On // , negotiations for trade between 
representatives of 2493’ and the O5 Council 
was conducted. It was agreed that in return for 
digital information regarding assorted 2493’ 
technology, the Foundation was to provide a 
continuous supply of matter in the form of 
waste material. The bulk of this waste material 
was sourced from the five major ocean gyres 
and various global landfills. 


The majority of the information received from 
2493’ was oriented towards containment or 
destruction of anomalous entities, specializing 
in entities, objects or locations with abnormal 
geometric properties. Additional information 
enabled large advances in medical science, 
and artificial food production. Schematics for 
an antimatter reactor were also utilized to 
create the prototype FAM-Reactor. 


Further negotiations were conducted to obtain 
controlled amounts of antimatter from 2493’ in 
return for random samples of modern music. 


On / / , Lunar Area-32 received a 
transmission from 2493’ stating that several 
devices critical to the continued existence of 
2493’ were failing due to physical strain due to 
their extended usage. The Foundation was 
informed that while maintenance would delay 
total failure, 2493’ was expected to be 
destroyed within a year. 


Several weeks later a second transmission 
was received, stating that the devices 
preventing 2493’ from receiving waste material 


from the location of abnormal geometry had 
outright failed, and that 2493’ was now being 
overrun with severely detrimental anomalous 
objects. Staff at Lunar Area-32 was advised to 
prepare to receive several objects essential to 
ensuring SCP-2493-1’s continued biological 
function. Several devices constructed of the 
same material as SCP-2493-2 manifested a 
short distance outside Lunar Area-32, 
including a large room with airlock capable of 
safely containing SCP-2493-1 in a vacuum 
environment, which has since been relocated 
away from the Area, connected via high-speed 
rail and further reinforced. 


On // , alarge burst of digital information 
was received from 2493’, primarily consisting 
of historic records of 2493’, photographs of 
various regions of 2493’ and several 
schematics for devices capable of recycling 
various non-biodegradable materials into 
reusable resources. All information received 
has been archived as required. 


To date, no further transmissions have been 
received from 2493’. 


1. The fear of returning home. 

2. This feature has now become non-functional (See Addendum 3). 
3. SCP-2493-1 speaks from the perspective that he is composed of 
matter, and by extension that everything else is composed of 


« SCP-2492 | SCP-2493 | SCP-2494 » 


SCP-2494: Soft Hands 


Item #: SCP-2494 
Object Class: Euclid (Keter classification pending) 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2494 is currently 
uncontained. MTF Rho-14 ("Handschuhe") is tasked with tracking 
the origin of the phenomenon and suppressing public knowledge of 
outbreaks. All instances of SCP-2494-1 should be captured, 
euthanized, and cataloged. One instance of SCP-2494-1 per major 
species is to be kept in Site-73 specimen storage. 


Description: SCP-2494 is a phenomenon whereby animals 
(SCP-2494-1) manifest human hands, integrated into their anatomy. 
To date, all instances of SCP-2494-1 have been vertebrates. The 
source and mechanisms of SCP-2494 are currently unknown, but 
the phenomenon has so far been centralized to the vicinity of the 
River Tweed along the Scottish/English border. 


Hands related to SCP-2494 vary in size, but in SCP-2494-1 
averaging more than 0.4m in length or 9 kg in weight are 
comparable to standard human hands. Hands typically occur 
(>90%) at the ends of forelimbs, less frequently (>60%) also on the 
hindlimbs. In rare instances, hands have been seen emerging from 
the cranium, along the spine, in place of the tail, or at the end of the 
nose. Hands are merged seamlessly with SCP-2494-1's physiology, 
and color varies according to the animal's own skin. DNA tests 
invariably return as that of the instance's species. 


SCP-2494-1 are generally not impeded by these hands, except in 
cases where placement overbalances the instance. Fine 
manipulation is possible, though instances will only use their hands 
in this manner if such behavior is typical for their species. However, 
SCP-2494-1 have been discovered clutching letters and flyers; the 
origin of these is currently under investigation. (See Addenda 
2494-02 and -05.) 


