Following exposure to SCP-1433, subjects display symptoms of a 
psychological impairment similar to acute amusia; the individual is 
completely unable to recognize, hear, or sense any form of rhythmic 
music, whether sung, vocalized, performed live on physical or 
synthesized instruments, or played back on a recording. Affectees 
have stated a complete inability to hear any music being played or 
performed in their presence, even when an instrument is being 
played in their field of vision and they state an awareness that it 
should be audible. EEG readouts on persons so affected show an 


absence of brain activity indicating the sensation of auditory activity. 
This state is permanent and has shown no indications of being 
affected by amnestics. Aside from chronic psychological ailments 
induced by the inability to experience music, no other long-term 
effects of exposure to SCP-1433 have been noted. 


Addendum: On / /20 , atest was conducted in which D-85702, a 
Caucasian male 67 years of age, was exposed to SCP-1433. In 
following tests, D-85702 reported that he was still able to hear music 
of the hip-hop genre when played back to him. In subsequent 
interviews, D-85702 expressed a strong distaste for hip-hop and rap 
music, stating that it was "just a bunch of damn noise" and "doesn't 
even count as real music", and that he was unable to hear elements 
of such songs that had been "sampled" from preexisting material of 
other genres. It is currently hypothesized that the amusia induced by 
exposure to SCP-1433 is related to the affectee's personal 
understanding of what constitutes "music". Further testing is 
deemed necessary to confirm this hypothesis. 


« SCP-1432 | SCP-1433 | SCP-1434 » 


SCP-1434: The Brutal Brick 


Item #: SCP-1434 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1434 is held in a standard 
containment cell, empty save for a blank book labeled “Charter of 
Etna" and a copy of "The Federal Criminal Code & Rules." Records 
of the State of Nevada have been altered to register the twenty-five 
square meters of the cell as the unincorporated township of Etna, 
now abandoned. 


Current containment procedures were devised to forestall the 
transfer of SCP-1434's effect to larger cities or counties. A fresh 
copy of “The FCC & R” should be placed next to the SCP monthly, 
while the previous month's copy should be incinerated unread. 


All security personnel assigned to Site-47 are subject to annual 
participation in Foundation Standard Seminar “The Application of 
Force in Arrests and You!” This is in addition to all other regulation 
orientation and training sessions. 


Description: SCP-1434 is a large fragment of extruded clay brick, 
dull red in color, which while totally inert somehow effects the 
insertion of increasingly bizarre and impractical laws into the legal 
code of the nearest sufficiently small municipality. Where borders 
overlap, SCP-1434 has always shown preference for the smaller 
body. Affected legislatures show no memory of instituting any such 
laws, but will enforce them without protest. 


During the early phase of the brick's influence, governments have 
been observed to pass laws of extremely limited applicability, such 
as a ban on smoking on Tuesdays. However, as the infection 
progresses, the activities proscribed in this manner become 
increasingly innocuous while the penalties grow increasingly severe 
to the point of life threatening. 


SCP-1434 further affects local law enforcement, who develop 
progressively violent mentalities over time. These mental alterations 
do not linger after SCP-1434's relocation. Officers with more than six 
months of exposure compulsively apply excessive, often lethal force 
to any and all they suspect of “transgressions.” 


Incident Log: Since recovery, investigations into several public 
disturbances have recovered other SCP-1434 fragments of varying 
size. Unrest is believed to have subsided when a party or parties 
unknown removed the object from the municipality. The object's 
whereabouts between incidents is as yet unknown, though research 
is continuing. Any outbreaks of police violence linked to recently 
introduced legislation should be studied for signs of object influence 
by the appropriate Mobile Task Force. 


Case 001—12/18/1987: Montgomery County in Maryland outlaws 
the use of shrimp in clearing snow from highways. Six injured in 
collisions with state-operated snowplows. 


Case 004—01/24/1992: City of [REDACTED] makes the wearing of 
contact lenses compulsory for all residents who died between 1947 
and 1962. City police officers conduct spontaneous mass 
disinterment which results in the exhumation of over three thousand 
sets of human remains. 


Case 021—08/02/2007: , a small town in France, limits 
consumption of all beverages containing less than 3% gasoline by 
volume. Sixty-two killed by ingestion of toxic substances or in 
beverage-compliance raids. 


« SCP-1433 | SCP-1434 | SCP-1435 » 


SCP-1435: Grog the Cave Monster 


Item #: SCP-1435 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1435 is to be held in a 3 x 
4 x 3 meter containment chamber with reinforced steel walls. The 
floor is to be a recessed scale with remote readouts. There are to be 
no windows or other visible portals leading into SCP-1435's 
containment chamber, nor any visual monitoring devices. In the 
event that SCP-1435 requires movement to a larger containment 
cell, only D-class personnel are allowed to view it, and are to be 
terminated immediately after containment is reestablished. All other 
personnel making visual contact with SCP-1435's termination point 
are to be terminated. 


