SCP-2516-1 is to be kept in a standard human 
containment cell. SCP-2516-1 is to be interviewed 
monthly. Interviews with SCP-2516-1 are to be recorded 
and screened for discrepancies, any detected 
discrepancies are to be noted and should be the focus of 
the next interview held with SCP-2516-1. 


Description: SCP-2516-1 was a male human of Eastern European 
descent. At the time of detention, SCP-2516-1 was 1.82m in height 
and weighted 71.2kg. SCP-2516-1 did not show any anomalous 
properties or abilities. SCP-2516-1 claimed to be from a nation 
known as Taured; however, no such country exists. Neither have 
any records been found referencing the existence of a country 
named Taured. SCP-2516-1 died September 7, 1974 from Acute 
Respiratory Distress Syndrome. 


SCP-2516-1 was brought into custody with a suitcase, a briefcase, 
and a passport. The contents of the suitcase contained 3 separate 


outfits, 2 wristwatches, and toiletries. SCP-2516-1 was permitted to 
keep these items in the containment cell. The briefcase contained 
information on potential investment opportunities from an investment 
firm allegedly located in Taured, and the company of [REDACTED] 
located in Tokyo, Japan. The passport confiscated from SCP-2516-1 
is a travel document supposedly issued by the country Taured. The 
passport appears genuine, meeting the criteria set by the 
International Civil Aviation Organization despite bearing citizenship 
to Taured and containing an unrecognized coat of arms. The 
passport contains stamps from airports located in Paris, Tokyo, The 
United States of America, and Germany, matching the ones used by 
the associated country. It also contains a stamp for the Taured 
National Airport. 


SCP-2516-2 is a 300m one-track railroad tunnel on the border of the 
Principality of Andorra and the neighboring country of France. 
SCP-2516-2 is the believed entry point of SCP-2516-1. Exploration 
teams sent into SCP-2516-2 have recorded the following anomalous 
sections of the tunnel starting from the entrance in the Principality of 
Andorra. 


* 0-50m: The sound of running water can be heard in increasing 
intensity as one progresses farther into the tunnel. No such 
source of running water has been detected within auditory 
range of the tunnel. 

¢ 50-100m: Intensity of the sound increases, the force of gravity 
progressively increases from 9.81 m/s? to 15.32 m/s@ 

* 100-200m: Sound alters into a consistent ringing, gravitational 
forces fluctuate with increased frequency as one travels 
farther towards the center of the tunnel. Recorded fluctuations 
have been between 1.02 m/s2 and 38.21 m/s2. 

* 200m-250m: Similar effects displayed to those in the 50-100m 
range 

¢ 250-300m: Similar effects displayed to those in the 0-50m 
range 


Recovery Information: SCP-2516-1 was contained in June of 
1954. During a security check leaving the Paris International Airport 
airport security detained SCP-2516-1 due to a detected issue with 
his passport. During his temporary detainment SCP-2516-1 claimed 


to be from Taured, a location unknown to the Airport officials. After 
being asked to identify the location on a map SCP-2516-1 pointed to 
the Principality of Andorra, SCP-2516-1 became confused and 
agitated due to Taured not being on the map, and the lack of 
knowledge of the country displayed by airport staff. The airport 
security contacted the local police and SCP-2516-1 was placed ina 
guarded room at a local hotel. Foundation operatives overheard of 
this event and suspecting an anomaly secured SCP-2516-1, 
removing him from the hotel room without alerting the authorities. 
SCP-2516-1 was interviewed about the country he claimed to be 
from and his travels prior to arriving in Paris. Foundation personnel 
discovered SCP-2516-2’s anomalous properties while retracing the 
travels taken by SCP-2516-1 and containment procedures were put 
into place. 


Addendum A-2516-1: An early message recording the discovery of 
SCP-2516-2 is attached. 


| think we've found it, along the tunnel he took out of 
Taured, or Andorra, either-or. Anyway we closed down 
the tunnel and started walkin’, we started feeling kind of 
heavy, got a lot harder to walk. Anyway, we hear one of 
the boys yelling up ahead so we went to see what all the 
fuss was about. Then things got really light, I’m telling 
you, | could jump 6 feet easy, just about hit my head on 
the ceiling. So we kept walking, thought we’d made it 
through to the other side, into Taured or whatever. Man, 
we were disappointed to find more of our guys on the 
other side. So whatever happened to him, it ain't working 
for us. 


A recording of an early interview with SCP-2516-1 has also been 
included in the document; the conversation has been translated from 
French: 


Dr. Hedrick: Alright | have a few questions to ask you, is 
that alright? 


SCP-2516-1: Hell no! you’ve kept me locked up here for 
days without telling me anything! | should be the one 
asking questions! 


Dr. Hedrick: Where are you from? 


SCP-2516-1: We've been over this, Harton Town, 
Taured. Can | at least get a phone call? My wife and my 
little girl must be worried sick. 


Dr. Hedrick: Why were you travelling? 


