be terminated only upon that individual's willing transfer of the 
SCP-2566 instance to another individual. As the result of this link, 
that individual develops an acute awareness of the SCP-2566 
instance, which enables them to perfectly recall the following 
information at all times: 


* the face value of the SCP-2566 instance 

* the physical location of the SCP-2566 instance 

¢ the duration of their possession of the SCP-2566 instance, 
accurate to the day 


Once an individual remains in possession of one or more SCP-2566 
instances for forty or more days, they begin to experience anxiety 
and guilt toward their continued possession of the SCP-2566 
instances. The stated subjective severity of this effect is positively 
correlated with the duration for which that individual has possessed 
SCP-2566 instances and the combined face value of their 
SCP-2566 instances. 


SCP-2566 instances can also cause individuals to experience 
anxiety or guilt when an individual takes possession of SCP-2566 
instances that have been linked with another individual'. These 
feelings, described as immediate and much more intense compared 
to those triggered by long-term possession of SCP-2566 instances, 
persist until that individual relinquishes possession of the SCP-2566 
instances. 


From the mid-1930s to 2017, SCP-2566 served as the sole means 
of exchange in Timothy, Nebraska, a rural community with 
approximately 150 inhabitants. SCP-2566 was introduced to 
Timothy during the Great Depression by Louis Ingram, a para- 
economist and member of the Society for Alternative Social 
Analysis2. Over the course of the decades prior to his death in 1969, 
Ingram maintained the supply of SCP-2566 to Timothy and 
attempted to modify the community's norms as part of a long-term 
social experiment regarding demurrage. Owing to the anomalous 
effects of SCP-2566 and Ingram's influence, Timothy developed a 
unique local culture and economy isolated from those of surrounding 
communities. 


The Foundation became aware of SCP-2566 and its role in Timothy 


in 2015 after the recovery of a clandestine archive of the Society for 
Alternative Social Analysis. Over the following year, researchers 
from the Department of Social Sciences conducted a study in 
Timothy and interviewed its inhabitants4. In 2016, researchers were 
instructed to terminate the study and acquire all instances of 
SCP-2566 for permanent containment; investments made by a local 
Foundation front company were used to incentivize residents to 
surrender their instances of SCP-2566 to the Foundation and submit 
to amnestic treatment. 


Open Selected Interviews of the Inhabitants of Timothy Regarding SC 
Interviewed: Virginia Miller 
Interviewer: Researcher Brian Carter 


Foreword: The subject was the proprietor of 
Johnson's General Store, one of several small 
retail establishments in Timothy. 


<Begin Log> 


Researcher Carter: Ms. Miller, thank you 
again for taking the time to speak with us. 
Could you tell me about what you do here in 
Timothy? 


Virginia Miller: I've been the owner of this 
shop ever since my father died in 1997. We 
sell all kinds of odds and ends—f you're 
looking for it, you can probably find it here. 


Researcher Carter: | see. Where do you get 
your merchandise from? 


Virginia Miller: Some of it, my husband and | 
make ourselves—for example, see those 
preserves over there? | made those, as well as 
the baked goods. My husband's responsible 
for the whiskey on this shelf. We bought some 
of the other things from our neighbors, like the 


ethanol and the candles. The rest of the stuff 
here is used. 


Researcher Carter: Do you ever get any 
shipments of new goods? 


Virginia Miller: Greenies® are too important to 
waste on that. First, we repair what we have. If 
we can't repair what we have, we make it 
ourselves. And if we can't make it ourselves, 
we probably don't need it anyways. That's 
basically our motto here in Timothy. 


Researcher Carter: So what do you use the 
"greenies" for, then? 


Virginia Miller: Well, first things first, we have 
to pay taxes—don't want to cause any trouble 
with the Feds, after all. Besides that, we have 
to use them sometimes to buy medicine. It's 
awfully expensive, but we pool our funds 
together and make it work. 


Researcher Carter: OK. One last question: 
who are your customers? Are they mostly 
locals, or do you ever get any from outside of 
town? 


Virginia Miller: | only accept reds® as 
payment. We only have so much stuff here to 
go around. We can't exactly afford to be giving 
out our wares to outsiders, now can we? 


Researcher Carter: | see. Well, thank you for 
speaking with me, Ms. Miller. 


Virginia Miller: No problem. Feel free to come 
back whenever you feel like it! 


<End Log> 


Interviewed: William Schwartz 


Interviewer: Researcher Brian Carter 


Foreword: The subject was born in 1931, 
making him one of Timothy's oldest residents. 


<Begin Log> 


Researcher Carter: Mr. Schwartz, | really 
appreciate your offer to talk with us about the 
history of Timothy. What can you tell me about 
Louis Ingram? 


