All of the portions removed and destroyed have grown 
back. The spots don't look newer, either— they show the 
same sign of age and decay as before. The D's seem 
fine; will have them clinically and psychological 
screened, to be sure. | don't like the sound of my own 
hypotheses, when it comes to what might happen next... 
(Really looked forward to telling E. He always calls on 
Sunday, if he can’t visit. Didn’t call today. Not yet. Why?) 


Note: Several pages following only detail the 
experiment procedures in shorthand. These 
notes match the official logs, and have been 
verified for accuracy by the assisting research 
staff. 


5/27 
Nothing. That's what happened next. No results. 


If | did something to make E. angry, he won't tell me. 
Saw him across the hall, yesterday. Smiled, and he 
smiled back. But he didn't cross over to talk to me, and 
he hasn't called since. 


Note: Once again, several pages of 
experiment procedure in shorthand, all 
pertaining to exposing D-Class to contact with 
the object. In place of the results recorded in 
official logs, the author has repeatedly written 
"NOTHING." in all caps. After this point, 
references to the Dr. G_ 's continuing research 
are infrequent. 


6/05 

It isn’t just E. ... dad hasn't called in a month. No one’s 
called, in a month. | start to worry, then | hear from 
someone else that they're doing fine. So why don’t they 
pick up, when | call? 


6/06 

Presenting myself for psychological evaluation, to be 
safe. I've stared at that damn wall long enough to 
memorize the pattern. 


6/07 
Shrink recommended anti-depressants. Feel like an ass. 


Note: It is unknown how Dr.G_ experienced 
the psychological consultation which did, in 
fact, take place. Dr. Rhys' report on their 
interactions verifies that he did recommend 
anti-depressants, and that the subject seemed 
melancholy and withdrawn, and fixated on the 
potential inconclusiveness of her research. 


"Having worked in this business for some time, 
| did not find anything abnormal about these 
expressions of anxiety. However, | did 
recommend that she remove herself from 
physical and visual proximity of the research 
object." 

According to colleagues, Dr.G made no 
report of or attempt to follow this suggestion. 


6/10 

I’m getting as bad as E., when it comes to compulsions. 
Every night, seem to find myself sitting on the bed, back 
to the wall. Like it'll collapse, otherwise. | shouldn’t joke 

about that, E., sorry. 


No one says hello, when we pass in the halls. And | can’t 
bring myself to say it first.. I’m not asking for attention. 
But they look right through me. 


Note: At this point, coworkers report that Dr. 
G_ took a hiatus from research work. She 
makes no record of submitting this as an 
official request. 


6/12 

They suspended my access to D-Class subjects, 
because of the lack of results. That must be what 
happened, because no one showed up— no one would 
explain why. 


No one seems especially worried about it.... couldn’t 
even find the shrink, for my appointment. Guess he 
forgot. | can’t really blame him... it's hard to notice every 
little thing. Sights and smells and noise in the 
background. 


Note: Neither of these statement correspond 
with other accounts; Dr. Rhys was in his office 
as scheduled, and alerted Dr. G_'s direct 
superiors when she missed the appointment. 
Dr.G 's access to D-Class subjects was 
never suspended, and there is no record of an 
inquiry on the subject. 


6/13 
Didn't leave my room today. 


Note: None of Dr.G_ 's neighbors recall her 
going to or from her place of residence, on this 
or any following day. 


6/15 
| left my room today, walked around every floor. Every 
hallway. No one [written in pencil, too faint to be legible] 


They looked right through me. 


Note: Dr.G__has been officially declared a 
missing person as of 6/18/ . Contrary to her 
written account, the last recorded interaction 


with Dr.G _ was 6/9/ . The reasons for her 
disappearance and its relationship to 
SCP-1205 remain a subject of debate. 


Dr. Rhys notes that Dr.G had no prior 
history of depression, and close acquaintances 
describe her as outgoing and articulate. The 
testimony of her [REDACTED BY REQUEST] 
corroborates these accounts, and highlighted 
numerous instances of the doctor's 
levelheadedness under duress both before 
and during her employment by the Foundation. 


Addendum 7/ / : While performing air-quality tests in the 
containment cell, a junior researcher claimed to witness the 
following— 

"I'd just finished up... and | know it isn't a known issue, but | felt 
weird turning my back on it. So | backed out of the room, keeping an 
eye on it— and then | saw it move. It was like a little seam appeared 
in one corner, and a little scrap of it quivered, like someone was 
trying to tear it off. It pulled free and fluttered to the ground, but | 
must have blinked. When | looked again, it was gone." 


Addendum 2: An anonymous Foundation researcher notes that he/ 
she has read both the incident report and Dr. G_’s original 
documents several times, and thoroughly. It is his/her opinion that 
sections of writing have since disappeared from the handwritten 
originals. This claim is disputed by other researchers. 


