Dr. _: Where did you come from? 
SCP-137: | live in a castle. Are you my prince? 
“Further questioning yielded similar results.* 
<End Log> 
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Experiment Log 137 


Date: / / 
Test Material: Toy jet plane 


Results: The toy was replaced by a full-sized F-16 which 
attempted to take off inside the testing facility, causing a 
great deal of damage. The debris quickly turned back to 
plastic, and SCP-137's current form reanimated. 


Notes: |n the future, please avoid testing materials that 
come equipped with jet engines and missiles. This was 
an expensive test. 


Date: / / 
Test Material: brand racecar. 


Results: The toy was replaced by a full-sized Ferrari that 
attempted to race around the testing facility, ultimately 
crashing into the wall at high speed. Again, the debris 
turned back to plastic, and SCP-137's current form was 
reanimated. 


Notes: Vehicle tests now require permission from 
Director 


Date: / / 
Test Material: An alligator key-chain fob, attached to 
Agent Sorenson's keys. 


Results: A six-meter-long saltwater crocodile in a 
hallway. Fourteen dead. 


Notes: All agents must now be searched for toys or toy- 
like items before entering site 


Date: / / 


Test Material: brand "American Soldier" action 
figure. 


Results: The toy was replaced by an adult male human 
in a soldier's fatigues, carrying a large rifle, which 
managed to kill five personnel before being terminated. 


Notes: Let's try something less violent next time. 


Date: / / 
Test Material: brand Officer Jones beat cop action 
figure. 


Results: An adult male in a policeman's uniform. It kept 
asking where the "perps" had gone to, and insisting that 
researchers not take recreational pharmaceuticals. After 
interrogation attempts, it announced that the researchers 
were criminals, shot two, and handcuffed a third before 
being terminated. 


Date: / / 
Test Material: A stuffed panda. 


Results: A very large panda. It is to be noted that, 
despite their "cute" appearance and herbivorous lifestyle, 
pandas are still bears. It proceeded to hug one of the 
researchers, breaking three ribs before it was 
terminated. 


Date: / / 
Test Material: A box of plastic construction bricks. 


Results: A terracotta brick appeared inside the box. It 
vanished, replaced by a brick of a different material. This 
went on for several hours before the items were 
destroyed and the anomaly reanimated its current host. 


Date: / / 
Test Material: A brand yo-yo. 


Results: The yo-yo did not change form. However, it 
became autonomous, moving on its own and performing 


a variety of tricks, even when removed from the finger of 
a researcher and placed on a hook in the wall. 


Date: / / 

Test Material: A brand Doctor Selenium action 
figure, noted on the packaging to be "The Smartest Man 
on Earth." 


Results: An adult male in a lab coat. It made repeated 
references to its "astounding intellect." However, when 
questioned on any scientific or mathematical knowledge, 
it would not answer directly, only saying that it was the 
"smartest man on Earth." Testing ended after several 
hours of fruitless questioning. 


SCP-138: The Ever-Living Man 


Item #: SCP-138 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-138 requires minimal 
containment procedures. For humanitarian purposes, subject is 
currently being kept in a chemically-induced comatose state. 


Description: SCP-138 is a human male, suspected to be in excess 
of four thousand (4000) years old. Subject is approximately 1.5 
meters in height, emaciated, and wizened. SCP-138's precise 
origins are unknown. Subject was discovered in 2006, in an 
Egyptian tomb located near Tutankhamen's tomb unearthed in 
1922, sealed inside a sarcophagus. When a living being was 
discovered in the tomb, the Foundation was alerted by one of our 
sleeper agents assigned to the International Archaeological 
Association. Subject was immediately moved to Sector 37 for 
investigation by the lead research science team there. 


Physiologically, SCP-138 should clinically be dead. Muscles and 
internal organs are in a severe state of atrophy, and although the 
subject's bio-electro-magnetic field is stable, his nervous system is 
also severely debilitated. Subject also exhibits evidence of a large 
number of fatal wounds, some possibly accidental, some blatantly 
deliberate, whether inflicted by the subject himself or by others. 


There is no obvious scientific explanation for his continued living 
state. Although other SCPs have exhibited accelerated regenerative 
properties, allowing them to resist death, SCP-138 has no such 
abilities—his body does not regenerate damage, but simply 
continues to function despite lethal injuries. This stretches to 
wounding blows, although anything that would completely destroy 
the body proves ineffective. 


Subject speaks exclusively in a dialect of ancient Egyptian. 


