SCP-356 was recovered along with 12 other persons, 12,348 pages 
of files, 3 computers and 115 hours of video recordings after the 
04/01/1986 Foundation raid on a CIA safehouse in as 
part of Operation CATWALK. Including SCP-356, objects 
recovered from this operation later received SCP classification. 


+ Experiment Log 356-1 


Experiment Log 356-1: Listing of SCP-356 Phenomena, 
1986-87 


Over a period of 11 months, a series of experiments 
documenting anomalous phenomena related to SCP-356 
were conducted by research staff. In each instance, a 
standard, land-line telephone terminal in an observation 
chamber was activated in the presence of SCP-356. All 
conversations took place using speaker functionality. 
Transcripts have been translated by staff from 
Azerbaijani to English for the purposes of this file. 


Experiment: E356.11A 
Date: 07/29/1986 


Summary: Upon opening of telephone line following 137 
unanswered calls, a voice exactly matching that of 
SCP-356 is heard on the line. No attempt at conversation 
is initiated. SCP-356-A states background information on 
SCP-356 such as biometric data, known associates, and 
a detailed history of SCP-356's record as an operative in 
the Azerbaijan SSR division of the Soviet KGB. This 
information is later verified to be completely accurate. 


Selected Transcript: 


Dr. _: Well if there's nothing else, Ms. 
, | think we're done here... 


: Wait, did | tell you what Jerry Lee 
did on 'Great Balls of Fire’? | have to tell you! 


Dr. : What did he do? 


: He lit his piano on fire in the middle 
of the song! 


Dr. +:Noway! That's crazy! 


: He actually did! It was quite 
amazing to see. My kids just lost it when they 
saw that! Think about it. 


Dr. : Come to think of it, | think | might've 
actually been to that show. That was at the old 
Vic Stanley Country Club, right? 


<Dr. contracted SCP-2971 and was 
administered Protocol Myra, along with Ms. 

. Extraneous data removed. End 
Log.> 


Closing Statement: It was determined soon 
after that interviews with infected subjects 
should be kept to a hard limit of one minute 
followed by administration of Protocol Myra to 
the interviewer, to avoid any further incidents. 
Both Dr. and Ms. have since been 
cured. 


+ Document SCP-2971- 
A1 LEVEL 3 CLEARANCE REQUIRED 


This is a transcript of an audience recording of 
SCP-2971-A provided by a subject. 


<Recording Starts> 


00:01 Audio fades in, with clapping audible. It 
is implied that the first song has already been 
completed. 


00:08 The song 'Georgia On My Mind’ is 
played. 


00:14 Lewis immediately starts 'Sweet Little 
Sixteen’ after ‘Georgia On My Mind’. The audio 
crackles badly at times, and only fully recovers 
at the end of the song. 


00:17 After 'Sweet Little Sixteen’ closes, Lewis 
says "Welcome to our show. If it gets too 
crazy, you'll probably want to leave the 
building ‘cause | get like that sometimes. Think 
about it.” 


00:18 ‘Rock And Roll Over' starts. 
00:20 'I| Wish | Was Eighteen Again’ starts. 


[There is a large break in the audio. It fades 
out completely until the 00:42 mark.] 


00:42 Applause is heard after the close of the 
previous song. Lewis says "Think about it," 
again. At least one audience member near the 
recording device is heard to repeat the phrase. 


00:42 'I'll Find It Where | Can’ is played. 


00:46 Lewis says "All right folks. | brought a 
new song with me today that... uh... you never 
heard me do before. Cliff Bogg wrote this one 
for me about 2 hours ago. One entitled... Rock 
and Roll Sacrifice... let's get it boys. Do it right, 
they're in the room with us." 


SCP-2971-A did not happen. Searches 
through the Lewis discography have 
shown no song named ‘Rock and Roll 


Sacrifice’ exists. No associate of Lewis' 
named 'Cliff Bogg' is known to exist. 