Addendum 2494-01: 
Specimen Storage 


instance 
SCP-2494-1-03-A 


SCP-2494-1-07-C 


SCP-2494-1-10-F 


SCP-2494-1-12-B 


SCP-2494-1-14-C 


SCP-2494-1-18-A 


Partial List of SCP-2494-1 Instances in 


Description 


Notes 


Male Eurasian harvest Instance was able to 


mouse (Micromys 
minutus). Hands 


emerging from ends of 


forelimbs, 7mm long 
at the middie finger. 
Male European hare 
(Lepus europaeus). 
Hands connected to 
all four limbs. 
Female European 
hedgehog (Erinaceus 
europaeus). Hand 
located at end of 
snout. 

Male Old English 
Sheepdog (Canis 


hold seeds for eating. 


Placement of hands 
on rear limbs impedes 
locomotion. 


Instance dead when 
brought to Foundation 
custody. 


Behavior consistent 
with breed. Currently 


lupus familiaris). Hand kept alive in custody 


emerges from top of 
cranium. 

Male cattle (Bos 
primigenius taurus). 
Hands at ends of 
forelimbs and in place 
of horns. 


Female little ringed 
plover (Charadrius 
Qubius). Hands 
emerge from carpal 
bones, replacing 
wings. 


of MTF Rho-14 as 
morale booster. 
Testing shows no 
appreciable difference 
between flavor of 
meat from body of 
SCP-2494-1-14 
instances and meat 
from hands. Test 
subjects unanimously 
complain the latter is 
stringy or tough. 
Instance unable to fly. 
Hand bones 
pneumatized, 
consistent with other 
avian SCP-2494-1. 


SCP-2494-1-42-A Female Atlantic See Addendum 
salmon (Salmo salar). 2494-05 
Hand in place of 
dorsal fin. 


For full list of SCP-2494-1 specimens, contact Dr. 
+ Addendum 2494-02: Collected SCP-2494 Communications 


This is a short list of notes and flyers found held by 
SCP-2494-1 instances upon their recovery. 


Item 1: Found in possession of SCP-2494-1-07-A, 
14/05/2010, written on sticky note. 


Superb Hands 


Item 2: Found in possession of SCP-2494-1-10-F, 
25/02/2012, written on torn lined notebook paper. 


Are These Hands Loud Enough To Be Heard? 
Soft Hands® 
Note: No such trademark exists. 


Item 3: Found in possession of SCP-2494-1-03-D, 
03/03/2013, written on coiled strip of paper 0.7m long. 


Do You Dream Of Hands? Do You Wonder 
What Type Of Hand Is Your Favorite? Do You 
Wish For Hands, Or More Hands? Do You 
Know What It Is Like, To Be Bereft Of Hands, 
Yet Consumed By Yearning For Them? Or Do 
You Merely Possess Them In Ignorance? 


Item 4: Full color flyer found in possession of 
SCP-2494-1-12-A, 15/01/2014. 


DO YOU LOVE HANDS? 
ARE YOU A HUMAN, WITH HANDS OF 


YOUR OWN? 


DO YOUR HANDS SUFFER FROM LACK OF 
SOFTNESS? 


WORRY NOT! THERE IS A CURE! 
TRY Soft Hands® TODAY! 


DAY AND NIGHT THE SOFTEST HANDS 
AROUND! 


(Not Available In All Communities) 
+ Addendum 2494-05: Incident Report 2494-09 


On 15/04/2015, a school of 13 Salmo salar SCP-2494-1 
was observed in the River Tweed approaching Site-73. 
MTF Rho-14 was able to capture all instances and 
initiate counter-information procedures. 


