Log date: 08-13-2009 
Interviewer: Dr. E. L. Ehrles (EE) 
Interviewed: SCP-2451-1 


EE: Good morning, Mr. Gustowski. I'll be conducting your 
interview this morning. | trust you've slept well? 


SCP-2451-1: Wasn't much worse than that damned 
assisted living center. When you're my age, your idea of 
captivity is a lot better than the cardboard mattresses 
and unidentifiable slop | got treated to there. 


EE: Yes, well. Today | want to ask you about your time 
with what you refer to as Project Restful Sleep. 


SCP-2451-1: Fire away, son. 


EE: Thank you. You previously told my colleague the 
project involved some manner of temporal manipulation, 
but that it didn't work as intended. Can you elaborate and 
what the goals of the project were exactly? 


SCP-2451-1: Didn't | already tell your colleague? They 
[ed. Gen. Bowe] wanted me to go back and kill Hitler. | 
told 'em they were crazy, but you know how it is in the 
Army, when they say jump...anyway, didn't work neither, 
so that was that. 


EE: Ah, | must have missed that in my colleague's notes. 
And it didn't work you say. What went wrong? 


SCP-2451-1: Son, do | look like | have any fucking clue 
what went wrong? | was just the hired help, the guy who 
stood very still while all those expensive piece of shit 
machines hummed and whizzed around me. All | can tell 
you is that it didn't work. | just stood there waiting for 
something and it never came. 


EE: Right. And then you were honorably discharged? 


SCP-2451-1: That's the gist of it. Couldn't remember 
much either, but a few weeks later | started dreaming 
about it, and a few more weeks after that the memories'd 
come back. Don't know what they did, but they weren't 
very good at it if you ask me. Anyway, wasn't long after 


that when Big Bird showed up. 
EE: Right, SCP-2451-2#1. 


SCP-2451-1: If you say so, son. | call him Big Bird, you 
can call him whatever you want. 


Log date: 10-09-2009 
Interviewer: Dr. E. L. Ehrles (EE) 
Interviewed: SCP-2451-1 


EE: [shows SCP-2451-1 a picture of SCP-2451 -2#14] 
Mr. Gustowski, what can you tell us about this entity? 


SCP-2451-1: She's here, Ethel's here? You'd better not 
have harmed her, not even a goddamn hair, you hear?! 


EE: She's not Ethel, Mr. Gustowski, and we haven't 
harmed her. We know you're married, though you 
pretended to be single during your stay at the assisted 
living home. Why is that? 


SCP-2451-1: Goddamn you government bastards. Yeah, 
Ethel's my wife. Why the hell do you think | didn't want 
anyone to know we were married? | had a ton of weird 
shit buried in that backyard, and | got kicked out before | 
could remove it. | figured it was only a matter of time 
before somebody came looking for me, and | wasn't 
gonna let you assholes treat her like a freak. She was 
better off in my truck until she could get somewhere safe. 
Thought you'd be satisfied with me and that damn portal 
thing | have stuck to my ass. 


EE: We screened her, Mr. Gustowski. She came through 
SCP-2451, didn't she? 


SCP-2451-1: Yeah, she did. [pauses] It was a summer 
day in 1975, hot and sweaty like a badger's ass. Prettiest 
thing I'd ever seen since a long time too. Had a hard time 
explaining | wasn't the guy she was sent to kill, though. 
Had to disarm her and take her down before she'd listen 


to reason. What can | say? I'm a romantic at heart. 
[pauses] 


EE: Go on. 


SCP-2451-1: Anyway, we found out she couldn't go 
back, so | hid her away in the house. Eventually we 
figured it'd be easier if we got married, so she wouldn't 
have to stay inside all the time. 


EE: Are you aware she's only superficially human? 


SCP-2451-1: Son, my heart doesn't give a shit about 
that, and neither should you. Listen, you win, you got 
her, now don't be an asshole and at least let us live 
together. 


EE: I'll consider putting in the request with your project's 
lead. 


Bibliography 

1. Xyank, T.; Anastasakos, A - Stable anchoring of temporal 
anomalies within the extant space-time continuum using Weinberg- 
Magnusson seals, , 2nd edition Scientific Critics Press, 2023. 


« SCP-2450 | SCP-2451 | SCP-2452 » 


SCP-2452: A Collection of Photographs 


Item #: SCP-2452 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-2452 are 
to be contained in Anomalous Gallery 27, located at Site-09, and 

kept behind reinforced glass at all times. All personnel entering and 
leaving Anomalous Gallery 27 are to be logged by on-site security. 


In the event that an instance of SCP-2452 is destroyed and 
SCP-2452-1 released, agents armed with suitable photographic 
equipment are to be dispatched to the homes of individuals 
portrayed in the destroyed instance. Upon engagement with 
SCP-2452-1, photographic equipment is to be used to re-contain 
SCP-2452-1 and any casualties explained to the public using 
Misinformation Campaign 24332-D (‘The Strangler’). Any 
witnesses to an SCP-2452-1 attack are to be dosed with a Class-A 
amnestic. 


