Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures:
Foundation personnel are to maintain an observation post in proximity to SCP-XXXX. Video recording devices are to monitor all doorways and windows that connect to the anomalous zone. Any incidents or events that subvert the current understanding of the anomaly are to be documented and investigated.
Description: SCP-XXXX is the interior space of lecture hall 14 in the Faculty of East and Eurasia building, ████████████████ University in Chelyabinsk, Russia. No individual has ever been observed or documented entering the hall, and the best evaluation currently available is that SCP-XXXX is a space that is impossible to enter. This is despite the fact that SCP-XXXX has multiple doors providing access and windows that allow observation of the interior, with no obstructions that would physically prevent access to the space.
According to administrative records dating back to the construction of the Faculty of East and Eurasia building, lecture hall 14 has never been booked for any lectures that were not cancelled or moved prior to commencement. It has also never been scheduled for maintenance or cleaning, or utilized for any University functions. Similarly, Foundation observation records indicate that no ingress operation has ever been planned for SCP-XXXX, nor have observation staff ever attempted to enter the space as part of observation duties. These findings indicate that at least one component of the anomaly preventing access to SCP-XXXX is some sort of psychological block that extends outside the physical bounds of the anomalous space and prevents individuals from undertaking actions that would result in them entering the lecture hall at a later point.
see Addendum XXXX-Alpha for further information on the ongoing insufficiencies in Foundation observation and investigation of the anomaly.
See Addendum XXXX-Beta for Auditor █████ Volkov's memo summarizing the findings of his investigation into resourcing issues at the Chelyabinsk field office.
Current observations indicate that SCP-XXXX has an additional anomalous property beyond being impossible to enter, in that it also appears to discourage occupation and usage of its containing building and surounds. University records indicate a 27% drop in student enrollment, beginning four years before the construction of the East and Eurasia building. The drop in enrollment is almost entirely contained within the Faculty of East and Eurasia, with a smaller drop of 4-7% in other faculties that make use of the building's facilities. Additionally, the Faculty of East and Eurasia hosts a reduced staff and custodial service relative to other faculties within the university and comparable faculties in similarly sized institutions.
Addendum XXXX-Beta: Excerpt of Audit Authority memo regarding ongoing resourcing shortages in the Chelyabinsk Oblast Field office
The state of the Chelyabinsk field office is unacceptable. There are very few personnel here; by my count there are 7 empty desks for every 1 occupied. What meagre number of staff there is are completely overloaded with assignments. Funds have also been allocated poorly; there is equipment and hardware for a full office of staff, most of it unusued.
During my time in the office, I heard much discussion on recruitment efforts, the organization of evaluations for candidates, and the allocation of assignments for new personnell. While all that I heard sounded earnest and authentic - even frantic - the sheer amount of time that the office has been suffering from these issues assure that it was anything but. My assessment is that Director Mikhelson is desparate to rectify the staffing problem in his region now that he has fallen under increased scrutiny.
I endorse the proposal to relocate a director with a proven track record to the Chelyabinsk office to address the systemic issues that have been identified. I also recommend that Director Mikhelson be placed on administrative leave pending further investigation into his conduct.
Addendum XXXX-Alpha: Excerpt of O5 Council memo regarding investigation into competency of Regional Director Mikhelson
…Director Mikhelson has noted that the major contributing factor to the lack of any attempt to explore the interior of SCP-XXXX is due to a severe under-staffing issue at the Chelyabinsk Oblast field office that has persisted since the office's establishment. This has resulted in excessive paperwork backlogs and crippled logistics management for the region.
Director Mikhelson has stated that due to his scarce available manpower, he is forced to triage Safe-class anomalies in favour of allocating appropriate resources to Euclid and Keter anomalies under his oversight. As such, an audit on deficiencies in the management of SCP-XXXX has shown that the observation post outside SCP-XXXX is currently unmanned, and all monitoring data is instead being forwarded directly to the regional office, where it is only infrequently reviewed.
Director Mikhelson has advised that the specified containment and observation procedures will be properly adhered to once staffing shortages have been rectified.