All data pertaining to the television program Grog and Tootie's Time 
Cave, including knowledge of its existence, is to be actively scoured 
from public sources. All recordings of the pilot episode are to be 
destroyed, with one copy stored electronically on an encrypted 
server for archival purposes. 


Description: SCP-1435 is an orange puppet made by the Jim 
Henson Company for a planned children's educational show entitled 
Grog and Tootie's Time Cave. SCP-1435 is described in production 
notes as a "cave monster," with horns, sharp teeth and a faux hide 
toga. Testing has revealed no anomalies present in any of its 
composite materials. 


SCP-1435 undergoes a growth event whenever a person both views 
and contemplates its termination point, the aperture through which 
the puppeteer's hand passed. Thoughts such as "Where does it 
stop?", "Does it go underground?" and "What's under there?" have 
been demonstrated to trigger growth events, which typically increase 
SCP-1435's length at a rate of approximately .4 meters per second 
for upwards of 130 seconds. This growth involves the lower "furry" 


fabric surface of SCP-1435 duplicating itself. Growth events can be 
triggered by remote viewing as well as viewing of still images of the 
termination point. At the time of its initial growth event, SCP-1435 
was estimated to be 2 meters long. Efforts to contain and test 
SCP-1435 have since increased its length to its current 113 meters. 


The termination point of SCP-1435 adheres to the surface on which 
it is placed. Attempts to lift it trigger growth events, but it is possible 
to move SCP-1435 by sliding it along a level surface. When under 
any observation, the first 30 meters of SCP-1435's body undulate, 
the rest maintaining whatever position it has grown into, and its 
mouth and arms move. It has also been observed vocalizing scraps 
of dialogue and the theme song from the television show as well as 
moans of pain, the latter having occurred only during growth events. 


Imaging of SCP-1435 has shown that the first 10 meters of its length 
are filled with a mixture of bone fragments and undifferentiated 
tissues. The substance filling the remaining length has not yet been 
identified. 


Addendum: Recent testing has shown that any subject who has 
viewed SCP-1435's termination point can trigger a growth event by 
thinking about it, whether currently observing SCP-1435 or not. The 
speed of growth is dramatically decreased when thoughts are not 
concurrent with direct observation, still photos or video of SCP-1435 
(approximately .005 meters per second), but amnestics have proven 
ineffective in blocking this effect. Any previous observer reminded of 
the existence of SCP-1435 will become able to trigger growth events 
once more should they begin thinking about it. Control groups 
informed of SCP-1435's existence without having previously viewed 
the termination point do not produce this effect. This factor 
complicates containment of SCP-1435, as increases in size 
necessitate larger containment chambers. 


SCP-1435 upgraded to Euclid classon //_ . -Site Director 
Alshabazz 


Video log of SCP-1435 initial growth event 


Video log consists of 2 minutes of the pilot episode of 
Grog and Tootie's Time Cave followed by SCP-1435's 


first growth event, as recorded by a secondary camera 
accidentally left running during filming. Voices are 
identified by the character speaking. 


<Begin transcript at 1:45> 


Tootie: Thanks so much for helping us learn about 
electricity, Mister Franklin! 


Benjamin Franklin: It was my pleasure, Miss Tootie. | 
hope you'll be more careful around electricity from now 
on, Grog. 


Grog: Yes. Grog understand danger of electricity now. 


Tootie: Did Mister Franklin help you get over your fear of 
thunder, Grog? 


Grog: Yes! Now Grog not afraid of thunder. Only 
lightning. 


Characters laugh. 


Tootie: Well, come on, Grog, we'd better get back to the 
future! 


Growth event begins at timestamp 2:06, marked by a 
loud sound (approximately 95 dB) later described as "a 
zipper closing". The viewpoint camera records 
SCP-1435's puppeteer vanishing as SCP-1435 extends 
to reach the floor. 


Tootie: What was that? Jesus, where's ? What 
happened to him? 


SCP-1435 begins increasing in length and undulating. 
Crew members are heard screaming and can be seen 
running in the background. 


Grog: Mister Franklin Tootie cave a bunch... It hurts so 
much... [moaning] 


Tootie: Someone get help! 


Grog: Thunder cave thunder a happy monster time... 
[moaning] Burns... 


Camera is knocked over. Screaming of crew members 
and moaning of SCP-1435 continue. 


<End log at 5:16> 
« SCP-1434 | SCP-1435 | SCP-1436 » 


SCP-1436: Probability Phoenix 


Item #: SCP-1436 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1436 is to be contained 
within an environment-controlled aviary measuring 4 x 4 x 5 meters. 
This aviary is to contain plants and insect life typical of an Iraqi 
forest for the purpose of SCP-1436’s nutrition. Due to the current 
activation procedure, the enclosure is to be insulated against 
electrical charge and all personnel entering the enclosure must wear 
insulated suits. 


