Containment measures and object classification revised in light of 
confirmed existence of living SCP-1254-1 specimens. 


Addendum 2: Maintenance crew responding to a malfunction in the 
building's air conditioning systems found a miniature aircraft of 
unknown manufacture attempting to break through one of the filters. 
The aircraft was captured and taken to the nearest Foundation lab 
for research. Attempts to contact the crew were met with limited 
success, as the only response received was several broadcasted 
radio transmissions that were a mix of screaming and exclamations 
of broken Latin phrases. Two hours after the aircraft goes silent, 
permission is granted to forcibly remove the crew for study. Closer 
examination of cross sections of the aircraft show the crew having 
committed mass suicide. 


Addendum 3: Security cameras observe suspicious movement in 
one of the storage rooms. Remote viewing by drones and cameras 
show groups of SCP-1254-1 gathering as much intact paper as 
possible and depositing it into the storage room. Further surveillance 
shows SCP-1254-1 attempting to construct a full size humanoid with 
the paper being collected. Based on visual analysis, completion of 
SCP-1254-2 is at roughly 25%. Containment procedures updated in 
response. 


« SCP-1253 | SCP-1254 | scp-1255 » 


SCP-1256: Bees Are Smarter Than You Think 


Item #: SCP-1256 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: Mobile Task Force Zeta-4 
(‘Beekeepers’) is currently assigned to the tracking and recovery of 
SCP-1256 instances. All exposed subjects are to be administered 
counter-memetic therapy and Class-C amnestics prior to release. 
Media Division 19-P is to monitor internet media for SCP-1256 
instances in the form of websites and downloadable files. Any online 
SCP-1256 instances are to be pulled, and the source traced. 


Description: SCP-1256 is a 24-page pamphlet entitled 'Bees - 
Smarter Than You Think." lts contents appear to be intended to be 
informative; however, much of it is nonsensical. The cover page 
claims SCP-1256 was authored by Dillaine lurtey and Ryan Hughes, 
and published by Redrose Publishing Sydney in 1997. Redrose 
Publishing Sydney has no record of SCP-1256's publication, and 
neither author has any recollection of writing SCP-1256. 


Individual pages of SCP-1256 do not retain anomalous properties, 
and SCP-1256 may be excerpted without effect. It is only when 
SCP-1256 is read completely that its anomalous effects will 
manifest. An exposed subject is designated SCP-1256-1. 


SCP-1256-1 will perceive all members of the superfamily Apoidea 
as sapient. Contrary to its title, SCP-1256's effect applies to all 
members of Apoidea including wasps. SCP-1256-1 will attempt to 
care for the insects to the exclusion of all other activities. This 
appears to be both to the detriment of SCP-1256-1 and the insects; 
the attempts of SCP-1256-1 to collect food, repair the hive, and 
assist in the reproductive cycle of the queen specimens typically 
result in the expiration of multiple insects and is met with hostility. 


SCP-1256 was initially recovered from the family property 


13km from , Australia, by embedded agents in the NSW police 
force during the investigation of the murder case. Four 
cadavers were found gagged, coated in honey, and bound to chairs 
in duct-tape, nearby the family's bee-farm. The 17-year-old eldest 
daughter was arrested and charged with four cases of murder, but 
was found to be unfit to stand trial, and was institutionalized. 


Addenda: 
Document 1256-Alpha: 
Excerpt of SCP-1256: 
Bees - Smarter Than You Think 


You think bees are bees. But did you know they're not? 
That's right, bees are smarter than you think! You think 
you farm the bees, and steal their honey. But you 
actually don't - because bees are smarter than you think! 
Why do you think the bees disappeared? The bees knew 
we'd screwed the earth before it all went to shit, before 
we even knew about global warming! Bees knew, 
because bees are smarter than you think! 


Some bees stayed because they loved you. You didn't 
think they loved you, did you? That's because bees are 
smarter than you think! They loved you so much, and 
you didn't even know, you know. That's why we made 
this pamphlet, to show you how to farm bees for honey. 


How Do You Farm Bees? 


In order to achieve maximum efficiency with your bee 
farm, you must: 


¢ Embrace the bees spiritually. You must feel the 
emotional flow between yourself and your bees. 
When you do not feel the spiritual energies of your 
bees, the bees do not feel your spiritual energies! 


¢ Be understanding of your bees. Your bee isn't 
being productive. But do not anger yourself; 


understand why he can't work. He is a busy bee. 
He has a social life. Understand the bee! Do not 
pressure the bee! That is the path to sad bees. 


¢ Do not expose your bees to liberal thought. 
Bees know that the iron guide of the queen is good 
for the hive. But what happens if you make the 
bees socialist? What happens? They will 
overthrow the class system! They will say workers 
and soldiers are equal, even if it is not so! There 
will be hive anarchy everywhere! The bees will 
work for pleasure and not for the hive, which is 
very anarchistic! Socialism is bad for bees. 


