noted afterwards. 
Upon approaching the 
sample, subject stated 
that the sample was 
communicating with 
him, persuading him 
to consume it and 
describing its 
gastronomical values. 
The subject claimed 
that the sample 
advised him to 
consume it with a 
beverage. No 
beverage was 
provided to the 
subject. After 
consuming the 
sample, the subject 
described it as salty. 
No lasting mind- 
altering effects have 
been noted. 


« SCP-1599 | SCP-1600 | SCP-1601 » 


SCP-1601: The Records of [REDACTED] 


Item #: SCP-1601 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Site-1601 has been established 
70 km northwest of in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, with 
Foundation personnel assuming several park ranger positions and 
routinely patrolling the area. Signs outside of the cave warn of 
instability and advise the public to stay out. Any person attempting to 
enter the cave should be intercepted and escorted from the area. 


To prevent further damage to SCP-1601 due to movement and 
minimize the risk of an uncontrolled Event 1601-BR during transit, it 
is contained in the cave in which it was found. A live camera feed of 
SCP-1601 is maintained and recorded at all times. When the dome 
of SCP-1601 changes, the resulting text should be analyzed to 
determine if it has been encountered before. If not, a 3D model 
should be made of the current state of SCP-1601's dome and a cast 
made for Foundation linguists. 


Should Event 1601-BR occur, the broadcast area is to be canvassed 
for recordings, and Class-A-2 amnestics administered as needed. 


At no time should any sentient SCP of an age greater than years, 
of an indeterminate age, or which has been previously discovered in 
SCP-1601's records be allowed within a 5 km radius of the object. 


Description: SCP-1601 is a 1.23 m high stone lantern discovered in 
a cave in a heavily forested area of Hokkaido, Japan. The lantern's 
age is estimated atover years, based on other artifacts found in 
situ in the cave and the ancient language SCP-1601 uses. Attempts 
to move the lantern proved that it was fused with the floor, 
necessitating its containment at its current location. Other artifacts 
found in the cave have been determined to be non-anomalous and 
are cataloged in the Foundation Cultural Museum, Asian Studies 


Wing. 


While resembling sandstone, the actual composition of SCP-1601 is 
so far unidentified. Surface samples from the non-active base 
appear to be mostly a previously unknown allotrope of silicon. Radar 
and x-ray imaging have determined that SCP-1601 is partially hollow 
inside and much of this space is taken up by interlocking objects of 
various sizes (see Image Library 1601-03 for the full imaging set). It 
is theorized that these objects make up some form of mechanism. 
Due to the obviously damaged nature of SCP-1601, requests to 
open the object and examine these components have been denied. 


Periodically and unpredictably, the lantern portion of SCP-1601 
emits a white ambient light, described as very bright but not painful 
to look at. This event is very rare, with only eventsin years of 
containment. After 1-2 minutes, the light suffuses into the two domes 
that cap the lantern. Characters then quickly form in the surface of 
the domes and remain for 3-6 hours before the surface becomes 
smooth again. These characters were found to be a mix of certain 
proto-Japanese forms of writing, but were initially incomprehensible. 
After effort from Foundation linguists, the key to translation was 
discovered to be the depth and angle of the characters, which acted 
as both context and syntax clues. Translation of one dome event 
can take up to one (1) month. 


The translated text on the smaller upper dome always consists of 
three components: 


¢ The phrase, The Records/Prisoners/Catalog of [REDACTED] 
* Atitle 
¢ A word translated as Location/Prison/Status, followed by text. 


The titles appear to be designations for a variety of entities of 
supernatural or anomalous nature (SCP-1601-A). The location text 
has so far consisted of the same word, translated as: UNKNOWN. 


The larger dome holds a description of the entity or entities identified 
by the smaller one. These descriptions are thorough, although 
unscientific, and rely heavily on conjecture and hearsay. So far, _ of 
these entities bear significant resemblance to currently contained 
SCPs, including [REDACTED]. All entities named and described so 


far would be subjects for containment should they be encountered 
by the Foundation. See Document 1601-A-EL for a full running list of 
SCP-1601-A. 


If an entity that SCP-1601 has cataloged enters within 5 km of the 
lantern, SCP-1601 reacts by releasing a large-scale (307 km radius) 
radio burst on multiple frequencies, many used commercially (Event 
1601-BR). Any radio devices tuned into those frequencies will emit 
loud bursts of musical sound followed by a computerized voice 
announcing, in a dialect of proto-Japanese, the description and 
immediate location of the SCP (See Experiment 1601-_ , in which 
SCP-_ was allowed to approach and attempt to analyze 
SCP-1601). Although the speech will likely make little sense to most 
listeners, Event 1601-BR is considered a Class-U breach of security. 


+ Document 1601-A-EL Excerpts 


SCP-1601-A-3 

Title: Gods of the Thundering Chorus 

Description Summary: A cacophony of disembodied 
voices at high volumes that render listeners unconscious 
and then removes their skin. 