Each instance possessed a single hand in place of its 
dorsal fin, visible above waterline. Movement in water 
was somewhat clumsy. Each hand clutched a plastic bag 
containing a small sheet of paper, text reproduced 
below. 


Greetings New Friends! 


We Have Noticed You Watching With Your 
Eyes. Watching Them Fly, Swim And Crawl. 
We Are Joyful To Meet Others As Excited 
About Hands As We! We Hope You 
Appreciate These New Hands. Smell Them 
With Your Nose. Taste Them With Your 
Mouth. Touch Them With Your Hands. With 
Your Glorious, Gleaming Hands, Touch Them 
Upon Their Hands So Pure. May You Find 
Always Happiness In Hands! 


Soft Hands® 


Since this event, instances of SCP-2494-1 have 
appeared more frequently with less advantageously 
placed hands, and greater numbers of hands per 
instance. Instances bearing communications have also 
increased. Investigation is ongoing; classification 
upgrade to Keter pending review. 


« SCP-2493 | SCP-2494 | SCP-2495 » 


SCP-2495: The Well and the Pit 


Item #: SCP-2495 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: MTF Rho-93 ("Say It Ain't 
Sokal") are currently responsible for having copies of SCP-2495 
circulated in academic publications removed, and the persons 
responsible for their publication detained and amnesticised. An 
archival copy of SCP-2495 has been stored on the internal 
Hazardous Documents Database, with Level 2 personnel and above 
being able to view selected excerpts of the full text. 


SCP-2495-A is to be contained in a standard Type-B Humanoid 
Containment Chamber in Site-43. Researchers in face-to-face 
contact with SCP-2495-A must change into a supplied full-body 
garment to prevent it from using its precognitive abilities ina 
potentially compromising manner. In addition to this, researchers 
should not be exposed to predictions of events that mention or 
otherwise relate to them, so as to avoid undue emotional impact as 
a result of predicted events. 


SCP-2495-A is currently undergoing treatment for anxiety and 
insomnia caused by its anomalous abilities, and as such is required 
to attend weekly appointments with its assigned psychiatrist 
(currently Dr. Adileh Knayyam, Humanoid Anomaly Specialist). 


Description: SCP-2495 is a novel interpretation of the James Joyce 
novel Ulysses, first published in the Journal of Modern Literature by 
a University of Dublin student named Myrna Callaghan (now 
SCP-2495-A.) The interpretation analyses the novel from a linguistic 
point of view using natural language processing! techniques and 
other advanced computing concepts to further a thesis about the 
novel as commentary on the relationship between the modern 
Irishman and the Irish language. 


SCP-2495 causes all those who read and comprehend its full text to 
gain heightened pattern recogntion abilities over the course of 
several months. Initially, this simply manifests as an increased ability 
to recognise patterns in simple data such as numeric sequences — 
over time, the extent of this increases drastically so that affected 
subjects are capable of identifying seed values for pseudo-random 
number generators and performing other, highly difficult pattern 
recognition-based tasks. 


As SCP-2495 infection progresses, subjects report an increase in 
migraines, elevated blood pressure and insomnia, presumably as a 
result of the compulsive pareidolia that affects them. Amnestic 
treatments have proven generally effective at curing SCP-2495 
infection at any stage, with SCP-2495-A being the sole observed 
exception to this. 


SCP-2495-A is a 27-year-old human female of Irish descent 
weighing approximately 83kg and standing 155cm tall. It claims its 
infection predates the completion of SCP-2495, possibly as a result 
of the events portrayed in materials recovered from its apartment 
(see Addendum SCP-2495-01). Due to its abnormally advanced 
condition, it experiences debilitating migraines when using its sight 
for even minutes at a time, and has been provided with protective 
sunglasses to prevent these from occuring. 


