We told local law enforcement to stand down, and chased after him 
with cars and helicopters. The last statement we got from him was, 
"I'm not pulling over. I'm a driver and that's what | do. That's my 
purpose. | don't need to switch. | can get him where he's going!" 
After this, he shot off the freeway into open space for about 10 
seconds, before crashing into another lower lane. We don't know if 
this was intentional or not, as at the same time he veered towards 
the sides and headed towards the rails at a slant, a bullet was put 
into his head by an aerial sniper. From reports, the bus hit the 
ground and exploded into a fiery blaze. There were no survivors, 


Historical Containment Documents/Acquisition of SCP-2896: 
The following documents were discovered in a secure locker dating 
back to the ASCI period of history, buried near the current location 
of Site-84. Notably on said documents, information was included 
that stressed the importance of maintaining an empty chamber at 
the same location at which all previous iterations of the Foundation 
had been containing SCP-2896. 


The following is a compilation of all documents previously found 
within the locker, roughly arranged in chronological order, as can 
best be determined by Foundation intelligence. Veracity of 
information contained within that has not been independently 
verified or written about above cannot be confirmed. 


Unknown doctor testimony, circa late colonial period 


Yesterday’s eve, the most curious case of a disease ere 

| had seen in my years of medical experience was 
presented to me by a local townsperson. The good man 
in question has a queer habit of disappearing in his sleep 
frequently. 


While this seemed like a rather mundane case of 
sleepwalking, a fellow lodger of his at the Snaketail Inn 
swore up and down to me that the fellow had 
disappeared in bed, right before his eyes, as if into the 
aether. 


| would normally attribute this to simple common folk 
hysteria, but at least 4 others have pledged to the 
veracity of these statements, and this seems like more 
than mere coincidence. 


| plan on making a study of the man, if | should be able 
to track him down myself. Perhaps the Royal Foundation 
for the Study of Curiosities and Phantasmagoria would 
be interested if | can verify this myself first. 


American Secure Containment Initiative Document, 
circa 1863 


Item Number: 2896-012 
Classification Type: Human/Potentially Threatening 


ASCI Protocols for Containment: Phenomenon 
2896-012 is currently detained in a cell maintained at 
Detainment Camp Jefferson. ASCI Personnel should be 
aware that Phenomenon 2896-012 may not be present 
at all times, but should maintain active vigilance when it 
is spotted within its cell. 


All active information concerning Phenomenon 2896-012 
are to be contained in a safe-box stored at the Warden’s 
office, along with all other discovered intelligence 
concerning the phenomenon, as per the directive noted 
below. 


Description: Phenomenon 2896-012 is a white male 
individual named Vladimir Strannik who has the queer 
ability to travel to different points in history while asleep. 


Research into the local area has revealed numerous 
stories of a “Disappearing Man” who apparently was the 
source of local gossip and tall tales for some time, but all 
date to roughly 40 years before the current day, though 
the phenomenon matches rough descriptions of the 
figure in said tales. 


Phenomenon 2896-012 has stated that it is unable to 
control this ability, and severe questioning of the 
phenomenon has concluded that this statement is most 
likely true. Questioning was unable to coerce the 
phenomenon into divulging any further information 
concerning the different periods to which 2896-012 has 
claimed to have traveled to, but more enhanced means 
of questioning have been recommended and are 
pending approval. 


Nota Bene: The fact that Phenomenon 2896-012 has 
traveled to other time periods, and yet comes back to our 
time for detainment tells me that out there, somewhere, 


some version of our Initiative in the past or future is also 
doing its best to detain this phenomenon. It only seems 
fair to me that we do our part by helping out our posterity 
with as much information as we can on this phenomenon 
and all the others that we know about, since we seem to 
share in the same God-granted mission. As such, | want 
all the information we have on the phenomenons 
detained here to be locked away in my office, securely 
stashed for future reference. 


Disciplinary History: Phenomenon 2896-012 has 
currently attempted 3 different escapes, and has been 
publically whipped on 3 separate occasions. The next 
time it attempts to escape, it gets 30 lashes and reduced 
rations for a week. Wartime punishments are in effect 
with all anomalies of unknown loyalty. -Warden Johnson 


Circus Flyer Transcript, dated to 1930: 
COME ONE COME ALL 


WITNESS! THE STUPEFYING AND UNEXPLAINABLE 
CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING MAN 


THE MAN WHO SLUMBERS AWAY AND DISAPPEARS 
WHILE HE SLEEPS! 