Excerpt: Those that survive/become clean recall to us 
the voices of their gods/ancestors in the din. What 
comes after is the hearing of the truth/no lies. 
Researcher’s note: Theological conjecture in the 
description holds that the skin is only removed if the 
person has wronged an ancestor's ghost. 


SCP-1601-A-14 

Title: Woman with Sharp Red Mouth 

Description Summary: A traditional nukekubi with the 
added feature of octopus arms and a beak mingling with 
the organs that aid in feeding. 

Excerpt: Be awake by night when she howls in the hills, 
should she come out of the shadows/dark. She squeals/ 
mourns/desires the children she devours. Keep fire at 
hand, for she flees before the flames. 


SCP-1601-A-76 
Title: The Sickening Darkness of the West 


Description Summary: A massive dark black cloud of 
tangible, mobile, and highly radioactive matter 

Excerpt: It blankets the skies and the people fall, their 
bodies crack and seep/bleed/weep. They cannot hold 
and must fall apart. Those that may live breed naught but 
monsters and abominations after they have seen the 
cloud. It curses their blood as payment for the land. 
Researcher’s Note: Radioactivity inferred from effects 
of exposure to the entity. Naturopathic explanation put 
forth in original description. 


SCP-1601-A-95 

Title: Small Mouths 

Description Summary: Multiple instances of very small 
humanoids, all wearing silver suits. Though not violent, 
they eat more than 6 times their body weight every day, 
making them quite expensive. 

Excerpt: They are born of the lights in the sky, cast off 
from their kingdom/sphere. Their appetite is their 
punishment, and our land/world/plane their prison. 
Controlling their progeny/fruit/eggs is without peer in 
honor, or else they bleed the land dry. 


SCP-1601-A-97 

Title: Old Man of Tricks 

Description Summary: An old man who displays a 
variety of extranormal abilities, including levitation, 
telepathy, and pyropathy. 

Excerpt: His speech is of secrets and his actions/feats/ 
tricks impress his power/dignity upon all he meets. His 
was the ear of leaders/kings and his reputation/legend 
spread as far as Aharabia. 

Researcher’s Note: It is difficult to tell the difference 
between SCP-1601-A-97 and a talented “street 
magician.” The unscientific nature of the description 
makes a definitive analysis of his SCP nature impossible. 


SCP-1601-A-153 
Title: Dangerously Modest Man of Heaven 
Description Summary: [DATA EXPUNGED] 


Excerpt: Only those who paid the price of honor/ 
sacrifice and can no longer measure the light by their 
eyes may know this man of divine personage/origin. 


« SCP-1600 | SCP-1601 | SCP-1602 » 


SCP-1602: A Shower Curtain 


Item #: SCP-1602 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: As it only exhibits anomalous 
qualities when spread out, SCP-1602 must remain folded a 
minimum of 5 times when not undergoing testing. When SCP-1602 
is removed from its container to undergo testing or cleaning, no 
fewer than three personnel are to be in a room with it at any given 
time. It is currently kept at Storage Site-49 inside a standard 
containment locker. Researchers seeking to conduct additional tests 
involving SCP-1602 must have written approval from a Level-3 staff 
member before removing the item from containment. 


Instances of SCP-1602-B are to be terminated by security personnel 
after researchers have made sufficient notes regarding its behavior. 
All remains are to be preserved and placed in storage. 


Description: SCP-1602 is a plastic shower curtain patterned with 
stylized sea turtles. When it is spread and placed in a room with a 
single human subject, SCP-1602 will enter its active state, and an 
extradimensional space containing SCP-1602-A will be generated 
behind SCP-1602. This phenomenon still occurs even when 
SCP-1602 is placed against a wall or other solid object. 5 to 30 
minutes after activation, a faint light will appear roughly 3m behind 
SCP-1602, casting a silhouette of SCP-1602-A on the back of the 
curtain. SCP-1602-A will remain stationary for a brief period before 
drawing back SCP-1602 and approaching the subject. Pre-test 
counseling sessions conducted with D-Class subjects have shown 
that instances of SCP-1602-A take on forms that are representative 
of subjects’ psychological insecurities (see Experiment Log). 


If an additional party enters the room during this process, 
SCP-1602-A and any physical traces of its existence will instantly 
vanish and SCP-1602 will reenter its dormant state. If left 


unimpeded, SCP-1602-A will restrain the subject and forcibly pull 
them behind SCP-1602. Instances of SCP-1602-A have consistently 
proven capable of outrunning, overpowering, and subduing subjects 
through nonlethal means. Once the subject has been taken behind 
SCP-1602, SCP-1602-A will return SCP-1602 to its spread position. 
SCP-1602 will then reenter its dormant state. 


In roughly 10% of tests conducted with D-Class personnel, the 
captured subject reemerged from behind SCP-1602 unharmed and 
with no memory of their abduction. In the remaining tests, SCP-1602 
spontaneously reactivated 10 to 60 minutes after the subject's 
disappearance and an instance of SCP-1602-B was generated. 
SCP-1602-B are identical to the most recent version of SCP-1602- 
A; however, they will not disappear when viewed by a person other 
than the subject. SCP-1602-B can be easily terminated with a 
standard firearm, even when SCP-1602-B possesses no visible 
means of animation. 


