Subjects have refused to sleep, and have 
continued to demand release, but have shown 
no outward signs of anomaly. They certainly 
don't seem to be affected by a visual hazard. 
Perhaps Eta-10 picked up the wrong people 
on their blind excursion? 


1620 

Following a long whispered conversation, the 
subjects asked whether another person can 
join them in their cell. He says that otherwise it 
is too dangerous for them to sleep, but won't 
explain why. | have refused their request until 
they cooperate with us. 


2135 

There is an anomaly here after all! At 2130, 
subject -2 finally drifted to sleep, despite -1's 
urgings. Within a minute, -1 stiffened and fell 
to the floor, immobile. The noise woke -2 up, 
and as soon as he did, -1 recovered. Dr 
Fletcher and | agree that visual contact 
appears to play a role in the effect we've 
designated 2136-A. Dr Masrur is talking to the 
subjects again now. 


2215 

| have requested a D Class to be assigned to 
enter the cell, in return for the subjects telling 
Dr Masrur what they know. Not much more 
than us, as it turns out. Their observer 
reported that the Sentinelese were living in 
much tighter groups than normal, sleeping in 
shifts and not letting anyone go off alone. The 
observer also noted some odd behaviour from 
some of the Sentinelese, with jerky, 
uncoordinated movements. Then the 
government lost contact with their observer. 
When they went to retrieve him, they found 


him dead, but with no sign of violence. 


During retrieval, the subjects were spotted by 
two Sentinelese, who attacked with spears. 
The subjects attempted to escape, but fell 
victim to 2136-A. It was only when the 
Sentinelese warriors caught up to them that 
they were able to move, and fight off the 
tribesmen. They were then preparing to leave 
the island when Eta-10 captured them. 


2300 

The requested D Class (designated subject -3) 
has arrived at the cell. Dr Fletcher ensured 
that subject -3 entered the cell safely, without 
subjects -1 or -2 being seen outside the cell. | 
have asked containment to construct an outer 
door to the cell in case we need to open it 
again. 


After 5 minutes, we asked subjects -1 and -2 
to slowly turn away from -3, keeping each 
other in view. As expected, -3 stiffened and 
fell, confirming that the anomaly affects him 
too. Subject -3 was revived by -1 and -2 re- 
establishing visual contact. So the anomaly is 
definitely infectious, and the line-of-sight 
theory could be right. Subjects have been 
instructed to sleep in shifts - we'll do the same 
in the observation room to make sure we don't 
lose any subjects to tiredness. 


Day 3 


0600 

The implications of this anomaly are 
fascinating. Dr Fletcher and | have been up all 
night debating its method of infection and 
potential source. Dr Fletcher insists that the 
anomaly is some form of virus, and while | 


don't think there is enough evidence yet, we 
have agreed to refer to itas a "pathogen" in 
the draft containment procedures. Dr Masrur 
joined in some of the discussion, but later | 
could see her in the reflection from the CCTV 
monitor, napping on the bench nearby. We'll 
run some detailed tests today. 


2145 


A very long day. Testing has been difficult - 
every instruction needs to be delivered in 
English and Bengali, and the subjects were 
unwilling to cooperate until | told them the tests 
would help us find them a cure. Why wouldn't 
they be on edge? They've had hardly any 
sleep. Not that we have either. 


Observations. I'll write up the full test logs 
later, but for now we've learned: 


average time for 2136-A effect once line- 
of-sight is broken is around 45 seconds; 
line-of-sight for 2136-A purposes is not 
disrupted by reflection or refraction. | 
requested mirrors for the subjects to 
hang in the cell, which should help keep 
them within each other's view; 
line-of-sight needs to include skin to 
avoid 2136-A effect. We've asked the 
subjects to strip to the waist for now, and 
have updated the draft containment 
procedures. 

Dr Masrur has identified some 
anomalous structures in the tissue 
samples Eta-10 brought back - looks like 
this is some type of parasite after all. 


We ceased testing at 2130, and the subjects 
are currently hammering hooks into the walls 
of the cell to hang up the mirrors. Subject -1 is 
terrible at it - seems to miss as often as he 


hits, meaning it's taking forever. Constant 
hammering is not helping the anyone's nerves, 
especially subject - 3, whose shift it is to rest. 


Day 4 


0335 

Awake again, and on my observation shift with 
Dr Masrur, making sure no more than one 
subject sleeps at a time. When sleeping, 
subject -2 seems in the grip of nightmares, 
twitching and spasming. Could the infection be 
degrading motor control even while subjects 
are under watch from another host? 


Dr Masrur apologised again for spilling coffee 
on my draft logs. I've reassured her that it was 
an accident, but we will need to get a back-up 
team on this, as the lack of sleep is wearing us 
all down. 


1240 

Today's tests have been inconclusive. 
Subjects -1 and -2 have grown disruptive, 
failing to comply with some instructions. At one 
stage, subject -2 stood up in the middle of a 
test and lurched jerkily across the cell. Dr 
Masrur tells me he was shouting "I can't stop! 
Help!" Subject -3 is showing signs of agitation 
at this behaviour, and has been less 
cooperative than before. Any test results we 
have are probably compromised. 


