Item #:SCP-7089
Object class:keter
Description:
SCP-7089 is a species of giant trapdoor spider living in the congo. It has been shown to be hostile. The first and only instance we could capture was contained on December first of 2008 after it killed 30 MFT-Lambda-18 (spider hunters) members. locals of the area called the species the j’ba fofi.
Special containment procedures:
SCP-7089 is to be kept in two cells with a hole cut into the floor to connect the two filled with enough dirt to burrow but it must have walls blocking anyway out and have a cell. SCP-7089 is to be fed 3 cows a week. It has shown to be peaceful if fed properly. If SCP-7089 is to escape containment then the best way to recontain it is to shoot at its legs seeing as they regrow after 1-2 hours it needs to be quickly transported back to containment.
Behaviors:
SCP-7089 Has been observed to rest during the day and is only active at night. It has also been shown to be able to understand most languages writing back with webs for interviews. It has also been seen to be intelligent enough to open doors. Seeing as it managed to get into the breakroom during one of its many containment breaches.
Instances:
1:The very first sighting of SCP-7089 by a western observer was in the 1890’s near lake Nyasa, during which British missionary Arthur John Simes and his men came upon one of the creatures. His men got themselves tangled in an enormous web and two giant spiders which were two and four feet in length (male and female) came out of their web and attacked them. Simes was bitten, but managed to escape after shooting one of them with his pistol. He subsequently developed symptoms including a deathly pallor, severe chills, swelling around the area where he was bitten, and became delirious before dropping into unconsciousness. He ultimately succumbed to these effects and died.
2:The fullest account by Westerners appears in a cryptozoological book by George Eberhart. On page 204, Eberhart relates the terrifying experience of an English couple traveling through a region of jungle in what is now called the Congo: “R.K. Lloyd and his wife were motoring in the Belgium Congo in 1938 when they saw a large object crossing the trail in front of them. At first, they thought it was a cat or monkey, but they soon realized it was a spider with legs nearly 3 feet.”
3:In March 2013 a video surfaced on YouTube of an alleged J’ba Fofi caught on a night vision camera, near a waterhole next to a tree in Mozambique. The J’ba Fofi appears out of the darkness for a brief moment, while scurrying into the darkness on the far right side of the screen. We have followed protocol and discredited the video.