00:47 'Rock and Roll Sacrifice’ plays. The 
song is by far the longest on the recording, 
lasting 9:42. It is an instrumental until the 5:11 
mark, where Lewis begins to sing the lyrics. 
For the full lyrics, see file SCP-2971-A2. 


00:57 Lewis asks for the crowd to "Be still for 
just a moment, Kenny's fingers are numb." 
[This likely refers to Kenneth Lovelace, his 
guitar player] The audio is playing, but only 
white noise is audible from the source. 


00:59 A loud pop is heard in the recording. 
The audience gasps. 


01:00 Lewis: "See now that's why you don't 
lose track of what you're doing. That's when 
they getcha." The audience laughs. 


01:01 ‘Great Balls of Fire’ starts. Noticeable is 
a distinct lack of guitar. 


01:03 The audience gasps and applauds 
wildly during the song. Lewis shouts "Burning 
love, baby!" [It is likely this is the section where 
he lit his piano on fire, as mentioned by Ms. 


‘J 


01:05 Immediately after the song finishes, 
Lewis says "Thank you for coming out tonight. 
| had fun, | hope you had fun. Did you have 
fun?" [The audience applauds] "Yeah... think 
about it." [The entire audience repeats ‘think 
about it' back, in perfect unison]. 


01:06 'Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin' On' begins 
playing. During the song, certain instruments 
suddenly cease playing and are no longer 


heard. 
01:07 The bass guitar stops. 
01:08 Rhythm guitar stops. 


01:10 Lewis says mid-song "| was gonna 
introduce you to my band, but then it would 
come out again." 


01:11 Drums stop. 


01:12 Piano stops. Lewis is heard mumbling 
unintelligibly into the microphone. 


01:13 All noise from the audience ceases. 


01:14 Piano begins playing again, badly out of 
tune and at about half-speed. 


01:15 Audio fades out. 
<Recording Ends> 


SCP-2971-A did not happen. The events 
you have read are fictional, and are not 
real. 


+ Document SCP-2971- 
A2 LEVEL 3 CLEARANCE REQUIRED 


Lyrics to ‘Rock and Roll Sacrifice’ 
[Instrumental intro] 


They never told you what you're doing 
in this choking land 

they never gave a reason nor a way 
to wander through the damned 


Tomorrow's death is what you get 
for a life so weak and grim 


today your light shines bright 
though it's quickly growing dim 


They're coming for you now child 
can't you see 'em over there 

a growing mass of flesh and grief 
and they're loaded for bear 


They're coming for you now child 
with spears clenched in hand 

| want a rock and roll sacrifice 
came forth the command 


[Instrumental bridge] 


Though you may think peace has won 
and swords be drawn no more 

put your ear to the dust 

hear the whispers of war 


Nevermind those empty halls 

your nightmares locked away 
there's a prophecy of pending doom 
in the words | say 


They're coming for you now child 
their souls filled with rage 

a voice decreed it will be done 

it trembled from the cage 


They're coming for you now child 
sooner than you know 

for a rock and roll sacrifice 

is the way you must go 


[Instrumental bridge] 


[spoken by Lewis] 

Let me tell you folks 

I've seen many things in this wretched world 
things that would make the devil himself cry 


out in fear and renounce hell as 'too tame’ 
but let me tell you 

these things are not for human minds 

| was given a burden that | am sharing with 
you all here tonight 

and in time you will understand what the words 
to this song truly mean 

because you will be singing it too 

that's the way it goes 

think about it 

just once, that's all it takes 


They're coming for you now child 
with hunger in their hearts 

a bloody end to your filthy life 
before it really starts 


They're coming for you now child 

to put terror in your veins 

a punishment much worse than death 
you'd plead for a life in chains 


Footnotes 

1. Some instances of these CDs have had a receipt in the case with 
the vendor printed as VIC.STAN.CTRY.CLB. 

2. Lewis has been known to utter this phrase offhandedly from time 
to time. It may refer to a song he recorded called 'Think About It, 
Darlin’ 