Description: SCP-2452 is, as of the time of writing, a collection of 
fifty-two printed photographs taken by deceased photography 
student Adrian Saul in 20 . All but one instance of SCP-2452 
portray crowded streets and analysis of the portrayed locations 
show that they were taken in Mr. Saul's local area of . The only 
exception to this is a photographic self-portrait taken by Mr. Saul in 
his apartment. 


SCP-2452-1 is a headless humanoid figure wrapped in bandages 
which appears in every instance of SCP-2452. SCP-2452-1 
generally appears in the foreground of shots, often reaching towards 
the camera in a threatening manner. However, SCP-2452-1 has 
been known to change its position in SCP-2452 instances when they 
are not under observation. 


SCP-2452-1 will only physically manifest outside of SCP-2452 when 


once, and, in one case, loud [REDACTED] extremely personal 
details [REDACTED] Dr. A _, who was visibly shaken by the event. 
Morale has since plummeted while stress levels have skyrocketed. 


A computer program has been coded in order to automatically 
decode portions of SCP-270-1. A recreation wing has been added to 
Outpost Delta. 


Addendum 270-E: Data Processor 270-1 has been discontinued. 
All attempts to electronically resolve portions of SCP-270-1 have 
thus far failed. 


LEVEL 5 SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED 


As of late, concerns have risen regarding the psychological states of 
personnel working on SCP-270. 


What I’m talking about, of course, are the natural issues that arise 
when you have a situation like this. Namely, putting a bunch of 
highly intelligent, motivated, tenacious people together and ordering 
them to solve a puzzle that may or may not have a solution. And 
telling them that lives may depend upon their success or failure. 


Recently, Dr. —_, by some superhuman effort, cracked minutes’ 
worth of cipher that had been discarded by communal agreement as 
a ‘dud’ and [DATA EXPUNGED] resulting in the aversion of a_end- 
of-the-world scenario. This has not been beneficial for the mental 
states of many personnel, as every ‘dud’ they discard may contain 
information regarding an equally disastrous event. Since then, there 
have been rapidly emerging paranoia and/or obsession-related 
disorders. Some personnel are beginning to insist that the most 
trivial details of the cipher contain important messages, others have 
not slept or eaten in days in their pursuits, and still others have 
suffered from psychotic breakdowns. 


Outpost Delta has since been supplied with more personnel in an 
attempt to spread the workload more thinly. However, the effects of 


an instance of SCP-2452 is destroyed to a degree where the image 
is no longer visible. When this occurs, SCP-2452-1 will disappear 
from every instance of SCP-2452, as well as all copies, and 
physically manifest in the vicinity of an individual portrayed in the 
destroyed photograph. Note that although SCP-2452-1 is present in 
every instance of SCP-2452, only one entity appears during 
manifestation. 


Upon manifestation, SCP-2452-1 will attempt to eliminate every 
individual portrayed in the destroyed instance of SCP-2452. It 
typically accomplishes this through strangulation, but has been 
known to use blunt force when this usual method is not possible. If 
SCP-2452-1 is killed during a manifestation, its body will disappear 
and a new instance of SCP-2452-1 will appear at its location within 
five to ten minutes. 


Although SCP-2452-1 will appear in the vicinity of its first target, it 
will move on to other targets via normal ambulation, and as a result 
can be tracked down between killings. When SCP-2452-1 has 
eliminated all of its targets, its physical form will disappear and it will 
reappear in each instance of SCP-2452. The original destroyed 
instance of SCP-2452 will also repair itself, no matter what level of 
destruction it went through. 


The only known method of ending an SCP-2452-1 manifestation 
early is by capturing its image via photography.’ When this occurs, 
SCP-2452-1 will disappear in the same manner as it would after 
killing all its targets, and the photograph taken of it will become a 
new instance of SCP-2452. The original destroyed instance of 
SCP-2452 will still repair itself under such circumstances. 


SCP-2452 was discovered by police, along with Mr. Saul's strangled 
body, in his apartment after neighbors reported he had not been 
seen for several days. Analysis of the photographs and materials in 
Mr. Saul's apartment indicated anomalous activity had taken place, 
and the Foundation quickly took over the investigation and brought 
SCP-2452 into containment. 


Footnotes 
1. Video recordings of SCP-2452-1 do not appear to be effective, 
despite being made of countless frames of what are essentially 


photos. 
« SCP-2451 | SCP-2452 | SCP-2453 » 


SCP-2453: Pregnancy Test 


Item #: SCP-2453 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Recovered SCP-2453 
instances are currently stored in a standard containment locker at 
Site-85. Access to to instances of SCP-2453 in containment requires 
Level-3 authorization. 