SCP-2516-1: | was supposed to be on a business trip in 
Tokyo, you already know all this, please, I’m begging 
you- 


Dr. Hedrick: What company do you work for? 


SCP-2516-1: Fredic and Sons investments, I’m an 
accountant. Why are you keeping me here? 


Dr. Hedrick: Can you tell me anything about the train 
ride leaving Taured? 


SCP-2516-1: Nothing | haven’t told you before. | got on 
the train in Carford, got off in Paris, end of story. 


Dr. Hedrick: What were you doing when the train went 
through the tunnel? 


SCP-2516-1: | got up to use the bathroom, what does it 
matter? 


Dr. Hedrick: Is there anything you'd like to add? 


SCP-2516-1: Yeah, how long are you going to keep me 
locked up in here? I’ve got a family waiting for me. 


Dr. Hedrick: Thank you , that will be all. 


SCP-2516-1: Hey, you come back here, | ain't done 
talking to you, you can't keep me locked up, | haven't 
done anything wrong! 


Addendum A-2516-2: SCP-2516-1 died on September 7, 1974. In 
accordance with SCP-2516-1’s last request to be brought home, Dr. 


Hedrick approved an attempt to activate the anomalous properties of 
SCP-2516-2. SCP-2516-1’s body was cremated and the ashes 
placed on a motorized railroad cart. The cart was placed on the 
track within SCP-2516-2 at the French entrance and the motor 
activated. The remains of SCP-2516-1 did not emerge at the other 
side of SCP-2516-2. However, 15 minutes after the departure of 
SCP-2516-1’s remains, an identical motorized cart emerged 
approaching the French side containing an urn filled with cremated 
ashes and a note. The note has been attached below. 


To be buried in the Principality of Andorra 
« SCP-2515 | SCP-2516 | SCP-2517 » 


Subject is currently undergoing treatment for post-traumatic stress 
disorder, and is expected to resume normal operations shortly. 


After-Action Report 
From Interview with Subject M Munoz 


I'm... I'm juggling, right? Like I've been doing for the last, 
hell, whole day. Then, everything picks up like I'm 
standing in a [REDACTED] hurricane, and | feel this... 
thing.... Don't even know what it is, but it was there and | 
could... Christ. Everything went black, and | knew that | 
had moved, that | was somewhere else, because | knew 
there wasn't a floor or ceiling or those goddamn sticks 
where | was. Just... Nothing, really, and the darkness. 
And then it was there. Goddammit. | knew it, that there 
was something else there, even though | couldn't see or 
hear or feel it because there was nothing to see or hear 
or feel. It was just waiting there, keeping me there, 
waiting for me to do something... | curled up in this little 
ball, tried to make it not notice me, but it was there 
breathing down my neck the whole time. In the end, | just 
told it | wanted to leave. That was it. 


Additional data: 

Over in property damage was caused by Incident-282-CB, and 
containment of 3 separate SCPs were compromised. Because of 
this, current sanctions on experimentation with SCP-282 were put in 
place. 


« SCP-281 | SCP-282 | SCP-283 » 


SCP-2517: This One Time | Saw God On Shrooms 


Item #: SCP-2517 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Samples of the spores and 
fruiting bodies of SCP-2517 are stored in Bio Site-66's cryogenic 
storage facility. Human testing of SCP-2517 requires the approval of 
Site-66's Site Director and Ethics Committee liaison, and must occur 
offsite. Individuals found in possession of SCP-2517 are to be 
detained and interrogated; those who have used SCP-2517 
habitually for a period of more than four months or who have used 
SCP-2517 for religious or mystical purposes are to be treated with 
Class-C amnestics prior to release. Any samples of the fruiting 
bodies, spores, or mycelia of SCP-2517 found outside Foundation 
containment are to be incinerated. 


Description: SCP-2517 is an anomalous species of psychedelic 
mushroom in the genus Psilocybe. In addition to psilocybin and 
psilocin—produced at slightly higher concentrations than related 
species—the fruiting bodies of SCP-2517 contain the psychedelic 
compounds 5-MeO-DMT, LSA, and mescaline; as a result, the 
effects of SCP-2517 are longer-lasting and more intense than other 
psychedelic mushrooms. SCP-2517 fruiting bodies are typically 4 to 
6 cm in height with round caps between 2 and 3 cm in diameter; it 
can be distinguished from related species by the dark blue 
coloration of its cap and stem. 


Users of SCP-2517 uniformly report visual hallucinations of 
geometric figures and patterns with fivefold rotational symmetry, 
particularly surrounding faces, heads, and written text. Other 
common effects include visual and tactile hallucinations of worms or 
maggots on floors and walls; “doubling” of facial features, especially 
ears and eyes, on others!; and visual hallucinations of “blue, 
translucent trees”2. These hallucinations are frequently described as 
pre-existing features of the world, “revealed” by the drug’s effects 


rather than created by them. 