« SCP-2970 | SCP-2971 | SCP-2972 » 


SCP-2972: Somebody Else's Parking Lot In 
Sebastopol 


Item #: SCP-2972 
Object Class: Safe Euclid (Provisional) Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: The lot containing SCP-2972 
has been purchased from Dollar General Corporation by a 
Foundation shell group', Sawgrass Holdings. The building adjacent 
to SCP-2972 has been demolished, and SCP-2972 has been fenced 
in. Local Mobile Task Force 769-Ayin ("Clanga") will maintain a 
surveillance camera on the premises and ensure no motor vehicles 
are introduced to SCP-2972. will deliver one functioning motor 
vehicle to the premises of SCP-2972 at least once every 21 days, to 
prevent the spread of SCP-2972's effect. LMTF 769-¥ will coordinate 
with Sebastopol, Crimea-based Local Mobile Task Force 652-Peh 
("Artel's Pot") to ensure vehicles transported via SCP-2972 are 
recovered and contained. 


Description: SCP-2972 is a parking lot, formerly attached to the 
Dollar General store in Sebastopol, Mississippi. Once, between 
every two (2) and twenty-one (21) days, SCP-2972 will cause a 
seemingly random unoccupied motor vehicle parked? within its 
bounds to disappear, apparently instantaneously3. The motor 
vehicle* simultaneously appears in a warehouse in the industrial 
district of Sebastopol, Crimea. The vehicle appears with all wheels 
(if applicable) touching the ground and aligned lengthwise with 
magnetic north, regardless of original orientation. 


Discovery: SCP-2972 was discovered when four consecutive car 
thefts (believed to be the first events caused by the anomaly) 
occurred in the Dollar General parking lot in Sebastopol, Mississippi. 
Following the third vehicle disappearance, store managers installed 
a security camera in the lot. 


When surveillance footage showed the fourth vehicle disappearing 


between video frames, an embedded Federal Bureau of 
Investigation Unusual Incidents Unit agent in the Mississippi 
Highway Patrol took notice of the case. At the time of containment 
handover from the UIU to the Foundation, Agent SolowskiS 
recounted the discovery: 


Excerpt from Interview 2972-2, Dec 18 2005 
Participating: Fmr. UlIU Agent Titus Solowski, Foundation 
Junior Researcher Dr. Shauna Little. Foundation's 
Jeremy Hornbeck, secretary. 


Dr. Little: So, you took over the case in your capacity 
with the Highway Patrol. 

Agent Solowski: Correct. | decided to run a sting, 
emptying the lot and seeding it with a high-value vehicle, 
embedded with a GPS. 

Dr. Little: And, according to the records, that car 
disappeared from the lot five days and seven hours 
later? 

Agent Solowski: Affirmative. Our team — 

Sec. Hornbeck: For the record, you are referring to the 
Mississippi Highway Patrol as "our team"? 

Agent Solowski: No, UIU. Our team got an alert tracing 
the object to Ukraine® of all places. We ran it up the 
ladder and they phoned up Interpol and y'all. | got flown 
out to Crimea to help run the sting on the place. 

Dr. Little: And the results? 

Agent Solowski: A couple guys, if you'd believe it, were 
grabbing these cars, filing off the VINs and selling them 
on the black market. Occasionally, they'd get cash or 
drugs or whatever from inside 'em, too. Nice little 
business they had. 

Dr. Little: Did these individuals — 

Sec. Hornbeck: Sorry, point of information. How many 
guys, exactly? 

Agent Solowski: Two. Dr. Little? 

Dr. Little: How did these two individuals create this 
anomaly? 

Agent Solowski: They say they didn't, and our 
extensive interrogation leads me to believe they're telling 


the truth. They said some whispers on the black market 
pointed them in the right way, guy called "Penrose." 
Apparently, the names of the two cities connected them 
with what he called a "linguistic ley line," making moving 
stuff between the two trivial. Funny, really, these guys 
find out 'magic' is out there and their first thought is 
stealing cars. People really aren't that creative, you 
know? 