* MOST IMPORTANT: you LOVE THE BEE 
UNCONDITIONALLY. Can't you see bees LOVE 
you so much? And you just make bees give and 
give. They stayed for you and you make them 
give? Love bees, not honey. Honey is the product 
of love. 


FOLLOW OUR GUIDE AND HAVE MAXIMUM 
RETURN FOR YOUR EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT. 


Document 1256-Beta: 


Document held as evidence in the murder case, and later 
confiscated by Foundation operatives. 


March 12, 2010. 


They don't understand the bees. But they'll learn to love 
the bees like | do. They will. They just need to have that 
spark, that connection. That epiphany. The moment, in 
which you fully understand the bee and love it in its truth. 


I've helped them, and they'll see it soon. The bees will 
teach them. The bees are so smart. I've talked to them. 
They understand like no one else does. But you mustn't 
scare them. They sting when they hurt. And they die. 


They make a sacrifice for their hive. It's touching. Bees 
are more human than humans will ever be. 


I've heard the buzz. | love the bees. And soon, they'll 
love them too. 


« SCP-1255 | SCP-1256 | SCP-1257 » 


SCP-1257: Agent Danny of the SCP 


Item #: SCP-1257 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: All copies of SCP-1257, 
encompassing all instances of SCP-1257-1, SCP-1257-2, and 
SCP-1257-3, are to be kept in the secure media vault at Site- . Any 
uncontained copies of SCP-1257 are to be recovered or destroyed 
by MTF Mu-53 (“Ebert's Thumb”). Because of the nature of the 
original appearance of SCP-1257, and its widespread exposure to 
the public, MTF Mu-53 is also tasked to replace any new sources of 
information about SCP-1257 as they are discovered, in whatever 
format they may appear, in accordance with Protocol Gamma-1257- 
A (Codename: “Snopes’ Revenge”)! 


Unauthorized persons exposed to copies of SCP-1257, or who 
evidence any knowledge about SCP-1257, shall be interrogated by 
the Foundation Intelligence Department, administered Class A 
Amnestics, and have implanted post-hypnotic suggestions to 
reinforce the belief that SCP-1257 is a hoax.2 


Study of SCP-1257 is limited to personnel of Level 3 or higher, 
subject to approval by the Foundation Intelligence Department. 


Description: SCP-1257 is an American-produced half-hour situation 
comedy originally titled Raising Danny that aired on the _ television 
network for six episodes in 197 . Instances of SCP-1257-1 are the 
original production reels for all twelve episodes filmed, recovered 
fromthe archives in 198 . Instances of SCP-1257-2 are the draft 
and shooting scripts and copies, including four episodes that were 
never shot. Instances of SCP-1257-3 are all other video recordings 
of the six episodes actually aired. 


The anomalous properties of SCP-1257 manifest in any and all 
video copies produced from the original series, and in any copies of 


the scripts for those episodes. Every year, beginning in mid- 
September, video recordings and scripts for Raising Danny will 
change to reflect a new season of episodes. Replacements will 
begin with episode one, and progress sequentially through each 
episode in order during each subsequent week. While the 
Foundation has access to the first sixteen episodes of each 
season,’ it appears that each SCP-1257 season runs approximately 
24 episodes. Additionally, while new seasons of SCP-1257 
occasionally produce hour-long "specials,” copies are always limited 
to the first half-hour running time of the original episodes of 
SCP-1257. 


Video copies of the original over-the-air broadcast of the first six 
episodes of SCP-1257 present a special case. Commercials 
recorded contemporaneously with SCP-1257 will also show changes 
consistent with the content of SCP-1257, and updated videos have 
occasionally shown news bulletins and weather alerts that imply 
multiple points of divergence between the world that continues to 
produce SCP-1257 and our own. 


SCP-1257’s original premise had a black man, named Tyler (played 
by Whitman Mayo), married to a white woman who already had a 
son by a prior marriage. When the woman dies, prior to the pilot 
episode, the man is left raising her son, named Danny (played by 
Danny Bonaduce), as his own. Reviews of the original series 
recovered by the Foundation were universally unfavorable and 
referred to it as “The unwanted bastard child of Sanford and Son 
and The Courtship of Eddie's Father.” Because of the anomalous 
properties of SCP-1257, the Foundation has only been able to 
reconstruct a general outline of the original content of the series. 


Addendum 1: Notes on selected episodes of SCP-1257 observed 
in Foundation custody. 


+ Document S-1257-11 


* Season 3, Episode 3, “Tyler's Date”: 
Episode manifests three months after 
initial containment. One line in the script 
implies the assassination of American 
President Jimmy Carter in late 1978 or 


early 1979. 