1810 

Testing cancelled for the day. Subjects -1 and 
-2 are no longer compliant, sporadically 
staggering around the room with voices raised 
in alarm. According to Dr Masrur, the subjects 
appear to be conscious of their behaviour, but 
unable to exercise gross motor control. Dr 


specifically induce a fatal allergic reaction in 
the Target. Contacted [DATA EXPUNGED] for 
analysis of the six “exotic” recipes. 


Test 241-12, / /20 
Subject: Subject 241-F, [DATA EXPUNGED] 


Procedure: Subject 241-F was instructed to 
prepare the six dishes that contain neither 
peanuts nor lupin flour. The dishes were 
turned over to [DATA EXPUNGED] for 
analysis. The six recipes were transcribed and 
turned over to [DATA EXPUNGED]. 


Results: [DATA EXPUNGED] 
Analysis: [DATA EXPUNGED] 


Subject 241-F showed no apparent ill effects 
from preparing seven different dishes from 
SCP-241 in quick succession. Recommend 
retaining subject to study long-term effects of 
secondary (i.e. not as the Target) exposure to 
SCP-241. 


Test 241-13, / /20 


Subject: Subject 241-G was chosen from 
general population and is known to have an 
allergy to peanuts. 


Procedure: Subject was instructed to eat the 
remaining cake from Test 241-11. 


Results: Subject asked if the cake contained 
peanuts, and was assured that it did not. 
Subject stated that he didn’t much like carrot 
cake, and was told [DATA EXPUNGED]. 
Subject started eating the cake, remarking that 
the cake was “pretty good, actually”. Subject 
consumed approximately 75% of the 


Fletcher agrees that this appears to be a new 
stage of the infection. It has greatly alarmed 
subject -3, who keeps yelling at the other 
subjects to back away. Nothing we can do for 
him, of course, and | can sympathise with 
being stuck in a small room with two other 
people and no sleep. 


2125 

The back-up team arrives tomorrow to take 
over. We'll tell them to shorten the observer 
shifts - Dr Fletcher is so tired he can barely 
hold his pen straight, and I've given up on 
cutlery. The only good news is that subjects -1 
and -2 have recovered some motor control, 
and are sitting still, or moving slowly and 
carefully. They've stopped shouting too, 
lapsing into a slurred drawl when they speak at 
all. Subject -3 is crouched in a corner of the 
cell, with the hammer from the mirror-hanging. 
He is glaring at the others and twitching, but I'll 
take that over the shouting. Not much longer to 
go, and then some rest. 


2345 

Oh shit. Shit shit shit. How the hell will | The 
experiment is terminated. The subjects are 
dead. 


At approximately 2330, subject -3 started to 
fall asleep despite his best efforts. As he did 
so, subjects -1 and -2 stood up and advanced 
on him. Their movement was deliberate but 
controlled, and they repeated a single word - 
Dr Masrur translated it as "Look!". Subject -3 
woke with a start, and backed further into the 
corner, clutching the hammer and yelling at 
them. But they kept coming, and when they 
got too close He was uncoordinated, but they 
were slow, and still clumsy. And he had the 


hammer. 


We watched it all, and it seemed to take 
forever. 


And then, as he stood there, slick with blood 
and shreds of tissue, we realised what would 
happen next. 


His heaving chest froze. The hammer slid from 
a frozen hand. He fell, motionless. 


We watched him suffocate in a room full of air. 


Day 5 


0010 
I've sent Masrur to get help. Fuck quarantine. 


0020 

Forgive me, Dr Richards. | need to record a 
containment breach of SCP-2136. We have 
been infected. Fletcher denies it, but he must 
have seen the subjects when letting the D 
Class in. | know he must have, because 
Fletcher looked away from me. 


When | was nine, | fell into a river and almost 
drowned. This was worse. | was desperate to 
breathe. Frantic. And | could do nothing. There 
was no water to claw at, no gasping, just the 
knowledge that | was watching myself die. 
Helpless. 


If he hadn't turned around, | would be dead. 
Thank god | froze looking at him, or we would 
both be dead. Would all be 


0030 
Dr Masrur made it as far as the hallway before 
she collappsed. Dr Fletcher and | stumbled out 


together to find her - we must look like a bad 
joke,, trying to keep each other in view, 
lumbering into doors. SHe didn't deserve this. 


0555 

Hafrd tio type now, even bedtween spasmsd. 
Its like sittimg in the paassenger seat ofv my 
brain, and someome edlse iws drivimg. 
Fledtcher is gettging worse too. 


1125 

He's watching me, | know it. If he wasn't, | 
would be dead. But I'm not watching him. If | 
don't turn around, he can't move, and he'll die, 
and then I'll die. So I've got about 5 minutes of 
typing, and then another 5. Good. The back-up 
team will be here in less than three hours, and 
we have to be dead by then. They can't find us 
alive - it has to die with us. 