« SCP-1204 | SCP-1205 | SCP-1206 » 


SCP-1206: Lost Muse 


Item #: SCP-1206 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: Foundation agents are to 
construct billboards advertising a Foundation-owned local restaurant 
chain in the event site of SCP-1206 near the town of . Testing 
with subjects previously exposed to SCP-1206 has revealed that 
SCP-1206 cannot generate its effect if the view of the event site is 
impeded in any way. 


Description: SCP-1206 is a serendipitous phenomenon that is the 
convergence of three factors: the degree of sky visibility over the 
event site, if at the time the Green Line Track D outbound from 
Boston, MA passes said site coincides with dusk or "twilight", and 
whether or not passengers happen to be gazing at the scenery on 
the northern/right side of the train. Statistically, SCP-1206 has 
shown a preference for the times of 17:30 EST to 19:30 EST as 
summer dusk tends to produce more picturesque settings, as well 
as a degree of cloudiness that produces an aesthetically pleasing 
sky scape over the event site. 


Between stops [REDACTED] the Green Line train passes through 
an open 0.4 km long expanse of trees and shrubbery bordering the 
eastern boundaries of that classified as the Hot Zone. If the 
aforementioned conditions are met, passengers become intensely 
transfixed by the scenery for the entirety of the trip through the Hot 
Zone. Subjects have reported an overwhelming feeling of awe and 
the sublime, but have summarily failed to provide adequate 
descriptions of what they have seen. Researchers have speculated 
that subjects have been unable to describe SCP-1206 because it 
appeals to latent forms in the human mind that cannot be accurately 
defined by formalized language. As exposed subjects feel a 
compulsion to communicate their experience of the Hot Zone, 
individuals will invariably develop a language (hereby referred to as 


1206-A) that will replace and eventually become the subject's 
preferred method of communication. 


1206-A has developed concurrently even in isolated subjects. 1206- 
A apparently functions as a language of the subconscious, utilizing 
rudimentary language constructs intrinsic to the human brain that 
can communicate the emotional state and status of its soeaker and 
listener flawlessly. It is to be expected that >75% of subject groups 
will eventually fracture, as it is impossible to lie or be subtle when 
speaking 1206-A. Written words bear a resemblance to 
[REDACTED], suggesting 1206-A is far older than the Foundation 
initially believed. 


Rough translations are possible, but the emotional sensations skilled 
speakers are able to convey far outweigh ordinary language 
constructs in lucidity of meaning, ease of use, and informational 
density. Non-speakers of 1206-A are still able to intuitively glean 
fragments of meaning from spoken instances, however complex. 
Only exposure to SCP-1206 has proven to trigger 1206-A. Should 
1206-A become the de facto language of a nation or the world, its 
revelatory and reverent nature would cause total societal 
restructuring if not outright collapse. See notes by Dr. for 
summary of findings. 


+ Addendum 1206-01 


Addendum 1206-01: Agents monitoring travel boards 
were alerted to a possible second instance of SCP-1206 
when Norwegian forums user wrote a lengthy post 
in 1206-A detailing his marital troubles following his 
discovery and adoption of 1206-A. Subjects were made 
to translate the statement into English. Transcript of 
relevant segment is as follows: 


"On 04/8, my family and | were walking across a bridge 
in [REDACTED]. An unassuming thing, not much to look 
at. The thing is though is that it afforded us the most 
beautiful view of the sunset a few weeks ago. | struggle 
to describe it even now. It felt old, primal, shining from 
out of time past. Like if | had a child's eyes, and 
everything sang with novelty. My daughter began 


speaking gibberish the day after. She was the first. | 
started the following Friday. Words poured out of me, 
, , and .1 The wife was next. 


For many days, we reveled in the power of it, in 
capturing the flight of a bird or the growl of the car engine 
in a word. But it was exhausting. You could not lie in this 
language. Case in point: my wife left me the following 
month. | had noticed her word for me made her 
uncomfortable. It dug up something in her, all the bad 
qualities about me she had never liked but had buried 
under the habits and routine of marriage. My 
stubbornness, my insistence on having a son, how | 
came home one Friday night reeking of perfume. All in a 
word. 


| have visited that bridge every dusk for the past two 
weeks. Sometimes it is ordinary, sometimes it glows with 
an old fire. | know there are more places like that bridge. 
| can feel them. The last vestige of the beauty that gave 
us God and the courts of spirits, nerve-ends shuddering 
awake with life. Our society has no words for them, and 
you can't sing of them because they are where songs 
come from. 


| think when humanity was young, we must have been 
like children, unnaturally wise in all the subtle things of 
the earth. We spoke the names of majesty everything 
called themselves. Now that is all gone, but it is still there 
to discover. It huddles in the blind spots of our modernity, 
in the blankness of maps. If we can only see it, only feel 
it atop our rationalist perches, our aviaries angular with 
number and category, swaying in the winds of death. 
Melt into the blood of love! Find me! The bridge is in 
[REDACTED]." 