Addendum, 8/1/2011: Following the conclusion of testing and 
creation of initial containment procedures for SCP-2972, no motor 
vehicles meeting the criteria for disappearance were placed in the 
bounds of SCP-2972. After 44 days of no anomalous activity, a 
vehicle belonging to the owner of a nearby service station 
spontaneously disappeared, appearing in the Crimean location. 


SCP-2972 was upgraded to Provisional Euclid by Primary 
Containment, temporarily, with the classification returned to Safe 
two months later. 


New containment policies requiring the transport of a vehicle at 
regular intervals appear to have confined the phenomena again to 
the bounds of SCP-2972. Future car theft reports in the Leake and 
Scott County areas are to be closely monitored. 


Footnotes 

1. As part of the initial agreement of containment handover, 40% of 
the funding for the purchase of SCP-2972 was provided by the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation's Unusual Incidents Unit in 
exchange for Foundation responsibility for containment. 

2. For the purposes of containment "motor vehicle" includes cars, 
motorbikes, motor scooters, golf carts, semi trucks, construction 
equipment and, in one instance, an airboat. "Parked" vehicles do not 
have the engine running, but may have lights, electronics or other 
devices active. "Unoccupied" vehicles do not contain any living 
warm-blooded animals. 

3. Atomic clocks onboard five (5) vehicles transported with 
SCP-2972 indicate no temporal desynchronization during the 
transportation event. 

4."Or an exact replica of the same." - Secondary Containment 
Proposal 


5. Employed by the Foundation as part of the containment 
agreement, now Deputy Director of Local Mobile Task Forces, 
Region 352. 

6. In light of the current sensitive nature of the Crimean Peninsula's 
national status, and out of respect for our employees and allies in 
both Russia and Ukraine, Foundation Human Resources officially 
take no position on the ownership of Crimea. Agent Solowski's 
comments in Dec 2005 accurately represented the political situation 
of Sebastopol, Crimea at the time. 


« SCP-2971 | SCP-2972 | SCP-2973 » 


SCP-356-A: "Our joined up with his current 
handlers in Baku in the fall of 1976, and was 
assigned publicly as an adjunct at the Turkish 
Embassy. But of course that wasn't really the 
purpose of any of it. NATO and the Turks 
weren't privy to what was happening under the 
cover of the refinery. Only Kolya at the 
directorate on our side, and the Americans. 
Isn't that right, ?" 


Experiment: E356.18G 
Date: 09/02/1986 


Summary: Researchers answer phone call, then 
proceed to ask SCP-356 details of the operations of 
Frontier Energy Consulting Ltd., a known (at the time of 
the experiment) KGB front company operating in Baku. 
SCP-356-A responds with information describing 
SCP-356's role in overseeing Frontier Energy activities, 
which primarily consisted of industrial espionage. 
Information is later verified to be accurate. 


Selected Transcript: 


Researcher Singh: Please describe the 
operation you were responsible for in Baku. 


SCP-356: [No response] 


SCP-356-A: You're never going to accomplish 
anything that way. Hey, . What should we 
talk about? Hm? We could talk about all those 
meetings near the docks, but | don't think 
that's what the agent here is referring to. Or 
perhaps the reason for that 21 month stretch in 
Indigirka? There's a tale to tell. 


SCP-356: [No response] 
SCP-356-A: Ohhh, is that what's troubling 


SCP-2973: Ihctogamat 


Item #: SCP-2973 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: While not being tested 
SCP-2973 is to remain in a locked plastic case in Storage Site-12. 
Televisions, smart phones, or any other device that has a display 
screen should remain outside of SCP-2973 10 meter transfer radius. 


In the event that security around SCP-2973 is compromised, on-site 
personnel must power down the affected devices. In the event that 
SCP-2973 has rendered this impossible, physical destruction is 
permitted.