History: Prior to identification of its source, knowledge of SCP-3250 
was suppressed through localised distribution of amnestics 
whenever encountered by field agents; this was sufficient to catalyse 
self-suppression among affected members of the populace. 
Extensive testing conducted by Site-88 researchers determined the 
factors for its cause in 1974. Full-scale containment of SCP-3250 
was soon enacted, culminating in the infiltration of Kentucky Fried 
Chicken's Louisville headquarters by a joint Foundation-UIU task 
force in April 1975. Embedded agents were successful in accessing 
the locked safe containing the anomalous recipe, and replacing it 
with a gustatorily similar substitute. Contracts with Griffith 
Laboratories and McCormick & Company were also altered 
accordingly by covert agents, allowing the replacement recipe to 
propagate throughout the North American supply chain in a matter 
of months. Total containment of SCP-3250 is believed to have been 
completed by October of the same year. 


In December 1975, following his public statements on the altered 
quality of Kentucky Fried Chicken's recipes (refer to 
Document-3250-H-066), Sanders was designated as POI-3250 and 
placed under covert observation. A settlement was privately reached 
with Sanders in 1976 through Foundation contacts in Heublein Inc., 
then-parent company of Kentucky Fried Chicken, offering a payout 
of $1 million USD as compensation. Regardless, Sanders continued 
to publically denigrate the quality of Kentucky Fried Chicken's 
culinary standards, and maintained the assertion that his original 


recipes had been altered by Heublein Inc. until his death in 1980. 


Investigation into Sanders and his association with esoteric 
clandestine organisations continued until his death in 1980, finding 
nothing unusual in both his history and former ties. It was concluded 
that Sanders was neither aware of nor responsible for the SCP-3250 
phenomenon. 


Addendum: List of notable SCP-3250 manifestations requiring 
Foundation suppression 


Sighting Number: #001 

Date: 09/01/1974 

Sighting Details: Three patrons of the Church in 
Biloxi, Mississippi claimed to have seen a depiction of 
Colonel Harland David Sanders in the stained glass 
windows of the church. As this sighting was not shared 
by any other church patrons, it passed without incident. 
This is the earliest recorded sighting of an SCP-3250 
manifestation. 


Sighting Number: #012 

Date: 16/02/1974 

Sighting Details: 56-year-old Howard Brooks of 
Hialeah, Florida reported the theft of a Renaissance-era 
painting of Jesus Christ in his holiday home and its 
replacement with a painting in similar style of Colonel 
Sanders. As the SCP-3250 manifestation was 
observable only to Brooks alone, it was ignored by local 
authorities. Subsequent investigation by UIU agents 
revealed that Brooks had consumed Kentucky Fried 
Chicken for lunch. A connection was noted between this 
anomalous occurence and eleven others, leading to the 
UIU's initial classification of the SCP-3250 phenomenon. 
Foundation assistance was later requested due to the 
scale of the phenomenon, which was estimated to be too 
large to handle with existing UIU resources alone. 


Sighting Number: #013 
Date: 14/04/1974 
Sighting Detains: D-01776 was served a three-piece 


meal of Original Recipe Kentucky Fried Chicken and 
directed to consume it, which she did in one sitting. 
D-01776 was then shown a statue of Christ on the cross, 
and asked to describe it. D-01776 reported the statue 
depicted a crucified Colonel Sanders grimacing in pain 
with boiling palm oil oozing from his wounds. This was 
the first successful replication of an SCP-3250 
manifestation in containment. Efforts to alter the "Eleven 
Secret Herbs and Spices" recipe began. 


Sighting Number: #234 

Date: 09/05/1974 

Sighting Details: A group of twelve tourists in Rio de 
Janeiro, Brazil, reported the alteration of the statue of 
Christ the Redeemer into an equally-sized statue of 
Colonel Sanders with arms outstretched and holding a 
fried chicken drumstick in each hand. The tourists were 
investigated by Foundation agents, who learnt that they 
had shared a meal of Kentucky Fried Chicken at the 
Dallas-Forth Worth International Airport two hours prior 
to their departure. This is so far the only recorded 
SCP-3250 manifestation outside the North American 
continent, and was successfully covered up through use 
of Class-B amnestics. 


Sighting Number: #458 

Date: July 1974 (estimated) 

Sighting Details: In the largest sighting to date, 
civilians in the town of Van Gogh, lowa reported a "fifty- 
foot high" sighting of Colonel Sanders in the sky above 
their hometown shortly after a church service. The 
apparition remained for twelve minutes before 
dissipating. It was later determined that Kentucky Fried 
Chicken had been supplied for mass catering at the 
church's lunch buffet. This is the largest known sighting 
to date, occurring shortly before the successful 
replacement of the original recipe. The resultant mass 
hysteria caused by this sighting is documented in 
Incident Report 3250-100-927. 