THIS AND MORE ODDITIES, ONLY AT CARLSSON’S 
CIRCUS OF THE BIZARRE AND WONDERFUL 


Note: The following note was found scribbled at the 
bottom of the flyer 


Are you kidding me Johnny? Your new freakshow act 
was a real stinker. Who wants to pay to see some pinko 
bum fall asleep and disappear? My boy could do a better 
magic trick than that. Just leave the freak in its cage here 
and come back when you got a real act to show me. And 
would you hose that thing down? It reeks. 


Foundation Secure Containment Procedures, circa 


1952 


Note: Content that differs from current Foundation 
documents have been highlighted in blue for 
convenience. 


Item #: SCP-2896 
Object Class: Euclidean-Red 


Special Containment Procedures: The current 
manifestation point for SCP-2896 is located within a 
standard human containment chamber located at Site 
84. Given the nature of SCP-2896’s fluctuating temporal 
status, effective containment of SCP-2896 relies on 
effective documentation for later Foundation iterations 
and the maintenance of the status quo with regards to 
changes in containment conditions for SCP-2896. 


Since SCP-2896 is not usually located within this 
temporal locality, active containment is generally 
unnecessary. When SCP-2896 is present, however, 
slightly altered containment conditions for Euclidean-Red 
have been put into effect. As such: 


1). SCP-2896 is not permitted any contact with any other 
Euclidean-Red anomalies at any point. 

2). No staff member under special review by the Loyalty 
Security Board or otherwise under suspicion of conflicted 
loyalties is permitted contact with SCP-2896. 

3). No reading materials perceived as being potentially 
treasonous are permitted to come into contact with 
SCP-2896. 

4). All staff involved with SCP-2896 must undergo 
monthly Loyalty Security Board review in order to 
establish that no potential Communist influence has 
been imparted by SCP-2896. 


An updated copy of SCP-2896’s containment 
documentation should be maintained in a secure storage 
locker along with all previous containment documents 


have been found in (see addendum for more details). 
Copies of further information or other discovered 
historical records concerning SCP-2896 should also be 
stored in said locker. It is critical that such information is 
stored securely so that future iterations of the Foundation 
are able to maintain proper containment of SCP-2896 in 
conjunction with all past iterations. 


In addition, given the Euclidean-Red nature of the 
anomaly, the Foundation has, in compliance with current 
directives from the United States government, ordered 
weekly rounds of psychological testing as well as 
interrogation in order to determine SCP-2896's possible 
motives as well as its origin, and whether or not the 
anomaly is of Communist origin. 


Description: SCP-2896 is a 40 year old Caucasian 
male, (believed to be of Russian origin), formerly known 
as Vladimir Strannik that possesses a non-localized 
temporal status. As such, SCP-2896 is capable of 
shifting to different points in time. 


Currently, it is unknown how SCP-2896 is able to 
dissociate itself from a given temporal locality, and 
repeated rounds of interrogation have been unable to 
extract any information from SCP-2896 other than that its 
ability manifested at a young age. 


Foundation containment of SCP-2896 dates back to the 
American Secure Containment Initiative (ASCI), a 
Foundation predecessor of the 18th and 19th centuries, 
as well as several intermediaries in between. As such, 
current containment of SCP-2896 relies on coordination 
of efforts between this current iteration of the 
Foundation, as well as past iterations of the Foundation, 
and possibly future iterations of the Foundation as well. 
A list of containment documents from the other temporal 
localities in the past that SCP-2896 is known to shift to 
are included below for record-keeping purposes, as well 
as to serve as testimony for future iterations of the 
Foundation who would presumably also be containing 


SCP-2896. 


Given the impossibility of direct coordination, a 
streamlined approach of simply maintaining the status 
quo as mentioned in the above containment procedures 
has been established as a means of minimizing 
difficulties. 


Designation of Euclidean-Red Status: 03/04/1952 As 
per American Foundation branch compliance with 
current local government directives, SCP-2896 has been 
designated as a Euclidean-Red entity, and as such is 
under special review for potential internal sabotage from 
hostile foreign governments/ideologies. 


Special weekly interrogation rounds of SCP-2896 have 
been scheduled in order to ascertain SCP-2896's 
potential motivations and origin, and are currently under 
review by the Loyalty Security Board in order to 
determine the most effective method of interrogation in 
order to ensure the absence of potential sabotage. 


+ Level 4 Clearance Required 


Keter Class Reclassification Request from 
Dr. Gabriel Rodriguez 


The following is a note from Dr. Gabriel 
Rodriguez, current supervisor of SCP-2896. 


On 3/5/2015, an internal review of the 
Foundation’s pre-digital records indicate that 
on 6/7/1963, a tabloid article was published in 
a local newspaper located in a town roughly 30 
miles from Site-84 concerning the sudden 
appearance of a man whose description 
matches that of SCP-2896’s in the middle of a 
local wedding, an account of which was 
matched in the regular newspaper of said 
town. Furthermore, a photo attached to the 
tabloid article shows us what appears to be 


SCP-2896 as well. The Foundation of that time 
period evidently sent an agent to investigate 
further, but was unable to find any further 
information concerning the man. 