It is the opinion of this council that Director Mikhelson has failed repeatedly to follow Council instructions that he should take steps to rectify staffing issues within his office. Director Mikhelson has also failed to follow even basic procedures for the initial procurement and containment of SCP-XXXX, to the point that it cannot be stated with confidence that SCP-XXXX is anomalous at all. A proposal is currently pending to replace Mikhelson with a new director capable of performing such rudimentary administrative duties as the proper requisition and allocation of personnel, and who will not allow anomalies to go unverified, unobserved, or unsecured.
The matter is currently pending a vote after further deliberation.
SCP-XXXX prior to initial containment
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: The physical structure of SCP-XXXX has been established as a satellite installation of Site 59. The installation is encircled by a jammer-enforced signal exclusion zone with a radius of 50 kilometres, and a physical exclusion zone comprised of three perimeter fences incremented at distances of 25, 50, and 75 kilometers from the site’s centre. Initial plans are being drafted for the extension of both exclusion zones by an additional 25 kilometres.
The SCP-XXXX exclusion zone is an electronic quarantine site. Any device capable of communicating via electronic signals is designated as SCP-XXXX-A, and must either be stored for on-site study, or destroyed by chemical dissolution in hyperacidic agents. Any equipment used by foundation staff in the study of SCP-XXXX should be sourced in analogue formats where electronic/digital formats can be avoided. Any and all electrical research equipment is to also be considered instances of SCP-XXXX-A, and is to be destroyed and replaced at yearly intervals. Waste products from the destruction of instances of SCP-XXXX-A are to be permanently interred in on-site landfills.
In order to balance research and containment efficiency against acceptable foundation exposure to SCP-XXXX-A’s effects, Site XXXX is to operate with a complement of between twenty and forty research staff, between forty and eighty containment personnel, and between ten and twenty D-class personnel. To preserve statistical consistency within the study of SCP-XXXX-A’s effect on its resident foundation staff, the ratio of researchers, containment staff and D-class personnel should be preferably maintained at 2:4:1, circumstances allowing.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a steel lattice radio tower located in the ████████████ region of the Australian Southern Gibson Desert. The main physical structure of SCP-XXXX is 55.4 meters in height, 6.1 meters in width at its base. Although the primary structure of SCP-XXXX reaches above the minimum height to require aviation warning lights in Australian territories, the structure features no illumination of any kind. This regulation breach is undocumented due to the lack of construction, maintenance or registration records for the site.
SCP-XXXX is the point of origin for an FM radio signal being broadcast on the █████Hz band, henceforth defined as SCP-XXXX-A. The current estimated signal range of SCP-XXXX is [REDACTED], and increasing at a rate of █.██ meters every 24 hours (██.██ kilometers every calendar year). More significantly, SCP-XXXX's second by second growth in signal range has been identified as a constant fraction of its current range, and is therefore ever increasing. Documentation of the first recorded instance of SCP-XXXX-A’s signal range increasing can be found under Addendum XXXX-Alpha.
When interpreted by any conventional receiver or transceiver, SCP-XXXX-A is resolved as a broadcast music station, hosted by between 1 and 3 English-speaking radio presenters – two male and one female – and broadcasting a wide selection of classical music from popular composers.
SCP-XXXX-A has no known physical studio. Although the voices of its presenters remain constant, they make claim to any of a large selection of names. Similarly, SCP-XXXX-A’s hosts claim to be broadcasting from a variety of seemingly unrelated and unremarkable urban centers around the Earth, and to be broadcasting music of any number of musical genres, despite the actual broadcasts consisting only of classical compositions. No repeating pattern has been observed in any of the variables in SCP-XXXX-A’s transmission, but both the host’s claimed names, and the claimed location of broadcast are sourced only from languages written using the modern Latin alphabet. Extended investigation has revealed that, when interpreted with an algorithm to select singular characters from each entry in a list of person and place names used by SCP-XXXX-A, hidden messages can be deciphered.
For further information on the selection algorithm and deciphered messages, see Addendum XXXX-Beta.
SCP-XXXX-A’s primary anomalous effect is a psychosomatic effect within its broadcast range that Foundation researchers currently hypothesize increases the susceptibility of individuals to the suggestions of their intrusive thoughts. In practical terms, SCP-XXXX-A’s influence on any given individual manifests in erratic actions, repeated instances of violence over minor disagreements, and a high likelihood of spontaneous attempts to commit suicide utilising a means that the individual is currently interacting with or in close proximity to. See addendum XXXX-Alpha for a curated selection of incidents identified as being a result of SCP-XXXX-A’s influence.