Communication using a civilian translator has revealed very little 
about the subject's past, though it would appear that he was buried 
in the tomb for an unknown religious purpose. Due to his severely 
injured state, SCP-138 is in a constant state of agony, and has on 
numerous occasions insistently requested humanitarian euthanasia. 
No successful method of termination has yet been found, despite 
various and varied attempts, both official and unsanctioned. 
Attached is a comprehensive list of the subject's injuries. 


Document 138-27: Injuries sustained by subject SCP-138 
Ancient injuries: 


* Slit throat 

* Seventeen (17) separate wounds to the torso: nine (9) sword 
wounds, six (6) spear wounds, and two (2) wounds caused by 
unknown puncturing weapon, possibly a metal or wooden 
spike 


Sanctioned euthanasia attempts: 


* Severe nausea (due to intravenous arsenic poison) 

¢ Third degree burns to 100% of the subject's body (note that 
SCP-138 survived a full twenty (20) minutes in an industrial 
incinerator) 

* Severe internal and nervous system damage (from 
electrocution attempt) 


Unofficial euthanasia attempts by non-research personnel: 


« Tracheal trauma (due to extended strangulation attempt) 
* Two gunshot wounds to the head, causing severe cranial 
trauma 


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SCP-139: Possible Skull of the White Div 


Item #: SCP-139 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-139 is to be kept ina 
room at least six meters at its smallest dimension, suspended at 
least two meters from the nearest inside surface of the room. No 
one is to enter this room under any circumstance. The room is never 
to be left without at least two armed guards at any moment. 


Description: The object appears on the surface to be the poorly 
preserved skull of a hominid. It is missing the lower jaw bone. Also 
of note is the extreme wear, especially to the eye sockets. 


Photography of the skull has been analyzed by leading 
anthropologists. All agree that the specimen is too badly damaged to 
be identified with complete accuracy, and that it is most definitely 
hominid. While some believe it is a standard Neanderthal skull, 
others are convinced that the wide cavities are the result of wear 
and that the original size was much smaller, more like that of a 
modern human. This is because the size of the nasal and ocular 
cavities was the main feature leading some to identify the skull as 
Neanderthal. However, all were confounded by the ridge at the top 
of the skull. This feature is most commonly associated with 
prehistoric herbivorous species of hominids. 


One of our own anthropologists has proposed the theory that the 
ridge is the sign of a powerfully jawed animal. Such ridges generally 
act as anchors for jaw muscles, such as in Paranthropus boisei. 
These animals used their heavy jaw muscles for chewing plants, but 
it is also feasible that with sharp teeth they could easily be used for 
killing. 


The following was translated by Dr. from ORIA Document 
D.TDL67. 


When discovered, the skull was located in a small town 
just south of the Throne of Jamshid. [Takht-e Jamshid, or 
"Throne of Jamshid" has been determined to be a 
modern Farsi name for Persepolis] 


The skull was first recorded by Douglas Winthrop, an 
Englishman and employee of Anglo-lranian Oil during 
the 1370s. [Roughly the 1950s on the Gregorian 
Calendar] Winthrop was an amateur anthropologist 
seeking fame and glory, and came upon the town hoping 
to find a living missing link. He believed that the 
residents of the town may be living Neanderthals. 
Though this hypothesis was quickly abandoned upon 
inspection of the townspeople, he did uncover the skull. 


When discovered, the skull was being held in an iron and 
copper cage, suspended fifty feet [15.24 meters] in the 
air from a cliff using hemp rope. The rope was tied to a 
hook drilled into the side of the cliff, implying an intention 
never to bring it back down. A pulley was present, 
however. It was attached to a wall erected on the edge of 
the cliff. The pulley was used to lower food and water 
down towards the skull. 


The people referred to the skull as the skull of the White 
Div. In ancient lore, the White Div is a demon and the 
spawn of Ahriman, who is the sum of all evil. The White 
Div in legend is a being of great and mystic power, 
defeated by Rostam. [Rostam is a legendary hero of 
Persia] Purportedly the Div was slain in the northern hills 
of what is now Azerbaijan. 


According to the townspeople, the skull had been 
brought to their town by a madman who had slain many 
men before they discovered the power of the skull and it 
was contained and put in its current position. 


Winthrop was soon overcome with madness himself, slaughtering 
seven of his friends after his return to England. He also was charged 
and convicted of sodomizing several male and female animals 
(among them several chickens, a male and female dog, and three 


bulls). 


He did not, however, manage to bring the skull back as it was 
confiscated by the University of Shiraz under the Shah's authority. 


After the confiscation, however, no new research became of it. 