The problem that we face right now, assuming 
that the figure mentioned in the paper is 
indeed SCP-2896 as | suspect, is that we have 
no idea whether or not this is an event that 
happened in the future or the past, or perhaps 
is occurring right now without our knowledge. 


Here, it is important to further qualify what | 
mean by “past,” “future,” and “present.” One 
timeline is that of the natural progression of 
history, as far as we understand it. The other is 
the timeline that only SCP-2896 experiences. 


Supposing that SCP-2896 has already 
experienced the 1953 event prior to its current 
containment by the Foundation, then we can 
most likely assume that SCP-2896 is still 
under active containment by multiple iterations 
of the Foundation, including our own. 


However, if this event takes place after our 
current containment of SCP-2896, then we 
have a big problem. First of all, the fact that 
somehow, some iteration of the Foundation 
(which could potentially be us) allowing an 
anomaly to escape containment and make it 
30 miles away is never a good thing. However, 
much more pressing in my mind is what 
causality related threat this could pose to the 
Foundation. 


If SCP-2896 has successfully escaped 
containment, we have a hostile entity on the 
loose that could be anywhere and any-when, 
perhaps in the future or the past, or right in this 
timeline with an obvious grudge against the 


Foundation and other related entities by virtue 
of its containment by our less than humane 
predecessors or even descendants. What if it 
travels to some distant predecessor of the 
Foundation, and is able to disrupt their 
activities just enough (think butterfly effect) 
such that there are catastrophic consequences 
on our Current reality? Perhaps it doesn't need 
to even do anything overt against the 
Foundation; the smallest of actions could 
potentially alter the entire universe. 


| must add however, that it is possible that 
none of this is important. Perhaps SCP-2896 
has already died in another temporal locality, 
or any action it can cause is already 
“accounted” for, temporally speaking. We don’t 
have nearly a good enough grasp on how time 
works for us to answer that question, but the 
Temporal Anomalies Department is working on 
it. 


At any rate, there’s not much we can do in 
order to fix this situation, except for continuing 
our vigilance and hoping that we’re not the 
iteration of the Foundation to screw things up 
for everyone else and hope that nobody else 
out there screws things up too badly either. Of 
course, it might not even matter if that article 
means that someone is "fated" to do it or 
something. 


What’s keeping me up at night though is not 
‘What if SCP-2896 causes some kind of 
temporal disaster?’ 


It’s, ‘What if it already has?’ 


« SCP-2895 | SCP-2896 | SCP-2897 » 


SCP-2897: The Bard of Analytics 


Item #: SCP-2897 
Object Class: Thaumiel 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2897 is the subject of an 
ongoing internal disinformation campaign by the Department of 
Analytics, intended to conceal its existence and its role in the 
WATCHDOG program from Foundation employees and embedded 
agents of Groups of Interest. 


No records of this document, nor of any related documents, are to 
be kept outside the Department of Analytics. The documentation of 
other artificial intelligences in Foundation containment are to be 
sanitized to remove any references to SCP-2897, Project Bardeen, 
and Ambrose Peters (Pol-24454). All references to the WATCHDOG 
program in Foundation documents should state that the 
WATCHDOG system is managed by human analysts aided by non- 
anomalous supercomputers. Budget reports filed with RAISA are to 
overstate actual electrical consumption and employee salaries to 
reflect this. (Budget reports submitted to the O5 Council should 
remain accurate.) 


Analytics Working Group Bravo-3 ("Dog Watchers") are responsible 
for maintaining SCP-2897 in an operational state. Their duties 
include making repairs, performing routine upgrades, and ensuring 
the continued loyalty of SCP-2897 to the Department of Analytics. In 
the event that SCP-2897 abandons its duties or betrays the goals of 
the Foundation, Bravo-3 have full authority to take any and all 
actions they deem necessary to reassert Department of Analytics 
control over SCP-2897. The destruction of SCP-2897 is considered 
a measure of last resort, and should be avoided if at all possible. 
This restriction may be rescinded during the activation of Protocol 
Custodes. 


Description: SCP-2897 is an advanced artificial intelligence system 
operated by the Foundation's Department of Analytics. SCP-2897 is 
responsible for analyzing the intelligence collected by the 
WATCHDOG global anomaly monitoring network and using it to 
locate anomalous objects or persons, track the movements of 
Persons of Interest, discern the activities of Groups of Interest, and 
discover evidence that threatens to expose the existence of the 
anomalous.