Religious cults 
centered around 
SCP-2574 begin 

to emerge. 
Descendants of February 19, 
World War | 20 
Veterans begir 
having 
hallucinations 
corresponding to 
their ancestor's 
experience 

during the war. 
Plant and rock} May 4, 20 
formation begin 
forming conic 
spirals 

regardless of 
environmental 
conditions or 
normal growth 
patterns. Mass 
suicides become 
an almost 

monthly 
occurrence. 

Aerial bombings July 28, 20 
begin occurring 

in abandoned 

rural fields in 

rural areas of 
Central and 
Eastern Europe. 
Civilians report 
seeing aircraft 
overhead 

dropping the 
explosives, but 

no aircraft is 


Romania 


Hungary 


Hungary 


1228 km 


1111 km 


981 km 


ever detected on 
surveillance 
footage or radar 
during the 

events. 

Prevalence of 
aerial warfare 
shifts from a 

minor to major 
aspect of 

combat during 
World War T- 
Civilian-police | September 12, 
violence rates | 20 
increase by 50 
percent, 75 
percent in 

Ireland. 

Fourteen cases 

of arson occur in 
the Irish cities of 
Cork, Dublin, 

and Belfast. 
Government 
shutdowns occur 

in France, Great 
Britain, and Italy, 
leading to 
widespread riots. 
Parties October 24, 20 
espousing 
anarchist 
sentiments begin 

to increase 
exponentially in 
polling 

popularity. 
Assassination | December 10, 
attempts on 20 
politicians 


increase in 
frequency by 60 
percent. 

Hungary 875 km Televised January 7, 20 
political 
speeches begin 
including 
passages from 
addresses given 
by political 
leaders during 
the 1910s. 
America refuses 
to send aid to 
the UN to help 
European 
countries, and 
withdraws from 
the UN shortly 
after. 

Hungary 756 km Countries with} April 4, 20 
hostile relations 
are experiencing 
border 
skirmishes at an 
average 
frequency of one 
altercation every 
two weeks. 

Hungary 558 km Patients with June 14, 20 
identification 
matching that of 
World War 1 
soldiers are 
brought into 
hospitals with 
war injuries 
common to that 
era. Patients 
universally die 


Serbia 


Bosnia and 
Herzegovina 


285 km 


108 km 


during surgery 
and their bodies 
disappear when 
no longer under 
observation. 
lrish-English August 22, 20 
conflict begins to 
grow more 
violent, anda 
surge in 
Northern Irish 
nationalism is 
seen. The 
Secretary of 
State is in the 
process of 
proposing a 
border poil. 
Dreams of September 30, 
SCP-2574 20 
become 
widespread. A 
majority of 
subjects report 
that an entity 
contained within 
SCP-2574 was 
attempting and 
failing to 
communicate 
with them. 
Multiple 
websites are 
created to 
document its 
appearance in 
dreams. 


SCP-2574 was discovered just outside of Bethlehem, Israel, after 
multiple videos of a massive sphinx appeared on Israeli news. 


SCP-2574 ignored all attempts at contact with agents of the 
Foundation, GOC, and Serpent's Hand, and crushed a GOC armed 
truck that attempted to provoke a response by blocking its path. 


YouTube footage of SCP-2574 in Debrecen, Hungary from 
September 12, 20 : 


<BEGIN FOOTAGE> 


00:00 Footage of Debrecen's Reformed Church, a 
popular tourist attraction. 


00:17 SCP-2574 appears in frame. People begin to flee. 


00:20 SCP-2574 makes its way down the main walkway, 
showing no sign of slowing as it approaches the church. 


00:25 Upon reaching the church, SCP-2574 continues to 
walk, forcing its way through the building and leading the 
building to collapse around it. Despite the left tower 
falling directly on its head, SCP-2574 continues 
undeterred. 


00:31 SCP-2574 continues away from the church and 
out of frame. 


<END FOOTAGE> 


First known media mention of SCP-2574, from international 
media network on February 9, 20 


© What was once thought to be a hoax is now considered 
very, very, real, with multiple verified sightings... 


Civilian account of anomaly generated by SCP-2574 - 
Zholymbet, Kazakhstan, February 9, 20 


© The first bomb fell about sixty yards away. The planes 
were small and flying low. The second one hit some of 
my sheep. God, the way they screamed. They whistled 
as they fell, and there was shrapnel everywhere - this 
was old stuff, heavy. | was dragging my son inside as 


the third bomb fell. And | looked up, and | saw it on the 
horizon. It was just a silhouette, but it was immense. It 
just walked on, and on, and on. The bombs fell around it 
- one even began burning on its skin - but it just kept 
moving. It wasn't fast, either. It just plodded. Like some 
kind of automaton. It didn't even turn to look, it just 
stared straight ahead. Dead-eyed. Blank. 