Foundation observers accompanying the initial containment team documented that – prior to their relocation away from SCP-XXXX - an Aboriginal Australian tribe located ██ kilometres to the east of SCP-XXXX experienced suicide rates equivalent to 239.5 in 100,000, over ten times the national suicide rate amongst Aboriginal Australian populations. Although not documented before their displacement, subsequent interviews with community members indicate that both tribes were also afflicted with constant:
- petty thefts
- vandalism
- harassment
- physical, verbal and sexual assaults
- murders
And other crimes that frequently occur as spontaneous actions.
Senior Researcher Stiles has repeatedly warned Foundation seniors that, should SCP-XXXX reach the "cascade-point" - at which the increments by which its signal power increases begin to grow exponentially - the results would be “at least an CK-class scenario, if not LK, VK or even XK.” 05-14 has described Dr. Stile’s concerns as “too broad and over-inclusive to be given any merit” and has noted that the cost of enforcing the physical and signal exclusion zone surrounding SCP-XXXX is set to grow exponentially as the signal power increases, necessitating a more unified and permanent containment method.
“Holy shit, am I glad to be outside the zone. I have done so much weird shit for no reason this week.”
“I know exactly what you mean. Did you hear about that D-class doing facilities work at Ranch-B? Just dropped his mop and downed half a bottle of bleach.”
“’course I heard. I’m so afraid that I’ll do something like that. Just… just shove my pen through my eye or something.”
[Name] grimaces “And that’s the worst part. The more we worry about it… doesn’t that make it more likely we’ll be hit by that exact kind of thought?”
“No. Just stop. I don’t wanna talk about that.”
“…right.”
“If I may suggest an alternate hypothesis – without any proof mind you – perhaps SCP-XXXX functions by interfering with the electrochemical signals in the brain, occasionally causing the suggestions of intrusive thoughts to be interpreted as actual calls for action. I feel that this idea – if at all possible – must be grossly oversimplified. The finesse of manipulation required to create this effect would be beyond anything humans can conceive of currently, emitting radio signals so finely tuned that I would say it is impossible such a result could be achieved by anything other than conscious design… and… well, honestly, this is all conjecture. The more I babble, the more I realize that this hypothesis sounds like an interesting angle of observation from afar, but-”
[Name] suddenly pushes his teacup off the table, shattering it on the floor. There is five seconds of silence while both men stare at the shards.
“Oh my god.”
“Did you know that the lake out northwest is called “Disappointment?” No fucking shit, seriously.”
“Disappointment, huh? Sounds like your sister in the sack last night. Total dead fis-“
Marnes, without any warning or indicator of anger, punches Lyles in the nose. Upon regaining his balance, Lyles strikes Barnes across the jaw, and a fistfight ensues. Containment officer ████████ Nguyen enters the room and observes the confrontation, but joins in the fight instead attempting to restrain either combatant.
Addendum XXXX-Beta: Research Log: Messages Decoded from SCP-XXXX-1’s Variable Name-Location-Genre System
Explanatory Note from Junior Researcher Scarlatti:
It took a goddamn age, but we managed to wrangle some coherence from XXXX-1, but I can’t say anyone will like what we’ve found.
We knew that there was a hidden message of some kind in there, because all the names they were using were from languages that use the Latin alphabet on paper. It was a code begging to be cracked, but for the first three years of containment we weren’t having any luck.
Eventually, we just set up a local server, plugged the spreadsheet of all the names they were using into it, and ran a program to try and select characters from the names in sequence and combine them into something coherent. The selection process was brute force, with the algorithm gradually iterating to more complex methods of selection over successive weeks. We had a secondary program screening the results against dictionary databases for the input languages, and flagging any instances for review where the product had a length of characters fitting two separate words in sequence.
The algorithm that finally yielded significant results is lengthy and cumbersome, but not particularly complex or nefarious – unlike the messages themselves. It’s just long enough, and utilizes multiple instances of inverse sequential selection, that it took five bloody months for the program to iterate to it. Writing it out as a statistical function took the better part of an hour.