Season 4, Episode 1, “Bad Touch pt. 2”: 
Second half of a “special episode” 
ending season three. Eric, a young 
classmate of Danny’s, is the target of a 
sexual predator using what appears to 
be anomalous items manufactured by 
Doctor Wondertainment to lure his 
victims. 

Season 5, Episode 10, “The Senior 
Trip”: Episode mentions a scandal 
where 10 members of the UK House of 
Commons had been publicly revealed as 
members of a cult that bears a strong 
resemblance to the Church of the 
Broken God. 

Season 6, Episode 1, “The Freshmen”: 
The title of SCP-1257 is changed to 
Danny. The premise of the series 
changes as well, dropping the Tyler 
character and sending Danny to college 
in New York City with five of his 
classmates from High School.4 The 
University Lab appears to have 
specimens of SCP- ,SCP- and SCP- 


Season 6, Episode 11, “The SOP lot 
of the episode concerns Eric’s 
suspicions that one of their dormmates 
might be secretly one of the “ .” This 
turns out to be a misunderstanding. 
From context, the “ ” appear to prey 
on young women and have become 
endemic in [REDACTED] and seem to 
be the result of a containment breach of 
[REDACTED] in Mexico City. 

Season 7, Episode 2, “Eric’s Midterm 
Caper”: When this episode manifested in 
SCP-1257-3-12, a new advertisement 
appeared during the second break for 


Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. The ad 
promoted [REDACTED] services for 
[REDACTED]. 

Season 10, Episode 1, “The Job Hunt’: 
Hour-long “special” introducing another 
change in premise. One scene implies 
that the Global Occult Coalition has 
become public enough to run “want ads” 
in the local newspaper. 

Season 10, Episode 2, “The New Guy”: 
The show's title is officially changed to 
Agent Danny of the SCP.6 Danny has 
been employed as Level 1 security at 
Site-19, and through a series of 
mishaps, prevents a containment breach 
of SCP-173. 

Season 10, Episode 5, “D-Class Act”: 
Danny mis-hears a co-worker’s 
conversation and becomes convinced 
he has been mistakenly reassigned to 
D-Class by the HR Department. 
Season 10, Episode 11, “Leaping 
Lizards”: [REDACTED] SCP-682 
[REDACTED]. 


Note: Details of SCP-1257 episodes past 
Season 10 are only available with the approval 
of the Intelligence Department. 


Footnotes 

1. Information about SCP-1257 is replaced with new information 
leading to the conclusion that SCP-1257 never existed, and is a 
hoax. Protocol Gamma-1257-A also requires all original 
documentation discovered about SCP-1257 be replaced with forged 
copies omitting references to SCP-1257. 

2. As of 5/27/19 all original participants in the production of 
SCP-1257 have been found and either treated with amnestics or 
terminated. 

3. Twelve via video copies (SCP-1257-1) and four only via 
unproduced scripts (SCP-1257-2). 


4. Including Eric, despite a three-year age difference. 

5. Danny has graduated college, is unemployed, and 
advertisements shown during SCP-1257-3 instances show that the 
Eric character has been spun off into his own series. 

6. It is clear from the script that the title the writers intended is 
actuallyAgent Danny of the SCPFoundation. However, in the title 
card and in taped dialog, “Foundation” is consistently omitted. The 
name does appear correctly in the background sets intended to 
represent Foundation locations. 


« SCP-1256 | SCP-1257 | SCP-1258 » 


SCP-1258: The Way of the Masters 


Item #: SCP-1258 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: All materials relating to 
SCP-1258 are held in a locked document cabinet in Site-19, with 
access restricted to clearance level 4 and above. Any organisms 
showing any effect of practicing SCP-1258 should be considered an 
instance of SCP-1258-1 and terminated immediately unless part of 
an approved experiment. Standard Foundation searches for 
anomalous animal activity should be cross-referenced with 
SCP-1258 markers. 


Description: SCP-1258 is a martial art of unknown origin. Currently 
the Foundation has in its possession enough material in varying 
media to reconstruct several basic forms used to teach beginners, 
but little information on more advanced forms. SCP-1258-1 is any 
organism which has the knowledge and capability of practicing 
SCP-1258 independently. 


When SCP-1258 is practiced by human beings, there is no observed 
anomalous effect. The anomalous effects of SCP-1258 manifest 
when movements of the style are performed within view of a non- 
human mammal.! A mild compulsive effect causes all such animals 
to cease any non-essential activity and begin watching the 
performer. After a short period of passive observation, animals will 
begin attempting to duplicate the movements, to the extent they are 
able. Due to anatomical differences, some animals are more 
capable than others of imitating the movements of SCP-1258, but 
regardless of skill, animals will continue practicing until either they 
are distracted by a pressing need (the need to eat, imminent danger, 
etc.) or the human performer stops or leaves their field of view. 


If an animal is permitted to observe and mimic SCP-1258 forms for a 
period of time,2 they will begin to develop human-like characteristics.