Agents apprehended for questioning. Study into the 
Bridge as another Hot Zone for the SCP-1206 
phenomenon is ongoing. 


+ Summary of 1206-A findings by Dr. 


Even the student linguist will see that there is something 
wholly unique about SCP-1206-A. For one, 1206-A has 
words for the exact appearance or ‘impression’ of an 
object/person. For example, speakers of 1206-A would 
go beyond describing the parts or attributes of a person's 
face, but actually call every face a unique word. 1206-A 
does not rely on its listener forming an incomplete picture 
from a description of compositional parts, but has a near- 
infinite base of words used to encapsulate and describe 
a wide variety of objects including faces, bodies, the 
character of a person, the appearance of the sky on any 
given day, the weather, how a particular conversation 
made the speaker feel, or even a mound of dirt. 


Many of these words might be similar, derived from each 
other, or differ in syllabic emphasis to signify related 
categories of appearance, personality, feeling, abstract 
concepts etc. For example, after a particularly grueling 
session recording over __ words with D-17368, the 
subject described the interview as leaving him feeling 
"—"-aheteronym of" "and roughly analogous to 
"drained", but with added emphasis on the _ syllable to 
signify the nature of what caused the subject's fatigue as 
intensely bureaucratic and procedural. The name for the 
Hot Zone is " "and is the only word that does not 
share similarities with any other. 


As is the nature of 1206-A's flexible nomenclature, 
subjects will often create words on the spot. There are 
no rules regarding the formation of words. Once a 
functional set of 1206-A words has entered the speaker's 
lexicon after Hot Zone exposure, subjects only report 
needing to meditate momentarily on the object of their 
description before inventing a word that "fits like a glove". 
Other speakers will immediately accept the word as the 
name for that object. Studies with isolated subjects 
asked to describe the upturned contents of the break 
room trash receptacle has yielded the same word - - 
suggesting a universality in the method of word invention 
that is intrinsic to the brain's physiological makeup. 


Studies are ongoing. 
— Dr. 


Footnotes 
1. Only recorded derivation of the word used to refer to SCP-1206. 


« SCP-1205 | SCP-1206 | SCP-1207 » 


SCP-1207: Not a Mirror 


Item #: SCP-1207 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1207 is to be wrapped in 
opaque cloth, and contained within a standard inanimate-objects 
locker. In accordance with standard protocol for direct-exposure line- 
of-sight cognitohazards, SCP-1207 is to be kept under constant real- 
time video surveillance whenever it is removed from its locker for 
any purpose (maintenance, analysis, experimentation, etc.). 


Direct exposure to SCP-1207 is to be minimized. Maximum 
cumulative direct exposure for individual personnel is not to exceed 
2 (two) hours within a 30 (thirty)-day period, or 24 (twenty-four) 
hours within an individual lifetime. Personnel whose cumulative 
direct exposure to SCP-1207 exceeds 2 (two) hours within a 30 
(thirty)-day period are to be immediately placed on psychological 
leave until such time as they have been judged free of the 
symptoms of body dysmorphic disorder, and are not to resume 
active duty until they have successfully undergone retraining in data 
entry and proofreading. 


Description: SCP-1207 is a miror approximately one meter by one 
half meter in size, in a white wooden frame painted with pink and red 
hearts. Using the Kinscale method of miror-type object evaluation, 
Foundation scientists have established it as a minor level 
psychological threat. 


SCP-1207 is a metal sign approximately one meter by one half 
meter in size, painted white, with embossed letters reading "THIS IS 
A MIROR YOU ARE A TYPO" (sic). It is a direct-exposure 
cognitohazard, which manifests three distinct anomalous effects 
upon subjects within line of sight. 


The first effect, which is the most obvious, is that any sighted person 


mammal vertebrate directly exposed to SCP-1207 will perceive it as 
being a mirror, even if they are aware of its true nature; test subjects 
not capable of mirror recognition will perform territorial threat 
displays against SCP-1207. Human subjects uniformly describe the 
mirror as being contained within a white wooden frame with "pink 
and red hearts"; however, more detailed descriptions vary from 
subject to subject. Blindfolded subjects report that SCP-1207 feels 
"smooth and glassy", with "wood around the edges"; conversely, 
blind subjects report that SCP-1207 feels "metallic and bumpy". 


It is to be emphasized that, despite the perceptions and reactions of 
affected subjects, SCP-1207 does not actually function as a mirror.