Addendum: Incident Report 3250-100-927 (Level-3 Eyes-Only) 


Incident summary: Reports of missing truckers in the vicinity of CR 
W66, Louisa County, lowa are traced to the town of Van Gogh, 
population 146. The responsibility for investigating the disturbance 
was assigned to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Unusual 
Incidents Unit (UIU) due to local Foundation resources being 
diverted to the mass cover-up of SCP-3250. On 09/08/1974, UIU 
Special Agents C. Lewis and D. Tucker are eventually deployed to 
the locale. 


At 0930 hours, the agents report discovering the wreckages of 7 
tractor-trailers in a runaway truck ramp 1.2 miles from Van Gogh. 
Investigation reveals the severely burnt and decomposed remains of 
the missing truckers. Judging from the evidence present (namely, 
char stains on the passenger seat and driver's seat, the lack of any 
burn damage to the vehicles, signs of forced entry via blunt 
instruments, and the cinderblock bricks duct-taped to the gas pedal 
of each vehicle), Agent Lewis surmises that the truckers were 
immolated after exiting their vehicle and placed back into their seats, 
after which their vehicles were sent on cruise control down the 
highway until they each crashed into the ramp. 


At 1010 hours, Agents Lewis and Tucker report a strong smell of 
burning oil and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Throughout this, a loud 
crackling is heard in the background. Agent Tucker claims that the 
crackling sound is not due to radio static. Radio contact is soon lost. 


Contact is only reestablished at 1021 hours, with severely reduced 
audio quality. Agent Lewis checks in, reporting that their car was 
ambushed by an improvised grease-based incendiary trap, and that 
sporadic gunfire from unseen assailants forced them to abandon 
their vehicle and proceed on foot. They find shelter in an empty 
house, further reporting that the majority of houses in Van Gogh 
appear to be devoid of occupants. Agent Lewis disobeys their direct 
order to remain in place and leads Agent Tucker on to investigate 
the situation. They proceed to move from house to house, narrowly 
avoiding a patrol of men and women clad in golden-brown cloaks 
and armed with hunting rifles. Meanwhile, UIU local command links 
up with Foundation contacts, explaining the situation. In conjunction 
with UIU Special Agent K. Milford, MTF Pi-46 (The King's Men) is 


mobilised to secure the town of Van Gogh. 


At 1029 hours, loud crunching noises are heard. Agent Tucker 
reports that the ground nearer to the town center is covered in deep- 
fried chicken parts. Upon closer inspection, the chicken parts appear 
to be carefully arranged so as to point towards the town's Southern 
Baptist church. The agents proceed to approach the church to 
investigate. 


At 1034 hours, another set of crunching noises are heard in the 
distance. Soon, the radio feed is cut. Following this, no further radio 
contact can be established with either agent. 


The armed convoy bearing MTF Pi-46 sights Van Gogh at 1200 
hours, confirming the presence of the crashed tractor trailers and the 
burnt wreckage of the agents’ car. Civilian resistance surrenders 
quickly at the sight of the convoy, believing them to be National 
Guard, and are quickly subdued with Class-A amnestics. 


Agents Lewis and Tucker are found alive in a ditch adjacent to the 
burning church, where they had taken shelter following the 
detonation of an improvised explosive device. Both agents are 
treated for minor smoke inhalation, but otherwise suffer no injuries. 


Objects and entities recovered by MTF Pi-46 include: 


¢ Paraphenelia depicting Jesus Christ, ranging from pendants to 

crucifixes, defaced to appear as Colonel Sanders. 

Handwritten photocopied flyers, advertising "The Reformed 

Church of the Colonel". 

* Five tonnes of chicken, both raw and deep-fried. 

* Two tonnes of original recipe "Eleven Secret Herbs and 
Spices", found stashed in various homes. 

¢« A marble font, equipped with a heater and filled with oil, 
apparently acting as a deep fat fryer. 

¢ A King James bible with the majority of the words blacked out 
with marker pen- the remaining words describe the "Eleven 
Secret Herbs and Spices" recipe. Object was located inside a 
locked safe beneath the pulpit of the local church. 

¢ A large amount of assorted armaments, including hunting 
rifles, handguns, homemade incendary bombs, and one leaf 


blower converted to spray boiling oil. 

146 residents of Van Gogh dressed in golden-brown oil- 
soaked rags, bearing various degrees of burn injuries. They 
were able to provide consistent details of SCP-3250 sighting 
#458, but could not remember anything else afterwards. 
One human corpse affixed to a wooden crucifix and coated in 
deep-fried "Eleven Secret Herbs and Spices" batter. Corpse 
was an identical visual match for Colonel Harland David 
Sanders, who was at the time alive and under Foundation 
surveillance in Abbeville, Louisiana. Genetic sampling of the 
corpse returns a perfect match for Gallus gallus domesticus, 
the domestic chicken. Origins of corpse and reason for its 
genetic makeup remain unknown. 