Recall notices for "Joyful Smile" brand pregnancy tests consistent 
with SCP-2453's appearance have been posted to stores carrying 
instances of SCP-2453. Monitoring software has been installed on 
these stores’ point-of-sale systems; all automated alerts triggered 
are to be immediately investigated and any discovered instances of 
SCP-2453 seized for containment. 


Foundation agents assigned to SCP-2453 are to routinely 
investigate stores in areas surrounding their given location for 
additional manifestations of SCP-2453. Said agents may be sent out 
for further reconnaissance should the Foundation be made aware of 
unusual changes in birth rates in cities where home pregnancy tests 
are readily available and consumed. 


Children born as a result of SCP-2453's effects are to be 
administered a subdermal tracking chip, ideally at 12 months of age. 
Said children are to be interviewed annually during standard 
pediatrician checkups, to monitor for any further anomaly. 
Foundation-affiliated hospital personnel are to carry out these tasks 
and provide primary medical care at no additional cost to the 
children's parents, citing health care benefits provided by a 
Foundation-front philanthropic society. 


Experimental testing of SCP-2453 is currently suspended as per 
Ethics Committee consensus. 


Description: SCP-2453 is the collective designation for all instances 
of an anomalous home pregnancy test, marketed under the brand 
name “Joyful Smile”.1 Instances of SCP-2453 are visually identical 
to similar non-anomalous home pregnancy test strips. 


SCP-2453's anomalous properties manifest when a human female 
urinates on the test strip. After a period of three to five minutes, the 
results window will display a single line (indicating a negative/not 
pregnant result) or double lines (indicating a positive/pregnant 
result). 


Experimentation has revealed that results provided by SCP-2453 
are independent of the female's pregnancy status prior to using the 
test. Based on records recovered by Foundation investigations, 
SCP-2453 is believed to either induce? or terminates a pregnancy, 
with the user's pregnancy status becoming consistent with the result 
provided by the instance of SCP-2453 used. 


In all cases where an existing pregnancy has been terminated by 
SCP-2453, the resulting biological waste (e.g., blood, amniotic fluid, 
partially-formed placenta) has been determined to correspond to the 
mother's genetic makeup, but no fetal tissue has ever been 
recovered. In the case of a pregnancy that has lasted for 
approximately 20 weeks or longer, SCP-2453's display window 
remains blank and the pregnancy proceeds as normal. Strong 
correlations have been found to exist between chance of pregnancy 
following SCP-2453 use and certain characteristics possessed by 
the mother; see Addendum 2453-B for a partial list of speculative 
criteria pertaining to SCP-2453 results. 


The Foundation was first alerted to SCP-2453's existence following 
an investigation into a series of potentially-anomalous births. 
Consistent between all affected individuals was the presence of the 
then previously-unknown "Joyful Smile" brand of home pregnancy 
test in the household rooms and/or waste receptacles. All unused 
and unsold instances of SCP-2453 were immediately confiscated for 
containment. 


Routine cross-object investigation has revealed that SCP-2672 
shares similar branding with SCP-2453; however, the earliest 
instances of SCP-2672 predate those of SCP-2453 by 


approximately 10 years. As with SCP-2672, there was no record of 
how SCP-2453 instances were delivered to stores or how the 
product was entered into each store's inventory system. Employees 
of affected businesses, when interviewed, reported observing no 
unusual happenings. Those interviewed further reported never 
noticing any pregnancy products branded differently from the stores 
usual stock. 


Addendum 2453-A: Partial Subject Log 


Personal records compiled by Foundation researchers (following 
interviews of affected individuals) support the current theory that 
SCP-2453's primary anomalous effect occurs based on some 
judgment of the mother's parental fitness. Below is a partial log of 
exemplary case studies of individuals affected by SCP-2453: 


Show Partial Subject Log 


Subject: Maria 

Result: Negative (no birth) 

Notes: Age 19, frequent drug and alcohol 
abuser, high school dropout. Was emphatically 
negative about the prospect of motherhood. 
History of unstable and violent sexual partners. 


Subject: Lauren 

Result: Positive (gave birth to triplets) 

Notes: Age 29, no drug or alcohol use, college 
dropout, married, stay-at-home mother. Had 
been trying to give birth for several years 
before exposure to SCP-2453; medical 
examination revealed a hereditary defect in 
her Fallopian tubes that should have 
prevented conception altogether. Devoted to 
and excited about her children. 


Subject: Karen 

Result: Positive (gave birth to twins) 

Notes: Age 31, no drug use, minimal alcohol 
consumption at the time of exposure, college 
educated, married, stay-at-home mom. 


Currently suffering from postpartum 
depression and moderate alcohol addiction. 
Deeply ambivalent about motherhood. 


Subject: Deepti 

Result: Positive (gave birth to one child) 
Notes: Age 27, social drinker, college 
graduate, unmarried, employed as a manager 
of an office-supplies company. Still adjusting to 
life as a mother but overall was positive about 
the experience and affectionate towards her 
child. 


Subject: Carla 

Result: Negative (miscarriage)