The current activation procedure requires that SCP-1436 is fitted 
with a device programmed to discharge an 8000-Vvolt pulse, 
sufficient to kill SCP-1436, based on a pseudo-random number 
generator dependent on atmospheric conditions. The device is to be 
reattached three weeks into every cycle. The chance of these 
conditions being met and the pulse being discharged outside of a 
SCP-1436 event is approximately 1 in 10,000 per day. The device 
must be confirmed to be functioning when reattached, and examined 
again every day during the second stage of SCP-1436’s cycle. 


SCP-1436 is never to be contained at any location with on-site 
warheads. 


Description: SCP-1436 is a male bird of unidentified species with 
features similar to those of the Meropidae family, including its 
wingspan of 46 cm. SCP-1436’s behavior is typical of an insectivore 
bird and it produces calls that have been identified as attempts to 
communicate with other members of its own species. No other 
members of SCP-1436’s species have been found or identified at 
this time. 


SCP-1436 constantly undergoes a cycle in which it rapidly matures 
from an embryo into an adult, dies and decays. After SCP-1436’s 


form has completely decomposed, an egg reappears and SCP-1436 
reenters the growth stage of its cycle. Each cycle lasts two months 
on average, with the growth stage usually lasting one and a half 
months. During this first stage, SCP-1436 does not require more 
food than the average bird of its current age, despite its accelerated 
growth. Internal imaging of SCP-1436’s body has shown no 
anomalous features or bodily processes, aside from the subject’s 
rapid growth rate. Once SCP-1436 reaches full maturity it ceases to 
age and remains in this state for three days on average before 
entering the second stage of its cycle. 


During the second stage of its cycle SCP-1436 manipulates 
probability to cause its own death. The area around SCP-1436 
during this stage of the cycle will experience events dangerous to 
SCP-1436. These events are always physically possible, but 
analysis has shown that most SCP-1436 events would have been 
extremely improbable. The events at the beginning of the second 
stage are far more localized than those later in the cycle. Events 
later in the cycle have shown the effect is capable of causing 
complex causal chains to kill SCP-1436. The last cycle before 
SCP-1436’s recovery by the Foundation resulted in the structural 
collapse of a bird house in the ZOO, fatally wounding 18 
and injuring 32. Records from the zoo indicate that SCP-1436 had 
been in its second stage for about two weeks and that several 
accidents related to SCP-1436 had occurred, each larger than the 
last. SCP-1436 does not seem to consciously cause these events, 
and continues to take acts of self-preservation during the second 
stage. 


A similar effect to the second-stage events prevents any direct 
action besides a second-stage event that would kill SCP-1436 from 
being completed during both stages. Testing has thus far failed to 
kill SCP-1436. The most recent ended in the misfire of a pistol, 
injuring the researcher and rendering the pistol inoperable. 


Once the second-stage events have succeeded in killing SCP-1436 
it typically fully decomposes, including bone, in 20 hours. Once 
SCP-1436 has fully decomposed, it reappears as an egg in the 
location where it died, regardless of the carcass's location. 
SCP-1436’s genetics have shown to be unchanged from cycle to 


cycle. Tests have shown that SCP-1436 can identify personnel and 
objects from previous cycles. 


« SCP-1435 | SCP-1436 | SCP-1437 » 


SCP-1437: A Hole to Another Place 


Item #: SCP-1437 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1437 is to be contained 
behind a perimeter of two (2) meter tall electrical fencing, which is to 
be patrolled by groups of three (3) security officers at all times. Any 
trespassers attempting to access SCP-1437 are to be brought into 
custody, interrogated, and if found to be ignorant of SCP-1437's 
nature, dosed with a Class-A amnestic and released. 


Any items or organisms which emerge from SCP-1437 are to be 
immediately tested for hazards, and if found safe, examined further. 
Experimentation involving SCP-1437 is strictly forbidden. 


Description: SCP-1437 is an apparently endless hole measuring 
3m x 3m, located in the Desert. Attempts to dig into SCP-1437 
from the side result in the diggers encountering solid rock where 
logic would dictate SCP-1437 would be. SCP-1437 is thus only 
accessible from its entrance above ground. 


SCP-1437 appears to be an access point to an as-of-yet unknown 
number of parallel universes. Objects have been known to 
periodically emerge from SCP-1437 at great speeds, including: 


¢ One (1) US quarter. (First known object emergence.) 

¢ Large quantities of dirt and rocks. (Believed to be an attempt 
by a parallel containment team to fill in their corresponding 
SCP-1437.)