> To: Dr. Delano Smascher ( pcs.41a| 
rehcsamsd#pcs.41a|rehcsamsd ) 

> From: Dr. Django Bridge ( pcs.66s|egdirbd#pcs.66s| 
egdirbd ) 

> Subject: D-173-2263, -2264, -2267 Incident footage 


Here's the footage you requested. Two versions of each 
sent; first versions were edited for brevity, second 
versions are complete recordings. | look forward to 
reviewing your findings. Good luck. 


Dr. Bridge, Site-66, Clearance 4 Archivist. 


Four attachments found. 


CAM173_1_085314_ - -19 .zip 
CAM173_2_085314_ - -19 .zip 
CAM173_1_085314_ - -19 e.zip 
CAM173_2_085314_ - -19 e.zip 


> To: Dr. Django Bridge ( pcs.66s|egdirbd#pcs.66s| 
egdirbd ) 

> From: Dr. Delano Smascher ( pcs.41a| 
rehcsamsd#pcs.41a|rehcsamsd ) 

> Subject: Conclusions RE: D-173-2263, -2264, -2267 
Incident 


As you know, my reason for requesting this footage were 
the strange findings of my autopsies of subjects 
173-2263, -2264, and -2267. After reviewing the footage 
provided, I’m now confident enough of my suspicions to 


elaborate on them further. 


During my autopsies, | found no evidence of external 
physical trauma to the aforementioned subjects’ necks or 
craniums, as one would expect to find in instances of 
strangulation or vertebral torsion. This was not 
unexpected; I’ve long felt it asinine to assume that an 
entity with no digits or prehensile appendages could 
physically manipulate individuals in such a manner. My 
review of provided footage, in addition to confirming an 
average speed of 20 to 22 meters per second while 
unobserved, also strongly suggests that subject 
SCP-173 does not make physical contact with its victims. 


My frame by frame review finds that at frame 235 938 of 
camera two’s edited log, SCP-173 closes to within 10 cm 
of D-173-2267. D-173-2267’s eyes remain fully closed; 
SCP-173’s arms remain fixed in their usual “at rest” 
positions. At frame 235 939, less than 0.00001 seconds 
later, subject D-173-2267’s head is turned upward such 
that it stares directly into subject SCP-173’s “eyes,” and 
-2267’s eyes are now fully open. D-173-2267 collapses 
shortly thereafter. Death appears to be due to, at least in 
this instance, a combination of trauma caused by the 
rapidity of motion SCP-173 inflicts and the severing of 
the spinal cord due to separation between the second 
and third cervical vertebrae, and not physical torsion or 
strangulation, a conclusion supported by my autopsy 
findings. This also potentially explains the strange 
bruising and hemorrhaging present in the soft tissues of 
SCP-173’s victims around the eyes; a transient, violent, 
non-specific, non-physical force ripping its victims’ 
eyelids open. 


| have furthermore found that the positioning of its 
victims’ bodies may be significant. D-173-2267’s body 
collapses such that its head faces D-173-2263 and 
D-173-2264. The bodies of the latter two individuals may 
be seen collapsing in similar fashion at frames 333 777 
and 940 052 respectively. All face toward the northern 


side of SCP-173’s containment cell, allowing what would 
be a clear view of SCP-173 in its preferred position 
resting against the western wall of the northwestern 
corner of its cell. 


Additionally, | can confirm beyond reasonable doubt that 
the rumored “dead man’s stare” exhibited by victims of 
SCP-173, so-called because the eyes of ostensibly dead 
victims continue to track SCP-173’s movements 
postmortem, are not a product of “nerves” or general 
paranoia but a genuine phenomenon, as may be seen by 
magnification and slow-motion review of D-173-2267’s 
eyes following his expiration and demonstrated by -2263 
and -2264 as well. 


My complete findings, appended video logs, autopsy 
footage, and autopsy reports are attached to this 
message for review, distribution, and archival. Thank you 
for your swift response. 


Dr. Smascher, Area-14, Clearance 4 Unit Director 


Eight attachments found. 


CAM173_1_ - -19 _085314 append.zip 
CAM173_ 2. - -19 _085314 append.zip 
CAM173_1_ - -19 _085314e append.zip 
CAM173 2. - -19 _085314e append.zip 
AUTOP_D-173-2263 - -19 .zip 
AUTOP_D-173-2264 - -19 .zip 
AUTOP_D-173-2267 - -19 .zip 

173_ INC - -19 _REP.zip 


Items Seized, March 2022, Site-42 Sapient Object 
Containment 


Text: / hate your policies BUT this place is cleaner than any hospital 
or prison I've seen and that's my only frame of reference for 
whatever this type of place is, so... thanks for that part | guess. - 
Nicky 


Staff Note(s) (If Applicable): Sanitation standards ought to be 
typical in all hospitals and prisons. Filed into compliments and 
criticisms records for patient. 


