Test 1602-8 
Subject: D-1602-7, a Caucasian male, age 58. Subject had been a 
high-ranking employee of prior to incarceration. Dr. , who 


provided counseling for the subject in the weeks prior to testing, 
noted that the subject expressed significant frustration over the fact 


that his dedication to his work had led to his estrangement with his 
children and ex-wife. 

Procedure: SCP-1602 placed on the floor in a spread position. 
Results: SCP-1602's horizontal orientation did not appear to alter 
its effects, activating within the standard timeframe. SCP-1602-A8 
emerged from beneath it, climbing from a perfectly round hole in the 
floor that had not existed prior to SCP-1602's activation. 


SCP-1602-A8 took the form of a clown in a loose, polka-dotted suit. 
While its body resembled that of a natural human, its head was 
disproportionally large and made from what appeared to be papier- 
maché, with areas of the face cut out where its eyes and mouth 
would typically be located. A reflective substance (later confirmed to 
be standard confetti) poured continuously from these orifices for the 
duration of the test. 


This test marks the first time an instance of SCP-1602-A has made 
vocalizations, despite its lack of visible means of articulation. 
SCP-1602-A8 approached the subject very slowly, repeatedly 
expressing a desire to 'play' and encouraging the subject to ‘loosen 
up and live a little’. Subject attempted to engage SCP-1602-A8 in 
conversation, making numerous inquiries about its nature, albeit with 
a significant amount of profanity. 


34 minutes after the subject's capture, SCP-1602-B8 was generated 
and proceeded to stumble around the room in a state of extreme 
distress. Like SCP-1602-A8, it made numerous vocalizations, 
though most of its statements were requests to see Dr. Lindquist 
and questions regarding itself. 


The following is the subsequent exchange between SCP-1602-B8 
and Dr. Lindquist. 


+ Show Interview Log 
<Begin Log> 


Dr. Lindquist: We'll start by confirming your 
identity. What is your name? 


SCP-1602-B8: (Confetti still pouring from its 


facial orifices) [REDACTED]. 


Dr. Lindquist: What are the names of your 
children? 


SCP-1602-B8: [REDACTED]. What's 
happened to me? 


Dr. Lindquist: Please remain calm and 
answer the questions. Do you have any pets? 


SCP-1602-B8: | have a Great Dane named 
Dorothy. Please, Doctor, | need help, I'm blind 
and— 


Dr. Lindquist: What did you see after you 
were taken behind the curtain? 


SCP-1602-B8: | didn't see anything. What's 
happened to my face? Why am | blind? What 
did that thing do to me? 


Dr. Lindquist: That's what we're trying to 
figure out. We want to help you, but you need 
to answer our questions. Did the entity say 
anything to you after— 


SCP-1602-B8: You let this happen! For the 
love of God, Doctor, what's it done to me? 
Why can't | see anything? Why is everything 
so cold? Why does my head feel... 
(SCP-1602-B8 raises its hands to its face and 
makes vocalizations similar to weeping.) 


Dr. Lindquist: Please try to remain calm. | 
only have a few more questions— 


SCP-1602-B8: (Sti// weeping) Nothing's 
changed. Nothing's changed. 


<End Log> 


Closing Statement: SCP-1602-B8 refused to 
respond to any further questioning and was 
terminated shortly after the interview. It is 
unknown if D-1602-8 was physically 
transmuted into SCP-1602-B8, if the subject's 
consciousness was transferred, or if 
SCP-1602-B8 was impersonating the subject. 
A small amount of the confetti produced by 
SCP-1602-B8 was placed in storage and the 
rest was incinerated. 


Test 1602-11 

Subject: D-1602-21, an African American male, age 46. Subject 
was uncooperative in counseling sessions, but was found to have a 
history of impoverishment. 

Procedure: Subject given a standard firearm and placed ina 
bulletproof testing chamber with SCP-1602. 

Results: SCP-1602-A took the form of an elderly, emaciated male 
dressed in heavily damaged winter clothing. The subject fired 
several rounds of ammunition which had no visible effect on 
SCP-1602-A. The subject was subdued and brought behind 
SCP-1602, as in previous tests. 


No activity was detected from SCP-1602 for two hours, after which 
the subject reemerged, apparently unharmed and visibly damp. 
When interviewed, the subject claimed that he had simply taken a 
shower, describing the experience as "pleasant" and "cleansing". 


Testing is ongoing. 


« SCP-1601 | SCP-1602 | SCP-1603 » 


SCP-1603: The Murder of 


Item #: SCP-1603 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: Any evidence of the murder of 

is to be removed from public and police records. A cover 
story in which Mr. was in fact killed in a car accident is to be 
maintained. Personnel tasked with removing evidence or 
maintaining the cover story are to be dosed with a Class-C amnestic 
each week in order to prevent memories of murdering Mr. from 
causing mental damage. 


Any civilians who become affected by SCP-1603 are to be taken into 
custody and dosed with a Class-A amnestic. 