William Schwartz: | wasn't personally familiar 
with Mr. Ingram, but my father was. He told me 
that when | was little—maybe only two or three 
years old—Mr. Ingram came to town for the 
first time. That was back during the Great 
Depression—times were hard then and there 
was hardly enough money to go around. So, 
when Mr. Ingram started talking about how he 
wanted to start an experiment to get the 
money flowing, people were willing to hear him 
out. He told everyone that the reason why 
times were so hard was because everyone 
was hoarding their money and wasn't 
spending enough, and it made sense, 
considering how much food was just sitting 
around unsold back then. We figured that 
things couldn't get any worse, so we told Mr. 
Ingram that we agreed to participate in his 
experiment, and he came back with the first 
batch of reds. He told everyone what they 
were and what they did, and gave $50 worth of 
reds to everyone in town. 


Researcher Carter: How was the town's 
economy afterwards? 


William Schwartz: At first we weren't too 
optimistic, but Mr. Ingram's experiment 
worked! All of the towns around us were 


floundering, but we here in Timothy had more 
than enough to go around during the 
Depression. I've always remembered how the 
New Deal men came into town once and spent 
the entire day strolling around town looking for 
something to help us with. They must have 
never seen anything like it before! 


Researcher Carter: Did Louis Ingram ever 
return to Timothy? 


William Schwartz: Yes—every once ina 
while he would come by and give us some 
new reds. "Increasing the money supply," as 
he said. Sometimes he would give talks about 
how important the reds were for the town's 
economy, and we couldn't disagree with him 
there—he saved us from the Depression, after 
all! In particular, | remember the day when he 
got together all of the parents, the teachers, 
and the pastor and told them that they should 
teach the children about the reds, since they 
had never seen the Depression themselves. 
That was when we started the tradition of 
Gifting to the children. 


Researcher Carter: Sorry, I'm not familiar with 
this "Gifting" tradition. Could you explain this to 
me in more detail? 


William Schwartz: It's sort of a coming of age 
thing. Six months before a child reaches a 
certain age—for my kids, it was ten; for some 
others, it's thirteen—we give them $100 worth 
of reds. We tell them that if they can hold on to 
it for six months, they get to spend it on their 
birthday. Otherwise, they have to forfeit it. I've 
never seen anyone make it to six months—by 
three or four months, they're begging and 
hollering for us to take it back. Of course, we 
always give them a $100 birthday gift 


regardless—it's not about holding on to reds, 
it's about learning to give reds back to the 
community! 


Researcher Carter: Did you ever participate 
in Gifting yourself? | mean as the child, not as 
the parent. 


William Schwartz: No. By the time we started 
Gifting, | was already twenty years old. If you 
want to hear about Gifting, maybe you should 
talk to someone younger than me. 


Researcher Carter: Of course. Thank you 
again for speaking with me, Mr. Schwartz. 


William Schwartz: Anytime. 

<End Log> 

Interviewed: Jimmy Baker 
Interviewer: Researcher Brian Carter 


Foreword: The subject was fourteen years old 
and had participated in Gifting one year prior 
to the interview. 


<Begin Log> 


Researcher Carter: Hello, Jimmy. Thank you 
letting me interview you! I've noticed that not 
many people here seem to be willing to talk 
about Gifting. 


Jimmy Baker: No, | guess not. 


Researcher Carter: Do you happen to know 
why that is the case? 


Jimmy Baker: Well, | don't know if anyone 
has told you this, but it's kind of a private thing. 


It would be like me telling you all about my 
circumcision, or something like that. 


Researcher Carter: Oh... | see. If that's the 
case, | won't ask you to talk about Gifting if 
you would prefer not to do so. 


Jimmy Baker: No worries, Dr. Carter. | don't 
mind talking about it. | don't think that it should 
be that private, but | understand why others 
feel that way. 


Researcher Carter: So why do others feel 
that way? 


Jimmy Baker: The thing about Gifting is that 
it's a really shitty experience. You can hold on 
to a red for like, a month and a half, and feel 
alright. Hold on to a red for another month, and 
then whenever you have a second to spare, 
you start to think about that red burning a hole 
in your pocket. You then hold on to it for 
another month, and you start thinking about 
getting rid of the red 24/7... it's like an 
obsession, and you start losing sleep over it. 
By the time that you get to five months... God, 
it was just fucking awful. 


Researcher Carter: So, you held onto your 
red for five months during your Gifting? 


Jimmy Baker: Yes. 


Researcher Carter: In spite of how terrible the 
experience was? 


Jimmy Baker: Yes. 
Researcher Carter: Could you tell me why? 


Jimmy Baker: It's like... OK, don't judge me, 
but it's like a contest. Every boy tries to show 


off by holding on to the red for as long as 
possible. It's... yeah, it's kind of stupid. 


Researcher Carter: No worries. | don't judge, 
| just observe. Jimmy, you've been very 
helpful, so if you would prefer not to answer 
this next question, just let me know. How 
exactly did you feel about the red at the end of 
your five months during Gifting? 