Text: / AM NOT BROKEN. | AM NOT AN ANOMALY. | AM NOT A 
LAB RAT. | AM NOT AN EXPERIMENT. | AM NOT A MONSTER. | 
AM NOT A MONSTER. | AM NOT A MONSTER. THE WORLD 
DOES NOT NEED TO BE PROTECTED FROM ME. | AM A PART 
OF THE WORLD YOU STOLE ME FROM. 


Staff Note(s) (If Applicable): Ethics Committee interviewing is 
recommended. If psych care path does not improve, chemical 
assistance may become necessary over the next several weeks of 
containment. 


Text: 03/22. I've been in here since Sept 2017. My anomalous 
effects have only gotten worse. They used to only have to put the 
reality anchors on the lowest setting. | would watch them move the 
bar. Mom says they're faking it. She said they make up anomalous 
stuff so they can keep you longer. She said the activist groups have 
released something called the expunged docs and that they're 
proving that at least four sites were caught intentionally making 
people's effects worse, especially when the person is an anti- 
Foundation activist in the outside world. Several people were 
released and then recaptured for "worsened effects" but only 
coincidentally when they began to speak out about what they do to 


us in containment. | don't know who to believe anymore. This isn't 
my home. I'm going to shove this into a hole in the wall beside my 
bed, | guess... 


Staff Note(s) (If Applicable): Visitations and phone calls for this 
patient are now under approved surveillance. 


Text: Hi Mr. Trauss, thank you for standing in the halls all night 
while one of the monsters was out. | just turned 15 and thanks to 
you | didn't have to be scared all night on my birthday. Thank you for 
protecting me. -7 PM 


Staff Note(s) (If Applicable): Agent Trauss does not at all mind 
doing his job. 


Text: AGENT TRAUSS, please don't mention this note but | was 
hoping you'd maybe talk to me after your shift? Can you come here 
off the clock or do you get in trouble? | miss riding in your car. You 
were the last person | was with in the outside world and it's fucking 
with my head. Love(?), Janelle 


Staff Note(s) (If Applicable): Agent Trauss can't form a personal 
bond with an anomaly he captured. Scheduling for counseling will be 
arranged in the next few days for this patient. 


woe woe 


Text: "Anomaly" "object" "skip" "scip" "SCiP" "patient" "subject" | 
HAVE A FUCKING NAME. | AM HUMAN. 


Staff Note(s) (If Applicable): Just venting, it appears. 


Text: / shouldn't have to beg on my knees to be treated like a 
person instead of an experiment. Fuck all of you. | hope every single 
one of you rots in Hell. -J. 


Staff Note(s) (If Applicable): That's correct; no patient should have 
to beg on their knees to be treated like a person instead of an 


experiment. Complaints like these should be reported through the 
proper channels, and the offending staff replaced. 


Text: A COMPLAINT: | AM A SAPIENT HUMAN BEING WHO IS 
HERE WILLINGLY. IF ASKING THE DRIVER TO HAVE SEX WITH 
ME (IT WAS AN OFFER, NOT A DEMAND) IS "INAPPROPRIATE" 
THEN FINE BUT DON'T MAKE ME TALK TO THE ETHICS 
COMMITTEE FOR TWO HOURS. | AM NOT INCAPABLE OF 
INFORMED CONSENT AND IF IT'S AGAINST POLICY THAT'S 
ONE THING BUT TRYING TO TELL ME I DON'T CONTROL MY 
OWN BODY IS ANNOYING AS HELL. |! AM PERFECTLY STABLE. 
DON'T BE ASSHOLES. -("redactea") 


Staff Note(s) (If Applicable): It's against regulation in all ways. An 
anomaly being here voluntarily does not change our sexual conduct 


policy. 


Text: as soon as | get my hands on one of you | am taking them 
straight out and into the wall and you will hear the screaming for 
hours on end | go fuck yourself before | do | Fuck you, -"SCP-4427" 


Staff Note(s) (If Applicable): Standard violence for this anomaly. 
Scranton-field plates have been installed in the exterior walls of 
SCP-4427's containment chamber and guard shifts doubled. This 
note is now on-file with the anomaly's psychiatric team as well. 


Text: my release date is tomorrow 03/30 | thank you for saving my 
life | | love all of you | thank you for protecting me when the country 
outside treated me like a creepy story instead of a person | thank 
you for recognizing that | am sapient | thank you for knowing | was 
human all along | love, SCP-4699 


Staff Note(s) (If Applicable): Now those are the kind of results 
we're after. Copies of this note will be provided to the regional 
director of the coastal southeastern sites upon next opportunity. 


Text: to the guard who opens my door to check on me every 20-23 
minutes, i am trying to sleep. maybe part of the reason so many 
skips are on "suicide watch" is that you have taken all of our rights 
and privacy away and left us nothing to live for. please stop talking 
to me. i am just going to become mute from this point forward. cold 
and cruel are the same thing. 


Staff Note(s) (If Applicable): Object has been refusing to speak in 
all interviews since the point of this note's reception. Complaints are 
somewhat valid and have been forwarded to the Ethics Committee 
and psychiatric health departments. 


