A Classified Archive of Incidents Surrounding Connable Road and the Wetland Basin
The Tarn is older than the road, older than the towns that cut through this quiet corner of Illinois. Before the wetlands were drained, before the cabins rotted into the earth, the locals whispered stories about something that rose from the water, something that watched from the edges of the treeline, something that remembered faces it had no right to know.
Most of those stories were dismissed.
Most of the people who told them aren’t here anymore.
What remains are the records — scattered, half-forgotten, and written by those who encountered the impossible and survived long enough to speak about it.
The Tarn Files is the collection of those documents.
A living archive of reports, transcripts, sightings, police notes, survivor interviews, and classified materials that trace the spread of a single anomaly:
A shapeshifting, memory-driven entity born from the water…
and whatever it has become on land.
About This Archive
The Tarn Files gathers all known documentation tied to:
• The Tarn — the waterborne origin entity
A reflection-breaking, gravity-defying, voice-mimicking anomaly first recorded in 1978.
Sometimes silent.
Sometimes singing.
Always learning.
• The Connable Road Entity (SCP-████-C)
A fully terrestrial derivative of the Tarn’s mimicry — a tall, leaning humanoid shape that evolved beyond the need for water, now moving freely through forests, drainage ditches, and treelines.
If you smell the rot, it has already noticed you.
If you look too long, it remembers you.
• Survivor Dossiers
The psychological files of those who walked away:
the broken, the shaken, the ones who swear their reflections move differently now.
• Police Case Files
Local law enforcement reports spanning five decades — the disappearances, the “prowlers,” the strange stall-outs, the people found knee-deep in water with no memory of how they arrived there.
• Found Notes & Warnings
Scraps left behind by those who didn’t make it out, often hidden in geocache containers or discovered near bodies of standing water.
• SCP Foundation Cross-Records
Where the official world fails to explain the phenomenon, deeper organizations attempt to catalog it, contain it, or understand its motive — and its evolution.
• Civilian Encounters & Creeping Myths
Creepypastas, campfire stories, 4chan threads, and whispered accounts that circle the events like moths around a flame.
Not all of them are fiction.
Why These Files Exist
Nothing in these pages is meant to answer the question of what the Tarn truly is.
Instead, they show a pattern:
- The Tarn watches.
- The Tarn learns.
- The Tarn becomes.
Every incident points to an entity refining its understanding of human shape, movement, memory, and presence — as if assembling itself from the pieces we leave behind.
The creature on Connable Road is not an isolated phenomenon.
It is an evolution.
And it is not done evolving.
Reading Instructions
Explore at your own pace, but note:
1. Some files are redacted for your safety
Not everything survives direct exposure.
2. Some accounts contradict one another
The Tarn and its derivatives do not behave consistently.
3. Some documents may update over time
New sightings. New disappearances. New shapes.
4. If you recognize details too closely…
stop reading.
Recognition goes both ways.
Enter the Archive
Choose a category to begin:
• SCP Files
→ Containment documents for The Tarn & Connable Road Entity
• Police Case Files
→ Disappearances, unexplained sightings, odd deaths
• Survivor Dossiers
→ Psychological reports from those who encountered it
• Found Notes
→ Warnings left behind by those who understood too late
• Incident Reports
→ Leaked transcripts, audio logs, camera footage breakdowns
• Creepypastas & Civilian Lore
→ The myths spreading faster than the truth
• Geocache Recoveries
→ Items discovered where the creature’s presence lingers strongest
Final Warning
This archive is for documentation and preservation.
It cannot protect you.
If you smell stagnant water where there shouldn’t be any…
If your reflection seems a moment behind your movement…
If the trees along Connable Road lean a little too far toward you…
Leave.
Some things learn faster when you watch them.