With this current selection algorithm, long stretches of the name, location and genre lists still produce gibberish, but there are multiple, unambiguous messages in various languages between the junk letters. We’re setting up two extra servers; one to continue the iterations on the original sheets and see if any other permutations yield different messages, and a second to start the process anew on the spans of gibberish from the current viable product, but both may never yield any satisfactory results.
Great to know that I spent ten years getting my degree so that a radio tower can tell me it’s going to emancipate me in the most meta way possible, while making me do stupid shit like stabbing myself in the arm. I’ll suck a dick for a goddamn transfer out of this shithole.
Date(s) of Reception |
Original Language |
Original Message |
Translated Message |
(04-19)/██/████ |
Estonian |
sa ümbritsevad mind |
YOU SURROUND ME |
(20-30)/██/████ |
Maori |
wehi koe i ahau |
YOU FEAR ME |
(14-27)/██/████ |
Afrikaans |
jy behoort |
YOU SHOULD |
((14/██)-(14/██))/████ |
Norwegian |
vi vet hvem du er |
WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE |
((17/██)-(15/██))/████ |
Czech |
víme co chcete |
WE KNOW WHAT YOU WANT |
((09/██)-(23/██))/████ |
Indonesian |
tidak akan peduli |
IT WILL NOT MATTER |
(05-14)/██/████ |
Portuguese |
você está infectado |
YOU ARE TAINTED |
((15/██)-(26/██))/████ |
Albanian |
numrat kanë marrë rrënjë |
THE NUMBERS HAVE TAKEN ROOT |
(04-28)/██/████ |
Turkish |
biz zaten kazandık |
WE HAVE ALREADY WON |
05/██/████ |
English |
we can wait for our prize |
WE CAN WAIT FOR OUR PRIZE |
Item #: SCP-2359
Object Class: Euclid Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2359 should be held within a standard humanoid containment cell lined with soundproofing materials. The cell must not contain media with which SCP-2359 could be able to record information. SCP-2359 must be observed neither directly or by live camera feed. Observation must be performed by binary positive-negative detection of motion within SCP-2359’s containment cell.
All direct documentation of SCP-2359 – articles such as video recordings, audio recordings and transcripts, and photographic images – are to be classified as SCP-2359-A and stored in a reinforced secure locker. Access to these materials is restricted at all clearance levels, with exceptions subject to approval by O5-14.
In-person interaction with SCP-2359 and examination of previous interactions are forbidden at all security levels.
All research into SCP-2359’s anomalous properties is suspended indefinitely. Security staff assigned to monitor SCP-2359 must undergo fortnightly psychiatric evaluation. Any indicators of memetic infection will result in treatment with Class-C amnestics and rotation to other duties.
SCP-2359 must not be relocated for any reason.
SCP-2359 should be held within a standard humanoid containment cell lined with soundproofing materials. The cell must not contain media with which SCP-2359 could be able to record information. SCP-2359 must be observed neither directly or by live camera feed. SCP 2359 must only be observed via an animation of motion within its containment cell, as captured by a set of motion-mapping cameras. Observation of live camera feed is prohibited at all security levels.
All direct documentation of SCP-2359 – articles such as video recordings, audio recordings and transcripts, and photographic images – are to be classified as SCP-2359-A and stored in a reinforced secure locker. Access to these materials is restricted at all clearance levels, exceptions subject to approval by Senior Researcher Gillard.
SCP-2359’s responses during interviews must not be recorded. Interviewers and subjects will be recorded by laryngophones and automatically transcribed by dictation software. Any understanding of SCP-2359’s contributions to the interaction must be extrapolated from these transcripts and no other sources.
As a preventative measure, researchers, security officers and other staff assigned to monitor SCP-2359 must undergo fortnightly psychiatric evaluation. Any indicators of memetic infection will result in treatment with Class-C amnestics and rotation to other duties.
Relocation of SCP-2359 should be avoided if at all possible, due to the high risk of memetic infection and containment breach during transit. If relocation is unavoidable, SCP-2359 must be confined to a mobile sensory-depriving transit casket before exiting its containment chamber, and must not exit the casket for any reason until it has arrived in its new containment chamber. The process is to be handled by a full response team equipped with sound-proof ear protection and motion-mapping closed helmets.
