16:54.400 --> 00:16:58.920 It is entirely possible that Leah Hampton  consumed all of the gummy bears she bought,   00:16:58.920 --> 00:17:03.680 and her health is being monitored by Foundation  agents embedded in the local area for any adverse   00:17:03.680 --> 00:17:09.320 anomalous side effects. An examination of  her financial records does show an unusual   00:17:09.320 --> 00:17:15.400 charge made to her bank account, however, no  amount or recipient account is listed. Further   00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:20.360 investigation by Foundation computer experts has  been unsuccessful in tracing this transaction to   00:17:20.360 --> 00:17:25.360 any business account anywhere in the world. Having purchased a large supply of anomalous   00:17:25.360 --> 00:17:30.720 candy, the store and its owner simultaneously  vanished, leaving Leah standing alone in the   00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:36.600 woods carrying her boxes of gummy bears. In  her blog post later, she emphasized how good   00:17:36.600 --> 00:17:42.000 the candy she had eaten was and encouraged  her readers – the Why?-landers – to seek out   00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:46.480 Millie’s Candy Shop for themselves. Having successfully wiped the post   00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:51.080 to Rhode Why?-land from the internet, the SCP  Foundation’s agents were able to make contact   00:17:51.080 --> 00:17:56.080 with the Hampton family and administer them  with amnestics. Following the directions that   00:17:56.080 --> 00:18:01.240 Leah had used to locate Millie’s Candy Shop,  agents were unable to uncover anything of note,   00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:06.920 despite several days spent scouring the nearby  forest where the anomalous store had manifested.   00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:13.800 Millie’s Candy Shop itself has been designated  as SCP-5986-1 and investigation into the exact   00:18:13.800 --> 00:18:18.800 whereabouts and anomalous transportation  of the storefront is still ongoing.  00:18:18.800 --> 00:18:25.000 No other recorded instances of SCP-5986 events  have included locational information, although the   00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:30.040 Foundation has advised its agents embedded inside  Rhode Island maternity centers to advertise their   00:18:30.040 --> 00:18:35.280 services for home births. The working theory  among some researchers was that this was the   00:18:35.280 --> 00:18:41.640 key determining factor in why the Hampton’s  received directions for locating SCP-5986-1,   00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:47.160 and that the store only manifests once directions  have been given. The hope is that recreating the   00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:52.520 same circumstances will offer a chance for the  SCP Foundation to actually locate Millie’s Candy   00:18:52.520 --> 00:18:58.200 Shop and intervene with its anomalous operations. That would have been the case, had it not been   00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:04.160 for another incident that took place on the May  23rd, 2020. Reports came in from a Foundation   00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:08.400 agent stationed at a post office in Hope, Rhode  Island, who had discovered that hundreds of   00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:12.560 letters had suddenly manifested within a post  box they’d been in the process of emptying at   00:19:12.560 --> 00:19:16.360 the time. Further inspection revealed that  the letters were all addressed to parents   00:19:16.360 --> 00:19:23.680 of children that had experienced an SCP-5986  event. Each was identical and read as follows:  00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:29.400 “Sad news, pals. Millie's Candy Shop is closing!  That's right, now you'll have to settle for candy   00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:34.400 with calories! Isn't that just disgusting?  I’d love to stay open and continue sating   00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:39.240 your cravings with my zero-sugar treats,  but candy shops need business, and I simply   00:19:39.240 --> 00:19:45.200 wasn't getting any, despite all of my top-notch  advertising! Perhaps it's because someone scared   00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:52.040 all my customers away! Have fun making your teeth  rot! And remember, dentists are always watching!”  00:19:52.040 --> 00:19:57.840 These letters were signed ‘your dearest  ex-candymaker, Millie.’ Since this incident,   00:19:57.840 --> 00:20:03.440 the Foundation has received no reports of SCP-5986  incidents from any of its agents stationed in   00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:09.400 Rhode Island. This has led the phenomenon to be  considered for reclassification to Neutralised.  00:20:09.400 --> 00:20:13.640 Check out the Doctor Bob Patreon and  become a junior researcher today! Now go   00:20:13.640 --> 00:20:19.960 and watch another entry from the files  of Doctor Bob, SCP-839 Candied Worms!