Jimmy Baker: It's... uh, it's really hard to 
describe, Dr. Carter. Best thing | can do is give 
an analogy. Now, during Sunday school, 
there's this story that Reverend Paul loves to 
tell—Reverend Paul's the town pastor, by the 
way, in case you didn't know. So back during 
the time of the Apostles there was this rich 
couple called Ananias and Sapphira. Dr. 
Carter, have you heard of this story before? | 
won't retell it if you know it. 


Researcher Carter: | can't say that I'm familiar 
with it. Please go on. 


Jimmy Baker: Anyways, what happened was 
that Ananias and Sapphira sold their land, and 
were going to give the money to St. Peter, but 
kept some of it for themselves. And Peter told 
Ananias that Satan made him lie to God, and 
he died on the spot. Then Sapphira came in 
and Peter told her that she was going to die, 
and she died too. | have no idea what Ananias 
and Sapphira felt, but | can't imagine that it 
was all that different. 


Researcher Carter: | see. Thank you, Jimmy. 
That's all for today. You are welcome to talk 
with me about your experience at any time, if 
you feel like it would help you. 


Jimmy Baker: No, thank you, Dr. Carter, | 


really appreciate that you took the time to 
listen to me. Have a nice afternoon! 


<End Log> 
Interviewed: Reverend Paul Gesell 
Interviewer: Researcher Brian Carter 


Foreword: The subject is the pastor of the 
sole church in Timothy. 


<Begin Log> 


Researcher Carter: Reverend Gesell, thank 
you for taking the time to speak to me about 
your beliefs. Many people here have told me 
about how you've touched their lives. 


Reverend Gesell: Please, Dr. Carter, call me 
Paul. In any case, I'd be happy to answer any 
of your questions. 


Researcher Carter: Alright, then, Paul. What 
can you tell me about the reds? What is their 
purpose? 


Reverend Gesell: Well, the first answer is 
obvious. I'm sure you know how much they 
have helped this town, ever since the Great 
Depression. And really, it shouldn't surprise 
anyone—there's a Biblical precedent! 
Proverbs 11:24: "There is that scattereth, and 
yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth 
more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.” 


Researcher Carter: And the second answer? 


Reverend Gesell: Ah, the second answer. 
The reds teach us not to sin—when we do not 
want, we see that what is best is free. This 
was a lesson that | learned the hard way when 


| was young. During my Gifting, when | was 
eighteen, | was able to hold onto my red for 
the full six months—I don't think that anyone 
before then or since then managed it. Now in 
those days, | was living in sin, so with my $100 
| bought myself a jug of moonshine and a full 
tank of ethanol, stole my father's car, and ran 
off with my then-girlfriend for a week. Then | 
came back to Timothy, sneaked back into my 
house, and found that my father had left a 
$100 red inside a Bible, as a bookmark! Since 
| had managed the six months, | thought that | 
would be able to take the red, but | was wrong. 
| opened up the Bible, and picked the red up, 
and when | looked at it | felt like | had seen my 
own damnation. So | put the red back, and 
then | saw the words, "For the wages of sin is 
death; but the gift of God is eternal life through 
Jesus Christ our Lord." 


(Reverend Gesell takes an SCP-2566 instance 
and holds it in front of Researcher Carter.) 


Reverend Gesell: You see here, this red? The 
wages of sin. It is unfortunate that we must do 
what we do here, but | learned goodness 
through fear, just like everyone else. 


<End Log> 


Footnotes 

1. This effect manifests regardless of whether the individual did so 
intentionally or unintentionally. 

2. A defunct early-to-mid-20thcentury Group of Interest. The Society 
for Alternative Social Analysis was a loosely-organized network of 
para-academics who advocated the usage of anomalies for research 
in the social sciences. 

3. The cost of holding currency over a period of time. 

4. See "Anomalous Demurrage and Resulting Societal Distortions in 
Timothy, 1935-2015." 

5. Local slang for standard U.S. banknotes. 


humanoid, though significantly different from human skeletal 
structure. Additionally, several written sources were found within the 
tomb, and acquired by the Foundation. Dr. Sigurd Olafsson was 
consulted to help translate the writing, which is attached below (See 
Addendum A). 


Addendum A 


Prepared by the Department 
of Terra-Linguistics 


The discovery of SCP-287 was predicated upon reports 
of "ghost soldiers" in an area outside of , Iceland. A 
recent storm had struck the burial mound containing 
SCP-287, conducting current into SCP-287 through a 
crude lightning rod made of iron. The hallucinations 
created by SCP-287 affected an amateur film crew. The 
crew informed local authorities, and Foundation 
information gathering subroutines flagged these reports 
as potentially anomalous. [Keywords: Ghost, Specter, 
Crazy, Kids, Hallucination with a double-correlation 
factor of Gamma-6] 


Class A amnestics were administered to all witnessing 
parties, and the burial site was declared a "Heritage Dig 
Site" through a Foundation shell corporation.