See Addendum 2539-C for relevant documentation on SCP-2359’s revised classification and containment procedures.
Description: SCP-2359 is a humanoid of 1.76 meters in height and 66.2 kilograms in weight. All further physical description of SCP-2359 is impossible – as there is no way to observe the entity in a manner that would resolve its identifying characteristics – without being exposed to its memetic infection, and hence having the viewer’s perceptions of SCP-2359 altered. While humanoid in shape and proportion, SCP-2359 does not need to eat, drink, or sleep, and only does so when researchers or test subjects enter its containment.
SCP-2359’s primary anomalous property is a memetic infection that propagates to anyone that makes visual, auditory or informational contact with it. The infection impresses a false identity and memories of SCP-2359 onto the mind of the affected subject. As a result, the subject believes SCP-2359 to be a person with whom they have been acquainted with for most of their lives, such as a close family member or childhood friend. The implanted identity is generally a person whom the subject trusts innately and – in a large majority of documented occurrences – would go to great lengths to assist. Interviews with multiple infected subjects have indicated that the infection does not make the victim believe SCP-2359 is a person already known to them, but inserts an entirely new person and set of experiences into the victim’s memories. Complete removal of the infection necessitates precision application of Class-C amnestics.
SCP-2359’s memetic effects propagate through all current forms of media with the capacity to distinguish identifying characteristics. Class-D test subjects have displayed recognition of SCP-2359 when exposed to Polaroid photographs or digital images; film or digital videos; analogue or digital audio recordings; and software-dictated transcriptions of audio recordings.
It is impossible to communicate with SCP-2359 through any medium without becoming indoctrinated by its memetic effects. Likewise, it is impossible to visually observe SCP-2359 or any visual captures of it – including more abstract renders such as software-interpreted radar imaging – without becoming infected. The only current method of observation that has not been evidenced to result in memetic infection is a system of motion-mapping cameras that construct a representative animation of motion within SCP-2359’s containment cell. The entity’s memetic infection also cannot propagate through second-hand documentation, description or repetition of what subjects believe SCP-2359 has said.
When contradicted, SCP-2359’s memetic infection functions as a latent cognitohazard. When presented with conflicting evidence, the resulting dissonance experienced by a victim or subject cascades into a infohazardous kill agent. See Addendum 2359-A for relevant details.
Addendum 2359-A: Interview Log 2359-B-A (Transcript of Senior Researcher Gillard’s Debriefing Interview with Agent Shaw)
Interviewed: Field Agent ███ Shaw
Interviewer: Senior Researcher Dr ██████ Gillard
Dr Gillard: “Good morning.”
Agent Shaw: “Good morning.”
Dr Gillard: “For the record, please state your name and position.”
Agent Shaw: “███ Shaw, Nashville office Field Agent.”
Dr Gillard: “And you understand that this debriefing pertains to the recent containment of SCP-23… uh… 2359, yes?”
Agent Shaw: “Yes, ma’am, I do.”
Dr Gillard: “Alright. Just so you know, we have all the documentation we need on the procurement of 2359. This is a testimonial for our research into its anomalous properties.”
Agent Shaw: “I understand.”
Dr Gillard: “Then that’ll do for the pleasantries. Now… can you tell me about your involvement in the operation?”
Agent Shaw: “I… I don’t really remember all of it.”
Dr Gillard: “That’s fine, just tell me what you can recall. From the beginning, if you don’t mind.”
Agent Shaw: “Okay, well… I was dispatched from Nashville to Buxton County – uh, that’s Nashville, Tennessee, by the way.“
Dr Gillard: “Yes, ███. Please continue.”
Agent Shaw: “So I was dispatched to Buxton County with Hereford and Dietrich. There’d been a lotta stroke victims in the county morgue last month, and our supervisor wanted us to sweep for anomalies. Honestly, I expected that we’d just tell the locals to cut back on the salt and that’d be it.”
Dr Gillard: “But it wasn’t.”