¢ Excerpt from leaked foreign policy briefing transcript - April 14, 
20 


© Austrian and Hungarian leaders have been in talks for 
some time, but today we received word of a military 
alliance with the intent of occupying certain Balkan and 
Eastern European nations, including Serbia, Ukraine, 
and Belarus... No word on whether Russia itself is a 
target... Rumors of German involvement are currently 
unconfirmed, but the recent civilian deaths in Nice may 
give them a common enemy in France... 


* Exchange between GOC and Foundation Representatives - 
July 26, 20 


© I propose a system that allows neither group to recreate 
the formula on their own - we cannot allow petty 
disputes to let this anomaly wreak further havoc. This 
thing - it's dragging us back towards another World War 
- back towards the conditions that caused the poem to 
be written in the first place. Yeats believed history was 
cyclical. If that's true, there's nothing we can do to stop 
it from getting to Sarajevo. We can only prepare for 
what happens when it gets there. And the only way we 
can protect ourselves is if we cooperate. So get over 
yourselves. 


¢ Excerpt from missive from Foundation to German Chancellor: 


© We understand the current situation in regards to the 
civil unrest within your nation has become untenable. 
We have recently come into possession of some large- 
scale treatments that will act as a mass conciliatory 


SCP-288: The "Stepford Marriage" Rings 


Item #: SCP-288 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-288 is to be kept ina 
locker, with only security personnel of level 2 clearance or higher 
given the combination. They are currently contained in the small, 
velvet-lined black box they were retrieved in. 


Personnel who have worn the rings during testing are to undergo full 
psychological exams afterward, and their experiences recorded. 


Description: SCP-288 consists of a women's engagement ring 
(hereafter referred to as SCP-288-1) and matching men's band 
(hereafter referred to as SCP-288-2), both silver in appearance, the 
ring containing a small diamond. They are relatively plain, and bear 
no marks as to their origin or make, but staff routinely describe them 
as seeming like "very nice wedding rings, if a little plain." They are 
completely normal in every sense, and have been damaged by 
endurance testing (and subsequently repaired through typical 
jeweling practices), and their effects are only observable while worn. 


When SCP-288-1 is worn by any adult female in a relationship, she 
immediately becomes what has been portrayed in popular media as 
an "ideal housewife". Women describe this experience as if they are 
not in control of their body, merely observing their own actions. They 
lose all ability to form their own opinions, and instead automatically 
agree with the opinions of their spouse, and display very few 
negative emotions, if any. They seem to gain an instinctive 
knowledge of cooking and baking, in the style considered to be the 
"traditional American" style, including such dishes as apple pie, or 
macaroni and cheese. These dishes are always professionally made 
regardless of prior skill. A similar knowledge is evidenced in the 
spheres of cleaning and light repair; subjects regularly display the 
ability to sew and knit even if they were not able to do so before 


agent that will reduce tensions and allow for some 
semblance of order to be restored. We cannot 
guarantee more than three months’ supply, so be 
judicious in your usage. Partial dosing over long periods 
of time is highly recommended. 


¢ Excerpt from an address given by president of the Russian 
Federation before a failed drone strike on SCP-2574 


© The creature we have seen is an enigma. We have no 
conception of its goals, its thoughts, its intentions. We 
do not know if it thinks. We do not know if it feels, or 
hates, or wants. But if it endangers the lives of a single 
Russian citizen, it will be met with force. 


* Forum post made on a site devoted to recording dreams of 
SCP-2574: 


© i saw it again. well, him again. it was him, the poet, 
not...the thing, if that makes sense. he's trapped, he 
was begging me to set him free. he was sobbing, and 
his tears burned his face, and they burned mine. he 
called the falcons to him, i think, but he kept moving. he 
told me this was his punishment. this cycle. he wanted 
to stop moving. but he couldn't. he never, never could. 
and then he crushed me, beneath his paw, and he cried 
for me. and that's when i woke up. 


¢ Excerpt from sermon from one of the many religious 
organizations created in the wake of SCP-2574's encounters 
with the public: 


© Come to us and embrace your salvation! Discover the 
words of the prophet Yeats, who spoke the sacred truth 
that all of history is a spiral, and that we have spiraled 
outwards towards chaos! Learn the true nature of the 
Second Coming! We will teach you the cycle of time, 
and the road to the eternal ecstasy amidst the sins of 
the suffering! Give in not to degeneracy! Eschew your 
thoughts of the future! Know we are all as tides in an 
ocean, never forwards, never truly backwards! Embrace 


the widening gyre! 
Historical Documentation 
* Excerpt from testimony of Gavrilo Princip 


© Do you see it? The gyre? The spiral? It has been 
tightening, tightening, tightening for so long. Suffocating 
us. Restricting us. We are bound by its machinations, 
rendered immobile by its interminable bonds. All of life 
is straining against it, straining to be free. The spiral 
must move outward, outward to chaos, to life, to 
freedom! He was the apex, and the minute | put that 
bullet through his head, | liberated us. And now we may 
fall away, outward, into the primal heat, and wander, 
and roam again. | have saved us. | have set us free. 