SCP-417: The Plague Tree 


Item #: SCP-417 
Object Class: Euclid (Potentially Keter) 


Special Containment Procedures: Due to SCP-417’'s inability to 
be moved safely, SCP-417 remains stationary in . The 
area surrounding SCP-417 (2.58 km? approx.) is patrolled by guards 
and bordered with a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire. 
Civilians are informed that a small village with a highly virulent 
plague is being quarantined until further notice. Trespassers are to 
be shot on sight. Only Class-D personnel are permitted to directly 
handle and work with SCP-417. As wild animals seem to 
instinctively eschew SCP-417, no action need be taken against 
animals seen in the enclosed area. 


All victims bitten by SCP-417-1 may be granted immediate 
euthanasia on request, and their body is to be placed in a sealed 
container and cremated immediately. Those that do not request will 
have the same immediate termination, except in the case of test 
subjects. 


Description: SCP-417 resembles an African baobab tree in general 
size and structure, though it lacks leaves, giving it a dead 
appearance. Its bark has a drab, off-colour appearance. Despite the 
absence of leaves, SCP-417 bears fruit every sundown. Small buds 
form as the sun rises and the fruit grows and matures quickly over 
the course of the day, before ripening into pomegranate-sized, hard- 
husked fruit. This fruit has dark purple-black skin and a mostly 
smooth texture that grows pebbly as it becomes overripe. This hard 
husk may be cut or peeled away by hand or with tools. 


Removal of the skin reveals no fruit or pulp, but a hollow cavity 
containing several insects collectively known as SCP-417-1. The 
appearance and species of SCP-417-1 change from fruit to fruit, as 
well as the scope of the ensuing swarm (See Addendum #417-B). 


SCP-3251: The Coconut Crab Captain 


Item #: SCP-3251 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3251 is currently held ina 
medium-sized terrestrial animal enclosure at Site-48. The 
temperature and humidity within SCP-3251's enclosure are to be 
regulated and made to simulate that of its native, tropical 
environment. SCP-3251 is to be met with the same nutritional 
accommodations as a non-anomalous member of its species. 
Level-3 clearance and/or permission from the operating Site-Director 
is required to interview or otherwise interact with SCP-3251. 


Description: SCP-3251 is a sapient adult male Coconut Crab 
(Birgus latro). Despite its physiology suggesting such acts to be 
impossible, SCP-3251 possesses the ability to communicate 
verbally using the English language, typically speaking using slang 
and phrases common among pirates in the 16th-18th centuries. 
SCP-3251 adorns a small, black tricorn hat! on its head measuring 
about 6 cm from the base to the tip. How and when SCP-3251 
acquired this item is currently unknown. SCP-3251 also has a strong 
affection for lustrous, metallic items and will often times go out of its 
way to acquire such objects. 


The secondary anomalous effect of SCP-3251 will manifest 
whenever SCP-3251 issues a verbal command to another Coconut 
Crab. The effected animal (hereby referred to as SCP-3251-1) will 
attempt to complete the task issued by SCP-3251 until, either the 
task is completed, or they are separated from SCP-3251 for a 
prolonged period of time. Instances of SCP-3251-1 do not show any 
signs of intelligence above what is normal for a non-anomalous 
member of their species and do not appear to possess any 
understanding or perception of the English language aside from 
commands issued by SCP-3251. SCP-3251 refers to the collective 
group of SCP-3251-1 instances as "me crew" and will also often 


refer to itself as "their captain" in relation to SCP-3251-1. 


SCP-3251 was first discovered in / / , when several reports of 
Coconut Crabs behaving strangely began to surface from small 
villages on islands all throughout the Southern Pacific. Theses 
reports included: 


* Between 40-110 crabs travelling in a group, one of which 
could speak English. 

* The crabs arriving to the island on a floating vessel@ 

The talking crab demanding the inhabitants forfeit over all of 

their silverware and other metallic belongings. 

The crabs threatening the inhabitants with tools and weapons 

stolen from the inhabitants, as well as makeshift weapons 

made of sharpened sticks and rocks. 

The crabs forcing inhabitants to gather as many coconuts and 

Coconut Crabs as possible to bring them to their flotation 

vessel. 


Foundation operatives traveled to the villages where the incidents 
took place and successfully suppressed them before they went 
public. The same operatives then located SCP-3251 as well as 113 
SCP-3251-1 instances floating 135 km off the West coast of 
Indonesia, believed to have been attempting to sail to Madagascar. 
The crabs were floating on a large piece of driftwood comprised of 
fallen palm trees and loose wooden boards, carrying several 
hundred coconuts and over 163 kg of assorted metal objects. 
SCP-3251 was then taken into Foundation custody and the 
instances of SCP-3251-1, now essentially non-anomalous Coconut 
Crabs, were relocated into the wild. 


Addenda: 
Interview Log-3251-1 
Interviewed: SCP-3251 
Interviewer: Dr. 


Foreword: The following is a recorded interview 
between Dr. and SCP-3251 shortly after SCP-3251 


was initially contained. 
<Begin Log> 


Dr. : Alright, SCP-3251, I'd like to ask you a few 
questions today, would that be OK? 


SCP-3251: It be alright with me, so long as | can refuse 
to answer at any time.