Text: Thank you, Director! My containment specialist has just told 
me that I'm clear to go back home NEXT WEEK. | am so ecstatic 
that I just had to write you personally. When you took me | was 
scared and | fought the containment team. | have always worried 
that | permanently injured the German man with the big scar down 
his stomach. | think | knocked his head into a brick wall and knocked 
him out. I've felt bad ever since — | know I've only been in a month 
and I'm only Euclid but is he okay? Can you find out for me and tell 
me before | leave? It might always bother. Thank you so much for 
doing what you do. The SCP Foundation saved me from myself. 
Thank you from the bottom of my heart, SCP-4512/Cheri Moore 


Staff Note(s) (If Applicable): 4512 was too young for their effects 
anyway, so thankfully they were easy to quell. They have been 
released as of the time of this documentation. Copies of this note 
will be provided to the regional director of the coastal southeastern 
sites upon next opportunity. 


Consent Form 3436-A 


| was one of them wives to never know what my husband did for a 
living. He worked for the US government | reckon, on some very 
private matters to be sure. It bothered me, but he never got sore 
when | asked him about his work, so | never got sore when he didn't 
have many answers. He would simply speak less and less until all 
that was left of a response was a furrowed brow and a look in his 
eyes that would have just as well been at a scared puppy. 


"I'm sorry," he would say, his sigh heavy. "I really am. | am quiet 
‘cause | want’chya safe. 'Cause | envy your worldview." 


People have shamed me. They've said, "She got what she'd always 
been asking for." But isn't a good judge of character what's most 
important for a woman? | would rather know well what kind of 
person my husband was and know nothing about what he did, than 
to Know well of his job but wonder what character flaws | overlooked 
‘cause of it. Too many women make compromises with the salaries 
of their husbands...those are the ones | feel shame for. 


The men in suits arrived just after | set the water on for tea and the 
dog barked defensively at the sound of knocking. | thanked him for 
his alertness and reassured him everything was fine. | opened the 
door and might as well have closed it right then, Knowing well why 
they were there. They couldn't tell me what | wanted to know. They 
could only tell me one thing; Jim was someone to be very proud of. 


My husband's secrecy outlived him, and | didn't sleep for more than 
an hour at a time. How did he pass? Was someone responsible? 
What was so important that he never told his wife of 23 years 
anything? Where are his remains? Could he still be alive 
somewhere, his death part of a ploy that'll end as abruptly as it 
began, his smiling face the next one behind a knock on my door? If | 
had known, could | have saved him? 


That knock hasn't came. It has been twelve years. Twelve years. 


You can't fill a hole like this with years. Not twelve of them, and not 
fifty either | e'spect. | live on because no one would look after his 
dog if not for me. That dog is the only living thing besides myself 
who seems to remember my husband. He still trots over to Jim's 
side of the bed every morning, looking for him. | can't leave that dog 
alone. He is old now. We are both tired. When the good Lord takes 
him; | will ask to go the very next day, and if ever there was an 
answered prayer, that'll be it. 


Please. Does anyone remember my husband? Where are his 
remains? Does anyone know, where did he work? Is there not 
anyone | can talk to? 


What happened to my soulmate? Where is James Cohen 
Abernathy? 


Human Resources: Records 


+ Security Clearance Level 2 


view source 


Conservation of Bullshit 


Urgh. Time travel. Let me tell you about time travel. 


Doing anything successfully with time travel, my friends, is like 
finding your way through a mirror maze using trails of breadcrumbs 
that you have to lay yourself. It's like doing a ten-thousand piece 
jigsaw puzzle where all you have to go on is a blurry photograph of 
an earlier edition of the puzzle, upside down and half-complete, as 
seen through a stained-glass window that hasn't been cleaned in 
months. It's like building a machine, the purpose of which is unclear, 
using only instructions written in Dutch and a French-to-German 
translation booklet, compiled by a drunk translator who wasn't fluent 
in either. Also, one in ten pieces are missing, and one in a hundred 
pieces are for a different machine entirely. 


| exaggerate, of course, but only slightly — it should at least help to 
convey why | retired. Over my time at the Foundation, | came to hate 
time-travel with a burning, firey passion. It's only really a problem 
because I'm starting my retirement in 1999, and I'm a 39-year-old (or 
278, depending on how you quantify it) Task Force Commander who 
was/will be born in 2026. 


People never fully retire from the Foundation. Not really. They 
usually know too much to be happy with a life of ignorance, or have 
been there too long for amnestics to be any use, which grants them 
a permanent place on the radars of countless other groups. Most opt 
for contract work — occasional research for an increased salary, or 
the odd investigation into an extranormal event that doesn't seem to 
be causing too much trouble. It's for that reason that | found myself 
standing over a dead body, with a child staring me in the eyes witha 
look of surprisingly calculated suspicion for one so young. 


| decided to do the obvious thing and took out a bar of chocolate, 
half of which | offered to the kid. Poor thing seemed pretty cut up 
about the whole 'murder' issue. As he munched away, he began to 


SCP-821: Dixie Funland 


Item #: SCP-821 
Object Class: Safe Neutralized