When taken habitually over at least 4 months, SCP-2517's 
anomalous effects manifest. Users experience symptoms of 
hallucinogen persisting perception disorder, or HPPD3; the 
geometric hallucinations continue after the other effects of 
SCP-2517 have ceased, and become more pronounced with 
continued use. Users also become significantly more resistant to 
memetic effects, and have significantly enhanced short- and long- 
term memory; memetic resistance and enhanced memory increase 
as habitual use of SCP-2517 continues. 


After approximately 6 months, habitual users of SCP-2517 will begin 
to fabricate memories of non-existent people, usually friends, 
relatives, or colleagues. Users claim that these individuals existed at 
one point but were "erased from reality" by a malevolent force; some 
claim that this force wishes to erase them, but is prevented from 
doing so by their continued use of SCP-2517. Users at this stage will 
cut ties with family and friends, or attempt to convince them to begin 
regular use of SCP-2517, in an attempt to protect them from this 
force. 


After approximately 20 months, habitual users' social circles will 
consist entirely of other SCP-2517 users; these individuals have cut 
ties to all friends and family who do not also use SCP-2517, 
although they almost universally claim that most of their 
acquaintances have been erased from reality. Falsified memories of 
individuals at this stage will frequently be very broad and relatively 
internally consistent, and users will frequently claim to share 
memories of the same acquaintances. At every stage of habitual 
use, the effects of SCP-2517 can be reversed with Class-C 
amnestic treatment; there have been no recorded cases of an 
individual ceasing SCP-2517 use without the aid of amnestics. 


Addendum 2517-1: Historical Context 

Use of SCP-2517 was associated in the Hellenistic and Roman 
world with a religious sect known as the Mysteries of the Five- 
Named God? or the Cult of the Fifth Star>. The Cult of the Fifth Star 
was a mystery cult, with ritual practices and dogma kept secret from 
those not initiated; information on the Cult's beliefs and practices 
mainly comes from the 3rd century Christian apologist Constantius 


of Syracuse, in his essay De Cultis Occultis ("On Secret Cults"). 
Constantius claims that the Cult worshipped a god who was 
omniscient and omnipresent, and who could be seen through the 
use of SCP-2517 (which he refers to only as "a certain mushroom"); 
as members attained higher degrees of initiation, they were allowed 
to take larger doses of SCP-2517 as a sacrament in the Cult's 
weekly rituals. 


Constantius mentions the falsified memories associated with heavy 
SCP-2517 use, and claims that Cult doctrine saw the "erasure" of 
these fictional persons as a positive; he compares this belief to the 
Christian concept of judgement in the afterlife, saying that the 
members of the Cult believed that "their friends had been judged by 
their god on earth, rather than in heaven; and having been found 
wanting, they were not sent to hell, but were removed from the world 
entirely, the only remnant being the memories in the minds of the 
faithful as a warning from their god." The Cult of the Fifth Star was 
banned along with other pagan religious practices by decree of the 
Roman Emperor Theodosius | in 389 CE; many of its beliefs and 
practices were adopted by the Mykoparastatai, "The Ones Who 
Offer Mushrooms", a Gnostic Christian sect who replaced the bread 
of the eucharist with SCP-2517. 


The doctrine of the Mykoparastata® held that God had five distinct 
aspects: the Gnome, or Mind, a formless and omniscient masculine 
force of good from which all knowledge emanates; the Soma, or 
Body, a mindless and omnipotent feminine force equivalent and 
opposed to the Mind, from which all matter emanates; Sophia, or 
Wisdom, the feminine counterpart to the Mind and conduit through 
which pure knowledge is passed to humans’; the Demiurge 
Yaldabaoth, the masculine counterpart to the Body, who created the 
material world and forced human souls into physical bodies; and the 
Psyche, or Soul, the omnipresent genderless force that connects the 
Mind and the Body8 and which incarnates on earth in the form of 
prophets or Archons, the greatest of which was Jesus of Nazareth. 


Persecution of the Mykoparastatai in the Byzantine Empire and the 
kingdoms of Georgia and Armenia on the grounds of heresy 
occurred throughout the Middle Ages, and by the 11th Century the 
sect survived only in small villages in Anatolia and the Caucasus. 


Use of SCP-2517 for religious purposes continued in these isolated 
pockets until the early 20th century; almost all the remaining 
members of the sect were killed by the Ottoman government as a 
part of the Armenian Genocide. The survivors are believed to have 
emigrated to the United States, joining Armenian diaspora 
communities in Ventura County, CA and Union County, GA; the 
extent to which these individuals continued their religious practice 
and use of SCP-2517 after immigrating is unknown. 


Footnotes 

1. Similar to “face-morphing” hallucinations associated with LSD 

2. Strongly correlated with users in large urban centers. 

3. A disorder characterized by the continual presence of visual 
disturbances in the form of "visual snow", usually associated with 
the use of hallucinogenic drugs. 

4. "Muotettix O¢ou Nevrovoyarou" 

5. "Cultus Sideris Quinti" 

6. Recorded in theEkpyrotic Gospels, a series of accounts of the life 
and teachings of Jesus; these were written in the 5th century by 
Saint-Archon Horatios Megatyphro, a Greco-Armenian monk and 
scholar living in the Kingdom of Georgia.