Agent Shaw: “’Course not. We poked around Buxton proper for a few days; interviewed the next of kin and so on, but there were no leads on any sort of anomaly. Not until we started talking to the rural residents. One guy… uh… Henry Sturman, I think it was, said that his brother had come home from town talking about having seen the Mayor. The thing was, he’d called the mayor by the wrong name. I’m a little fuzzy on the details – I’ll have a proper report around my desk, somewhere – but the guts of it is that they got into an argument, and Sturman ended up showing his brother a photograph of him meeting the actual mayor. Sturman’s brother gets woozy, and half an hour later he’s dead of a stroke. Sturman thought the confusion was just a symptom.”
Dr Gillard: “And that was your lead?”
Agent Shaw: “It was. We tracked back to some of the other families, and that was our link. All of the victims had died just a while after talking about the mayor.”
Dr Gillard: “That was when you knew you were dealing with an anomaly.”
Agent Shaw: “Yeah, that’s right. We kept talking with the locals, and something else came up. Most of the rural residents said that their mayor was a white guy, [REDACTED], but every last townie was sure to the bone that their mayor was a biracial guy called Edward Nimitz. One call to the Nashville office and we knew that Nimitz wasn’t on any registries.”
Dr Gillard: “When was it that you began to suspect that the anomaly was memetic in nature?”
Agent Shaw: “I feel a little dumb to say it, but it hadn’t really clicked for me yet that it was all down to a mindfuck. I think I had a… well, an inkling of some sort. It just wasn’t quite there yet.”
Dr Gillard: “So what happened next?”
Agent Shaw: “Dietrich set up a temporary monitoring post outside the township. Hereford and I went back to Nashville for a debrief. Do I need to talk about that?”
Dr Gillard: “We have the transcript already.”
Agent Shaw: “Okay. Well, while the MTF was being assembled our supervisor decided to send us back to Buxton, to case the town hall for the procure-op. I remember… Hereford and I were finishing our debrief docs at our desks when we got word… and… and that was the last time I saw Hereford.”
Dr Gillard: “The last time that you can recall..”
Agent Shaw: “Yeah. Uh… I don’t remember leaving. I don’t remember anything after I handed in my docs.”
Dr Gillard: “You’ve been briefed, though.”
Agent Shaw: “Yes.”
(There is a brief silence)
Dr Gillard: “For the record-”
Agent Shaw: “Oh, right. Well, Uh… they told me that Hereford and I arrived back in Nashville at the end of the day, but we were messed up.”
Dr Gillard: “Infected.”
Agent Shaw: “We both thought that Nimitz was the mayor. We didn’t even remember why we’d been worried about him. They separated us, questioned us about what we did. Do you-”
Dr Gillard: “We have that documentation, too.”
Agent Shaw: “’Course, right. They… uh, they told Hereford that Nimitz wasn’t meant to exist. They showed him the state registry, and… and it killed him. Uh… a ‘hemorrhagic stroke’; the same cognitohazard as the civs in Buxton. I was dosed with amnestics, the MTF deployed the next morning – yesterday – and… well, that’s it, right?.”
Dr Gillard: “I think so, yes. Thank you, ███.”
Agent Shaw: “Was it anything you didn’t already know?”
Dr Gillard: “No, but it gives context. Hopefully, we’ll soon be able to understand what exactly 2359’s anomaly is.”
Agent Shaw: “Okay. Do… uh, sorry.”
Dr Gillard: “Go on.”
Agent Shaw: I was just wondering if I could ask a question.”
Dr Gillard: “Of course.”
Agent Shaw: “The task force. Did it affect them as well?”
Dr Gillard: “All of them, we’re fairly sure. Uh… we haven’t finished the debriefings yet, but it’s shaping up to be a motherlode.”
Agent Shaw: “The thing got to them, and they still bagged it?”
Dr Gillard: “There were some… some internal complications, but yes, the operation was a success. They did have orders, after all.”
**<End Log> **
Closing Statement: Agent Shaw, along with all other staff involved with the procurement of SCP-2359, was placed on psychiatric probation and rotated to clerical duties for a period of six months. Agent shaw completed his probation without indicating any lingering memetic infection, and resumed his duties as a field agent at the Nashville office.
