SCP-2375-1: | can take you. Don't worry. 
You'll be safe there. Shake my hand, friend. 


D-2375-82 is instructed to shake hands with 
the SCP-2375-1 instance. 


SCP-2375-1: Welcome to the Unlife, brother. 


Shortly after this conversation, both the instance of 
SCP-2375-1 and D-2375-82 were removed from testing 
and placed in separate containment. Post-testing 
psychiatric screening of D-2375-82 reports significantly 
increased levels of euphoria and optimism. 


One week after D-2375-82's contact with the 
SCP-2375-1 instance, a routine physical examination 
(provided by Foundation agents in hazmat equipment) 
revealed patches of skin on the arms and chest bearing 
qualities similar to those of advanced necrosis. After this 
physical examination, a psychiatric examination was 
conducted by Dr. Pembroke to determine the extent of 
SCP-2375's control over the brain. 


Dr. Pembroke: How are you feeling, 
D-2375-82? 


D-2375-82: Not gonna lie, Doc. I've never felt 
this good. Something about that guy just 
rubbed me right, you know? 


Dr. Pembroke: Our physicians have detected 
severe damage on areas of your skin. Do you 
notice anything strange about your arms? 


D-2375-82: Oh, the skin? That's nothing big. 
Just a small price to pay for the opportunity to 
feel a little better. That guy you introduced me 


to helped me to see that. 


Dr. Pembroke: Can you explain further? What 
exactly drew you to the instance? 


D-2375-82: There was something about him. 
The way he talked. The way he listened. No 
matter how rude | was, he didn't get mad. It 
was almost like he understood. 


Dr. Pembroke: Understood what? 


D-2375-82: Everything, doc. | would say the 
cruelest things, and he sat there smiling and 
nodding. He listened to every word | said. 
There was some feeling in me that made me 
feel like | could trust him. He was just....nice, 
you know? 


Dr. Pembroke: What made you feel this way? 


D-2375-82: Well... it just felt like he cared. He 
wanted to help me. He had the voice and tone 
that made me feel like | could tell him 
everything. So, when the researchers told me 
to test his patience, | broke down and told him 
everything. All my stories from the streets, and 
he didn't bat an eye. It came to the point that | 
broke down. But he didn't laugh like most of 
you do. He knelt down and pat me on the 
back, told me it was okay. He made me feel 
alright, where nobody else bothers to. 


Dr. Pembroke: What do you feel now that he 
has been removed from the testing area? 


D-2375-82: | don't feel lonely. | don't feel bad. 
To tell the truth, | feel like | have a new friend. 


Approximately three weeks after initial infection of 
D-2375-82, the subject was equipped with a video 


camera and two-way headset for the purpose of 
gathering information regarding the underground habitats 
of instances of SCP-2375-1. D-2375-82 was instructed to 
follow the test instance of SCP-2375-1 into a small hole 
located 30 kilometers west of Site-77. The following is a 
transcript of the recovered footage: 


Dr. Pembroke: D-2375-82, can you hear me? 


D-2375-82: Loud and clear, big man. 
Following James now. 


Dr. Pembroke: James? Is that the instance's 
name? 


D-2375-82: Yeah, | never told you that? Oh, 
hold up. We're coming to something. It looks 
like... a little town. 


Dr. Pembroke: A town? Can you explain? 


D-2375-82: Uhh... yeah. It looks like a little 
slum village. They've got houses made of 
sticks and rocks that must have fallen down 
the holes. Some of these look like shops. | 
think | can see what looks like a diner. Hell, 
there's even a little park with some that look 
like kids. 


Dr. Pembroke: Do you notice anything 
strange about the village? 


D-2375-82: Not really. Other than the skin 
thing you told me about. 


SCP-2375-1: This way, Jamal! I've got some 
friends | want you to meet! 


D-2375-82: Coming! Sorry, Doc, I'll get back to 
you later! 


D-2375-82 proceeds to set the video camera 


down and run towards several instances of 
SCP-2375-1. Loud laughter and light 
conversation can be heard for roughly thirty 
minutes before audio feed cuts out. 


Roughly five hours after the initial encounter with other 
instances of SCP-2375-1, the audio feed was resumed 
and the video camera was turned on by D-2375-82. The 
following is a transcript of the final recording from 
D-2375-82 (Level 5 Clearance Required): 


D-2375-82: Hey, is this thing on? Can you 
hear me, Doc? 


Dr. Pembroke: D-2375-82? 


D-2375-82: Yep, it's me. | said | would get you 
back. If there's one thing | can do, it's keep a 
promise. But listen, | wanted to talk to you. | 
want you let me go. 


Dr. Pembroke: Excuse me? 


D-2375-82: You won't believe this, but it's 
wonderful down here. | haven't even been 
around a day and they're already treating me 
like their best friend. They've built me my own 
little house. They took me to dinner. We talked 
and laughed. I've been all over the town and 
haven't seen a single fight. | don't think I've 
seen people with so little smile so much. 


