HappyMacabre
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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX's component parts are to be kept separate in a standard storage lockbox with keycard access, in two different metal boxes with foam padding.

Access is restricted to researchers with Level 2 clearance or higher who have been specifically assigned to work with SCP-XXXX.

Description: SCP-XXXX consists of two items:

  • SCP-XXXX-A, a smartphone produced by the company █████. Examination of operating system shows a 3-gigabyte block of seemingly random data. It has no capability for Internet connection, and its SIM card appears to have been removed by a third party prior to containment. No contacts, notes, text messages, or other non-music media exist on SCP-XXXX-A. It has a library of approximately 2,000 songs, mostly from the heavy metal, punk, or stadium rock genres.
  • A pair of white earbuds with silicone earpieces, designated as SCP-XXXX-B. Earbuds have been tested and found to contain no anomalous materials. The cords have been partially wrapped in pink string. The left earpiece is nonfunctional due to a broken wire and does not emit sound.

Note, 11/15/2014: At the request of Junior Researcher ██████ █████████ , a selection of videos have been transferred to the computer memory of SCP-XXXX-A using its standard USB connector.

The object exhibits its anomalous properties only when SCP-XXXX-B is connected to SCP-XXXX-A by its standard 3.8 mm audio jack. A combination of different phones with SCP-XXXX-B or different earphones with SCP-XXXX-A does not yield any results.

SCP-XXXX’s anomalous properties engage when the phone is used to play a music or video file with sound from either the phone’s music library or its video gallery. The file does not play normally; instead, the audio coming from the right earpiece is independent of the content of the media, although the same sounds always play when the corresponding media is played on the phone. For examples see Experiment Log XXXX-01.

Experiment Log XXXX-01:

Junior Researcher █████████ suggested diversifying from music to see if other files had similar results. With Senior Researcher ███████████'s permission, non-musical audio and video files were loaded to SCP-XXXX-B's memory.

Discovery: SCP-XXXX was found by Foundation agents inserted into a local mortuary in [REDACTED], Tennessee. The previous owner of the phone was a high school student who had died from a drug overdose at a music festival. Agent Williams inspected the deceased's belongings and noted the lack of messages or other data on the phone, before becoming aware of SCP-XXXX's properties when attempting to listen to music. The object was contained successfully.

Note, 12/6/2014: Unless we run more experiments, the chance that it will be triggered again is astronomically low. Besides, it only showed those effects after a dangerous cross-test with a cognitohazard— which, I may add, you were not given permission to do. Yes, you know who you are.
Euclid classification denied.
-Site Director
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