The spasms have finally worn off, and | still 
have some time before it takes me over, so | 
can type. A warning. This pathogen is more 
complex than we realised. We thought it was 
collecting electrical impulses just to feed, but it 
was storing them. To use. To drive us. Once it 
understands the muscles, it knows where to 
push, where to pull. Our consciousness, 
trapped in an electrical puppet made of flesh 
that is no longer ours to control. Talking is 
more complicated, but it can learn that too. | 
have been mumbling gibberish for hours. So 
has Dr Fletcher. And then he spoke. 


"Look!" he said, staring at me avidly, "Look! 
Look! Look!" He started to shuffle towards me, 
and | didn't think. | closed my eyes. 


And now I'm typing, and waiting for him to die, 
and trying to resist the urge to turn around. He 
wants me to look, but | can't. | can't look. | 


can't look. Icantlookicantlookicant 
LOOOK 


Footnotes 

1. Itis hypothesised that the transmission stage is sub-atomic in 
size, and is carried by individual photons reflected from the skin of 
an infected host, infecting the new host via the retina. 

2. Similarity between the effects of SCP-2136 pathogen 
andSCP-2218instances have been noted. Investigation into whether 
the anomalous properties affecting SCP-2218 instances are an 
altered version of SCP-2136, or visa versa, is ongoing. 

3. This may indicate that the pathogen "feeds" on these impulses - 
cell samples containing functioning pathogen will be required to 
confirm this mechanism. 


« SCP-2135 | SCP-2136 | SCP-2137 » 


SCP-2137: The Forensic Ghost Of Tupac Shakur 


Item #: SCP-2137 
Object Class: Euclid Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: When not being used, 
SCP-2137 is to be kept within a typical electronic 10-digit metal safe 
in the Safe Wing of Site 23. All digital and wireless broadcast media 
must be kept at least one hundred meters away from SCP-2137. 
Due to SCP-2137's anomalous effect having been determined to 
have no ranged limit, digital, wireless and broadcast media may be 
used but should be monitored closely for any appearance of 
SCP-2137-1 or -2. 


Other than the testing and recording of Track 7, SCP-2137 should 
be considered an inanimate item without agency of its own, and any 
demands or threats made by SCP-2137-2 should be ignored. 


Once a week, 2137 is to be cleaned and all tracks are to be played 
in succession, with special attention paid to the instance of 2137-1 
that replaces track 7. 


The names, situations and anecdotes presented in that instance of 
SCP-2137-1 must then be reported to 2137 Special Committee 
("Pac Watch"). 


On the rare occasion that non-Foundation organizations cannot 
address the situation presented in an instance of SCP-2137-1, O5-9 
has given authorization to activate MTF-339 ("The Suge Knights") to 
take any and all measures necessary to reach a resolution to the 
problem. Operational success will be indicated by a new instance of 
2137-1. 


Personnel who wish to examine or attempt to interact with 
SCP-2137 must ask Dr. Kivowitz for authorization beforehand, which 
will then pend O5 clearance. 


Description: SCP-2137 is a single compact disc copy of "Me 
Against The World," a hip-hop album by the artist Tupac Shakur, 
released in 1995. Physical examination as well as laser testing 
indicates that the CD was one of the initial release, manufactured 
and distributed in 1995; conventional testing of the disk itself reveals 
identical results to a non-anomalous copy of the album. The case 
and liner notes have been determined to have no anomalous 
qualities, and the physical makeup and encoding of the disk appear 
completely normal. 


However, upon playing track 7, normally "Heavy In The Game," the 
listener will encounter an instance of SCP-2137-1. The anomaly 
takes the form of spontaneously-generated, professionally-produced 
songs featuring Tupac Shakur in various styles within the hip hop 
genre. Though each instance of SCP-2137-1 generated is unique, 
they share certain commonalities in terms of subject matter. The 
central focus of the song invariably addresses a crime, almost 
always a murder or series of murders, and then gives necessary 
anecdotal evidence or information to correctly identify and prosecute 
the killer, even going so far as to specify prosecutors or recommend 
vigilante justice. 


Though generation of SCP-2137-1 has been determined to have a 
definite causal nature, the manner in which SCP-2137-1 instances 
are copied onto SCP-2137 has yet to be ascertained. 


SCP-2137-2 

The primary voice on the songs, from herein identified as 
SCP-2137-2, matches cleanly through advanced audio 
analysis to that of the real Tupac Shakur, who died in 
1996, over a year before the recovery of SCP-2137. 


However, occasionally, on crimes of a particularly 
complicated or brutal nature, SCP-2137-2 will be joined 
by other "performers," either guest-rapping or singing the 
chorus or bridge. This has included many of Tupac's 
contemporaries, such as Snoop Doggy Dogg, Nas, No 
Doubt, Everclear, Weezer and Busta Rhymes, as well as 
artists from the 2000s including Chris Brown, Katy Perry, 
Lil Wayne, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, the Ying Yang Twins, 
Drake, Neon Trees, Jet, Jay-Z, Kanye West, and 


Eminem, usually at the height of their popularity.