Description: SCP-1603 is a phenomenon relating to the 1983 
murder of New York businessman by an unknown party. 1 
When an individual becomes aware through any means that this 
murder has taken place they will immediately believe that they are 
the killer and usually confess to an authority figure within a short 
period of time. 


As well as simply believing that they are the murderer after 
becoming affected by SCP-1603, victims will also possess vivid 
memories of committing the act and, in some cases, personally 
knowing Mr. before the murder took place. The reason given 
from the murder varies from case to case, and previous motives 
given by subjects have included: 


¢ The murder being a crime of passion. 

¢ The murder being revenge for a blackmail attempt by Mr. 

¢ The murder being an attempted robbery that went wrong. 

¢ The murder being committed so that the subject could elope 
with Mr. 's wife. 

¢ The murder being the result of a drug deal gone wrong. 


¢ The murder being committed after the subject grew obsessed 
and began stalking Mr. 

« The murder being an assassination contract that the subject 
was paid to carry out. 


In all cases of memories created by SCP-1603, the subjects will 
often cite locations and people that do not exist as part of their 
background of the murder. If the subject is given inaccurate or false 
information relating to the murder, which is later corrected, their 
memories will quickly adapt to accommodate this new information. 


In cases where the subject would have been actually incapable of 
murdering Mr. (such as not having been born at the time of the 
murder, living in a completely different part of the world, or having a 
medical condition which would have prevented the act), the subject 
will not gain the vivid and specific memories that other subjects 
possess, but will still strongly feel that they are the guilty party. 


SCP-1603 was first discovered by the Foundation after the initial 
police investigation into the murder, which resulted in all officers 
assigned to the case and all witnesses to the crime confessing to 
killing Mr. . After a large-scale Foundation operation, the 
situation was successfully contained, memories of the murder and 
subsequent incident were removed and a cover story was 
successfully established. 


Interview Log 1603-1 


Interviewer: Dr. 
Interviewed: D-29122 


<Interview Begins> 


Dr. _: Good afternoon. 
D-29122: Hey. 
Dr. _: Now, I'm just going to show you a 


picture. If you recognize the man in the 
photograph, please say so. 


[Dr. shows a photograph of Mr. to 


D-29122.] 
D-29122: Don't know him, sorry. 


Dr. :His name is Steve Davids. Do you 
know him? 


D-29122: | just told you, | don't know him. 


Dr. —_: Alright. Now can you look at this 
picture and tell me if you know the man in it? 


[Dr. shows a photograph of Mr. 's body 
to D-29122. The photograph has been altered 
to hide the stab wounds which killed Mr. | 


D-29122: It's the same guy! | don't know him, 
alright? 


Dr. : You don't know Steve Davids? 
D-29122: No. 


[Dr. gives D-29122 a previously prepared 
piece of paper with Mr. ‘s name on it, not 
looking at it himselt.] 


Dr. __: Now, if | were to tell you his name was 
the name on that piece of paper, would you 
know him? 


[D-29122 begins to appear uncomfortable. ] 
D-29122: Never seen the guy. Sorry. 

Dr. _: Are you sure? You look pale. 
D-29122: Yeah, I'm sure. I'm fine, I'm fine. 


Dr. _: Really? | could have someone else 
ask you if - 


D-29122: Okay, okay, you got me, you got me. 


But | didn't mean to, it was an accident, you 
have to believe me! 


Dr. :Can you tell me what happened? 


D-29122: Me and this guy, Fred2, we were 
taking shit from this house. Owners were 
meant to have been on vacation, | don't know 
why they weren't. Just looked up and the guy 
was coming at me with a baseball bat, 
shouting to get out of his house, all that shit. | 
didn't think, | just panicked, just shot him with 
my gun. 


Dr. _: Actually, | believe the cause of death 
was stabbing. 


D-29122: That's what | said! He just hit me 
and... and everything went red and | was 
stabbing him. | wouldn't do something like that, 
| wasn't in my right mind, | swear. 


Dr. : Well, thank you D-29122. That will be 
all. 


<Interview Ends> 


Footnotes 

1. Censorship of the victim's name has proven successful in 
preventing SCP-1603. 

2. As previously mentioned, this individual most likely does not exist. 


« SCP-1602 | SCP-1603 | SCP-1604 » 


SCP-1604: The Ball and Chain 


Item #: SCP-1604 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Due to the size of SCP-1604, 
containment is performed on-location. A small site has been 
established five kilometres east of the object under the guise of a 
research base in order to observe the object and, if necessary, ward 
off intruders. Coordination with various aerospace agencies keeps 
the airspace around SCP-1604 clear in order to avoid collisions, and 
the Foundation maintains a direct presence in local air-traffic control 
in order to warn stray aircraft out of the path of SCP-1604. 