Dr. Pembroke: Can you explain? 


D-2375-82: | finally understand what this group 
is all about. They're not trying to take over the 
world, or destroy us all or whatever you guys 
believe they'll do. They- I'm sorry, we- just 
want to live in peace. 


Dr. Pembroke: Live in peace? What does that 


workings of most domesticated canines. 

D-20586: Arms were altered to resemble the front limbs of the 
Spider Monkey. 

The remaining 5 candies have been taken in for further study. 


Money entered: 1000 yen 

SCP-261 Powered or Unpowered: Powered 

Item description: A 400z styrofoam sealed cup with a straw coming 
out of the top. The cup was plain white, apart from a cartoon picture 
of a cherry on one side, and full of a thick, light pink liquid. After 
D-113-A drank 4.50z of the mixture, he reported that it tasted of 
cherries, and that the drink was too sickly-sweet to continue 
drinking. Later chemical analysis reported the drink to be made of 
[REDACTED] and chemical flavouring. Remaining sample 
incinerated. 


Date of entry: / /2016 

Purpose: Evaluate text interpretation capabilities 

Money entered: 300 yen, along with a note, printed in Japanese 
romaji, asking for "alternative testing subjects" 

SCP-261 Powered or Unpowered: Unpowered 

Item description: D-583619 tasked with retrieving an orange- 
colored package in the dispenser. D-583619 comes back along with 
D-914728, without the package. 

"Now that | think about it... bright orange jumpsuits..." - Dr. 


Money Entered: 93 yen 

SCP-261 Powered or Unpowered: Unpowered 

Item Description: "Mighty Morphin Power Ranchers!" - a 2 oz bag 
containing several assorted hard candies made to resemble 
characters from the popular 90's show "Mighty Morphin Power 
Rangers", packaging in stylized Japanese. Subject reported candies 
"taste[d] exactly like Jolly Ranchers". Chemical analysis revealed 
that the candies' contents are indistinguishable from regular Jolly 
Ranchers. The Hershey Company holds no record of manufacturing 
this variant of the hard candy. 

Researcher's Note: "/nteresting. | wonder if... hey, how much more 
yen do we have?" -Dr. | 


mean? 


D-2375-82: I've talked to the people down 
here. We all just wanted to get away from 
something. I've met people who were abused 
and beaten, but who can put it all behind it 
here. It's a place we can all forget our troubles 
and comfort each other. Where we're all the 
same. The skin condition is proof of that. 


Dr. Pembroke: The skin condition? 


D-2375-82: It's brilliant, actually. So many of 
us here have been prejudiced because of what 
we look like or what we believe. But now, 
thanks to Funlife, we don't have to worry about 
that. When we're all the same, nobody has 
anything to fight over. We can focus on what 
brings us together rather than what keeps us 
apart. Listen, Doc. | know your Foundation 
doesn't normally do this, but please. Just leave 
us be. If not for me, then for everyone else 
down here. 


Dr. Pembroke: You are aware that the 
Foundation is not able to permit the actions of 
your group. You realize you cannot continue to 
abduct citizens as you do. 


D-2375-82: All we want is to help others 
escape like we have. I've got nothing more to 
say if you won't listen. Goodbye, Doc. 


As of publication, there has been no further 
communication with D-2375-82 or any instance of 
SCP-2375-1 within a 300 kilometer radius of any 
Foundation site. Due to the nature of SCP-2375, 
containment procedures have been downgraded from 
immediate termination to the process of sealing clusters 
of SCP-2375-1 instances to prevent spread of the 
infection. At time of this revision, downgrade of 


SCP-2375 to Neutralized status is pending review by the 
O5 council. 


« SCP-2374 | SCP-2375 | SCP-2376 » 


SCP-2376: Crow's Revenge 


Item #: SCP-2376 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2376-1 instances are to 
be fed using an automated feeding system. They are to be 
examined once every eight hours by medical staff, and the 
discomfort resulting from their infections is to be alleviated as much 
as possible. SCP-2376-1 instances are not to be made aware of the 
anomalous properties of SCP-2376. In order to allow communication 
between SCP-2376-1 instances and personnel, a text-based 
communicator suitable for use by persons with severely limited 
mobility should be provided to each instance of SCP-2376-1. When 
treating SCP-2376-1 instances, medical staff should close their eyes 
every 5 minutes and then re-open them, in order to view any 
messages that may have been written. Under no circumstances are 
patients to be removed from their rooms or disposed of. Personnel 
treating SCP-2376-1 are to follow all instructions given to them 
without fail, and should be frequently reminded that they are treating 
a human being. All SCP-2376-1 instances, as well as samples of 
SCP-2376, are located at Site-234. MTF Beta-7 (Maz 

Hatters) are to check for instances of SCP-2376-1 in hospitals 
located in infected areas. 