* Excerpts from Yeats' journal in the days before his death:” 
© December 23, 1938 


@ | cannot bear the pull any longer. It is not just my 
mind, not anymore - it's my flesh itself, yearning, 
pulling away from my bones. | wake in the night 
and find myself facing towards that sacred place. 
There is a pilgrimage to be made. But what will | 
find at the end of it? Where will it take me? Every 
morning | wake up the the bombs whistling 
overhead? Is the war still on? It always is. In the 
papers, on the radio, the fires in the fields. They 
tell me it is 1938. They are lying. It is 1918. It has 
always been 1918. | cannot do this much longer. | 
held it off for as long as | could, you know | did. 
But they created me, the crowds, in all their folly 
and greed, they took me and shaped me like clay. 
Carved me like stone. They do not know what 
they did. The world of the spirit and the soul runs 
through me, and it howls. It reaching out its claws 
for us. We have abused each other and the land 
for too long, it must strike back. | see the 
disasters of the past and the tragedies of the 


future, and the monsters they create. Soon, | will 
be amongst them. 


© January 2, 1939 


@ Bethlehem bethlehem bethlehem. | must carry us 
to our end. | cannot do it. | cannot | cannot | 
cannot. But | walk in spirals when | am not 
thinking, and | smell the mustard gas wherever | 
go, and the skin on my back grows stony, and | 
fear what will happen if | do not follow. | must walk 
the spiral. | must. Please, why could you not pick 
another vessel! | am the chaos, | am the dying, | 
am the screams and the trenches and oh god it 
hurts. 


© January 28, 1939 


@ I'm here, now. Bethlehem. It's harder to write, to 
walk, to think. | cannot feel any part of me. | no 
longer need to blink - | stare into the sun without 
pain or fear. I'm so scared. I'm not human. Not 
anymore. | would scream when | look in the mirror 
if | cared. | hide, and | grow, and the falcons all 
swarm around my door. I'm losing myself. They 
will make me walk the spiral. The pull is still there, 
but it's fainter, and to a different place - Sarajevo. 
Cursed Sarajevo. Not again, please, | beg you, 
not again. But first, | must sleep. Sleep for 
decades. Complete the curse, change myself 
utterly. Into a beast. | can only hope | will have 
lost myself enough when | wake to be unaware. | 
am sorry. |am so, so sorry. | must walk the spiral. 
| must follow the path they lead me on. | smell the 
blood, hear the shouting, and always the scent of 
mustard gas. With their brutality, they will lead me 
back. Back to Sarajevo. Whatever chaos | cause - 
it is not my fault. It is only your own. | am only 
walking the spiral. You cleared the path, you will 
guide me through, and now | walk. | walk. 


SCP-2574 will reach its destination in approximately 1 month. 


Footnotes 

1. DNA tests indicate species of origin to be the African lion 

2. Approximately 6,000 at time of writing - birds that join the flock 
remain with SCP-2574 permanently. 

3. The entity itself, not its effects 

4. Capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina 

5. Due to the nature of SCP-2574, it has been conjectured that 
SCP-2574 was not the source of these effects, but was rather 
responding to them. Evidence for this theory comes from the 
occurrence of several international conflicts days before SCP-2574's 
first appearance. 

6. Capital of Kazakhstan 

7. There is no record of Yeats ever traveling to Bethlehem, nor of 
any strange behavior like that documented here, but handwriting, 
word usage and DNA tests from bloodstains in the pages all show 
Yeats as the author. 


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SCP-2575: Dreaming of Outer Space 


Item #: SCP-2575 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Foundation assets embedded 
in the astronomical and star-gazing community are to conduct a 
standard Class 3 disinformation campaign, claiming SCP-2575 was 
placed into orbit by NASA in 1982 to commemorate the 10 year 
anniversary of the landing of Apollo 17. 


SCP-2575 is currently physically uncontained as a category 5c 
containment risk.1 Should any individual(s) observe SCP-2575 with 
enough frequency to identify its anomalous properties and make 
public that observation, a Class 2 disinformation campaign is to be 
implemented immediately, and the application of amnestics to the 
individual(s) who made the initial observation is authorized. 


Description: SCP-2575 is a sculpture constructed of a mixture of 

silt and clay following a Lissajous orbit around the Earth-Moon-L2 

Lagrangian Point System. SCP-2575 frequently changes size and 

shape, but has never been observed at a size unable to fit within a 
10m x 10m x 10m envelope. 


SCP-2575 undergoes intermittent physical restructuring, ranging 
from minor changes of external design details, to comprehensive 
overhauls of its structure. SCP-2575 has historically been observed 
as one of three basic? types of sculptures, an apparent O'Neill 
Cylinder (SCP-2575-A, frequency 78%), a space launch vehicle, 
undergoing disassembly? (SCP-2575-B, frequency 19%), ora 
human skeleton4 (SCP-2575-C, frequency 3%). SCP-2575 exhibits 
exceptional levels of detail, with Foundation flyby imaging indicating 
structural details on the sub micron scale. 


SCP-2575 is dormant for periods of 2-3 weeks between 
restructuring events. Restructuring events, where the mass of