Description: SCP-1604 is a length of chain, anchored in ; 
Greenland, extending an unknown distance both into the ground and 
into the atmosphere. SCP-1604 points directly towards the Earth's 
core and is in a state of tension under most circumstances. The 
chain links are roughly sixty centimetres in diameter at their widest 
point and appear to be composed of heavily oxidized iron. However, 
the chain regularly undergoes stress far beyond the tolerances of 
iron and has resisted any attempt to collect a sample of material. 


The chain is anchored in a block of unknown, highly dense materials 
which appear to encase SCP-1604 entirely below ground level. At 
the time of discovery, this anchor was two meters below ground 
level, and was excavated during examination. A device resembling a 
primitive warded lock is affixed to a ring capping this anchor. The 
lock had been encased in a pre-modern mixture of concrete, into 
which several unidentified symbols had been etched. This concrete 
was removed for investigation. 


Periodically, SCP-1604 will slacken for a short period, during which 
a portion of the chain's length will fall back towards the ground. 
Usually, several kilometres of chain will accumulate before the 
tension on the chain is restored, which will quickly pull the chain tight 


again. These incidences occur roughly once every ninety minutes on 
average, though long periods without activity or short bursts of rapid 
activity have both been recorded. 


Due to the danger posed during these periods, observation 
regarding the scale of the object has been limited. Ground- 
penetrating radar indicates the continuing presence of SCP-1604 to 
the limit of its range, and it is known that the object extends at least 
beyond the orbit of the Earth's moon. Attempts to use laser or radar 
imaging beyond this range have resulted in a sudden increase in 
tension on the line sufficient to cause adverse geological activity. 


« SCP-1603 | SCP-1604 | SCP-1605 » 


SCP-1605: Appeler Une Croix 


Item #: SCP-1605 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1605 is to be kept in a 
standard metal film canister in a locked, dry room at Storage Facility 
445. Access is to be provided only upon written request to senior 
site staff. Screenings of SCP-1605 for purposes unrelated to testing 
are forbidden. 


Description: SCP-1605 is a black and white short film entitled 
“Appeler Une Croix” (To Call A Cross). The film is currently 
seventeen minutes in length, and can be shown on a standard 

35 mm projector. It has proven difficult to date precisely, although 
the names of several subjects suggest a creation no later than 1922. 
The physical film displays no unusual characteristics other than a 
lack of degradation common to nitrate films. Recordings of the film 
display no anomalous properties. 


When viewed in its entirety by a sapient being capable of processing 
visual stimuli, the viewer (hereafter "the subject") disappears, with 
their likeness appearing in the next screening. While "in" the film, the 
subject is fully capable of interacting with objects and actors. The 
scenes and contexts in which the subject appears appear to be 
random. 


Although subjects are theoretically capable of surviving an indefinite 
number of screenings, most perish by the eighth screening. The 
most common causes are blood loss due to mutilation in the scene 
lasting from 13:39 to 14:19, suicide, and [REDACTED]. Upon death, 
the subject and their remains vanish from subsequent screening. 
Testing has yet to confirm any upper limit on the number of subjects 
that can be absorbed by the film at a single time. With each subject 
absorbed, the length of the film increases between four and nine 
seconds. It is theorized that, given the average increase and the 


number of subject names between 6:48 and 7:05, the original film 
was approximately six minutes long. The additional film is 
stylistically and chemically indistinguishable from earlier scenes. 


Playthroughs of the film vary slightly depending on the actions taken 
by the subjects, but all appear to follow the same sequence. 


0:00-0:37 Several shots of a pie covered in ants. 
Opening credits. Subjects are credited as actors’, listed 
in order of height. Marcel Sabourin is credited as director 
and "voyant" (seer). Copyright date listed as “circa 
quartam” (around four o'clock). 

0:37-1:47 Shot of a party. All attendees are lying on the 
floor, drinking champagne. 

1:47-2:26 A drum rolls down a hill, destroying all 
obstacles in its path. 

2:27-3:59 A couple argue while repeatedly putting on 
and removing their clothing in the middle of a road. 
Focus of the argument changes with each playing. 
4:00-5:26 A statue in the Classical style is destroyed by 
a naked male with a sledgehammer. 

5:27-6:47 Single shot of a woman from the neck down, 
performing a striptease. When the chest is uncovered, 
two large holes, filled with centipedes, are revealed in 
place of her breasts. 

6:48-7:05 Intertitle stating "Scene Supprimée Par Ordre 
De" (Scene Removed By Order Of). The names of the 
subjects in the film are then listed. 

7:06-8:42 A horse and rider are chased through town by 
a cabbage-carrying mob. 

8:43-9:27 Mob members drop cabbages and begin 
waltzing with one another. 

9:28-10:44 Crowd disperses as bulls covered in carpets 
charge through the streets. 

10:45-11:50 Several amputees attempt to disinter a 
body. 

11:51-12:35 A large banquet with sand in place of food. 
Attendees readily devour the sand. 

12:36-13:05 Intertitle stating "Soyez Gentil Avec Votre 
Escabeau" (Be Kind To Your Step Ladder)