Description: SCP-2376 is a sub-strain of tetanus (Clostridium 
tetani) carried by the common crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos). 
SCP-2376 is transmissible to humans - infected humans are 
designated instances of SCP-2376-1. The first stage of infection, 
lasting anywhere from 1 to 4 weeks, is characterized by the normal 
symptoms of tetanus! as well as a severe skin rash, vertigo, and a 
painful cough. Instances of SCP-2376-1 in their first stage will often 
report a constant faint odor of straw and corn, as well as describing 
all objects to have a rough, burlap-like texture regardless of their 
composition. 


The second stage of the infection is when SCP-2376's anomalous 
properties manifest. All instances of SCP-2376-1 are perceived as a 
normal, inanimate scarecrow by any human observers. The 
observers do not appear to be aware that the infected individual is 
missing, or that the scarecrow has replaced it. Any vocalization by 
the SCP-2376-1 instances will not be registered. Motion is not 
visible to observers, but if a person observing an SCP-2376-1 
instance breaks visual contact while the instance is moving, the 
instance will appear to have moved when the observer regains 
visual contact. Motion detectors and audio recordings will function 
as normal. Photographs and other visual recordings of infected 
subjects, however, are still not perceived normally. Death of the 
SCP-2376-1 instance results in the cessation of SCP-2376's effect 
on perception. 


The loss of mobility, fever, and other symptoms can be remedied 
with usual tetanus treatments. The effect on perception, as of the 
time of writing, appears to remain even after other symptoms cease. 


Murine models have indicated that SCP-2376 is capable of causing 
neonatal infections like its non-anomalous counterpart. After murine 
subjects began attempting to cannibalize infected murine subjects, it 
has been hypothesized that mice perceive infectees to be edible 
straw. As such, no humans infected with SCP-2376-1 should be 
allowed near mice. 


Testing is ongoing around infected areas to determine if SCP-2376 
has spread to any other carrier species. Similarities between the 
effects of SCP-2376, the SCP-2136 pathogen, and instances of 
SCP-2218 have been noted. Investigation into whether the 
anomalous properties affecting SCP-2218 instances are an altered 
version of SCP-2376, or visa versa, is ongoing. 


Recovery Log: 

Multiple corpses were discovered in the garbage disposal units of a 
hospital in the town of [REDACTED], lowa. The hospital staff 
claimed they had disposed of scarecrows that had been left in the 
hospital wards and dressed in hospital scrubs as a prank. 


The first instance of SCP-2376-1 is believed to be an 8 year-old boy 
named from the neighboring town of [REDACTED], who died 


a week before the discovery at the hospital. __'s father was tried for 
murder and acquitted with an insanity defense when he called the 
police reporting that the spare scarecrow he had nailed up three 
days before had been replaced with the body of his son. was 
determined to have died of dehydration, but autopsy revealed the 
presence of the SCP-2376 pathogen in his bloodstream, and his 
father described that he suffered symptoms similar to those seen in 
the infection's first stage. 


Addendum: A variant of SCP-2376 has been discovered in 
[REDACTED}, Illinois, which is transmitted by pigeons. It has similar 
symptoms to SCP-2376 and an identical anomalous effect, save for 
that the infected are perceived as mannequins. Due to the urban 
nature of the new strain's origin point and the increased risk for an 
epidemic, reclassification to Keter has been suggested. 


Footnotes 
1. high fever, painful muscle spasms, and rapid loss of mobility 


« SCP-2375 | SCP-2376 | SCP-2377 » 


SCP-2377: Your House 


Item #: SCP-2377 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: Containment Site 2377 has 
been constructed around SCP-2377-1's location. Manipulation of 
local economic infrastructure has been implemented to reduce 
residential and industrial population density in the immediate area of 
Containment Site 2377. Following the events documented in 
Incident Report 2377-01, on-site personnel requirements have been 
adjusted to: 


* At least twelve members of Mobile Task Force Beta-19 
(“Gargoyles at the Diner”) at all times. 

¢ At least two Containment Specialists with security clearance 
Level 3 or higher at all times. 

¢ At least two Researchers with security clearance Level 2 or 
higher at all times. 

¢ At least two Field Agents with security clearance Level 2 or 
higher at all times. 


A minimum of three personnel are to be within SCP-2377-1 at all 
times to witness and document SCP-2377 scenarios. Personnel 
assigned to Containment Site 2377 are to undergo monthly 
psychiatric evaluations and may submit applications for 
reassignment. Exposure to SCP-2377-1 has shown no anomalous 
detrimental effects. 


Future attempts by civilians to access SCP-2377-1 are to be met 
with non-lethal force by MTF B-19 when possible without risking 
containment breach or Foundation personnel safety. Detainment of 
these individuals for interrogation is considered optimal resolution of 
such incidents but lethal force is authorized when deemed 
necessary. Detainees may be treated with a Class B amnestic and 
released after interrogation or detained off-site if ongoing 


investigation is deemed important.