In addition to the abilities common to SCP-2495-infected subjects, 
SCP-2495-A exhibits mild precognitive abilities, which it claims is a 
direct result of its prolonged exposure to SCP-2495. When it has line 
of sight with objects of personal signficance to an individual, 
SCP-2495-A is capable of making accurate predictions about 
incidents that individual will be involved with up to three hours in the 
future. The specificity of these predictions appears to be proportional 
with the quantity of these objects it can see and their degree of 
significance to the individual in question. 


These abilities do not allow it to make predictions about events that 
will happen to it, or future events that will otherwise involve it. It is 
unknown if these additional abilities are the result of extremely 
advanced SCP-2495 infection, or some external factor unique to 
SCP-2495-A. 


Addendum SCP-2495-01: Discovery and Recovered Material 


SCP-2495-A initially came to the attention of the Foundation after its 
disappearance in 2015 and subsequent re-appearance in its 
apartment. At the time, it had been found amnesiac and suffering 
from symptoms reminiscent of those involved in Class-A amnestic 
overdose, including amnesia that prevented it from remembering 
significant amounts of the time period from 2010 to 2015. Despite 
this, it was still cognizant of its anomalous abilities and those of 
SCP-2495; after both these pieces of information were verified, 
SCP-2495-A was taken into containment and civilians exposed to 
SCP-2495 amnesticised. 


During the initial raid on SCP-2495-A's apartment, six documents 
were found on its laptop, believed to be previous iterations of 
SCP-2495. Each document had an accompanying plaintext file titled 
in the format "changelog<iteration number>.txt", most likely 
comments from SCP-2495 related to the creation of the iteration. 
These documents are as followed: 


iteration # Date of Change Summary of Version 

1 2011-06-13 An outline of a thesis 
on a natural language 
processing project, 
presumably for the 
computer science 
degree SCP-2495-A 
was undertaking prior 
to it being placed in 
containment. The 
thesis details a way to 
use pattern-finding 
algorithms to improve 
parsing of language 
input by a human 
user, and provides a 
pseudocode algorithm 
presumably written for 
this purpose: said 
pseudocode is heavily 


| had trouble making sense of what | was seeing at first, it looked 
like one huge white scribble in the air. There was no helping the girl- 
| was holding her so she wouldn't hurt her head against the 
concrete, but I’m no doctor. More of the rabbits had reached other 
sketches by then, and those sketches, too, were being torn apart 
and the kids were all screaming. And according to the documents 
I’ve been given, this was happening all over the town, right? 


Dr. A_: That's correct. 


Agent Davis: | unloaded a [EXPLETIVE REDACTED]load of shots 
into the thing, but of course that didn’t help. Don’t really know why | 
did that. They’re all in comas now, aren’t they? The kids? 


Dr. A_: Yes, they are. | think that will be all, Agent Davis. 
Agent Davis: One last thing. 

Dr. A : Yes? 

Agent Davis: May | request to be transferred out of SCP-277? 
Dr. A_: You have already been reassigned to SCP- 

Agent Davis: Thanks. Goodbye, then, doctor. 


<End Log> 


+ Changelog #1 


obfuscated and 
nonsensical, with 
numerous 
abbreviations of 
unknown meaning 
composing much of its 
body. 


I've heard of serendipity before, but | don't 
think I've ever heard of it ever coming when 
you're dissociating hard enough to break your 
head out your skull. Figured out a really, really 
rough way of kludging together my final work 
for my thesis and some advanced math stuff 
that's been sloshing in my head during my 
talks with Nat: slapped down some 
pseudocode when the idea hit me, and that's 
just about all I've copied down so far. 


Probably gonna take a lot of hammering away 
to get this into a workable form, might ask Nat 
if the idea's sound. Got to play the math major 
hand you're dealt. 


iteration # 


Date of Change 
2012-01-13 


Summary of Version 
While still generally 
the same as Iteration 
1, several section 
titles have been 
corrupted and the 
section containing the 
pseudo-code 
mentioned above has 
been expanded 
significantly. The title 
page now claims the 
thesis was co-written 
by both SCP-2495-A 
and a Pol named