The artifact surfaced next in the Yukon, ninety kilometers from the 
Alaskan border. The entire community of Caribou Crossing (what is 
known today as Carcross, Yukon) was found brutally murdered by 
multiple stab wounds. Semen was found inside the wounds and it is 
assumed the assailant ejaculated into the incisions. The corpses 
were found stacked in a large pile in the center of the chapel. On top 
of the pile of corpses was the skull. 


The artifact has since been in our custody. 


Its properties are unknown. What has driven such superstition in its 
wake is unknown. What has brought it to the scene of intense 
carnage is unknown. The safety precautions currently taken are so 
done simply because they have thus far proved effective. Why is not 
known. 


No research is planned. 


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SCP-140: An Incomplete Chronicle 


Item #: SCP-140 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-140 must never be 
brought closer than 15 m to any source of standard ink, human 
blood, or other fluids suitable for writing. Any contamination by blood 
or ink must be reported immediately. Any remaining copies of 
SCP-140 created during the initial printing must be found and 
destroyed as soon as possible. Only SCP-140 is to be preserved, for 
purposes of study, early warning, and cataloguing and recording 
possible SCPs derived from its subject matter. 


SCP-140 is contained at Site-76 in a sealed vault containing a single 
desk. At this time no research is to be carried out upon the original 
SCP-140; researchers are to read from prepared copies not bearing 
the signature of its author which lack its properties. In the event of 
approved research, SCP-140 may not be removed from the vault, 
and readers may not be in contact with it for longer than 9 hours. 
Access requires written approval from the head researcher for the 
explicit purposes of testing. An armed guard stationed outside the 
vault will meet any attempted theft with deadly force. 


Should any personnel begin displaying obsession with SCP-140 or 
signs of possible memetic contamination, they are to be issued a 
Class A Amnesiac, false memories implanted as necessary, and 
transferred to another project. Transferred personnel must be 
monitored for signs of relapse. 


Description: SCP-140 is a modern hardcopy book with an 
unremarkable black binding and an unknown number of white 
pages. The book jacket is missing, but the title, “A Chronicle of the 
Daevas”, is clearly legible. The inside cover is signed by the author, 
whose name is indecipherable. The text is copyrighted 19 . Careful 
examination reveals there are far more pages between the bindings 


than could be contained within them. 


Readers admit to feelings of paranoia, unease, and occasional 
nausea while reading SCP-140, although this may be related to the 
subject material. Nonetheless, readers almost universally describe 
SCP-140 as fascinating and express continued interest, despite its 
frequently unsettling content. One in fifteen readers describe 
SCP-140 as having a faint odor of dried blood. 


SCP-140 is a detailed account of an ancient civilization originating in 
what is now south-central Siberia, identified as the Daevites. 
Although like all cultures the Daevites evolved and changed over 
time, they appear to have exhibited unusual continuity. Universal 
fixtures of the Daevite culture in all periods included militarism, 
conquest, ancestor worship, urban centers ruling over large slave 
populations, gruesome human sacrifice, and the practice of 
apparently efficacious thaumaturgic rituals. A variety of relics and 
creatures produced by the Daevite culture would be abnormal or 
dangerous enough, if the account is to be believed, to qualify for 
containment in their own right. 


If SCP-140 comes into contact with any fluid suitable for writing, 
including human blood, the account of the Daevite civilization’s 
history expands. Human blood appears the most “potent” of possible 
writing substances, but in any case the amount of new material does 
not correspond proportionately to the fluids introduced. Although 
these new segments sometimes include new descriptions of rituals 
or cultural traits or illustrations of previously covered material, they 
more frequently include new, more recent accounts of information 
chronicling the continued history of the Daevite civilization or 
descriptions of new individuals and artifacts. Formerly decisive 
defeats become setbacks; new persons and events are inserted. 
Foundation archaeologists have discovered corresponding new 
artifacts and traces of the Daevite civilization in applicable locations 
and strata, in some cases found in dig sites that had already been 
thoroughly explored. 


Although at times the Daevites were a collection of city-states, they 
appear to have consistently returned to imperialism under a 
theocratic aristocracy (the “daeva”), practitioners of cannibalism and 
thaumaturgy. Although initially Foundation researchers believed the 


daeva to have been a hereditary class recycling the names of 
noteworthy individuals, evidence and the events of - -20 now 
suggest that the daeva possessed preternatural longevity as a result 
of [REDACTED]. Several researchers, notably Professor , have 
concluded the daeva were so divergent from modern humans as to 
be a separate subspecies, a conclusion supported by graphic 
representations within SCP-140 and [DATA EXPUNGED].