SCP-1602 was retrieved on 13/08/1988 from a hotel in , South 
Dakota. During the initial containment mission, Foundation field 
agents discovered an instance of SCP-1602-B inside a hotel room 
and presumed it to be an independant anomaly. The instance was 
designated SCP-1602 and the mission was deemed a success. 
When Foundation intelligence intercepted a second report of a 
"monster" at the same hotel, a more thorough examination of the 
building was initiated. SCP-1602’s actual nature was eventually 
discovered and its documentation was rewritten. 


Experiment Log: 


Test 1602-5 
Subject: D-1602-5, a Caucasian male, age 20. During 
conversations with on-site counsellor Dr. , subject confessed 


that he that had coerced his girlfriend into having an abortion. 
Subject expressed profound feelings of regret surrounding this 
event. 

Procedure: SCP-1602 hung on a plastic shower rod suspended 
from the ceiling in the middle of the test chamber. Subject was 
instructed walk around SCP-1602 and view the other side once it 
entered an active state. 

Results: SCP-1602 entered an active state after approximately 5 


minutes, consistent with activation time in previous tests. The 
subject noticed a faint light emanating from behind SCP-1602 and 
walked around to view the other side. Subject reported that upon 
viewing the other side, SCP-1602 apparently reentered its dormant 
state: the light vanished and was no longer visible from either side of 
SCP-1602. No other anomalous activity reported. 


Test 1602-6 

Subject: D-1602-5, same as previous test. 

Procedure: SCP-1602 hung on a plastic shower rod suspended 
from the ceiling in the middle of the test chamber. Subject was 
instructed to stand in place and observe only one side of SCP-1602. 
Results: SCP-1602 again entered an active state after 
approximately 5 minutes. 10 minutes and 23 seconds into the test, a 
small, undefined silhouette appeared at the base of the curtain. An 
instance of SCP-1602-A (SCP-1602-A6) emerged precisely 3 
minutes later, taking the form of a newly born child covered in vernix 
caseosa and blood. SCP-1602-A6 crawled out from beneath the 
curtain in the direction of the subject. 


Upon observing SCP-1602-A6, the subject screamed and stumbled 
backward, losing balance and collapsing on the floor. Several 
hundred additional instances of SCP-1602-A6 continued to emerge; 
many of these were identical to the original instance, although 22% 
of duplicates still bore umbilical cords. Acting as a group, SCP-1602- 
A6 converged on the subject. Subject fought back but was 
overpowered by SCP-1602-A6 and was subsequently dragged 
behind the curtain, followed by all remaining SCP-1602-A6. 


A single instance of SCP-1602-B6 emerged after 15 minutes. 
Autopsy confirmed that its anatomy was consistent with that of a 
typical infant, although its internal organs were found filled with live 
maggots. Samples of the maggots were preserved and placed in 
storage. 


Afterword: Any traces of vernix caseosa and blood left on the floor 
by SCP-1602-A6 ceased to exist the moment Research staff 
entered the room. 


Comments: The presence of multiple instances of SCP-1602-A at 


one time suggests that SCP-1602-A are entities generated each 
time SCP-1602 enters an active state, rather than a single entity that 
assumes different forms, as had been previously theorized. - Dr. 
Lindquist 


Test 1602-7 

Subject: D-1602-6, a Hispanic female, age 33. Subject had a 
history of bulimia and self-image disorders. 

Procedure: SCP-1602 placed in a spread position against the wall 
of the test chamber with a mild adhesive. 

Results: Subject exhibited high levels of anxiety and panic upon 
SCP-1602 entering its active state, repeating the phrase, ‘I can't do 
this’. This pattern of behavior continued until SCP-1602-A7 
appeared behind SCP-1602, at which point the subject began 
banging on the wall opposite to SCP-1602 while shouting 
incoherently. 


SCP-1602-A7 pulled back the curtain, revealing a cavity in the wall 
that had not previously existed. SCP-1602-A7 was identical to the 
subject in height, skin tone, and hair colour, but appeared to 
possess no muscular tissue whatsoever, with skin stretched directly 
over its bones and ligaments. Lack of musculature notwithstanding, 
SCP-1602-A7 still possessed a high level of mobility and strength, 
grabbing the subject by the ankles and pulling them behind the 
curtain. 


SCP-1602-B5 emerged within 5 minutes of the subject's 
disappearance. It was observed to claw at its own body, jaw fully 
extended but making no vocalizations. Researchers called for 
termination after 4 minutes of observation. Autopsy deemed 
unnecessary as SCP-1602-B5 had peeled back most of its own skin, 
confirming its lack of muscle tissue. Retrieval of SCP-1602 showed 
the wall to be in the same condition as it had been prior to the test.