Addendum 2359-B: Interview Log 2359-A-A (Transcript of Assistant Researcher Mayhew’s First Interview with SCP-2359)
Interviewed: SCP-2359
Interviewer: Assistant Researcher Dr █████ Mayhew
**<Begin Log > **
Dr Mayhew: “Uh… h-hello.”
(Dr Mayhew pauses. SCP-2359 seems to return the greeting, and/or enquire the reason for her presence..)
Dr Mayhew: “I’m… I’m here to ask you some questions.”
(SCP-2359 seems to invite Dr Mayhew to continue.)
Dr Mayhew: “I have them here. Just… well, why are you here?”
(SCP-2359 seems to ask for clarification.)
Dr Mayhew: “I mean… uh… why-“
(SCP-2359 interrupts Dr Mayhew.)
Dr Mayhew: “But I… they-“
(SCP-2359 interrupts again. There is thirty two (32) seconds of silence before Dr Mayhew speaks again.)
Dr Mayhew: “So… s-so why are you here?”
(SCP-2359 seems to ask for clarification, or Dr Mayhew pauses before continuing.)
Dr Mayhew: “Why did they bring you here, Nora? D-do they think you’re anomalous?”
(SCP-2359’s reaction is unclear. It appears to further conflict or confuse Dr Mayhew.)
Dr Mayhew: “I think I remember… no… w-what were you-“
(SCP-2359 seems to ask Dr Mayhew for assistance in breaching its containment.)
Dr Mayhew: “I… I don’t know if I can. They’re recording me.”
(SCP-2359 seems to ask if it is also being recorded.)
Dr Mayhew: “No, not you. I don’t think they want to.”
(SCP-2359’s reaction is unclear. It appears to give Dr Mayhew conviction to assist it in breaching its containment.)
Dr Mayhew: “I can’t let them keep you here. I-I don’t know what they think you are, but they’re wrong. I know you too well.”
(SCP-2359 seems to encourage Dr Mayhew.)
Dr Mayhew: “I’ll try my best. I… I love you, Nora.”
**<End Log> **
Closing Statement: Dr Mayhew was debriefed by his colleagues after exiting SCP-2359’s containment, but feigned ignorance as to the nature of his responses and suggested that SCP-2359 had somehow altered the recordings. Dr Mayhew became violent when Senior Researcher Gillard requested that he submit for psychiatric evaluation. He attacked his colleagues and attempted to tamper with research equipment before being apprehended by a response team and treated with Class-C amnestics.
SCP-2359 breached containment at 1922 hours the following day, and was later recaptured. Access logs indicated that, for fifty nine (59) seconds, Dr Mayhew had access to a research terminal with necessary clearance to allow a containment breach. This has been identified as the most likely source of the programming script that opened SCP-2359’s containment cell door the following day.
Dr Mayhew displayed no indicators of lingering memetic infection during or after recuperation, and was rotated to other duties.
Addendum 2359-C: Revisions to Containment Procedures for SCP-2359
In response to SCP-2359’s long history of memetic manipulation and subsequent containment breaches – and with special regard to its most recent containment breach, during which SCP-2359 successfully contacted SCP-████ – SCP-2359’s classification has been upgraded from Euclid to Keter. Subsequently, SCP-2359 will now be kept under revised containment procedures, as follows:
Due to the length of SCP-2359’s most recent containment breach, during which its movements were unaccounted for over a period of several days, it is unknown how many foundation staff have been exposed to its memetic infection and may be subsequently conspiring to free it from containment. To safeguard against this, current research programs involving SCP-2359 have been suspended indefinitely and interaction with SCP-2359 is now prohibited at all Security levels. Exemption applications are to be submitted to O5-14 for approval. Repeated applications for exemption will result in psychiatric evaluation.
With respect to SCP-2359’s current feigned comatose state and Senior Researcher Gillard’s current hypothesis that its memetic effects may be able to propagate through motion-mapping cameras, live observation of SCP-2359 is to be filtered into binary detection of movement. As a precautionary measure, still frames captured from the digitized motion feed of SCP-2359 have been expunged from its documentation. Access to SCP-2359’s live camera feed remains prohibited, and applications for access to the digitized motion feed are now subject to approval by O5-14.
SCP-2359 is not to be relocated for any reason. Exceptions are now subject to approval by O5-14.
The above procedural revisions are effective 22/01/2016